WEBVTT - Girls Talk, 'Boys Talk: Some Silver Lining? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.040 The following is a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.280 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:09.880 Cowboys. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.720 This is Girls Talk, Boys Talk, presented by Jigsaw of 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.799 Dating Preferred Dating, partner of the Dallas Cowboys and broadcasting 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.560 live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:24.600 At the Star. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:31.760 Now your hosts, Jess Navarees, Aisha Morrison, Kelsey Charles, and 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:33.479 Jane Slater. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.080 Welcome into Girls Talk, Boys Talk. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.600 I am back in the seat after a much needed 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.000 day off. Sorry, guys, it was a rough one on Saturday. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:45.919 It was about an eighteen hour day or Sunday rather, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.199 it's all running together. It was an eighteen hour day 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:49.440 and then I had to be back up at the Star. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.200 So Kelsey, thank you for sitting in the host seat 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.520 and glad to go back and I am refreshed, I'm prepped. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.120 I've got some interesting news and nuggets for y'all. And 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.400 I also want to welcome Men Jazz. We also have 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.280 a female producer. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:03.800 I'm a huge fan of so Jazz. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.200 Throughout the show, I might ask you to chime into 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:07.280 so just a heads up. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.800 She's incredible and amazing every single way. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:11.240 Yes, all right, we love. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.200 Jesse Jazz all right, So Dak Prescott with a successful 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.720 surgery on Monday. As we reported earlier this week, the 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.640 timeline has shifted from six to eight weeks to a 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.920 much more optimistic four to six weeks. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:22.199 Ladies. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.440 Mike McCarthy sang the goals to get him back involved 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.800 in practice since they decided against an IR designation. But 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.000 the first stage is this eight to ten days of 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.360 healing up, depending on how he feels. And as he's 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.600 been described, he's the heart and soul of the team. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.080 McCarthy would like to have him on the headsets the 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.800 same way that we've seen in the past, guys like 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.360 Tyron Smith, Layton Vandersh In the past, the Cowboys have 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.840 average nearly ten fewer points and one hundred fewer total 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.720 yards per game in games with Alt Prescott and the 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.520 Mike McCarthy era. That's fun, all right, So moving forward, 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.440 Cooper rushers starter, and a few thoughts in the locker 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.720 room today about rush from Zach Martin. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.960 Scoop's been here a long time. He's very smart. Guy, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.640 knows Zach what's going on. But there's always kind of 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.160 that like I wonder how we'll do in a game, 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.560 and I think he kind of showed that last year 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.359 in the Minnesota game. Came in and did a great job. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.920 I've gotta win, and so I think everyone's got all 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.320 the confidences in the world, and I know, I know 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.040 Dak's spent all the conference in the world on him. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.519 So the nice thing is Coop. Coop's very locked into 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.079 what's going on. He's very smart guy, so there's really 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.639 no difference there as far as that goes. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.240 All right, Yeah, he said he spreads the confidence throughout 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:33.639 the huddle, and that's a big thing. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.000 So here's a Zeke. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.400 I enjoyed Zeke's very emphatic take on Coop today when 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.240 we asked him about Cooper Rush. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.280 I mean, I've been around Coup for a long time. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:44.839 So he came in a year after me. I think 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.000 one year he wasn't here. But I mean I've been 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.280 around Coop a lot. We spent a lot of time together. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.520 So you know, personally, I know Coop knows it. I 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.680 know he's he's on top of his offense. I know 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.840 he knows it inside out. Maybe not as well as Dak, 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.000 but you know very well. And so I mean we 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.600 all got a lot of confidence in Cooper. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.760 I don't know if the fans or myself has as 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.880 much confidence as Zach Martin and Ezekiel Elliott are selling 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:13.280 to us. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:14.880 They all say a lot of this has to do 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:15.639 with his. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.480 Performance on the road when they picked up a win 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.720 in Minneapolis. But guys, that's when you had a guy 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.640 like Leale Collins on the offensive line. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.320 That's when you had Tyron Smith. 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.799 That's when you had Amuri Cooper who raised his hand 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.400 and said he wanted the ball. Aysha will start with 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.760 you argue as confident and Cooper Rush as the guys 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.680 in the locker room were today when we asked about. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.360 It, I'm not gonna say I'm I think it sounds 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.480 like what they're confident on is maybe just the playbook 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.000 like him know because they refer to him knowing like 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.480 just as much as Dak or almost as much as Dak. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.520 And I'm gonna assume that that is the football side 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.040 of it, in the language and in the playbook. But 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.440 as far as him as a player, I I said 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.400 what I said yesterday, and I meant it is that 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.600 I think that, yeah, that you do have the fact 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.920 that he has the experience there. But at the same time, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.080 I look at what's gonna be the difference in the 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.800 delivery of the ball, just how fast the ball comes out, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.520 just his process and things like that. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.120 And I'm not I have. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:25.120 Never really been particularly like over excited about Cooper Rush. However, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.440 I do think that Kellen Moore has the opportunity to 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.880 put him in good positions with running the ball and 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.480 opening up things for him offensively to help him out. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.760 And that's what Mike said today, They've got to open 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:38.839 up the playbook for him. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:40.239 Just your thoughts. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.320 Yeah, So, I'm actually we keep hearing about this game 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:47.279 against the Vikings. I haven't actually looked at the stats 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.039 from that game until right now. I'm just sweeping through him, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.200 and you know, it doesn't look bad. But like you said, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.680 it was a much different team last year. So the 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.440 Cowboys last time, you know, Cooper Rush was in that position. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.920 I had a total yardage of four hundred and nineteen 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:07.240 three hundred and forty one passing yards, seventy eight rushing yards, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.400 And I mean they did. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.159 They looked good. And Cooper Rush himself, going back to 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:12.839 those he. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:17.000 Had let's see, forty attempts with the ball completed, twenty 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.960 four of them. He had a total of three hundred 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.520 and twenty five yards and two touchdowns one interception. So 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.680 not a bad game for a backup, but. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.640 Also Zimmer lost his job after that season. Yeah, that's 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:28.560 how good the vikings were. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.279 Right, I was about to say, not a bad game, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.960 but also not a bad game for a backup quarterback 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.800 that had the O line that they had last year. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.640 So my confidence level in Coop is as high as 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.000 it can be with what he has around him, because 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.440 I don't necessarily think that it's just Coop that could 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.039 be the reason that the team doesn't win, right. I 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.920 think there's so many different factors, and we saw that 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.200 it goes back to play calling, It goes back to 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.799 wide receivers being you know, open catching balls, fundamental football 0:05:58.880 --> 0:05:59.400 that was like. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:00.839 My favorite from yesterday. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.200 Goes back to are they going to fix the things 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.520 that cost them the game? 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:06.120 Penalties? 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:06.520 Here we go. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.520 My favorite thing to come back to are it's not 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.320 necessarily Cooper Rush that I don't think the fan base 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.839 doesn't have the confidence in. I think it's just the 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.760 offense as a whole right now. And then you you 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.840 take Dac out and that confidence level drops automatically, no 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.560 matter what, no matter who it is, if it's Cooper Rush, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.800 if it's if it's Will Greer, no matter who is 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.120 in that QB two position, your confidence level is just 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.400 not gonna be the same as your QB one. So 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.120 going in, I'm not I'm optimistic. I'm trying to be 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.520 optimistic here, Kelsey. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.880 These are two quarterbacks, though, that are on your roster 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.480 now that you're expected to get you through. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.440 I think it's I don't think it's gonna be four games. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.279 I think we're pushing the five six week window at least. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:48.719 Yeah. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:50.359 I mean, you had you told us this week you 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.920 had a very similar surgery. But these are two quarterbacks 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.640 you passed the waivers. There was no respect for them, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.640 even as backups for any thirty one other teams in 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.760 the league. I think that's what concerns me. And You've 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.560 got plenty of tape on Cooper Rush, so if another 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.360 team was interested in picking him up, he was there 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:10.559 for your taking and they didn't. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.560 And so I also like to put to bed. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.640 I know we had talked about Jimmy g being one 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.720 of those names. I had gotten some random texts today. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.880 This is how it works on my phone. A random 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.080 text today that the Cowboys were going after Jimmy G 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:24.920 and there were picks involved, and I was like, not 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.400 a chance. But I did my due diligence and I 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.840 can confirm talking to multiple sources, Dallas did not even 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.080 pick up the phone on Jimmy G. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.480 So there's that that's not surprising by any means. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:39.240 No, but Kelsey, your thoughts on Ed Cooper, who is 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:40.880 getting pushed by Will Grey in camp? 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.600 Yeah, I mean, listen, I think there's we have to 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.440 think about the fact that on paper, this is a 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.280 guy who's had one career NFL start. He was Jason 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.280 Garrett guy. Let's not forget. I mean, he comes then 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.080 a year after Zeke. He actually has a brief stint 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.160 in New York when Jason Garrett go up there. How 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.680 many times did we talk about people not respecting what 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.640 Jason Garrett's putting on the table as an OC, been 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.800 as a head coach, and again as an OC over 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.880 in New York. So I just for me, I definitely 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:18.640 think that this is nothing against Cooper Rush, but there's 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.080 going to be a significant drop up a drop off, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.200 excuse me. And I think one of the things that 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.880 as Cowboys fans and people that have been around the 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.960 team for a minute, could definitely acknowledge is that we've 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.120 been spoiled over here, you know, in Star City, if 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.000 you will, our backup quarterback situation, when you have guys 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:41.000 like who have literally been career starters in the league. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.800 You've got the Kyle Ortons, You've got the Matt Castles, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.280 You've got you know Sanchez who's literally coaching these guys up. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.680 Say what you will about each of them. They may 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.600 not have been the caliber of an Aaron Rodgers, but 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.679 they still were leading offenses for a significant amount of time. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.520 So yes, I am concerned, and I think it's a 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.840 really big task to ask Cooper Rush to carry this 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.079 team through I mean a quarter dare I say almost 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.160 a half of the season. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.959 Well, And I think the other concern I have is 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.640 is even when Dak was healthy, how anemic this offense 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.200 looked and felt that they didn't seem to get something going. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.800 And so you know, you had Dak throwing in a 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.800 tight windows, there seemed to be some miscues out there, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.280 and how is that going to get better with a 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.080 guy like couper Rush. I mean, I guess the silver 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.760 lining is he got some working in the preseason. Something 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.520 that Dak didn't is that the one silver lining that 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:37.040 we look. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.000 For, it's going to be an all around effort here. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.680 Yeah, when you lose a guy like a Dak Prescott, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.160 everybody got to come on with it. So that means 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.280 the receiver's got to finish their routes, that means they 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.040 have to block through their routes. It means everyone is 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.680 flying off the line, and it's a one hundred percent effort. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.840 So I'm not you're You're gonna have to have some 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.360 heart going forward. This team is going to have to 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.559 dig deep to make a for the loss of their quarterback. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.560 I'm not saying it's not possible, because again, it would 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.000 appear that you somewhat have a run game out here 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.560 in these streets and obviously you know I mean the Bucks. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:12.920 Hey, say what you want to say. The Bucks D 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.959 line ain't no sleeper and they did, granted they. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.040 Went away from it at some point in time, but 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.240 you do have some success there and that's going to 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.200 help any quarterback, any quarterback. And it's weird because when 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.959 you look at a quarterback like a Cooper Rush, I 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.880 would expect for them to it seems like he's not afraid. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.439 When he got in there, he just started, you. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.320 Know, he not afraid to kind of you know, throw 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.040 the ball down the field and stuff like that. So 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.240 maybe you do get a little bit of goodness from 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:39.360 recklessness at times. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:39.840 I don't know. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.520 And well, and so I love that you brought up 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.319 the run game. I think the key against the Bengals 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.800 is this commitment to the run game. You know, Zeke 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.240 said that over and over today, and he said his 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.120 ten touches were simply not enough. Agree, Well, you're going 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.760 up against the Bengals, who have the seventh rushing d 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.560 in the league. Let's again look at Ezekiel Elliott's line 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.839 against Tampa Bay Bucks. He led the Cowboys of ten 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.280 carries fifty two rushing yards in Week one Tony Pollard 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.480 and six carries for eight rushing yards. Ezekiel Elliott has 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.840 not had one hundred plus rushing yards, y'all are gonna 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.920 find this was actually a little shocking to me since 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.880 Week five in twenty twenty one versus the Giants. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.440 Yeah, thirteen straight game. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.480 Thirteen straight games Kelsey under one hundred rushing yards. This 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.040 has been the longest in his career. And when I 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.719 look at what they were able to do against the 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.600 Steelers in Nauji Harris, they gave up two hundred and 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.520 sixty seven yards, so. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.280 Maybe there's an opertunity. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:34.200 Naji Harris or Naji Harris rather was only able to 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.640 get twenty three yards and a touchdown. So that's what 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.160 concerns me when we talk about this commitment to the run. Again, 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.960 it didn't necessarily work against the Bucks. I don't you know, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.760 even though we saw him get his fifty three yard 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.200 or his fifty two rushing yards. I I'll be interested 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.200 to see how this works because this is a very 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:51.480 stingy defense. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.520 We talk Bengals, and I think a lot of it 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.280 too is we have no way of knowing if Zeke 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.480 could have surpassed that one hundred yard mark because he 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.400 only got ten touches during this game. And when you 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.280 look back, and I watched some of the film like 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.280 shit with you in mind, I don't know how you 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.960 watch the whole game was not able to be that strong, 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.680 if you will. But you know, when you look Zeke 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.800 was doing he wasn't doing bad. He's averaging what five 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.120 point two yards of carry? That tells me feed the 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.040 man more, keep giving him the ball. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:22.400 It was. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.160 It wasn't Zeke that didn't get the run going. It 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.200 was the play calling that gave up and didn't establish 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.600 the run or allow him to continue to establish the. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.720 Run even going into the second quarter. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.080 I mean, and then the second half of the game, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.559 the run was basically non existent. It was it wasn't 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.040 there at all, right, And and you know, I think 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.880 Cowboys fans got kind of what they wanted when when 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.480 they got Tony Pollard getting in and you know, here's 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.720 the thing, Tony Pollard in the pass pro also non existent. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.600 When when you look back at things and it's it's 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.720 hard because with a guy like Zeke, you have to 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.320 give him that time to establish the run. You can't 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.320 just say, hey, have the ball ten times and you're 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.480 gonna have a one hundred yard game. That's not how 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.240 that's not how it works well. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.120 And I love that you brought that up because that's 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.720 something that we've talked about around here, is Zeke is 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.920 more successful when you're constantly feeding him. And so that's 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:18.000 the importance of feeding him, keeping him you know, in 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.079 the in the game. But you know, he and I 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.080 kind of talked off to the side. It's tough when 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.160 you're also getting all these substitutions on your offensive line, right, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.920 I mean when you lost Connor McGovern that, you know 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.440 you're already Even talking to Zach Martin today, I said, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.400 is it hard for you, as an elder statesman to 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:37.280 sort of look around and go, Wow, I'm I'm the 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.720 only true anchor on this offensive line. And he said, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.640 even when he has bad days, he typically looks to 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.559 Dak to sort of bring him up. And he said, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.920 when I asked him this question, he said, I've had 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.960 to come to work more prepared, bring the energy every day. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.520 He feels the responsibility to get these other guys you know, 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:51.960 lined up. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.800 It's just there were so many question marks about the 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.080 offensive line, the wide receiver group, and even your depth 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.400 at quarterback, and it is all coming back to bite them. Yeah, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.120 just start the season. I think that's wild. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:03.560 Mm hm. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.040 I honestly like, I'm just looking back again. I know 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.600 we're talking about the game upcoming, but you know this 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.480 team tried to run the ball sixteen times. That's half 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.600 of the amount of time that Tampa Bay is doing 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.120 exactly that. The only other guy on the field that 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.440 had more in terms of production wise, average was four net, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.160 which we knew that was going to happen. You kind 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:26.800 of had to give that to him to be able 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.480 to shut down the receivers. So that's a loss I'm 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.920 willing to take, So I guess, I mean, I know. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:32.640 We've talked about this. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.320 It's just alarming. Like you saw it during the game, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.520 it was working. You see it on paper, it was 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.600 working like what I normally like to say. These guys 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.640 are above my pay grade and they're the ones making 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.640 the decisions for a reason. But I'm just curious, like 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.920 I'm struggling to find the logic here. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.440 I think you're struggling to find the logic Kelsey, because 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.960 it feels like the same thing over and over and over. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.560 In other words, we've. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.120 Talked about a lot of these things last year, and 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.240 it doesn't feel like there's been much room for improvement. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:00.200 Are Ysha not I. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.640 So with the with the run game, it's gonna be important. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.440 We talked about the penalties and stuff. It's gonna be 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.000 important for them to stay stay, you know, not to 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.640 get behind the sticks, because that's also the reason why 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.200 they had to go away from the run because when 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.480 you're in second and ten and then second and fifteen 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.560 you have to pass the ball, And we talked about 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.480 it. It just seemed like some other people have some stuff 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.400 to say about it. It was predictable. They people kind of 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.240 knew what was going on in the way. So I'm 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:32.960 hoping it's it's so interesting because it keeps happening to where. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:34.720 It's on. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.760 It really is on the coordinator, the offensive coordinator to 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.560 to figure this out like it's the also the offensive 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.440 line coach not leaving Joe Filbin out of this, like 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.840 they're gonna have to come together, have some conversations and say, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.720 how can we help get these guys open? How can 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.600 we have plays that allowed this quarterback to be comfortable 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.120 and get in a rhythm. That's boots waggles little stuff 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.880 to help him. I know he's not that mobile, but 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.200 we have to get this defense. You got to get 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.040 them on the move, You got to get them move 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.440 in misdirection stuff like that, because they they're smart players, 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:07.960 they're instinctive players. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.480 The Cincinnati Bengals are not. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.720 I can't I believe I'm saying this, but this defense 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:13.960 is not looking at the tape. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:14.840 They are stingy. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.480 They didn't want to give up much last week and 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.560 their front seven, their front seven tackles very well. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.200 So and they've got a guy on the roster by 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.040 the name of cheetoh Uzia who knows this offense very well. 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.680 They didn't have to take it there. Yeah, I remember 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:30.280 that very well. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:30.640 I think. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.880 I think also to a time of possession is going 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.880 to be very important in this game. This defense for 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.720 what they did, you know last on Sunday, they did 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.440 what they could, you know, being on the field as 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.560 much as they did. If I'm not mistaken, the difference 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.760 in the second quarter was insane. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.000 It was. It was almost like a ten minute difference. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:50.280 Is I'm not if I'm not mistaken? 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.280 And you know what helps with that? Do you guys 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:53.000 know it helps with that? 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.120 We talked running the ball without penalties. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.080 No penalties. Yeah, having to get started again, do I 0:16:59.120 --> 0:16:59.320 have to. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:05.399 Remind but to repeat myself, I want to see matchups. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.720 I want to see how the Cowboys go at matchups 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.359 in this game, So like, where are their weaknesses at 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.880 Let's attack that, because if you look at the Bucks game, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.199 they knew that the weakest side I guess of the 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.960 Cowboys defensive line was opposite of tank and they ran 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.960 away from that whole side that whole time. It was 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.480 running down the running down the left side to Dorance 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.440 Armstrong into Anthony Barr Layton Vander USh had a hard 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.800 time getting off blocks. It was in Trayvon Diggs, love them, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.840 loving the pieces, but he's gonna have to come up 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.000 and make tackles. You can tell that teams are seeing 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.560 on tape that he's not getting in there. And granted 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.119 this is not all his fault. Guys shouldn't be getting 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.160 to that level. He shouldn't be having to be dealing 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.200 with the lineman or anything like that climbing on him. However, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.560 the linebackers are gonna have to play better in this game. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.159