WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Where's Your Confidence Level Now? 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.559 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:18.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.600 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.280 Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:33.240 and Nicky Spagnola and it is time for Mick Shots 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:38.159 minus the Mick. On the day after the season opener 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.560 of the kickoff to the NFL season in Tampa, Florida, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.479 Everson some of us made it back in time for 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.879 the show. Headline Act did not make it back for 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.839 some reason. I don't know what Mickey had told me earlier, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:54.960 earlier in the week that yeah, he was on that 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.400 seven thirty flight, just like I was. And then I 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.400 get to the airport, there's no Mickey. And now here 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.360 I get to the Star in Frisco and there's no Mickey. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.880 What is going on with Mickey? It can't be by choice. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.759 No one wants to stay in Florida overnight. They don't 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.800 have to. Oh yeah, this is definitely something necessary. That's 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.200 why we guys back. There's no problem. Well, maybe he 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.360 got back to his hotel room like I did at 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.280 two o'clock in the morning and realized oh, this five 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.560 o'clock wake up call for this flight. Maybe I need 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.520 to adjust my schedule. You guys have to be geek. Man, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.800 y'all have to be geek. Could could you sleep you 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.440 know after the game like that? Well, after the post 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.399 game stuff, you know it. It's the process after the game, 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:43.120 waiting on the press conferences and then it winds you down. Yeah. Yeah. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.240 And then the fact that, okay, I have to wake 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.280 up in three hours. That'll wind you down too. But 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.280 Mickey apparently is en route. He is flying here now. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.880 If it was anything like my flight, he is already 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.080 now supposedly he I think his flight is supposed to 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.960 land at one fifty or two o'clock. Okay, so he 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.880 should be joining us here shortly. If it's anything like 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.520 my flight this morning, his plane has already landed at 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.840 DFW Airport and they're waiting for a gate to open 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.440 for the day. We got good news and bad news 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.880 from the captain. We made it here early, but no 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.240 one was ready for us, so we'll be sitting on 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.360 the runway. Yeah. I told this, bad's gonna be in 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.720 the bathroom like die Hard, reporting from from the rest 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.800 from the lavatory, you know, on the plane trying to 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.200 find out what we're talking about. So we'll hear from 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.680 him some. Okay, So in the meantime, Everson, the floor 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.880 is yours. I can't wait to hear what your take 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.840 is on what happened last night in Tampa. And I 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.520 think that at the conclusion of it, here's the way 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.480 I looked at it. Okay, one game. Now, we got 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.440 a sixteen game regular season still to be played here, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.760 and so that was the preseason last night. Boy, that 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.880 was a good preseason. The way this man I was 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.880 geeked last night, I was geeked this morning. I just 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.400 loved the game itself. That was real football there. You know, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.280 a lot of scores were put up, you know, so 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.440 it's not necessarily the traditional defensive struggle that you wanted, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.120 especially considering Tampa Bay had the number one defense in 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.440 the league and Cowboys came out and diced them up 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:28.079 from really series one. I thought Dak showed, he showed 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.520 his poise because I'm thinking when the game started, it's 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.320 no way he's gonna be able to calm himself down. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.360 You know, he hadn't played an eleven months and he's 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.280 coming out here. The hype has been going on all 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.600 off season, especially as we got close to the game, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.640 just got crazy, crazy hype, everybody questioning him with the shoulder, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.360 how's the leg gonna look? I was nervous. I was 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.560 probably more nervous than he was. But the Cowboys themselves 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.360 had so much confidence in him, and you know, that's 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:01.280 that's so refreshing that they have. First of all, they 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.240 paid him, you know, and he had the confidence that 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.080 he was gonna get paid. All this time everybody was saying, oh, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.720 it's too much money. Now he gets paid. He realizes 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.240 the responsibility, which he always did. But now being able 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.840 to come out and show against the best defense on 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.359 the biggest stage, against probably the best quarterback in the 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.760 history of the NFL, it was just refreshing and exciting 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.440 to see the Cowboys show some type of not just competence, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.800 but competitiveness, you know, from both sides of the ball. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.880 You know, it's interesting because I was there doing live 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.200 shots for CBS eleven starting at let's see, the game 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.320 started Eastern time at eight o'clock, and so we started 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.880 at We got there about four o'clock Eastern time, three 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.599 o'clock Dallas time, and Dak was out there was he 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.000 Dack and and Zeke were their first starters that were 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.520 out on the field. The inactives came out and worked 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.880 out for a little bit first, and then the first 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.280 arders out there were Tyring and Lyle they were stretching whatever, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.840 and then Dak and Zeke where they were out there 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.960 and doing the little yoga routine, the karaoke and all 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.839 that stuff. That's good stuff. And you know that it's 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.120 the process that Dak does. We you know, watch it 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.800 at training camp every day. There's it. I want to say, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:22.200 it's probably a pretty much a twenty minute workout that 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.719 he does. Just the bridge poles. I do that in yoga. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.400 He get the bridge poles. I didn't know he's doing 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.640 that kind of stuff. Yeah, good for the core, but 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.520 but beyond that, I mean, he works up a really 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.120 good especially in Tampa. You I mean, I was working 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.359 up a good sweat and they he was fully clothed, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.919 if I'm not mistaken, well he uh yeah, had the 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.000 long sleeves, sweats right, sweats on and uh But to 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:48.360 your point, you know, getting being so hyped, I think 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.839 I don't know if I can compare it with what 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.720 his normal pregame routine is I can compare it to 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.719 what I was seeing on the other end of the field, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.200 which was no Tampa Bay players out on the field. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.120 Maybe they had some place to work out, But this 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.840 was literally two hours before the game, and he's out there, 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.120 and I want to say, he's just getting used to 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.400 the elements. He's getting used to the field. He's getting 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.520 you know. And also I think it probably calms him, 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:20.240 calms him down, and it just makes it especially his 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.760 first game back in eleven months. UH, it got him 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.719 acclimated to the situation. You know. Now he did, he 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.440 did a great job. And yeah, we'll get into this 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.920 all of this later, but I just like the way 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.880 the entire UH team responded because you're talking about being 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:42.159 out there early. Could you hear yourself talk oh pre game, 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.800 pre game? You could, yeah, but but I mean, and 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.200 and you know that there was an early arriving crowd 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.600 and so on the radio, it was just loud so 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.560 pre game. When the traditional pre game started, which is 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.240 a little less than an hour before kicking off, a 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.880 seven twenty kickoff, and so teams came out around just 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.760 after six twenty and they were already I want to 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.880 say the stands probably were pretty close to be in 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.760 half full because everybody wanted to get there early because 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.000 they were having their Super Bowl ceremony, which was unusual 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.800 that you would have that, you know, because they weren't 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.400 able to really celebrate before, you know, outside of course 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.720 they had their their parade and everything, but but this 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.800 was the first time. You know, I'd forgotten what the 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.280 attendance was at the Super Bowl, and it was twenty 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.920 four thousand and so it was one third the crowd 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.880 at the super Bowl. And of course they aren't Tampa 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.280 Bay fans that even it was their home stadium. There's 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.960 so many corporate tickets that are sold at a Super Bowl, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.040 and so this was their opportunity to celebrate, and they 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.520 were made sure that they're going to get be in 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.520 their seat at least a half Yeah, that's right. I know. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.560 I could hear Bread and Babe trying to try to 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.400 talk over the crowd, and and I remember Babe was 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.280 trying to make a point, and then the middle of 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.440 his point, he goes, man, it is loud, and they 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.440 couldn't even hear themselves talk. There was one other time 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.400 that that I think the Cowboys would have been in 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.400 that same environment, and it was actually a preseason game 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.080 after Seattle. This was back in oh four when Seattle 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.480 went to the Super Bowl and it was their first 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.400 preseason game. And that stadium is so loud to begin, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.440 just just the way of it contains the noise in 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:37.720 there exactly. And we were just doing our pregame hits 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.040 before doing the preseason game, and I Babe's here, I'm 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.040 we're literally a foot apart, and I couldn't hear what 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.439 he was saying, you know it, so that that was true. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.440 Couldn't hear? Yeah, right, And sort of kind of the 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.040 same environment last night. Uh, But what a great game. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.240 And who would have thought that Dak would wind up 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.920 in a game you might have predicted fifty eight pass 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.400 attempts for Dak if they were getting blown out, if 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.200 it was like one of those first five games that 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.280 he played in last year, or the first four at 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.720 least that he played in last year. The Cowboys, we're 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.400 falling behind one hundred yards. But I'm saying if they 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.320 had fallen behind twenty one points like they made a 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.480 habit of doing last year, now you're gonna throw it 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.280 fifty eight times. And you know this was in a 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.040 nip and tuck game and you're throwing at fifty eight. Yeah, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.079 and we'll get to it later. But it's almost as if, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:34.520 I guess around the second quarter, it's like, hey, man, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.880 forget this, We're just gonna duel. It's just gonna be 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.200 a duel. It's gonna be two two straight shooters, you know, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.520 facing each other at sundown or whatever, high noon. And 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.240 that was a high noon shootout, that's what that was. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.840 And it's almost as if Kellen Moore and and of 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.679 course Brady himself, they just decided to hell with the 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.000 run game. You know, we've got to make it happen 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.000 the way we can. And let's be real, the Cowboy 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.760 was kind of fourth braided into passing the ball. We 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.199 were not going to give up a bunch of running 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.440 yards in this game, no matter what. I want to 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.040 ask you a question, did I see six defensive linemen 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.200 in the game at some point for the Cowboys? Well, 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.440 you know, it's interesting what the way dan quinn and 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.160 then we're going to be studying it further, but it's 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.599 but it's interesting the way he's using personnel, and it 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.719 may have I love the way, you know, in this 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.400 league you're looking at more and more hybrid type players, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.200 whether it's hybrid playing a defensive end rushing from inside, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.679 or a linebacker coming up and so forth. It's more 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.600 of a hybrid defense than you know. He traditionally has 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.760 been a four to three guy, and he has talked 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.480 about it that he is a You're going to see 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.360 more not what you saw last year, but the same 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.000 type ideas of last year in terms of a hybrid 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.920 between a four three and reforms. So there would be 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.040 times where you might see it. And I guess what 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.000 I said, with Parsons being a football player, right, he 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.720 could be part of that, that defensive line, and he chooses. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.600 The stellar part of it is it's hard to figure 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.839 it out with the number changes to Yeah, Brady made 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.680 himself knowing about that. Yeah, but you know I saw 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.640 what we were definitely stacking the line with Biggs and 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.280 it was a few times Brady came up. Maybe he 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.520 changed a lot of plays. Yes, she is always coming 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.199 up looking around, and you know that's he and Dak 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.960 were kind of doing the same thing. They were noticing 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.800 certain things and you gotta wonder how many times he 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.360 changed from a running play to a passing play. You 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.000 know because they we we we really left him no choice, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.360 you know, and you know he's like, okay, I can 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.120 I can feast anywhere you want me to feast. And 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.959 even though he did have some good numbers, the Cowboys 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.880 secondary and defense, they had all eyes on the ball. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.280 I loved it. They were very aggressive and focused and yeah, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.000 gave up, gave up yours, you know, Tip Brady of course, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.719 and Gunk and all these great receivers. But I gotta say, man, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.720 when you when you walk away with four turnovers in 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:11.360 the game, you gotta be how defense plus three turnovers down, 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.240 You're you're you're thinking you're unless you're going up against 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.480 the greatest quarterback, Yeah, you're gonna win the game. Trust me. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.079 I've been down with Joe going well, all right, think 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.680 about this, um, when you're talking about Brady changing the 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.440 play so much, I think that's your credit to what 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.600 Dan Quinn was doing defensively, of course, and uh think 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.240 about this now. Quinn obviously he was let go early 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.240 last year with Atlanta. However, there are a couple of 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.560 members of this coaching staff who are on the Falcons 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.520 defensive coaching staff last year, adding Dirty as well as 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.280 Joe Witt, the secondary coach to them, well, we'll think 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.600 think about this though. The they Atlanta did not play 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.600 Tampa Bay last year until two of the last three 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.760 games of the season of the regular season, weeks fifteen 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.400 and seventeen. Okay, so that is when Tampa Bay was 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.920 in their stretch of winning eight in a row to 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:07.760 win the Super Bowl. Week fifteen, the Falcons had the 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.920 Bucks down seventeen to nothing at halftime in that game, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.920 so they were doing something defensively. Point my point is, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.360 we have known since the schedule came out that the 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.080 first game is against Tampa Bay. Two members of this 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.559 coaching staff intimately familiar with what Tampa Bay was doing 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.959 from two times playing against him in the last three 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.200 weeks of the season last year. And you know, dan 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.439 Quinn was studying the studying like crazy throughout the last 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.400 five months or however along it's been, and so they 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.480 were breaking out all the stops. But Tampa Bay was 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.800 doing the same thing, same thing, you know, the exact 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.480 same right. The mental the mental fight that was going 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.240 on on the field and off the field, I just 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.280 thought was extremely intrigued. And that's the beauty of these 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.920 openers is they've had so much time to prepare because 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.320 you want to get off to a good start each season. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.640 And let's say it, regardless of who you're going to 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:06.160 prepare against for the upcoming games, if you're the Cowboys offense, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.400 were really the entire team, you have to feel pretty 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.920 good about if you can do this against the Super 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.360 Bowl champions in all facets of the game, even the 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.720 running game. You Zie just got thirty three yards, But 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.760 to me, he earned every down. Believe it or not, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:30.520 that he had some yards after contact, that that showed 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.200 what kind of shape he's in. It shows an improvement 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.720 from last year. He never was close to dropping the 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.680 ball at all in the game. You could see he 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:45.600 was intense, but yet playing within himself, sacrifice himself on 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.800 many blitzes to what he just threw himself on the sword. 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.520 You know, I saw maturity from players and from a 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.440 team that is totally different from what I saw last year. Right, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.640 And a lot of times it was Dak putting Zeke 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.720 in position. I mean what Dak did. And Neil Brady's 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.280 the King of Ben he has set protections and so forth. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.120 Da is really good too. Oh yeah, and they were 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.920 both motioning to Zeke here here you go, and Zeke 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.600 has always been good at past protection. They're getting out 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.560 the huddle early, right, just the things that you saw 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.800 they were. They out of the huddle early when when 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.600 Dak's making his changes, they still got the sixteen seconds 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.160 left on the play cloud. And that's what you need 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.080 to where you're poised. Everyone everyone's on the same page. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.320 Except for the false start, would be honest, didn't snap 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.640 the ball. I don't think the crowd started the entire 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.440 but really just him. Yeah, so you know, those kinds 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.640 of things didn't bother the Cowboys at all. That was 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.560 the only time I saw who had that crowd as 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.240 loud as it was. They would know if they had 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.800 no effect on us as a team overall. And this 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.520 was different than a lot of games against defending Super 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.520 Bowl champions in that this is a Super Bowl champion 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.120 that literally is bringing everybody back from last year. Yes, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.640 you know, and it played so well down the stretch 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.800 last year and for the first time as a collective group, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.160 just like all the teams had a full off season 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.720 to be able to work and so forth. Uh, and 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.000 we're going to see going forward, and we saw it 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.720 plenty of it, especially in the first half, antony o'brown 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.240 with you know, that's a totally different element to their offense. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.640 We kind of touched on twelve games before the game. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.400 He was prominent in this game, right, yes, right, And 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.160 you could see it coming. All you had to do 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.240 is see what he did down the stretch last year 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.040 and his mind is right. But I think you just 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.400 you credit the Cowboys. You walk away with a bad 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.080 taste in your mouth because you didn't win the game, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.200 but you feel pretty good about things going forward. And 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.080 as for Cowboys fans or anyone who is doubting this 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.280 team coming in, I think it was sort of a 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.360 confirmation for the players because they knew that they've got 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.760 a good team, you know, but we haven't been able 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.639 to see that because we didn't see that they were 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.959 they didn't play in the preseason. Yeah, we were nervous 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.879 that we were nervous that we may not see it 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.280 because we figured we would and didn't want our hopes 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:27.960 dash too much. But all expectations were met, especially offensively. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.600 The culture I talk about, you know, Dan Quinn's defense 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.840 has never been a shutdown defense, but it's always been 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.960 an active defense. And when he first came here, I 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.320 remember saying that about him. You know, they never had 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.440 a bunch of talent on the Falcons team, but they 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.359 had guys flying around making plays when there was you know, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.479 when there was good for them, especially living off of 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.720 a great offense that had Ryan and Julio Jones and 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:56.440 these guys that they have. So I'm just liking the activity. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.720 I'm liking the turnovers, but of course, you know, when 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.200 it comes down to it, I still want to see 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.399 better coverage. In the second day that we knew it 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.880 was going to be the weakness, I mean, I knew 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.719 that we would overcompensate with the run, which is what 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.440 we did. You know, there was no factor at all 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.040 in regards to the running game, and you knew Brady 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:19.720 was going to open it up. You knew you were 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.320 gonna have problems with these three wide receivers, and I 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:28.879 was a bit surprised. Mike Evans, yep, I was disappointed 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:34.359 in him. He seemed to be not engaged at all 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.000 in this ball game. And I'm wondering if it was 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:43.879 Trey Vaughn that was really giving them some hassles. The 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.679 active zone that we had two passes really could have 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.119 been just with a little bit extra effort, maybe a 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.440 little bit bad throat, could have had two more interceptions 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:58.680 underneath Jordan Lewis. As much as I keep wanting to discount, 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.800 this guy came up and made really some key plays. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.080 I mean, he has some issues just by the size 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.760 of him. Honest, I don't know how he does it. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.560 He looks like he's smacked nol out there run around. 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:14.159 But this guy still active, and that when you're that 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.800 small and you have a good team around you, it's 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.600 easy to blend in with that same activity. And he 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.919 always did have activity, but it just needed help. The 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.879 way we approached the ball player, the way that we 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:31.200 left no way out when we with good tackling, we 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:36.760 didn't see small plays turning into big, goofy plays that 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.879 made us look so incompetent. You saw none of that. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.400 You saw guys getting beat. Now it's football, you're gonna 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:46.240 get beat. But you didn't see a lack of continuity 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.480 from an entire defense. That's the kind of culture I 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.879 wanted around here. You know, the flex defense. Come on, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.560 we're back in the secondary of giving it up back 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.119 in the eighties, but we were getting ours. We were 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:57.959 giving it up because it's just the way it is. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.120 But we were getting ours. You have to get yours, Bill, 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.840 I always talk about that, you gotta get your turnovers 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.639 when it's time, and those want accidental turnovers. That was 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.600 the turns because guys had their eyes on the ball 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.920 and they were aggressive. 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