WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: First Half Grades 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.080 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:13.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.480 Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:29.680 the Star in Frisco today and now your hosts Isaiah 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:37.120 stand Back, Patrick Walker, and Kyle Yeomans. It is a 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.920 Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:45.040 Company from the Star in Frisco in the s WBC studios. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.640 As we welcome you into a shake up edition of 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.960 Talking Cowboys. It is not Isaiah stand Back, it is 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.920 not Patrick, no c. Walker. You'll see them later on 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.800 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. But today instead, it's the 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:03.000 triumphant Talking Cowboys return of Brian broad Us on the show. Brian, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.959 how's it going. I am doing great, Kyle. It is 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.520 nice to be with you and Nate. Every time I 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.280 work with Nate, I think about a story if I 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.760 could tell it real quick, Okay, Nate and I One 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.440 time we're doing a Cowboys postgame show. I think it 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.959 was after San Diego Thanksgiving. They played awful and Lindsey 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.240 Draper was the host at the time, and she took 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.160 the break and I was saying I was just going off, 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.000 and I was when I when I get around Nate, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.160 I tend to just go off on things. And I 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.160 went off on something about the game went to break 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.080 and Nate looked at me and goes, you're trying to 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.600 get fired, aren't you. He was brutal, and I looked 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.200 at him and I, uh, I go uh, I'm not wrong, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:50.320 am I? He goes, no, you're good. So yeah, it's 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.760 it's great to be with you and Nate again, thank 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.240 you for making me. Let me be a part of this. Yeah. No, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:57.760 there's gonna be a lot of fun. And of course, 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.760 without a further intro, I mean, you've got time pro bowler, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.240 three time Super Bowl champ Nate Newton on the other side. Nate, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:04.960 how's it going with you? Great? I'm great man. I 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.280 like getting up early, you know, getting out of the 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.600 way right. I like doing early shows. I like just 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.919 bouncing that way. You can go home and do other things. Man, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.919 have phone with the wife and all of those things 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:19.080 that entails work the phone for that trade deadline stuff. Yeah. No, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.320 there's a lot of different topics that we could hit 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:22.959 this week. It's a good week for a bye week. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.280 Shake up because sure right smack dab in the middle 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.000 of the season. The trade deadline hits today at three 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.280 o'clock Central time. Nate's got his Black Rifle Coffee Company. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.440 We're ready to go. Brian's got his Black Rifle coffee too. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.520 So let's get into it a little bit, because first off, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.840 I want to get your thoughts since we haven't heard 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.840 it on this show, specifically on Sunday's win, and then 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.000 we'll talk into the trade deadline. But Brian, when you 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.800 look back on how the Cowboys got there forty nine 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.440 twenty nine win over the Chicago Bears, how would you 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.520 classify their performance and what they were able to do 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.880 this past Sunday. I've been super critical on this platform, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.919 which is great to have. And then also one three 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.600 the fan of Kellen Moore throughout the year, and you know, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:11.040 talking about creativity using players much like Dan Quinn and 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.480 the defensive coaches use their guys like Kellen Moore. And 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.880 the staff really figured out some things the other day 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.800 and I was all about that. I was all about, Hey, 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.119 let's get these receivers on the move, Let's create opportunities, separation, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.800 big swinging motion, you know, to cede lamb up the sidelines, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.919 puts the corner in a bind, puts the safety in 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.440 a bind. You know, route combinations, all these things that 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.040 you've kind of been asking for when you watch the games, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.600 because you watch other NFL games and you're going, how 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.480 are they getting their guys so open? And you know 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.440 you've got just as talented guys as other teams around 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.520 the league. But I thought this was one of those 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.960 games the first fifteen that Kellen Moore had a thought, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.840 we're outstanding. I said, well, let me see his next fifteen. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.000 His next fifteen were just as good. So you know, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.080 when you have to be critical and you also have 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.960 to be fair about it. And I thought he did 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.200 a great job with the game plan. I thought it 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.280 was executed well. About the quarterback, it showed what a 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.000 week of practice for him, what that meant. And also 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.880 though it also saw in defense their depth was really 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.400 stretched in that football game. You know, Makuamu, Bell, Clark, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.920 guys playing in that game trying to stop a defense 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.880 or excuming an offense. That's really really was committed to 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:32.080 run in the football in a lot of different ways. Yeah, 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.520 that's committed, true commitment. Yes, what did you think about 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.479 the game. I just didn't think they would do that 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:43.240 in a matt Era Flus defense. I just, you know, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.080 I like what they did. You know, you guys, you 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:51.440 hear me off. I'm just moaning about that one pass. Yeah, interception, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.680 that one that one pass, because I believe in winning football. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.680 Don't start when the playoffs started. Whinning football starts and 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.080 he bills all year long as that one pass kind 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.400 of word me. But other than that, Brian, you are 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.640 spot on and what you're saying. I mean, they did 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.880 what they needed to do. They made play out the play, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.240 and I liked it. I mean, you was excited this 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.360 past weekend. You forty Burgers and I hope you got 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:22.320 everybody they water Burgers did, got it all done. I'm 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.560 excited as long as we don't show that one bad 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.400 play that can hurt us down the road. As long 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.400 as we don't show that. I mean, interceptions happen, fumbles happen, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:36.039 but that's not that's not hurt our defense. Because what 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.480 that play did was hurt our defense. It put them 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.239 back on the field, and then coming out of halftime 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.200 and put them back on the field. Don't hurt your defense. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.960 This is your bread and butter our defense averaging thirty 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.120 two minutes or game, and you wonder why we're banged up. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.039 That is the reason. So when you're talking about that 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.440 interception right before the half, you're about right around in 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.440 a minute. I guess there's a little order of minutes 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.200 to drive down the field and try and put your 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.600 offense continuously on the board, because at that point they 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.039 had scored on all four of their drives. Is that 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.160 aggressive play call what you're worried about. Is that that 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.560 type of play calling or is it just the execution 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.400 of if you're going to run an end route like that, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.000 a kind of deep D route like that, one thing 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.039 you'll receiver has to say in his mind either I 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.080 am catching it, no one's catching it. You can't be lilligagging. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.919 You got to be dedicated to this calls. Am I 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.159 correct Ryan? Absolutely? And so when this don't happen and 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.360 you throw your defense back out there, it's just don't 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.320 you don't. That's not aggressive, that's not if your coach 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.400 is gonna swinging the bat for you. Hey, hey, coach, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.280 I'm going to call this play. It's gonna be kind 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.760 of deep over the middle. I know we haven't had 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.440 success there. We're trying to open up something in the game. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.960 Coach McCarthy, you don't know to have his head says something. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.160 But if he did, he's like, all right, everybody's gotten 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.840 to I want to do the thumb up. Everybody's gotten 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.680 the thumb up. I guess what. Yeah, it didn't work. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.599 You gamble and and I'm not and I'm not going 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.719 to go into this better team and all of that. Sure, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.440 I'm just saying. Smart football doesn't start when the playoffs start. Yeah, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.840 it starts doing the whole year. You know. It's funny 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.920 in Nates, right. I mean, I'm thinking they haven't stopped 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.480 you yet. That's kind of what I was thinking about. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.840 But when you look at it from the defense's perspective, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.160 he's absolutely right about that, especially against a team that 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.680 you know, it was just running the football, and the 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:37.080 Cowboys have been put in some bad sudden chains situations 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.440 before that. You know, well they've had some They've had 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.480 a couple of bad punts that put them teams on 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.880 the other side of the fifty no points, and for 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.720 them to get the ball again on your side of 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.800 the fifty and give up only three points. I think 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.840 It says a lot about that defense and the heart 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.480 that they played with because that defense, that that was tough, 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:03.080 that that that offense with those backs, that offensive line 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.880 is not great that they have, but what they've figured 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.800 out is like, listen, we know they can't pass block, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.800 but we know they can run block. And you're dealing 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.880 with a quarterback that can run like he does and 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.560 running backs like they have. That that's a different animal 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.440 that you're playing against right there. And to finish the 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.480 game the way they did, I tip my hat to 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.480 him because that that wasn't going to be an easy 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.480 assignment at all. And you know, Nate's right me. I'm like, yeah, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.600 they haven't stopped. You go for it. And then when 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.800 they throw the interception and you don't see the receiver 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.520 coming across, you're going, Okay, I'm an idiot for thinking that. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:44.360 But the bigger, the bigger point is Nate's right about 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.080 the defense. Don't put the defense in harm's way even 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.200 though they're capable of stopping harm, especially in the game 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.800 like that where they're worn down pound after pound, run 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.400 after run. You get forty seven rushing carries against you, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.760 your defense is going to wear it down. So kind 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.120 of going back to what you were just saying, how 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.360 tough is it for a defense specifically whenever they face 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.480 a team like that that's going to abandon the past, 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.920 to run the football, to slow down the run even 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.200 though you know what's coming, but you still can't slow 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.800 it down. The thing that bothered me the most about 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:22.440 this Cowboys defense through the first eight weeks was the 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.320 Philadelphia final drive when they ran the ball ten straight 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:33.960 plays that because that was your strength verse them there, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.040 what they determined was going to be their strength and 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.680 running the ball, and so it now it's one of 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.120 those things where you look at it and you say, okay, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.040 where are the issues on this Cowboys defense? If you're 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.360 going to attack this defense, what do you do well? 