WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Gut Check 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:17.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.919 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:32.000 Star in Frisco. Saw and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:45.159 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's up, Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.400 it is a Victory Monday edition of Talking Cowboys presented 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.720 by Tostitos, the official chip and the official dip of 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.320 the Dallas Cowboys. As we are live from the s 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.600 WBC studios at the Star are in Frisco, following a 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:07.040 thirty five twenty nine instinct classic win over the Dallas 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:11.040 Cowboys or excuse me, the Dallas Cowboys over We beat 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.600 ourselves really literally almost literally almost every Yeah, there were 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.640 a lot of penalties in that ball game, and we'll 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.479 certainly get to that. But first, guys, it's a little different, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.560 not being the first show to go on Victim Monday. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.320 It's a little bit different. We're going in the afternoon 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.400 for those of you who listen later on, but normally 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.720 we go at nine am. So, guys, now that the 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.040 heart rate has settled, even a little bit. Heckma, how 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.840 are we feeling after last night? Now? I feel wonderful. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:44.560 I feel great. It's especially when ugly win win. Nonetheless, 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.560 we tried to do everything to lose it, but sometimes 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.280 even you can't get in the way, especially when you 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.200 operating grace. You know something about operating in grace. Sometimes, man, 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.600 you could just get through it. And I don't want 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 to say too big to fail, but sometimes you too 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.600 explosive to Phil, And when we needed a play to 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.680 be made, we made the plays. Shout out to Cedric Willson. Wow. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.240 Shout out to said man, what a game though, What 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.359 a game from the first quarter all the way through overtime. Man, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.240 I don't know if I've seen. There's been a lot 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.440 of great games in the NFL this year, but that 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.440 one right there that took the cake. Yeah, now that 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.840 was a heck of a ball game. Proud of the 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.320 guys for battling through all the different forms of adversity. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.920 Obviously they had the element and environment that they were in. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.119 Then you throw the referees in there, um for their 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.800 contributions to challenges true, and then um, you know, obviously 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.480 bad bad plays, injuries, all those things, and they they 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.280 found a way to overcome all those things. Um, not 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.880 with the guys that you would expect, right, necessarily not 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.840 thinking about with the guys you necessarily expect. And that's 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.000 the thing with this team. Um you know that that 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.560 guy who's behind that other guy he can ball too, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.280 and teams are having a fear not only just those 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.840 premier guys, but also everybody else has to be respected 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.480 on this roster. Yeah, I think this is a game 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.840 where offensively you showed your depth a little bit because 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.040 you mentioned it. Some of the guys who made the play, sure, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.320 Dak Prescott, see Lamb. They made some of the big 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.639 plays when you needed it. But it was ty and 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.519 Secki coming in and filling in on a touchdown drive 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.240 for Tyrn Smith who was out for a little bit 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.120 of time there. Ty and Secki came in and played 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.120 really well in the limited time, limited action that he saw. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.240 It was Cedric Wilson with the miraculous elevating grab on 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.760 fourth down and four that saves the ball game and 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.240 it allows you to go downfield and make this a 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.400 ball game. So it was it was some of the 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.720 unsung heroes in this And you also got to say 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.320 Noah Brown. Noah Brown had a first down catch where 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.800 he got blasted and he held onto the rock. So 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.760 I mean, I think, and using the basketball analogy, our 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.839 six man showed up and everybody that needed to come 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.360 in you point out tying the Secki. I think everybody 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.400 was collectively holding their breast about Tyrn Smith going to 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.360 the locker room. Didn't know even coming in with the 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.920 neck because questionable. There were game time decisions there, but 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.160 man seventy nine, he stepped up. He did a really 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.720 good job in that time. Unfortunately, Smith was able to 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.000 come back into the game. We asked Nay Newton on 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.240 the pregame show, if Tyron Smith does not go the 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.960 full game, do you have faith in the Cowboys tackle depth? 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.279 And his answer no, pretty much. I mean, he was 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.159 pretty adamant, No, I do not have faith at all. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.800 Put his fist to the table to really talk about it, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.920 and tian Techi proved everybody wrong and had a solid 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.600 showing and it proved to pay dividends, even Greg's rline 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.080 after missing the fifty one yarder, which was bad, and 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.839 certainly that's a coaching decision. I think that would have 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.440 been questioned more if it would have been a loss, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:50.800 than the craziness ensued afterwards. But then he comes back 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.960 and he hits a forty nine yarder on the road 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.000 in New England to tie the ball game and to 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.160 send it into ot to allow your team to make 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.080 some plays. So lots guys offensively that that stepped up. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.400 But defensively, it was your guys who made place Randy 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.080 Gregory forcing a fumble in a strip sack of Mac Jones. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.000 It was Trey Von Digs with the pick six. How 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.720 does he do that? Again? What did you guys think 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.039 defensively of what how the Cowboys stood up on that 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.400 side of the ball. I feel like overall it was 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.800 okay um. Obviously la later on in the game they 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.600 let allow some things to happen that they shouldn't have 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.800 and that they obviously want to circle and highlight and 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.000 bring it back. But I think for one of the 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.160 few times this year, you know, obviously when you think 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.320 about special teams, you think about them being on defense 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.159 as well, that third of the game kind of being 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.400 the two, you know, the one half of the game 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.120 if people per se depending on how you look at it, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.760 and you got guys like Luke Gifford, right stepping up 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.280 and making huge place that was huge, Yeah huge. Um. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.080 You know so I think you could throw throw his 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.360 name in the hat in terms of the defensive playmakers 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:49.400 um in his game. But you know, I think they did. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.320 They did well overall. They add some pressure to to 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.680 mac Jones. We knew that he was not a guy 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.120 that you could just pressure and he just folds underneath that. Obviously, 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.400 he his maneuverability in a It was amazing the plays 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.200 that that that Gregory had against him. Obviously, I don't 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.040 care what human being was back there, they would have 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.599 got their soul taken from them. Um. And then you 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.040 know for his for mac Jones, were you respect to 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.839 him for bouncing back after the after the interception, he 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.320 came right back at him, right right back at Diggs. Um. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.440 You know, but those guys, those are plays that you 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.440 learned from, you know Diggs. You know. Obviously I don't 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.960 know what happened there communication wise. Looks like Kazi was 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.359 out of a position. But those are things that you 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.039 highlight and say, hey, we overcame this. We did a 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:29.920 great job overall. But these are things that we can 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.440 eat and tidy up, either live a little bit more 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.640 as we go further on and down the road. This 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.800 is really the first time I think in a win 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.120 the Cowboys you could really get after the way they 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.400 didn't execute on a couple of occasions like this was 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.320 a sloppy win. Even in the game against the Chargers 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.280 where you won by three and you had the field 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.880 goal late from zerline to win it, you still felt 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.360 really good about how you were able to play. I 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.720 didn't feel good about how the Cowboys played yesterday. I 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.320 mean the penalties were certainly and huge. I mean kept 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.760 backing yourself up. You can't forward to go on the 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.960 road and make that many mistakes, especially when Bill Belichick 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.120 is on a headset in the opposite sideline, and somehow 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.400 the Cowboys were able to pull it out. What was 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.400 your biggest concern throughout the game though? Heck, mom, because 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.240 there were a couple different ways you could you could 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.080 point at it, but hopefully it's nothing that could linger 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.000 into the bye week and then the rest of the year. Yeah. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.240 I think we talked about what our concerns would be 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.960 going into the game, knowing that Belichick is he would 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.400 have these guys coached up for this game. The mistakes 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.240 that we made all of those things are something that 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.560 you definitely frown at, but you love the resiliency from 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.920 your team to pull away even though they made every 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.320 mistake in the book, one hundred and fifty yards and penalties. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.400 Even on that final drive, you know, to get to overtime, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.320 we were committing penalties. But I love when we're just 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.520 switching back to the defense. The chess game between McDaniels 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.320 and Quinn, Like, these guys were going at it, and 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.360 Josh McDaniels is still top tier offensive coordinator in this 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.720 league and he had some things ready for the Cowboys. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.800 Gotta understand, man, these people everyone's got an opportunity to 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.240 look at what Quinn is doing and evaluating. We talked 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.440 about the history that these guys have between each other, 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.200 and it was front and center because of some of 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.120 the mistakes and miscues that we had on defense. I think, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.280 you know, look, we held them in check yardage wise 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.360 other than that seventy five yard bomb from Born and like, 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.280 I don't want to make any mistakes for because he there, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.800 because he took a bad angle. It was horrible, but 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.680 we got to think about he is the same player 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.320 that got a personal foul. I believe it was the 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.520 new year, it was either New York or against Carolinas 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.200 last week or so. He had hit that personal foul. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.160 And I'm thinking the angle that he took because he 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:45.200 obviously saw that. He saw it, everybody that's looking at it. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.440 There's two things that can happen. Back when you were playing, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.440 that was a medicine ball. You were running straight into 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.560 the safety. He was either gonna knock you out or 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.680 he's gonna intercept that ball. He didn't either, and so 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.760 I don't know if that was in his mind the 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.920 reason why he took the angle. Again. I don't want 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:02.000 to give him an excuse, but for me, for free 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.600 safety to take that bad an angle on the play 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.560 that obviously you know, you can either get knocked the 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.880 ball away from this guy all getting an interception. It 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.840 was a horrible angle biocacy. Yeah, I mean, I think 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.520 it was bad played by him and Diggs on that 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.240 on that play, I think that was the same exact 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.360 type of play that the interception that Diggs got last 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.839 week against was it again? And who reminded me? Who 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.520 was the quarter again? And yeah, the past again? And 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.120 we had, you know, we had a nice little little 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.400 debate debate about that last week. I think that was 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.120 the same type of play. He tried to undercut it. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.079 He tried to go for the big play, and unfortunately 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.880 this wasn't a gaining This was Mac Jones, who thank you. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.320 I knew I was off, but yeah, this was this 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.520 ball was on on on the money. So obviously last 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.560 week it worked to Diggs in his favor, and this 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.720 week he did not. Um But you know those are 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.960 plays that though again they'll shure up, those are you know, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.959 you could see Diggs running chasing them down like you 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.400 should give one hundred percent effort, unlike last year other 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.520 guys that chose not to give one hundred percent effort. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.760 But you know those are things that those are that's 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.360 communication and you see him running looking back like, man, 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:02.839 what the heck was that? And I think they were 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.760 both in the wrong. I think they'll both come to 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.960 the table today, watch the film and be like, all right, man, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.280 all right, going forward when we see this, look, let's 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.640 do this, let's communicate this way, let's play it safe here, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.679 or you know, whatever it may be, they'll they'll work 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.199 it out. You need those players. If those players don't happen, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.480 then the mistake that you saw last night what happened 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.000 in the playoffs, and that's not when you wanted to 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.040 have the first time. Yeah, it's a learning moment and 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.040 you need these types of games to build upon for 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.880 a team. If you want to get to the next level, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.600 you want to make a run of the playoffs, you 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.600 need games like this where it's a ruckiss atmosphere, you're 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.480 on the road, you've got a great coach on the 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.679 opposite sideline. Because you don't go up against poor teams 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.280 in the playoffs. That just doesn't happen. So moments like 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.439 that this year, Yeah, that's true. Jus. Yeah, there's a 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.800 lot of teams out there right now is strong. They 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.480 are very strong. But that's the thing is moments like 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.360 that are where this Cowboys team is going to look 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.160 back on Week seventeen eighteen heading into the playoffs and 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.240 then look back and say that was a moment we 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.640 learned something. And Treyvon Diggs he's that type a player. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.600 Trayvon Dixon. You can take with the interceptions what you want. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.719 He has seven picks in six games, that's historic, unbelievable. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.319 But he's gonna give up plays because he's aggressive he's 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.240 gonna give up the big play, the seventy five yard 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.120 And I think that, I mean, if I'm just looking 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.319 from the outside, not knowing what the coverage exactly was, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.520 not knowing what their responsibilities were in the meeting room, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.040 if I'm looking at it from the outside understanding what 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.360 I do know about football, is it looked like Diggs 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.400 is like, you know, I'm gonna be aggressive, and I 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.439 need you to back me up just in case I 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.560 don't get I need that help, right, give me that 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.920 extra help. So because I saw that I can play aggressive, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.840 I need you to be a truce, a real safety, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.560 be the safety and be the last line of defense 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.640 so I can go out there and take high risk, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:44.800 high reward or high risk you know, no business. And 