WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: DaRon DPOY? 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.640 Cowboys. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:17.000 This He's Talking Cowboys stringing live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.520 World head Coarse at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:30.920 Streakscot Tisidown and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.040 Josh Rodriguez and Kyle Yeoman's. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.919 Dallas Cowboy. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.480 Well, it wasn't a forty burger, but it was a 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.960 historic win for a couple of reasons. That's the Dallas 0:00:55.000 --> 0:01:00.920 Cowboys absolutely dismantle the Carolina Panthers prety three to ten 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.960 in the final score from Charlotte, North Carolina. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.880 As the Cowboys go to Bank of America Stadium and 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.240 they cash in with a win. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.000 Welcome in the Talking Cowboys, presented by a Black Rifle 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.520 Coffee Company. We have Isaiah stand Back, we have Nick Harris, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.600 Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yoman and gentlemen, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.479 how we do it today on this victory Monday? 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:20.839 Done? 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.000 Fire Harris Harris. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:24.080 You know what's funny. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.039 We were coming into the hotel and Charlotte, we had 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.920 just arrived. It was probably like six six thirty pm, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.520 and we were coming down on the first floor, and 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.399 like the first floors where all the elevators are, and 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.560 the second floor is where the lobby is. So there 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.200 were a ton of fans that were kind of roped off, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.520 like on the lobby looking down on like the players 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:39.759 and all of us that were coming in. 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.080 And I was coming in and I had just. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.800 Happen to take my AirPods out because I needed to 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.959 get my room care or something, and I hear from 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.680 all the way up top, Hey, Nick, how's. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.040 Your mouth feeling. I was like, Oh, I don't know 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.520 who said that, but doing good. Appreciate it. I love it. Also, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:56.120 it's funny. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.760 But dude, that is unbelievable. I love that. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:01:59.440 It's pretty funny. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:01:59.840 That's dope. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:00.440 I showed. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.400 Uh I went up to So yeah, yeah, I went 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.520 up to Tulsa called the North Texas Tulsa game this 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.840 past weekend, and while I was on the bus, I 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.760 made sure and showed as many people as I possibly 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.280 could the clips that were happening from earlier that day, 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.280 because we traveled up Friday, so the same day, same morning, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.600 and I had throughout the weekend had people coming up 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.720 and they were like, Hey, how's Nick doing. How's Nick feelings, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.120 he okay, is he good? I was like, I keep 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:25.840 checking in on him. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.079 I'm making sure he feels okay. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.720 You got fans everywhere. Yeah, hey, I walked in the 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.960 building this morning in case security's like, man, I watched 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.040 that man. He's a beast man. He pushed my gym. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.920 They're all talking about you. So you have a whole 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:37.520 new fan base. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.120 I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:44.200 So take everybody through what happened after the mics went off? 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:45.000 Was it was it good? 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.880 It wasn't bad. It really wasn't bad. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.160 Yeah. I probably had like one little hiccup around like 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.160 two thirty three o'clock. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.080 Thanks for the baby wife, Hey appreciate that. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:55.560 Yeah. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.240 But the gentiles and the gentles, the fleshible gentiles. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.320 Oh, crazy, crazy crazy. All right, let's talk about this 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.440 football game. Cowboys win thirty three to ten. And one 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.600 of our early text messages here comes from Terry and Fayetteville, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.160 North Carolina's said, can y'all talk about the Cowboys fan 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.560 takeover of the stadium yesterday? He was there, he said, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.519 at least seventy thirty Cowboys. And that's what Nick Eatman 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.320 was thinking, was possible. On our pregame show, I asked 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.720 them a similar question. I was like, this seems different. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.520 I mean, y'all were driving into the stadium. There were 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.440 Cowboys fans, Cowboys logos everywhere. You couldn't get away from 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:30.240 the Star in Charlotte. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.240 Yeah, it honestly surprised me by the way. Shout out Fattville, 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.920 North Carolina. I love that place. Yeah, honestly surprised me. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.480 I figured it would be a Cowboys crowd, but Dad, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.760 I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.760 And then you know, in the fourth quarter, everyone kind 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.040 of left, so the stadium I think there was like 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.160 an aerial shot with like, gosh, I don't know, four 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.960 or five minutes left wherever they are coming out of 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.040 a break, and it was just empty and Bank of 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.480 America Stadium. But I really enjoyed that stadium. There's nothing 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.320 special to it. But it's just like a Patrick Walker 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.520 was talking about it, she is a nice ballpark basically, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.280 you know. But yeah, Cowboys fans, they came out in 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.320 full force. We saw him driving in and you would 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.560 have thought it was you would have thought it was 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:08.720 in Arlington for sure. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.240 Yeah, shout out to uh. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.360 And even Steve Williams says here in Charlotte, North Carolina 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:14.160 was at the game yesterday. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:15.160 It was a home game for sure. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.120 Let's let's talk about what the Cowboys did well. And 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.760 they started defensively. That's what set the tone. I mean, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.200 you talk about Micah Parsons with the pressures early third 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.279 down sacks, three of them in the first half, when 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.440 when Carolina maybe had an ounce of hope that went 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.200 away very quickly, and what they were able to take 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.120 away defensively, Isaiah, I mean it was back to the 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.240 past rush of old where teams want to throw the football. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.320 They probably shouldn't throw the football. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.719 Yeah, no, you probably shouldn't throw the football. Actually they 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.320 were unning a ball relatively well, I thought. I'm not 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:46.960 sure why they had been in that game plan. They 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.599 were within ten points, but they did, and that's their fault. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.400 And once they decided to drop back, this defensive line 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.200 did what they do best, and that is pin their 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.600 earback and pir ears back and go get the quarterback. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.719 They were he was under the rest entire day. I mean, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.480 he's had a rough of your Bryce s Young, that is, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.960 and it didn't get any better this past weekend. Obviously 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.240 Michael went off, Okay, he should have. I think he 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.160 had finished two and a half sacks. I think Curse 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.200 messed up his third sack by putting his fingertip on 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.680 him and getting that half sack. But I think there 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.039 were six different guys with sacks from correct somewhere around there, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.640 and there were I don't even know how many pressures. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.599 I mean, it was the out of the wazoo, but 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.240 it was a party in the backfield. That's kind of 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.400 what you expected if they were in that passing situation. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.760 But there are definitely some things that have to get 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.560 tightened up in terms of that run still. You know, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.680 every time we think that the running game is shared up, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.040 you know, somebody who's determined to do so comes in 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:37.880 kind of shows that you still have a little couple 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.039 of week spots there, and definitely with the opponents that 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.919 you will have to face, you might want to tighten 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:42.320 that down. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.400 Yeah, I think the fourth quarter made this a lot 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.200 more digestible that it was looking to be going into 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.440 going into the fourth, because you're going into that final 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.440 frame at seventeen to ten that they just cut into 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.800 a one possession ball game. You know, the offense has 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.480 kind of stalled out a couple of times. The run 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.240 defense looks bad, and then they're able to dry down 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.799 the field, get the Tony Pollard touchdown, which was huge, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.320 and then turn around right back and get the drawn 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.599 blam pick six, and then that was it was the 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.560 ball game. But yeah, I think without even one of 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.719 those two things, things get a little dicey at times. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.000 What about the extended drives, I mean. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.720 Yeah, so that's seventeen play, seventy yard drive and nine 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.920 minutes to cut it to one possession. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.480 Like that was that was? 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:23.800 That was bad? 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.120 It was three fourth down conversions. There was a there 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.680 was a lot going on on that drive as well. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.279 Within the running game. They had five receptions to Adam 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.800 Dealan on that drive where he was going into that 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.159 drive I think with only two or three, so he 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:37.560 really turned it on in that moment. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.480 But yeah, credit to the defense. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.680 They came back out and started pouncing on the ball 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.960 and Duran Bland able to get the pick six and 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.359 then the I still haven't seen the replay on the 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.800 on the fumble. Was it not jarred loose by the 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.200 hit because they didn't credit a force fumble to anybody 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.320 where at this was the drive after the dern Blad 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.200 picked six on the third down or Bryce Shaan was 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.000 like escaping the pocket and came up and then fumble 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.560 the ball and then Marky Spell fell on it. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.080 Oh yeah, I don't think they credited a fumble, gotcha. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.320 Well, I don't know, regardless, regardless, just to be in 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:09.600 there all my moment. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.440 It faked it. He faked it out his hand. Ah, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.400 he was running and he tried. He was he was 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.600 acting like he was throwing it like back, like he 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.480 was Gonn lateral with someone, and he faked it and 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.320 then when he brought it back he lost it. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.080 Yeah, because at least in the stat column it says 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.440 here he lost the fumble. It doesn't say anybody forced it, gotcha. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.200 Jameis Winston Wilson recovered it. Yeah, very very much so. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.560 But but yeah, that the fourth quarter and made this 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.600 a lot more digestible than it was looking going into 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.040 the fourth. Didn't love what I saw from the offense 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.160 overall yesterday. You can tell that they're trying to be 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.600 creative in the run game. You can tell. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:45.400 And I'm glad. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.080 I'm happy because we were calling for that earlier in 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.080 the year and every single week we see a different 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.120 wrinkle being thrown into the run game. This week it 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.560 was wildcat like okay, and that didn't work out well. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.560 But they're getting more creative. The offensive line is getting 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.160 more of a chemistry up front. I think that's starting 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.080 to pave some lanes for Tony Pollard. I think that's 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.480 gonna be the biggest catalyst and towards this running game 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:07.400 getting figured out. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:08.559 So I was wrong. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.480 It wasn't really creativity in the run game. It's just 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:11.840 about this offensive line getting better. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.760 What do you think about the offense? What you see 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.560 from Saturday? From Sunday? Goodness? 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.000 Sorry man, long weekend, Yeah, long week It's kind of 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.720 what I expected. And I mean we talked about the 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.440 caroline and defense, you know, going into this game, and 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.600 how they didn't have anything that necessarily scared you, but 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.040 they had a been but don't break the type of defense. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.880 We knew that Dak wasn't gonna like the score where 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.600 we knew that our receivers were not going to go crazy, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.160 but there was an opportunity to get the running game going. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.560 The running game did not get going the way that 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.240 you would have liked to hope, but you know it 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.080 was it was enough. It was enough. I don't really 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.880 know what my expectation was. It was definitely wasn't high. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.320 It was nowhere near where it was. And some of 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.439 the other opponents that we've had, I think they were effective. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.400 My biggest thing is just don't turn it over. They 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.079 didn't do that, and that's a win anytime, you know, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.719 the Cowboys can step on the field and not turn 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.040 the ball over. A Dak, you know, facing one of 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.960 his I don't want to say arch and imssis, you know, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.480 but like one of his areas that he has to address, 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.720 which is zone defenses, he was able to overcome that 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.200 without having any major mistakes. That to me was a 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:15.400 win for this entire team. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.040 I want to elaborate that on a little bit because 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:18.640 we did get. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.200 Some texts and some tweets over the weekend about that 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.160 statement about zone defenses. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.160 It's Dak traditionally. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.080 Is rated very high, graded very high against zone defenses. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.959 But what you're alluding to is whenever the decision making 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.640 results in turnovers. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:34.040 Yeah, it's not. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.440 He was twenty one of thirty passing for a good percentage. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.360 Now four of his six turnovers, four of his six 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.960 interceptions this year have come against zone coverage, and it's 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.240 been like that in the past as well. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.439 Yeah, that's it. There's a history of that. I mean, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.240 I understand this people. I mean, I know when I 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.240 make a statement, people can go back and say, oh, well, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.600 you know he throws against zone all the time. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.480 there's two different different defenses. There's man in the zone, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.880 so there's a lot more zones in there are man 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.640 in the league. So I'm not saying that he he's 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.880 you know, not capable of throwing the ball effectively versus 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.120 his own but that's where he struggles, right because people 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.840 are able to sneak in guys or there's guys that 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.800 he doesn't see, or people were able to run trap 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.360 defenses and things of that nature. So that's the area 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.040 that he has to continue to improve upon fully capable 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.120 of doing so obviously like you saw yesterday. But you know, 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.480 he was able to overcome that hurdle, and I think 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.280 that's major. That's not something that people are going to 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.160 talk about, but that's something that I looked at and 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.360 I was looking forward to, and he did a good 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.600 job with it. And I think there was a couple 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.560 opportunities for him to force some balls. Actually he did 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.640 force a couple that literally just lucked out. But that 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.319 kind of you know that people won't really look at. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.600 But those are things that he has to look at 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.400 and be like, no, don't go back that way, like 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:43.840 keep making good decisions. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.360 Nine to seven zero. A really good question here. Do 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.760 you think the run game was affected by play calling? 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:53.080 Pollard was running in terms of yards per carry pretty well. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:53.520 Throughout the day. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.800 I mean that defensive line was was doing a pretty 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.080 good number. I mean he was toting the Rocky who 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:02.880 was towing the rocks well for sixty one and that's 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:04.880 five point one yards per care, Oh for sure. I 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.360 mean he had the touchdown. Yeah, he had a couple splashes. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.720 I mean, but him, he had twelve touches out the backfield, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.320 and I think he had another five and catches if 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.599 I remember correctly. So I think that they're going to 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.480 continue to try to find ways to get creative. They 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.679 did have some two big nasties on the inside that 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.959 played better than I expected. I don't remember Derek Brown, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.480 Yeah he was, Yeah, he was a terror yesterday. So 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.760 I mean that caused some issues. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.720 I've got my film notes that I'll tweet out here 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.360 in a little bit, and that's one of them. Zach 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.280 Martin had some struggles at times against Derek Brown, which. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.400 Was a little shocking to me. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.600 The twenty one yard touchdown really saved face for Tony 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.760 Pollard's average. His first three carries went for thirty four yards, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.640 his next eight carries went for six yards, and then 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:49.760 he had the twenty one yard touchdown. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:50.920 What do you feel like plays into that? 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.680 What plays into the bad average drop off? 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.240 The drop off fact that it goes from very high 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:58.000 to very low. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.680 Well, you had a couple of plays where the wildcat 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.400 kind of forced forced him back a little bit, and. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:05.880 Then can we throw that out of the playbook? 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:07.839 I think it will, think I don't think it's the 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.439 need to ask for they. I think it will be sure, but. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.760 More so just not finding any holes up front and 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:16.800 trying to run downhill. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.640 I can't really think off the top of my head. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.800 Again, I haven't gone back on film yet, but I 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:22.120 can't think off the top of my head where he 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.400 was allowed to get out in space on a consistent basis. 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.720 I remember there being one play where they had they 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.959 had had lip key kind of in an eye formation 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.760 and Lipkey came around to the left side and was 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.319 blocking out in space for him, and I liked the 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.080 way it looked. It was just still was a corner 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.760 that had gotten got a really good angle on Pollard 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.800 and got his legs. But they never tried that again, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.840 so it was like, okay, But yeah, overall, I think 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.040 that's twenty one yard touchdown really saved face for Pollard 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.440 and made his final day look look better than it was. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:51.880 And I hate to say that because it's not like 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.439 he had a bad day. It's just this is the 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.160 same day we've been seeing all season for Pollard. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.600 Do you think he's getting enough touches? 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.760 I honestly, I don't want him to get a lot 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.160 of touches like that's that's I've never been that guy 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.920 with Pollard, I would. I like this distribution where Pollard 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.000 has twelve, Dawdle has eight, which you know a couple 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.920 of those probably came after Cooper Rush came. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.640 In how many forty five? 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.199 But I like the distribution there. I just I want 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:19.600 to see those guys get put. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:20.359 In better situations. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.199 In my opinion, Pollard's not a downhill guy, and I 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.800 know we've seen even last year and at times this year, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.760 and on the touchdown run where he's able to just 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.480 kind of like squeeze between the tackles and weave around 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.679 and get around guys. And I love seeing that from Pollard. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.360 But you're not gonna get that on every play. You know, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.440 he's he's best outside and trying to find you know, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.640 trying to find some action out in space. And I 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.400 don't know, we just don't see that utilizes enough enough 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:45.400 as I would like to see. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.840 Yeah, twelve carries four receptions on five targets, so I 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.040 mean targeted at least as the primary ball carrier on 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:54.440 seventeen of his forty five's. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.760 Now he came in averaging eighteen and a half touches 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.839 per game, but seemingly touching the ball out the back 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.320 running wise about twelve times per game. That seems to 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.679 be like their number that they're capping him at. It's like, oh, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.000 he had twelve parright, go get in here, you know. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.599 So I'm not sure if that strategy or they're just 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.240 kind of falling into that, But I don't think that 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.839 he's going to find his groove the way that people 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.720 want him to. Only toting the rock twelve times, I 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:17.720 just don't foresee it. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.760 With that being said, the offense, I think it does 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.840 leave much to be desired, and we'll talk about it 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.120 a little bit as we go along. It wasn't the 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.680 high flying offense where the box score looks incredible and 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.960 there's six hundred and forty yards like we've seen in 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.600 some of the previous weeks. 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