WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Too Many Miscues 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:15.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.120 raining live from the Dallas Cowboys World head hours at 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:30.160 the Star in Frisco, flowing the live stay don't have 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.360 been the Talking Cowboys. It's a Monday edition, the Monday 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.640 after the Dallas Cowboys fall to the Seattle Seahawks thirty 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.080 eight thirty one. And while there are plenty of question 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.040 marks throughout the first three weeks of the season for 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.000 the Dallas Cowboys, I know one thing is certain. There's 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.680 never a dull day as a part of this franchise 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.080 in covering this team, because they can't just get blown out. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.840 They can't just win and take care of the right 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.600 things on a daily basis. They can't just do things 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.640 to where it's easy for Cowboys fans. They've got to 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.120 make it tough. They've got to make it controversial. And 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.919 it's for the third straight week to start the twenty 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.880 twenty season, a one score game and a one score result. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.240 We're gonna break it down, We're gonna talk about it here. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.800 I'm Talking Cowboys. Glad you're with us. I'm Kyle Yeoman's 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.119 alongside Isaiah Standback our residence, super Bowl champion, in former 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.480 Dallas Cowboy, Rob Phillips, our Cowboys insider, and the great 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.360 heck Ma Harrison joining you as always, and guys, there 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.600 are so many things we can impact right here once again, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:33.160 a laundry list of worth of issues, worth of problems, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.560 however you want to say it, even positive some that 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.200 emerged out of that Alden Smith that we could talk about. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.200 But other than that, where do we start Whenever it 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.480 comes to the Dallas Cowboys loss last night against the 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.040 Seattle Seahawks on the road, Rob, really, what did you 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.960 see in terms of your general thoughts and how do 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.560 we start breaking this thing down? Man? It's one of 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.360 the weirder two weeks stretch as I've seen with the Cowboys, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.200 with two of those games that were just strange, and 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.120 the way I look at the game yesterday, it kind 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.440 of evens out. This league always kind of evens out. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.520 They won a game a week ago they should not 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.880 have run. They spotted too many points to Atlanta, found 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.040 a way to win that game and lost this one 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.600 for a lot of the same reasons that they fell 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.960 behind a week earlier. Way too many mistakes and while 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.280 you can say it evens out, it's still alarming because 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.400 they're not doing the winning things you need to do 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.320 to take care of business. And it's it's really at 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.280 all three levels of the of the team, offense, defense, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.880 special teams, and you know they've got to get it fixed. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.480 This is you know, they're they're entering a stretch here 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.880 where you might think it's an easy stretch, it's not. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.480 If they if they don't take care of business and 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.880 and eliminate some of the sloppy things that we're gonna 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.040 get into a lot of that, they're gonna have trouble 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.600 against Cleveland on Sunday at home. That's that's that's just 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.600 a fact. They did too many things to beat themselves 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:05.080 in this game. Yeah, definitely, the the self inflicted wounds. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.720 It's troubling to see when we do, you know, do 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.440 something good, get a sack and it's negated by pass 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.280 interference or some type of penalty, and special teams, man, 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:21.200 special teams. The just point after attempts are it's becoming 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.480 an event and I don't think anyone is comfortable with that. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.840 And it's so crazy how one week can change things. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.959 Where we were just talking about how great our special 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.520 teams is until this week, man, I think we really 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:37.040 got we still have question marks there, but defensively the secondary, 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.400 how do we get that fixed? Because we're, like you said, Rob, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.960 we're getting to a point of the season where every 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.520 week we're gonna start to see some pretty pretty good receivers. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.920 So mans, so many things that we have to go 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.800 over today, But the past interferences and special teams, man, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:01.880 big big question mark for me, you know, to kind 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.040 of double back on what you just said, heck, you know. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.400 And Dallas Cowboys are the second week in a row 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.640 have plexico bearers themselves. Okay, they have shot themselves in 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:14.280 the laya. These I mean, every every facet of the 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.039 of the game. Special teams, offense, defense, all played a 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.760 part in this lost yesterday, and we send it in 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.679 the beginning the week. You cannot make mistakes against this team. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.880 The Seattle Seahawks are too good of a team entirely 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.920 on all in all three facets really to make those 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.000 mistakes and expect to really come out of the victor. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.120 So we got some work to do today, fellows. Let 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.799 just go ahead and break it all down. Yeah, forty 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.400 five minutes is not enough in terms of the time 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.640 for us to really get through this all. Luckily, we 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.960 do have shows every day this week throughout leading you 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.320 into the Browns week, which, like Rob said, it's not 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.120 going to be any easy feat by any stretch of 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.400 the imagination. But guys, whenever you talk about the mistakes 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.400 that were made, I know early in the game we 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.200 saw Dak Prescott throw his first interception in two hundred 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.560 and sixty two or two hundred and ninety two rather 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.800 passing attempts. That's a Cowboys franchise record. So he's taken 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.800 care of the football for an extended period of time. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.560 Now he's moved into the fact of he threw a 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.560 pick at the end of the second quarter. It allowed 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.279 Seattle to go down and score with seven seconds remaining 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.160 and take the lead heading into halftime. Then you come out, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.599 have a chance to really set the tone in the 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.960 second half and really put on a very good show, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.080 put on a very good drive at the end or 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.760 at the start of the third quarter, and set the tone. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.960 You fumble it a little strip zack fumble that ends 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.839 up in another Seattle touchdown. It was a fifteen point swing, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.000 fourteen point swing that turned you around and all of 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.080 a sudden put you down thirty to fifteen, and that's 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.200 where the Cowboys had to come back. How do you 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.960 take care of the football better in key situations? That's 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:58.280 what I think I'm most frustrated about guys. I mean, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.360 I mean, he's got a professionals, right, I mean, these 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.960 guys are pros. I mean, I've been there before. You know, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.360 mistakes happen, but they can't continue to happen, right, They 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.240 cannot continue to have been special teams. Dropping the ball 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.960 on a kickoff return on a perfectly kick kickoff return, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.719 that's just not an option, you know, taking care of 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.520 the ball on offense. You know, we talked about this 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.680 statistics going into this where Dak had two in the 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.720 previous three I think appearances against Seattle, He's had two 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.360 touchdowns versus five interceptions. And you know, on the opposing side, 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.400 Russell Wilson had five touchdowns and zero interceptions. That continued 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.880 on right, um, you know, you know he had another 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.840 three turnovers, another two interceptions in the fumble. So I mean, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.919 these are things that you can't do and expect to 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.320 win the games. And obviously on the defensive side of 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.000 the ball, they had guys running around booty butt naked, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.599 you know, and just like you just can't. You can't 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.680 do that and expect to win games. So these guys 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.039 have to take it upon themselves for it to be 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.520 important enough for them to actually, you know, cancel out 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.200 these mental errors, canceled out these these mistakes that they're 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.320 making and go out there and make the corrections needed 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.159 to win games. Hey, Isaiah, quick question, man on that 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.520 route from a Mark Cooper, the turnover and the interception 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.599 by Dak on that route and he's thrown in between 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.640 the hash and the numbers to a Mark Cooper, was 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.280 it more of the route that caused the interception of 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.240 was it just a throw that was behind that that 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.480 Dak through? You know what, I have to understand a 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.760 little bit more about the techniques that are being taught 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.640 on their on their on that side of the ball 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.320 for them. But you know, from my stance, it looked 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.520 like he was just a bad ball by Dak. It 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.440 was just actually, I wouldn't want to say it was 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:30.760 a bad ball. It was just a heck of a 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.800 play by play by Griffin that's called how it is. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.000 I mean, yeah, this is a great play by Griffin. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.040 I don't think Dak nor Cooper were in the wrong 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.640 again without knowing what's being how they're being taught to 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.920 run that route specifically. But I do know that watching 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.720 that play, Griffin made a heck of a break on 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.520 the ball and he snacked that thing out the air. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.760 He's definitely been on the judge machine. Yeah, he shot 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.560 underneath it and he read it perfectly. But I thought 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.679 that a Mark Cooper could have given Dak a little 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.280 bit more of a target on that the way that 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.120 he ran the route, I mean just from the beginning 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.720 to the end, so either way, I mean the turnovers 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.560 or what you have to look at that had the 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.560 pendulum swing, especially in the second quarter where it looked 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.080 like we got the stops that we needed. Right defensively, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.600 I know we're gonna kill these guys as far as 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.280 some of the you know, sacks, turnovers, things that we're 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.480 looking for, but defensively that from the first quarter up 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.800 until that point, you know, look, aside from the sixty 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.960 two yard bomb to Metcalf that wasn't right. There were 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.840 just a lot of things defensively that I felt good about. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.240 As far as getting Russell Wilson off of his square 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.880 and getting him out to make those throws. But look, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.880 you said it best man. The momentum swing at the 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.160 end of the second quarter, in the beginning of the 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.240 third quarter, I think was just we put so much 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.599 against ourselves that it almost looked as though it was 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.679 gonna be insurmountable. But still we gave ourselves an opportunity 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.000 to win the game. The game had so many ebbs 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.800 and flows because after those two turnovers, Mike McCarthy says, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.040 all right, I'm changing out my offensive line, Like I 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.559 don't I don't want to typically change out more than 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.400 one spot. Well I'm gonna go ahead and change three 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.920 spots out and I put Zack Martin at tackle and 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.280 it actually it actually worked. I thought they settled down 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:12.040 and protected better until that last drive. Yeah, you know, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.880 Dak he said he threw a bad ball there. He 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.160 threw it behind Himari and he kind of got away 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:18.800 with one I think on the first drive where he 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.520 threw into coverage and it could have been picked. But 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.880 I you know, I have a hard time. I just 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.280 have a hard time putting too much of this loss 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.520 on him, I know, beyond beyond just the stats. I mean, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.720 I think I think once again, you know, we see 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.319 what this offense is capable of in the passing game, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.600 and Troikman kept talking about on the broadcast over and over, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.880 you give it time they can get back in this game. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.360 Because the Seahawks so depleted in the secondary, the matchups 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.160 were there, and you know, I think for part of 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.360 that reason, we didn't see a lot of Zeke just 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.439 because that wasn't where the the advantage was, and they 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.360 were able to get some things going there. Like Heckma said, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.480 though defensively, while they settled down in the second half, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.400 I think they get up one hundred and forty four yards. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.040 There's just too many miscommunications back there. And I'm not 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.080 sure if it's if it's there's too much on everybody's plate, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:11.520 like we talked about it at the end of the week, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.080 I don't I don't know if it's that um, but 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.360 there's got to be something to it. Because whenever there's 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.120 miscommunications like Lockett running free, uh, like like the other 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.240 touchdown where he goes across the field and Digs just 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.960 kind of lets him go. Uh, they've got to get 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.640 that cleaned up. And they did a better job of 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.839 it because you saw some coverage pressure against Wilson in 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.760 the second half, but it wasn't consistent enough. And that's 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.680 kind of been the story of the season. They haven't 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.960 been consistent enough in any area where you feel good about, Okay, 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.240 they've got this short up. Yeah, Rob, you've been so 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.719 gracious man, And I appreciate that. Rob us in the secondary, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.240 like like I said, I said, these guys are running 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.800 butt naked free and whose man? Whose man is that right? 0:10:54.000 --> 0:11:05.280 How do ye man is that man? Going off of 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.640 what Rob said and the way that he was talking 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.560 about really how the turnovers affected the game and the 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.400 defense just had those miscommunications and it really seemed like 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.199 it got better as the game went along, but especially 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.520 in that first quarter, second quarter, you could tell Seattle 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.080 like Atlanta did, saw something on film and it turned 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.960 in from it turned from week two, the word of 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:32.520 the day was resiliency. Now it's consistency. You can't keep 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.640 that consensus. The consistency from the Cowboys perspective has to 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.840 start in the first quarter. You can't wait till the 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.079 third quarter to get started again. It's the third straight 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.440 slow start you've had. You had it against La you 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.920 had it against Atlanta, you had it now against the Seattle. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.839 You can't wait until halftime to finally figure out your 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.319 offense and figure out your defense to the point where 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.760 you're able to put points on your opponent. And hecklo, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.400 I don't know where to start whenever it comes to 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.079 getting off to a better start. But really they haven't 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:04.080 been able to do it yet. But it's got to 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.680 go back to the secondary though. For me, that's that's 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.360 that's where they had the biggest problems. If you know, 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.520 if DK Metcalf doesn't pull a Don Beebe in the 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.160 super Bowl, it's six touchdown passes for Russell Wilson. I mean, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.480 it's it's you know, I agree, I agree with you, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.640 and I disagree with you. The secondary definitely has some issues. However, 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.480 Schottenheimer must have been on the payroll for the Cowboys 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:30.640 yesterday because he abandoned the run early on and Seattle 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.280 was almost averaging five yards of pop with Carson and 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.839 High and for some reason he got away from NAT 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.680 to start throwing the ball around almost every dayn seemingly 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.400 so that it definitely exposed the receiver, exposed the secondary 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.920 because they Seattle was throwing so often, but they never 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.040 stopped the run there was There was never a portion 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:49.880 of the game where you feel like Seattle couldn't run 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.880 the ball. And that's something that obviously, going into this 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.040 next week they have to address. It's gonna be something 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.000 that's really big for the Cowboys moving forward. But something 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.880 else that I kind of wanted to point out if 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.720 we wanted to look at a positive side of things, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.360 And Rob alluded to this a little bit earlier, but 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.559 the way that the offensive line was able to kind 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.120 of shift around and find a rhythm in terms of 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.200 really taking care of the football or I guess blocking well, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.440 with the injuries that they have on that offensive front, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.080 they were able to do that later in the game 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.040 whenever they moved Zack Martin out to tackle, then you 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.400 had Joe Looney go to the right guard spot. Tyler 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.640 Beotest came in and actually called the protections for the 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.720 offensive line, and I thought did a pretty solid job overall. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.120 What did you guys think of the shift on the 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.440 offensive line and how that could potentially play a role 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.760 for this offense moving forward. Guys, well, I got it 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.839 was Rob's tweet who and Rob tweeted that Zach Martin 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.800 was at tackle and I looked at this. I've noticed 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.840 it on the screen and I'm like, oh my god, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.920 what happened? Why is Zack Martin at tackle? But it worked? 