WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Mismatch Business 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.920 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:14.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.120 Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headhours at 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:28.240 the Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing too, and now your 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:34.360 hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.400 It is a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.040 by Tostitos, the official chip and the official dip of 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.159 the Dallas Cowboys. Welcome in to the Star in Frisco. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.320 We're here for the next forty five minutes breaking down 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.040 the Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons. Is the Broncos game 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.680 Week nine? We're done with it, we talked about at 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.840 the end the show yesterday. Don't even mention it. It's 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.040 it is done. Are we I don't know. We're probably 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.959 gonna bring it. Are the fans done with it? Probably not? 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.559 I don't know. Everybody's hurt. Man. That was a different 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.240 That was a different kind of loss, you know, the 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.800 kind that people will not put in the rear view mirror, 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.120 and it just will I mean, look, we just got 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.440 to get to this Sunday to get this feeling behind us. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.440 You feel like that's going to happen this Sunday. Oh 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.800 hell yeah, we have to, Okay, I mean we have to. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.240 It's it's one of those things where the tape isn't 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.360 gonna lie. These guys are seeing the effort and just 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.280 when you go back over and it's just us, it's nasty. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.280 Uh So I anticipate this Sunday at twelve o'clock and 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.840 those noon games have been a booger for us, man, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.000 but you know, I expect for these guys to do something, 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.800 to come in more energetic on Sunday at twelve. I 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:51.160 was pretty proud of Cowboys Nation Twitter on Sunday Monday Tuesday. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:57.120 The toxicity level was not what I expected. The venom. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.920 The venom was not what I expected coming out of 0:01:59.920 --> 0:02:02.559 that game. They I think people had it in perspective. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.720 I think when you win sixth straight, maybe your due. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:10.120 Yeah Sunday, if that happens again, though, it's uh yeah, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.359 that toxicity is going to be right back at the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.239 high level. It would go atomic. Yeah, one more time, 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.760 it'd be atomic. H Yeah, you could say that again. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.920 Welcome Isaiah, sir. How's it going my friend today, mate, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.560 Well might he had an early morning this morning? I 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.800 saw it on your Instagram store Away. I was actually 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.959 a late morning, was it. Yeah, you got to sleep 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.839 in a little bit. I have to wake up till 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:36.720 five thirty today. Wow. Yeah, I hate that. I hate 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.000 even thinking about that. Yeah, I was. I was on 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.880 daddy duty. So the kids actually got up with me 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.120 this morning. Oh that's fun. Yeah, they love it. Actually, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.839 there you go every so often, every so often. So 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.840 we were talking about the toxicity of Cowboys Nation and 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.680 how it wasn't at the atomic level yet, but if 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.639 the Cowboys do lose this weekend, it would reach new 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:02.560 heights ultimately on Twitter and social media. And that's Dallas. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.920 that's the pressure that runs with That's that's what comes 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.960 with being in Dallas. That's I can tell you from 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.160 somebody who's been on been with some of the larger 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.360 organizations in the in the in the NFL, that's Dallas 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.200 more souther than New York, more even more southern New York. Yeah. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.359 What about New England? New England is they're just supportive. 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.440 All they do is win. So yeah, every regulation and 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.359 freaking Boston wins seemingly at least when when I was 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.400 playing see But I feel like that would ratchet up 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.240 the pressure even more with though No, I think they 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.240 just have a confidence that everything's gonna be okay. I mean, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.480 you gotta remember, Cowboys fans have been waiting for championships 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.320 for a very long time. To point, the city of 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.000 Boston hasn't had to wait that long, so when you 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.800 make those kind of comparisons, and the city of New 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.120 York hasn't had to wait that long, so they have 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.960 more recent memories of things that grasp one to and 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.600 hope to have. Um confidence to have versus versus the Cowboys. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.520 I feel like the Cowboys like hippie pip pipe hype, 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:57.200 and it's right is hippe hype, And so I think 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.480 people are tired of their roller coaster. Um. Yeah, So 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.760 I think they're just they're hopeful, very very hopeful. Cowboy 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.240 fans know what a great team looks like, though it's 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.400 been a long time since they've had a champion, but 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.280 they true. I think that's why. I think that's why 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.480 there's some perspective here. I think people know they're good. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.120 They just have to show it. They have to come 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.000 out with the energy that they had during that six 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.560 game win streak, and part of it's about themselves, and 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.360 then also the fact that we're always in the in 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.880 the national media and then in everyone's face. So the 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.479 expectation and the disappointment is always front and center as well. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.240 And you talk about other organizations like Boston, I mean 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.000 they were a grease fire for a number of years, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.840 and so it wasn't until Belichick and Tom Brady got 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.279 there than any of that even started. So I mean 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.800 you talk about the history of the Dallas Cowboys and 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.040 winning Super Bowls, I mean, this is an expectation, and 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.359 so you know, even if the fan base sometimes and 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.480 what really trips me out is how people perceive Cowboy fans. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.000 It's like these brats are you know? These people that 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.599 that feel as though each and every year is our year. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.479 Name a team that doesn't feel like that. Name a 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.800 fan base that doesn't feel like their team should be 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.880 number one every year, and I'll show you a loser. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.800 Can I say where it's accurate? Though? Where about the 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.680 judging quarterback play in this town. I think that's the 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.240 one where it's like there's no perspective there because they've 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.919 been so fortunate and there's franchises that don't have anywhere 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.240 close to the fortune they've had finding quarterbacks, whether it's 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.200 mid round picks, undrafted guys, first round picks, you name it. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:34.240 I wonder what percentage of Cowboys Nation and I think 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.320 it's probably still pretty high, but how large of a 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.080 percentage it is that realizes how lucky, and I mean 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.320 straight up lucky the Cowboys got with Dak Prescott replacing 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.400 Tony Romo and that seamless transition in twenty sixteen and 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.080 how that happened, and then the fact that it is 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.000 carried on all the way through twenty twenty one and 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.680 it'll continue through the rest of Dak Prescott's career. I mean, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.600 that transition could not have worked out any better for 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.800 Cowboys fans. And it does bring up some bad memories 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.440 for a lot of Cowboys fans as well, especially those 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.159 that were really high on Tony Romo. But I mean 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.600 having a franchise quarterback and then immediately replacing him with 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.680 another franchise quarterback. That doesn't happen that often, but the 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.599 Cowboys have had that great fortune over the last couple 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.320 of years. Now we keep talking about how this team 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.520 is good or they can still do something special even 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.240 though you did have an embarrassing loss. The first step 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.200 in that is, like I said, putting into the review 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.600 mirror and then taking a step forward, and the Atlanta 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.560 Falcons are that step forward. This week, you also got 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.480 a guy who knows the Atlanta Falcons pretty darn well, 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.680 and that's Dan Quinn, defensive coordinator, former head coach of 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.400 the Falcons, and had you post this question in our 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.080 group message earlier in the week. But do you think 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.679 dan Quinn has that brings a little bit of an 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.159 advantage the fact that he knows that organization inside and out, 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.760 in the fact that he has already left his stamp 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.520 on this defensive or defensive unit. A mean and he 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.919 even said it in his interview that maybe you know 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.120 only on personnel because he drafted most of these guys, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.240 but their systems and everything that they do now is 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.160 completely different from when he was there, and so studying 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.760 tendencies all that you know, that may be important, but 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.440 still the difference the defenses, offense, everything is completely different 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.680 from when he was there. So, I mean, again, if 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.680 there's any advantage, it's just on personnel alone. What do 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.040 you guys think about having that, Isaiah, did you ever 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.160 play against the former coach like that? Not head coach, 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.800 but I mean did you have a head coach? Yeah? 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.920 I was thinking Belichick, but yeah, yeah Belichick, m Garrett, Right, yeah, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.080 played against Garrett. I mean, but that as a player, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.800 it doesn't matter. I mean coaching wise, knowing the personnel, right, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.160 knowing the personnel and knowing there's obviously guys still on 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.560 the roster that he's familiarized with, then he understands their 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.880 strengths and their weaknesses, and you can play to those things. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.920 You know, I think teams are. It's no different than 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.680 like Diggs. Diggs ball out the first part of the season, right, 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.400 and now teams know what he's what he's great at, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.360 but they also know what he's vulnerable to him. Right, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.200 So when you're a coach and you've coached those guys, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.000 you also know those things. You know what they're more 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.800 inclined to do. These guys, he's more inclined to jump 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.840 on this type of route, they're more inclined to take 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.160 this type of set when when we line up in 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.040 this in this type of front. So there's there's advantages 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.480 like that that I'm sure that he'll bring to those meetings. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.040 But other than that, you know, guys just got to 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.200 show up and play. Yeah, I mean he was with 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.520 Matt Ryan for six years, so I think in six 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.120 years you've got a pretty good read on what he likes, 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.680 what tendencies he doesn't like, and so I think that helps. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.280 But even from a personnel standpoint, some of the guys 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.920 are driving their offense weren't there when he was there, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.560 you know, Quarduroll, Pattison was not there, Kyle Pitts was 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.760 not there. So I think it helps, maybe especially from 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.160 the quarterback perspective because they had a close relationship and 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.560 they worked together for a long time. But yeah, the 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.040 scheme of the offense is different, and a lot of 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.160 personnel is different. How much crossover is there between a 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.400 defensive coordinator and a quarterback whenever, or not even a 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.080 defensive coordinator, but a head coach and a quarterback when 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.440 the head coach is so defensive minded, I mean there's 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.960 a lot. You know exactly what Matt Ryan doesn't like, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.079 you know, you know exactly the looks that he likes. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.600 So when he used to call him when the plays 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.240 came in and he obviously passed him along or gave 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.000 all gave Matt Ryan. Okay, like he knew exactly what 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.520 plays he wanted, right. I like this type of look. 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.079 I feel confident in this. So I'm pretty sure that 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.440 Quinn's gonna stay away from those kind of looks. He 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.800 also knows exactly what pisses Matt Ryan off or what 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.360 causes him issues. And you know, he was able to 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.280 fire those things up in practice or not send me, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.320 you know, to have whatever type of practice they were 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.560 looking for. So he knows advantages and disadvantages, and you know, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.920 it'll be interesting to see. It'd be very interesting to see. Yeah, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.240 the Tennessee's man, I mean, you know your quarterback. If 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.600 you're a head coach, you know you're a quarterback. And 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:51.839 I love what he had to say about it. He 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.760 says he's an ultimate competitor. And knowing that, you know, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.920 Matt Ryan has been one of those quarterbacks over the 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.520 years that has gone as high as he could possibly 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.520 go to, you know, going to a Super Bowl, it 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.360 going as low as he could possibly go with just 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.199 man team having an awful season, him being injured right now, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.800 I think even in the evaluation of the Falcons, man, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.679 it's just really kind of weird to see them without 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.160 Julio and some of the guys that have been a 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.680 part of the team for so many years. They're completely changed. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.199 And I think the team that we're going to see 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.880 come in here on Sunday, it's gonna be a lot 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.960 different from the one that was here last year that 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.640 we you know, obviously, the famed Watermelon kick and all 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.839 of that, and it was a victory that we had 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.480 to pull out. But I want to see what Arthur 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.679 Smith brings to the table. I think Arthur Smith and 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.760 you know, a new head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.760 thirty nine years old, one of those offensive minds that 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.760 everyone kind of thrust to the front. You know, he 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.480 had his success in Tennessee. You know that they went 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.000 from Tennessee. They wanted to run the ball, playoff, play action, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.960 and throw, and I think that's the same thing that 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.520 they're doing here. The way that they're using Cordell Patterson. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.240 I think it's very interesting. I've watched Cardelle Patterson's career 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.480 and how I didn't know he was that kind of weapon, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.360 but they obviously saw something in him and what he 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.400 does that they think, you know, is you can lead 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.120 this franchise and right now, if if the season ended 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.920 right now, Atlanta would be in the playoffs. And that's 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.240 that's hard to fathom for a lot of people. And 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.800 that's another thing. You can't overlook this team as well. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.480 I don't think that's going to be a problem after 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.160 what the Broncos just did, But you can't overlook this 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.640 squad as well just because they had a poor start 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.520 to the year. They've won some some gritty games four 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.960 and four, and all four of their wins have been 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.760 within a single score. I mean, they've won close games, 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.800 and I guess through the Cowboys side of things, they've 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.400 won close games as well. So if you want to 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.040 kind of look at the two back and forth, you 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.439 gotta make sure you take them seriously. Now, with dan 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.680 Quinn and the game plan that he has and the 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.960 fact that he knows the personnel to a certain extent 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.880 on the offensive side of the football, what would he 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.760 say the strengths are of this Atlanta squad. Would it 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.120 be Cordarell Patterson, would it be Kyle Pitts is at 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.680 the run game? What exactly is it specifically that dan 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.440 Quinn would try and take away? It's not the run game. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.640 You know that they don't run it a lot, and 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.760 they haven't run it with a ton of success either. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.000 I think they're getting three point four yards to carry. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.080 They're near the bottom of the league and attempts. You know, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.120 it's it's Matt Ryan and you guys watched it. I mean, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.720 they're they're kind of the mismatch business. Basically, They've got 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.760 a running back who's not really a running back, and 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.319 they've got a tight end who's not a tight end 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.319 that you know, they try to create mismatches with Cordoroll 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.920 Patterson out of the backfield, line him up everywhere, and 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.040 Kyle Pitts lines up everywhere, and sometimes it's getting the 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.760 attention of the number one cornerback on the other team. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.559 So interested to see how the Cowboys handle both of 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.440 those because it's a pretty unique offense from a personnel standpoint, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.200 and Rob right on the hit. I mean, these guys 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.280 are they create mismatch nightmares. I mean, they create personnel 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.199 nightmares for you. Um, you know it's it's kind of 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:01.000 kind of incredible. The fact that Cordale right, corda Corridoril Like, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:09.080 I'm like, Cordoil, Yeah, Um, that's how I'm gonna remember it. Um, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.520 if you call him that sometime throughout the week, I'm 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.480 gonna laugh so hard it will happen. I'm sure, no disrespect, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.160 but I mean the fact that he can line up 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:19.640 in the backfield and you have to treat him as 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.800 a running back. But then he could literally widen out 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:23.880 and if you don't have the right personnel called on 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.480 the defense side of the ball, you're gonna put a 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.840 lineback around him or a safety on him. Either way, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.200 you lose, and he'll run a go route too on you. Yeah, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.600 either way you lose. He's a receiver by trade. Ye, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.200 he's a returner by trade. Um, So you line up 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.200 anybody but Michael Parsons, you're gonna lose. You line up 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.880 you know, you know JR. Jay Ron Curse and try 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.840 to guard him on a route. It's probably not going 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.839 to end well, even though Curses had a good year. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.720 You know, sticking tight ends, This is not a tight end. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.760 This is not a running back. This is this is 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.640 a wide receiver that has set the size to be 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.600 able to lay the hammer down one need to be. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.280 So that's that's just rosse point. They create those those 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.400 matchup issues for you, and I don't. I'm interested to 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.080 see personnel wise what we go out there with on 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.640 defense when they come out of these different packages. Because again, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.160 if Pitts, White and Whiten's out, who do you put 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.920 on them? If Cordell comes out the backfield, Cordell comes 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.400 out the backfille, then what do you do? It's gonna 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.760 be an interesting thing to see for dan Quinn. I 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.920 think that he has the personnel to match up perfectly 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.480 with these guys. I mean, you know, Kyle Pitts is 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.400 a tight end. We're gonna slash receiver Patterson in his 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.360 career right now. He's looking good. He's done some some 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.320 pretty good things. And like we said last year, and 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.480 we were evaluating the Atlanta Falcons, you know, even though 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.520 christ of the three hundred looks like a Bentley. So 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.480 I'm gonna make sure that I stayed with that because 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.680 I feel like this defense has the leg up on 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.840 the Falcons offense. And the reason being is we got 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.480 to get back to getting pressure on the quarterback. We 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.560 hadn't been able to do that. And I think, you know, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.800 there's so much has been made of getting turnovers. What's 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.960 good to happen when this defense doesn't get a turnover. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.600 We had one last game, but obviously a flag negated that. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.720 But we have to get back to that. That's what 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.640 that's what we do. Create those turnovers, create pressure and 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.280 make quarterbacks make bad decisions. And that's where Matt Ryan, 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.200 I believe, is at his best in making those those 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.000 bad decisions. He'll give you an opportunity to get the ball. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.880 But obviously with the deep crossers and we're seeing those 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.840 be a problems sometimes for Diggs. They're gonna hit us 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.560 with that and they're gonna try and put put those 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.680 mismatches together. But we have to understand, man, they're without 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.000 Calvin Ridley, and Ridley took his absence because of mental 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.920 health and we wish him all the best. But still 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.680 I think that when you look at Russell Gage and 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.040 our ability to play him with Lewis, I think those 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.040 are those are matchups that our guys should look forward 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.200 to because these are winnable for them. But Isaiah is 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.880 right when he's out of the backfield, when Patterson's coming 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.160 out of the backfield, do you put Micah on him? 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.320 Do you go with Jay run curse on him? I 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.920 think there are things that you can do within your 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.280 defense to make sure that he's not the one guy 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.480 that beats you. Let's let's say that they're in I 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:12.240 guess what would it be? Eleven personnel, three wide receivers. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.000 You've got the running back which is Cordorel Patterson in 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.120 the backfield, and then you've got the one tight end 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.400 in Kyle Pitts on the field right, and you spread out. 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.000 Cordorel Patterson comes out of the backfield and he adds 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.240 that that fourth wide receiver looks So now you're in 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.840 one personnel. What's the difference from really any other team 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.760 just putting four wide receivers with a tight end. That's 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.360 what they initially come out in. Okay, So you initially 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.600 come out in you initially come out with three receivers. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.440 So I guess what you put three dvs out there? 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.320 Or you put three cornerbacks out there right in Nickel. Now, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.360 all of a sudden, he comes out the backfield. Now 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.240 who bumps out your linebacker? Right? So it's all about 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:49.760 the personnel that they come out on line up with. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.440 That's how they create those mismatches. That's how that's how 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.400 they that's how they mess you up because they can 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.840 come out in twelve personnel. Yep, they come out of 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.960 twelve personnel or you know, one running back, two tight 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.280 ends and severs all of a sudden, now you're in 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.400 your base defense and now you got this dude. He 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.919 comes out the backfield and you're like, oh crap. Or 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.639 they have a short split with their receiver and now 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.280 they've run Pits outside and then they motioned Patterson and 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.240 now they're now they're in an empty set and you're 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.760 guarding Pits with a cornerback and you're guarding you know, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.920 Patterson with a dog on linebacker. Is It's just they 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.960 can create some some bad situations for you. Everybody's gonna 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.439 have to have their and their antenna's up. But how 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.400 do you combat that? Maybe even prior to the snap 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.760 with personnel? Who do you put out there if you 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.119 know that there's a chance that Patterson does split out? Why? 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:33.920 I mean I think you I think you negated by 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.040 doing exactly what Rob said. Rob said, they're not running 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.120 the ball, Well they're not. They're not running the ball. Well, 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:39.800 so knowing that they're not running the ball, well you 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.200 might be able to come out in these Nickel type 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.480 sets and and not and just just say, hey, guess what, 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.560 non't matter what you do, we can stop your run 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.720 even in this personnel grouping. And if you decided to 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.280 widen these guys out, we have the personnel out there 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.400 to go ahead and guard you. You're not gonna mess 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.200 this up. And every you call it a big nickel, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.879 whatever you want, that's we're typically in the nickel anyway. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.320 So I mean, whether they go empty or they go 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.440 with him and the one you know as the back 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.119 in the backfield, we're usually there. And I and and 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.239 for me again going back to our strong safety, it's 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.480 your run curse, um ja run curse is the is 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.199 the link uh in this game or most of the 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.080 games when they go to an empty set where he's 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.399 having to make plays or he's isolated with the tight end, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.560 we still have to talk about Hayton Hurst. I mean, 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.200 we're looking at other pieces, but Hayden Hurst is also 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.840 a weapon for them as well. So I mean, and 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.359 Zachie is that dude is coming along strong, so you 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:33.840 better respect him as well. But do you have two 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.520 or three touchdowns this week? He's balling, Yeah, he's ball 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.640 and he's playing more without Ridley. Yes, they I mean 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.560 they play Cowboys play a lot of big nickel, like 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.400 you said, and if you watch, I mean the Falcons 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.119 will run against that and and hand it off if 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.200 they see, you know, kind of a light front. But yeah, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.280 they haven't run it that great. And I do think 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.200 to your point, heck, the Cowboys are way better equipped 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.320 this year than they were last year with curses, versatility, parsons, 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.240 speed back there. They've just got more versatility. They just 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.040 they just didn't play well last week. I mean, Quinn said, 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.560 they missed fourteen tackles, they didn't finish runs, didn't finish plays, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.400 they were trying to strip the ball, trying to get 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.040 that takeaway instead of just wrapping up and finishing the play. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.680 It just wasn't It just wasn't a good performance. And 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.360 you know, if you go back to the Patriots game, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.200 I think they tried to test the Cowboys in space 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.520 with their tight ends and their running back. So see 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.760 how responded. It'd be a good chess match. I think 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.280 stopping the run is going to be one of the 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.639 easier assignments, but it's still something that concerns me because 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.919 of the way that the Cowboys defense has given up 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.240 some chunk yardage on a couple of occasions this year. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.280 If they come out and play like they did against Minnesota, 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.480 you're gonna feel pretty good. If they come out and 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.719 play it like they did last week against Denver, you're 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:52.520 gonna feel like maybe you're missing something. Um. And by 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.679 the way, going back to your takeaway point earlier, I 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.080 meant to mention this yesterday, but now I thought we 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.480 had an answer to the Minnesota game and the Cowboys 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.680 defense did not have a takeaway. I was like, Wow, 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.000 this defense can still play when they don't have a takeaway. 