WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Purdy Good Offense 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.600 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:15.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.760 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.920 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.800 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:33.479 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:39.760 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, January eighteenth, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.599 twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, Episode number one, O nine. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.960 Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We're live 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.720 from this s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, presenter 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.559 by Bill Like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.320 a day. Our job is get you guys ready for 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.840 Cowboys versus forty nine Ers. It is the divisional rounds 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.360 of the playoffs, down to the final four teams in 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.920 the NFC. It's getting real and so we got a 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:04.760 lot we're gonna talk about today. We'll jump into the 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.319 San Francisco offense versus the Dallas defense. Before we do that, though, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.000 I wanted to ask you guys a bigger picture question. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.839 This actually came from one of our listeners, Jose Rodriguez. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.920 He says I've been a Cowboys fan since the seventies 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.240 and will continue to be. But I have to ask, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.039 can you really expect to have the same performance from 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.440 both sides of the ball against the forty nine ers? 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.319 Is what we saw versus Tampa Bay? How do you 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.440 put that all in context? What we saw last week 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.600 and now going up against or you can play as 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.080 bad as you did against the Commanders, Yeah, I'll say, 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.720 I mean like it's it's everything's different. I mean, you 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.480 went up against a team that doesn't want to run 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.520 the football versus a team that runs the football, and 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.480 so you know it's it's going to be a different 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.920 game plans. They're a different personnel. I mean, I don't 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.520 know if they're gonna put Galimore and Bohanna inactive for 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.600 this game or both of them. I mean, I think 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.680 you have to play it a little bit differently, knowing 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.680 you know they say at all time, style styles make fights, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.640 and thinking in this case it's gonna be it's gonna 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.440 be different, So I expect a completely different game plan. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.240 I can I ask you guys a question. I know 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.799 you just asked me one. Can I ask you guys 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.320 a question? And then I'll circle back with your question, UM, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.840 do you feel like that dan Quinn played the last 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:21.280 couple of games not showing Israel? Kuam wu to you 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.160 said that on the radio this morning. I thought we 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.800 talked about that, Bobby, Bobby Belt and I do a podcast, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.960 Love with the Star, and Bobby brought that up last 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.639 night in the podcast. I didn't think of it that way, 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.160 And I'm sorry I missed you this morning driving in 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.960 and I appreciate all you've done all season for us 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.040 at one O five three the UM, I just wonder 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.160 if you know what else? Is there something else that 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.200 dan Quinn's not showing us right now that he's got 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.720 up his sleeve. And the thing about it is he 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.400 understands this play caller. He's been with this play caller, 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.000 but the play caller has been with him. Yeah, so 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.600 there's a lot of that that you know that that 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.880 game that you can play. Let me ask that though, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.760 to how much difference does that make when you say 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.040 the play call has also been with him. Yeah, he 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.800 wasn't a defensive coordinate at that time, he was the 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.639 head coach. How much does he really know how Dan 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.320 wants to call the defense? Yeah? If he didn't, if 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.880 he experienced it more as a head coach than a 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.600 defensive coordinator. I think that. I think there's things those 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.840 those days where Dan probably sat in on a lot 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.079 of meetings, and you know when you practice against somebody 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.920 every day and it's their d it's let's be honest. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.880 You know who was the coach? It was Morse right 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.720 that used it was Dan's defensive coordinator, Raheem Morris. Ya, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.480 Raheem Morrise was his defensive coordinator when he was the 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.640 head coach. So how about those practice times where he 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.040 knew it was Dan influence and Raheem Morris And so 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.680 Kyle working against that kind of thinking, or maybe you 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.440 have a question. These coaches do interact with each other, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.960 and so the thing I think that Nick's right about 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.240 this is can it be the same? Sure, you know 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.640 they're they're capable. We've seen Dak Prescott play at a 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.360 very high level. He played at an extremely high level 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.120 in that game the other day. So and if you 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.040 and scouts are taught, if you've seen it one time, 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.720 you can see it again. So Dallas is capable of 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:16.000 playing like that. I do wonder is there something else 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.159 that Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn. And maybe you could 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.360 say the same thing for what's going on in San 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.640 Francisco right now, because I went back and watched their 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.040 game against Atlanta where they got beat and it looks 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.280 like a completely different team than what you're seeing right now. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.120 So you're wondering what both sides. And yeah, it's the 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.839 problem that Dallas is running into is they had extra 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.680 days to help and prepare for the Tampa game. They 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.680 don't have a whole heck of a lot of extra 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.840 days to Okay, let's implement. And McCarthy's very much like, well, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.760 I don't like to just show new stuff. I don't 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.559 like he said that the other day to Brad Sham 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.159 on the pregame show, or I'm not interested in trying. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.960 And I think maybe he just said it to Brad 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.000 does make people think something else, because I do believe 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.479 Dan Quinn is going to come. You're gonna have to 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.800 show something different. I know in the pregame show I 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.119 even talked about this with Brady. You have two different 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.280 game plans. You have a first half game plan in 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.840 a second half game plan, whether it's playing Man, whether 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.400 it's playing Zone, you know you're mixing it up. However 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.120 you do it, you have different plans. You're just not 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.000 gonna sit there and let them get a beat on 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.320 you of how you're gonna play this game. And I 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.159 think the same thing goes with Kyle Shanahan. I don't 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.000 think that Dan Quinn is going to give him a 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.760 similar game plan. So, yeah, you're capable of doing it, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.479 absolutely you are. It might look different though, of how 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.719 you did it from how you played that Tampa game. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.840 One other thing I'll throw out to you guys, as 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.360 you look at the San Francisco team on defense, they 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.160 have I mean also this overall team, they're on an 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.080 eleven game win streak. They're starting quarterback now, Brock Purdy 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.200 is on a six game win streak. I think it 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.880 is when you look at this team, you start thinking, man, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.640 how do you beat them? But then when you dive 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.240 in a little deeper, the thing that stuck out to 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.720 me is they have played this so far this year. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.359 They have played five teams that have winning records. Only 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.440 one of them you would think of as a really 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.080 good team. That's Kansas City and they got destroyed forty 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.520 four twenty five. They beat the Chargers twenty two sixteen. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.719 They beat their ten and seven, They beat the nine 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.320 and eight Seattle Seahawks twice, beat them twenty seven to 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.360 seven during the regular season, and then beat him last 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.280 week forty one twenty three. And then they beat the 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.559 Miami Dolphins, who are also a nine and eight team, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.800 thirty three to seventeen. My question seventeen, My question becomes 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.440 to you, guys, is this team really as good as 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.599 we think or is it a lot about the fact 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.120 that they haven't played the upper echelon teams in the NFL, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.520 which makes you think Dallas has a much better chance 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.440 than you would think otherwise. Yeah, but they are beating 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.600 them pretty handily, though I would say that. I mean, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.600 there's not been a lot of close games. Oh sorry, 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.440 Raiders was one of them. Yeah, but for the most part, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.520 they're winning these games pretty handily. So I saw that too, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.480 and I thought, well, yeah, you're right, they're not playing 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.560 a lot of these great teams, but they're playing well 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.320 in those games. So I think that should give them confidence. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.240 And I don't care who you are. Eleven in the rows, Yeah, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.160 pretty good. Well, even then, it's one of those things 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.120 where I've learned to sometimes look at it like in 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.840 this perspective that it doesn't necessarily matter who the opponent 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.640 is because the Cowboys have We've seen they can play 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.800 whichever way. They can play really good or really bad. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.840 They tend to kind of either level up or level 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.760 down according to who their opponent is. So I think 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:38.239 that the Cowboys have a chance to win any game 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.440 against any opponent. It just depends on what team decides 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.120 to show up for the Cowboys that day. Yeah, that's 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.280 it's I don't look at the opponent because I think 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.120 Nick said it right. You win eleven straight games. You 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.400 know that that in itself is that they didn't have 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.280 a bad week. You know that the Raider game was 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.760 really interesting of how they played that and gave me 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.920 some clues how I would attack them. Uh, you know, 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.520 watching the Seattle game at first half, at least she 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.680 gets some ideas how you would attack. I think Atlanta 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.640 had a good plan for how to attack. That was 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.240 a Jimmy garoppolo game. But I wanted to see, you know, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.360 what did they do? And so yeah, there's there's there's 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.760 some keys to this thing, this matchup that you could 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.240 take from it. And I'm not looking at who they played. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.400 I'm looking Okay, what did what those teams that they 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.560 played what gave the forty nine ers trouble? And there's 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.280 some clues for that, you know. I also think the 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.240 forty nine ers are not going to do what the 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.240 Bucks did obviously that they want to run the ball. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:41.920 But the games where we've seen Parsons just be neutralized somewhat. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.080 It's those teams that like to run the ball and 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.520 can run it in different, unique, creative ways. That's the 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.839 ones that I think give him some problems. Tampa. I 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.760 just wanted to go back and you saw it on 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.439 the first drive of the game. I mean, he was 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.199 able to just get back there and go up against 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.800 the left tackle and you know, they called holding and 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.520 it was just like, oh so it's gonna be like that, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:04.000 and and Parsons was destructive of the whole game. Offensive 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.920 I was gonna ask you, offensively, who do you think 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.319 this San Francisco team compares to the most as far 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.679 as the opponents that the Cowboys have already faced Philadelphilly, Philly, Philadelphia, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.040 And even at that, as you watch them, it's very, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.280 very different. I don't know that I've seen a team 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.360 this season in the NFL that does some of the 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.880 things that they do offensively, justin how they move their 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.320 personnel around. Well, the way it compares to me is 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.560 not the running quarterback, because this quarterback's not going to run. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.640 I mean he'll run to escape. He won't run to 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.640 run a play where they where Derek is right though, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.559 is it is uniquely different. But the use of personnel, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.199 the use of the tight end. This team plays with 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.000 a full back. Not many teams do that. I mean 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.760 a lot of teams and they play and this team 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.760 will run back to back screens. Philly will do that. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.080 Philly will get a bunch formation, they'll bring guys by 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.320 jet sweet this team will do that. The way that 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.800 they use their personnel is similar to Philly. But the 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.200 biggest difference to me is Philly's quarterback can run as 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.040 a weapon. This guy, I think that he's not going 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.360 to be willing to run the football like we saw 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.199 him Phil. But the way they use their personnel in 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.439 a lot of different ways is very similar to me. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.400 I'll give you an example. You saw. You'll see primarily 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.480 the same guys on the field most of the time. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.280 The difference will be they'll line these guys up everywhere. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.880 I saw one play where they had Yuschek, who is 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.559 the fullback, they had him out wide, they had they 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.840 had um McCaffrey's running back kind of as a flanker 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.560 off of him out wide. They had the receiver Debo 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.600 in the backfield at the running back position, and then 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.400 you got killed all that tight end. And it's just 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.840 like in every play you can see a different guy 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.160 at a different place. So when you start thinking about 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.760 it from a matchup standpoint, if you really let's say, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.120 for example, Dallas says, who's the best wide receiver? Okay, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.880 obviously is Diebo Samuel? Okay, we're gonna put digs on him? Okay, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.959 where are you going digs? If he's in the backfield? 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.400 What are you doing? Like, it's hard to really match 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.920 up because every play, different guys are doing different things 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.920 and all of them can do it well. They're running 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.040 back and catch out of the backfield and can catch 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.760 from a wide receiver position very very well. So it's 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.240 a very very tough matchup. How do you how do 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.960 you what do you do to try to prepare for 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.679 something like that? Or how do you what are you going? 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.480 A job interview that could help you try and get 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.080 the cold shot real quick. Yeah, I mean honestly, but 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.680 that's that's what he did. Honestly. What makes me feel 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.520 good about this game defensively is what he did last week. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.040 Not the result, but how he changed things up. We 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.200 just finished talking about it. The fact that he said, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.600 you know, I'm gonna take Nashan Wright. I'm gonna put 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.880 him down. I'm gonna take Bohan, I'm gonna put him down. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.760 I'm gonna I'm gonna actually use this other guy that 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.840 I haven't really used in this way as a as 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.480 a slot corner, who has actually been a safety for us. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:55.920 I'm gonna use him in this game because I think 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.040 it's a good matchup situation. That makes me feel good 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.360 that he knows he's at least thinking about this, Like, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:03.080 I know this team is going to do a lot 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.360 of different things. I have some tricks in my back 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.240 too that I can trick things up and I could 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.560 show them something maybe they haven't seen and that may help. Right, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.560 I would do it with a Sean right too. I 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.719 mean not this game, but next season. I mean I'm 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.960 using these two guys like that. I've said it all 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.160 year long. I don't think he's a good outside corner. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.280 It's hard for that guy's that tall to be that 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.120 good against NFL receivers. But they can play in the 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.959 middle if they're smart and they're aware and they got 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.119 these you know, I mean, they could just touch both sidelines. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.640 I mean with their arms. I mean, it doesn't it 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.280 doesn't pass the eye test. When it comes to tall 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.199 corners playing in this league, there's not a whole lot 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.440 of them because of how leggy and how it hard 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.959 it is to turn. But that kid who's he sees 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.760 himself as a corner. He didn't see himself as the safety. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.920 And so you know, he's adapted. And I'm talking about Izzy, 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.679 he's adapted himself to say, listen, I could play this 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.040 position and I could show quickness and I you know, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.200 when the ball goes in side, he's got the length 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.800 where he doesn't have to drape his arm over to 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.640 make a play. He's got the ability to play off hand. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:11.120 And so yeah, I think that to me, they're gonna need, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.199 they're gonna need. It's such a matchup dependent game this week, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:20.280 and tackling is top of the list, but matchup depending 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.800 because to me, you know, you talk about their receivers 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.000 and and what you know and how they and how 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.360 they operate. Deebo Samuel has missed several games. But to me, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.520 Brandy and Ayuk is a problem. Yeah, you know they're 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.319 other receiver number eleven. He's a problem, and Kittles a 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.360 problem and us checks a problem. But you got, okay, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.000 when they start spreading you out and they put the 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.280 McCaffrey trade has put them over the top. The McCaffrey 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.760 trade went mate. If you watch the Atlanta game, no McCaffrey. Okay, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.040 good offense. They get McCaffrey. Now they got this ability 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.480 to toss the ball, throw the ball, they do all 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.360 this stuff with him, and it's like it's just set 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.800 their offense into a completely different direction. And so now 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.280 you know Brandon Aiyuk. They get on the goal line, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.560 where they do they put the fullback out there, They 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.400 put Ayuk out there, and they thought a screen and 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.800 then they just blow it into the end zone and 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.640 you're like going, all right, So you have to figure 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.959 out when all of a sudden, when they put Deebo 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.800 Samuel in the backfield, you're taking a corner if you're 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.000 traveling Diggs and he's now playing in the middle, in 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.680 the box, and all of a sudden they run the ball. Well, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.800 Diggs is in the box, is he gonna make a play? 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.520 Is he going to come up and tackle. That's what 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.320 they're banking on. They're banking on that your corner as 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.800 you drag him into the box, is not going to 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.680 make that tackle or not gonna be able to help 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.920 make the play. So they create mismatches. They make you 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.280 move guys who can tackle in the box against the 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.360 running game to the outside to cover a fullback and 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.600 a running back that's standing out there. It's just it's 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.440 they mess with you. They really do mess with you, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.240 and they mess with your alignment and how you play. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.920 Like you said, well, we've got to keep this box. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.200 We're gonna keep it tight. We gotta keep all our guy, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.200 you know, we gotta keep All of a sudden, vander 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.920 esh just walking out there and covering somebody, and now 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.960 that takes him out of the box to make a 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.280 play and they run the ball. That's that's pretty creative 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.960 stuff if you ask man, Yeah, I'll throw this in 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.800 real quick before we go to the break. I was 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.320 looking at that New Orleans game where they held him 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.200 the thirteen points. One of the things you notice in 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.360 that game is they didn't allow them to kind of 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.080 take them out of what they did. They tried to 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.520 kind of stay where they were. They played some zones. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.640 And so what it does it forces because because you're right, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.120 Shanahan's gonna look to kind of mess with you. He's 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.080 trying to get you to do all the things. Look 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.760 at the I can he say, I got this fullback 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.400 out here, so maybe I gotta take a lineback out 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.880 the linebacker out there with him. And and what New 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:41.760 Orleans did was we're gonna stay where we are right, 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.760 to stay in our base and and we're just gonna 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.480 basically play four down line and three linebackers and we're 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.680 just gonna kind of move and play zone and figure 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.680 it out. And it takes the way that superpower that 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.480 that San Francisco creates with Shanahan. I actually think that 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.160 might be a smart way to handle. See. The thing 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.680 about it is like, and I think you're exactly right 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.600 about this. And you know, if you can get Dan 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.560 Quinn in the building at lunch or wherever you guys 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.720 can see him, it's a good question what Derek just 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.000 talked about, because what happens is you become so matchup 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.600 conscious a play in these guys. Okay, this is who 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.000 I'm gonna have takeaway, ayook, this is who I'm gonna 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.320 play against, Deebo Samuel, this is who I'm gonna play 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.760 against Kittle. And now it turns into they've got you 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.040 so spread out, and now they've got your bad players on. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.200 They're good players, you know, and all of a sudden 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.920 you're in. You're in a little bit of a bind 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.320 that way because of all the adjustments you're having to make. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.240 And to Derek's point, it's a great question for dan 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:37.880 Quinn if you could get him off on the side. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.480 He's not gonna say in front of the meta or 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.600 anything like that, but how do you play? I mean, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.720 I'm going to talk to some coaches today around the 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.080 league that I know that played against the forty nine 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.040 ers and say, you know, okay, how do you how 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.840 do you play against this this front, how do you 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.200 play against this how do you move the ball or 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.400 how do you attack this and that? And so I'm 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.840 looking forward to that because they are a fascinating team 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.960 to watch on tape, just because of all the things 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.040 that they do to fun team to watch. Yeah, all, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:04.600 we're gonna take our first break. We're gonna come back 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.000 dive in light. Right, We're gonna dive in a little 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.400 bit more into this offense to San Francisco offense versus 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.480 the Dallas defense. 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