WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: 10 Wins? 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:15.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.440 Cowboys screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.880 the Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing to the goal line, 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:32.919 say Tescott and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:38.560 Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's It is a Saying with 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:44.480 your Chest Friday here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostitos, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.519 helping fans get in on the game and our favorite 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.199 ship and our favorite tip of Talking Cowboys. Welcome in 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.840 everybody to the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.760 We've got Chris Beam running this ship today and we've 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:06.080 got Rob Phillips, heck My Harrison the ship. Oh there's 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.080 a p at the end there. Wow, ye, there's a 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.840 talk a we gonna do it. HECKMA was so shocked 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.800 you forgot his micros? No, man, he goes. He looks 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.119 right up at me and he goes, wait a second, ship. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.960 I mean we are on the internet, but I still 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:28.240 we're a family oriented show. Really saying it with our chest. Isaiah, 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.200 stand back here with us guys, Hey, buddy, how are 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.479 you good to see you? Guys? Swell today? Yeah, I'm 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.000 go ahead. He's always sweating. Look at the arms, Look 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.720 at the short sleep he had to wear the short 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.560 sleeve today. The show off the guns put us ally 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.080 it new beeper? Who this? Do you still? When? When 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.960 was the last time you owned a beeper? Never? Have 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.360 never have it? I was always jealous of everybody. I 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.559 was envious of those who had a beeper because I didn't. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.200 My family didn't have money to have one. You know 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.280 what I did have though. You were a little past 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.960 that though, right, No, no, how old are you three? 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.480 Three thirty seventy thirties? Okay, well maybe not? Thanks? What 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.440 was the year? What was the year of the beeper? 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:10.359 What was that? Realm? Well, I'm forty super early nineties? Yeah, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.200 like mid nineties. I had one, like ninety five. But 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.400 you had to go to a pay phone most times. Yes, 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.640 you can call somebody back. Yeah really? Yeah? Say about 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.120 this is zero about what a beeper is? Have you 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:24.639 don't even know what it is? Have you ever used 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.160 a payphone? Uh? No, I went to my I went 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.480 with my dad one time when I was a kid 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:35.079 to use a payphone. That was it. Yeah, I've never 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.160 used one so myself. Anyways, the pay phone in my 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.200 in my neighborhood, the cord was cut. It was just 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.000 literally just a phone. Yeah, the payphone in my neighborhood. 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:48.480 You didn't even put your face before COVID right there, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.519 you did. If you don't know what COVID looked like, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.919 that was it. That was the social distance. You knew 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.880 not to put your face on that pane. Sometimes. Man, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.680 the generational divide between Kyle, it just it just appears 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.000 at the wrong time. It does. It really does. It's 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.440 really incredible. It really is like, never seen him beepers 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.720 like it's just like, dude, Yeah, well you said mid 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.160 nineties and I was born in the late nineties. Do 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.320 you know what the skytail pager is? Oh, dude, I've 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.120 never heard those two words in my life. That was 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.840 like Monte montell Jordan, man, this is how we do. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.320 I didn't know the song. He got He got out 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.560 the car and he had heard the skytail. The skytail 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.840 was a really nice that's that's where you balled it. Yeah, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.600 that's when he was balling. He had the skytail. Yeah, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.800 and then they came out like We're like the bootleg 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.000 version for everybody who didn't have Skytail money. And it 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.040 came out with the what was it, the sidekick sidekicks 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.080 at the side kick sidekick was fired. You just open 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.640 your phone just to check the time. Just it was there. Yeah, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.200 So you hold it like this and you would flick 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.160 your finger in the screen would flip up. It was amazing. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.240 You felt like base when text message just first started. Yeah, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.680 Skytail was like a keyboard underneath yeah. Us. Yeah, there 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.240 was an introduction to texting, like texting used to charge 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.560 you pertext, pertext. I was a part of that, Like, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:12.360 oh yeah, remember it. Side my dad told me about it. Yeah, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.880 I remember playing like Snake on my dad's no Kia 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.640 phone whenever. Oh, your dad had a head He had 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.360 one of those like indestructible ones that's still somewhere. Yeah, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.760 and he like he had the Snake game. Did he 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.520 have a bikeberry too? No, he never had the BlackBerry. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.600 He never got chirped. Huh No. I go back. I 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.480 go all the way back to the brick, to the 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:35.520 brick cell phone, man car phone. The only thing that 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.480 makes me feel young is Mickey Spagnola. In a lot 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.280 of ways, I love Mickey, but he he used to 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.200 go on road games, Cowboys playing at New York. We'll 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.320 talk about the Cowboys, I guess today. But he used 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.400 to have to dictate his game story over the phone 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.080 to the desk back at the paper back home. Wow, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.040 there was no email. He had to just read his 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.760 story off of what I said. He probably had the 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.920 typewriter going, but he couldn't send it. So you don't 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.720 know the pain of having to write a paper on 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.040 a typewriter. No, I never used it. There is no mistake, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.600 there's no room for errors. So that's why we're so 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.920 tough on guys around these parts, because back then you 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.720 couldn't have any miss out. And then you had then 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.600 you had the user to write fine tip pen and 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.960 make sure that you drew in the same funt as 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.920 the rest of the paper, otherwise it would stand out. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.160 Searchical Nope, search Microsoft. Word was already a thing. By 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:29.039 the time papers spoil that spoiled, my god, so easy. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.599 You don't even know about the colored macintages, the colored ones. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.080 But my grandpa had like an orange one. Okay, yeah, 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.680 so I know I know what my grandpa had one. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.400 See that By the time by the time, my grandpa 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.080 already had it. I already knew that it was outdated, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.600 so that I mean that you never used a floppy disk. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.000 Then I did use a floppy disk. What what? Yeah 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.200 you kid me? You played the organ trow I did. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:58.320 But like later of vintage version where Santiago remember that 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.080 guy I love love might have had a crush on her, Yeah, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:10.080 same same, yea she dressed, she dressed really well. Yeah. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.799 Her confidence was like, you want to get more countries, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.760 you had to go. It was Carmens diego and Jessica 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:28.200 stop real Ye well, if yes, if you've decided this, 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.520 stick around with us for the first seven minutes of 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.280 the show. First off, thank you, we are your friends. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:39.440 Rob Any News in notes yesterday, Um for the cowboys 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:45.360 you mean cowboys talk? Yeah? No, uh. Tony Pollard got 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.800 back into practice yesterday on a limited basis. They did 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.239 not practice in pads, but it was a normal Thursday 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.680 in terms of their workload. So that's encouraging. For what 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.680 the third, love that drop, I love that drop. Well, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.719 that's encouraging. That's you know, that's a step forward. Then 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.600 I don't know if I anticipated even after talking or 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.360 hearing with Mike McCarthy had to say talking with Stephen Jones, 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.280 I don't know if I anticipated Pollard to get into 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.840 even a limited version of practice this week. So how 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.720 much confidence does this give you? And the fact that 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.720 he could be available on Sunday? I think it. Yeah, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.360 I think again. I think they're they're cautiously optimistic. Um. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.320 The one the one guy that that jumped out on 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.400 the injury report that you don't like to see is 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.840 DeMarcus Lawrence had a he was limited with a foot 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.760 with a foot that you know, he came back from 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.960 a foot injury, So keep an eye on that. It 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.920 doesn't sound like I don't think it's anything to to 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.320 really have concern about this week, but we'll see. How 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.040 does everything change now that they've gone back into protocols? Uh? 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.520 From from a team building standpoint? Uh, did that changed? 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.160 Like for you guys, how you interview players and all 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.880 of that. No, Um, you know they've got us. It's 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.680 either inside or outside. Plays are roped off at the podium, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.640 so we keep our distance, have the mass on That 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:09.840 hasn't changed. But they have expanded their meeting space. The 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.240 Ford Center apparently looks like it did last year. I mean, 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.480 I feel like we're kind of sliding back into the 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.880 last year. Then weird with their extended meeting space and 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.720 they've set up chairs and stuff like that for that. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.000 So they've been trying to do that even before, really 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.520 before they had that wave right after Thanksgiving. So and 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.080 now every team in the league is on notice about 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.719 extending their protocols. It's it's unfortunate man. Through week fifteen. Right, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.480 It's not a permanent change. It's a temporary change because 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.160 of some of the numbers that are popping up. I mean, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.000 look at the Rams, look at the Browns, look at 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.920 the Washington football team. You are looking across the league 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.120 and seeing a spike in all of these cases. So 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.920 their answer to that is let's lock down for a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.000 little bit and then we'll try and get back to 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.079 what we were doing previously. Right, Yeah, for sure. And 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.600 I mean the cases just trickling in. Like if if 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.480 you got not occations like I do on your phone, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.280 it's either NBA or NFL. It's something new every hour. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.120 Taylor Heineke with the Washington football team just just went 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.839 on the COVID list. So I mean, well, the Washington 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.640 football team is being played. I mean you look at 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.040 I think they had twenty one. That would make twenty 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.920 two with him being added to that list. Ms rams 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.400 have twenty five. I think that's crazy. Can't we need 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.319 to check our defensive linemen because they were all over him, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.880 so I want to check them COVID. Yeah, good point 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.040 for sure. Quite a bit Granny was camped out with him, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.240 face to face him. I remember I liked the memes 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.160 that started to rise with the Randy Gregory kind of 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.679 sitting there and they put them on like a picnic 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:47.760 blanket with Taylor. It was pretty fun. Another thing, just 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.319 real quick, Kyle Allen's on the reserve COVID list for 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.160 Washington too, So I mean Garrett Gilbert might start for 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.880 Washington this week. What I didn't even know Jared Gilbert 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.160 Doble was in it. That's a schefter tweet. So that's yeah. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.640 I thought he was still in New England. I guess not. Yeah, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:11.400 good for Garrett. Yeah the third quarterback too, Yeah, souless tough. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.520 What about these teams, I mean all these teams that 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.120 are in a position to either clinch or competing for 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.120 a playoff spot, and this is happening, and the NFL 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.000 is unwilling or will not waiver on canceling any games 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.160 this year. This has got to be crazy. You just hope, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:28.960 I mean, you never want to see it, but you hope. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.920 You don't get into playoffs and you get to like 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.080 super Bowl Week and this is going on. How are 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.080 you not because you can't back away from the protocols? Then, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.600 I mean they're changing the protocols though they are. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.640 well they changed it to allow guys to get back quicker, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.160 which makes really little to no sense. I don't want 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.760 to get too deep into that because I don't want 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.760 to get what I'm saying. They're changing this today guys 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.839 can come back and play. You're right, And that's because 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.679 of the need and the necessity to not cancel any games. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.840 And it makes it it's just kind of a delicate 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.960 balance in the NFL. Ells have it to choose one 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.560 way or the other. Health it is, isn't it. Speaking 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.959 of health, let's talk about Dak Prescott and what he 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.920 had to say yesterday. Rob Phillips had a phenomenal article 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.960 read it on Dallas Cowboys dot Com talking about how 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.559 Dak will not call it a slump, We'll not call 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.880 it a slump, so kind of outline what he said 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.560 yesterday and what he wants going into the week of football. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.320 Number one, he said, I'm I am fully one hundred 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.839 percent healthy, and I looked, I went back and checked it. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.160 He has not been on the injury report since the 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.600 end of Falcon's week, so you want to November fifth, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.199 something like that, and he was full that week, but 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.360 they just had him on there. So, like we've talked 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.040 about during the week, I don't think we can talk 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.920 about that and he won't talk about it. So if 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:49.439 he says he's healthy, then he's healthy. He said, he 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.040 didn't say slump. I feel like blueprint now. Slump is 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.920 like the buzzword in the media now, and I'm guilty 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.800 of it too. But he said, I'm not in a slump, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.880 but I'm not playing my best ball right now. I've 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.079 got to be better. He owned all of that, and 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.240 look the stats. The stats show it. But he sounded confident. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.240 He sounded confident that he can get it turned around. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.920 And you know, and guys have backed him. Like Zeke said, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.760 it takes eleven guys on the field to get it right. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.120 It's not just Dak, It's not just one part of 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:22.480 the offense, Zack Martin said yesterday, Yes, it's fair to 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.960 judge us offensive line wise based off the first seven 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.040 games we were killing it as opposed to maybe the 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.520 last few games. So everybody's owning it and and hey, 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.800 this is opportunity to get it right starting Sunday. Yeah, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.040 you've got four games to figure it out. And it's 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.040 nice to hear Dak Prescott not making excuses. You didn't 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.040 expect that to happen. Nobody sat here at this table 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.000 and sat up, what is that going to say this week? 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.840 Nobody said that you knew he was going to take ownership. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.760 But what do you need to see on Sunday, heckma 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.400 to know that he has taken that next step into 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.679 getting back into form. Yeah, I really just the turnovers. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.080 Let me to turnovers. That would be the number one 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.040 thing I think for since came into the league, he 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.520 hadn't been known as being a turnover machine. And so 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.160 obviously the sample size that we have, we're judging him 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.679 based off of that. Some of the throws and so 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.719 getting back in rhythm and sync, if you would, with 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.719 the offense is going to be important, especially with the 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.800 Giants defense, which I think you'll have some opportunity to 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.400 do that. They're tough upfront, and I think that our 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.160 offensive line is obviously going to take this challenge personally, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.680 but for the receivers, they have to be better better 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.240 as well catch the ball. If we've had a lot 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.360 of drops and we talk about tips and overthrows, we 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.439 hadn't had any interception so far based off of that. Well, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.280 the overthrows for sure, but those are just little small 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.240 things that I want to see him fixed. But I 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.280 think the short passes it's gonna will work for him. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.320 But because defenses are from if you if you've looked 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.679 at the Cowboys gave these defenses just saying we're not 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.520 going to allow you to throw the ball down the field, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.360 so middle of the field. I'm looking for him to 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.120 exploit that. Yeah, I just want to see him get 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.120 back to being confident. You know, he's confident, and that's 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.439 the reality. And when you're not confident at whatever it 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.520 is that you do for a living, there's hesitation. And 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.320 you can't have hesitation in a game that's literally depending 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.280 on tensive seconds. That's what's happening with Dac right now. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.160 If he's a tenth of a second off the balls 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.959 on the back shoulder instead of the front shoulder, which 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.120 is then turning to turn into a ball being popped 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:19.520 up in the air, which then it's gonna turn into 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.840 a ball being intercepted if he releases the ball too 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.160 high instead of you pointed down for that last tenth 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:25.520 of a second, and the ball is going to sail 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.240 it in the air and turn into end up in 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.640 the hands of Collins. There's there's a lot of things 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.040 that are happening because of his lack thereof confidence, and 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.400 to get on track is going to take some manipulating 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.360 by Kellen Moore to ensure that one we have a 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.200 running game so that he doesn't feel the pressure of 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.480 having to be so precise throwing the ball because he 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.120 is most confident throwing the ball when he is running 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.920 off a play action. When there's play action, he throws 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.880 a ball with confidence because it's literally I execute my 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.320 play action fake, I pop my head up, I know 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.560 exactly where I'm reading, I know exactly what the coverages 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.360 pre snap post snap, and I can get the ball 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.000 there delivery without happening to hesitate and think that's what 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.320 we have to do. But in order to do that, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.080 you have to have an effective running game. And that's 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.640 literally what Amari Cooper said yesterday. He said he was asked, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.120 would you like to get the running game going? I 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.360 think he was like, I would love to because you 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.640 get the play action rolling into it. And they both 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.280 guys Amara and Dak also, Heck was pointing out the 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.280 red zone on Monday morning and Dak said it too, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.480 like one of six, you get a couple of those 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.600 in the end zone. And maybe we're not talking as 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.600 much about this as we are, but that being said, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.960 I mean since the bye week, for the most part, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.000 forty to three win, forty three to three win over 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.800 Atlanta was good, but you know they have not been 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.480 the same offense as they've been no, And I agree 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.120 with what he said about that, saying that if, hey, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.520 if we would have scored twice out of the six, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.280 if it was two out of six or three out 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:45.920 of six opposed to the one out of six in 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.640 the red zone, it's probably not as much of a 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.040 topic this week. You probably feel a lot better about 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.960 your offense. But that's the difference between winning and losing. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:58.040 If your defense doesn't play exceptional football on Sunday, if 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:02.640 you didn't have that those extra opportunities from the defense, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.960 then all of a sudden you're tied at twenty, you're 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.920 down by three or four. Like, it doesn't work out 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.520 the same way. So that's got to be rectified if 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.080 you really want to make it work. I want to 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.040 go back to play action, though, is what is the 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.280 percentage on Kellen Moore and the percentage on Dak Prescott 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.440 to get this offense right? If you had to say 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.000 those two collectively together, what would be your percentage of 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.400 needing to to figure it out this way? That's a 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.240 good question, I mean, because you can't have one without 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.720 the other exactly, So I guess fifty fifty. I mean 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.600 because if he doesn't called plays that are you know, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.880 that are schemed up properly for the right coverage, then 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.720 it's not going to work. No matter how good your 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.640 quarterback play is. Huh, if your quarterback, if you if 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.880 your quarterback, if your quarterback can't execute you know, because 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.960 the play is there, We've seen it, right, Kellen Moore 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.720 is in a good job calling the plays. Guys are 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.200 open to scag overthrows it it is and doesn't help either. 