WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: 10 Count! 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:17.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.680 Cowboys training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:28.320 the Star in Frisco, Blowing to the gold line, Scotty 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.120 and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, heck My Harrison, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:48.000 Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's Dallas Cowboys. It is a 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.479 victory Monday here on Talking Cowboys, helping fans get in 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.280 on the game, as always presented by Tostitos, our favorite 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.400 chip and our favorite tip of Talking Cowboys. Welcome in 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.760 to the s WBC studios at the Start and Friskill. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.000 Following a twenty one to six win over the NFC's 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:14.840 phone New York Giants, Hey there, everybody, Hey, what's happening 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.080 really fun today? Huh oh? Absolutely? Ten and four? Ten 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.399 and four? Can you believe this? I mean, even going 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.680 back to the early parts and we'll get into the 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.080 nitty gritty. We know it wasn't a pretty win. We're 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.280 gonna talk about it, but ten and four is pretty 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.760 remarkable when you look at where this team was a 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.360 year ago, what the offseason looked like, and all the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.800 uncertainties that were surrounding. Sometimes you just got to take 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.479 a step back from a season like this and say, wow, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.399 you've got ten wins and you've still got three to play, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.319 and all three of those are winnable as well. When 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:47.880 I was on my way end this morning, I had 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.440 a little conversation with myself. I was thinking about where 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.440 this team came from last year. And now you know, 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.160 you know how I feel about this win. But it's 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.440 a win. But in terms of where this team was 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.840 last year and what they had to overcome, is coach 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.680 McCarthy up for coaching a year. Man, you are gonna 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:07.160 get just throw stuff thrown at you. I'm wondering because 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.960 I'm wondering. I mean, I'm just saying I agree, I 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.400 completely agree you talk about the turnaround from last year 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.600 this year. That's valid. Yeah, that's only means. I don't 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.480 know about some of these other coaches, but I mean that, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.560 just that that thought process came in my mind. I'm like, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.680 he it hasn't been pretty, but it is what it is. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.799 We're gonna that. We're gonna notte that. So when the 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.400 national media starts talking about that, we'll just say, hey, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.840 I'm talking Cowboys. Isaiah stand Back said it. He said it, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.920 he got it in the news cycle. Yeah yeah, like 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.480 ray J. So you think there's members of Cowboys names 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:40.680 oh Man, Okay, two forty five into the show. Yeah 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:47.720 that's too Jesus okay, I keep going quickly. So you 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.639 think there's members of Cowboys nations? They're like, I don't know, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.839 Coach of the Year, pe. It's a lot of people 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.359 who probably have their doubts about play call, not only 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.799 play call, in game management, clock management, all of those things. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.720 He's been played with. But you're attending four. Your defense 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.359 is playing out of this world. I mean, obviously we're 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.240 gonna get into the offense. And what whoa having birthdays? 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:16.320 Nate new Birthday? Having birthday? Nate, Hey your birthday? Come on, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:23.079 Nate Birthday night. There may have to take Rob's camera 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.120 for this. Absolutely once again we got this whole loud 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.400 brother again going over the mountain to you having birthday 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:38.320 many the Great Nate Newton the Great. So here's why 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.680 are we always screaming. I don't know why we're screaming, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.600 but the thing because we won. We won. But the 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:49.680 podcast studio, So the Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.040 Arizona Cardinals, the Green Bay Packers. Those are the top teams, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.560 those are the division leaders in the NFC. Three of 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.640 those four have been there recently, or at least are 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.000 expected to be there. Arizona you could argue hasn't been 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.400 there recently. Cliff Kingsbury could be in that conversation. But 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.080 the fact that the Cowboys are in that conversation, they 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.880 were up at the top of the skit standings there. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.640 I think it does throw Mike McCarthy into that, at 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:17.000 least into the realm of possibility. Yeah, I think if 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.320 the I think if the Cardinals get the one seed, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.000 it's probably Kingsbury because he's a young coach and he's 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.520 he's rising and all that, and they also are way 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.440 more improved than they were in twenty twenty as well. Yeah, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.520 could be Belichick with the rookie quarterback. But but that's 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.720 you're right, Like he's he's done a great job. He's 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.880 hired assistance that have come in and done. Dan Quinn 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.080 specifically has done a fantastic job this year. I was 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.800 just to your point when you started the show off. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.839 I was looking at December December twenty twenty twenty Cowboys 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.920 were four and nine. They were this year's New York Giants. Basically, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.760 so health helps a lot. But we talked about culture 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.520 a lot on this show, defensively especially the culture is 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.240 completely flipped. And now, right now, at this moment, it's 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.440 the strength of your football team. Hey, you say it again. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.960 It's the strength of your football team right right this minute. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.960 And if last year, last year, this time I said 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.440 to you, your defense is going to be the strength 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:17.000 of your team. And they're gonna be the strength of 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.960 your team, and you're gonna have thirty takeaways. I mean, 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.479 no way you would have believed that, No way from 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.640 from where we had come from. And now and Nick 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.919 Eatman's article are ready yesterday, just talking about how this 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.840 defense is the show you want to you want to 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.120 hurry up and see what they're gonna do. What is 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.080 Dan Quinn going to bring next? What is Michael Parsons 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.719 going to do next? And just man Tank Lawrence and 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.440 the addition of him and Randy Gregory, all these guys together, Man, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.200 that front seven is man. They are devastating. Question, go ahead, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.159 do you look forward? This is kind of weird. Do 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:53.880 you look forward to seeing the defense more than you 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.640 look forward to seeing an offense. Yeah, I look forward 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.719 to the third downs now. I want to see who's 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.960 line up, where, what Mike is doing? Is he dropping, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.680 is he coming? Where's Lawrence lining up? Like? Yeah, it's fun, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.880 it's it's it's everything they told us it would be. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.680 And he kind of at one point the season you 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.479 almost kind of rolled your eyes, like, well, are they 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.960 really gonna get everybody back? Yeah? You know they actually 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.039 were missing two defensive tackles yesterday and still got it crazy. Yeah, 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.359 And to that point, I mean earlier in the season 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.360 and even going back to the early parts of the season, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.840 the first six weeks or so, when Dak Prescott was 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.359 coming off the sideline, you looked at Dak Prescott and 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.520 you say, Okay, what's coming up next? Are they gonna 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.359 hit CD or are they gonna hit him? Mark Cooper? 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.760 Is Michael Gallup? I guess during the opening game of 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.039 the year, is he gonna find his way open? You 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.520 felt that intensity. It's the same thing on defense now 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.000 because at some point during that drive, someone's gonna make 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:44.839 a play. And that was adamant again yesterday. I mean, 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.839 I think one of the things that's happened. Is so 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.920 many outstanding things that happening on defense. I'm sitting on 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.520 the edge of my seat because I don't know when 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.279 trey Von Digg is gonna take one to the house. 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.839 All right, I mean, well, way, this is something special. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.760 I mean, we're defensive Player of the Year. I mean, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.760 at the beginning of the year was a Trayvon Diggs 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.719 and the what he was doing, and then it switched 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.280 to Mica. But it's just managed ten interceptions in the season. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.800 That's that's special, man. Cowboys with the first team since 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.960 the two thousand and seven Chargers with one player with 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.160 ten plus sacks and one player with ten plus interceptions. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.200 So it's been a long time since you've seen the 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.800 defense like that. Can we throw Everson's name out there? 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.320 Can we tell the NFL world to put some respect 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.160 on Everson Walls's name, the great, the great Everson Walls. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.000 Because we're talking about Treyvon Diggs and the amazing year 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.960 that he's having and how he's killing it. But then 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.480 when you look at that list, Everson Walls is on 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.840 that list twice eleven interceptions and nine interceptions, Am I correct? 