WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: On to Week 2 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:17.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.880 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:32.120 Star in Frisco. Says here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.200 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. What's up. Welcome into Talking 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:42.480 Cowboys inside the s WBC Mortgage studio. We're moving on 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.760 week two. Cowboys, Giants, Cowboys getting back to work here 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.519 out at the Star in Frisco. Today. Jason Garrett will 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.320 address the media at ten thirty five ish Central Time, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:58.960 but before that, got an hour to talk about anything Cowboys. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.040 We can we can put our final touches on Carolina, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.600 but we're definitely gonna move forward. Oh, I've moved forward 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.959 on this one to the Giants, and you've been watching 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.839 tape and you're gonna have i think your first batch 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.560 of analysis on the site today. Nemesis, the Nemesis, the 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.800 weapon and the under the radar guys, So hopefully you 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.120 have an opportunity to check that out again. Had an 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.600 oportunity to sit down and watch the Giants some of 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:26.840 the preseason, also watched them play Jacksonville in this past weekend. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.840 So some uh, some interesting takes with UH with the 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.800 new uh new head coach with Pat Schermer and what 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.240 and what this How this Giant team looks a lot 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.759 different from what the Giants teams we've seen in the past. 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.320 Rob Phillips hosting for Bill Jones for now. We'll see 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.840 if he gets back in here. It's his TV taping 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.800 day just down the hall, so we'll see what we got. Mickey, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.520 Mickey Spagnola in studio almost on time, almost on time. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.800 If they wouldn't have talked five minutes about some high 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.160 school coach they got fired, I probably would have been 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:02.800 right on time. Oh why was that discussion. It was 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:07.280 a story that some kids spiked the water at practice 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.400 with and he didn't report the kids. Oh so he 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.440 was trying to do the kids a favor. Huh. He 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.160 was probably probably trying to cover himself also, And then 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.000 they dug up other stuff on him and they fired 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.680 the guy. I had to get your take on that. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.679 so no they didn't, but I had to wait five 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:36.080 minutes until they finished with it. Evidently he the spike 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.480 of choice in the water was some sort of male 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:44.399 enhancement interesting something or other. Again, that's a big that's 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.400 a big yeah. Yeah kids these days. Yeah, I never 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.040 heard of that one. That's a new one. What brownies? 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.400 Was it? No? Not at all. Hey, are you moved 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.680 on or you moved on to New York? Yeah, let's go. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.280 Are we off a Carolina? Yeah, it's like you know, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.760 you can't. As Brian said, all the low hanging fruit 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:11.360 has been picked already, So yeah, it's time to move forward. Yeah. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.840 I feel like the mail back questions haven't ended in 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.799 terms of, hey, let's replace this coach, that coach, this 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:23.960 play caller. Look, it's one game in and obviously I've 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.560 said it two times this week. There are trouble signs 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.400 that date back to last season. Sure, but I mean 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:30.919 I went through it again and I looked at the 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.520 place who played in the game. You had ten new 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.320 players offensively, five new starters. A lot of these guys 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.040 missed time in preseason. I'm just not ready to panic, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.840 and that's what Cole Beasley said in the locker room yesterday. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.400 But obviously they've got to get something going offensively, and 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.080 they've got to do it quickly. And this won't be 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.400 an easy challenging. No, it won't be. It won't be 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.840 at all. And you know I think that to me, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.440 I always try and figure out why. That's my first 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.960 thing if you have problems, figure out why something happened. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.640 And you know I talked about the low hanging fruit 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.000 and all that. It's really easy to see say play 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.520 call in this and that, but you got to really 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.920 dive in. You got to dive into why they didn't. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.120 They've they've struggled, you know, and and Mickey's talked about 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.640 this before. Up until a certain point of last year, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.200 you know, the Atlanta game basically, or after the Kansas 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.720 City game, this team was doing a pretty good job offensively. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.880 They were you know, they were uh, they were they 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.080 were doing things. They were moving the football, they were 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.240 running the football. Dak Prescott was making plays. They were 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.359 putting up points. You know, they were having some success. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.800 They lost a couple of games they probably shouldn't have lost, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.080 the Green Bay game and the Giants game or the 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.320 US give me the Rams games. Yeah, it's a couple 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.240 of games they shouldn't lost. But you know, you need 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.599 you know, coaches tend to go back and say, okay, well, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.280 what what is successful for us, what have we had, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.080 what has worked? What you know, what combinations? You know, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.000 you go back, you always self study, you always self evaluate. Uh. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.640 You know, people will say, well, they're missing does they're 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.120 missing you know, Witten and all. But you know, you've 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.160 got to push on the guys you had. You made 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.000 him mention, They've they've got a lot of new guys. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.120 They got a lot of new coaches too, at certain positions. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.720 But you know, I just felt like though that it 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.200 it might have seemed like a total collapse on the scoreboard, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.839 and there might be some issues with what was going 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.479 on scheme wise, as far as upfront and some of 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.479 the blocking stuff they had to do with some of 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.880 the personnel. But they had receivers that got open. They 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.760 just sent a quarterback that just didn't throw to the 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.640 open receiver. You know, if you if you scheme and 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.600 design plays in order for them to work. I mean, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.160 that's the whole idea is for them to work. But 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.760 you have to have the execution of the players to 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.760 do it. And I'm not putting it all on Dak 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.160 and I'm you know, because everybody had a turn at 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.599 this one. But they've got to figure this out. The Giants. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.240 As you said, Rob, this is not going to be 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.120 an easy game for them. Defensively, They're going to have 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.760 to do some things that they're gonna have to move 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.880 this giant front, and I mean move them in a 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.760 way of misdirections, play actions, anything, waggles, boot screens. You've 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.360 got to get these guys to play on the move 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.800 because this secondary is better than what you played against Carolina. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.400 Now the test will be, Okay, can you run the 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.080 ball and maybe not have as many receivers get open. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.440 You know that's going to be the real test because 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.240 if they don't, if they revert back to some of 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.280 the things that they did last week against Carolina, they'll 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.720 lose this game too. They won't move the ball, they'll 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.440 look bad. So they better figure out some things very quickly. Here. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.360 Jacksonville had and with their limited offense early in that 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.359 game when Fournette was on the field, they had the 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.760 Giants defense on the run. Yeah, but they were moving, 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.320 they were getting to the outside. They weren't trying to 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.360 just run right up the middle right. They were spreading 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.640 them out, getting a lot of kind of horizontal plays 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.480 to get vertical and it was working until Fournette got hurt, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.359 so uh, a lot of pulling, making those big old 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.080 guys in the middle have to run yep, make them 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.760 run latterly yep. And so they were they were, they 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.120 were moving the football until four Nette got hurt and 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:21.440 then things kind of bogged down. Um, but offensively, look, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.040 I was I was kind of charting the game and 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.920 it was the first quarter and I got to write 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:35.440 here and I wrote down Giants old line in Hale's there. Yeah, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.840 I mean, they were terrible. That's a big problem for them. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.120 It still is. That would be that would be something 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.720 that our buddies at the Giants dot Com when they 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.760 do a show very similar arts, they will they will 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.320 talk about the matchup problems that they have with the 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.200 with the Cowboys defensive line, and I'm talking about the 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.680 starters and the backups, which, by the way, we'll get 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.760 our buddy on either Thursday or Friday, John schmel and 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.920 he wrote about the line earlier this year. Really good. Yeah, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.480 but but they they will talk about the problems that 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.920 they have. You know, this will be one of these 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.080 games where Okay, who offensively can do some of the 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.400 things that Mickey's talk function. Yeah, I mean I it's 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.720 there's there's gonna be a lot of questions on I 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.400 think the best way to attack the Giants is move them. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.120 I think that's there there There could be in a 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.280 very aggressive they are a three four front, this is 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.560 new for them, but they could be very aggressive at linebacker. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.080 You could see and Mickey's right, you could see the 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.400 play action stuff that they were doing with with Blake Bortles, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.720 and it was affecting the way that the Giants were attacking. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.280 They step up and attack the line, so you you 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.640 you've got to take advantage of them stepping up and 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.040 then the ability to get some guys open. But I 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.000 will say this again, Carolina's secondary is not as good 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.920 as the Giants secondary is. And that and now now 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.240 it turns into Okay, you won at Caroline. You had 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.920 some guys win at Carolina. Can you have receivers win 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.720 against these Giants corners? That's where this is game's gonna 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.040 f and that And I thought the key thing with 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:13.199 their defense playing better was Eli Apple seemed to be engaged, 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.120 played better. Yes, he played a really good game, which 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.240 you know previously It's like you never knew what universe 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.400 he was on. Uh, he seemed to be locked in. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.560 He was, and they played without Olivier Vernon in this 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.120 game though, and I think they'll continue. And it didn't 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.800 look like he's going to be bad. It sounds like 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.120 he's not gonna be bad. So what that means is 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:37.640 that they have to turn around now and use use veteran. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.160 They had a veteran guy who is my guy, Connor 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.240 Barwin is who has to play for him in that spot. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.480 And Connor Barwin is not as good as player as 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.600 Olivier Vernon, and it's he didn't really emerge. I didn't 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.720 hear his name think till maybe the fourth quarter. He's 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.760 a very much a jump on the pile guy. Now 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.160 he's a run rule fast and get over there and 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.920 jump on the pile guy. Yeah, so they've got they've 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.480 got some like we say, I'll write about, you know, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.120 with Damien Harrison today, write about him. I mean, there's 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.280 things they're going to have to deal with with this front. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.839 I don't think there's good A pass rushing front is 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.960 what we saw in Carolina. Well, how do you think 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.440 the scheme change affects things? Because we're used to the 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.280 Giants being a four three team. They got a new DC. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.839 I believe it's it's James bet Betcher is that he 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.760 pronounced it. He's he's highly regarded around the league. He's 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.480 installed a three four front right Vernon when he's health 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.800 he's going to be an outside rushing linebacker. That's true 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.439 for them, yep. And it plays the will is the will. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.199 Barrow's in that spot now, So how how do you 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.480 think it affects the way they rushed the passer? Well, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.559 I mean, the thing about the three four is when 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.360 Wade was here, you don't know where they don't have 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.640 coming from. They don't have that dynamic guy they you know, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.120 when the Giants were winning super Bowls, Well, they've won 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.080 super Bowls in the two thousands. I shouldn't say that, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.160 but but they were a team that that always had 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.199 a when the three four with parcels always had a 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.360 guy like a Lawrence Taylor and those kinds of guys. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.240 But they don't have now without without Olivier Vernon there, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.160 that's that's a that's a that's problem. That's a problem 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.360 for them because they don't have that guy. I mean, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.120 they've got a couple of guys. They have this young 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.880 guy carry Woods. It's number seventy two. It's gonna Carrie 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.000 win seventy two. He's not a bad player for them, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.240 uh you know, uh they this Kareem Martin number ninety 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.680 six is a guy that kind of can can rush 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.719 a little bit, but they don't have somebody that you're 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.040 kind of just going, oh, you've got to take him 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.760 out of the game. You know, you've got to deal 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.800 with him without Vernon in there. That that's that's that's 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.240 a struggle for them, and that's why their secondary has 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.320 to play as well as they do because they don't 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.160 have the pass rush that that they go. You know, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.200 and they may be in a three four, but as 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.840 soon as you go three wide, it's a fourth two. Yeah, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.240 So that's fair. Yeah, and Nickel defense, you want to 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.599 try and spread him out. You know, I thought the 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.120 Cowboys ran the ball much better when they spread out 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.360 Carolina with three wide or four wide and try to 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.840 hand the ball off. So we'll Mickey if they make that. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.080 Mickey's as right though, You're just not gonna run the 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.319 ball in the teeth of this defense and expect to 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.480 move Harrison out of there. It reminds you of this 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.280 matchup for last week. Yeah, you just don't mean that's 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.320 just not going to be conducive to what they want 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.760 to do. Tomlinson's a big tackle too, yes side, So 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:15.920 you're gonna you're gonna what you're gonna do is you're 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.400 gonna down, down and around guys. And I mean down, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.360 down and around is angle blocks some guys, get some 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.600 guys on the outside, make these giant cornerbacks and safeties. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.840 Now that that landing Collins is a hell of a player, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.720 and they've also got a nice young player, a guy 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.080 that got from Tennessee named Curtis Riley. That's a safety 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.360 number thirty five. He's a very aggressive player. But all 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.160 of a sudden, you get these guys to have to 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.440 keep coming down, keep coming down, keep coming down on 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.120 the edge, to have to defend the run. Now you're 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.320 gonna get the shots behind. Now you'll maybe see the 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.160 ball go down the field. You know, people were asking me, hey, Brian, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.800 you know, we we've talked about this all along, we 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.200 all training camp. What do we see deep pass? Deep? 