WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Giant Impacts 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:15.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.240 Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World Course at 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:28.880 the Star in Frisco Streets Dot ten, six ty pat touchdowns. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:34.440 And now your hosts, Isaiah Stanback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.280 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.440 It's a Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.760 Rifle Coffee Company, the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.320 As Week one is here and it's time to preview 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.800 the Cowboys defense facing the New York Giants offense here 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.600 on this Wednesday. That's what we'll do all season long. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.680 Wednesdays we previewed the Dallas defensive mat and then on 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.319 Thursdays we switched things over we preview the Cowboys offensive 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.360 match up. But that is where we'll get things started 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.520 this week, alongside Isaiah stand Back, John Machoda, Nick Harris, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.800 Chris Beam in the back, I'm Kyle Yeomans. Gentlemen, how 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.560 we doing fun? 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:16.280 Tabulous? 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.440 Doing fantastics? Four days, four days? 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.920 Yeah, it's all We've got it's own. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.800 Cowboys back in the practice field today, Mike McCarthy's got 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.839 his press for coming up at eleven. Any pressing news 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.120 that we're waiting to hear from. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.360 I guess more clarity on Tyler Smiths as the days pass. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.679 Reports coming out about an MRI yesterday. You know, I 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.520 think his status is kind of uncertain going forward. So 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.640 here's to hoping that that left guard situation gets figured 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:44.119 out quick. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:45.200 Goodness. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:46.960 That has to be the biggest thing. Yeah, I saw 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.560 that there's reports that it came back on them RI 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.560 as a hamstring strain. So it's all about you know. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.200 I feel strongly if this is a playoff game, you 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.440 wouldn't even be thinking twice. But because it's so early 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.120 in the season, you just never really know. And and 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.840 I don't think that Mike McCarthy would even if they 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.680 thought today, yeah, he's probably not gonna go Sunday night. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.920 He's not gonna tip his hand on that at all. 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.679 Just looking for the game planning things. I'm just from 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.760 being around Mike McCarthy over the last few years like 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.960 he does not give that stuff up at all. So 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.040 that'll that even if it even if he wasn't gonna play, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.560 we won't know about it until probably Jerry on the 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:23.280 radio Friday. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.640 Yeah, getting really close right up to it. Yeah, Yeah, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.480 I think I think you're gonna probably see him play. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.720 I that's just a that's a gut feeling more than 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.560 it is a report. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:35.960 I just I look at it. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.320 Game line, yeah, and and the matchup that they have, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.560 and I mean, we'll talk about more of that matchup 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.360 specifically tomorrow, but I just don't see them not playing 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.840 Tyler Smith in this game. And if they do, maybe 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.880 they they they if they are pushing it a little bit, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.119 maybe they keep him in a rotation and it's it's 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.560 not full snaps, but that's really hard to do with 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.119 an offensive lineman anyways. You want to have some continuity 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.800 up front. It's not like switching in and out receivers 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.760 and getting snaps like that. So I think he plays. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.280 I think he'll be there and I think he'll be 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.839 ready to go. But of course we'll look to see 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.720 some clarity. And do you think there will be clarity 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.600 today whether or not he is on the practice field 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.840 or do you think most of that is going to 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.079 come Friday, because you I mean. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:20.799 There's a chance he's not out there today for sure, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.799 where he could just be getting treatment and things like that. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.079 I don't necessarily expect that, but yeah, that's always a possibility. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.600 If they think given him a couple of days will help, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.040 then yeah, that's possible. But I still think even if 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:33.520 that was the case, they wouldn't tell you if he's 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:34.200 going to be out or not. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:34.560 Yeah. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.119 Yeah, keep an eye on Tyler Smith moving forward. But yeah, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.560 Cowboys back on the practice field. McCarthy coming up at 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.080 eleven am Central time. Isaiah, I want you to dive 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.040 into this real quick. We talked about the identity, and 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.120 identity is such a buzzword around the NFL, Yeah, and 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.160 it varies. But what is the offensive identity for the 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.960 New York Giants and how could the Cowboys? What are 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.120 the Cowboys to take away if that is their identity? 