WEBVTT - Draft Show: Marking Priorities 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:10.280 This is the Dallascowboys dot Com Draft Show, your war 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.160 room for insider news and draft analysis from deep within 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:27.120 the confines of Cowboys headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:33.279 It is Thursday, January eighteenth, twenty twenty four, and we 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.360 are ninety eight days away from the NFL Draft in Detroit, Michigan. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.400 Welcome into the Draft Show, presented by Miller Lyte. Here 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.760 from the SWBC studios at the Star and Frisco. Nick 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.519 Harris Brian brought us Aisha Morrison, Zach Wilchuck Chris Bean 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:48.919 in the back of Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.400 How's everybody doing today? Read a roll man d to roll. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.160 We'll be crazy today where a little bit early got 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.040 pushed up an hour because Mike McCarthy comes on at 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.480 ten o'clock and then and then we'll be back at 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.800 our normal time. Tuesdays and Thursdays from here on out 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.920 is when you can hear the Draft Show. Eleven am 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.600 Central Time is when we will stream live. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.039 So yes, sir, two more extra hours of sleep boom. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.000 Yeah, not nine am for well you have to get 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.120 up for ten am for talking on Tuesdays. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:18.880 Yeah, it's just one day. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:19.360 I can do that. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:20.800 Yeah, you can make it away, right, we can look. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.360 A little bit of it. He's a you're a night out. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:24.399 I'm a big sleep guy. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:26.200 I love that. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.520 Well, don't get used to it because you got draft 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.320 stuff to watch, you got film to watch. All right, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.120 let's talk about the fallout or I don't even know 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.160 fallouts to write words specifically, but just move on. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:38.000 Just reaction. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.440 Yeah, Mike McCarthy is staying as your head coach. Jerry 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.360 Jones put out a statement yesterday saying that he believes 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.240 that the future is bright with Mike McCarthy as the 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.080 head coach. He feels like he's close and Brian, I 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.680 think it does affect the draft significantly because of the 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.800 relationship that he's had with the personnel department. 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:57.760 No, and they do. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.640 And you know, these the personal departments job to do 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.520 is to work with every coach and to work with 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.840 especially the head coach. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:06.720 Mike McCarthy came from a. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.720 Program, you know, four years ago where in Green Bay, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.360 Ted Thompson and the scouts really did the job for 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.120 him as far as picking players. So Mike's in a 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.160 new and he's learning, he's learning that he's going to 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.560 have a say every head coach I've ever worked with 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.920 here has had that opportunity. Whether you want it or not, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.520 you're going to have a say in personnel. So you know, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.160 Mike coming back, there's your continuity there. The questions we 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.320 had are about what's going on with the with the 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.440 defensive side of the ball though, and with Dan Quinn 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.480 with him doing interviews, and so if Dan were to 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.920 come back, well then there's your continuity. Scouts understand what 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.880 they have to do. If there's a change there or 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.560 somebody from the outside, that's going to be the difference 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.720 for the scouting department. But everything else leading up to that, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.000 with McCarthy being being uh, you know, continuing on his 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.160 role as a head coach here, I think it's going 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:00.919 to be status quo. But they do need to figure 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.079 out what the defensive coordinator situation is and hopefully if 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.200 they have to get a new one, then it would 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.960 be a guy that could mirror some of the things 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.560 that they've done before. Scheme wise, I mean, I've gone 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.760 through scheme flips where you've gone four three to three four. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.880 In this day and age, everybody's able to kind of 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.640 play a little bit of both. And I know you 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.720 study that stuff really really strong. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.440 I'm here for decoration right now. In regards to this conversation, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.400 I hope can y'all hear me, Oh yeah, okay, I 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.960 sound funky, So okay, I just wanted to make sure. Okay. So, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.520 But in regards to Mike McCarthy, you know, coming back, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.080 I do think it is easy to forget that this 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.680 is the first year that this offensive scheme has been introduced, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.400 and there's you know, some maybe some kinks and stuff 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.440 they need to work out. I do want to see 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.520 how he attacks. I mean, we heard we talked about 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.520 it yesterday, was like, we're going to run the ball. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.920 We're going to do it. So I wonder, you know, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.600 so maybe how they attack, trying to perfect that run 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.520 game and get it better. But in regard to him 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.120 returning to me right now, I thought it was the 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.240 better decision to make, you know, for your team to 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.960 move forward and hopefully again I hope they can pull 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.919 some of the things that they did well this past 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.160 year and find a foundation and there'd be like some 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.200 real identity in this offense and some consistency that can travel. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.240 Yeah, as it pertains to the drafts, we talked about 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.360 it yesterday. Whether it's a first year guy coming in 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.520 or it's a McCarthy coming in or coming back, there's 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:34.240 gonna be pressure on. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:34.840 This draft class. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.799 I think, regardless, they have to go out and prove 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.040 that they're a little bit better than they were last year. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:40.880 I was actually we were talking about how bad the 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.800 twenty twenty three draft class was yesterday. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.800 ESPN put out an article yesterday ranking all the draft class. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.159 Thirty one Cowboys were thirty two flat last and it 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.560 was it was by a large margin. So there's going 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.160 to have to be some sort of bounce back here 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:55.960 in twenty twenty four. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.320 I think you have to go in. You got to 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.600 get a solid first round guy. I think that's priority 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.000 number one, just based on you know, Mazzie Smith and 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.640 what happened last year. But also you have to be 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.360 able to find some guys in Day two, day three 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:08.320 and be able to stack. 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.680 Momentum in those areas as well. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.880 I mean, you got to bounce back in twenty twenty four, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.360 and I think that's a I think there's pressure on 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.840 McCarthy to do that, pressure on this entire scouting staff. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.520 I feel confident that they'll do that, right. I mean, 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.320 this is a team that usually they're up in the 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.400 top ten when we're looking at these lists every year 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.440 in terms of getting production from your draft class, so 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.440 you know every team's going to have a bad one. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.000 This team just has so much pressure because of how 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.880 they team build. Everything's really through the draft, right, So 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:33.800 I mean this year, I think that a lot of 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.599 their positions of need it's good. It seems like it'll 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.520 probably be in those middle rounds. The problem is they 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.360 don't have a lot of middle round picks, right because 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.479 they traded. Yeah, they traded to go get Cooks. They 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.200 trade to go get Gilmour. They moved up. We talked 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.760 about that yesterday with Eric Scott. So the comp picks, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.240 maybe that helps you out a little bit. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.040 That's what I was going to ask. Are there some 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.160 comp picks that you maybe should get hope. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.280 You're going to get us six? Yeah, they're hope for sure, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.279 they're hopeful for two. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.159 Six's best case scenario would be a five six And 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.479 they think that maybe Noah Brown is going to fall 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.320 below the line to get another one. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.000 So because it would be for Connor mc govern and 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.200 for Dalton Schultz, those are your okay compicks? 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.919 Well, I mean, this is certainly for another day, But 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.039 then are you looking at maybe does this team try 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.200 and trade back a little bit to acquire some an 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.120 extra third or a fourth at some point in this 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:19.880 draft class, because there's a lot of good meat there, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:21.840 especially for linebacker and running back. 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.960 I always feel like in a draft, you can you 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.640 can pull back, you can get an extra third. Somebody 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.880 will come up and watch your spot drop back. I mean, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.360 we've seen there's ways to manipulate the draft in order 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.159 to get some of those picks that you might need. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.320 And I talked about this a little bit on Talking 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.360 Cowboys in our Reaction show. On Tuesday. I called in 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.800 from Indiana and Nick asked me the question, what do 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.080 you feel like their plan moving forward is? And I said, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.880 I don't know. I don't know if they'll keep McCarthy, 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.760 I don't know if they'll change head coaches. I don't 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.360 know what they'll do a defensive coordinator. But despite what 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.880 they end up making the decision for I want to 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.080 see a considerable plan. I want to see something moving 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.880 forward because you can't just run this back. You can 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.279 just put the same roster out there with the same 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.120 cornerstones and the same pieces and say let's try this 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.840 again in twenty twenty four. It's not gonna work the 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.000 same asn't. So my question to you guys now is 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.280 with McCarthy being the first box checked, you have your 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.840 head coach, you know where he's gonna be. What would 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.640 that plan be for you guys? Where would you start 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.640 seeing the planet that you beef up the offensive line? Zach, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.840 you talked about getting bigger just in general. Is that 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.320 a considerable effort, because now, if you're not going to 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.760 change the head coach, you got to make a change somewhere. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.040 I think it comes in roster building. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.120 Yeah, I think getting bigger is more specific for the 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.200 defensive side of the football. But what do we hear 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:37.960 Mike talk about this time last year? He wants to 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.960 run the football? Yeah, he wants the identity of this 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.640 team to be a run first team. Unfortunately, regardless and 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.840 if it was personnel, if it was scheme, they were 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.600 not able to run the football. So I think that's 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.600 what you're doing. First, you're going to the drawing board 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.040 and you're saying, okay, and this is also going to 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.320 help your quarterback out who just had his best year. Yeah, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.560 So I mean that's being optimistic right there. Dak Prescott 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.280 just had his best season, is an MVP candidate, probably 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.600 gonna finish runner up to Lamar Jackson, and they had 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.960 no consistent running game. If you're able to do that, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.440 how much of a more of a consistent step and 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.360 a better step can this offense take? So if I'm McCarthy, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.080 I'm getting with Mike Solauri, I'm looking kind of where 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.800 we're at. We'll see with some of these guys that 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.680 possibly you know Tyron is, do you want to bring 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.320 him back? Is he going to retire? Zach Martin has 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.760 kind of flirted with that as well. Tyler Biattish, we 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.240 got to look at that. If you want to bring 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:24.880 him back, do we want to draft a center? I 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.720 think center probably is the one position that you can 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.080 go ahead and change. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.680 Yeah, I saw a good one last night that Jackson 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.760 power Johnson from Oregon Holy cheeze. 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.040 I mean, I mean hey, and. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.080 We talked about Barton from from Duke as well, But man, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.560 I know one thing that powers Johnson when you watched 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.920 him play there was, you know, and Oregon throws the ball, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.880 but you talk about his handle, his area and then 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.560 get to the second level and play. I do think 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.360 in the running game it's it's really and and you know, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.960 I feel bad for Pollard. They didn't particularly lockwell at center. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.600 They weren't particularly good at point of attack, tied end. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.760 And this goes back to Schoonmaker. And maybe Schoonmaker gets better, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.040 you know, with the off season and stuff like that, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:10.200 and works on those things. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.520 But we kind of I know, I. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.960 Thought that he would help in the running game, but 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.720 they've got to do something thinking about the back and 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.800 you know, and skip Pete even on the way out 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.720 of here, told us that that Pollard as the featured 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.200 guy is not the not the answer here, that you 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.160 need kind of a complimentary piece to him. So I 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.680 think if the areas you look at is the center, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.040 you look at the running back on two of those 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.520 offensive positions, for me, is where I would where I 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:37.080 would look. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:38.720 Y'all said it already. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.560 I'm all about trying to figure out how to consistently 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.640 run the ball and do it well in different ways 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.600 and how that can open up the rest of your offense. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.160 I mean, quarterback is crazy good at play action. You 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.280 didn't do it that much this year. I wonder why 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.559 there's just things that you could hit hit easy, buttons 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.560 on and when you don't have the run game. And 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.920 then also too, you look at how defenses are playing you. 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.080 They're playing you like that because they know you can't 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.920 run the ball consistently. So I think it definitely could 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.840 change some things. So I would look at to your point, Kyle, 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.240 maybe they get with Solari, he and Micha McCarthy get 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.160 together and we figure some things out there and hopefully 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.000 they can move forward from there. I mean, there's a 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.600 couple of running backs in this draft. I'm sure we're 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:21.720 gonna talk about them as well. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.680 I think I think they're going to be really aggressive 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.240 this offseason. You thought they were aggressive last offseason. Now 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.320 they have much more pressure. There's a lot of guys 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.680 that are allowed to be right one run. I think 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.320 once free agency opens and once they feel like they 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:34.959 can make some trades for some guys, there's gonna be 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.920 some things happen. There's a big time running back that's 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.520 going to be a free agent this upcoming off season. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.240 Wouldn't be surprised if they go crazy on that. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:41.600 It's a big time linebacker. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.280 Two, there's a couple of them. Yeah, a free agency 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.679 of course, that'll all hit before the draft. I kind 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.440 of feel back and forth, but man, you gotta do 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.719 something and you can't just run it back. And now 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.959 that you're keeping your head coach, we'll see what happens 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.160 with the defensive coordinator or the offensive staff. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.240 Yeah, but he needs to be more willing to to 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.320 to make moves as well. And you know, when you're in, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.800 if you're in that kind of that final year of 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.240 your contract. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.160 You know, you really he's got nothing. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.600 Well, he could lose his job, but he could also 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.680 lose his job if he doesn't fix the things that 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.640 we're talking about right now. So he needs to you know, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.360 his approach needs to Okay, you're telling me we need 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.560 to do bring this guy in. Let's do it. Let's 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.640 bring this guy. You know, when will McClay ask you, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.080 how can I help you? How can I help you? 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.600 He doesn't need to say, hey, I love my team. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.080 I love my team. You know when coaches say that, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:30.880 I'm like, I can't help. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.440 You when you love your team, you know. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.680 But I mean, if you, if you give me somebody, 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.240 if you if you're a position or to I can 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.120 go hunt for you right now, then maybe we could 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:40.480 be ahead. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.360 Of these some of the things that we might be 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:42.839 up against. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.160 And we heard that quite a bit at the trade 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.320 deadline from yeah everybody. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.319 Yeah, yeah, that's here. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.520 Yeah no, yeah, Well the Mike McCarthy prescommor you guys 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.360 ask him the question. No, we like our guys. As 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.240 a personal guy, I cry when I hear that, I 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:56.680 really do. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:57.680 I cry. 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.520 Ask the question, see if he answers the right way. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.040 And I'm gonna know Brian's. 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.200 And the bail the guy with my head on my 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.840 desk or you know, the Pablo Escobar. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:14.400 For it. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.760 I had a question, do you do you think it 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.720 is important though, that going into next year that they 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.840 figure out what causes them to go the things that 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.360 they do well when they get in some of these games. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.440 I I that's one of the things that I think 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.320 really has to be focused on is what are And 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.840 again this is just what I've learned because I'm still 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.640 early in this game, but most coaches, most teams ocs, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.000 they have some foundational plays that are money that they know, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.960 our money that they can go to in times where 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.680 things are kind of tight. I'm just looking at how 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.120 we would see things one week and we wouldn't see 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.200 things the next week or whatever the case may be. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.600 For me, I'm hoping that there's some consistency and the 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.800 play calling. And we use the word identity and stuff, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.920 but I'm just looking for consistently knowing that these are 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.080 things that you do well and that you can do 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.480 them well across different fronts in different places, and so 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.800 I want to know. I really hope that that's something 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.600 that shored up this offseason, because I was. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.240 Confused on that area. And it's also one that we 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.640 would talk about a lot, is when you're injured, like 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.560 with the offensive linemen going to the game or the 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.080 weather games, right, you're kind of tweaking your game playing 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.160 a little bit. This team didn't go out and play 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.560 as well, so you've got somewhat and look that might 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.719 be across the board in the NFL, coaches are just 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.920 naturally going to have different game plans based on well, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.000 I don't quite I'm not as strong with my personnel 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.760 today or what we're going into a rain or snow. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:46.080 Type of game. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.400 But I kind of like this team to feel so 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.440 darn confident and cocky about what they're doing, how we're built, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.480 how we're going to go and just kick this team's 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.560 ass that we're not changing anything for nobody. I don't 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.959 care if we're playing brock Hoffin and TJ. Bass today. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.120 We're gonna line up and we're gonna play our game 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:03.200 because this is who we are. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.520 And that's what I mean. It's like the sometimes that 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.040 would come that's come up this season. Clearly to your point, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.760 there's been offensive lineman injuries, there's been injuries with the 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.360 running backs, there's been stuff that's come up. How can 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.360 you get to a place to where when those type 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.120 of things happen it doesn't completely make you negate from 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.360 who you are as an offense. I think that's really 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.680 important for them to establish that because guess what other 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.480 teams know that, homie. They get your injury report too, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.440 and they pick up on your tendencies too, and they're like, oh, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.840 they got back up offensive linemen in, They're probably not 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.400 gonna take seven step drops. That's a problem. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.520 I think there's a little bit of a self reflection. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:41.200 Elementary tracking that. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:42.800 Yeah, that's I guess that's what I'm trying. 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.120 To see from a coaching standpoint. A lot of times 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.200 you don't feel like you changed your game plan, Like 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.560 if you asked Mike McCarthy in the press conference today, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.200 why did you change your game plan? He'd probably say, like, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.160 what are you talking about changing our game plan? That 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.480 was our game plan the whole time. Yeah, the stubborn 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.440 element of being a coach in the league and kind 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.520 of the way that it happens. He's got to realize, Okay, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:03.760 we got out of it a little bit. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:04.680 We backed out of it. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.680 We maybe backed off the way that we shouldn't have, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.920 both offensively and defensively. I mean, if I'm Mike McCarthy 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.840 and I'm looking at Dan Quinn running zone on the 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.800 headset all game long, I'm getting on the headset myself 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:15.920 and saying, what are you doing? 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.400 Go back to playing man? Did what worked for you 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:19.040 all year long? 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.880 You got to find maybe accountability within your staff and 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.760 accountability within yourself first before you even make a change 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.280 in terms of your game plan and backing off of it. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.560 It's a therapy session, it is. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.200 Yeah, a little bit. All right. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.440 We want to get to some names here real quickly 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.760 before we get into twitter. On the twenty we were 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.560 talking about offensive weapons, right, we were talking about running 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.440 back offensive line. Are there any guys we didn't mention 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.640 a ton of wide receivers and tight ends yesterday, pass 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.600 catchers that you've watched so far that have caught your eye, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:53.680 and somebody that you can. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.560 Maybe add to this team. 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.760 I wouldn't say necessarily first or SEC, because I think 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.640 there's other positions of need. But if there's the best 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.200 player available, what would it be. Is there anybody out there? 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:06.600 I'm gonna let y'all go further. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:07.760 There's a ton of good receipver. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.000 He looks like she's ready to. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.160 I got one, go for it. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:11.280 Who's your person? 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:11.680 Listen? 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.560 Okay, don't don't get don't don't make fun of me. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.320 If you take we're going to be We're not. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.720 I'm not gonna take it. Because you mentioned tight end 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.000 in the back. When I looked at this player, I said, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.000 he's a little bit of both in this weird way. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.880 Jean Bell f s U South Carolina Transfer. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:30.560 Uh huh. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.720 He's six three, two thirty nine. When I wrote down, 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:38.720 I said, this is a running back with like optimal size, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.280 And you know what's insane is like I'm gonna throw 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:42.920 up when I say it. But when I saw him, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.800 I was like, dang, he would look good at san 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.320 friend because he has that. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:47.880 That versatility to him. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.880 But it's the truth. It's the truth. But I was 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.680 just looking at his burst. He has good vision because 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.200 he has experienced, uh he's played multiple spots. He's played 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.080 multiple spots. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:16:59.800 Uh. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.960 I mean also too when he gets the balls and 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.320 hit the ball in his hands. He has good vision 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.119 and his speed is steady, but it's not top level. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.720 He has the yacability, like I said, and on him 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.240