WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: How Good is This Defense? 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:17.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.480 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:32.680 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.280 Rob Phillips and Bill Jones. Another beautiful day for football 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.440 and Oxendard, California. We are living the American dream. I've 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.200 got my patriotic colors on sei there. I'm red, white 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.000 and blue today and this is talking Cowboys, Bill Jones, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.000 Rob Phillips, Brian brought us in. Mickey Spagnola and why 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.400 I said, right off the top, we are living the 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.480 American dream. Because just moments ago I saw one of 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.480 the workers here at the Marriott River Residence in the 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.320 River Ridge, and I said, we just said in passing 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.680 high to each other. I said, how you doing? He said, 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.080 I'm living the American dream. So I think that's the 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.080 attitude all of us should have today. I thought you 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.800 were wearing your Oklahoma No, no, no, that's this just 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.200 came up in the rotation. Yeah it's this. It's this. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.000 Of the ten outfits you have out here, this is 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.720 disnumber one or disnumber three. Whatever we wear today, Well, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.040 I did laundry on Monday. We're back around in the rotation. Good, 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.759 this is number two in the rotations. It's a little 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.320 large for me, so I have to tuck it in. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.520 So working working out, you're doing that, well, it's just 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.280 too long. Okay. It's like I wearing a dress, so 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.600 you got to tuck it in instead of what we 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.280 normally do out here is people have untucked shirts right 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:53.320 absolutely out. Nightmare. I don't think my deals working here. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.000 Oh you can you hear your head? So I can't hear. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.360 Here's what you do. Here's a professional broad already. Okay, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.120 do you do that with your all right? I was 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.320 kind of wait to the break, Mickey, But that's okay. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:09.919 Mine's the American nightmare. And by the way, Mickey has 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.080 made amends with the leaf blower out here. It's a 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.200 new one. It's a new one. It's a different different guy. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.760 I might have got him fired. I don't know, but 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.160 this guy at least asked. He goes, now, what time 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.679 do you start? I said nine o'clock. He goes, I'll 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.240 be done by then. It's like all right. And by 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.000 the way, the leaf blower affected the Jason Garrett press conference. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.400 Was it yesterday? Yeah? I was yesterday yesterday. You want 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.480 to know if anybody knew the leaf blower? And I 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.280 looked over at Mickey and the press conference and he 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.040 was like doing this like nod. Yeah, yeah, he's had 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.440 his own d leagues with him. As we get the 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.240 headset corrected here, how is that? Was everybody doing well? 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.239 I'm not supposed to say, how's everybody doing? Okay, this 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.920 is practice number six today, how's this team doing out here? 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.519 I'll tell you what yesterday. Defensively, the team did very well. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.279 I thought that if you were if you were scoring 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.560 the practice the way the defense came out, and I 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.960 think a lot of it started with the stuff that 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.280 they were doing with the two on two, with the 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.120 defensive backs working against the receivers, you know, and then 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.480 all of a sudden, now you get a couple of stops, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.040 you get a couple of nice plays, you knock the 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.959 ball away. Chris Richard is you know, now the coach 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.040 is involved. The coaches The coaches like, now he's all 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.640 over the receivers. And so I've never seen a coach 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.120 I wrote to some of my notes, it's up on 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.320 Dallas Cowboys dot Com today. I've never seen a coach 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.320 get after the other like the the offense or the 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.040 defense the way the challenging. Yeah, he it wasn't like 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.320 challenge him and it was like he was willing to 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.080 go out and fight those And I can only imagine 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.440 if Golly does Bright or somebody was here been Oh, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.120 that would have been a lot of fun. But there 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.040 was a lot of energy with the practice, a lot 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.280 of energy from the defensive side of the ball. We 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.200 saw turnovers, they work on that all time, Layton vanderesh 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.600 ripping one out there, so you know, interceptions, We've seen 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.400 kind of all kinds of things from this defense, some good, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.200 