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.800 Well, you want to force him into a passing situation, 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.960 and that's easy to say with this defense. But the 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.920 best player on the field for them offensively is their 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.320 running back, Sakwon Barkley, and I feel as if he 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.680 is such a huge element of their offense. And I 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.919 don't want to start throwing random percentages out there, but 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.039 I believe last and when I heard it, around seventy percent. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.680 He's about seventy percent involved in what they do offensively, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.839 whether he's in the receiving game or whether he's running 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:33.240 the ball. So if you are able to have from 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:38.000 the defense's perspective, a positive effect on him, it's just 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.839 simply slow him down. Everybody wants to say, stop him, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.920 shut him down, like certain individuals, it's kind of hard 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.640 to do that on right, especially when they have the 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.640 versatility to flex out and all those things. But if 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.000 you could simply slow him down, you go back to 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:55.320 last year's game back in November, they were able to 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.400 simply slow him down, right, get their hands on him 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.920 at the line of scrimmage, really disrupt his route out 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.520 into the whether he's running a route or whether he's 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.919 running a screenplay, right, just really disrupt him before he 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.160 gets the ball in his hands. Because once the ball 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.920 is in his hands, you're gonna need you're gonna need 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.680 all your partners to come come to the party, because 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.640 he's just that shift. He's just that dynamics, that's what 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.040 it is. So to that point, find a way to 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.920 slow him down, and I feel like you're gonna find 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.960 yourself in a good situation because I still don't believe 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.120 that Danny Dines is Danny Dimes. I still think he's 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:27.919 Danny Nickel. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.760 Well, Mel, I mean to that point, though, I will 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.400 also say when I look at my time covering the 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.640 Cowboys versus Giants, going back to Dack's rookie year, like, 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.400 I don't think the Giants have done a good job 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.039 at all of replacing Odell Beckham. Odell Beckham twenty eighteen, 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.359 that's the last time they had a thousand yard receiver. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.400 I mean since then, there's been times where the Cowboys 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.520 have talked about potentially having three one thousand yard receivers 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.599 on the team. And I'm not saying they haven't tried. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.200 They gave a bowload of money to Kenny Galladay, he's gone. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.760 They drafted Darius k Well, yeah, but I was gonna 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.120 say Cadarius Tony High, thinking that he was gonna be 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.560 a big part of it. They have not put a 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.880 perimeter player out there that you really fear. I think 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.640 I would say over this last four or five years, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.640 really since Odell Sterling Shepherd maybe is their best guy, 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.279 and I don't think anybody looks at him like he's 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.000 a number one and so during that time, so they 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.160 lose both those games to the Giants Dax's rookie year, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.120 and since then they've only lost the Giants once and 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.880 it was at the end of that twenty twenty season, So, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.000 I mean, and then just listening to all the questions 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.359 they were getting, because you know, for us, you know, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.240 Michael Parsons sucks, he'll talk today. That's I think that's 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.120 what the schedule is gonna be for the season. Dak 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:40.440 always talks on Thursdays. Man, yesterday the Giants had Daniel 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:45.000 Jones talk, Dexter Lawrence talked. I think somebody else did 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.120 to maybe Darren Waller. I mean, they had a lot 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.240 of their top guys talk, and man, just looking at 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.520 the questions they were all getting. It was all about how, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.479 you know, is it in your guys head now that 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.279 you guys can't beat the Cowboys and all stuff. Just 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.080 one question after another. And as a player, you got 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.400 to be annoyed by that. But I mean, records are 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:01.760 what they are. But when I look back at why 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.120 it's been like that, one of the biggest things that 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.480 jumps out is just that perimeter playmakers just haven't been there. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:07.960 Yeah, I want to touch on a couple of things 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.080 we could talk about the receiving corps for the Giants 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.000 and kind of piggybacking off of what you said about 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.440 how they haven't really had that reliable guy since Odell. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.040 I do feel like eventually Jalen Hyatt could be that 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.400 guy for them, but it's not gonna be week one. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.960 So it's another instance of Hey, very fortunate that they 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.960 get him at least this early in the season on 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.360 the road, very similar to how they get Aaron Rodgers 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:27.680 week too. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.240 At least that happens early in the season. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.760 But I think Jalen Hyatt further down the road could 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:32.960 definitely be that guy for them. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.240 And looking around Darren will. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.960 Let's say on that for real quick, Yeah, why do 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.200 you think he fell as far as he did in 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:38.600 the draft? 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:38.760 Though? 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.880 I think what people looked at when they looked at 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.679 him from Tennessee as he's just boom or bust. Whether 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.960 you know he can have the big play, he's not 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.560 going to get you much in the short to intermediate game. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.360 And that could be attributed to his rout tree, that 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.800 could be attributed to Tennessee's receiver development over the years too. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.119 I mean, I can't really think of a Tennessee receiver. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.320 Off the top of my head, that's been something as 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.040 of late, so I think that's a big part of it. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.080 But you know, if you have a guy like you know, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.840 Danny Dimes or Danny Nichols, however Isaiah wants to put it, 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.840 if he can just get the ball to him downfield, 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:11.680 that's eventually going to open up a lot of things 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:12.000 for sake. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.840 Wand that makes sense why they drafted him. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.200 The only reason I wanted to bring that up with 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.840 you is because people that live on Twitter like we do, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.480 have seen the video during his draft process with him 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.120 and Cowboys wide receiver coach Robert Prince, and Robert Prince 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.240 is like basically telling him, you know, hey, man, just 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.560 go yeah, I want to say, you know what it was. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:30.800 It was at his pro day. I want to say 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:31.720 he was in Tennessee. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.439 Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.760 He's like he's like telling him, He's like, man, you know, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.280 you know what you are? You know what you are? 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.840 And Jalen highly comes right, Bay goes what am I? 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:40.199 Coach? 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:41.280 What am I? 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.920 And it's like kind of contentious for a little bit. Uh. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.680 One of our reporters at the Athletic asked him about it. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.560 This week a couple of days ago, I think, and 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.040 he said it was all cool, and it was just 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:53.960 like it was one of those environments where he was 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.640 just kind of trying to motivate him or whatever. But 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.200 if you just watch the video, it makes it certainly 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.360 seem like Robert Prince's kind of inferring that, you know, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.840 everyone knows you're the speed guy. Now you're out here 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.960 in this show everybody that you can do everything else. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.640 It wasn't saying you're not anything else, but it's like, hey, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.480 that's what these guys that are watching right now are thinking. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:13.520 Show them in this. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:14.520 That's what I took it as. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:14.839 Yeah. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:15.800 Yeah, but you know how when. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.640 That stuff gets on social media, it can gain legs 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:18.120 like that happen. 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:19.200 Yeah, he gets out of contact. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.760 But then when he fell in the draft too, there 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.120 was kind of part of me where because there was 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:23.640 some talking positive being a first round pick. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.839 Yeah, here's the con that I had on him. Whenever 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.400 I was watching film and draft coverage, I said, pretty 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.760 confined to the slot even in college because some of 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.760 the other players outside. They had a guy named Cedric 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.240 Tillman on the outside that was pretty good as well. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.560 It'll likely take a transition period to move to a 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.400 pro style spread, but he's talented enough to make it happen, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.040 needs to develop his route tree to expedite that process. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.400 So it kind of goes back to what the video 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.439 might have been talking about was the route tree and 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.839 the speed because he's quick released, he's got the skill set, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.959 he's explosive. He brings all that to the table. But 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.000 like you said, Nick ching him in week one, you're 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.559 not catching him as a rookie in week fifteen yet. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.640 I mean, of course you faced the Giants later in 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.520 the year as well, but you're not seeing the high 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:14.000 end of Jalen Hyatt initially to where it's really going 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.000 to scare you from a weapon standpoint, And going back 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.760 to what John was saying earlier, Daniel Jones is one 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.679 in five in his career against Dallas. The only win 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.720 was Week seventeen of twenty twenty against Andy Dalton as 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.800 the starting quarterback. So that's not all his fault. There's 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.079 been injuries to Saquon Barkley, there's been lack of production 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.839 on the outside, But Isaiah, you'd seem to think that 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.360 Dandy Dimes plays a pretty significant factor into that as well. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.160 Absolutely, and I think he's going to have a substantially 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.680 better season this year. He'll probably have his best season 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.920 of his career this year simply because of who his 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.480 head coach is and his coordinator. I mean, Dave bow 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.160 is an absolute beast when it comes to play calling 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.880 and his understanding of concepts. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.240 Just to back your point ups one seed he's in 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.320 with Dable. He set career highs and completion percentage, passing 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.600 yards passing, touchdown passer rating all last year. Ye yeah, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.719 and playoff ones. Yeah that's a good one too. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.120 So I mean the reality is he has more time 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.000 underneath that leadership now and he's going to be that 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.640 much more refined. And these guys don't have a receiver 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:21.800 as we're talking about the receiver room, but they do 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.960 have a pretty solid committee of receivers. And when you 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.199 have a OC or head coach however you want to 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.559 call him, okay in Dable and you have a quarterback 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.040 who's been underneath his wings now for a little over year, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.880 has a great understanding, and then he have a room 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.280 where anybody could be the man any day. That creates 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.720 a dangerous kind of kind of setting for any defense, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.400 and it really just comes down to what your front 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.400 can do now to force them into those passing situations, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.480 because we all know mister Nichol is going to give 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.880 you an opportunity. He's gonna give you opportunity, right, Nikel. Yeah, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.280 he's going to give you an opportunity, but you have 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.640 to force him into that position. You can't give Dabel 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.680 the option to run the ball and passed the ball. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.120 You will find yourself in a situation. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.520 And obviously he sold on him because they wouldn't given 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.240 him that contract. And if they didn't, one other thing 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:09.360 I was gonna say in hya. I mean, he was 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.920 a top seventy five pick. I'm not trying to act 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.480 like he fell to the fourth, fifth round. But I 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.720 don't know. Maybe I overrat it because I like college football, 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.440 but I mean, when a guy wins the blittne cough 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.679 best you know, college wide receiver in that and then 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:21.439 there was just all the hype coming out of college 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.880 and that I just thought he would be late first, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.800 you know, mid second or something like that. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.880 I fully expected a mid to late second on him. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.400 And yeah, even I wouldn't have surprised me if someone 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:31.640 took a risk on him in the first, you know, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.040 he just kind of felt like that kind of talent 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.200 and as he kept falling. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:35.760 That really surprised me back in April. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.280 But I think he's gonna have a very similar year 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.280 to Christian Watson in the fact that, like, you can't 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:41.839 forget who he is the first six seven weeks and 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.439 then oh my goodness, where did this one hundred and 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.640 fifty yard three touchdown performance come out from? 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.640 So can we make sure that that opening, like his 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.080 his coming out game, doesn't happen against Dallas. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.880 It kind of happened against the secondary that doesn't have 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.960 a good safety corep because it's going to require him 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.040 to get over the top and have those big plays 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:00.760 and daty dimes to be able to connect with him. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.600 So I don't think that happens against Stallis. It does 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.839 just me theorizing. I don't want to sound with the homer. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.040 Here, but yeah, net Packers game, if Daniel Jones are 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.760 the quarterback and that Aaron Rodgers, I don't think he 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:10.520 would have had that game. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.679 Yeah, exactly, point exactly. I want to touch on Segua 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.440 Barkley really quick. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.160 I think Dallas has done a really good job since 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.440 Barkley has come in the league of at least limiting him. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.720 Through eight games, Saquon has played against the Cowboys, averaging 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.000 fifty eight rushing yards on twelve carries. He's had more 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.880 action in the receiving game as of late. In his 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.800 last three games, he's had a one hundred and twenty 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.800 rushing yards, one hundred and nine rushing yards, and then 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.240 eighty receiving yards. So at won two three. So I 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.680 guess just trying to limit him in both of those categories. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.560 And you know, the run defense is going to be 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.480 something we put a big spotlight on in week one 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.640 just to see how it's improved, whether it be with Hankins, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.000 Mazie or with the guys in the second level, to 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.760 see if they can come in and you know, limit 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.520 that running game. But I think overall the Cowboys have 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.440 done a pretty good job. But started Barkley is starting 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:56.760 to catch up a little bit. He's starting to pick 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.280 up back on those averages a little bit. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.880 Yeah, he reached twenty miles per hour on six carries 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.280 last season, which was tied for first in the NFL, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:05.840 and a lot of that came at the back half 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.600 of the season because he did deal with some of 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.160 those early injuries. Do you think you talked about the 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.920 shiftingness earlier? Do you think Saquon I mean, there's a 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.839 lot of discontent there as well, in terms of contracts 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.840 and running backs and whatever's ended up happening in New York. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.600 Do you think he's back fully to what he was 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.160 originally to where it will be tough for Dallas? And 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.320 I mean it's gonna be a task regardless. But this 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.400 is a run defense that we're still kind of questioning 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:32.320 going into Week one. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.600 I'm interested to see what da bolls approach to this 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.480 defense is going to be To next point. Dallas has 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.400 done a pretty dog one good job against Saquon Barkley 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.080 in the past, and dan Quinn has had a good 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.080 game plan for him. However, you're meeting off asive coordinator 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.440 who's probably the most confident he's been in that organization. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.480 You're meeting a quarterback who's the most confidence he's been 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.560 in that organization. Those guys have whatever chemistry that has 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.240 been brewing for the entire offseason. So you're gonna get 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.040 the healthiest version of sa Kwan Barkley that you will 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.120 face all year long. So there's a lot of things 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.120 that are against you in that regard, but at the 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.840 end of the day, you have the personnel to handle this, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.840 and you're gonna have to have your head on a 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.920 swivel because he's gonna stable, is gonna be in his bag, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.760 and there's gonna be things that he's been brewing up 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.640 all off season, you know, since last year or since 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.480 the beginning of the year, that he's just been waiting 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.840 to pull out against Dallas, And you know, you just 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.560 have to be calm, you have the steady of the sas. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.360 There's gonna be plays that they make, there's gonna be 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.720 splash plays. Then you just have to know that, hey, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.200 this is a part of being in the first game 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.000 of the season. Every team's going to go through this 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.440 for the first four games of the year. There's gonna 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.760 be things that they just haven't seen because guys have 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.840 been drawing stuff up all summer. So just be calm, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.600 be collected, you know, stay to your keys, stay to 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.560 your stay disciplined. They're going to get their plays, but 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.040 just make sure that you don't get too high or 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:55.400 too low. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.280 They've been definitely following the Cowboys Blueprint of twenty eleven 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:03.200 on with spending those first round picks on offensive linemen, 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.920 and you'd think that. Obviously, the Cowboys a lot have 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.440 had a lot of success draft in the first round, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:08.920 and it's not always going to be a hit for everybody, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.760 but Andrew Thomas, Evan Neil. They just took the John 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.200 Michael Schmidt, I think it is the center. So they've 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.720 been like they've been spending, Yeah, they've been spending a 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:23.200 lot of really high picks to solidify this offensive line. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.080 So it'll be interesting to see if that group has 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.480 taken another step forward. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.520 They're really starting to get talented in the trenches, and 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.400 they're young too, so that's that's kind of concerning. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.320 How much does Daniel Jones play a factor into that 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.400 because he's a mobile quarterback. I mean, as much as 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.400 you really want to talk about it, he's where would 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.160 you rank him? Let's start there. Where would you rank 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.200 him in terms of mobile quarterbacks in the NFL? Where 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:46.080 would you put him? 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.520 I mean, how high are we going on ranking? 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.080 So here I'll talk. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.600 About guys that are definitely above definitely about Josh Allen, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:53.360 Jalen Hurts. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.440 He's in a top team, that's he's in the top ten. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.520 I would argue he's top five. You're out your No, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.160 actually I'm not. I'll give you something. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.360 There's not many more here we go. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:05.080 How about this? 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.520 If we only we could get a hold of a 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.760 mobile quarterback that we could ask about this, Yeah, that 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:11.400 would be nice. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:12.639 Or two of them. 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.720