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We will be talking to Cowboys Nation 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:59.520 all day. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.760 Let's go get in the lines. Man. We want to 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.280 talk to you people. There you go, We got we 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.920 got jam in the building today, Bula. We need like 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:13.680 the airwork about it like that? What's up? John? What's 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.440 going on? Listening to Little Jerry this morning? 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.480 Listen to Little Jerry. He went for about seventeen eighteen 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:20.680 minutes there, maybe even longer. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:25.600 There was a lot there. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.280 impressed with how they played on Sunday. And I know 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.640 you guys already discussed. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.119 It, but yeah, I want to hear your thoughts. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:31.039 I didn't expect it to be. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.560 That lopsided, man, did I just I felt like Bill 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.840 Belichick would have something in his bag for them. And 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.800 I looked at that early second quarter as boxing UFC 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.960 whatever into fight where looked like, you know, cowboys had 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.640 a little bit of an edge, and then there was 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.320 a Jayalen that Jalen Tolbert hit on the punt return, 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.040 and then they they've come back and you know, get 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.560 the Dante Fowler sack fumble and then they go for 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.000 two and in that little space of time, it's reminded 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.760 me of a fight where you this guy gets danged 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.280 out pretty good and you're just like, yeah, there's more 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.680 left of this fight, but that guy's definitely hurting right now, 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.360 and it's going to be tough for them to come back, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:07.880 you know, and they were gonna have to have something 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:09.600 in their bag to come back from. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.480 And I don't know if there is anything. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.160 In mac Jones's bag to come back from something like 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.560 that against that defense. You know, if they're playing against 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.400 a different team maybe, but against that defense and how 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.040 fired up that defense was and how they played like 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.359 we expect them to play from the very beginning. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.560 That was really impressive, you know, so. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.320 Huge, huge answer because of the fact of man, can 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:31.960 you magic going in this game at two and two? 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:33.400 If they would have lost that game, it would have 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.440 been so bad. So to respond with that type of 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.320 an effort, I thought that was pretty pretty impressive. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.400 So it sets you up to where this game. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:43.760 I mean, this game is always going to mean a lot, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.240 but it makes you feel a little bit more like, Okay, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:51.639 they're back into being in maybe that same conversation with 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.080 the forty nine ers, but I don't know. I'm more 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.000 intrigued in seeing that game now than I was. If 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.200 let's say that would have been a close game against 0:02:58.200 --> 0:02:59.799 the Patriots that I lost to the Patriots, I would 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.160 have had, like I said last week, I had them 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:03.400 a little bit lower on the rung. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.359 I still have San Francisco at the top. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.120 But I do think that they would be the favorite 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.919 right now to win the NFC and this will be 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.120 a great test. So and I'm not nearly as concerned 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.519 about the red issues I think everybody else is, you know, 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.080 just because of how sloppy or not sloppy, but how 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.440 just the style of those first four games, even the 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:22.920 three wins, it wasn't like you really needed the offense 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.480 to put up some big numbers. So that will be 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.320 this will be the real test this Niners game of 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.160 where this offense is. You'll be five games into this season. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.240 If you have some major issues there, then then we'll 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.160 see we can we can talk more about that obviously, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.400 but what a great test is going to be just 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.200 because of the fact of this offense is really the 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.560 reason they've lost to the Niners the last few times 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.480 in the playoffs. You know, the defense didn't enough the 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:47.560 offense they needed. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:47.920 More from them. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.560 And so with Mike McCarthy, calm plays and some different 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.400 piece on offense, how different will this be or will 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.400 it be the same as as it's been against the Niners? 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:57.640 Are they still a rung higher? 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.280 So yeah, I think Jerry Jones talked about it a 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.640 little bit this morning, saying that he would put the 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.640 Diners at the top of the list of favorites to 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.880 go to the NFC or go to the Super Bowl 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.880 rather out of the NFC. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.400 And I mean, this game itself probably doesn't have us 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.840 the same amount of draw as it would if both 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.160 teams were four and oho, but four oh and three 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.760 and one. There's still gonna be plenty of eyes on 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.120 this game. I think everyone will be watching this one, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.160 everybody in their mama. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:24.720 Yeah. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.760 Yeah, this is a this is that test. And we've 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.000 talked about it plenty. I mean we were talking about 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.000 a week one and they blew out the Giants forty 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.359 to nothing, and John was ready to hit the Madden 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.040 sim two Week five. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.480 Mode like I always was. I'd never changed with these 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:39.839 other games. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.360 I'm not saying that the player should have been that way. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:42.360 I'm not saying you guys should have been. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:42.960 There for me. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.120 But John wants to see him against the forty enough over. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.279 The last ten to fifteen years I needed to see. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.119 I want to see how they stack up against the Niners. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.359 That still will tell me. They'll tell me way morning 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:52.920 in these first four games, will Yeah. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.440 What are some news and notes from today? 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.040 Nick Harris, Well, you took one of mine saying that 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.760 Jerry said this morning that U he felt like San 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:02.279 Francisco was the favorite. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:02.480 I don't. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.200 I don't really know if he was saying it as 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.200 if he felt that way, or if he was just 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.560 talking about the general public. And the betting odds and 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.160 all those things. Either way, I thought it was just 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.880 an interesting comment to make at that certain point. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.840 I thought, at least in initial listening, I thought he 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.200 said that he thinks they're the favorite, like that's. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.080 His whole NFL. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.320 He said was he thinks he's they're the favorite right now. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.280 Went to win the Super Bowl, Yeah, to win, to 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:24.600 win this. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:26.520 And I thought he said, make. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:27.960 It no, no, no, And they are in Vegas right 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:28.280 now too. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.479 Yeah. Interesting, they are the betting odds. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.160 You got the Chiefs, you know, opening the season, losing 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.960 the Lions, messing around with the Jets. I mean they 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.200 would be the clear AFC favorite. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:39.559 Yeah, I would agree. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.480 I'm talking to say it's sitting here shaking his head. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:42.320 I'm talking about Vegas. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.000 You don't like Vegas. Nobody cares. I mean the first players, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:46.720 the players don't care. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.840 Vegas always knows something. The players, early players don't care. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.600 Who's projected to be Like I'm just telling you from 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.600 our perspective, we don't give a dog on. We know 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.440 it's a tough team and that's all the matter. And 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.400 they beat you the last few times. So I'll say 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:00.880 dot guns and no, I. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.320 Can't say it with my chest all the way cow. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.279 But no, I mean that's that's from a player's perspective. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.920 Like I said yesterday, this is get back this. These 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.160 last few times you played these guys, they have knocked 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.359 you out the playoffs, so they are. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.039 Pointed that that's that's it is disrespect. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:15.680 You know, they they walked up in your house a 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.600 couple of years ago and they walked in with the 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.440 little boombox and they sent you on your on your 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.560 little mary way right. And then today, I mean not today, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.560 but last year they sent your butt home. Last again, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.440 it was just like this is this is for respect, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:28.640 This is for respect. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.000 And it's not like either game were blowouts. I mean 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.240 it comes down to right to the end. Your offense 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.160 in both games had chances to win that game and 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.240 and couldn't get it done. Now, last year, obviously they 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:38.960 didn't have Tony Pollard. I think that game might have 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.039 been different had they had Tony Pollard in the second half. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.560 So maybe that was a factor. Maybe they have the answers, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.200 Maybe Mike McCarthy calling the plays will make the difference 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.960 what we will see. But I have my uh, I 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.920 have my doubts about uh, it becoming a defense like 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.080 on the Cowboys defense. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:58.160 I think it's it's one of those things. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.680 If the offense shows up and they answer in the 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.400 red zone, I think the Cowboy's got a great chance 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.040 to win in this game. 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:05.560 In terms of the red zone. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.200 Everybody keeps talking about the red zone, right, and I 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.800 know you said you're not that concerned about it. I'm 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.320 not that concerned about it either. However, Like at the 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.640 end of the day, Coach McCarthy, I was telling them 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:14.520 some of my business. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.240 Partner actually this. He was like, man, we gotta figure 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.160 out this red zone thing. I'm like, Noah, that's how 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.960 he talks to figure ze. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:20.720 No. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.880 Now, he's from he's from Houston. Actually, wait, which one. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:24.440 Of these years. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.560 As soon as you said it, I was like, hey, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.120 we're in the red zone. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.440 That I'm like, I said, no, we're good. It's the best. Listen, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.240 Coach McCarthy, go only called the place right. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.680 He's calling their proper plays against the proper against the 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:36.800 defenses that are being present. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:36.960 Right. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.240 He's guessing right, right. It's a guessing game. You call 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:40.080 a play based. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.400 Upon what the analytics say the defense is going to present, right, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.040 based upon down the distance, personnel groupings, all that stuff 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.760 right list literally a mind game, right back and forth 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.760 his chest. So he's calling the proper plays. Think about 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.240 how many drops there has been in the end zone. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.720 At least too that I can think of schoonmaker this 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.520 week and hinder shot for further right. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.440 I think there's some things like that that have happened 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:03.920 in the red zone though that make me think that 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:05.440 it's not just us talking about it. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:06.280 They're talking about that. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.360 Yeah, but they're definitely so these are drops. They're not 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.480 like they're like you're struggling to get guys open. Oh no, no, no, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.800 these are these are like just drop opportunities because had 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.400 those been touchdowns the way they should have been, there as. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:17.840 A different story. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.640 And they're not even talking about but how many drops have. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:21.920 There been from Brandon Cooks. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.080 He hasn't even seen a target yet in the red 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.360 I mean like, I mean Michael Gallup had the one where. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.040 It was p I but then it was picked up 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:30.720 and need to go back and watch the pregame show. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.640 I mean, I'm just there's there's there's there's elements that 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.640 are missing of this offense in the reds. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.040 Yes, that's no doubt. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.600 Is it as big of an issue as it has been, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.040 at least in the media and across Cowboys Nation. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:44.920 Probably not. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.360 But if it rears its head like it did against Arizona, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:48.520 then it is an issue. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.599 And that's where I have it. You haven't needed it 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.000 in three of the four. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.720 Games you've played so far, it's been a relatively non issue. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.600 You're gonna need it against you, No, you're gonna need 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:58.160 to convert. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.719 You're gonna need to Actually, like del I don't think 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.319 that he's I don't think that coach McCarthy struggling to 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.199 come up with great concepts in the red zone. And 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.040 I think that's really I don't think that. Yeah, but 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.040 I think that's the narrative going around right now. Right 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.360 people are saying, oh, the red zone struggles, are they 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.719 really struggling narrative? And I disagree too, Yeah, And I 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.199 whole hardly disagree, right, And I watch a fair amount 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.040 of film like begin I'm like, okay, first game, second game, Okay, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.040 you got to figure this out. When I say figured 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.920 this out, I mean like, actually, like take care of 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.160 your assignments as players, cute execute right, make the catches 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.360 you can't afford to drop balls in the in the 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:29.840 red zone. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:30.360 You just can't. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.240 You work too hard to get down there. You have 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.520 eighty snaps per game, right, I think we're averaging like 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.760 seventy five. Right, there was maybe fifty something, sixty something, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.040 eighty something in then and seventy something again right, something 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.400 run there anyway, So you're averaging around around seventy five 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.400 plays a game. You just got to convert and three 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.319 touchdowns that I can think off off the top of 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:47.320 my head have been dropped. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.240 Three touchdowns, so you could throw in the Pollard carry 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.040 on Sunday is basically like in that same category, just 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.959 because Pollard went the wrong way. If he goes the 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.800 right way, he walks in on touch walks in. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.640 So I'm again, it's not it's not a McCarthy at all. 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.840 I don't think that's anything that that's in their head. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.280 I think they notice when they're inside the twenty. I'll 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.520 say that. I think I think it's I think notice 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:08.920 it a little bit more than they did Week one. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.000 Does that affect their play? I don't know. I'm not 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.520 in that moment. I'm not the guy who has the 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.520 brain in that moment. But I think inside the twenty. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.400 They're looking around, Okay, we've got to score here. And 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.160 I think there's a little bit more urgency in that. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.880 And there will be it for this game too, because 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.440 of the fact. For this is one of those games 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.760 when you watch it, like you've watched the Patriots for 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.360 so many years when they were in their dynasty era, 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.240 where you're you're a team trying to knock them off 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.200 and your team gets in the red zone and they 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.599 settle for a field goal, You're like, yeah, that's not 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.080 gonna get it done. And that's how I feel about 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.680 this game. Minimum three touchdowns. Cowboys have to score at 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.800 least three touchdowns to win this game. They will not 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.640 get it done. When with just two to they have 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.199 to score. So when they're in the red they have 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:43.439 to they have to capitalize it. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.360 I just want to squash the narrative that, oh yeah, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:47.640 it does coming from the game. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:49.199 But that's that's what it feels like. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.360 Like people aren't saying, Oh, we're just not we're not 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.200 finishing plays, we're not making the catches. That's not the conversation. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.520 The conversation, Oh my gosh, they're just struggling in the 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:56.959 red zone. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.960 That's false. That's false. It's interesting you one of the. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.400 Best points I thought you brought up just from like 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.679 a player or player's perspective during the game when you 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.760 and I were watching in the studio with Barry and Nate, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:12.240 and you said, Bill O'Brien, right now, he's losing his 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.840 mind on the sideline because he's calling the right plays. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:19.880 There's separation, there's openings, and just lack of execution. But 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.079 at some point the lack of execution has to fall 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.840 back on the coaching staff too, at some point. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.240 Right, No, not all the time, all the time. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.280 I mean, I mean, I mean, did you watch Watchable 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.760 is losing his mind? He was, I was on TV 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.840 right now, right now, I mean he I mean, there's 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:37.640 only so much you can do as a coach. As 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.360 a listen, the players. The players have to prepare right. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.800 The players have to prepare mentally, and they have to 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.200 prepare physically right. Physically, there's their job to get themselves ready. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.480 There's a whole strength and conditioning staff that is there 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.600 in place, okay. Aside from that, they have the dietitian 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.880 staff in place, okay, So they have a responsibility to 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.400 get themselves physically ready, get your rest, get your nutrition, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.920 get your weights in right, get your conditioning. That's their 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.559 responsibility as play On the mental side of it, their 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.920 job is to receive the coaching right. So the coaches 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.280 has to get them ready. So the coaches are sitting 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.640 in there with the scouting department, they're sitting in there 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.880 with all the analytics. They're doing their film breakdown, they're 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.400 doing their their strategy, they're creating all these different schemes 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.480 and game plans, and they're drawing up one hundred and 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.400 fifty plays a game, whatever it might be, and they're 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.720 handing that down to now they're teaching the players right. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.480 So their job is simply get their minds right. That's 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:26.720 all the coaches can control. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.040 Get your mind right, take the mental make sure you 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.200 relay it down to the players, and then let's take 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:33.640 it to the practice field and make sure that we 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.880 feel comfortable running these things right. We're gonna take what 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.880 we worked on mentally right, we're gonna apply it physically 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.080 and then we have to convert that from to the game. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.439 But from the coaches perspective, all they can do is 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.240 make their proper predictions. That's all they can do, right, Nick, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.200 I think you're gonna call this on defense. So I guess, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.760 as coach McCarthy, when we line up in eleven personnel 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.120 on the twenty yard line, I'm calling this play because 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.480 it says analytics say sixty seven percent of the time 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.600 you're in this coverage. And if you're in this coverage, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.360 this is the play that I'm calling because I feel 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:03.920 good about it. Oh we got Oh there it is. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.000 We got it, got the coverage, got the play, got 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.840 the snap drop ball. I can't control that. I can't 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:11.400 control that. That's when I look at the players, say, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.640 Kyle catch the dog on ball. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.559 But it's frustrating another day. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.760 I understand how it would be frustrating if you're a coach, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.320 for example, using the one that we were just mentioning 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.880 over our shoulder here. If you're Brian Dable and that 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.839 doesn't work out for you, that can be your job, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.959 absolutely and you can have the best play calls you, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.920 but you went to a situation where your quarterbacks can 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.160 four years, one, sixteen, it's your job to fix it, absolutely. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.240 And so that's that's the part where like I see 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.680 some of the frustration there, just kind of understand. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.120 Because personnel comes into it. Right, because personnel comes into it. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.400 And the thing is, Dallas doesn't have a problem with personnel. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.480 Dallas just has a problem with execution right now in 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.160 that part of the part of the field. That's just 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.200 also real quick. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.240 It is pretty interesting that and it speaks to how 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.520 good the Cowboys are is that everybody has focused on 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.360 that one thing. And let's be honest, if there was 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.760 something else there would be focus on that. If the 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.960 red zone was great, they'd be focusing Yeah, exactly, because 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.480 the fact of like you just go back to training camp, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.200 you would have thought for sure that at this point 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.000 in the season we would have had at least a 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.080 couple games where we're like, yeah, I don't know if 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.240 that not signing a kicker until. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.040 Late was a great idea. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.080 You know, like there's just so many like little things 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.920 that have happened that outside of red zone. It's obviously 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.600 the offensive line health and that's really about it. Everything 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:29.280 else has been outstanding. And that speaks to because I 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.040 feel like we're not doing this show five days a 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.000 week to sit there and not bring up anything that 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:35.560 might be bothering a team. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.360 I'm sure they're doing that in San Francisco. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.440 I don't really know if there are any weaknesses there, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.160 but there are very few teams that just sit there 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.640 and go, yeah, man, everything's rolling, you know, And I 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:45.960 don't know if there are any that even say. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.400 The only concerns that I that I've had this year, right, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.120 It hasn't been the red zone, I just got just know, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.920 gods just aren't converting. It's been the interior line on 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.000 both sides of the ball and controlling the line of screamers. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.600 That was my biggest fear of going to gainst New England. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.600 That's why I thought New England was gonna win the game. Honestly, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.880 before knowing that Zach Martin and Tyler be Otis were 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.000 going to be active, right, my mindset was, Hey, it's 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.640 gonna be rough, right, they got to They have some 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.760 big boys up front, they do a great job controlling 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.280 line of scrimmage. They're disciplined, right, That was my mindset 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:11.960 going into it. Well, we get our we get two 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.080 of our three guys backstarters back and they go out 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.000 there and control the line of scrimmage. As long as 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.240 this team can control and at least have it even 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.480 around the line of scrimmage, They're always going to be 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.480 in a good position to win ball games. I do wonder. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.240 I'm not saying that the Cowboys still wuldn't have won, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.720 but I do wonder if Christian Gonzalez doesn't get hurt 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.040 the impact that that has. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.360 I do still think the Cowboys win. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.040