some bad. But yes, I thought the majority it was 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.840 pretty good. Did you see the way justin March Lillard 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.280 finished off that race to the end. Yeah, as he's 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.040 going to beat the coach, he's weaving through the one 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.480 on one offensive. I was watching the pass rush one 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.239 on one over there, and then all of a sudden, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.960 here comes a guy flashing down there. I think he 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.919 did a flip into the end zone. Yeah, but you 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.599 know what, that's what you need after a day off, Yeah, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.960 because you get out of your routine, you get a 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:39.200 little relaxed and you gotta juice people up. Yeah, and 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.040 I think that might have been somewhat what was behind 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.440 the emotion. But it was good. It's a training camp, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.280 let's go. I think it's what you need for the 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.479 entire camp. In practice. You got so many new faces, 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.760 you got so many young guys, and I think we 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.719 probably asked the question day one, like who you mentioned Dez? 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.880 Who replaces Dez's intensity? Yeah, I think it's a coach. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:05.760 I think it's Chris Richard, honestly, And uh, well that's good. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.400 I think we're still I think we're already seeing the 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.000 DB's feed off of what he does. Um, they love 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.279 him already. Confidence. Yeah, that's something you know. Usually you 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.960 see a guy like Byron Jones, who's usually pretty you know, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.039 he could play pretty reserved. I mean he gives you 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.479 the incomplete when he knocks away a matter of fact, 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.000 he had, you know, makes us continue to make plays 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.920 here in this camp. But he he was They were 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.799 they were going back and forth. Lance Lenore and Jordan 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.839 Lewis were getting into it, and Jordan Lewis tried to 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.560 jump in there and get Lewis. We'll get into it, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.240 and that's what I'm saying. And then all of a sudden, 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.280 you know, Chris Richard's like, you get out of there. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.000 You don't run these drills. Somebody else get in there, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.640 you know. I mean, he was like he he wants 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.880 somebody else to get a piece, you know, And he 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.039 was yelling at Jorge, he was yelling at Lanceloor like 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.720 you don't want us, you don't want us. And I 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.280 was like, oh gosh, I mean this is but that's 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.679 but that's I think, like, you know, we're all talking 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.400 about here, the energy level at practice, like Mickey said too, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.400 especially after a day off, you know. And the thing 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.360 about Jason Garrett, he grew up in a system here 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.479 like when they when Mickey you guys were covering the 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.120 team in Austin, there was a lot of that. There 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.280 was a lot of going back and forth. There was 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.680 a lot of competitive So he's gonna let things go. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.480 He's gonna he's gonna let the jawing go, he's gonna 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.520 let the physical play. You know. He's not quick to 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.839 jump in there and break it up. He's letting guys 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.359 go at it and be competitive. And I think that's 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.080 that's something like Rob said, it's good to see actually 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.600 secretly he's smiling. And how about those days you used 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.479 to cover like the joint scrimmages with the Raiders and 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.360 you know, Al Davis is like, okay, we've had enough, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.200 pull them back, you know, and Jimmy's got his pomp pomp, 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.039 come on, you're doing it. But that's I think that's 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.760 I think you have to have that. Now. I'm not 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.960 seeing you go out in cheap shot guys in camp 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.360 and stuff like that. But if you're if it's if 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.800 it's guys rallying for each other, you know, that's a 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.080 good thing. And as Chris Rashard said after practice, it's 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.159 iron sharpening iron. It's it's your challenging the offense and 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.960 the and vice versa. The offense challenges the defense, and 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.160 that's how the whole team gets better. Yeah. I think 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.080 by tomorrow will have a good one. Yeah, we'll have 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:22.720 one of those firefights, you know, dash fights of francs. Yeah, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.440 all right, before we get started off, by the way, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.480 we're going to talk a lot about the defense over 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.040 the course of the next hour and yesterday's practice. But 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.280 before we jump into everything, of course, you can join 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.800 US at nine seven two four nine seven forty four 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.800 hundred will take your phone calls. But we also want 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.400 to remind you the Blue White Scrimmage is on Sunday. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.640 There will be appearances and autographs from Rowdy, the official 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.840 mascot of the Cowboys. There's also a youth combine for 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.400 ages six through sixteen, offering skills and drills with coaching 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.640 from former NFL players, authentic and limited edition Dallas Cowboys 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.679 merchandise for the whole family. So if you're in the area, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.320 make sure you come out on Sunday and really every 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.760 day out here. It's a great it's a free experience, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.200 free of charge, and it's a great opportunity to get 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.600 up close with the these Cowboys players and be a 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.720 part of it. But Sunday is the is the annual 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.680 Blue White Scrimmage. A lot of it will look like 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.280 a regular practice. They'll have a scrimmage though at the 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.280 end it's gonna be televised right here on Dallas Cowboys 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.400 dot com and on t XA twenty one in Dallas 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.080 Fort Worth as well. Yeah, and again to reiterate your point, though, Bill, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.480 come on out and see because the intensity has you know, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.520 through one week, there's a lot of kind of feeling 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.480 some things out it. And now you know players know 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.679 this too. You know, you start running out of practices, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.360 you know, you start running out of Okay, I've got 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.120 a game next week, and these games are gonna start 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.640 coming from a Yeah, games are just gonna start coming fast. 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.600 And the next thing you know, it's gonna be September 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.280 one and they're gonna have a cutdown. So the sense 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.200 of urgency for the players, yeah, for the guys that 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.600 are on the fifty three man roster, you think that's 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.640 gonna be. But there's some guys are battling for spots 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.040 that are trying to get noticed here. So it's good 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.160 if you can to come out and see, Okay, who 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.520 who's making that that that rise up? You know, I 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.839 mentioned Dorian Armstrong in my notes, guys that you know 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.680 he's drafted, but you know they're trying to figure out 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.480 some things, and you know, those are the types of 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.280 guys you want to come out and see and before 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.920 they have a before we have a chance to get 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.520 out of here. And it's seventy degrees. That works, it is, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.880 but it's kind of hot, man, There wasn't there was 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.679 no marine layer yesterday, and that kind of gets guys 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.720 going a little bit. When it's hot, it gets fiery. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.480 You got Christopher Shard out there yelled at people. But 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.440 from your band's perspective, more often than not, there is 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:43.280 a marine layer in that afternoon practice. And it's very pleasant, yeah, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.760 very pleasant to watch practice. And uh and in an 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.120 added treat on that day, in particular on Sunday, and 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.280 by the way, practice starts a Pacific time at four o'clock, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.840 six o'clock, uh, central time, would you say, though, that 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:04.200 the defense won practice yesterday? Absolutely? Yes. I thought that 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.000 it was about time by the way they started making plays. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.280 And then the funny thing is the first question, uh 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.240 this morning, people start asking, oh, so's Dak struggling? And 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.360 then it's like that's the problem when you when you 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.600 say that either side one practice yesterday, well that means 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.720 something must be wrong with the other side, you know. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.880 And and I think you know it helps that um 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:31.920 you have um DeMarcus Lawrence on the field a little 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.040 bit with the first teams and so you know, and 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.520 I thought Chris Rahshard made a good comment and he goes, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.400 we we were almost done with our installation so it's 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.520 not new stuff all the time. It's executing. It's executing 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.160 now because you've been you've been doing this. Uh And 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.560 and I think the other thing is that, um so 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.720 the offense starts working on stuff too, right, because a 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.480 lot of what they were doing yesterid there was a 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.680 lot of blitzing going on with the linebackers. And I 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.800 think the guys when I was on the fan noticed 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.240 that the quarterbacks were running a little bit more and 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.800 it looked like design runs. I don't know if they 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.160 were broken play. Yeah, but a lot of times if 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.920 you're blitzing like that up the middle, then the quarterback 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.040 is gonna go, okay, I'm going outside. Got off. Yeah, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.319 Mickey makes a really good point. There are doing the 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.720 installation stuff. Has been a lot about some of the 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.200 blitzing some of the games, some of the twist I 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.480 mentioned arms Strong about him a lot of guys getting 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.800 involved playing on the left side. Now, I'll tell you 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.040 something else they didn't. I think you guys probably noticed this. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.960 Played a lot of zone coverage yesterday, and so what 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.600 the ball kept getting checked down, check down, check down, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.239 and you know, and that's and you know, the quarterbacks 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.920 are taught too. If they don't read, if they're playing, 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.040 if they're dropping aid or drop it set whatever they're dropping, Okay, 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.240 that's the that's the throw. That's the throw. And it 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.600 kind of probably became a little frustrating watching practice because 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.400 the ball is going to the back, the balls going 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.040 with the tight end, the ball is going to everything's 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.920 going underneath. But that I thought that I thought they played. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.160 It's really one of the first times I've seen him 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:07.080 play extensive zone coverage where a Woozier was instead of 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.079 being up on or Byron Jones being up on, they 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.680 were board a side retreat mode, trying to funnel everything 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.040 into the middle of the field, and it just forced 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.600 Prescott not to throw the ball when he tried to 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.319 throw the ball down the field. They had good coverage 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.439 along the sidelines, safety over the top, so they were 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.480 doing what they needed to do on defense. If that's 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.959 if they're planning yesterday was work on zone coverage to 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.960 keep everything in front of him. Well executed yesterday. To 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.120 that point, I thought, we saw what Layton vander esh 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.520 can do covering. He was the way he can drop 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.719 and move for a guy his size, He got a 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.640 he got his hand on a ball I think stripped 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.800 the ball intercept. That was a blake. Yeah, it was 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.000 on Blake. John ripped the ball out his left hand. Yeah. Then, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.920 by the way, is a tight end a receiver in 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.959 a tight ends body. I mean, that's impressive to cover 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.480 him down the sideline, forced a turnover. Basically, he's he's 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.520 very instinctive back there, and I think we saw what 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.600 they can what they're hoping from him in terms of 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.640 coverage from that middle linebacker spot for sure. Well, the 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.600 other thing that they I think I saw and correct 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.800 me if I'm wrong, but they were running some three 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.480 man line Yeah, and vander esh was in there with 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.840 the first group, right, So that's the first time I 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.480 think we've seen that, Yeah, because normally he's been the 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:25.680 second group. Wondering any any of you wondering what kind 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.160 of opportunity the first round draft pick is going to 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.120 have to get on the field this season. Uh, he's 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.439 gonna be out there. Yeah, he may not walk out 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.319 there with the starters at middle linebacker day one, but 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.000 they're going to create a role for him that that 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.920 he fits in. You know the other thing about Brian, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.520 you were talking about the checkdowns, yeah, so what has 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.199 Eerie been at? Well, can they throw the ball to 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.320 zeke Moore? Yeah, then they start throwing the ball at 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.839 zeke Moore. It's like, well why can't Yeah, this is 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.280 no way. I look at this as Dak Prescott doing 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.040 what he needed to do to get the ball in 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.839 his hand at least give his chance to get another play. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.000 I applaud christ Raschard and Ride Marinelli for saying, Okay, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.200 we're gonna work on our own coverage today and then 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.160 we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, I use 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.120 this term, and like I would see Claude, we're gonna 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.680 claud and cover is what we're gonna do. And they 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.599 did a nice job of that. I mean Prescott, you 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.120 could see him on his progressions looking He's like, okay, 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.000 I can't throw that one. I can't throw that one. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.160 But then when he tried to throw that one, they 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.800 were a good shape defensively. They were a good shape 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:31.000 to make plays and knock passes down. And I'd like 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.720 to see the defense be able to do that. I 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.920 really really do. But the other thing, sorry, Bill, the 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.800 other thing I thought you saw was these bigger corners 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.320 the impact they can have, particularly on smaller receivers. Saw 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.120 Cheeto make two pass breakups in a single series against 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.280 Beasley anti Tavon Austin. And that's a situation where you know, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.080 you want to put these smaller guys on the outside, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.640 and they're smaller and they're quicker, but as Sanjelao told 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.200 us after practice, make there are situations where if they can, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.280 if you allow them to jam you, then then you 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.880 can be intros. And that's that's what happened and Cheeto 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.640 and we're seeing Byron Jones to use his frame and 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.960 his link to disrupt guys at the line of scrimmage. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.560 It's exactly good point. They try to throw a ball 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.360 to Thompson down the left sideline there and Thompson's been 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.840 separating from people pretty well and Byron Jones says, no, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.480 you're not not. This time, you're not. It was right hand, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.280 left hand, right hand, and the next you know, Dak's like, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.760 I'm gonna throw it anyway to see if Thompson didn't 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.960 get his hands up. I mean, he was beaten up 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:34.320 on the line so badly by Byron Jones. It affected 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:38.120 the way the play ended up. But the execution of 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.560 the play. So again, tip of the hat to the 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.720 secondary yesterday. They've had I think they've had a little 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.520 bit of some some times where they haven't looked as good. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.200 I mean, we've talked about these receivers quite a bit 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.120 that they've been pretty consistent. Yeah, Chris Rashard, he grabbed 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.440 him all by the neck yesterday and drug him with him. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.040 I was at the far end of the field on 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:02.840 Anthony Brown's pick. What happened on that offside? Okay, what 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.960 a great read though, if you're talking about vision in 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.400 relation to where the receiver and where the past. Prescott 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:10.920 took the shot to try and get it out there 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.160 on an off side situation. He got him with a 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.840 hard count. Flagg goes out, he's gonna throw it anyway. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.160 But great break on the ball underneath by Anthony Brown, 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.360 you know, and some of the covers were talking about 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.800 actually happened in the seven on seven drill too. Yeah. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.360 Still there's no rush, right, So it was it was coverage. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.680 It was coverage, and you know there was one play 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.680 where they tried to run uh tops and deep. What 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.800 built I mean, what Brian said about his speed and 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.040 a Woozier was with him, and Woods was with him, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.360 and and Dak had no place to throw the ball. Uh, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.840 and he ended up overthrowing him. But it was because 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.720 they had him covered. So you know, it was a 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.200 good day for them. And as I said, it was 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.680 about time. Yeah, you know, and from a fan perspective 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.760 and also from a TV guy's perspective who is just 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.520 looking for a couple of highlights to put on the 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.760 ten o'clock news that night, it came across as a 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.280 bland practice because there were no big place from the 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:12.760 offense highlight all that defense. So but we did highlight 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.160 the defense. What we showed was Cheeto with two pass 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.280 breakups and the two plays plays. Talking about there and 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.960 and I'm really excited to see a Wougier this season, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.560 and and just seeing his second year, and we saw 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.119 it at the end of last year. We saw a 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.200 glimpse there. But playing that left cornerback position, it's such 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.359 a key you saying it, Yeah, And uh, it's gonna 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.720 be really fun to watch his progress. This just needs 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.919 to live up to number twenty four over there, that's right, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.240 And he's wearing number twenty four. And I've talked to 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.600 him about his knowledge of Everson Walls and uh, he's 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.560 he's learning about Everson. He's learning. We gotta we gotta 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.800 get him together. We win you to get back to Dallas, Everson. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.440 We gotta have a meeting of the twenty fours. That 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.320 that won't be difficult. Yeah, that's right. Everson would jump 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.920 in there, and I don't remind him there was all 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.040 to a Super Bowl MVP. 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