Speaker 1: She's not even said that Dallas all offense is different
Speaker 1: without right, that's a good question. Um, obviously as talented
Speaker 1: there as there is in the league. And it's um,
Speaker 1: you know, anytime you lose a player like that, it's difficult.
Speaker 1: But saying that, it's not like they don't have other weapons.
Speaker 1: You know, they have Jason Whitn and Cole Beasley and
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams and and one of the better I mean
Speaker 1: the way he's playing right now, one of the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league, you know, running the show. So
Speaker 1: you're going to lose a player because it does is
Speaker 1: you know, what a dynamic football player is. But it's
Speaker 1: not like there's a huge discrepancy. They don't have other
Speaker 1: people in there, so we expect him to operate. You know,
Speaker 1: the key to that offense is a quarterback and he's
Speaker 1: playing at a really high level right now. How does
Speaker 1: it look run a game? Look different with gout de Marco,
Speaker 1: there's a similar place. You know, they're still trying to run,
Speaker 1: stretch and uh and get up onto the linebackers and
Speaker 1: get the ball to the perimeter. And um, you know
Speaker 1: that the scheme hasn't changed. They just used to have
Speaker 1: used multiple running backs with Randall and McFadden in with Dunbar.
Speaker 1: The narrative and the offense, anybody can run behind that
Speaker 1: offensive line pulled up when you look at the film,
Speaker 1: I don't, I'm not in the narratives. They had a
Speaker 1: good running game against the Giants. Mark what happened to him?
Speaker 1: And tours a septendent on a field goal or an
Speaker 1: extra point, whichever one. I'm not sure exactly which one
Speaker 1: was on, but I think it was the last one.
Speaker 1: And so he tours by septendent. So it's a three
Speaker 1: to four month recovery. So he's uh, he's been put
Speaker 1: on I R And Julian Vanderbilty has been brought back up.
Speaker 1: Julian and Josh she would be most likely the backups.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let the we go out. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we just Julian just got back. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: it plays out and see how that we handle it
Speaker 1: here through our training sessions and he balance in the
Speaker 1: running game, backsteading, carries to get into a rhythm, and
Speaker 1: also it's not working, and other stuff is working. Just
Speaker 1: going with the other stuff. I think you're you're you're
Speaker 1: are always trying to get what moves the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: and there are going to be times when we run
Speaker 1: the ball sixty times, and there's gonna be times and
Speaker 1: we have to pass the ball sixty times. And I
Speaker 1: just think it's it's how the game expresses itself, you know,
Speaker 1: and and where you are, you know, you don't know
Speaker 1: if you're going to be up twenty to three or
Speaker 1: you down twenty to three. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: that is is that you got to let the game
Speaker 1: play itself out. So that's always been our approach, and
Speaker 1: I had success with what defense sort of clogg in
Speaker 1: the middle a little bit and keeping you underneath. Are there?
Speaker 1: Is that a template that also matches up to what
Speaker 1: Dallas is good at and that we're their strength defensive well,
Speaker 1: Dallas is a very good defensive line um and they
Speaker 1: do a good job of mixing and matching both man
Speaker 1: and zone on the back end of it. And then
Speaker 1: obviously I think it's a little bit different look now
Speaker 1: with Sean Leeback at linebacker, who played really really well
Speaker 1: against US two years ago, can really run and play
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline who wasn't there last year. So you know,
Speaker 1: they've got a couple. They've got a little bit different
Speaker 1: defense than Atlanta, but um really talented at all three levels.
Speaker 1: Does look to say, as he did two years ago,
Speaker 1: he himself being ready. Unfortunately, Yes, how are you? How
Speaker 1: are you? Hope? Was expect everybody it sides moulk everybody
Speaker 1: should be out there to except for two. Two is
Speaker 1: going through with Uh the concussion protcol you mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 1: I got the guard play. Um. When you think of
Speaker 1: how the tackles played the outside, Um, we got beat
Speaker 1: on on a twist once, you know, and I just
Speaker 1: think it was a pass off deal. Um, But those
Speaker 1: guys did a decent job. And you know in the
Speaker 1: opening game, both Lane and and jpre and beating you
Speaker 1: on your own field exactly. The players think about that
Speaker 1: as at talking point going into this game with the
Speaker 1: guys who were year last year, we've been there going
Speaker 1: into year three. They've beat us on our field and
Speaker 1: we beat him on their field. So we hope we
Speaker 1: can change that because we're playing on our field this time.
Speaker 1: So we haven't really we haven't talked about you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's every game is a must win, so
Speaker 1: it's not added motivation. Hey, we're at home. We gotta
Speaker 1: play harder. It's you know, we gotta go out and
Speaker 1: play a really good Dallas team. And whether it's whether
Speaker 1: it would be in Dallas or here, you know, we
Speaker 1: we gotta play a good football game, Marcus. Marcus says, yes,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what you know, he's been. They said
Speaker 1: he's gonna go full. We'll see how long that goes.