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.080 that's and that's so true. Like you said, man, with 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.199 what you know about football and just understanding from that perspective, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.400 whatever coverage you're in, I got a man in the 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.080 hole behind me, so I can play aggressive underneath and 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.360 I can cut underneath that. And you could tell even 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.440 when the ball was released, he's like, oh he got this, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.600 you know. And although he's come back and taking the 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.000 responsibility and say, yo, that was on me. That's just 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.400 a pro being a pro in a situation like that, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.360 not throwing your other guy up under the bus. But man, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.360 come off. Even you can see that, you can see 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.400 it's definitely an error. Miscommunication, coverage and that communication and 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.960 that camaraderie on the backside of the defense is once again, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.439 it's a credit to Dan Quinn because this is this 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.680 one's stuck out because there hasn't been that much miscommunication 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.719 on the defense throughout the first five weeks of the year. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.320 Six weeks of the year. Now you haven't seen a 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.480 whole lot of that. Well, you come against the guru 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.880 that can make you do things like that. And again 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.480 we have to talk about the Patriots and what they 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.839 did and give them the respect that they earned from us, 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.079 because I believe everybody sees that mac Jones is going 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.560 to be a somebody in this league. He had some 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.880 damn good throws and obviously those that first touchdown, we 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.199 left them in a favorable field position and all of that. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.800 But still they had some move they had some drives 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:05.080 on us, and defensively, you look at what Randy Gregory did, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.120 but you also go back and see, hey, man, they 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.560 had they had one hundred and in one yard Russia 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.560 against US. So they did have some success running as well. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.520 And if you could take this seventy five yard touchdown out, 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.680 we would have held them to write about one hundred 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.840 and fifty yards total passing. So that's not something that 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.480 you just you know, explode about. But at the same time, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.240 if you can play efficiently, not turn the ball over 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.280 and do all the correct things, you can win an 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.200 ugly game like that if you're the Patriots. But they 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.040 just came up against a bus all yeah, and that 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.320 offense is nuts. We'll talk about the offense in the 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.240 next segment. But sticking defensively, you brought up Damien Harris 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.800 with the first triple digit rusher against the Cowboys defense 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.760 this season. Are we worried about the run defense just 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.440 because of this game? Because it looked like drive after 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.880 drive that was where the success lied for New England. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.320 It looked like they were able to get a push 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.040 up front, able to out physical the front seven. Now 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.920 I know they're missing a couple of guys there, but 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.480 is that something to look at moving forward? No, No, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.960 that's the strength of their team and we talked about that, 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.640 you know what I mean. They went thirteen personnel that 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.400 entire first drive. Yeah, they did thirteen personnel. They went 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.880 through three tight ends for the entire first drive and 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.680 just said we're bigger than you, were stronger than you. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.520 That's something that we have to take, you know, we 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.760 gotta take the heart. And obviously, and you just mentioned 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.560 we're missing some pieces there, but those are teams are 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.880 teams are gonna look at that. Teams are gonna look 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.840 at that and be like, we can bulldog these boys 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.040 from time to time, you know, and obviously they're gonna 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.680 gonna they're gonna bit back. But if we have one 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.720 advantage against the Cowboys, it's on the ground game, and 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.960 let's go hid and just just just put the big 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.440 boy helmet on and we're going forward juggernaut style. I 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.080 think that we can expect to see more of that 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.280 in the future. But it's not something to worry about. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.280 This is something that you have again, you learn, you 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.080 learn from it, right, you circle it on the film, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:44.520 you put the little laser on it, and you say, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.320 see this right here, let's not let this happen again. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.120 This is how we're gonna address it. And then you 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.320 go out there and you can you make sure that 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.920 you capitalize on it next week. Now, I'm curious, you know, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.560 being that obviously you being a formal player, and knowing 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.920 that the NFC has to play at the teams in 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.600 at the win they do after this, going into the 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.960 buy matching up all of the teams in the NFC, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.400 where do you see the Cowboys right now? I want 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.440 to I'm looking forward that Arizona game. I can tell 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.760 you that. Um. I think you know when you think 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.920 about the NFC, I think you automatically think Tampa Bay, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.280 you think Dallas, you think Arizona, and you think the 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.240 rams Ms. Those are the four teams that you throw 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.040 The Packers in there too. I think I don't think 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.240 the Packers have the firepower to do it. Yeah, I 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.560 mean I think they have the leader to make it happen, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.120 But I don't think they have I'm not don't. I 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.720 don't fear the Packers as if I fear outside of 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.520 Adams and Rogers. You don't think the personnel stands up? 