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.720 This is awesome. This is gonna be really good moving forward. 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:11.639 And then the next week it is completely went the 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.320 opposite direction. Didn't have a takeaway, Andy didn't play well. 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.200 So we have two opposite ends of the spectrum. If 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:19.879 the Cowboys can't even find a middle ground, I feel 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.040 like you're gonna be fine with it. But there's more 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.200 to talk about with that moving forward. When we come back, 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.160 you're on talking Cowboys. 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Is Matt Ryan 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:16.359 still Matt Ryan? Can he put up big numbers? Well? 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:18.200 Over the first four games of the year, the answer 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:22.639 was probably no. Went one in three averaged under twenty 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:25.640 points per game. Points per game allowed for the defense 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:27.679 was thirty two points per game, so it's not like 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:29.679 the defense really helped him out a whole lot. But 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:33.320 over the last four games, however, the Falcons are three 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.360 and one. They've averaged over twenty four points per game, 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.600 so seeing an uptick there, and the defense is playing 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:42.480 much better with five takeaways and averaging just twenty three 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:46.399 points against. So I ask you the same question, based 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:48.760 off of the numbers that you heard there, Is Matt 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:53.040 Ryan still good enough? Is he still elevated his game enough? Heck? 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.520 But to be able to pick a part of defense 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:57.520 like he did early in his career, Well, he has 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.720 the best nickname in the game, Mattie. I is Mattie 0:24:00.720 --> 0:24:04.439 Ice and he has been. His nickname is so good 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.560 that almost every Matt in the world has probably been 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:09.600 called Mattie Ice at some point. At some point I 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:12.280 stole a nickname. Yeah, you called Matt Kent, who does 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.360 great work in the studio, Mattie Ice like every day. 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:17.119 You know. I grew up in the neighborhood where if 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:19.720 you a nickname, boy, you bet if you got one stick, 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:23.480 it's stick and it stays with you. And a lot 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:26.520 of people give you a bad nickname. It's about to say, 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:28.760 there's probably not some good ones in it's you know 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:30.440 what it is. It is some good ones, but I'm 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:32.480 telling they stayed with you, with Maddie. And look, I 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:36.520 know you're thinking of something right now. I got something too. Yeah, 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:43.080 he's probably well, yeah, yeah, The thing is, you're right. 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.440 I mean, Matt Matt Ryan is a veteran quarterback that 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:47.600 you know hasn't lost it. He's not one of those 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:49.679 guys that you know has fell off the deep end. 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:52.959 He's lost some of his receiver depth, for sure, but 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.200 he's still able to make all the throws. He's still 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:58.240 competent um and he knows that he can get he 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:00.159 can get the ball there. I just think that, you know, 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:03.160 as far as his protection and things like that. Those 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.760 things are breaking down. It doesn't matter, you know, whether 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.960 you're an old quarterback or you see justin fields in Chicago. Man, 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:11.199 you can't maneuver and do a whole lot when you 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:13.040 don't have time in the pocket. And that's gonna be 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:15.840 the biggest thing for him because he needs for these 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:18.639 plays to develop. I think that their their head coach 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:23.040 definitely tries to put him in a position to be successful. 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:26.320 They change his launching point in certain games you've seen 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:28.680 where they're getting pressure on him. But again, I think 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:31.760 for the Dallas Cowboys, they cannot come into this game 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.119 being overconfident. The number one thing has to be is 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:39.080 getting pressure on Matt Ryan and creating those turnovers. How 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:41.159 do you do that against this offensive line? Is this 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:44.280 offensive line better than any of the ones you've seen previously? 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:46.879 On this office line of struggling and matt and Mattie 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:51.320 Ice turns loot warm whenever he has some pressure he 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:56.400 has whenever he has to move his feet, he literally melts. Yeah, exactly, 0:25:56.440 --> 0:26:00.840 he's the dog on snowman. He's but no, he um, 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:03.639 He's still delivered the ball. He's still he's still You 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:06.240 have to respect this man. Don't disrespect him. We learned 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:08.200 our lesson in that already. Um, as a reason why 0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:11.040 I sit up here and talk about how good players 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:13.200 are every week. Um, you have to respect this dude. 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:14.879 And but the way that you can throw him off 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:17.320 his game is, you know, he has some pressure on him. 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:19.399 And whether that have results in sacks or not, I 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:21.440 think it's still affects the game just as much. Um. 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:23.879 He doesn't throw the ball well on the move. Um, 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:26.679 And he has guys that are able to get to 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:28.040 the middle of the field right now. A lot of 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.280 times you're worried about guys outside the hashes, You're worri 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:33.800 about guys ouside the numbers in the NFL. UM, he 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.040 has guys that can work the middle now, and that's 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:38.160 dangerous if you allow for him to set his feet 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:41.560 back there and be comfortable. Yeah, Gage does that, Zacarius 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:45.200 does that obviously, Pitts does that. Yeah. I thought against 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:47.119 the Saints he did a pretty good job of just 0:26:47.160 --> 0:26:49.199 buying a little extra time moving up in the pocket, 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:51.280 climbing the pocket because he because you're right, like, the 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:53.520 pressure was on him and it's not the strength of 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:55.959 their their offense right now, even though they have some 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:59.720 good players Jake Matthews obviously so, but he can he 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:02.120 can buy a little extra time. I think the thing 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:04.240 you worry about is just he has seen everything in 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.080 the NFL. He's seen every coverage you can throw at him, 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:10.320 and honestly, when we talked about it goes the other way. 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:12.160 I mean, he's been around Quinn for a long time. 