WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Final Thoughts on #ATLvsDAL 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:16.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:21.880 label broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:27.520 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.360 It is Friday, week number two of the National Football 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.040 League season, Cowboys taking on the Falcons both teams oh 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.199 and one. I am wearing my victory green since the 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.600 Dallas Stars will begin playing the Stanley Cup Final tomorrow 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.839 on NBC against Tampa Bay. So hopefully the Cowboys can 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.400 get a little taste of winning from the Dallas Stars. 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.160 But fellas, let's start off the show here with the 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.760 fact I'm at Defcon five right now with this offensive lune. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.360 Tyrann Smith did not practice yesterday. Tyren Smith has a 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.240 neck injury that popped up during individual drills this week. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.039 According to Mike McCarthy, So, Danny McCray, Ferry Church, former 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.640 Dallas Cowboy's Safeties, I'm merely new, he scrugs. Man, I'm worried. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.200 I'm a death coming five here. You could have two 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:24.240 tackles not playing on Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons. Lell 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.400 Collins is not gonna be in the game. He's already 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.000 on injured reserve. Talk me off the ledge, man, take 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:35.119 me off the ledge. I'm worried. Yeah, man, this I'll 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.800 go ahead, go ahead, MC, go ahead. Yeah, I can't 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.480 talk y'all this ledge. Knew you might want to go 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.280 ahead and jump. Uh. I just not just have like 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.040 flashbacks and I keep seeing the vision of what happened 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.800 last time Tyra was not in the game against Atlanta, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.120 and I can't get rid of it. And I don't 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.320 think the coaching staff matters. It's a player thing, right, 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.560 So no matter who you put out there, we already 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.840 got somebody being focused on on the right tackle. Who 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.720 the defensive focusing it all? Now you're telling me that 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.240 the defensive coordinator, and actually the head coach who was 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.040 a defensive guy in Atlanta gets to say, we have 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.720 two subs in both tackles on both sides. This must 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.680 be Christmas. So I'm nervous, man, I'm nervous. I need 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.679 him to play. But you know, just like LV those 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.359 neck injuries and him in the bad back, that stuff 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.239 is rolling together and those are the things that are very, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.560 very harmful to the careers of NFL players. Yeah, man, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.120 I'm worried. I'm worried just as much as you guys. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.600 I mean deathcon five, I mean this if he does 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.280 if Tyren Smith does not play in this game, I mean, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.000 this could be one of the most monumental injuries ever. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.760 I mean, look, Dani already pointed out, you got Brandon 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.919 Still at the right tackle spot filling in for Lyle Collins. Now, 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.120 he was an undrafted rookie free agent. He had his 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.400 first NFL start last week versus the Rams, and you know, 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.840 he didn't perform very well. But you know, I see 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.919 as time goes on, he can only get better from there. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.800 But the only problem is, I don't know if we 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.160 have time to wait for him to develop into that 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.959 right tackle spot. We go to the interiors part of 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.760 the line. You know, Zach Martin, I feel like he 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.360 graded out low last week, But I don't see you 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.600 two bad games coming from him back to back. He's 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.560 just too good of a player. So that brings me 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.359 to Joe Looney and Connor Williams, who both struggle mighty 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.880 League against Aaron Donald. Now, Aaron Donald, you know, the 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.360 defensive player of the year, most officive linemen are gonna 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.519 struggle with him. But this week, I mean, they don't 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.520 have a scrub over. They're in Grady Jared. I mean, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.120 this guy is a perennial pass rusher and can give 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.760 them them, give them problems and force pressure on them. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.600 So they're gonna have to step up their game on 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.240 the inside. And that what brings me to Tyron Smith. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.240 The left tackle. This is one of the premier positions 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.960 on the officive line, usually reserved for your best offensive linemen. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.680 It's the blind side, the guy that's protecting the quarterback 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.120 as he's going through his progressions. And we have already 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.240 heard Dak Prescott this week talking about he wants to 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.120 take more shots downfield. But I just don't understand how 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.840 they're going to be able to do that if Tyron 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.720 Smith's not in there. This is a guy that's protecting 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.360 your blind spot. I don't see Dak Prescott bring too 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.320 comfortable going through his progression and waiting for that deep 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.160 rot to develop. So this injury right here, I mean 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.680 it could be monumental on two phases. It can affect 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.720 a passing game and it can affect how Zeke Elliott 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.720 is controlled in the run game. This is Deacon five. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.279 I'm worried for the boys, Nili, I'm worried. Players Lounge 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.000 brought to you by Hotels dot Com. All right, McCray, 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.320 we're talking about looking at at a possibility of having 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.560 Terrance Steel started right tackle again. Maybe they flipped it up, 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.120 but I'm assuming he'll go to right You've got Brandon Knight, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.320 who made one start last year for the Cowboys that 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.600 was at right tackle. Then Alex Light was signed on Tuesday, 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.840 and that's a guy that Mike McCarthy has worked with 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.040 right here, But you're talking about three your top three 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.520 tackles missing action against the Atlanta Falcons because Cam Irving 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.800 is also on injured reserve, So Tyrant Smith possibly couldn't 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.039 be there. It could possibly not be there. Jerry Jones said, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.320 will be a game time decision. Mike McCarthy was very 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.320 vague about what was gonna happen. He said he still 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.200 need quote Uno more information, but we know Collins and 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.839 Irving will not be there. Tat McKinley is one of 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.760 the Falcons pass rushers here, a guy in the Cowboys 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.080 looked at trying to possibly draft, but they couldn't because 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.640 Atlanta traded up, got him in. The Cowboys got stuck 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.279 with Taco Charlton and passed on t J. Watt. But 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.320 that's another conversation. And they've also got one of one 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.320 of buried Churches old teammates from Jacksonville and Dante Fowler Junior. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.800 So these are the guys that you've got to be 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.560 looking at if you're the Cowboys, who can come off 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.680 this edge here and look if you're attacking, if you're 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.840 a Fowler, you're looking your chops here. If you get 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:41.440 to go against these young and inexperienced guys. Listen, you 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.240 you damn bad, bad bad Listen. I'm rusty. I'm rusty. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.080 I miss yesterday, my bad go ahead, go ahead and 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.240 go ahead forty two. Oh no, no, it's all good. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.880 I was just gonna say, like, um, you know, Dante Fouler, 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.479 I was a teammate of this for two years down 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.240 in Jacksonville, and this, I'm like gonna said, Grady Jared 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.719 was no scrub. This guy got paid for a reason. 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.440 I'm mean to me, he's just as athletic as a 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.159 tank Lawrence, much faster. He just doesn't have that that 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.200 perennial pass rush moves that tank Lawrence has, but he's 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.520 a little scrub out there. So whoever they do put 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.680 out there on that right tackle spot, um, I believe 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.360 it'll be still it's not going to have an easy 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.480 day in the park. So all this offensive line they 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.160 need to step their game up because they're not going 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.400 against any scrubs out there. And if they want to 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.760 implement this offense to where they where they needed to beat, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.000 you know, deep shots, play action, all that stuff, they're 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.200 gonna need to secure this front line and it's gonna 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.520 be hard to do it without Tyren Smith. Listen. And 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.640 to add on to that, I just remember, and this 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.599 is for news and some of the other people who 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.280 you know me also, when we did not protect um, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.760 you know Tyren Smith's replacement was it, I forget the same. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.600 But when last time Chad Green we did we did. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.680 We didn't protect them, and we got after the game, 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.279 everybody was like, hey man, the play calling right, We 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.039 should have put somebody out there to help them this 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.360 and that. It's the same situation this week, except it 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.640 was the same since watching last week is what we 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.080 didn't see it. So if you don't find a way 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.279 to run some plays to slow down those pass rushers, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.200 create some misdirection to open up some time and take 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.640 a little pressure off those tackles. If we don't see that, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.840 and we're going back to whin, it's McCarthy going to 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.240 snatch the play sheet, right, because if we don't see that, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.360 I'm putting it on McCarthy and Kelly Moore if we 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.880 go if we go out there and we somehow have 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.640 to watch the game and we're like, man the right 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.840 and left left tackle or struggling, and why aren't they 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.320 getting them any help? This isn't just on Keller Moore. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.480 This is on the entire offensive coaching staff, including Mike McCarthy. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.880 So we need to see specifically since we know that 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.240 these are the weaknesses of our team. If these two 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.720 tackles don't play well, if Turing doesn't playing, we already 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.560 have a replacement that right, The game plan should be 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.360 something to create misdirection and slow these guys down so 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.520 they can negate that pass rushing to open up some 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.800 shots down the field. All Right, a name we haven't 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.920 mentioned from the coaching staff that Cowboy fans need to 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.720 go ahead and remember if you don't already, the name 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.640 is Joe Filbin Joe Philbin, former coach to the Miami Dolphins, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.840 longtime offensive line coach from Mike McCarthy with the Packers. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.320 He is the Cowboys offensive line coach. Joe Philbin has 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.920 got his work cut out and this needs to be 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:21.080 his finest hour here for the Cowboys because McCarthy would 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.120 not give away if they were going to go with 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.080 some different types of combinations. Um if I if Tyrn 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.280 was out meaning okay, could could they decide to flip 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.240 Carter Williams at the tackles about he didn't want to 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.360 go and give anything away here. So to me, this 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.559 is gonna be really interesting on how Joe Philbin gets 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.880 these guys ready to go, because this is truly what 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.000 your old line coach has to do. Because also within 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.960 trying to set the five guys, if Smith is out, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.280 you've also got to think about what if someone gets hurt? 