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.400 I don't, which I would agree with, Yeah, I don't. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.120 I think that Aaron Rodgers is always a thread and 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.080 if the game's close, that's not to do that. You 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.200 want to be going against But I think that that's 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.000 a team that you can get up on and expand 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.840 your lead versus those other three teams that I mentioned. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.840 We already faced Tampa, right, we faced Tampa already, we 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.880 know what They're fully capable with a stack roster and 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.600 only going to get better. Um. And then you have 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.200 the Rams that that Matthew Stafford is figuring out his 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.240 personnel and those guys are rolling and their defense is 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.000 playing well too. Now then you got Arizona, who's playing 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.960 lights out obviously, and you have to look at them 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.480 as probably the most between US, Arizona and Kansas City, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.240 even with sorry y'all, even with Kansas City's wols they've 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.800 had early on, they're only gonna get stronger because they're 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.560 about saying that Arizon, I'm thinking about Ken City. Arizona, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.960 they're gonna get stronger because they just picked up who 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.240 yeah right tight end yep. They just got zach Ertz. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.680 So they're not even that full capacity yet. So now 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.920 they have aj Green who's looking at Adre greenish, they 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.720 have bee Hop on the outside, and now they put 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.280 zach Ertz in there, and then they got Connor, and 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.840 then they got a Kyler Murray running around. That's dangerous. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.720 That's dangerous. So I mean, I look at the I 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.760 don't know where we fit in there, but I would 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.240 love to see those matchups. Yeah, And that's where what 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.840 I'm thinking about right now and just our comparison. And 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.520 I can't wait to get to that Cardinals game as well. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.480 But I think if you're watching us from the outside 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.280 looking in, you're just as impressed and you're just ass 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.640 timid about facing us because you recognize we can hit 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.680 you from every angle. And I don't even think we've 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.560 even seen the full arsenal of what you haven't seen 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.080 the full potential of this offense yet. Dak Prescott is bawling, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.680 and it's a lot of people that are questioning how 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.920 he ranks as far as the rest of the league 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.520 and quarterbacks. There's no way that you can't put him 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.760 in the top five right now. There's no way, and 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.760 everything is debatable and they, oh, well, you know Tom 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.480 Brady this, Aaron Rodgers that. But let's talk about the 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.639 numbers because that's what it's all going to be predicated 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.000 off of, and based off of that completion percentage in 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.520 his yardage. I mean to hang the numbers that he 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.720 put on Belichick and when they said Belichick has never 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.959 had that many yards placed on him by any quarterback. Bro, 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.240 That's where you got to back up and say kudos 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.000 to that, and he's the consideration for him being MVP. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.040 They have to start saying it and putting some respect 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.440 on his name right now. You know what. You know 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.200 what I'm worried about the only thing I'm worried about. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:52.880 This really is the only thing I'm worried about. I'm 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.159 not worried about guys getting hurt in us having you know, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.320 guys that can back them up. I'm worried about when 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.320 we get our full team back, when everybody's back, when 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.760 Galla's back, Gallimore's back, d Law, Trisa Hill, all those guys. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.639 When everybody's back. Do our guys that are making plays 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.280 right now are quote unquote second string guys. Do they 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.920 back down and kind of go back into that mindset 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.720 of all, I'm a second tier guy, or do you 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:15.840 do they step up and say I'm still that dude 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.320 regardless of when I come into the game. That's my 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.840 biggest worry right now or area of concern, because that's 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:23.800 a real thing. There are guys that when they're in 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.880 a position to say, hey, you're that dude right now, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:27.439 and we need you to be that dude, and they 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:28.840 go out there and ball out. But as soon as 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.800 the big dog comes back, a lot of guys kind 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.359 to go back into their house, and I don't want 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.760 to see that. Luckily, you don't have that problem with 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.960 a quarterback position. You have Dak Prescott there, and sure 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.120