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.720 What what could be the downside of running play action 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.320 because he hasn't done it as much lately. Why would 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.840 you not run the play action and try and get 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.360 it going. Is it just based off of effectiveness? Yeah, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:07.840 I mean if you're if you're not running the ball 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.560 the whole, the whole ideal behind play action is getting 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.879 the second level defenders to jump to the line of 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.600 scrimmage right it's getting is getting the defensive linemen out 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.680 of their pass rush and more so trying to put 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.200 their head in holes. It's getting their linebackers to try 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.600 to jump up one or two steps, which opens things 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.680 up right behind them, which is typically when you get 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.560 guys coming on you know, on deep ends and post 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.440 routes and oval routes and all those other type of plays, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.280 or if you want to get outside the pocket, you 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.600 get shots going. Again, most of his passes come from 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.719 flats and on things of that action, you know, think 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.320 kudo corner routes. So if you can't get the can't 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.840 have those guys respect your run, they're not going to 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.159 be They're not going to be aggressive enough to come up. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.200 Just like I mean, I think I showed it on 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.440 I can't talk about that show yet, but one of 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.280 the shows that that air here soon. When we when 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.560 we have the running game going, those second level guys 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.760 are hitting the holes right and they're coming up and 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.800 because they're trying to stop our running and then we're 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.440 able to do to plaction. But when we don't have 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.000 that running game going, you run play action. Those linebackers 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.280 are like, and you know, you're it might as well 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.040 just be a regular pass play. At that point, we're 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.040 now dropping back in coverage. Just you're wasting. You're wasting guys. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.240 You're wasting a tight end sitting in there blocking for 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.479 half a second or two. You're wasting your running back 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.000 coming all the way to the line of scrimmage when 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.560 he could have just stayed back there in the backfield 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.600 and had his eyes on what may be coming. So 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.400 it's a wasted play. And that's why it's so imperative 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.320 to get the running game going because of the way, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.879 like exactly what you just said, teams are not honoring it. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.119 If they're not even stepping forward when they see their 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.600 play action, they are basically put splitting their defense into 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.840 two parts. We're saying that the front line is going 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:41.440 to stop the run, the back half is going to 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.440 stop the pass and play action. Be damn. They're just 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.680 like whatever, I'm gonna stay back here my deep third 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.960 of my zone and I'm gonna play it and I will, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.840 you know, make sure that I will rely on my 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.240 front five to stop the ball. And that's why that's 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.600 you know, the running game is important. But you know 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.800 Connor Williams coming back to it's been rumored or is 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.160 nobody's saying officially that's what's happening. Okay. You know, Mike 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.720 McCarthy didn't shoot it down yesterday when he was asked 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.359 about it. He just said, well, it's Thursday. I'm not 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.440 going to get into personnel decisions. So there may be 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.840 a change at the left guard position. Let's see if 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.639 that works. Let's see what that is, is something that 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.880 gets us back to being able to run effectively. Jerry 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.520 said at the beginning of the week that Terrence Steele 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:24.679 is going to be the left tackle. Hadn't heard anything 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.520 different on that. So still here we go again, a 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.800 little bit of musical chairs going on, and then if 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.160 it doesn't come out the way we think, I don't 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.840 know who will point to the fact that, hey, we 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.080 had a new left tackle and left guard The lucky 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.199 side of that is you have had some of your 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.080 okay games. I mean, maybe not your best games of 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.120 the year, but some of those wins along the way. 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.800 With Terrence Steele at the left tackle, Connor Williams at 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.439 the left guard, and then Lyle Collins at right tackle. 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.000 You've had that line, You've had that front five previously, 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.879 so you know you can win with those guys, and 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.760