WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Room for Optimism? 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:04.280 The following. 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.280 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.119 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.360 Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys Straining. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.040 Live from the Dallas Cowboys World. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:26.000 Course at the Star in Frisco, scus dot TIXI A 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:33.240 tuxdowns and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:41.159 Rodriguez and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.280 It's a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.760 Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, Texas 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.000 and the s WBC studios. As we are done with 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.160 the mini buy everybody. It is back to work for 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.560 the Dallas Cowboys. It is back to work for Talking Cowboys, 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.120 presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company. We've got Patrick Nosey Walker, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.039 Josh Rodriguez, Chris. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:04.759 Beam in the back. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.920 I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentlemen. Hope you enjoyed your your long weekend. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.520 I did a little bit, The rest was good. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.280 Got some baseball on the end. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.319 Yeah, that was kind of a mixed bag, you know. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.240 Stressful day for me today for those who uh who 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.600 haven't opened their eyes and seen my my attire to day. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.920 My braves are up against it. You gotta win one. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:27.560 Gotta win one. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.760 You gotta win one, right, just one, only one, because. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.000 We won if we if we sweep the Mets, then 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.160 the Diamondbacks get get in. If we split with the Mets, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.600 then we and the Mets get in and the Diamondbacks 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:39.960 are out. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.600 If the Mets sweep, I think there's a gentleman's agreement 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:43.600 there between the two teams. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.240 You so, but hate hate hate hate hate, So I 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.360 don't I don't think so, but I will say, uh, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.160 I think I think it's a situation where if we 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.480 can go ahead and win the first game, then we'll 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.200 probably throw some you know, triple a arm at uh 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.840 walker out there. There you go, there you go, because 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.080 then we got a we got a plan for the 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.560 wild card, and then that does help the Mets. So 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.359 the Diamondbacks are kind of, you know, behind the eight ball, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.240 that's their problem. We just need to get our win 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.000 stress and then my dogs. I know you guys saw Saturday. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.120 Man, that was a game. That was a bro that 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.119 was a game, and I knew I was not gonna 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.280 come here. I was not gonna come here and and 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.440 uh give you a hard time about the Bulldogs. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:24.560 I wasn't gonna give you a hard time. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.320 That was a great That game was a class, instant 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:28.519 classic of a football game. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.400 It was, but you know, fall intents and purposes. It 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.960 was a damn good sports weekend. Cowboys won on Thursday 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.720 to start it off. Yuh dogs at least, you know, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.840 showed some fight braves handle business in two consecutive days. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.480 And I just need to handle business today. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.280 It doesn't help when there's a cyborg that plays for Alabama, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:46.960 you know what I mean? 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:52.639 Like I was seventeen years Williams maybe my new favorite 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.840 player ever, like of all time, genuinely insane. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.760 The players, you know, game on the line. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.840 Let's do one one on one with no single with 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:02.919 no safety high on him. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:03.840 Let's just let's do that. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.360 And it wasn't really a smart move right after you 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.880 take the lead for the first time after trailing thirty 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.040 to seven or whatever. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.320 Seventeen he's clearly a freshman then. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:14.520 Oh yeah, yeah. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.880 He left high school early to enroll at Alabama by 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.160 like a year and a half, Like it was way 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:21.239 early to roll. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.160 And it's not only a starter. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.400 But as a dude, he's a monster tall, is he? 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:25.840 Yeah? 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.880 He's only like five ten maybe, Yeah. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.400 He's build. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.280 Let me see the Eagles lost too, so that that also, yeah, 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.600 that was fed sensation, sensation, and. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.360 You also have Aaron Rodgers losing, the Packers losing. It 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:45.520 was just kind of good. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:46.640 I found myself. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.480 Yes, Trevander's ruined it, but it's just sitting at home 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.480 yesterday and just looking up and down the slate of 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.080 NFL games and saying, you. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.840 Know what, the Cowboys, it wasn't pretty on Thursday. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.080 You can definitely critique what happened, but a win is 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.080 a win, and we said that on Friday, and that's 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.720 that that that energy doesn't change. But whenever you see 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.320 the Bears beating the Rams, the Vikings absolutely torching, the 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.200 Packers again at the Colts beating the Steelers, the Broncos 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.520 beating the Jets, the Bucks beating the Eagles, you go 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:24.120 up and down the list of the NFL yesterday delicious. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.640 I like, I'm good with a win, Give me the win, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.680 give me two and two. I'm okay. It's not perfect 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:31.640 and there's a long way. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.240 To go for this football team, but in the grand 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.080 scheme of the NFL, anything can happen any given Sunday. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.960 You hear it all the time. I thought yesterday was 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.000 a great example of that. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.640 It's almost like it's hard to win a game in 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:42.159 the NFL. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.440 Yeah, rumor has it. Yeah, according to it's difficult. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.800 Those other guys also get paid a lot of money. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.280 Yeah, yeah, get your win or whoever you can and 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:52.440 look to improve. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.919 And we talked about it on Friday. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.560 It was like, you know, it, don't hang the banner 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.560 after beating the New York Giants, but it's still a win. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.479 It's a win in the conference, to win in the division. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.920 And then a couple of days, three days after that, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.760 you see the Eagles get blown out by a conference 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.480 opponent in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and now they're at 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.400 two and two and they look like they're the ones 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.960 that are in shambles. Right, So funny how week to 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.600 week league baby, Funny how the storylines changed week to week. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.960 So the Cowboys just need to start taking advantage of 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.560 this though. They need to start taking advantage of teams 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.800 like the forty nine is struggling, the Rams struggling, the 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.960 Eagles struggling and maybe trying to create some distance. And 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.000 you got to catch Sam Donald. I can't believe I 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.000 just said that. You have to catch Sam Donald and 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.440 the undefeated Vikings as well, so you want to close 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:36.920 that gap? 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.120 Oh man, Thank god, this is like the first year 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.479 and god knows how long the Vikings are not on 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.760 the schedule for the Cowboys, And I'm thankful for that. Hey, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.200 Sam Donald, because Sam darnoum VP talks just like we 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.320 all predicted, right, Yeah, I had that on my being. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.039 Go Cardi as I said it in on February ninety six. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:56.560 Sweet. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.120 Yeah, everybody go back and check the table. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.080 The first of Weary Never Weary. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.520 Ryan Williams is listed at six foot that's a lie. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.159 It's he's like, yeah, five eleven or something, yeah, five twelve. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.360 Yeah, what he takes his art supports out. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.600 He's somewhere around there. But dude is a cyborg, genuine, unbelievable. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.080 Player and all respect. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.280 I know there's is quite genuine football hate between US 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.760 and UH in Alabama, But much like on on Twitter, 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.320 had fun watching the game with you know, Road Tide 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:27.559 guys and gals on Twitter. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.680 It was nothing but respect. After a game like that, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:31.159 nothing but respect. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.760 I don't know how else you handle it, you know. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.120 I mean, there are other ways to handle it, but. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.880 But but I don't know why you would do that 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:39.280 when it was a game. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.719 Like that Heavyweight about twelve or exactly that almost thirteen. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.400 Yeah, time will. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.800 And Bama just happens to be all niners. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.560 But you know what I think, right, But what I 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.760 think will happen to that point is I think that 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.680 if you look at how we came alive in the 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.280 second half, this might be a situation where because our 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.359 offense have been struggling to find without Bowers and McConkie, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.760 that we've been struggling to find who's the downfield through 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:05.720 who's the explosive guy? 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.120 Supposed to be Love It supposed to be Bill. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.240 But you know, we woke up and maybe this is 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.680 the pivotal pivot point for our offense because we got 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.480 a gauntlet to finish. Yeah, we gotta go to Auburn, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.240 and I mean we have we have other things to 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.160 take care of. So hopefully we'll see them again down 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.400 the road. You hear that, Bam, we're coming from more 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.960 about a week coming for more but later for that 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:30.640 Braves win, and later for that Cowboys. One love that 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.160 Eagles lost, and now let's talk about what the Cowboys 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:34.560 are up against adversity wise. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.080 Yeah, that that was kind of gonna be my transition. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.800 It was a great football weekend, lots of good distraction, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.800 lots of opportunity to kind of get away from the Cowboys, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.360 but you can never truly get away. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:46.040 From the Cowboys. 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:51.040 And Micah Parsons have you been on ESPN? Yeah, DeMarcus Lawrence, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.000 have you ever tuned in? 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.080 Uh? Yeah, both guys. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.880 Out for maybe longer than initially anticipated. We came in, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.440 came out here Friday and said, you know what my said, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.480 he was good. The law wasn't didn't seem super serious. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.640 Whatever it may be, sure enough, it's pretty serious for 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:08.120 both guys. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.240 Yes, pretty serious. So kind of a mixed bag of news. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.960 Let's start with the bad. Yeah, Marcus Lawrence, de Marcus Lawrence. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.400 After the game, he said that he was he was 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.760 in pain with his foot, but he said that he 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.440 kind of downplayed it, which players tend to do. News 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.760 came out that it's it is a foot spray, not 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.440 a fracture. That is key to remember because De Marcus 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.960 has dealt with a foot fracture before that cost him 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.120 a lot of time not so long ago. So good 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.560 news is no fractures. The X rays were cleaned. The 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.280 MRIs were clean in that regard. They were seeking a 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:43.080 second opinion per Stephen Jones on Friday. But DeMarcus Lawrence 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.760 is likely to be out upwards of four plus weeks, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.720 so he is a prime IR candidate. Boy I would 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.319 go ahead and pencil him out for the next four weeks. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.040 What works in the Cowboys favor is one of those 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:57.800 weeks is a bye. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.280 So there's that. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.440 Michael Parsons much better news, But there's an asterisk next 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.559 to his He's been deemed as week to week by 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.959 Stephen Jones and the Cowboys okay, so he's not been 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.920 ruled out versus the Steelers. Stephen Jones make sure to 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.120 make that clear. He also said that he was seeking 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.800 the second opinion Michael Parsons was to see what that 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.240 looks like. They're coming off of a many by what 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.160 did that extra two or three days of resk look 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.559 like for Micah will know as early as this Wednesday 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.520 when they get back to the practice field to prepare 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.400 for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But it does sound like even 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.360 if Michael Parsons misses this game and maybe maybe maybe 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.800 even the Detroit Lions game, he has a solid shot 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.880 of being on the field against the San Francisco forty 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.200 nine ers, So much better news on that front. But 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.160 however you slice it, DeMarcus Lawns is going to miss 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.720 some time, and if Michael Parsons misses any amount of 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.880 time in conjunction with that, you're without your two best 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.840 edge guys period. So you gotta figure that out. And 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.319 there are some real question marks there. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.079 Real nice to have Sam Williams, wouldn't it. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:01.439 Yeah, yeah, you lose. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.320 So as it went, you lost Durrance so Armstrong and 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.760 Dante Fowler the Free Agency. They went to Dan Quinn 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.360 and the commanders, and then Sam Williams was tasked was 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.160 stepping up. He Terris his a c l at the 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.360 beginning of the training camp. So then it's hey, it's 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.320 a Marshaw kneeling show. Fantastic, I love it. Problem is 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.480 he can't be in three places. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:19.640 You know he cannot? 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:20.439 Are you sure? 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:21.359 Yeah? 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:26.080 Yeah? I having figured that one out on that's not happening. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:27.800 Were shot. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.120 So then the question becomes who steps up in addition 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.559 to Marshaw kneeling, Because yes, kneeling is going to get 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.840 that many more rips, but it's got to be more 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:37.400 than the rookie. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.120 So who is it? Who is it? Who is it? 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:40.960 That's a great question. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:47.839 Who the answered Josh, I think you gotta have get 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.720 some binoculars out and start start searching. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.720 I don't know, man, I'm I'm of the opinion that 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.920 one hundred percent. I think you look outside, you look 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:03.480 at what's available. Al Quad and Mohammad was a big 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:04.960 name of training camp that you know. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:05.320 We liked. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:06.560 We we thought he'd stick. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.520 We thought he'd stick. He did not. I think that's 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:15.200 a possibility there. But I always am in favor of trades. 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.360 I'm always in favor of building your team through uh 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.480 bartering in in certain senses, you know what I mean. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.840 But I don't think that's what they'll do based on 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.480 the team that we're talking about. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.960 I mean, it's possible, and we will refrain other teams, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.880 it is possible, and we will refrain. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:35.360 From saying names. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.319 We can't we can't say name. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.120 But I do think that, you know, looking into a 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.000 possible trade, that should be a viable discussion. I agree 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.199 with you there free agency you have, but. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:47.440 Is it is it here? 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.880 We'll lose a couple. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.200 Of games and it becomes that much more of a 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:53.080 viable conversation. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.480 But you lose games and then you're like, well, I 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.880 mean Mike is coming back. Well I was coming back, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:58.360 you know what I mean. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.760 I think that's to me, that's that's fair. 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.920 But to that point, I will say this, it's a 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.600 it's a Zimmer defense or defensive construct that has shown 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.640 me in training camp that although not necessarily the biggest traders, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.240 they did go and get Jordan Phillips via trade to 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.040 that point, but they do a lot in free agency 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.600 under Zimmer. It seems so far, I'll say that. So 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.600 you know, you went and you got a guy like 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.800 Carl Lawston. He's gonna be tasked with stepping up as 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.400 well in a huge way. And then you saw how 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.880 they cycled guys in at the linebacker position. That's how 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.600 Nick Vigil got here, right. You saw how they added 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.640 some more guys and theval Joseph ended up here as 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.959 well Albert Huggins. At one point, I mean, they're willing 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.680 to go into free agency, and there's some names in 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.640 free agency. Shaq Lawson comes to mind, right, yep, just 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:44.200 as one. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:46.600 But it didn't want to come your last night. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.240 But before to. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.480 Your point, though, Josh before they start looking outside the building, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.800 they're going to look inside the building. I agree, and 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.160 start pointing at guys and saying you, you, and you. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.640 I think it goes in order like that. I think 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.280 it goes in the building. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.880 Somebody's got to step up, whether it's Marshawn Neeland, it's uh, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.199 some of these other guys that are lost. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.079 And the guys you just mentioned. Then. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.080 I think the second level of that is get on 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.960 the phone, see who's out there, see who's available. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:16.560 There's guys. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.520 I think if you're looking to make an impact without 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.760 Parsons and d Law, you're not gonna get it from 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.120 Shack Loss and Randy Gregory on the open market, like 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.319 you're not going to get it from those. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.440 On top of that, I think Randy might be done 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.040 with football. He might be entirely based on his his 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.480 uh not back and forth and based on his short 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:36.880 stay with the Tampa Bay book. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.520 Ineers, it doesn't seem I think promising. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.439 Yeah. I think he's don't. Yeah, so that's awesome. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.320 You can maybe go get Villiami Fojoko who's still out 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:43.840 there still. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.320 He was kind of a twainer for you. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.240 More so, they were trying to push him inside than outside. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.000 I mean you already you've seen that, You've you've read 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:51.720 that book before. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.040 You know how it is to do that. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.400 That's a dire stre That's what I'm saying. And maybe 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.480 this is dire straits. We just mentioned how they've lost 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.960 their top three guys and you're relying on a rookie 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.440 to be your top ed rusher. There's not a whole 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.840 lot of other things that I would say are dire 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:05.960 straits in this league. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:07.920 And so I. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.640 Think number two on that possibility list one is inside, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.920 see who can step up. Number two is get on 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.400 the phone and see what you can do in terms 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.720 of a trade. And then dire straight dire straits. You're 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.680 hitting this list of free agents, guys like Shack Lawson, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:26.280 Austin Bryant, Raheem Green, Shane Ray, Ellerson Smith, Marky Haynes. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:26.560 That's it. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.560 Markey Haines was one that I looked. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.360 At as well. Yeah, those are kind of the only 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.040 names that are intriguing there. I mentioned Brandy Gregory. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.280 I just I don't agree with you. I just think 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.440 that he's done with football. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.680 Yeah, but I mean, do you call this dire straits 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.960 if it comes to the addresser spot because I'm pretty 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:45.400 close to that. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.600 Well, So here's the problem is you have to look 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.040 at it contextually as a whole. Right, we're coming off 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.440 and thankfully shouts out to guys like Mazzie Smith and 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.080 that interior offensive defensive line for showing that they can 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.680 go up against run of any sort and stop the 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.320 period of any type of run. So that's promising, but 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.840 small simple size as far as the positive nature of that. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.840 The bigger simple size is that they struggle against the 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.440 run because of the interior. So if you struggle against 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.920 the run because of the interior, and now you're losing, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:22.960 especially Marcus Lawrence arguably the best edge defender against the run. Yeah, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.760 I could say this is dire straits, right, I could 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.200 say that, and I would be well within my rights 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.360 to do so. I think Marshawn Kneeland moves over to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.920 that side with the Marcus Lawrence was playing, and he 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.880 gets to start there. And Marshan Nieland is a monster 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.040 at stopping the run on the edge. He absolutely is, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.920 I love you, but he's likely not going to play 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.480 one hundred percent of the defensive snap. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.640 So who rotates in with him? Right? 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.240 But I kind of just. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.520 I'm looking at the linebackers now right and applies more 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.720 stress to the line. It's going to make the interior 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.520 have to play better. They're gonna have to take a 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.320 step up. But how can you maybe hide some of 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.040 those inadequate whenever it comes to edge rushers by using 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.480 your linebackers and blitz cover in blitzes and different things 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.360 along the way. Because that was one of the big 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.160 things for Maris Leafoul out of the draft was the 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.840 fact that Mike Zimmer can disguise a blitz with Mary's 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.760 Leafoul and then bring either late pressure or just bring 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.320 it on the interior or on the edge. Maybe you 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.480 do the same thing with to Marvin overshow a lot 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.080 of those guys are able to do multiple things. How 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.480 do you hide it if you have some of those 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.680 those lapses in terms of edge talent. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.560 I mean to kind of go back to your question 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.280 about dire straits. I think two games isn't dire straits. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:40.080 I think, at least for this team now, it is 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.800 about disguising blitzes. It is about managing that the team 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.400 that you do have currently and being able to stop 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.520 the run. But I think that just opens up windows 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.840 for passes down the middle of the tight ends. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.080 The problem the tight. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.680 End game, I think, which we've struggled with in the past. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.120 I think that to me is a it's a it's 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.120 a red flag. But I don't think it's dire straight 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:01.640 at the moment. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.240 And I'll say this when you answer your question, Kyle, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.480 if you're going to lean and you're going to lean 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.080 more heavily on your linebackers, does that mean you run 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.080 more you know, four to three base to keep three 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.640 linebackers out there so you can disguise and send one, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.720 et cetera, et cetera. But then that takes a defensive 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.040 back off the field. You know, you're running less nickel 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.600 against you know, teams that maybe want to run more 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.800 twelve personnel. They want to get the tight end involved 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.840 up the seam. It sacrifices coverage to support the run, 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.240 and sometimes it'll work and sometimes you'll get burned. So 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.240 you just gotta gotta be careful with that. And that 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.439 that's the problem with this. So I can agree that 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.679 it's not necessarily dire straits yet. And that's why I 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.800 paused after that. You know, you post the question, cal 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.960 because it's kind of like until I see it, I 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.880 can't really be too concerned or too thrilled about it. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.800