0:13:55.160 --> 0:14:00.199 It worked in miss what cools to beati. I'm need 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.400 to say that the Beotish era has started here in 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.360 Dallas because he's second half wise, he did a really 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:12.160 good job. Dave Hellman can vouch for me. I tweeted 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.040 or texted him the other week. This is that's the 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.320 offensive line they need to have in the game, you know. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.960 And because and it's and you're switching out too many positions, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.040 then you probably want to. But if you're trying to 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.680 get your best five healthy guys on the field, that's it. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.960 You know, Brandon Knight's probably your best backup tackle option, 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.640 like pure tackle, even though maybe he can play guard 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.280 two and Martin can play anywhere. I know we've been 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.320 talking about it for six years. Maybe he could do this, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.320 maybe he could do that. But when you're in a 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.560 situation where you know Terrence Steele has battled, but there's 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.640 some tough matchups for him. Uh, you can move Joe 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.080 Looney to tackle he's or to guard. Excuse me, he's 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.880 done that before. And they like Beotist. I mean, they 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.800 think he's he's got potential and that just seemed like 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.840 the best way to try to settle things down a 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.160 little bit. And it's it seemed to work. But all 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.760 that said, it's still a problem because you're still you know, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.280 you've still got young players up front, and you know, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.400 the communications probably got to get cleaned up too, because 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.920 you know, guys are playing out of position, bottom line, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.240 playing out of positions for this past week. Obviously, I 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.640 think go for it, Isaiah Great. Okay, Now, I was 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.360 just gonna say that, you know, you know, kudos to 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.400 coach Philbin and coach McCarthy for making that call. Um. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.520 It was it was a very ballsy move and they 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.400 paid off for them. I think obviously it did. It 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.960 didn't happen early enough, but those guys did the heck 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.920 of a job going out there and playing the positions 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.400 that they were asked to play, and they and they 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.280 started protecting Dak for the most part. Um, I think 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.600 that the office of line rolls kind of start going 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.360 away after this week, right. Obviously, hopefully we get tyres 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.480 Smith back, you get you get Collins back. Um, the 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.680 question remains, now, does Looney move over to guard or 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.400 does he just not play because you got Connor Williams 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:55.880 over there and then a bride beyond is do you 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.440 let be honest, go ahead and take the center or 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.560 do you put Looney in? So that's gonna be a 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.600 question to this next week that I'm very curious to 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.160 see what happens going off of that, though, Isaiah, and 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:08.360 you're talking about this offensive line. We're going into week four, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.680 which means Lyle Collins should be available at some point 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.280 this week. Hopefully Tyrant Smith who was out on the field, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.920 who was getting in reps trying to see if he 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.760 was good to go. They were just making it a 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.720 game time decision where he was not able to go. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.640 But if for some reason both of those guys are back, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.920 is there a chance that Connor Williams, who has been struggling, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.640 who has seen really I'm actually not even going to 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.840 sugarcoat this. Whenever you get bullied by Puna Ford and LJ. Collier, 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.520 I'm going to be disappointed in Connor Williams. And he 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.080 was for the first couple drives of the game, especially 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.360 he was getting bullied by Ford and Collier and exactly 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.800 and throughout the rest of the game as well. He struggled. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.280 He has continued to struggle. Is there a chance that 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.120 Joe Looney fills that spot, comes in at left guard? 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.760 Whenever you get everybody back and healthy, Kyle, I think 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:00.720 you have to go to that. I think you have 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.480 to because you have enough tape out there to show 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.240 you that Connor Williams is struggling, even when they had 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:10.439 just three guys coming. That created the strack, the sack strip, 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.679 and that was from Connor's side, So we have to 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.920 address it. And I was thinking that going into this 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.760 game that we definitely were going to get a heavy 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.280 dose of Zeke simply because we had to undrafted free 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.919 agents at the at the tackle position. How what a 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.480 better way to get these guys in rhythm and to 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.000 have them fired off the ball. But we you know, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.520 they were basically in pass protection literally the whole game. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.240 If if Dak is throwing the ball for fifty seven 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.040 fifty seven attempts, I didn't know we had an air 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:46.159 raid offense, but that's what we look like yesterday. Mike Hey, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:47.840 I think if my math is right, is that one 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.840 hundred and ten passes over the last two weeks. That's 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.880 a lot. That's a that is a lot, I mean, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.920 maybe too much for Dak Again, kudos, he had full 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.720 fifty last week, four seventy two this week. If you're 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.200 just into the statistics of football and not winning, then 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:09.119 he's balling. Yeah, he is balling. But once again, statistics 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.800 don't matter. They really don't, and we saw that yesterday. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.040 Alden Smith was visibly disappointed after the game. 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