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:14.480 I think one thing you give quin Quinn credit for, 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.359 and he talked about it Monday, is he's changed a 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:19.680 lot of his philosophy. He's you know, when he came here, 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:22.000 we said, oh, he's a cover three defense. He plays 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:24.440 a lot of different coverages and so lately changed. Yeah, 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:28.120 and that's that's part of him adapting. After he got 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:30.240 let go from the Falcons, he said, he went back 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:33.040 seven years and looked at everything I did Seattle Atlanta 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:35.399 and tried to kind of change that up and add 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:38.080 more and that'll be important against the guy that he 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.320 coached for six years. Yeah. And he also with two 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:46.240 seventy six for four touchdowns last last year versus so yeah, yeah, 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:50.640 he's done. If I gave you one guest to say 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:54.840 where Matt Ryan ranks in terms of completion percentage efficiency 0:27:55.359 --> 0:28:00.280 in the NFL since Week three, what would your guests be? Yeah, 0:28:01.520 --> 0:28:07.520 I wouldn't know, wouldn't completion percentage, it's almost seventy right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:12.080 seventy yeah, sixty nine point five completion percentage since Week three. 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:15.880 That's second in the NFL only behind Kyler Murray. So 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:18.439 in that winning streak or the three out of or 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:21.879 three in one streak that I mentioned coming into the segment, 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:26.359 he's been dealing. So that's pretty good. It's been dealing. Yeah, 0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:29.240 seventy percent completion rate is pretty good, pretty good. But 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:31.840 the Scott used to have one of those. But you know, 0:28:31.880 --> 0:28:33.760 these guys are not. They don't have a lot of 0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:36.560 explosive plays, and so those all short yardage things that 0:28:36.600 --> 0:28:39.240 he that he's doing. So, I mean, for our worries 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:41.760 about our defense has been all the big play, you know, 0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:44.520 the big play. Giving up the big play has been 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:47.760 our Achilles Hill anything. And you just can't allow for 0:28:47.920 --> 0:28:50.040 Atlanta to get certain things going. We talk about them 0:28:50.080 --> 0:28:52.360 not having a true running back. Well, when they turn 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:54.840 a hand the ball off to Mike Davis and he's 0:28:54.880 --> 0:28:57.160 grinding up some yards, that kind of opens up everything 0:28:57.200 --> 0:28:59.000 on their offense. You want to keep them in the 0:28:59.040 --> 0:29:01.760 bubble that they came in and they're not used to 0:29:02.040 --> 0:29:04.680 getting those big chunk played. But when they do, that's 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:08.280 when you see that offense actually clicking. Also, I forgot 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:11.040 about this whenever we're talking about this offense and the 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:14.200 potential of linebackers having to cover tight ends and having 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:18.320 to cover Cordorell Patterson, Kyle Pitts and Michael Parsons played 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:20.720 against each other in high school. They were high school 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:23.400 rivals in both on the all state team in high 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:26.920 school in Pennsylvania. So something interesting to think about is 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:28.840 they're breaking news over there. You know, I'm just looking 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:30.640 at some of these stats. My god, you know, g 0:29:30.800 --> 0:29:34.240 Mattson's out emails, hut and the last four games, these 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:36.560 guys that have a seventy five percent winning percentage, they're 0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:40.160 averaging twenty four points a game. You know, we're not 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:42.800 gonna talk about the defense right now, but they're they're 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:46.280 scoring more than they than they are allowing right now, 0:29:46.400 --> 0:29:48.160 and these boys are picking it up. So as you 0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:50.760 talk about Matt Ryan and his completion percentage over these 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:53.920 last you know, three four games, it's it's that's that's why, 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:56.440 right they're figuring it out. They're figuring out their personnel 0:29:57.320 --> 0:30:00.240 on it's complimentary football too. It's complimentary football for sure. 0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:02.200 I mean, but you know, one of your favorite human 0:30:02.240 --> 0:30:04.120 beings in the world in this past draft was was 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:06.440 Kyle Pitch. There's no secret about that. And in the 0:30:06.480 --> 0:30:08.440 first three or four games, they didn't know how to 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:10.320 utilize him. They didn't know how to you know, how 0:30:10.360 --> 0:30:12.680 to incorporate him into their offense. Guess what they need? 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:15.400 They figured it out. Um. So now all of a 0:30:15.400 --> 0:30:17.680 sudden they figured that out, and now they're starting him 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:19.640 and Matt Ryan are starting to get that symmetry in 0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:22.360 that chemistry, um, and they're starting to result in w's 0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:25.480 for them. So they have they've had some feel good games. 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:28.480 I mean, and I love you know the schedule that 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:32.080 they have wins against the Giants, lost to the Washington 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:35.080 football team, they beat the Jets, they beat the Dolphins. Um, 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:37.720 they lost against the Panthers. Are you saying it was 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:40.720 the same thing last week? Same thing last week against Denver? Denvers. 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.040 Denver's wins were against teams that were not good. But 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:44.440 but if we played, if we have to play a 0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:47.640 Denver every week, I think I hear and that I 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:49.720 was just addressing your point in terms of the feel 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:52.640 good wins. Denver, they're feel good wins were all was 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:55.600 all their win columns as well, So that right there, 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:57.040 I wouldn't look at that, and more so I would 0:30:57.120 --> 0:30:58.600 more so look at the aspect that these guys are 0:30:58.600 --> 0:31:00.520 starting to figure out how to utilize their personnel, on 0:31:00.520 --> 0:31:03.560 how to incorporate their offense. Patterson is getting He's everywhere now. 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.239 In the first couple of games they were they had 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:07.440 an idea what they wanted to do with him. Now 0:31:07.440 --> 0:31:09.680 they know exactly how to utilize him. Saints that two 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:12.600 lost going into last week as well, and Atlanta came 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:14.400 out and smacked him in the mouth. I mean, they 0:31:14.400 --> 0:31:17.960 got up early and boy did they almost collapse again late. 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:20.880 But the fact that they got up so big on 0:31:21.160 --> 0:31:23.640 New Orleans was pretty impressive. Yeah, and this and this 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:25.920 zac is cat. I know he doesn't his stats aren't 0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:30.800 like jumping off the screen. Watch him, please watch him. 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:33.680 Robinson put us all on notice. Now, So the guy 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:37.360 that comes in we're not expected now that the fifth guy, Yeah, 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:39.560 the fifth guy on the fifth guy on the roster, 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:41.560 we better watch out for. I mean, I agree, I 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:43.480 mean this guy, these guys do some good things, and 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:45.600 like you said, the respect level has to be there. 0:31:45.640 --> 0:31:47.880 But when I look at their schedule and some of 0:31:47.880 --> 0:31:49.880 their wins, and even going back to that Saints game, 0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:52.640 they tried to give that game, They really tried to 0:31:52.680 --> 0:31:55.040 give that game up. So this is gonna be an 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:56.920 interesting match up, right, They haven't being a bunch of 0:31:56.960 --> 0:31:59.560 playoff teams. If you go into New Orleans and win, though, 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:03.440 I'm in that's the Cowboys, whether they add a starting 0:32:03.520 --> 0:32:06.040 quarterback in there or not, that's I think that's an 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:10.080 impressive win. Division game, division game for sure. How much 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:11.880 of this do you think, you guys think is just 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:14.719 about you just getting back to playing the way they 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:18.120 play defensively? I mean, dan Quinn kept talking over and 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:20.280 over about that on Monday. He said, I think just 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:23.680 remembering what that relentless nature of going and finishing can 0:32:23.720 --> 0:32:26.040 feel like and look like, and what you've seen from 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:28.080 that defense. We've got to capture that every time you go. 