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:41.960 All right? And we talking about Trayvon. He's in between 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.600 those two right now. He's going he's going after Everson's record. However, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.240 Everson's done it twice and he's not in the Hall, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.400 and in an era where they didn't throw the football 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.800 early as much, he's not in the Hall. Somebody please 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.200 put some respect on my unk's name. That's a great 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.320 point because he was a finalist in the last couple 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.240 of years, but not I don't think last year. But 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.840 this actually kind of brings his profile back to the surface. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.600 So that's great. Yeah, and deserving trey vonn With his 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.800 tenth interception. During the game, Micah's sack, Street comes to 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.760 a close, which is unfortunate. Cowboys didn't really have the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.559 sack numbers. What they have one two sacks on the game. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.080 I guess just one sack. They had a combined between 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:24.520 Gallimore and Dorance Armstrong, but you didn't need it. You 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.360 felt like they were in the backfield. Glennon had zero 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.920 time to throw. I mean, Mike Glennon was not very 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.079 good first off, but thirteen of twenty four ninety nine 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.280 yards and three interceptions under a twenty five passer rating. 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:37.920 I mean, what did you think about the way this 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.880 defense played and you got to take it with a 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.400 grain assault because it was against the Giants, but they 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.640 did what they needed to do and they executed. Now 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.600 we've been we've been talking about all season, when is 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.920 this defense going to be the reason that we win 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.280 the game? We've been looking for that. We've obviously pretty 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.640 much put it in our heads that the offense is 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.439 going to be what leads this team to have any success. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.560 And now that tides a turn. I think it just 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.880 shocks everyone to see the defense balling outline game. Man. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.079 I mean, not the three straight road games and twelve 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.600 turnovers in three I mean, come on, I mean that's outstanding. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.640 And so at some point, Pete, we've had this conversation 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.240 about the defense obviously winning us some games, but we've 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.360 seen this three consecutive weeks where they've done this. And look, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.679 the one thing I think, my pet peeve is with 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.840 this victory is there used to be a time we 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.280 talked about the culture difference between some of these things 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.679 and the cell phones last week last Friday. There used 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.400 to be a time in the NFL where you win 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.760 by fifteen points and you run four one hundred and 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.600 twenty four yards. That's great, everybody's satisfied. But we win 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.040 by fifteen points and we still got to defend the offense. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:45.719 And to me, that's crazy. I know the question was 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.920 about the defense, but there used to be a time 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.720 where these numbers were satisfactory, but it's not anymore. Yeah. Yeah, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.679 And you watch two games last night, and you watched 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.000 the Bucks get shut out for the second time ever 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.679 in Tom Brady's career. Yeah, first time since two thousand 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:05.119 and six. You watch the Cardinals get blasted by the Lions, blasted, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.319 just destroyed, one eleven and one Lions, And I think 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.800 it does highlight the fact. And Isaiah knows better than 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.679 anybody in this room how hard it is to win 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.160 a football game in the NFL, regardless of Again, they, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.720 like Keck said, they've played some quarterbacks that are not 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:24.880 highly productive quarterbacks Mike Lennon, Taylor Heineke, and Taysom Hill 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.720 the last three weeks, but they get the job done. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.480 And these stats, these takeaway stats are ridiculous. They have 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.600 four takeaways yesterday, third straight game with four plus. The 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.240 last time that happened was ninety four. And what some 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.160 of what they're doing defensively and Jerry talks about this stuff, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.920 and yeah, those are great, great dynastic teams, but that 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.640 is their defensive line pressure is like championship level right now. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.880 It really, it really is. But again again it comes 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.319 back to expectations of what we've seen this offense capable 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.720 of doing what this offense needs to do in order 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.640 to win games in January's and that's you know, that's 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.240 the other side of it. If you want to got 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.960 it'd be a little more critical, and that's our job, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.679 I guess yep, and I am missed a critical And 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.839 I think that the defense, obviously, the defensive line is 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.000 playing amazing. The secondary is getting more opportunities because of 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.439 the defensive line play, and you heard Digs you know, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.120 obviously allude to that yesterday in this postgame interview. But 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.760 with the one glaring spot, I think we can't ignore, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.360 you know, I'm always want to highlight it. Run defense, 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.240 run defense, run defense, run defense. The Giants came in 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.360 yesterday with the intense and with the intent to run 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.280 the ball down the throats of Dallas Cowboys, and they 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.520 were being successful with that. Now it gets to a 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.120 certain point where the game gets out of hand and 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:36.560 you got to get out the side of your game plan, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.400 but their initial game plan was being executed to their liking, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.040 and that is something that we have to figure out. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.839 We have all our guys back in terms of the 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.120 pass rush and and we were missing some guys in 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.360 the interior yesterday, which obviously doesn't help you with your 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.360 run defense. But that is an area that teams are 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.720 highlighting now. It's just like teams on offense. When they're 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.600 going to get our offense, they're like, hey, this offensive 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.680 line we talked about in the pregame show the left side. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.360 We could let these boys right, we can put some 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.000 pressure on them now on defense or like, where's the 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.080 whole at crap, let's run the ball. And that's something 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.320 we gotta shure up. No, I mean, you make a 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.840 great point about that, but you know, I thought that 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.320 the run defense was solid all the way up until 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.160 that thirty one yard run by Booker. You know that 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.840 that was the one run that I thought that I 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.439 looked back over the game and like, if you don't 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.280 give up that when you hold him to less than 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.880 one hundred yards, to be ninety one yards or whatever 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.760 it would have been at that time. But you're right, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.800 I mean, the run defense is something that has to 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.280 be fixed, the big playability. You still have the questions 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.559 in your head, is this a championship level defense? Yeah, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.840 And you got to continue to ask yourself that over 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.520 the next couple of weeks because it seems like if 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.440 we're gonna continue with the offense at this pace, you're 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.960 gonna need that defensive output and you're gonna need them 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.600 to get more stops and not allow those big runs. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.280 I'm on your side, whereas I don't think the run 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.160 defense was as bad as Isaiah's kind of eluding it 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.920 to be, because you were talking about this in the 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.000 studio and we disagreed in studio about this because Sequa 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.880 Barkley was the game plan truly on I mean threw 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.920 it to him, They ran it with him. He went 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.760 fifteen carries for fifty yards. He didn't have a carry 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:13.120 than six. He was done. They destroyed him Without Tristan 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.000 hill in Osa di Gizo, who arguably aren't some of 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.080 your better defensive tackle strengths in terms of stopping the run. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.719 Booker had his lumps. He was able to run a 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.680 little bit better, kind of like that changeup of Ezekiel Elliott, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.680 Tony Pollardy was a changeup, and Booker definitely had the 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.559 thirty one yard run. I believe he had another one 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.880 that was like fifteen or so. I feel okay with 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.880 how the defense played yesterday, But again, this is against 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.600 a struggling Giants offense, against the struggling offensive line. If 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.640 that's up against let's say, Denver, it might have been worse. 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.840 If that's up against some of these other teams that 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.880 can run the football a little bit better, might have 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.400 been worse the Green Bay Packers. Let's just say that. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.560 I see where you're coming from. And it kind of 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.880 goes back to that conversation of is it expectation or 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:59.840 is it just unsatisfied fans. It's definitely the expectation at 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.480 the point. You want them to be able to stop 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.120 everyone on the run. But they did stop the Giants yesterday. Yeah. No, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.840 I mean what the main priority they had was obviously 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.800 stopping sae Quon Barkley, and they did that, right, that 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.520 was the number one model. If we bought up se Kuon, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.679 we went boom facts. Okay, but I don't like those 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.000 little holes. I just personally I don't like those little 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.360 holes because for the Giants to come in and say 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.160 we can run the ball on you, Like, what the heck? Yeah, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.560 are you serious? Right now? What's you know, what's the 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.800 stop the dog on you know, Green Bay from coming 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.280 in with Jones and dealing and saying, let's see, I 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.600 figured that out about you, ASA, is that you're not 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.600 You're you're looking to the future. Yeah, you're not. You're 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.200 not even dealing with right now right And the whole 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.120 time I've been thinking that you're dealing with right now 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.080 and that ain't where you are you're talking about I 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.800 don't know, yeah, same page now, yeah, all right. So 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.000 in defending a win, uh and the and the defense, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.160 I'm just saying, like, man, if you can do that 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.640 against SA kuon Barkley and bottle him up, what's the 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.360 say who else in the NFC that you're worried about? 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.520 From a running back standpoint? Green Bay obviously has Jones? Yeah, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.160 and who got hurt last name? I'm not and again 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.560 I'm not when when we talk about this NFL, I'm 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.400 not so concerned about the talent at the running back position. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.080 I'm more so worried about the schemes. Right, I'm worried 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.200 about the schemes because I honestly think that in this 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.480 NFL they're running backs that are substantially better than the 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.000 other running backs. But for the most part, if you 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.680 have a solid running scheme, you can plug and play. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:30.920 You can plug and play. And I truly believe that 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.280 San Francisco exactly, especially when you have a quarterback who 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.160 can throw the thing all over the play. So, yes, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.200 you're asked, absolutely correct, I am like my competitive level 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.400 is is I don't I don't know to make people 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.200 more competitive than me, right, So when I think about competition, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.400 I'm thinking about what is it going to take to 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.000 get the ultimate goal, like satisfaction and get into the playoff. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.200 That's not satisfaction, right. We might be in the playoffs 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.680 as of tonight, right, but we don't. That's not satisfaction. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.720 What is the ultimate goal, and that's to get that 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.720 dog on ring. So when you start thinking about the 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.920 areas that you need to shore up, who are the 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.520 teams that you were that you may face that you 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.640 have to face in order to get that dog on ring? 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.280 And is that level a player that you currently at 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.400 right now good enough to get you there? And the 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.440 answer has to be no. In certain areas now they're 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.840 other teams are gonna have their off days too. Yeah, right, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.520 they're not gonna be They're not gonna be one hundred 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.880 percent on every single thing that they're doing. But that's 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.560 that's the approach that you have to take Tampa Bay yesterday. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.720 Not on there, Absolutely not at all. It was ever 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.520 a point in this game where you felt as though 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.920 that the Cowboys didn't have control, No, and we're gonna 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.000 get into the offense. But I thought it in certain 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.320 spots it was reflective in the play calling where they 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.680 felt like, ah, we don't have to go too deep 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.360 in the bag necessarily because we just take the points, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.800 don't take a sack. I'm thinking of the third down 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.760 before halftime. Yeah, I didn't feel like it was And look, 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.760 I mean that's the run defense stuff. That's the kind 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.400 of thing Dan Quinn's gonna point out in the film 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.080 room today is that we gotta sharpen this up. We 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.640 gotta sharpen that up. To your point, you take away 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.920 that thirty one yard run by Booker and it's I 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.680 think it's four yards of carry that they got in 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.720 the game, but it counts, you know, the fifty eight 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.000 yard run by Tony Pollard in New Orleans changed the 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.040 game for the Cowboys. Didn't run it really well outside 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.920 of that, but it counts. So you get in the playoffs, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.679 you got to tighten those things up. No lots of 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.240 good points all over the place, because I mean that's 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.600 the thing is the offense still hasn't hit that ceiling 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.400 that we've seen them hit previously. We're gonna talk about 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:27.919 that when we come back on the other side of 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:32.040 the break. 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