WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Concerns After Week 1 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.720 The following he's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:20.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.840 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys Worldwhours at the Star 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:30.480 in Frisco, et flowing to the goal That's got kicks 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.480 and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:45.360 Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's. You know, there are a couple 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.000 of things that I've learned over the last forty eight hours, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.000 in really twenty four hours, I guess about this Dallas 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.840 Cowboys football team and about there how there's also two 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.080 types of people in this world. There's those types of 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.520 people that go for it on fourth and three inside 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.320 the twenty hard line with eleven minutes left in the 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.399 fourth quarter, and there's those that decide to actually kick 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.360 the field goal and tie the football game up at twenty. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.399 That's what we saw last night as the Dallas Cowboys 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.160 fell to the Los Angeles Rams twenty to seventeen, the 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.120 final score. As the Rams come out on top and 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.600 the Cowboys start the twenty twenty season oh and one, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.240 and we're talking Cowboys, and we're gonna talk about those 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.440 cowboys and talk about what happened. And it's week two, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.720 episode one, but we got to look back at week 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.040 one because there are a lot of question marks to 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.160 address after the loss on the road in Inglewood, California. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.759 I'm Kyle Yeoman's alongside the normal group. Heckma Harrison, Isaiah 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.839 standback back this week after he was out on Friday, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.240 and the Great Cowboys Insider Rob Phillips and guys. It's 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:51.760 definitely a disappointing feeling. There's not panic time by any means. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.680 I mean, it's week one of the season. There's still 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.440 plenty of season to co but at the same time, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.640 there's a lot of concern around what happened last night. Rob. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:06.040 General thoughts and we'll start with you, Well you said it. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.840 I mean, it's probably too early to draw conclusions about 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.280 the entire season based off of one game, given a 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.760 short training camp that they had. By the way, are 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.200 you happy you're the only guy that picked against the Cowboys. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.560 I'm not happy, not happy at all. That's the thing 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.359 is is what happened was kind of what I had 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.920 that gut feeling about. But it's also yeah, no, I 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.560 wish I was wrong, I really do. It's unfortunate. Well, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.799 we give we gave you props. You you were correct 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.920 about this one, and you know, the thing to me 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.360 that stood out was it's been one game, right, but 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.000 they lost more than the game last night. You know, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.200 they've they've got some question marks and some spots that 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.360 we already had questions about, the tight end positions, the 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.200 depth there, potentially offensive line and then late vander esh 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.440 at the linebackers. Isaiah has been talking about that for weeks. 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.720 We'll see the severity there. But you're banged up on 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.440 top of the fact that you didn't play as well 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.679 as I think we thought they could, especially on defense, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.160 and the Rams just controlled the football game, really both 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.200 lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.840 And when that happens, it comes down to, you know, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.200 you got to make a play here or there to 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.919 go win the game, and they weren't able to do it. Ema. Yeah, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.040 oh man, you are absolutely correct. The line of scrimmage 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.840 was dominated by the Los Angeles Rams. I know, we 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.400 talked about it in the pre show yesterday and it 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.320 showed up in a big way. Um, there's a dude 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.880 by the name of Aaron Donald who came and was like, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.880 you know what, I feel disrespected by the fact that 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.720 you guys are talking about you guys can stop me. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.160 Let me I was worried about that. Let me remind 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.920 y'all who I am. And Aaron Donald came out and 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.320 there are I know, there was one play instinctively where 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.839 he just came down the line and washed everybody out 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.760 and then came and decided to get a good hit 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.080 on dec And it was pretty embarrassing, you know, to 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.800 say the least, it was embarrassing, I mean to your point, Rob, Yeah, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.600 there there's a ton of question marks that we already 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.160 had and guess what rightfully sold because now we're about 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.200 to talk about it. In my hey man, in my opinion, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.200 and what I saw, Sean McVeigh called an excellent game, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.960 especially the first quarter. Rams came out and they dominated 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.679 the first quarter. They played tempo, Rob. This is something 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.720 that we talked about on Friday, just expecting that the 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.560 Rams would come out and play tempo in a variation 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.159 of formations. But man, they came out in their two 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.720 minute offense in the first quarter. In it, I think 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.400 it's zapped the defense and every team, if all the 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.560 teams that I was all the games that I was watching, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.280 offenses were on quick tempo and that was only because, look, 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.200 we hadn't had a preseason. You want to make sure 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.520 our see our check and see if guys are in shape. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.000 And they got their answer. And for the most part, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.440 the Cowboys defense in the first quarter it was Lord, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.320 I tell you, I had a lot of moments when 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.359 just seeing some of those wide receiver screens where it 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.920 didn't look like for the guy was running for ten 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.000 yards and there was no Cowboys defenders around them. So look, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.600 they took it to us, but the deepest shored itself 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.960 up and they made the game interesting going down to 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.760 the fourth quarter. Here's the thing, Yeah, that first right, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.240 well that first quarter, like you mentioned, and for a 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.039 good portion of the game, it reminded me of the 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.040 playoff game against the Rams a couple of years ago. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.560 Just controlling everything, the line of scrimmage, the you know, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.719 the quick passes, the miss direction, that's what they do. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.320 And I know Chris Collinsworth on the on the broadcast said, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.840 well it's it's to counteract the Cowboys rushers. Now they 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.480 to somebody extamp, but they also kind of did whatever 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.679 they wanted to do and they didn't get three hundred 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.600 rushing yards or whatever they had in the playoff game 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.440 a couple of years ago, but they dominated in terms 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.600 of running up the middle and getting penetration and getting 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.080 all the linebackers in the second level. I mean, you know, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.520 it wasn't consistent enough for the defense upfront for sure, 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.200 And you know you're looking at the scoreboard at half time, 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.600 You're like, how are they winning this game? Because because 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.800 the Rams were really in complete control for most of it. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.480 It was really what the Cowboys did to the Rams 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.200 in Week fifteen of last year, control the line of scrimmage, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.279 wear them down defensively with these short It was really 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.760 death by needles type of plays. It was nothing within 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.160 or outside of seven yards. It was just dinking and 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.200 dunking down the field enough to where the Cowboys defense 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.359 was lulled to sleep. And Isaiah, I know you and 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.320 I were in the same room watching the football game, 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.000 but it was the It was just frustrating because of 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.720 how relaxed the defense looked and how easy it was 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.400 that the offense was able to get chunk plays of 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.960 six or seven yards, whether it was by a run 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.880 or buy a short pass. Yeah, it reminds me. I 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.800 don't know if you guys remember the movie Hitch and 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.240 Will Smith was up there coaching, and man, he told 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.200 him to come here. He said, that's exactly exactly what 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:57.479 the ms on that opening series. They completely dominated it. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.080 I mean, I know, we'll get into the deep as 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.440 a line in the line of scrimmage a little bit 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.440 and a little bit more depth. But our defensive line 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.440 looked like they had just came off the couch. I mean, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.720 these guys were getting blown off the ball. There was 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.560 misdirection everywhere. I mean, you know, you talk about Jalen 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.760 Smith and vanderash those guys eyes were caught in the backfield. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.560 The ball was on the opposite side when those guys 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.720 are bootlegging and dumping it off. Robert Woods had four 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.040 i think four catches and like sixty yards and like 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.680 the first in the first series alone, and they just 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.679 didn't know where to look. They were caught off guard 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.480 until your until your point, Kyle, you know these guys, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.200 I mean, robbin you to your point. You know, these 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.080 guys were still in the game. You know by halftime, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.320 they were winning by halftime. So that's inspiring Cowboys the 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.200 nation that you guys were still in this game because 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.080 in reality, it should have been a blowout. It really 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:48.120 you look at third downs, thir third downs for the Rams, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.480 who I think is the most significant thing. I mean, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.440 the way that they were able to convert those third downs, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.160 and defensively, we just were not able to steal any possessions. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.920 It wasn't until the Woozier interception where we kind of 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.160 had the momentum shift in our favor. But the whole 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.160 time the game was going on, like you said, Isaiah, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.880 it just looked like our defense was running in sand 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.440 and the Rams were on a quick track. The way 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.880 that they were running those Robert Woods plays too. You 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.400 mentioned all those yards, it was all yak. I mean, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.560 it was all yards after catch like like like Kyle said, 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.640 you know, and they blocked it up downfield, like I said, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.800 they were able to get up in the second level 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.360 and guys were just some of it was seemed like 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:33.920 guys ride a position and some of it they just 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.960 blocked it up really well. But the defense really just 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.040 didn't have an answer for it, you know, they like 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.720 you said, Heck, they kind of settled down a little 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.680 bit in the second half, but it wasn't. It wasn't 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.800 as consistent. And you know they did counteract that pass 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.520 rush that we've been talking about all training camp. Hey, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.680 but Rob not not only that, you know, Kyle mentioned 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.040 the fact that the defense was playing soft. Not only 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.720 did the defense, did the entire defense get slapped up 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.400 and down, but Mike Nolan got slapped in his face. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.160 I don't know what he was doing come into the game. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:04.840 I think he may have came into as saying, okay, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.000 let me be conservative in a sense and trying to 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.200 figure out exactly what these guys are doing. But I 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.880 think he was cut off guard because he there was 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.640 no there was no point in the game where he 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.079 or they actually there was one point I think in 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.719 the third quarter we're here for a little bit aggressive. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.280 But aside from that, that was not the Mike Nolan 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.840 of the past, and that was one no and not 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.360 a lot of movement whatsoever, which is one of the 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.640 It's funny after the game, and I tweeted this out 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.960 this morning, I said, I've got a laundry list of questions. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.679 I counted him a minute ago. I have thirty six 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.840 bullet points of questions that I have going into this week. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.560 Of what what happened on Sunday night, and I'm not 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:44.880 going to read all of them, but one of the 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.679 big ones was what happened to the movement that we 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.640 saw in training camp. I mean, Rob, you and I 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.719 were at the Ford Center here at the Star when 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.040 we were looking at Mike Nolan's defense and we're saying, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.280 and we're reporting, we're throwing out there that this is 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.599 gonna be a lot different than what we've seen in 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.520 the past from these different staffs that we've seen. But Rob, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.880 last night, it looked like it was a lot of 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.480 the same old, same old. From a defensive perspective, well, yeah, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.000 I mean there were some bright spots. I mean, Alden 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.440 Smith looked fantastic. If there are any questions about him, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.040 you know, coming back, you know he didn't training camp, 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.000 but what about your live live action at five years 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.360 off man, he was he kind of kept a minute, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.600 you know, there were a couple of times in the 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.240 first half it was him or DeMarcus Lawrence that you know, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.160 batting the ball down or forcing a pressure that that 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.200 that's the only way Goff was getting in completion. So 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.320 I thought they had some pressure on the defensive front, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.480 like I said it was more the interior and losing 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.600 vander Esh to Kyle in the front seven huge. That 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.720 hurts because you know Jaalen. I don't think they were 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.760 able to use Jalen like they wanted to, and they 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.080 were able to find Jalen in coverage too after that, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.880 and the results weren't too good. So that's why I 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.720 go back to the injuries. Man. I think he felt 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.360 the Gerald McCoy injury too. Yes, you get it. You 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.439 got Tristan Hill playing a lot of snaps in there 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.640 and done Terry Poe and Antoine Woods and it just 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:10.000 wasn't um, you know, it wasn't It wasn't productive inside 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.280 for much of the game. Yeah. Speaking of Tristan Hill, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.520 I he had some flashes in this game, but then 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.200 there then there were other times man, where he was 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.560 getting pinballed out of there, and that that worried me. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.280 That worries me, uh to see because to see that 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.240 happen to him, knowing how solid of a training camp 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.120 that he had. But you know, look, it's it. We 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.400 have to to say it. Safety wise, we still saw 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.920 that there was some some deficiencies there that need to 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.360 be fixed. We have to get on that immediately because 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.560 down in the goal line that one play where I 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.800 believe it was Thompson. I mean, look, it's just just 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.640 it's just a football play. But still, man, that's a 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:57.440 that's a tackle that you need to make. Oh my gosh, guys, Um, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.600 it's about to roll up as leaves. He's getting ready. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.720 You don't even have the sleeves, Kyle to answer your 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.839 your your point that you brought into this this segment here, um, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.319 that you posed to rob in terms of what they 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.600 look like in camp. Right. And and Mike Nolan had 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.320 all this movement going on. Um, I think I've had 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.840 a number of coaches in my football career say everybody 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.439 has a plan until you're punched in the mouth, right, Um. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.960 And I think Mike Nolan had a plan coming into 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.360 this game, but I think he got punched in the mouth, 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.160 and by him getting punched in the mouth, he became conservative. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.040 And by him becoming conservative, I think it threw the 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.880 players off. I'm speculating here, but I think the players 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.520 anticipated him coming in being a lot more aggressive, and 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.719 then all of a sudden, the defensive coordinated person that's 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.520 calling the plays becomes conservative and they're like whoa. It 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.800 comes across as if he's being scared, right, if he's 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.120 being conservative, we've been practicing. Yeah, I'm just saying if 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.760 all we've been practicing is being aggressive to all of 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.199 a sudden were coming here and now we're being conservative, 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.960 what is that communicating to your defense? I mean, you 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:03.880 guys started talking about particular players port Pole, Oh, Pole Pole, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.360 look Pole, Uh that last night. And we know how 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.320 dominant a player he can. He can be, right um, 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.760 and I hate talking about um, you know what players 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.200 could be right um. However, he didn't look like he 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.280 had any fire. And I hope that it was just 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.480 a game one day and he'll figure it out because 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.440 we know that he's a dominant player. But he didn't 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.400 look like he even wanted to be near the ball. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.199 He was getting washed down the line of scrimmage a 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.240 number of times. He never put his foot in the 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.480 ground to change directions or to give any kind of resistance. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.559 He's three hundred and fifty pounds. Yah, there's no way 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.079 that you're just pushing this guy down the line. So 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.040 when he doesn't want to move, guess what, He's not 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.040 going to move. So he didn't show any any urge 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.240 to even want to make a play. Um, you had 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.920 Griffin who showed up and made players. You had office 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 Aldon Smith who came out and balled out. Had it 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.199 not been for Alden Smith, this game would have been really, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.720 really ugly. Um, you got He'll. He'll was. I remember 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.320 there's one player distinctively where hell was hustling his butt 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.199 off there in the fourth quarter when they were trying 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.480 to get things turned around. He ran He ran the 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.080 ball down about a good thirty yards all the way 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.640 across the field to get in on the tackle. Um. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.080 And then you had Gallimore, and Gallimore just looked like 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.800 he just wasn't ready. Gallimour came into the game. Yeah, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.480 he came in, looked like a rookie. He was like, oh, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.400 these are grown man. I'm sorry. I mean they got 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.040 him off off, they got him off the field. So 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.040 a lot of things will work on you know. I 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.200 think the edges were shured up pretty good that interior, though. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.600 We were to figure that out. Yea, So Champ, let 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.200 me ask you this man, a lot of those presnap 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.840 penalties that we had, I mean, oh yeah, open you 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.680 opened the game with DeMarcus where I mean DeMarcus where 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:39.760 I set thats n come on and I just did it. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.680 DeMarcus Lawrence jumped outside and he couldn't even get back 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.560 to the other side. He was standing with the running back. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.640 But we had those presnap penalties that killed us and 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.920 we made, you know, short field positions, short first downs 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.040 for those guys. I mean, we didn't do ourselves any 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.360 favors in this game. And when you talk about Mike 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.280 Nolan and coming in being aggressive, doing certain things, I 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.120 felt as though he could doll it up when he could, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.840 but I think after the Layton vander Esh injury that 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.680 limited a lot of what we were gonna do defensively. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.720 But kudos to we got to talk Aldon Smith. Rob 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.960 when you bring him up, man, the way that he 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.360 played against the run, he did not look like a 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.480 guy that's been out of the NFL for four years. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.440 And my goodness was a pick up. Whatever McCarthy saw 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.760 and him that day in the gym. My god, thank 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.640 you for seeing that because he has come back in 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.160 full force. And think about this, He's a guy that 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:37.360 was on his way to Canton prior to his problems 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.520 and now it's like, man, you know he has watched 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.040 all of those things away, and I'm praying that he 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.760 is continues that domination because in the run, man, he 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.880 just did some things that we hadn't been seeing, what 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.200 we didn't see last year. He had a couple of 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.400 players where he just busted through a double team like 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.000 Aaron Donald, where he was he was knocking down bowling 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.720 pins a couple of times, against offensive line a couple 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.800 of times, and you know they had they handled him 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.480 at times, but not not consistently. How many times was 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.240 that talking about Aaron? Are you talking about Aaron Donald 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:17.960 or Alden Smith? Both? Both? Yeah? But I mean go ahead, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.440 I say go ahead. All I'm gonna say is as 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.880 we go into this um this second week, right, we 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.680 got to finish up today obviously with the Monday night games, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.240 and then tomorrow who knows what happens tomorrow. But all 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.720 I'm saying is, as we go forward into this week two, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.800 the best player on this defense is somebody who hasn't 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.360 played in five years. Yeah. I want to let that 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.720 sink in. Yeah, it's there. There's there's problems. And one 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.520 of the biggest things that stuck out to me, especially 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.480 when you talk about the defensive line, maybe with the 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.960 exception of Alden Smith, they weren't being pushed around by 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.080 the Tyrant Smith's and the Zach Martins and the Travis 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.640 Fredericks of the world. They're getting pushed around by Austin 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.520 blythe Joseph Nope Boom, Austin Corbett, and I mean, I 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.520 know those guys are great in their own rights, but 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.520 this is a Ram's offensive line that had a ton 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.719 of question marks itself heading into last night. Well, they 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.639 definitely showed out a lot more than what seemingly was 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.320 an upgraded pass rush, at least outside of Alden Smith, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.600 thank goodness he was there. What was that? Well, I 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.439 think maybe I was thinking that last night as we 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.600 were watching the game. Maybe we just underestimated that line. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.080 I mean, they had some injuries, they had some injuries 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.040 last year and they're healthy now. And look they they 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.080 did get all three of those running backs, all three 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.359 backs got involved. I think we talked about it. Yeah, 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.640 maybe that was a smoke screen, but they got Yeah, 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.600 they got everybody involved. And you guys talked about being 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:44.000 conservative defensively, Man, the Rams, when they're rolling, that's what 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.880 they can do to you because they put you on 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.639 your heels the way they you know they don't. They 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.920 keep it guessing with their pre snap. Look that tight 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.080 formation of the line of scrimmage, and then if they 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.439 get they hit a couple of plays. Here comes that 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.760 tempo and they're dictating the tempo to you. And that's 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.880 what happened early on. It just you know, it wasn't 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.720 the Cowboys weren't dictating to them well. And we've spent 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.480 the majority of this first segment talking about the defensive 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.720 side of the football. When we come back here on 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.080 Talking Cowboys, let's see how disappointing it was on the 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.760 offensive side. As we get our thoughts on how Dak 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.119 Prescott is Ekiel Elliott in the entire offense underneath Kellen 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.600 Moore looked in the twenty to seventeen losses, Cowboys fall 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.280 on the road of the Rams. We'll be back here 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.600 in just a moment on Talking Cowboys. 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