WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Strength on Strength 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.920 Cowboys. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:18.320 This he's Talking Cowboys, springing live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:19.680 World Colors at. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:31.080 The Star in Friscot Tison and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.520 Nick Harris, John Mashoda, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.960 It's a Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Black 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.559 Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco in 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.320 the SWBC studios. It is a Thursday, which means we're 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:53.600 breaking down the Cowboys offensive preview against the New York Jets. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.680 In Week two of the NFL season. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.600 Here with Nick Harris, John Machoda, Isaiah Standback, I'm Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:00.959 Gentlemen. We doing today. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.160 Pretty good, quick click, getting ready for Week two and 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.520 this is this is really the preview day that I've 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.959 been looking forward to because the Jets defense has some pieces. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.720 I mean they are they are loaded, no doubt about it. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.240 And of course we talked yesterday about the Jets offense 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:22.320 versus the Cowboys defense. The Cowboys defense is exceptionally loaded, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.479 but now you've got the Jets defense to to talk 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.360 about and we'll see how the Cowboys offense can adjust. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.400 But I want to start things off with a little 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.840 news and notes. We've done this quite a few times 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.240 on top talking Cowboys, but I'll hand things over to 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.319 Nick Harris. Give me the news and notes of yesterday. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.160 Cowboys back on the practice field. Just a tiny pit, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.840 kind of not really full yeah, practice, I mean it 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.160 was just kind of a it was a mock walkthrough, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.920 so a mock game and a walk through. But there 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:50.800 were some news that came out of Miam McCarthy's press 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:51.640 conference yesterday. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.640 Yeah, so they gave a practice estimate report, which is 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.560 basically saying if they were in a full practice, this 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.720 is how much certain guys would have practiced. And I 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.240 know a notable addition to that list was Brandon Cooks, 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.760 who's dealing with a knee issue apparently. So we were 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.200 able to talk to Mike McCarthy about it. He said 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.520 that he's going to try to do a little bit 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.440 more today, talking about Thursday and then hope. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:13.240 He said he's got a. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.640 Chance to to to play on Sunday, so, you know, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.639 and talking to Brandon Cooks in the locker room after 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.600 he was very kind of hush hush about everything. He 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.200 was like, yeah, I'll just like coach speak on that, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.160 and you know, I feel good and you know, we'll 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.320 see where we go from here. So it looks like 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.560 it's just like a nagging recovery as far as I 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:28.959 can tell. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.560 That's my personal perspective of it. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.280 You know, if he if he can't go on Sunday, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.240 I think that makes, you know, some things interesting for 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.120 the receiving corps. And we lost our host, you know, 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.440 so we've we've lost a receiver and we've lost our host. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:41.839 Today, it's been bad. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.320 I found it interesting how he answered that question about 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.720 how multiple times he was asked and he said, well, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.200 you're you gonna have to ask coach about there whatever. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:49.919 I'm just not used to players saying that, So I 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.480 don't know if that's a he's used to doing that 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.760 at other stops in his career whenever there's been injuries. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.840 But I found that interesting how there's multiple times it 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.280 was circled back on like his possibilities of playing and 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.920 everything of that, and he didn't reveal anything. So of 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.079 course when we like leave the locker room, I go back. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.919 I'm like, let me just see when when's the last 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:07.320 time he was out on the field and it's the 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.959 play right before Turpin's touchdown to make it forty to nothing. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.800 And so he left basically when all the rest of 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.720 the starters left. It wasn't like heh, he did something 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.200 in the first half and then you know, we didn't 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.600 see him in the second half. I mean that would have, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.919 you know, raised some red flags. But he was out 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.120 there until when they pulled Dak and everybody else like, so, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:27.680 I don't know. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.760 And a lot of Texans beat writers were kind of 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.040 coming to Twitter yesterday and be like, oh, yeah, it's 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.440 Brandon Cook's Wednesday day off, like he does this, and 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.560 we were like, Okay, good context, I guess, but I 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.000 do feel like there's an actual injury going on here, 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.720 just because of the way McCarthy communicated it yesterday. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:43.960 But I guess that's something to keep in mind. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:45.920 It was like, yeah, like Brandon Cooks took a few 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.160 Wednesdays off last year, so is a veteran's day off. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:49.560 He's a ten year guy, he could do that. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.240 So did you ever take a veteran's day off? Isaiah? 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.360 Did you ever get a chance to take take the 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:55.600 kick the feet up a little bit. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.440 You're telling me a senior at U dub you weren't, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.480 you know, coming into practice timiously. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:00.680 And that was my get money year. I had no 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:01.800 time to be taking breaks. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.880 Yeah, how much could missing Brandon Cooks this week? There's 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.040 not a ton of concern, at least it doesn't seem 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.600 like it. For Mike McCarthy, there was a little bit 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 of concern when he said, yeah, he should be able 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.840 to go. It's like, Okay, I don't like the words should. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.159 No, I think he said chance, chance. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.680 Even worse, So the wordage isn't necessarily great. But I 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.440 still have confidence that that you'll see number three out there. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.120 But if he's not out there, Isaiah, how can that 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:30.760 change things? 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.279 Not drastically this week? And be honest with you, really, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.240 this defense is not it's not really a man to 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.479 man defense, and these guys like to play a lot 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.640 of his own. So with that being the case, I'm 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.320 not saying that be Cooks is just like any other 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.839 receiver run this team, because obviously not the case. But 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.159 you know, we have other guys that could be serviceable 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.400 against this particular type of defense. So Michael Gallup could 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.480 have a day against these guys even Tolbert can have 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.280 a day against these guys, so should be Cooks be missing, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.560 obviously you will miss him, but there's other guys that 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.000 can still the job now for sure. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.120 What do you think about some of the other injuries 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.440 that were kind of addressed. I mean, don Van Wilson 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.000 still trying to work back. He did not practice yesterday. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.680 Tyron Smith was a full participant with the ankle in practice, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.360 so that was a good sign. And then you're still 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.000 looking for maybe Jordan Lewis to get back in the 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:16.640 fold this week. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.280 What do you think about some of those things. It's 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.760 Lewis was active all week last week, but then he 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:22.760 was inactive for the game. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.120 I want to start with Tyler Smith, just because it's 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.040 starting to feel like he won't play on Sunday again. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.320 Whenever we asked Mike McCarthy yesterday about it, he's like 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.960 Donna was closer than Tyler, which you know, Donald's been 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.760 dealing with the injury a little bit longer, and you know, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.320 if there's a clear eschalon there, then that probably means that, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.520 you know, he's probably down a little bit further than 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:42.719 we would probably want him to be. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.360 And then later in the press commerce. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.800 He was asked about Tchuma Udoga's performance last week and 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.400 he's like, yeah, you know, he stepped up to the plate. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.400 He should be much more prepared this week. Now he's 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:50.960 got the full week. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.720 And I was like, okay, so I think they're preparing 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.280 Tuma again for a week two. But as far as 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.760 Tyron Smith looks like he's good to go, you know, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.360 full participant yesterday in the estimate. And then Donovan Wilson 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.040 would love to see his debut. But again, as we 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.440 spoke on it yesterday, like if it's if you, if 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.279 you feel like you're pushing it, there's no needs there's 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.800 no need to. So you know, this defense proved that 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:11.800 they're more than capable of, you know, doing things without 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.880 him and Jordan, but would love to get those guys 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.159 back on the field as suit as possible. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.719 You still look concerned without Tyler Smith in the fold. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.800 I would like to have him versus this front. I 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:23.279 really would. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.960 The reason being, these these guys are they're pretty big humans, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.000 and they're pretty strong humans. And really their way of 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.760 pass rush is bull rush. That's their form of that's 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.719 their style that they choose, right, Dallas's style is stunts, speed, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.840 you know, beat you vertically or confuse you versus. These 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.440 guys are really just line up and we're just going 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.640 to push you back into the quarterback. Obviously, that is 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.520 the strength of Tyler Smith. He can sit up there 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.960 and and be broughtic with the big with the biggest 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.080 guys in the league. So definitely will miss most likely 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.559 miss that presence too, money Doga. It has good size 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.039 to him and hopefully he can hopefully he can buck 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:05.600 up his chin strap because he's gonna need it. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.000 Yeah, it's his old team. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:07.919 He's gonna be ready to go. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.360 Is that what it is. He's gonna he's gonna play 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:11.320 play well against him. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.480 I mean, Jonathan Hankins played against his team last week 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.440 that drafted him, and he played pretty well. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.760 So that's pretty sound reasoning overall. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.200 That's the that's the thing that sucks about the offensive line. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.600 You can't interchange guys based upon best matchups. Now, you know, 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.880 you need chemistry. You know, if I was if you 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.880 were able to interchange guys and chemistry wasn't really a factor, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.240 then I would put t J. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.160 Bass in this game because TJ. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.080 Bass is bigger in my opinion, he's a big bigger, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.960 more brawlic uh kind of road greater type of guy, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.480 right like, once you get in their physical old school irishman, 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.480 right like. I think that's his style and I think 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.480 that will work well against this defensive. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.360 Front Chimmy Douga. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.440 I think he should be serviceable as well, and being 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.880 based upon his size, I think he has problems when 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.880 guys are able to move and get around him. Right, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.640 So this is gonna be in a phone boo. It's 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.040 gonna be strength on strength and who can really hunker 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:03.840 down and put their foot in the ground, which also 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.880 makes you want to turn your attention towards Tyrone Smith 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.440 and find out how how strong that ankle is. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:10.880 How'd you feel like he played in Week one? 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.000 I feel like he did really pretty good. I felt 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:13.640 he did pretty good. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.120 But again, you know, that's that style of rush that 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.080 he that that we dealt with last week is not 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:19.920 what he's going to see. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.520 This week's different. Yeah, it's totally different. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.440 What did you think about Tyron Smith? Yeah? 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:24.240 I really solid. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.040 I thought it was a sound effort, you know, all 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.880 the way from both tackles with Tyrone and Terrence. Terrence 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.719 had one bad penal leave, but other than that, it was. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.400 It was mostly pretty clean. You know, I didn't love 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.679 Beotish's performance, and I know we talked about that, but 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.520 the more I've gone back to watch film from that game, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.840 the more I see Beyondash calling out things pre snap 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.640 and that just I love to see that, like that's 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.320 that's invaluable. But as far as post snap, I feel 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:47.600 like he could have cleaned some things up and had 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.000 a better day overall. But Tyron, overall, I feel like 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.679 he performed well my expectation for him. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.280 It was met. I wouldn't say it was exceeded, but 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:55.760 it was met. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.560 So yeah, And I think there's ways that they can 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.040 still see in Uptick. I mean, you were able to 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.320 pave the way for the run early. You were able 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.319 to get things going on the ground initially, and then 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.120 the game was out of hand at that point, so 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.040 it didn't really matter towards the back end. But I 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.480 want to talk about the run game specifically this week 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.120 because it's not going to be easy to run against 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.920 this front and John. I mean, we've talked at nauseum 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.880 about the number two and number three running backs, Rico 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.280 Dawdle and of course Douce Vaughn. But Tony Pollard, he 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.760 was limited. He had the two touchdowns, sounded good. He 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.920 didn't have to do a whole lot. Do you expect 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.320 more out of Tony Pollard just from a usage standpoint 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.320 in week two than you did in week one or 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:33.200 you saw in week one? 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:33.840 Not much? 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.360 Yeah, No, I don't. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.720 I think if anything, you might see more of Rico Dautle, 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.520 maybe you see more Deuce Vawn. I could see Turpin 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.320 getting a similar workload. So I guess it depends on 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:46.080 how the game goes. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:46.400 You know. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.520 If there's certain situations where they just feel that way 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.480 better off of Tony Pollard out there, they will be. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.160 But I just I don't get the sense at all 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.480 that they're going to be throwing him out there for 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:56.880 twenty twenty five carries a game. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.160 I just really don't. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.440 I think he's too valuable for the law on haul 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.079 and what he can bring them in January. So I 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.280 think that it's going to be managed to where he's 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.480 out there in the right situations. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.280 And obviously that was the case on Sunday. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.400 They didn't have to give him the huge workload, but 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.120 I think he had I want to say, like maybe eighteen. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.920 Touches I can give you for sure. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:16.440 I think it was. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.160 Around fourteen attempts and he had two receptions. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:21.720 Sixteen sixteen touches. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.679 Yeah, yeah, I think that that's about right. Yeah, keep 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:25.480 that around twenty. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:26.240 Yeah. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.559 And then Dawbdell had six carries, did not have a target. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.920 Turpin of course, had three carries, he had the touchdown. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.720 Do you like the wrinkle of Turpin being thrown in 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:36.520 there as a running back? 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:37.880 I mean, we talked about it a little bit on 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.800 Hit Sticks earlier this week, But he's not a running back, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.640 but they can use him in that standpoint kind of 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.320 the same way they use Deuce Vaughan. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.120 In certain situations. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.599 If he's on the field, he's not pass blocking, I 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.320 can tell you that much. Yeah, So I do like 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:53.640 to I like it for two reasons. I like it 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.720 from a standpoint that you're taking carries off of Tony 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.160 Pollard because they favor each other in their their dynamic 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.320 ability to make a play, right and in terms of 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.440 trying to outflank and use your speed and hit the 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.240 hole and get up there and make somebody miss. So 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.400 if you're gonna have somebody that can take carries off 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.040 him and you can get the same effectiveness. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.040 From that standpoint, then why not. And then from the 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.040 other standpoint that. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.439 You keep guys under toes and you find a way 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.120 to get the ball into your playmaker's hands. You know, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.880 Turping is a supreme runner right with the ball in 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.520 his hand, he just is. You know, you don't have 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.400 to really worry about it except for the preseason game 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.200 about him fumbling. So you can trust him in that regard, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.840 and he's gonna make He's gonna be a matchup nightmare. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.959 Now once he comes into the game personnel wise, you know, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.600 when you're in a huddle. That's what's how that's how 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.600 defenses are are are scripting. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:45.360 Right, let me back up. A defensive coordinator sitting in 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:45.720 the booth. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.880 He's watching players come on the field as soon as 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.760 he sees what players come on the field for the offense. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.960 Now he's calling his defense based upon the guys that 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.280 are coming in for offense. So if you see Turping 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.000 coming in, okay, obviously you have a four receivers on 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.200 the field at one time. Okay, now you're sending out 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:00.840 your dying but all of us and Turping lines up 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.960 in the backfield. Oh crap, right, now we're now we're 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.480 in a bad situation, right, So it's a mismatched nightmare 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.880 for teams. And yes, they're gonna still try to match 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.719 up based upon personnel. But when he lines up in 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.640 the backfield, now all of a sudden, you only got 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.360 five guys in the box, you have some things to 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:13.840 worry about. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:15.920 Do you love it still? In goal line situations? 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.480 Because I figure him being as a running back, it 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.520 would be most effective between the thirties, get him out 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.200 in the open field where he can break off and 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.439 get loose with a big hole, but in the goal line, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.040 where everything's much more compact. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.560 I think he was only one. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.559 For three on goal line opportunities on Sunday, So I 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.120 don't know if I love goal line, But do you do? 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.040 You have the same sentiment. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.679 I don't have an issue with it because you think 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.080 about it from like, what this is going to sound bad, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.920 somebody's gonna take the offense of this. But what does 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.240 Tony Pollard provide for you on the goal line that 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.000 Turpin doesn't. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.240 It's a little bit more physicality and more size. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.920 I mean, when the last time you saw Tony Pauler 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.920 run through somebody on Sunday. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.600 I mean Sunday on the goal line. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:53.200 I mean, he'll run through something. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.000 I mean, I'm not saying that he can't, but I'm 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.400 saying that's not his thing. I mean, I'm saying, you 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.040 want to run through somebody, you put reco on the game, right, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.439 you want to talk about somebody running in tight spaces. Well, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.360 Turpen's kind of your guy, right, what does he do 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.200 as a part returner? You run through tight spaces? 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:05.480 Yeah? 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:06.880 Right, So, I mean so it's not like he has 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.320 an inability to be able to run the ball down there. Sure, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.120 it's just out of the box thinking and people are 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:12.839 struggling with that. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.200 And I liked how you mentioned just him even having 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.720 him out there, what it does for opposing defenses that 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.880 are watching it, Because there were some plays in that 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.760 game that maybe they didn't have the biggest success, but 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.200 like the dack keeper down in the red zone off 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:27.800 when he ran to the left, Like, yeah, did they 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:28.440 score a touchdown? 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:28.600 No? 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.800 But you liked that they're still showing, Hey, you have 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.800 to account for the quarterback here. It's yeah, is he 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.040 running like twenty sixteen? No, but you still have to 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.800 count for it. We're still going to show that. Yeah, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.679 and probably my favorite play in the game was this 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.600 was the screen of power. I know he fumbled, but 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.600 the way they brought CD in motion and then he 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.480 circled around the gun and then came back out still 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.640 to the left, Like they didn't throw to CD, but 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.079 it is the most that's the playmaker you worry the 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.160 most about in defense, and it still did enough to 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.120 like draw some attention there, so then they could throw 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.800 the screen back to the right like that. Like, yeah, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.760 they didn't throw to CD, but you can off of that. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.440 And just to put that out there, there was just 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.000 there was a few plays in there that I just 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.959 really liked that. Like I said, it didn't hit big, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.880 but you can see what some big things that could 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:07.480 come off of it. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.240 No, I think that's that that creativity is what we've 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.040 been waiting for. We were talking about it on Thursday 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.600 last week of get the screen Game going. I mean, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.280 get it, get it rolling, and you're gonna use it 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.200 with Turpin, You're gonna use it with Pollard, You're gonna 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:20.880 use it with Douce Vaughan, and those are gonna be 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.160 guys that the screen game allows uh or that allow 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.520 the screen game to open up. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.800 You also need a healthy offensive line to have some 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.120 success and happening where you like from week to week. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.680 Maybe you have the same five guys. I know this 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:32.360 is crazy. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.240 Yeah, I know, I know, but it happens sometimes. But 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.360 if you have that, I just wonder how much. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.360 Continuity there really was maybe, And. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.040 I mean, let's be honest, since Micha McCarthy's been the 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.320 head coach, it just really not had some good health 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.800 in the offensive line. I think having you know, several 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.400 weeks in a row with Tyron out there, Terrence Steele, Zach, Yeah, 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.480 I think that could be that could help the screen 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:52.920 game as well. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.560 Yeah, we need to buy like a wood plant. We 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:55.040 knock on this. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:56.400 You don't think, what do you think that is? 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.800 I think it's like plywood, like it's okay, it's just there, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.920 which I mean, it's got wood in the name, So 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:02.560 I mean, I think. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.200 It's true work. I agree with you. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.000 I think a healthy offensive line is always going to 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.560 help this offense move forward. But you can't count on that, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.920 and that's why we had a problem with the offensive 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.080 line depth at the beginning at the beginning of the year, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.320 and now you're already seeing it with Tyler Smith and 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:16.920 Tyron Smith. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.400 Last week there was a bit of a scare. 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.560 Luckily true, Modoga came back in and did a nice job. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.000 Tyron Smith was healthy enough to play. It looks like 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.480 that'll be the case going into week two. But you 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.360