Speaker 1: But um, that's where participating. What level of control the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have, UM in terms of the audibling at the
Speaker 1: line here just seeing that, Like, guess, it depends on
Speaker 1: the play. But they can change things. You know, our
Speaker 1: protections change all the time. But it's a combination of
Speaker 1: the center and the quarterback. Um, the quarterback can trump
Speaker 1: the center. The center can trump the quarterback. It just
Speaker 1: depends on how we're doing it. You know, there's certain
Speaker 1: looks for war changing things in the run game too,
Speaker 1: So there's either wars in there. It just depends on
Speaker 1: how the play call goes in. I guess if you're
Speaker 1: running Temples, we're difficult. Now. We can still change things
Speaker 1: in Temple too. Did the Falcons just dominate the offensive
Speaker 1: line when it came to the running plays or did
Speaker 1: they seem to have a pretty good fix on what
Speaker 1: you were doing at a certain formation. No, I think
Speaker 1: part of it was we got away from it. I
Speaker 1: mean we called a ton of passes in the second half.
Speaker 1: Pitch you're down twenty to three, so you know it's
Speaker 1: a three score game at that point in time and
Speaker 1: you're trying to get back into the game. And we
Speaker 1: also felt our matchups inside, whether it be our tight
Speaker 1: ends are running back or our inside receivers, were a
Speaker 1: really good way for us to move the football. And
Speaker 1: so to us running the ball or throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. We're equal opportunity ball movers. So you
Speaker 1: want to let us give us an opportunity to throw
Speaker 1: the ball in front of end and we can get
Speaker 1: the ball and we still got it in Darren's hands
Speaker 1: and we got you know, run after the catch. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of those times where are back come
Speaker 1: out of the back. So that's just a toss. We
Speaker 1: equate that to that's a long handoff, you know, so
Speaker 1: you get the ball to the back of the flat
Speaker 1: and he turned it up the field. For a game
Speaker 1: of ten, that's still the the same concept toss. So
Speaker 1: they weren't They didn't have like an extra guy in
Speaker 1: the box again to defend the run. And they play
Speaker 1: the same defense that they always played. So two inside
Speaker 1: linebackers are strong safety and a nicke guy, so third
Speaker 1: and one player, and he came in on blocked. We
Speaker 1: should have zoned the whole thing across the front and
Speaker 1: we were a man in a little bit. We should
Speaker 1: have been in a full zone. A lot in the
Speaker 1: NFL where a player goes to another team like DeMarco, worry,
Speaker 1: especially with the indiddition and there is a human emotion
Speaker 1: element of it, how do you monitor it, manage it
Speaker 1: with a situation like this, in a game like this Demorco,
Speaker 1: I think it just depends on the player, you know.
Speaker 1: I think Demarcos are very grounded, uh individual, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's he's pretty you know, there's consistent in his
Speaker 1: approach every day that he's here. You know, he's not
Speaker 1: an up and down guy. You know. I think sometimes
Speaker 1: I just think it depends on the individual. But he's
Speaker 1: he's been fine. You know. We'll monitor him just like
Speaker 1: we monitor all our players this week, but I haven't
Speaker 1: seen any change in him because of that. It's Dallas
Speaker 1: week and he played four Dallas. The run distribution side snacks,
Speaker 1: you want him go on the field more for that
Speaker 1: depends depends on how the game gets expressed. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some interesting things that Darreon brought to us in
Speaker 1: that game so well, but it's just out today, so okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, he could be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So again, we'll address it like we normally do at
Speaker 1: the end of the week. You know, everybody will get reps.
Speaker 1: But if he's out, then we'll make a decision later
Speaker 1: in a week. Uh. At gunner, I think it was
Speaker 1: Huff and Row. At that point in time where we
Speaker 1: were rotating four gunners, we had Huff Row, we had
Speaker 1: Biggers and two too, so it was one of one
Speaker 1: of those. I don't know if we punted after that though.
Speaker 1: Up the good Atlanta and Chris coming into play the
Speaker 1: same spot. Is that formation we're happy with you a
Speaker 1: fan of Yeah, Malcolm did a really nice job and
Speaker 1: Chris did a really nice job. But again, a lot
Speaker 1: of it was because of what Atlanta did. A lot
Speaker 1: of times Julio ended up in the slot, so we
Speaker 1: wanted a bigger, physical guy in there. Um, So it
Speaker 1: can change this week depending on how you know, we
Speaker 1: think they're going to change, And if and is Dallas
Speaker 1: gonna change with this being out? Are they going to
Speaker 1: move some of their guys around the top five defensive
Speaker 1: backs there? Do you crossing? Now that was a game
Speaker 1: plan for Atlanta, So to say he's not one of
Speaker 1: our top five defensive backs, well, we'll have a different
Speaker 1: game plan this week. We cross train everybody. So once
Speaker 1: we get into the season earlier on days, How does
Speaker 1: a player like that, even the equation change the bath
Speaker 1: for you guys to chang change the what change the math?
