WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The Mac Attack 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:22.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.000 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.319 Star in Frisco, bowing to the gold line, Saw has 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:38.360 got ta and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck Ma Harrison, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.760 Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. It is a midweek edition 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.440 of Talking Cowboys presented by Tostito's, the official Chip and 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.519 the official tip of the Dallas Cowboys. Here from the 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.360 Star in Frisco. Heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah Stanback, Rob Phillips, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.120 Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the back. Gentlemen, how's it going. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:06.120 I'm fantabulous. Fantabulous. That's a good word. Still swell good, Okay, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.479 it's just gonna be swelled every time. Like it peachy again? 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.800 I love it all right. News and notes for the Cowboys. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.640 As Week six is upon us, the Patriots look ahead, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.039 and throughout the next forty five minutes, we preview the 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:24.679 Patriots offense and the Cowboys defense and just exactly what 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.640 the Patriots do or do not really bring to the 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.720 table in this matchup. But First, we have some updates 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.080 from Rob Phillips. Where would you like me to start. 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.440 How about Lyle Collins? Okay, Lyle Collins will not be 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:45.080 back this week. What Judge Amos Mazant did denied his 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.560 request for an emergency tro and junction whatever you want 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.720 to call it. He was trying to get back this week, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.360 so one more games. He's already back in the building. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.440 He's able to do certain things, work out, being certain meetings, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.360 but he will be fully back and able to play 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.480 after the buy. Would you like me to get into 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.480 all the details of the case or just kind of 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.840 go very high level pretend on Mattlocke. Let's do that? Okay, Well, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.320 I mean it comes down to actually get into the details. 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.440 I want to know the details. I can't I'm able 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.959 to give you very high level details. Okay, Okay, there's 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.440 a lot into this, But I think ultimately it sounded 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.519 like he he wasn't sure it was a the NFL 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.680 was in the right in terms of what the CBA 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.280 says and what they did in terms of suspending him 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:40.920 five games, But ultimately, in his brief, he said the 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.000 court cannot disregard an arbitrator's reasonable construction of the party's agreement. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.800 So I don't understand that exactly. I mean, to me, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.360 that's like both sides there. You disagree with it, but 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.600 you're you know, but you're upholding the suspension. So it's 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.280 probably deeper than what I understand. But anyway, he's not 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.200 back this week, and Terrence Steele will start it right 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.639 tackle and doesn't get those game checks back like we 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.480 were talking about earlier, which hurts a la l for 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.160 a certain amount of time. Those are big game checks too. Things. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.080 I thought the funniest thing about the whole deal was 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.400 that the judge says, you know, while you have a 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.760 really good case against NFL, but I'm not gonna get 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.560 for you. So yeah, yeah, that's that. He's like, you 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.800 got a really good case, you're coming at me really good, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.000 but we're not good for you. Just kidding and with 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.760 Zeke when he actually is the same judge who you know, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.440 blocked Zeke's suspension and gave him that tro And it 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.480 comes down to it came down to irreparable harm. Could 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.360 could they prove that that being gone and losing those 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.240 game checks was irreparable harm to Zeke? And I guess 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.120 maybe that wasn't proven in this hearing last Friday. So again, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.880 one more game for for LC, one more game for 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.720 Terrence Steel as well as he's got that final game 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.480 before the bye week, and it is good. I mean, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.040 you look at even just in the on field repercussions 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.120 of this. Heck, I mean, Lyle Collins is gonna go 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.920 into weeks what was that Week eight of the NFL, 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.320 and he's gonna be fresh. You don't have to worry 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.480 about the neck that was bothering him earlier in the year. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.080 You don't have to worry about the hip, of course. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.520 I mean, I don't think we were all really that 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.480 worried about his longevity and his health issues. But I 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.120 mean he's gonna have a fresh start midway through the year. Yeah, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.200 I mean we were worried about him, you know, obviously, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.479 like you said, coming into the season, hoping that that 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.680 laboram surgery that he had on his hip had gotten better. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.200 He missed all last year obviously, but tarn still again, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.440 we have to give him the props that he deserves 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.520 because everybody had bubble guts when you figured out that 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.640 Layelle was gonna go down, and so it's gonna be 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.440 a situation where you already were worried about him as 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.760 far as the neck, all of that tern still fills in. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.279 You give him a little bit more time to get better, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.200 hoping that is obvious the case that he comes back 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.400 ready to go. And from everything that I hear about 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.040 people working with Brett Brown, I need to work with 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.720 Bret Brown. I need is he if he is the 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.800 miracle worker like that. I need to get out there 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.880 on them bands with him, because I mean, just as 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.080 the way that he turned Chauncey Ghoston who didn't have 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.040 a training camp, and then he comes in and he's fresh, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.760 ready to go, Leo will come back just like that. Yeah, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.280 the bands suck. The bands sucked, but they're awesome at 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.400 the same time. I promise you everybody who touches the 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.240 bands wants to hurry up and get back to practice 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.800 because that session with Britt is much more challenging than 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.159 it is to be on the practice field. It looks easy. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.320 Oh yeah, what makes it look why? I mean, what 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.039 make constant resistance? The entire time those bands that he 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.400 walks out there with, it looks like he's carrying dog on. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.479 I don't even know what it looks like. The rope 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.640 from Heil. But those things work, man, and I'm a 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.360 fan of bands. Because of my time with Britt, I 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.520 spent way too much time with Brett unfortunately, so sorry 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.479 Cowboy's Nation. I spent most most of my time with 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.480 that dude, but he got me back from all my injuries. Goodness. Yeah, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.520 I don't think anybody wants to go through that a 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.359 little bit longer than they need to. And there are 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.120 a couple of guys going through it longer than they 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.120 need to. Nevill Gallimore, Trustin Hill, a couple names Michael 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.400 Gallop in there as well. Any other news and notes 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.240 from yesterday, Rob, I don't think so. I think that 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.120 was that was the main one. I think we mentioned 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.000 the injuries yesterday. They do practice today. I'm not sure 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.720 if it's gonna be outside or inside because we got 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.480 rain coming, but we'll have a better idea if anybody's 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.520 limited it all. You know, Zeke and and Amari were 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.040 limited last week in practice. Randy Gregory too, but everybody 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.680 was able to go. Zeke was pretty sore after this game. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.440 I mean that pylon thing. I mean, like you said 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.360 that you think the bands look easy like that pylon 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.279 looks like a little pillow, but it's not apparently so. Well, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.840 the base of that thing is like hard plastic, right, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.400 you can see it when it got knocked over. It 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.720 that thing, so there's no give. There's no give and 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.040 that no give. Yeah, and he talked about it. Mike 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.479 McCarthy talked about it. Yeah, we just probably move it 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.520 a little bit. Supposed to be at the line of scrimmage. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.920 He's like, yeah, let's push you back a little bit. Um. Yeah, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.760 let's listen to what Zeke had to talk about with 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.800 that pylon, because it was it was really funny. Here's 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.040 what he said about the landing on the pylon after 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.880 the game. Yeah, I fell on a pylon. That thing. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.080 It's kind of hard. Maybe it's a fin spot for it. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.720 There you go. That's exactly what he said. Just make 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.880 it like a hologram or something. Let's take advantage of 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.280 all this great technology we have, you know, and just 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.960 have a fake pilot. He's definitely trying to buy that 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:12.080 pylon right now, and so set her to sign it. Yeah. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.080 I can see that we're finding new ways that they 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.280 can improve, you know, the dack touchdown that never was, 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.720 you know, and put a microchip in the football. We 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.600 hate to be the poster child for all of this 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.440 needing uh technology out here though, like you said that 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.920 the Dack touchdown that wasn't and the pylon. Come on, now, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.080 can we what's next? Can we trademark these ideas? You 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.360 guys are trademark and then talk about it. Yeah, you 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.880 guys are going giving this right three. You guys are 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.520 doing this as an entrepreneur. They like, what are you doing? 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.600 What are you doing? What are you doing? By the way, 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.480 you mentioned rain potentially today kind of being the deciding 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.680 factor on whether or not to go outside or go inside. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.400 But what about Sunday? I mean the last time the 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.240 Cowboys made their way to New England, I mean it 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.360 was supposed to be rainy or it was rainy and 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.880 cold and was one of the sloppiest games on natural 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.080 field turf thing you've seen. And god knows how long, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.040 at least at the moment looking at the forecast going 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.120 into Sunday, there is a minor chance of rain. It 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.240 was like fifteen percent this morning. So that's a good thing. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.440 That's thumbs up if you wanted to talk about the 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.280 weather that you would face potentially in Foxboro. So that 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.320 way you don't look at twenty nineteen again and have 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.560 a repeat of that. That game was a mess, and 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.080 it honestly came down to really Brady had one big 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.400 completion in that game and that kind of made the difference. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.720 I mean, that's it was very difficult for the quarterbacks 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.079 to function in that game. That I say a standback, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.560 you would have loved that twenty nineteen game because it 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.440 was all special teams. Yeah, it was not good for 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.760 the Cowboys that day. When the weather acts up there, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.200 it gets rough, it gets really weird because of how 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.840 the wind comes into that stadium. It's swirls like crazy. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.880 It's like literally the one ends on it just like 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.520 a little wind tunnel. It just comes in and it 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.040 just shot and then it goes out. But hopefully it's 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.880 not too windy out there, because again it will change 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:01.320 the way in which you have to post the game. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.760 And these are two very different teams facing off this 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.640 week than what we saw in twenty nineteen. So let's 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.360 start talking about that Patriots offense. And of course the 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.960 biggest difference from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty is no 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.160 Tom Brady. I mean he is not a part neither 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.720 as Julian Atowin is. I guess Rob was already retired 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.520 by that point. Gronkowski I think he took that was 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:26.320 the year. Yeah, so either way, I mean, the three 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.520 cornerstones of that team are not there on offense. And 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.880 we'll talk about the defense more tomorrow. The defense is 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:36.679 real still, But what kind of strengths does the Patriots 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.320 offense bring to the table in this matchup, because at 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.560 least at the moment, heck, but I don't see a 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.080 ton of things that they could take advantage of. Well, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.400 I mean it's really outrunic, you know, you talk about it, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.560 Josh McDaniel as offensive coordinator and Kellen Moore and where 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.080 he is right now, the parallels between the two, because 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.480 Josh McDaniel at one point was a hot commodity. Kellen 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.839 Moore right now is scorching hot. Everybody's talking about him 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:04.200 if future head coaching. But yeah, I think that when 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.920 you look at the Pats right now, they are in 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.840 the mold of where they were when Tom Brady first 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.079 took over as quarterback. They want to keep the game 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.960 as close as they possibly can. They want to play defense, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.560 and they want to get you into a slug fest, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.600 and they want to make and want to make you 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.840 make a mistake. You know, if you make a mistake, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.960 they get a turnover, they can get an easy point, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.800 they can force you into that. But there's nothing explosive 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.319 explosive about this offense right now. They've only scored eight 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.960 touchdowns in five games, three rushing touchdowns in five passing touchdowns. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.800 So not allowed to be afraid of. But what they 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.960 can do fundamentally is play era free football and they're 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.840 not gonna beat themselves. And in the turn the ball 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.280 over the whole heck of a lot do things stupid, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.480 But they still have a rookie quarterback. And you have 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.920 to force the hand of this rookie quarterback to do 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.000 some of the things that we've benefited from greatly, and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.599 that's the turnover differential. I loved your article about the 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.040 turnover differential. Man talk about Mike McCarthy when he was 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.920 a Green Bay dump capers all that. I loved it. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.560 I took a lot from that too, But uh, you know, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.320 it's just man, not a lot. Again. I don't want 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.480 to try and feel as though like we're just gonna 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.320 run him and knock them out, because it's not gonna 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.480 happen there well coached team, but as far as the 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.040 offense is concerned, look, it's just not a lot of explosion. Yeah. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.240 Personnel wise is where these guys are a kind of 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.960 snake bit. They don't have the personnel that they've had 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.880 in past years, nor the experience and in those positions, right, 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.760 they don't have the experience at running back like they 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.480 did before. They don't have the experience that receiver tight end. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.400 They got some dudes, right, they got some dude they 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.679 but they spent they broke the bank to make sure 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:40.160 they had some dudes at that position. Hunter Henry Johnny Smith. Yeah, absolutely, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.960 those two guys are real and those are two of 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.000 the highly talted guys around the league last year, and 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.520 they wouldn't got both of them. Um, So I think 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.720 that that was on purpose. Obviously, not only because of 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.520 the success that New England has had in the past 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.120 with their recent with their tight ends, but obviously it 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.120 gives a sense of security, right, And we talked about 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.320 the safety blanket for like Dalton Schultz where he is 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.720 to DAC right now. Those two guys are the safety 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.960 blank it for mac Jones and it allows those guys 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.840 not only sit in and block and give him protection, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.880 but also gives him an outlet and somebody some guys 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.840 a throw to on the interior because they don't have 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.160 the weapons on the outside. They still have Nelson al 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.160 Gillard and a couple other guys. But those guys aren't 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.439 guys that like, I fear the thing that we have. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.080 They always talk about it. Right, Identify right, respect, Never 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.200 fear right, Identify respect, never fear your opponent. So identify 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.719 who can hurt you? Well, you got the two tight 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.880 ends I can hurt you. Okay, identify Also the quarterback. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.760 He's young, he's still learning, but he only has two 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.040 percent less efficiency completion rate than DAC does. He has 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.800 two more interceptions in Dak, right, but he has two. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.760 He's seventy one percent on his completion rate DAC seventy three. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.760 So let's not look at this and say, okay, but 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.120 this guy's just young. He is their guy, their curveball 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.320 that we have a watch out for. Is who their 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.360 quarter offensive coordinator? Yeah, Daniels. As as this quarterback gets 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.360 more comfortable in this system, they're going to become more 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.520 of a threat. They will him. Josh McDaniels will find 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.439 ways to get his playmakers a ball. Mac Jones will 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.880 get more comfortable with the calls that Mike McDaniels has 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.560 and those once their relationships starts blending, that's when things 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.679 start happening. So I think that he's doing a good 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.280 job in terms of managing the game. He just doesn't 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.959 have the weapons that we have or the experience that 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.400 Dak has to be as explosive as we are. But 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.760 he's very efficient. Yeah, Jacoby Myers is their leading receiver 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.120 and he actually his coming out party was that twenty 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.280 nineteen game against the Cowboys when he had like seventy 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.839 four yards as an undrafted guy, and he's kind of 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.320 their lead receiver. Although I agree with you guys, Hunter 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.959 Henry's kind of been maybe their biggest threat in the 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.640 passing game. Damien Harris is questionable. Maybe for this game. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.079 We'll see. He's banged up. He heard his ribs in 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.080 the Texans game, so we'll see. But you actually hit 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.959 on my point. It's it's kind of like it's almost 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.640 a new offense. I mean, the personnel is almost completely 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.480 different than certainly since the last time the Cowboys played them, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.160 And I totally agree with the fact that mac Jones. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.559 They'll get better as you already see him more comfortable 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.840 as we go. You watch that Tampa Bay game and 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.120 it's impressive how kind of unflappable he is. And he 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:03.960 had no running game to speak of in that game 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.120 as well. And the stats show he's getting better against 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.319 the Blitz and you saw it against the Houston game. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.120 They'll work the middle of the field on you. I mean, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.680 you know the guys with crossing routes, and you see 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.880 that with Aglar and and Myers, so we'll see it's 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.720 it's not an offense that is really testing people down 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.880 the field a lot. But again, yeah, they don't make 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.760 a ton of mistakes, so you can't do what you 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.480 did on Sunday and turn the ball over and give 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.720 him extra possessions, give them more chances to get some 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.080 drives going. Yeah, points will be at a premium because 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.840 if you get into a situation where you start off 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.880 slow like you did against the Giants, it's gonna be 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.800 they'll get you an a dog a dog fight. But 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.800 I wanted to ask you when you make that comparison 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.040 from mac Jones and Dak as far as they're completion 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.480 percentage right now, what do you, I mean, as far 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.520 as your evaluation of him as a quarterback, being a 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.600 formal quarterback, do you see a guy that's a bus Obviously, 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.520 he's a rookie, so he's a bus driver, all right, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.440 So he's he's not able to get to that third 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.640 read yet, but he's exceptional as a rookie in his 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.240 first and second read. With them letting go of Cam 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.240 and all of that, did you think that, you know, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.000 they needed that dynamic to their offense because they don't 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.120 have the explosion or the ability to stretch the field 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.160 or even him, even him be a dynamic runner. Yeah. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.320 I think obviously losing Cam, you lost ability for somebody 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.280 to create. Yeah. There, um, but I don't think that 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.640 it would have changed much in terms of their ability 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.520 to throw the ball more effectively because they just don't 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.400 have the weapons on the outside, that is personnel. Have 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:41.280 they ever Yeah, I mean so Yeah. The reason I 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.200 don't think that they've ever had I want to say ever, 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.080 they've had guys in the past that were dominant, right, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.880 but it's usually on the interior. They work you on 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.000 the inside to your point, right, And so they've always 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.320 had I've always had Welker they always had Edelman, They've 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.320 always had you know, the tight ends grown. They've always 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.560 had guys on the interior the exterior. They really have 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.920 never ever been truly that concern with that um setar 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.040 from my time there when they had Moss. Yeah, all right, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.520 so that was it. They like the work the inside 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.000 of the field because there's more there's more field on 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.400 the interior than there's an exterior, right um. And that's 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.240 where they run their offense at and they hurt you 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.080 with their running backs out the back field. That's how 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.240 New England's always hurt you. But to that point, you know, McDaniels, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.160 The more comfortable that these two get their relationship, the 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.440 more tightly woven that they get, the more dangerous they're 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.320 going to become. Mac Jones looks very composed, very composed 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.080 as I break down the film on him. He nothing 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.840 startles him. His footwork is amazing. It's very Tom Brady 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.960 ish in terms of his footwork in yeah, I mean 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.000 in terms of guys and how the how guys are 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.360 rushing and gets him. He just slides up one step here, 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.680 one step there. His eyes never come off down field. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.240 It's just his guys have to get open. And I 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.000 think the more confident that Josh, the more comfortable Josh 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.440 McDaniels becomes with his personnel, the more he'll start getting 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.400 in his bag. Because we all know Josh McDaniels is 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:53.880 getting his bag and we'll break it down in the 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.760 field room. I got some stuff that Jesus. I mean 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.960 the way he draws stuff up. He has two three 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.240 options in terms of concepts within one play that works 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.280 against whatever the defense presents. It's amazing. So the more 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.159 confident that McDaniels gets with his personnel, the more dangerous 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.520 these guys become. And these guys really want to beat 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.200 you down. It's always been the case in New England. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.040 They physically want to out just outman you. They want 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.439 to run you into the ground. Defensively they're big and 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.080 they're heavy right, but offensively their office ave line, they 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.000 had two guys they were on the COVID list last 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.400 year that didn't opted out, so they got they're still 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.320 getting their feet underneath them in two in terms of 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.440 continuity on that line. So this is a team that's upcoming, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.600 let's just make sure that their coming out party isn't 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.919 against us. I agree, and I think Josh McDaniels as 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.320 a play caller still has a lot to offer. I mean, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.640 even though he, like you said, isn't maybe that hot 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.199 commodity he was at one point for head coaching jobs, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.679 he's a heck of a coordinator. I mean, he puts 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.600 the playbook on the table and it is it is 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.000 pretty pretty big, and he's got the Super Bowl rings 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.399 to prove it. Yeah, and you could say maybe he's 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.080 not a hot commodity, but I think he's just going 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.160 to be the coach there day. I I just don't 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.800 think he's going anywhere until Bill leaves and he's the 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.640 guy in waiting. That's just I mean, I have notice, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.880 and they're most comfortable with. I mean, he keeps going 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.200 back there, right he left it, he was there, he left, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.800 he came back. He was like, I'm just gonna sit here. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.120 He's had other opportunities since then. He was just like, nah, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.840 I'm a post I'm good right here. I'm a good 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.919 where I'm sitting. One way you see him create his 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.960 creativity is in the red zone. Because they especially I 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.480 was just watching the game last week. They they've struggled 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.760 down there, struggle cashing in. I think some of it 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.679 is they've had some some offensive line issues. Guys have 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.439 been banged up, so you'll see them go wildcat, um 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.720 try to do some different things to catch the defense 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.600 that weird guard. Isn't that weird? I mean they do 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.840 all of those great conventional things all the way up 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.879 into the red zone, and then they go it's completely 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.439 out of I mean they've double reverse wildcat stuff like that. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.280 I mean, when they get down the red that's got 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:50.800 to be a worry for them, because if you look 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.360 at the amount of field goals that they kick, they're 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.800 just once they the whole offense sputters out. And I 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.760 think that's a byproduct of having that rookie quarterback that 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.359 is not able to act, acly dissect and see the 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.520 concepts that you're talking about. And so maybe later next year, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.199 but as long as he has a defense, he's always 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.119 gonna have a chance. And that's what they have, is 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.040 a defense. There's gonna be a trip, there's gonna be 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:12.960 a point, and again I hope it's not against us. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.120