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:32.880 It's got to be that way. I mean, personnel wise, yeah, 0:32:32.920 --> 0:32:35.920 there's mismatches all that, but they were not physical, they 0:32:35.960 --> 0:32:38.760 were not they missed tackles. I think some of this 0:32:38.800 --> 0:32:41.520 stuff is self scout and just get back to playing 0:32:41.520 --> 0:32:44.360 the way you play and they'll be all right in 0:32:44.360 --> 0:32:47.440 that regard. Although like you said, they're still giving up 0:32:47.440 --> 0:32:49.800 big plays. That's been a common theme every week, whether 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:52.120 it's run game, mostly in the past game, but they 0:32:52.120 --> 0:32:53.680 gave up too many big I think they had six 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:56.200 explosive runs for like one hundred and thirty yards Broncos 0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:58.400 did last week. I love that, man, and it's a 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:01.440 term people using football and sports period. Let's let's get 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:03.400 back to being us. And I think if we get 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.239 back to being us, you feel better about going in 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:09.360 and smacking the Falcons around because you felt but you 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:13.240 had to feel horrible about your effort versus Verst the 0:33:13.280 --> 0:33:15.880 Broncos and the tackles, and you talked about it. You're 0:33:15.880 --> 0:33:18.160 going in, you're trying to strip guys and they're getting 0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:21.640 getting away and getting ten fifteen extra yards. Get the 0:33:21.720 --> 0:33:23.640 guy down. This is the first time I think I've 0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.360 seen a game where we made contact and the runner 0:33:26.440 --> 0:33:28.959 kept going. And so this is if this is going 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:31.400 to be a first time, let it be the last time. 0:33:31.800 --> 0:33:33.800 Gotta make it be the last time. Now, for those 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:35.400 of you who played the game, both of you at 0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:38.400 the end of the table. When there's a loss like 0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:40.720 that and you turn around, you have to get back 0:33:40.720 --> 0:33:44.000 to being yourself. What's the approach from a practice standpoint? 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:46.840 What kind of practice are you having because the Cowboys 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:49.680 are back on the field today, what kind of practice 0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:52.400 are you having to today and tomorrow in order to 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:57.320 get back to that point? Oklahoma, drill bulling the ring, 0:33:57.680 --> 0:34:01.400 bulling the ring, It's still different. It's just you know, 0:34:01.440 --> 0:34:03.560 you're just more dialed in. You know, you're just asking 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:06.760 guys to be more dialed in. You recognize that this 0:34:06.920 --> 0:34:09.600 is such a pr so well, I mean, I mean 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.040 it is. I mean, you're you're asking guys to be 0:34:12.040 --> 0:34:14.200 more dialed and watch more film, you know, be more, 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:18.920 be more intent on executing your assignments. This was not 0:34:18.960 --> 0:34:23.240 a physical just beating in terms of us just getting 0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:25.680 just thraw like New England did on our first drive. 0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:28.320 That wasn't that was that was just being out physical 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:32.319 because we just couldn't stop them physically. This was out 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:34.759 physical because guys just didn't show up and you just 0:34:34.800 --> 0:34:38.440 meant mentally weren't there. So to your point, heck, if 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:40.840 the guys get back to showing up, get back to 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:43.920 you know, being approaching the game that proper, the proper 0:34:43.960 --> 0:34:46.600 way and executing then then I think that we're feeling 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:48.919 pretty dog going good about it. Um. But in terms 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:50.879 of practice, yeah, it's just dialed in. Hey, get back, 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.120 get back focus. Whatever happened to you last week, get 0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:55.279 that mess about your system, get locked back in. We 0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:57.919 did not just face the dog on you know, mon 0:34:58.000 --> 0:35:01.239 stars and they just came in just no loves. You know, 0:35:02.760 --> 0:35:07.279 you just happened now. And you know, being in this 0:35:07.320 --> 0:35:09.640 building man, and having an opportunity to speak with guys 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:12.160 like Nate Newton that you know and you talked to Nate, 0:35:12.280 --> 0:35:16.319 and then being coached by Jimmy Johnson, their whole mentality 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:19.200 on those teams were completely different. Now with the you know, 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:22.560 players not hitting through through the week, they were having 0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:26.319 live hitting sessions through the week, so when they got 0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:28.400 to the game, there was no such thing as you know, 0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:31.640 guys not putting in the effort, because guys were always 0:35:31.680 --> 0:35:34.360 worried about their job under Jimmy and so you know, 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:37.480 it's just I love having those conversations with guys that 0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:39.839 have done it at a high level, that's been there, 0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:42.239 that understand the look man, right now, these guys and 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:44.320 you even say it all the time. Man, this is cupcake. 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:47.040 I would love to be a part of this training 0:35:47.080 --> 0:35:49.319 regiment of what they're doing during the week and so 0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:52.480 having a letdown game like this and guys knowing that, 0:35:52.560 --> 0:35:54.120 you know, look, they didn't get to this, they didn't 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.680 get to this level by accident. So you know, going 0:35:56.719 --> 0:35:59.520 back to what made them professional athletes gonna be important 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:02.160 and tackling is just a part of it. Under this schedule, Isa, 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:04.399 you could have played another eight games. I'm thinking about 0:36:04.400 --> 0:36:09.839 stretching right now. Don't move it. You gotta beat Barry 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:12.359 Church in a race first. You gotta make it happen. 0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:17.120 Chance doesn't have a chance. 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I feel like he'd pooted At the same time, 0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:10.200 I didn't make it through that. You gotta have some 0:39:10.320 --> 0:39:16.440 like fluidity with the risk. Come on, man, I did 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:19.560 the best I could. I didn't Hey, y'all don't want 0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:22.800 me to do it using too much palm. Definitely, you 0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:26.399 got the fingers to palmy. Come on, man, I just 0:39:26.680 --> 0:39:29.120 I can't get that. It was like a punch though. 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:33.080 It was like a super It was too tight. It 0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:36.000 was up tight. Chris Beam is coming in with further review. 0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:38.360 First of all, I know you like to watch tape. 0:39:38.640 --> 0:39:44.400 Go watch the tape. Get better. That's a true friend, 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:49.080 that is, you know what. But here's the thing is 0:39:49.400 --> 0:39:52.680 when you flicked it's okay, all right, you left your 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:54.600 hand out there a little long? Is that right? He 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:58.480 got game style a little long? Am I right? Loving basketball? Sorry? Yeah, 0:39:58.520 --> 0:40:02.520 I loving basketball? Left the hand up? Ye long? Have 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.759 to say the last line. Okay, I got caught up. 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:07.360 I got caught up. I got caught up in the 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:10.120 whole thing. Man, they get you know what y'all started over. 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:12.480 You're gonna go. You're gonna get a fed X letter 0:40:12.520 --> 0:40:18.759 from from find. They're gonna find I'll be better. We're 0:40:18.760 --> 0:40:22.040 gonna repose. I'll be better. I'll be better I'm sorry. 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:25.160 All right, final segment here talking Cowboys and I guess 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:30.319 what heck mom this, yeah, how about that? DEI this, 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:34.000 fick this um for a moment. Heck, you won't have 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:37.359 to do the read. You you'll you'll say the read 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:40.440 the next two days or next two mornings, because you're 0:40:40.440 --> 0:40:46.320 hosting the next two days. I'm out for Thursday and Friday, 0:40:46.400 --> 0:40:50.719 so you guys can join us. Yeah, big time, big time, 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:55.080 big just for two days, but I will be back 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:59.480 on Sunday for all the other game day coverage. Bells, 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:02.480 we're gonna be off the chain. Yeah, off the chain, 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:06.959 no chain, no change, no change, just depended. Hey, who's 0:41:07.000 --> 0:41:08.960 that guy that played first place for the Yankees a 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:12.440 long time ago? I can't remember Jason Giabby? No, who 0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:15.919 was it? It was Wally Pitho. Oh okay, that's fair. 