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.640 Running the football would be where I would start, And 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.200 a lot of it is and I know you guys 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.680 all watch the All twenty two. I don't think it's 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.640 scheme and I don't think it's ability. I think there's 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.120 sometime times where this team, you know, and when they're 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.800 playing run defense, whether they they go out of lanes. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.400 You know, we interview Tank Lawrence on a He's got 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.080 a weekly show with us on one oh five three 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.600 and He talks about lanes, gap integrity, things like that. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.320 You know, if you're if you're responsible for the width 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.640 of you know, contain and you spin inside and all 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.720 of a sudden it's a free corner, and then there's 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.320 a big play that's a that's bad if you all 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.679 of a sudden decide, well, I'm going to take a 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.840 bad angle again and now it's another outside play, or 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.480 I'm gonna go too wide and let them block me 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.040 out of the play. You know, um on the film, 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.400 we all saw this fourth and one. They had an 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.560 opportunity and I hate to I'm just I know they're 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.720 winning games and yeah, but I'm I'm talking about it. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.160 You know, if you if you're thinking about issues fourth 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.719 and one, they had an opportunity in that game to 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 get a stop. They slant the right way, they got 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.240 everything kind of buttoned up. But your corner, you know, 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.400 he's unblocked, and if he just comes down, then you 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.320 got to stop, and now the defense is off the field. Instead, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.760 the corner gets you know, doesn't make the play, and 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.440 now it's the first down and now you're keeping drives going. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.760 This is the only thing I think that really hurts 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.160 this defense and I don't think it's scheme and I 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.240 don't think it's their ability. I think it's sometimes they 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.360 have this mentality of get up field, get up field, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.720 make a play, so just go rush a passer and 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.000 stuff like that. Effort and discipline is that kind of think. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.600 I think it's not the effort, it's the I think 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.800 it's the I think that at times it's like I said, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.640 you could watch. You could watch a guy like Dorian's 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.800 armstrong responsible for the width and then he takes a 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.559 rush inside and then after the play you see him 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.679 kind of hang his head knowing that, oh I made 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.160 a mistake there, you know. And that's I think that's 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.320 the biggest thing. You know, this defense when and teams 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.160 have figured out a little bit and running the ball 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.720 about the crack, the crack, toss, the get the ball 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.560 to the perimeter. They figured out it's easier to block 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.040 Micael Parsons when you can shield him or down block 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.800 him as opposed to taking him head up. Tampa Bay 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.120 did it a lot. Yeah, that's where it started. This 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:18.240 is where this is where our superpowers have turned into 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.960 a curse because the coach gives them the authority saying 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.400 if you see a play if you can make you play, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:31.079 but they are forgetting to make the play. See whereas 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.240 Jimmy had the same philosophy, coach wants they had the 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.280 same philosophy. But if you blow that chance to make 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.840 that play, then you for the next ten or twelve 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:46.880 plays have to just play assignment football. Our guys are 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.320 like Ulsa, he's a he's a penetrator. We've had Zeus 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.200 talk about that, Isaiah talk about that a lot. But 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:59.559 when you penetrate, you still have a gap responsibility and 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:04.040 some and then instead of going up the field, he'll slam. Yeah, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.800 he'll go too far out because he he wants to 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:12.080 make a play. When we get into the Philadelphias again, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:18.240 the the news again, and you play your responsibility and 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.480 I know sooner or later and they're over there and 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.560 they're gonna say, you know what, coach, we like what 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:29.000 we're doing. But when we face the team that's equally 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.720 good talent wise, coach wise, we don't want the Philadelphia 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.720 thing again. Yeah, you can't have that. And that's why 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.800 I say smart football don't start in the playoffs. It's 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.520 all year long, and we gotta kind of ring back 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.880 because parts Parsons his rookie year, he was great against 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.600 the run. Now Parsons like, I'm going to get that 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.760 man in that backfield. So well that it happened, and 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.360 we watched it. You know, we've when you watched y'all 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.640 twenty two again. Year a situation where Tank is like, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.319 here's Fields, He's they're kind of he's drifting as a 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.319 he's drifting to throw the ball and his eyes are 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.600 to the left, and he keeps drifting and drifting and drifting, 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:15.120 and Tank is taken an angle to catch him drifting, yes, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.480 and then all of a sudden it's like Fields is like, 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.360 oh no, this guy's about to punish me. And he 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.800 gets out and now there's nobody on that side. But 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.720 it's not I mean, it's he's rushing the passer. But 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.920 Tank will tell you that his angle was probably a 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:33.120 