WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Decisions, Decisions 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.119 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:19.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.919 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:34.560 Star in Frisco, and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:40.760 Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's It's a Tuesday 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.200 edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Tostitos, the official Chip 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.680 and Dip of the Dallas Cowboys, as we chip it 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.559 and We Dip it here in the SWBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.720 at the Star in Frisco, alongside professional football animalist heck 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.800 Ma Harrison, Sultry Boys the Sultry Voice. I'm just gonna 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.480 call me a professional football animal. I was like, yeah, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:09.000 I like that. Like that. I don't know, I hate that. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.840 Let's go into my head. I'm gonna I've got to 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.720 resident Super Bowl Champion Isaiah stand Back. Cowboys insider Rob 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.480 Phillips is currently busy being a Cowboys insider. He is 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.840 writing a story at this very moment that'll be up 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.280 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com later. I don't know what 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.000 the story is. We'll have to ask him whenever he 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.240 comes in, but We've got plenty to react to. Jerry 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.720 Jones just hanging up with the fan a couple of 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.119 moments ago, and he did drop some nuggets. Yeah he did, 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.280 And he dropped a couple of nuggets for Cowboys fans 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.199 out there, including one that we sort of tossed around 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.800 yesterday was what is the option to replace Lyle Collins 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.320 at right tackle? And we now know the current option now. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.160 Lyle Collins, according to Jerry Jones, is now in the 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.600 appeal process of his five game suspension that was handed 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.040 down by the NFL. He is still not able to 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:03.920 play this Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers, so still 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.320 no hope for him this week. However, the appeal process 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.760 is underway and maybe that five games gets trimmed down 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.880 a little bit, or even better than that, it's erased completely. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.560 So there's things here to think about, including who is 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.440 going to be the backup well starting at right tackle 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.959 on Sunday. It'll be second year undrafted free agent out 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.680 of Texas Tech Terrence Steele. He will be your right 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:32.480 tackle on Sunday. Reaction reaction, Okay, well, I mean you 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.440 know there's a reaction, and I think this team desperately 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.560 needed to find a swing tackle solution during training camp. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.200 That came away with saying that Niseki and Steele were 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.360 your answer, and that's what we have to go to 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.960 war with, guys. I mean, look rarely the freaking troops. Huh, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.160 it's just what you gotta do. If you have to 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.560 learn the serenity prayers, God given serenities, something things I 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.000 cannot change, courage to change the things I can incourage 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.960 to know the difference. How this is the courage to 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.640 know the difference? Well, hey, whatever, it is what it is. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.720 I mean, and you have to accept the fact that 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.239 you know, we're in a situation with Leo Collins where 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.200 he's not going to be in the game. He can't 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.200 play through an appeal. They're going to make it. It's 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.959 uncomfortable for I mean, we're not gonna get much information 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.840 on this whole thing. It's a five game suspension. We 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.000 have to go forward. There's nothing else to it. That's it. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.840 Got roll with what you have, right, That's where we 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.040 got Terrence still coming in here, still got to find 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.720 a way to stop that bossa boy and the rest 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.800 of his crew. And this is what we got. They'll 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.440 put up together a game plan. Now, again, I want 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.640 to remind everybody that even if we had Lyole Collins, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.760 they we were going to have our hands full with 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.080 this guy on the defensive end, so um well, that 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.280 we were going to give help regardless. He was going 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.000 to have assistance, whether it's Collins, whether it's Still, whether 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.320 it's n Sag. Oh my goodness, everybody, Oh my gosh, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.960 we Rob Phillips, Rob, Hello, continue with your point though, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.440 before we get to Yeah, I mean, I mean, I 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.320 was just I was just amazed by how swollen he is. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.960 He has a zip down because pretty impressive Jesus medium. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.600 Um no, But regardless of who was going to be 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.680 playing our right tackle position, we were going to have 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.120 to assist them. Right now. You might have to assist 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.280 them more now because he's not a pro bowler out there. However, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.880 they were going to need some help. It's not just 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.560 gonna sit that person on an island out there and 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.800 just say hey, block bosall game. No, that's not gonna 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.320 help you sleep at all at night when you say 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.400 island and Bosa and tackle. So we are Yeah, what 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.720 are you guys talking about talking about? Oh okay, yeah, 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.120 that's why I'm late. Actually is yeah, update us, well, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.120 you guys know what I know. I was a little surprised. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.080 It just came right out there, but he said, I mean, 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:42.560 was it tongue? He said it so quickly that was yeah, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.279 there was no secret. And then most coaches don't play 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.560 their hands. It's on a Tuesday, I think Jerry, I mean, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.640 you heard what he said about Terrence Steele. I think 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.880 he wanted to come out and say, we got a 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.040 lot of confidence in this young guy. Okay, I think 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.600 that's I think that was the message behind it, probably 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.159 you know, and he gave us some insight you probably 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.480 guys just talked about it, but why they're not moving 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.960 Zach out there? So that's that was interesting. Kind of 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:08.920 reiterate from the people that did well. They don't want 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.880 to say it's kind of what Mike said all last year. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.560 A car don't want to have to switch two spots 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.480 out of five. So I don't know, I guess the 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.880 best five they like best. I know for a fact, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.080 best five is something they think holds water. But in 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.760 this particular situation, they're willing to say, hey, we've got 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.599 a young guy who started fourteen games last year. Titus 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.159 Seki was on the injury report last week, but I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.760 think he was full by the end of the week, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.760 So I don't know if it's that. I think maybe 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.760 they just they liked this young guy, so we'll see 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.839 what happens, you know. And that's that's kind of confusing 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.719 to me because I guess if you're looking forward and 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.760 you're you're saying, after Collins returns, the best five scenario 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.599 of moving one position or two positions out to the 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.160 right side, Sure that makes sense, because then you would 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.400 have Martinet right garden. Then you have Collins at right tackle. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.640 But going if you look backwards to one week, the 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.360 only thing you're switching is your right tackle because if 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.880 you put Connor McGovern at the right guard spot, he 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.440 played there a ton last year six six starts last year. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.760 Of course he started their week one. You would only 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.960 switch out the right tackle and you would replace Lyle 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.160 Collins with Zack Martin. So I don't know if the 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.120 shuffling of the cards holds as much weight at this 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.479 very moment as it did a year ago when it 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.400 was a revolving door. Yeah, I don't disagree with you, However, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.520 you know you want you want your all prole that 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.320 you have there. You know, you want to protect in 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.479 your backside and you want to protect an inside you know. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.920 I if worst case scenarios say this Bolsa boy goes 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.360 off right, he gets up the field, what can Dak 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.360 always do step up? Right? However, if we're a little 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.159 bit a little bit weaker on the inside than we 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.599 are on the outside, you don't want pressure up up 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.480 the middle, all right, So you prefer to have pressure 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.360 on the outside. So I think that plays a part 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.880 of it as well. If at least at least Dak 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.840 has an escape in terms of stepping up, I don't 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.480 think he wants to escape by getting out the pocket 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.799 and running. He's gonna escape by stepping up in the pocket. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.920 I was gonna ask you guys that yesterday. What what's worse? 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.080 Middle pressure or edge pressure? All day long, all day long, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.520 all day long. Because because I can say as a quart, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.480 as a quote unquote running quarterback, I would have outside 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.520 pressure all the time. Teams would blitz me all the 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.760 time thinking contain, contain, contain, when in reality I can 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.760 make one move, get outside of them and be gone 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.040 right and get to get to whatever kind of space 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.480 I needed internal pressure. Ooh, that's rough because I can't 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.600 step up. Your natural instinct as a quarterback is to 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.440 step up in the pocket, right, So if you can't 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.160 step up, now I'm trying to step away. I'm trying 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.320 to step sideways and trying to find a gap between 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.280 the de tackle and the defensive end. And a lot 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.480 of times those guys can retract their steps and come 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.400 back and get you right. So they can always go 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.080 upfield and come back inside. Right, But when you when 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.360 you have pressure coming from the inside, there's nowhere to go. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.800 Plus on the outside, you can chip, you can do 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.440 all these other exact things and add basically sturrogate lineman 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.040 on the outside to help twelve personnel, just like last week. Right, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.560 That's why I was so surprised by our twelve personnel. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.040 I mean, those guys. I don't know how many players 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.440 we have with those guys, but they showed up a ton, right, 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.920 and Shoultz and Jarwin, those guys are in there a 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.600 lot together. Yeah, I'll try and find that number for 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.160 your chair in a second. But you're right, I mean, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.040 you're gonna have to protect steel on the right side. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.080 You're gonna see a lot of twelve personnel, which is 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.680 not the most entertaining form of offense whenever you have 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.320 guys like this. But you're also missing Michael Gallop too, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.160 so it's not like you're taking a big time playmaker 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.440 off the field this week specifically or in the weeks 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.240 moving forward. So you have a little bit to play 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.160 around with, and Callamore is going to have to certainly 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.040 do that. Another thing that was addressed during the Jerry 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.040 Jones interview on one oh five three the Fan was 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.080 Randy Gregory and his status as yesterday, as Zack Martin 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.840 and Brandon Knight came off of the COVID nineteen list, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.600 Randy Gregory went on to it, and so Jerry, much 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.000 like he was with Zach Martin last week, still very hopeful. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.040 Luckily they don't play Thursday, they play Sunday, and who knows, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.040 maybe if that were the case last week, Zack Martin 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.480 might have played. But now he has the confidence that 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.719 Randy Gregory could potentially go through that. What is the 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.280 idea of getting him back like right now, rob and 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.000 what would have to go right? The same thing as 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.760 Zach last week, because he's vaccinated. It's those two negative 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.480 tests twenty four hours apart, and then it depends on 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.079 whether he's got symptoms. The reports yesterday were that he 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:21.320 was asymptomatic. Jerry said, not severe symptoms or something. So 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.880 it just depends. If he does have some symptoms, then 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.000 he's got to be forty eight hours free of those. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.920 So this happening on Sunday or Monday, whenever it popped up. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.040 I think he's got a chance to get back. Yeah, 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.200 you know, I think Zach, that was a pretty accelerated 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.760 timeline last week. It was pretty quick, and he still 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.760 wasn't able to get back. Unfortunately. However, he's back this week, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.600 which shows that he really didn't have a whole ton 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.760 of struggle last week either outside of Randy Gregory. How 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.800 do we feel about the edge rusher spot after last week? 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:55.360 I mean, Doren's Armstrong made a play, Randy gregor excuse me, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.439 de Marcus Lawrence of course forced to fumble. I mean 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.480 there's there's a couple of things there that were pretty 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.240 good about the edge Rusher spots. How do you feel 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.280 about it last weekend? Well, I mean I think that 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.360 we've seen Doran's Armstrong take those strides through training camp 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.720 in OTAs and he just seems to be a bigger, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.080 faster version of himself in and twenty one. I feel confident, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.360 and again back to the serenity prayer, there's nothing we 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.679 can do about this. Everybody in the league is going 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.679 to be dealing with this, and you hate to see 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.400 I won't call it a healthy scratch, but just a 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:30.000 guy that's due to a test asymptomatic. He could possibly 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.120 play if he passes these two tests twenty four hours apart. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.800 I think as a franchise, we just have to have 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.000 the mentality that we're just gonna go forward with what 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.840 we have. And I think guys like Armstrong, I think 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.000 Basham have shown you that they can be those rotational 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.760 guys and Bradley and I He's so give these all 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.560 of these guys an opportunity. And it's also Chauncey Gholston 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.600 coming back as well. I think that if he's obviously 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.679 active on game day, I think it gives you a 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.480 little bit more confident with replacing the player in Gregory 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.400 Armstrong during twenty seven snaps, which by the way, it 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.880 was only ten snaps less than what Randy Gregory had. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.360 I mean Gregory had thirty seve Armstrong had twenty seven 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.360 and they had the same amount of pressures. They had 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.079 three hurries. Nobody got really close in terms of those 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.920 two guys of a sack or anybody on a good 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.440 Tampa Bay offensive line. But the fact that Armstrong had 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.959 the equal amount of pressure, it's pretty impressive to see 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.920 how he, like you said, has come into himself and 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.400 kind of blossomed as an addresser. Rob Yeah, he has. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.480 And he was this close to a strip sack on 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.600 Tom Brady, which how he held on to that ball 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:45.480 is really beyond me. Yeah, I mean you could almost 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.920 hear him hit that arm and the ball not come out. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.880 That's man, That's yeah, that's something. It was Jeff Heath 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.600 against Aaron Rodgers in twenty six, Like, how in the 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.000 hell did that not happen? But that would have been 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.400 a nice feather in his cap. You're right, he had 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.880 a great training camp dor instead, they just they need 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.400 more pressure. Though, they need more pressure, and Dan Quinn 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.800 talked about it yesterday. Some of that is Tom Brady. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.840 I mean, that's what he does, Isaiah. He gets the 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.880 ball out quick. But they were around him some, you know, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.000 I mean they had some good rushes and I thought 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.719 they used a lot of use everybody because of the 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.240 humidity and the weather on Thursday night, But there were 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.120 times where they just they didn't they didn't get there, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.640 you know. And then you're right, Kyle, that's a good 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.240 offensive line in Tampa. They gotta they gotta affect Justin 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.040 Herbert more than they did against Tampa. So and I'm 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.840 trying to think of the way that people would line 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.240 up against the Chargers. But guess who you would be 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:38.160 going against if you're Dorn's Armstrong and later Yeah, yeah, 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.760 I mean I like that matchup like that Later, I 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.840 like that matchup. I definitely like it for Don's Armstrong. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.320 You did you see Rashawns later? Lest He's getting Ravens, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.240 isn't he? Dude? He shut down Chase Young, like shut 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.679 him down. It was the first time Chase Young's been 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.160 shut down since he was Okay, oh, guess what in 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.839 college at Ohio State playing Northwestern against I know you, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:02.600 I know what you're doing. I'm telling you, I know 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.480 what you're doing. And I don't want to be a part. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.319 I don't want to be a part of the gotcha question? 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.959 And I told you so, I'm not doing that yet. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.600 Want to want to do over on the draft. I'm 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.840 not see what he's doing, and I'm not I'm not 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.280 gonna let you do that to me. So what do 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.080 you want? What do you want? What you got? I'm 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.920 very impressed with restaurans later and I always have been, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:20.800 but I'm not going to do that yet. Okay, well, 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.200 we'll save that for later on if that needs to be. However, 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.720 he looks really good, and whoever's going up against him, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.600 it's gonna be a tough task. Now. The rest of 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.560 that offensive line, which has been completely redone from the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.560 charger standpoint, is vulnerable. So I think it allows a 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.640 guy like DeMarcus Lawrence to maybe have a big game 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.720 coming up Sunday. He's gonna need he's gonna need it. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.040 I mean, we're gonna have to get some pressure. I 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.760 mean the thing is get home. If we're going on 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.080 the blitz, get home, And that's gonna be have to 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.280 be the going thing for this defense because of our 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.040 weaknesses on the back and as we strengthen it. I'll 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.720 just say that as we strengthen the back end of 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.320 our defense, getting home is gonna have to be the 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.440 idea this week because we can't just allow a quarterback 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.320 like Justin Herbert to sit back and pick his spots. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.080 And I said, you know, Brady had time in that game. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.760 But I thought DeMarcus played really well. Yeah he was. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.080 I mean, that's a tough matchup against worse and he was. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.480 He was around the ball. Um it obviously had the 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.640 ad the forced fumble, was in the backfield some. So 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.360 that was a good start for him, considering all the 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.520 time he missed. Um. But do you want to stand 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.800 on the table for Michael Parsons after an April full 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.680 of saying we need to draft this guy, you want 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.560 to tell Kyle that, uh what we're like? I said, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.720 we're not doing that yet. We're not doing that yet, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.680 not yet yet. I'm gonna let it play out a 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.640 little bit. My man over here was very quiet. I mean, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.680 I mean, we're talking about backup players, right, or you know, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.880 the guys that have come in and fill in for 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:54.520 our starters, right, So we're talking about um. You know obviously, uh, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.800 Terrence Steele coming in fitting in that change is drastically 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.000 different than what we have on the defense side of 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.320 the ball. Gregory to Armstrong is not as far of 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.120 a fall off as it is from from Collins to 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.840 freaking Steel. So as we look at those comparisons, I'm 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.440 not worried in that regard. Uh. I think we're gonna 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.160 have to get pressure somewhere else. Anyways, it's not going 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.720 to be an old man. This is our this is 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.400 our freaking you know, von Miller or whatever it is. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.760 It's like they're getting shut down. So I'm not concerned 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.880 about um Gregor. Obviously, we wish we had and we 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.880 hope that we have him in it's not out picture yet, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.760 so we hope that we have him, obviously, But it's 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.720 not as dire a situation as it is on the 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.640 offensive side of the ball, no doubt about it. And 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.720 I think if you're a Cowboys fan, you're looking at 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.800 the defensive side and thinking, we're still gonna have a 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.680 pretty decent day at least hopefully we'll have a decent 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.240 day up against Tom Brady. But you are right. I 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.520 mean that that Washington football team defense they had their 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.320 hands full with the Chargers offense, and you would think 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.480 that they would have been able to generate a lot 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.720 more pressure and they didn't. I mean, the charges went 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.000 max protect. They knew what they were up against and 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.000 so they protected their quarterback, and so they're just knowing 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.280 the things that happened within the game where you know, hey, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.040 this guy is gonna be under fired. 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I'm terrible at mass, so that would be 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.080 twenty eight thirty. So yeah, it'd be twenty eight and thirty, 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.840 so pretty even in terms of calling. Twelve plays, however, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.360 were checked at the line of scrimmage from Dak Prescott. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.000 So I want to ask, from a former quarterback standpoint, 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.919 how easy is it to check out and how much 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.280 do coaches hate it when you check out that often? 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.760 I mean you check out based upon your look. So 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:20.760 typically you come up to the line of scrimmage with 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.399 two plays. Now, that's pretty much how this league is going. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.000