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.640 You know, I, if Connor Williams is hurting the game, okay, 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.559 who's who's gonna go there? Um? You know if if 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.440 Steele has hurting the game. Maybe these are things you 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.360 have to think about and and go to and also 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.200 how you change who's on special team. So there's a 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.640 big challenge here for this team. And that's why I 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.280 say I'm at Defcon five right now, worried about this 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.959 offensive line, an area we all thought was going to 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.040 be good coming into Sunday's critical game against Atlantic. Because 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.760 you don't want to follow over two. It's the first 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.559 Cowboys home game of the year. Mc craig, Who I mean, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.400 I'm straight up worried, man. I am worried because you 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.000 should be. This could get ugly if if they don't 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.480 do it right. And I think you were on point 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.640 talking about all right, you you can't. You can't sit 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.760 around here and run your regular offense. You got to 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.400 make the adjustments. That's what coaching is is trying to 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.880 cover up your awards here. So you may need some 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.560 three three step drops, It may be some bubble screens 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.240 that you got to go ahead and get this ball 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.960 out quick. Do not let Tach McKinley and let Fowler 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.760 junior mccraig get going in. If listen, if I don't 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.800 see a zone read with Zeke and back to where 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.320 you're putting the defensive ends in a in a tough 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.920 situation and then playing off that with play action and 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.160 shots down the field. If they don't set it up 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.000 with that based on what we have at tackle, then 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.320 I don't. I have no idea what we're doing because 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.920 it's not that many ways to slow him down. But 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.120 anytime you can get somebody thinking and overthinking on the 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.679 football field, that is great for you. Right. So we 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.160 just need to find a way to get that done 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.360 or it's gonna be a long game, which really will 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.679 be a short game because we'll get blown out. Yeah, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.760 I think they just gotta kind of take a page 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.920 from the Rams playbook. Like last week. I mean, we 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.199 talked to Will and he told us the recipe it was. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.199 They turned it into a lateral game instead of a 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.600 vertical game. Now, we know we want to see more 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.559 shots from Dak Prescott, but with this package, this patchwork 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.880 offensive line, if Turnsmith is out, we know they're gonna 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.880 bring from within. As what Will said the other day, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.400 we're gonna promote from within. So with this patchwork offensive line, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.000 I mean, you're gonna have to turn it into a 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:55.079 latical game, bub bubble screens, wide receiver screens, quick game, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.760 three step drop, and they're gonna have to get it 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.360 out of his hands fast. Because I just don't see 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.600 that offtive line holding up well against those pass rushers 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.520 before it land. Did you guys watch the Cleveland game 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.760 last night. Yeah, and not to be on Joe Burrow, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.679 but the Cincinnati offensive line is not good. No, but 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.000 Cincinnati did find a way to get the ball down 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.679 the field. So it's not impossible. So I don't want 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.120 us to go into the game and say, hey man, 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.319 we can't do it, because you know, X, y Z 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.840 teams are able to get it done. They're able to 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.840 coach this stuff up, and they're able to find a 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.800 way to push the ball down the field and score 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.480 some points. All right, So it's not it's not an 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.480 impossible task, and it's something that we should be able 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.000 to do and the offensive coaching staff should be able 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.480 to figure out how to get this done in the game. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.400 I tell McCraw here a loud and clear through these 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.920 bows headphones. I like where your head's at. I remember 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.800 last year when the forty nine ers lost their two 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.400 offensive tackles for a game, and it might have been 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.480 two games that they lost both starting tackles, and Kyle 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.559 Shanahan ended up winning both of those games. I know 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.000 he won one of them. For sure, but I believe 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.240 he was two weeks he had to do it in 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.600 the row, and he got he got through it, and 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.360 of course we know the Niners ended up playing in 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.280 the super Bowl. It was these injuries had happened earlier 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.720 in the year, so you are on point. This is 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.680 where the coaching comes in. And the way Jason Garrett 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.320 had done it, it was, Hey, look, we're gonna be 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.960 who we are and we're not gonna give guys help. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.240 I want Mike McCarthy to give guys help here. And 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.640 so whether it's Blake Bell or it's the rookie um 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.120 Sean mckinn from Michigan, who's a bet, who's their best 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.439 blocking tight end, put somebody out there and help chip 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.679 um do help these guys. You just cannot leave these 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.240 tackles out here by themselves. You're gonna have to help 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.240 him here. I just feel like that has to be. It. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.600 M not sure what the game plan is gonna be, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.760 but to me, just what I'm you know what we 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.840 know of right now. If you're talking about two tackles 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.839 making their second NFL starts, you gotta protect him, man, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.199 You gotta protect your You got to I mean You're 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.800 completely right. Whether it be Ezekiel coming out of the 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.200 backfield getting a little shoulder chipping there, or if it's 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.720 one of the tight ends chipping on their way out 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.120 to their route. You can't let these guys go on 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.560 there on an island by themselves. One. I mean, I 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.120 don't see their confidence being that high to begin with. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.679 If they're on social media, they're looking at this saying, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.760 oh man, everybody in their mom thinks we're gonna give 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.840 up one hundred sacks out there. So their confidence can't 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.560 be that high. And but to get it to that, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.760 to get it to the point where they're successful out there, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.840 you gotta help them out. You can't leave them on 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.240 an island we saw like Danny, Like Danny pointed out earlier, 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.480 when you leave a guy on an island like Chads Green, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.840 bad things can happen. And we do not want to 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.240 sit there and watch Dak Prescott take a five step 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:38.920 drop and get smacked in the back of the head. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.679 We do not want to see that over and over again. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.880 We need to show up this off the line, whether 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.160 it be chipping, whether it be quick step, something has 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.000 to happen. But I'm sure these coaches with championship pedigree 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.199 will figure out something to get ready for this Atlanta game. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.040 All right, McCray, you brought up a point here talking 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.160 about the offense that I want to come back to 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.280 in this and it leads into what Church and I 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.679 were discussing yesterday is the offense is supposed to be 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.800 the best part of this team. Their job is to 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.400 also protect this defense by trying to figure out a 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.040 way to hold onto the ball longer. What we've seen 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.240 from the Cowboys the past two seasons is if you 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.760 leave this defense on the football field for thirty minutes 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.200 or more, you usually are going to have a problem here. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.880 So they also within these having these two possibly having 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.200 to start, these two young tackles, how can they run 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.280 the football and control the clock? Mcray, because they got 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.960 to protect this DP. The more shots that Mattie Ice 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.520 has on the football field with this offense, the worst 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.200 off is going to be for the Cowboys. Listen, listen. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.600 Jerry Jones has been saying for years that Dak has 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.360 the potential to be just like Russell Wilson, just like 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.160 Cam as far as being able to run zone reads 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.000 and create a new, a new type of thing in 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.640 the ring game. So use it like this. This is 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.440 a way for them to be able to to add 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.320 another element to the run game. Add back in there 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.640 as another runner. I'm not saying run the power with him, 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.040 but get them some runs out there. Make the teams 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.760 respect him as a runner, and that'll help you in 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.400 every other aspect of the game, right because if you're 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.720 worried about the quarterback being able to take it from 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.520 Zeke and run around the edge, that slows the defensive 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.800 end down. That also slows the defensive end down on 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.640 the read if you hand it off the Zke, and 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.960 that also puts the safety in the box having to 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.640 come down and have to worry about tackling that, and 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.640 that will help you in the play action game. Jerry 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.680 Jones has been asking for this for a while, and 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.360 I think this is a key thing that can help 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.080 the Cowboys be able to run. You know, considering the 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.840 old line maybe you know, maybe not at full strength, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.320 that's true. I can see them trying to put that 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.040 wrinkle in there every now and then with the zone read. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.720 I just don't know if Atlanta is gonna respect it enough. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.240 I mean, I don't see Dak Prescott in that same 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.880 athletic ability as you know a Cam Newton or Russell 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.640 Wilson Kenny scram won't get you some yards, of course, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.880 and I think we'll have to do that as the 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.040 game progresses, especially if Tyrn Smith is out there is 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.120 not out there at left tackle, so I can see 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.520 them trickling a little bit of zone reading there. But 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.920 for me, the most important factor to keep this run 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.720 game going if those opensive linen are down is you 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.440 got to just get a little bit more creative, have 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.120 a little bit of counterplay to your run game started 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.120 out one way to come back the other way. Get 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.680 used Atlanta's aggressiveness like the Rams used are aggressiveness last 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.160 week against them. Have him forced them going one way, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.280 bring it back, do a lot of you have some 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.200 motion behind the line of scrimage just to get their 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.280 eyes going somewhere else before the snap. 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