little steep, but to handle the pass rush, he had 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.920 to go that steep. It just happened that You're you're 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.720 playing a quarterback that's pretty rare with the mobility and 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.360 stuff like that. You're not gonna play a lot of 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.120 guys like that, but especially the next two weeks. You know, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.040 Rogers can move around a little bit. Cousins can move 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.360 around a little bit, but not like what that guy 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.720 in Chicago can. Cousins turned on the gas a little 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.560 bit this pass way. Did you see that sound run 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.800 where he kind of got to the edge, turned on 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.600 the jets and got in the end zone. Showed a 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.280 little bit of something there. Yeah, nobody's like Justin Fields 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.000 or Jalen Hurts. I mean, those are the two guys 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.880 that you're gonna face all year that are gonna give 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.200 you problems. The new buzzword in NFL is stress. Yes, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.400 everybody's telling the words stress, and Mike McCarthy says it 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.800 quite a bit the amount of stress you put on 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.600 the Cowboys offense. Put a lot of stress on the 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.320 Bears the other day. Three wide receiver, three tight end packages, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.960 no huddle, don't let them substitute. You know, big personnel 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.040 on the field and now they're running plays and they're 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.800 wide open. You know they can't defend. That's that's kind 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.760 of stress you need to put on people. 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It's nice to 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.879 be back out there, you know, with the pandemic and 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.080 all that, and getting to see people and the fans 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.800 and stuff like that, and uh, you know, to really 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.040 be in that firsthand. A lot of folks coming through 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.159 those gates over there, and you know, a lot of 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.000 the the last couple of weeks, the Detroit fans have 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.320 been fun. The Bears fans have been fun, and all 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.159 the Cowboy fans had stopped by and say hello had 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.040 been great too. That's a lot of fun. You guys 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.840 were up in the booth during COVID, right You were 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.640 still in the boy we were actually we were during 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.120 COVID we were upstairs in the Bradsham Radio booth, and 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.040 then and then and then there was a lot of 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:56.879 time though too, where we were just at the station 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.520 at one oh five three. And that's tough because you know, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.639 the inner action that you had with the fan. One 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.200 of the things I look forward to when you're talking 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.080 about with Nate and how he works with all the 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.600 folks out there in Oxnard, when you go walking in 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.200 and Nate kind of shout out for walking in, and 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.200 you're kind of like, Okay, Nate's uh, that's cool, and 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.000 then people like turn around and look and you're just 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.120 kind of like duck in your head and go, yeah, yeah, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.679 how's it going. It's funny because you mentioned this to 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.560 me when we were on the Draft show a long 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.680 time ago, and he's like, watch out, watch watch Camp Nate, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.119 watch him, Oh yeah, navigate And I was like, oh, 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.760 I'm sure, I'm sure he's just Nate. Nate takes another level. Yeah, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.280 we gotta love it. Camp is fun. Yeah for us, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.800 now we're not, I don't feel but for us it's 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.960 a little bit of work for them, right, Yeah, No, 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.240 doubt about it all right, since I mean it feels 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.919 like yesterday we had training camp. But you blink and 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.560 we're halfway through this season right now. Yeah, kind of 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.359 you're starting. You're starting to figure out some things. The 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.960 calendar's changed. I know, working for Bill Parcels, he always 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.680 said you kind of you know who you are by Thanksgiving. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.320 I think Jerry Jones in this front office and coaching 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.679 staff have an idea of who they are through eight weeks. 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.679 Who do you think they are? I think they're a 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.240 team that realized that they've got their quarterback back. They 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.719 can be very dynamic when it comes to use of personnel, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.199 whether it's the tight ends, the backs. You know. The 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.400 way that they're getting both those backs going, I think 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.879 is a really really good thing to see. These wide 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.000 receivers probably need to get them going a little bit more, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:26.840 but I was encouraged by what I saw with the 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.639 movement of some of the things this offensive line, who 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:31.919 I thought was really man A lot of question marks 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.639 coming out of that Tampa game, not just the quarterback 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.240 being healthy, but you learned this team is very resilient. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.359 They survived their quarterback being gone for five weeks. You know, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.200 and I think that says a lot that this coaching 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.639 staff again super critical of Mike McCarthy. I said yesterday 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.720 in the radio he would have my vote for a 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.879 coach of the year. I know what's going on with 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.440 the Jets in New York and all that stuff like that, 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.440 But what other team has survived their quarterback being out 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.600 for five weeks and have a four and one record, 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.320 you know, and be one of the better teams in football. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.760 So I think you got to give Mike McCarthy the 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.480 staff a lot of credit for that. The identity on defense, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.600 you know, we saw it last year with all the turnovers, 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.040 and now they've taken it to a whole other level 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.080