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.280 Pass deep? We talked about it to the point where 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.120 it's like, Okay, this is something they're gonna have to 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.319 do to back him up. But now the deep pass 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.320 comes off a play action pass. So if you can 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.080 kind of get the running game going and you're not 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.320 in second and twenty one and third and seventeen and 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.439 all those kind of ridiculous downs and you can and 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.600 stay ahead. I do think you're going to see more 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.640 read option this week. I think you're going to see 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.839 dek Press Gott do some more things with his legs 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.480 this week. Where he's comfortable, it's where he's comfortable, it's 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.719 where he's moving around. They've got to get him back 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.760 in the rhythm of him playing in the game and 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.600 not just standing there and trying to read what's going on. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.240 Get him to flow in the game. But it doesn't. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.000 It means also not being in second and twenty one. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.199 You get a holding call, Lyle Collins get a holding call. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.480 It's it's a guaranteed disaster for this offense. We've all 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.800 we've all understand. You go back and watch the game 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.360 from Sunday and that those first four drives and it's 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.800 like they didn't give themselves a chance. No, it was 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.800 like it forfeited the possession. No chance, first first possession. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:00.199 You're sitting there third and twenty six. Yeah, seriously, all 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.880 the play right, give me it, which one works? Did 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.240 I go deep? You know? And it wasn't like third 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.760 and twenty six at the thirty yard line. It's third 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.280 and twenty six at the ten, right, and you can't 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.720 afford to make a mistake. Now, all you're gonna do 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.240 is dump the ball off and punt and hope your 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.800 defense plays well. I hope your punter kicks a fifty 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.360 yards every time, which he too. He might have been 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.760 the player of the game defensively. Defensively though, they did 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.240 a good job against Caroline. I mean, it'll be Hey, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.440 we'll talk about I'm sure we'll get into the Giant's 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.160 offense a little bit more tomorrow and what needs to 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.360 be done there. But there's some things they're going to 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.520 have to deal with and they're capable of. They've got 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.480 the personnel to match up with the Giants pretty well. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.200 I mean, one of the things we talked about with 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.080 this offensive line, it might not have been the strongest 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.280 offensive line without Travis in there and with Connor Williams starting, 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.920 but it was pretty agile. It was mobile, they could 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.960 move and saw that much. Yeah, we saw that. That's 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.920 that's surprising. I mean, and We've also seen him use 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.440 Tavon Austin quite a bit. You know, the one screen, 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.720 I think there's one. I think this is one of 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.240 those things that if this staff and I know people 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.600 out there right now are laughing at me for saying this, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.160 but if the staff is really going to self evaluate 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.720 what they did in week one, they need to go 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.080 back and think about, Okay, what did we want to do? 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.840 What what do we want to do going in this 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.160 game before it was second and twenty one and third 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.320 and seventeen? Do we want to get the ball more 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.720 to Tavon Austin? Do we? You know? I think I 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.480 think if you want to look at a real positive, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.120 was the ball to Cole Beasley. I hope they continue 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.560 to get the ball to Cole Beasley. That to me 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.200 is a great option. He looks by far, he looks 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.360 the most comfortable playing with Dak Prescott. He's it's like 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.320 Dak Prescott understands where he's going to be. And I'm 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.760 not saying that. And here again, the fans out there 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.360 are probably saying, well, brought us. They didn't have a 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.440 lot of time in the preseason. Well, they worked a 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.680 lot in the you know, we watched twenty five thirty 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.960 practices where they they were working every day with receiver 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.680 routes and where they needed to be and stuff, and 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.240 Cole was his guy two years ago seventy shive catches, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.160 and so yeah, I don't worry about that. I mean, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.480 if Cole said yesterday they had one miscommunication on row. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.080 But if you want to call a number one receiver 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.720 on this team, label one guy, I think it's Beasley. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.640 Now he's not your traditional guy because you're gonna move 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.080 him around and he's gonna primarily probably play in the slot. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.360 But this this might be a game where it's best 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.680 to play with more wide receivers than tight ends. And 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.720 I know folks out there once again are asking, WELLY 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.640 brought us what about seeing Rico Gathers this week mail 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.440 bag on Dallas Cowboys down check that out. But yeah, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.040 you know, I think this is more about let's see 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.280 six guys play. Let's see six guys be effective playing, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.560 and it's gonna be tough. This The secondary I think 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.200 is a lot better coverage wise, But you know, hey, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.440 they were capable, they got opened last week. Let's see 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:44.960 if they can do it again this weekend. Let's see 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.400 if the quarterback can reward them for running good routes. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:52.000 I know when you mentioned Rico. Sorry, I heard someone saying, well, yeah, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.480 they don't have any red zone threats, and I said, well, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.680 you gotta get there first before you have a threat. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.640 And I think they were, oh for oh when did 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.040 they get to the well, the one play. Yeah, they 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.719 did the running play right, Yeah, the option for the option, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.080 which which is pretty creative by the way, but you 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:11.880 got to get to the red zone before you haven't 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.320 red zone option, you know, and and and and we're 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:21.360 starting to get this, uh, this revisionist history. Right. Well, 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.239 they don't have Dez in the red zone. Well, what 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.560 was the biggest problem last year? They connect connect with 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.240 Dez in the red zone? Right now they don't have Witten. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.560 Well what did Witten have last year? Four touchdown? Did 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.440 you read my foster on the mailbag? And now you're no, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.800 That's what I wrote on the mailbag, because hang on, Mick, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.520 I the one thing I think you could count on 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.560 with Dez is you could throw it up to him 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.000 with a fade route in the end zone, but he 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.840 wouldn't catch it. Last year. Well, okay, but I felt 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.960 like that was more of a go to option for 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.359 him than the other stuff. During the drives though, we 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.920 got to see somebody in the red zone first, that's fair. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.120 But I'm just trying to look for options, new options 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.720 besides handing the ball to twenty one. That's my number one, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.359 two and three options. This how about this knowing when 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.720 they went two point conversion and they spread them out 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.399 everybody we were sitting here's a quarterback draw and you 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.400 knew it, and they still see that's that's the kind 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.120 of offense you want to be able to run where 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.240 they know you're going to run the football, but you 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.560 could still run the football, or you could still execute 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:18.399 plays maybe in different ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:23.080 understand everybody's apprehension about Scotland Ahan and when the play call. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.560 I get it. But I also understand just the fact 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.439 that you know and and hey, folks, you have the 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.400 opportunity if you want to watch the all twenty two. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.200 I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.080 sit there and act like and beat you up and 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.240 you know and say, well, you don't know what you're 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:37.760 talking about. But if you want to sit down and 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.000 watch it, feel free. Get the game paths, sit down 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.720 and watch, because you will see guys that get open. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.360 You will see that, you will see some creative play calling. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.000 You'll see on a third and three of him run 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.000 a bunch of formation, motioning Beasley to show Dak Prescott 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.520 they're in man coverage. Guy went with him, Guy went 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.679 back out with him. You know these are things that 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.320 you know, you could you could point to things and 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.760 say that's the problem, that's the problem, that's a problem. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:03.920 But you could also you could see it with your 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.560 own eyes that will wait a minute, that what I 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.320 thought was a problem is really not the problem. This 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.560 is the problem. That's That's where I think that we 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.600 get a little bit lazy with our analysis. Is do 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.320 we want to immediately say that Scott Linahan's an idiot? 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.440 And I can hear everybody out there right now saying 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.760 he has an idiot brought us He is an idiot, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.399 you know, but there's there's times where they do some 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:30.120 creative things where he's not rewarded for his creative thought 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.239 or the creative plan that they put together that day. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.560 Well said, which I was reminded of having to watch 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.239 the game on TV. Yeah, you can't see what's going on. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:45.080 No you can't. I feel I feel sorry for you guys, 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.840 Yeah you get you know, feel feel free to you know, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.679 I know a lot of people disagree with me and 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.399 what I say, and I'm not beating you up as 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.199 a former scout. I'm not trying to do it. But 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.360 if you want to take the opportunity to sit down 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.480 and watch it, you can. You can see it with 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.119 your own eye. You could say, well, wow, okay, that 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.359