WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Reaching Their Standard? 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:16.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.560 Cowboys Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:32.960 the Star in Frisco. Elliott, Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Bravis, 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:38.720 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, and a happy victory Monday 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.159 to you as we are broadcasting as usual from the 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.839 s WBC Mortgage studios here at the Star in Frisco, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.240 starting another work weekend. After a thirty one to six 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.880 win over the Miami Dolphins, your Dallas Cowboys are now 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.520 three and oh on the season for the first time 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.480 since two thousand and eight. They are three and oh 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.600 in a season and have a two game lead in 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.400 the National Football Conference Eastern Division. Things couldn't have gone 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.640 any better this weekend, probably for the Cowboys. The Giants 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:14.200 did win on Sunday, but Cowboys. Some people raise it 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.600 as taking care of business against the Dolphins. I think 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.839 it was a little more than that myself. But things, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.080 what do you think? Well? Things played out the way 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.039 I thought they would play out in the game. I 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.480 thought it would be close for a while where maybe 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.640 people would be on the verge of throwing things at 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.039 TV's at by halftime always. Twitter did not think it 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.040 should be close at halftime, exactly based on my mentions. Yeah, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.480 that's right. And I had it picked as a twenty 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.160 four to three game, and they were roughly on that 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.200 schedule and late, yeah, until a late touchdown. But now 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.440 I thought there was a good win, and you move 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.240 on to the next one, and now things really get interesting. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.960 What do you think, Brian? You know, I felt like 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.680 though that we kind of were looking at what Robert 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.760 Quinn could potentially do, and the fact that he went 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.720 out there and played the number of plays he did 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.080 and played him effectively, I think says a lot about him, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.440 the professionalism he has. It's unfortunate that he had the 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.239 two game suspension because you know, maybe we would have 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.080 thought a little bit different about this Cowboys pass rush 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.040 if he was in there full time. But they were 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.120 able to pick things up in the second half. I 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.239 agree with you. I thought Miami was gonna give you 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.160 the best shot. I thought they were going to play 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.840 the game unconventionally, they were gonna go for it more 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.079 and fourth down they did try the on side kick, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.680 which they were a step away from picking that thing 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.680 off and making it work. So uh yeah. Overall, yeah, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.920 it's a player for a player that the Cowboys were 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.680 clearly a better team, but you know the Dolphins are. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.840 They have pride to They're not going to let you, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.840 you know, go up and down the field on him, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.800 and you know they're gonna play a little bit better defense. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.120 I felt like when they made the quarterback switch that 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.960 that that that gave him any chance to being really 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.919 competitive overall, because I thought the ball would go down 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.920 the field. Of plays the Cowboys did give up, the 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.120 big plays were down the field, so I was thinking, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.720 Josh Rosen can't make those plays where the other guy 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.680 would make those plays. But good job in the second 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.280 half of the defense and then good job of the 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.679 offense getting go. I think the touchdown that started the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.760 third quarter really took a lot of air out of 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.480 the Dolphins. You know, their situation when they fumbled the 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.840 ball and now they have to they give up a 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.560 touchdown on that quick drive that the Cowboys have. I 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.480 thought that took a lot out of them. I think 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.400 based on watching them yesterday and what's happened to them 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.400 in the season so far, they're a young team that 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.240 when they get down, maybe it demoralizes them a little 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.720 bit in the second half. Because Jason Witten told us 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.960 last week, you turn on the tape, this is not 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.360 like some big twelve team. They've got talent. I think 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.000 they found a quarterback. It's not Ioways State, it's not 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.360 always State. They found a quarterback. They've got some wide 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.840 receivers that can get open to make plays. They I 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.880 thought they did a nice job covering the Cowboys wide 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.840 receivers in the first half. Yeah, some missopportunities as well 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.480 in the passing game for Dak and those guys, but 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.240 they kind of settled in. Like you said, Brian, Robert 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.240 Quinn was around the ball constantly, especially in the second 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.920 half of the DeMarcus Lawrence was too. They just weren't 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.360 always getting home and some of the execution on both 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.680 sides of the ball was just better as the game 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.080 went on and the talent of this team took over. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.440 That's why the guy who invented the game put four 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.760 quarters in the game, right, not two. And I think 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.800 the Cowboys as they were a better team and they 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.760 just wore them down as the game went along. And 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.839 the Cowboys did what they should have done. They won 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.039 the game. They got to three and oz. They put 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.799 up four hundred and seventy six yards total offense despite 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.880 the blackout in the first half. Despite it, they still 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.320 had four and seventy six yards two hundred and thirty 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.440 five yards rushing, just the way I told you they would, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:05:01.719 by the way. Uh two guys, Yeah, I was. I'm Mickey. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.520 My middle name is I'm right at that. You know, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.000 at some point people are going to figure that out. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.560 Sure we already have. Not the guy that called me 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.560 out on Twitter saying, oh, he talked about good Miami 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.400 was gonna be and they were gonna give him trouble, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.080 and then he picked him to win by thirty four 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.160 to nine. He told us, you don't listen to Twitter. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.320 I read, Yes, I didn't listen to it. I read it. Unfortunately. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:25.960 I'll say what it could have been. It could have 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.760 been worse for the Dolphins if you take away to 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.919 that the holding penalties. You know, they had an eighteen 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.360 yard run that was brought back on a Lyle Collins hold, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.760 and then they also had Connor Williams on the seventy 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.359 two yard touchdown paths, So things could have been a 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.480 lot worse. I just felt like that the NFL is 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.480 is hard. It's a hard place to win, and when 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.640 you do win, just feel good and move on. And 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.159 you know, I'm sure right now in Seattle they're feeling 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.600 really poorly about the Saints going in there and kind 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.800 of them knocking them around. They have so much pride 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.520 about that, you know, Saints coming off a bad loss. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.720 I felt like with against the Rams, you know, they 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.200 weren't even competitive in that game, and then here they 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.279 go and you go up to Seattle get a nice 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.640 win there. I know. It's but it's just tough to win. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.680 It's wherever you go. It's a tough place to win, 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.800 you know, because these guys dull they will find a 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.280 way to bring their game. And again the everybody's right here. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.640 The Dolphins clearly don't have enough personnel to play with 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.679 the Cowboys. That's not the Cowboys fault. That's the Dolphins 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.880 fault for the way they built their team. But you 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.640 got to play at the games, and and the Cowboys 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.919 got through this one, and like everybody says, onto the 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.480 next one. And and as you pointed out, Um coming 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.720 out in the start of the second half and doing 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.239 what they did, and Mickey looking to it as well, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.960 when you when you come out and they basically scored 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.440 two touchdowns on one drive. Yeah, okay, and I made 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.600 a mistake and overcame that and just went and four 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:50.160 plays did it again, and they knew and they resolved 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.920 in their mind at halftime that hey, we, as Dak 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.760 said after the game, we have a chance to be 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.960 a really really good team. And now let's go out 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.000 and show that we are a really really good team, 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.440 which is what they did at the start of the 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.479 second half, you know. And and let's remember the first 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.679 drive of the game, they drove right down the field. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.960 The problem was they stalled out and had to kick 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.240 a field goal once they reached the eleven yard line. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.200 So it wasn't like Miami stopped them. They drove right 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.400 down and then they went three, and then they had 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.280 to kick a field goal, and then the next time 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.320 they got the ball, they drove right down the field 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.680 and scored a touchdown. I think I think if it 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.600 was fourteen to six at halftime, maybe everybody would have 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.400 felt a little bit better. Well, I mean, Miami left 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.480 ten points on the board in the first half as well, 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.200 and the forty seven yard field goal, right, and like 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.600 a turnover and had a drop that should have been 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.240 a touchdown before the fumble recover, any challenge, it should 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.280 have been challenged. Yeah, why didn't you challenge that? Or 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.000 how about the Parker drop? Yeah over the middle, yeah, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.520 right down inside the five yard line. Oh no, that's 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:53.240 the one I think, Yeah Williams, which I thought I 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.600 was sorry, Yeah, we touchdown? Don't you think I thought 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.559 it was? I thought it was there was movement the ball. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.760 I mean, it's just a was just kept pulling at 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.720 that ball and that's the only chance he had. And 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.360 as I think Al Riveron said in his little video 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.880 on Twitter, he still has to even though he's in 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.720 the end zone, he still has to control and make 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:19.400 a football move. And so in that instance you credit 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.480 the defender. The defender e Wuzier kept him from making 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.000 a football move right and knocked it out at the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.400 same time. And so I think it was worth a 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.200 challenge me too. But you know, you know if I 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.480 was wrong. But hey, but wait a second. I mean 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.600 people were talking about that, they're oh and two, why 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.120 do they have to lose and challenge that? Well, if 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.400 you get a look at it and you don't think 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.559 you're gonna win the challenge, save your time out, because 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.600 they could have used if if Drake doesn't fumble at 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.199 the end of the first half, they needed that time 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.200 out to try to score a touchdown at the end 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.360 of the half. Sure, And so I mean there's two 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.720 ways to look at that. You're not giving up on 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.480 the let me ask him or whatever, real quick, I 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.880 could bigger concern. Are we still talking about the pass rush? 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.360 Are we talking about the chunk plays that they're given up? 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.360 That's what I was referring to earlier. They had at 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.920 least I didn't count it fully, but I'm counting two 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.280 nineteen yard completions. They had at least four explosive plays 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.240 allowed downfield in the first half, and that's not typical 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.400 of this defense, right, you know, And I mentioned, you 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.040 know ten points that the Dolphins probably should have had 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.199 a lead in the first half, or at least it 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.280 should have been tight because Mickey's right, four of six 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.040 Cowboys offensive drives in the first half stalled because of 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.679 the Dack interception or a penalty or a drop or something. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.240 So either way, Dolphins hung in there in first half, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:40.760 and they could have had more points on the board 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.760 either way. So pass rush got better in the second half, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.360 and I think you and I agreed, like they were 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.480 around the ball affecting rows in a little bit more 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.200 than maybe the perception was the game too. Sure he 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.199 was off his mark most of the time. Yeah, I 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.840 mean Dack's interception, and he spoke to it last night. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.960 He had too much time. I counted up nine seconds 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.600 to kind of scramble around two guys open. He saw 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.640 he saw both guys opened at the same time, and 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.959 got caught to which one to throw it too. Yeah. Actually, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.160 actually he said, I went through my progressions, my three 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.839 progressions three times each. Yeah, which just doesn't happen in 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.599 that point, and they throw the ball away. But but 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.600 at that point, I've got I've got so much time here, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.520 I got him. I gotta take advantage of this opportunity 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.480 where they're giving me this much time. I gotta make 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.560 a point. The offensive line was outstanding. He was sacked 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.520 once and it was covered sacked. Taco finally got him down. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.440 But to Brian's point, I mean, the chunk plays, weren't 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.000 you It's not I mean you got to you gotta 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.360 limit those, right, I mean, yeah, I'm sure that was 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.160 the message at halftime for sure. Now they weren't really 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.240 telling us what the message was at halftime, I'm sure 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.400 it was a pretty stern one. Well, you know, whatever 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.800 it was, they gave up a whole sixty seven yards 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.240 of the second half, and thirty five were on the 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.240 Dolphins last drive. So I understand the chunk stuff. There's 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.680 a reason why these quarterbacks throw in this league for 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.559 three yards. Yeah, you know, you're not going to be perfect. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.960 Oh does it need to be better? I get it, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.880 and I'm absolutely with you. But at the end of 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.000 the day, it was six points. I get it. I'm 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.160 not our Dallas is punishing opponents with chunk plays. That's 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.480 what I mean. You could get you know that. That's 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.480 the thing that I think is really good about this 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.439 offense now is you know, we've talked about its ability 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.480 to run the football. Always had the ability to run 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.040 the football. But now you're getting those plays down the field, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.200 you're getting those throws down the field, and they're making 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.240 those big plays. And so I think it's great how 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.920 the Dallas offense has taken advantage of those of their 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.079 weapons and made those chunk plays. But I'm wondering on 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.199 the other side, though, is it you know it? Is 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.160 it because of the way the league is now, because 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.200 of the past interferences and the skill level and the 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.200 quarterbacks and all that. Is that something we're just going 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.520 to see from this defense. But I've always said, I've 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.240 always said, I've always said that if they don't give 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.679 up points, that's the most important thing. Well, I agree 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.360 with Rod Marinelli and Christopher Shardon, those guys over there. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.000 I'll give up five hundred yards if it means I'll 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.599 give up ten points. I mean, you're not going to 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:08.959 play teams like Miami and Washington and those people every week. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.280 Sometimes somebody will get five hundred yards and score thirty 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.040 one points, like Dallas did yesterday. I said this in 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.160 the postgame show First Word presented by Doctor Pepper, that 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.840 this defense has such a high standard, right, And you 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.040 look at the first half, and there's some things you 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.960 talked about the chunk players, they could clean them up. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.160 You look at the box score at the end, you 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.800 said six points. Yeah, three games, opponents are seven of 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.680 thirty five on third down. Absolutely, they're getting off the field. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.160 Micky mentioned how many yards they allowed in the second half. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.080 I think they're fourth and points allowed fourteen points seven. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.280 Now you know what Washington does tonight against Chicago, Yes, yes, now, yeah, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.760 they could be third after tonight if Washington scores more 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.360 than twenty one. Now, some better offenses, without question, are 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.760 coming up, better quarterbacks, all those things. But they're doing 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.880 what you're supposed to do. Get off the field, get 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.280 keep them out of the end zone. I think you 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.200 know what the sign is, and I know there's a 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:05.000 bunch of people probably complaining out there, is they've gotten 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.480 good to the point where now it's expected for them 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.920 to be perfect and it's not going to happen. You 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.199 want to be better. And I thought Jeff Heath and 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.320 being my column when he gets posted today, he said, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.840 we got to play to our standards. And that's what 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.640 everybody kept talking about in the locker room, both offense 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.520 and defense. Didn't matter who we're playing, We've got our 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.440 standard we're supposed to play too. And Heath pointed out 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.199 that in Marinelli standard for the defense, they were oh 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.240 and two by the way they played in the first 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.760 two games according versus their standard. And I said, so 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.040 what do you think this time? Is he going to 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.600 give you a win? He goes, well, I don't know 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.440 it's better but half a win, see what he has 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.440 to say. Yeah, but that I thought that was a 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.520 good approach for them to keep continue to take. You 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.880 have a standard that you want to play too, and 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.240 did you play to it? You didn't in the first half, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.319 you did in the second half. Now you got to 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.640 put that together for a full game because they owe 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.520 and two means he didn't like those last drives in 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.720 those first two games that allowed the team just to 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.280 just drive right down this field and score when you 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.640 had held a team to ten and fourteen points for 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.400 three and a half quarters. Can this offense maintain this 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.320 scoring pace? I mean what you always like to talk 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.600 about what you saw the last eight games of the season. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.480 Last night with the trade for Maury Cooper and then 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.840 now three games in. I mean, we can talk about 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.080 the playoff games if you want. I mean, if you 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.040 want to include that or not, I think you have to. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:41.800 But can this offense maintain that level to maybe the 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.320 word mask is probably the wrong word to use, but 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.080 kind of soften maybe some of the issues that defense 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.200 might had that we didn't see. Whether they're not going 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.120 to score over thirty points a game every week, and 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.560 there's only two teams in the league that have scored 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.280 thirty points or more in each of the first three games, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.280 and those are the Patriots and the Cowboys. And now 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.160 the question is can they What you're talking about is 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.600 it's not so much over thirty points but the scoring 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.320 pace in terms of around Can they give me twenty six? 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.720 Really possible? Because the offensive line, they weren't happy with 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.600 the way they pass protected in particular last year, pass 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.160 protection has been outstanding. If Dad continues to have those 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.080 clean pockets, they have guys that can separate, and Michael 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.040 Gallup will get back eventually, hopefully below that four week time. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.920 He's not going to practice this week though, but hopefully, 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.840 you know, closer than two weeks than four, right, That's 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.840 what Stephen Jones kind of indicated us in pre game. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.080 That's hopefully sooner than later. They have so many weapons that, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.520 like we talked about, eventually throughout a game they're going 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.320 to take over. Yeah. So not to mention Tony Pollard 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.360 now getting into the mix. If we go back to 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.720 last year when I pointed out five of eight games 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.320 twenty seven or more, now you've got eight of eleven 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.560 games twenty seven or more, and six of those eight 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.360 are thirty points or more. Yeah, So I don't know 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.080 if they can keep it up, but there I think 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.120 that they can average somewhere. You know what, they're showing 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.960 us twenty seven points or so, they're averaging thirty. So 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.800 they were average thirty three going in. They got thirty one, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.280 so it's probably about thirty two. Now what were they 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.520 for the season last year, like twenty one? Yeah, but 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.800 the first eight games. But my point is they're they're 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.760 just better than that this year. Yeah, they're just a 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.080 more efficient group. Well, they have a better talent. Right, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.880 I'll see you what you show me that you can 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.040 have two guys run the football the way they do, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.040 they can do some damage to some teams because all 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.160 of a sudden, now you're starting to think about, Okay, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.960 I've got to I've got to I've got to cover 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.960 the whole field. And now I mean it's taking players 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.320 out of the box to have to cover the whole field. 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.640 And now you're running the ball up inside. You can 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.400 hand it to twenty one or twenty and you're gonna 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.760 get that's we're gonna get. Orleans has been doing here 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.840 the last several years with Ingram and Kimara, and now 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.640 they've got Murray and Kimara. Kimar though he took over 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.080 the yesterday Holy Chief. Yeah. Yeah. It was two players 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.760 in that game on offense for the Saints, Thomas and Kamara. 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.240 That's it. Screens inside routes, screen inside routes. But you're 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.360 gonna you are going to run into better defenses. There's 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.359 no question about it. Green Bays arguably the best in 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.359 the league so far. Watching a little bit of the 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.640 Rams last night, those guys tackle their tackle world. There 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.960 they pressure you. I mean, they're gonna run into tougher opponents, 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.760 there's no question about it. But you have to like 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.639 what they're doing. The thing I like about this this 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.640 team after three games is we talked about the standard 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.399 on defense. Dak going to Kellen after the game. My bad, 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.560 I'm too greedy. In the first half, they're not satisfied. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.240 And I remember two thousand and eight. I don't know 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.560 why it's burned in my memory, but their tunnel of 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.560 Lambeau Field. They're they're three and oz. They just kind 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.399 of stomped the Packers in Week three and one of 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.800 the one player I can't remember who it was, but 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.800 he was like, you know, we just want to fast 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.399 forward and get this thing to the playoffs. And I 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.160 remember thinking, in my mind, that's not the best. It's 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.040 probably not the best approach to have. And I don't 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.359 see that from these guys, at least that's not the 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.080 way they convey to us how they're thinking. They might 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.639 have fast forward the playoffs. It went for Brad Johnson 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:16.320 have to play three games to just pointing that out 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.320 well and to that point, as far as this Dolphins 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.919 game is concerned, I love where it was in the 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.640 Cowboys schedule and and the way this schedule was set 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.160 up with a Giants team in flux, a Redskins team 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.480 in flux, and a Dolphins team the way it is 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.040 because this has built confidence for this team the first 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.520 three games. And if this Dolphins game had been scheduled 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.600 in November, like in between the Eagles and the Patriots 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.200 or something like that, it could have been a trap 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:43.960 game for him. Whatever, they weren't going to lose it. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:50.480 But now in my mind, the season starts. Add Yeah, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.680 Nate Newton said, welcome to the preseasons. Now over, get 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.800 ready for the regular season. Here we go. That's seventh, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.479 the Post add the Eagles to a team that might 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.359 be in flux. You know, if you're talking about teams 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.320 you have to face here in the next next three 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.800 weeks or so next four weeks. Yeah, and you know, 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:11.000 and somebody asked me today question about if if they 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.359 go into New Orleans and lose, you know, is that 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.000 tell you what this team is? And it's like a 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.119 lot of teams have gone into New Orleans on Sunday 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.720 night and gotten beaten, you know, and it happens. But 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.439 New Orleans would be a team in flux if we 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.040 didn't see what we saw yesterday in Seattle. I think 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.320 it's a little different. Yeah, if if they've gone over 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.480 and rolled over in Seattle and it would have been 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:34.920 a bad loss, then you would have seen a definitely 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.240 team in flux. But but you said it, that's shot 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.320 out team. Sean Payton is going to play to the 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.119 strengths of Teddy Bridgewater. He is just get ready, he is. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.119