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:18.600 If heck wants my job, you can have it. Nobody 0:41:18.600 --> 0:41:23.760 won't show job exactly off, can't nobody out Kyle Kyle? Yeah, 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:31.759 nine one one, Yeah, it's all right. Final final couple said, 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:37.960 what did I say that? It will be interesting who 0:41:38.040 --> 0:41:40.279 is under the most pressure on the Cowboys defense to 0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:47.040 have a better performance on something? What? Who would you say, 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:49.839 would you say it's a specific player or specific unit, 0:41:49.920 --> 0:41:53.279 it doesn't matter, but who has the biggest pressure on them? 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:55.920 Moving into Sunday, Rob, I mean this is a cop out. 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:59.440 I think it's everybody. I don't think any level of 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:02.239 defense went well Sunday. I mean you could point out 0:42:02.320 --> 0:42:04.759 specific guys and say Mike have played well, especially in 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:07.600 the past rush game, Layton had a bunch of tackles, 0:42:07.600 --> 0:42:10.040 but I don't. I don't think top to bottom it 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:13.239 went well for for anybody. And I know you put 0:42:13.239 --> 0:42:15.520 treyvon Diggs on the on the rundown there, and I 0:42:15.560 --> 0:42:18.399 think he's an interesting guy to talk about because he's 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:22.000 got all these interceptions, but he's got some penalties lately, 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:25.160 and he's given up some plays. And you know, either 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.600 Quinn or Mike McCarthy said he's probably playing I think 0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:29.560 Mike said he's playing a little too aggressive right now. 0:42:29.600 --> 0:42:31.560 So how do you how does he strike that balance 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:35.080 because that's what makes him good as a cover guy, 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:37.880 But how do you not give up as much as 0:42:37.920 --> 0:42:41.239 he's been given up lately as well? Yeah, I think 0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:43.680 Curse has to have a big game. I think Kurs 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:46.920 and Parsons and obviously depends on what coach Quinn does 0:42:46.960 --> 0:42:49.239 in terms of personnel matchups. But Curse is going to 0:42:49.320 --> 0:42:52.000 have his handsful obviously with Pitts, and I think Parsons 0:42:52.000 --> 0:42:54.000 will be the guy that's kind of touted to be 0:42:54.600 --> 0:42:58.040 follow around Patterson anywhere he goes. That's what I would do. 0:42:58.040 --> 0:43:00.920 Do you think Curse and his ability to cover Jared 0:43:00.960 --> 0:43:03.200 Cook back in week two and kind of having that 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:06.479 even remotely translates to what Kyle Pitts can do, because 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:09.840 I'm thinking of big athletic tight ends and Kyle Pitts 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:13.040 is a different animal than Jared Cook. But Jared Cook's 0:43:13.200 --> 0:43:14.840 right up there, at least in terms of the guys 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:19.520 he's faired. Cook was tripping over himself this, I mean, jok, 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:23.120 I don't have it. If not watch the film to film. 0:43:23.160 --> 0:43:27.520 I mean, he's an older he's players. I don't Jared 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:29.160 Cook is not a route run? Did he do against 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:34.560 Jered Cook's not a route runner? Happened? I don't have 0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:37.480 any people who are stronger than me. You can have Itsten, 0:43:37.960 --> 0:43:39.880 I did everything I needed to do. What was the 0:43:39.880 --> 0:43:46.400 comparison you made? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's Jered He's I 0:43:46.400 --> 0:43:48.200 mean you go back to jail. I think Jayle Smith 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:50.520 was trying to cover him right and some other stuff that. Anyways, 0:43:50.520 --> 0:43:52.920 he's not a route runner. Um, Kyle Pitts is a 0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:54.719 route runner. I mean you think about the tight ends 0:43:54.719 --> 0:43:57.520 that we faced this year. Yeah, Gronkowski Week one, he ate, 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:02.319 he ate a whole plate Thanksgiving, came back for seconds. Actually, uh, 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:04.719 who else do we face? That was a beast of 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:08.800 a tight end? Cronk I'm saying aside from Gronk, m m, 0:44:10.000 --> 0:44:12.000 not really. Yeah, we haven't faced one, so I'm saying 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:15.239 that's what I'm saying. Curses the next challenging guy from 0:44:15.280 --> 0:44:17.719 the Giants. But he's he's kind of office his thing. 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:22.319 But you know what I think. I agree with you. Patriots, Yes, 0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:24.680 the Patriots and Patriots. Yes, those guys are talking. Yeah, 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:26.480 those guys are guys really good. So yeah, that's that's 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:28.279 the next next group that I would say put in 0:44:28.280 --> 0:44:29.880 that in that category. And those guys are kind of 0:44:29.880 --> 0:44:32.840 a dual threat. This is the guy for them. But 0:44:32.880 --> 0:44:34.400 I agree with both of you. I just want to 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:36.640 say I agree with both of you into that regard 0:44:36.680 --> 0:44:38.960 and not taking the easy way out that everybody has 0:44:38.960 --> 0:44:41.279 to play better on defense. But You're right about curse 0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:44.680 and Curses leading the team right now and tackles. Fact 0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:46.759 checked me on that Chris being, But I believe he is, 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:50.200 And if he finishes the season leading this team and tackle, 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:52.600 be the first time that a free safety or safety 0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:55.880 has led the team and tackle since b from Ohio Wow, 0:44:56.040 --> 0:44:58.680 who had one hundred and ten tackles. So, I mean, 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:01.080 he's he's a guy that's an integral part of what 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:03.080 we do. But you're right, man, he has his hands 0:45:03.120 --> 0:45:08.400 full on defense, especially versus Kyle Pitts. But I believe 0:45:08.400 --> 0:45:11.840 this Randy Gregory, Randy Gregory has to get that motor 0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:15.280 going bash him. Our edge guys have got to continue 0:45:15.280 --> 0:45:17.239 to put pressure on Matt Ryan because, like you said, 0:45:17.680 --> 0:45:20.799 the offensive line is compromised and we know that Matt 0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:23.680 Ryan will give you opportunities. And in the run game too, 0:45:23.800 --> 0:45:27.120 edge containment was a problem. Uh. You know, they they 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:29.319 bounced a lot of stuff outside. You know they got 0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:31.759 beat in the middle, interior two in the run game too. 0:45:31.760 --> 0:45:34.520 So I'd say just that front four, five, whatever you 0:45:34.560 --> 0:45:37.040 want to call it. For sure, I wonder, I mean, 0:45:37.160 --> 0:45:40.000 is this a matchup for digs though against against Kyle Pitts, 0:45:40.000 --> 0:45:42.440 do you think that's they need to I'm just watching 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:46.960 it back. I mean Xavian Howard was covering, so I 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:51.279 don't know. Kyle Pitts also had to. Yeah that will Yeah. 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:54.839 Yle pits had nine nine, it was seven for one 0:45:55.040 --> 0:45:57.680 sixty three and then there are some passing inferences there too. Yeah. 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:01.879 Michael Parsons now leads the team in tackles. That's why. 0:46:01.960 --> 0:46:04.319 That's why I said you will fact you know what's coming. 0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:09.440 So curses right there, that's buy one tackles coming up. 0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:12.000 I'll be on my right home. Who were wrong? Ye? 0:46:13.040 --> 0:46:18.719 Get a coffin, Chris, Yeah, yesssed up. Well that's it 0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:21.320 for us here on talking cowboys. What's coming up tomorrow? 0:46:21.360 --> 0:46:24.920 You previ even cowboys offense? Yeah, cowboy we're gonna talk 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:28.120 about Dak. I'm getting that calf back. Michael Galla back 0:46:28.120 --> 0:46:32.160 in the fold. Yes, off the chain tomorrow, No chains 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:35.040 allowed his studio, no ringing, don't bring you one goal 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:38.919 chain tomorrow. I don't wear any necklaces at Eggmo. Thanks, okay, Yeah, 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:43.200 so no chain is right upraight all right? For Chris 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.759 Beam in the back, Rob Phillips, I damn back hack 0:46:45.840 --> 0:46:48.359 My Harrison I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long, We'll see 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:52.120 you tomorrow. I'm talking Cowboys. This has been a production 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:55.919 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.