Speaker 1: I think they still have eleven, so I would say
Speaker 1: it doesn't change the math much. I mean, they're still
Speaker 1: going to have a guy that takes his spot, So
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think the difficult playing them is
Speaker 1: that they have other weapons. So it was, you know,
Speaker 1: you're worried about that, but you're worried about Whitton, but
Speaker 1: you're worried about Beasley. It's you know, you have to
Speaker 1: be worried about Terrence Williams also, so um, you know
Speaker 1: it's it's uh. I don't know how much it changes
Speaker 1: the math um in terms of their in terms of
Speaker 1: how they're going to deploy their guys, And you won't
Speaker 1: know until you see what their game plan is. You know,
Speaker 1: how what are they gonna do? Are they gonna play
Speaker 1: with two tight ends? And is it going to be
Speaker 1: Escobar and two receivers most of the game. So you
Speaker 1: can't sit there and say, well, Dez is out, they're
Speaker 1: gonna do this because we don't dictate what they do.
Speaker 1: We have to react to what they do. So is
Speaker 1: it a second tight end? Um? You know Escobar is
Speaker 1: another really good football player. Is that we're going to
Speaker 1: see more twelve than we planned on seeing, So we
Speaker 1: still have to plan on you know, eleven twenty one, twelve,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of playing these guys and then
Speaker 1: see how what their game plan is, how how the
Speaker 1: game starts to express itself, because then that's the that's
Speaker 1: the one thing with their depth that can make it
Speaker 1: difficult for you. It's not just Dez is out. The
Speaker 1: other receiver comes in the game. They don't have to
Speaker 1: do that. They can move Beasley outside, or they can
Speaker 1: play with Terrence Williams and and uh still and then
Speaker 1: just play with two tight ends and then that becomes
Speaker 1: a different game for us. And that that aspect. So
Speaker 1: last week and did you see the giants change the
Speaker 1: way they play in the game because Jess wasn't been
Speaker 1: there anymore, No, I didn't. I think the one thing
Speaker 1: about Tony, um, besides having the skill to make all
Speaker 1: the throws, is he's just so intelligent. Um. Very rarely
Speaker 1: are they in a bad play. I mean a lot
Speaker 1: of times he's using the whole play clock. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: changing protections, he's changing runs, doing a lot of different
Speaker 1: things there because he has some so much experience there
Speaker 1: and been around so long. So um, he just so
Speaker 1: smart at playing the position. Um, very rarely does he
Speaker 1: get caught in a bad playing. Are you saying that?
Speaker 1: Like who you use Nickel? Change game the game based
Speaker 1: on who you're playing a game playing exactly necessarily Malcolm,
Speaker 1: exactly what kind of factors were going too, how they're
Speaker 1: playing it, you know, what what are they doing? And
Speaker 1: who is that guy? You know obviously is it Escobar?
Speaker 1: You know, is it Beasley? Depending on how they're deploying
Speaker 1: their guys, is really will dictate how we deplore our
Speaker 1: guys for example, could be in the mix. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: better for them to have DOZ and you know how
Speaker 1: to prepare. We're not have DOZ and you're don't have
Speaker 1: to compare. I'd say the latter yesterday, he's really good.
Speaker 1: So just put a little bit more onto coaches and
Speaker 1: a little bit less on covering. Does I think we'd
Speaker 1: we'd out for that. We can figure out what they
Speaker 1: said in the game because we get a chance to
Speaker 1: match it. So, um, we just know he won't be playing.
Speaker 1: So yesterday you talked a little bit about technique, and
Speaker 1: I know that's what Corey Enland has been talking since
Speaker 1: he came here. Was it alarming to have technique problems
Speaker 1: in the secondary? No, I think you have technique problems everywhere.
Speaker 1: In game one, you know, it's something you have to
Speaker 1: constantly work out. We had technique problems on the perimeter
Speaker 1: of blocking. We have technique problems up front. We have
Speaker 1: technique problems I think at every position. I think every
Speaker 1: team is the same. You know, it's not just hey,
Speaker 1: we covered that in camp, we're good to go. I
Speaker 1: mean it's a it's an ongoing process of of honing
Speaker 1: your fundamentals. He goes ability to cover tight ends. I
Speaker 1: mean like the matchup of him against people like Witten. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: anybody match up with Whitten is going to be a
Speaker 1: handful just because of how talented he is. But you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things about Kiko is he's a true
Speaker 1: three down linebacker like Michael. And the fact that when
Speaker 1: we're in our nickel right now, we can leave two
Speaker 1: linebackers on the field because of how athletic those two
Speaker 1: guys are has really been a big help for us.
Speaker 1: You know, last year we featured a little bit more dime.
Speaker 1: Um this year we haven't run as much dime right
Speaker 1: now just because of what Kiko and Michael can do.
Speaker 1: They both have the ability to run and they both
Speaker 1: got some some size to him, so they're not going
Speaker 1: to get bounced around a little bit in there. He's
Speaker 1: played really well for us, you know, in the in
Speaker 1: the Best Players Play. I thought he played well for
Speaker 1: US again on against Atlanta, and Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's just he's gotten stronger, he's gotten more technical.
Speaker 1: I think he's you see him coming and developing. His
Speaker 1: player had a really good preseason for US. Excess h