WEBVTT - Hangin' with the Boys: Freaking Out Friday? 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:18.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club flowing out of the backfield, 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.880 they flumbing down the sightline. He is Hanging with the Boys, 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:32.839 presented by Wingstuff where flavor gets its wings. Welcome Cowboy Nation. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.199 You've had your sample size of Cowboys football last night. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.000 I want to know how did it digest over the 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.840 night for you guys. You're getting a live look at 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:48.000 Tostito's Plaza here in Frisco, Texas, at the Beautiful Star 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.559 in Frisco, here here in the SWBC Mortgage Studios, and 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.560 as as we always say about this time, you are 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.080 rocking with the Bestness is hanging with the boys. And 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.840 I am with my gang today here in Frisco, and 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.959 we're gonna break down for you guys all thing Hall 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.480 of Fame game from last night. I am with my 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.040 with my guys that get Kurt Daniels and that's not 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.080 Isaiah stand back, that is Danny Serek and he is 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.199 Jesse Holley. Gang, how are y'all doing today? Listen before 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.520 anyone speaks, We're getting right into this because um, I 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.080 needed my flowers today, Okay, I need some credit throwing 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.160 my way today. I'm not gonna blame you so much 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.280 so Danny, because you might have not been here. You 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.360 might have not been here. Okay, she was she was here. Yeah, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.720 you know where I'm going. I'm curious off the gate. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.520 There was a bold prediction made by me on this 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.800 show at the start of training camp. Any money, anyone 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.280 care to reflect on that boat prediction that I made 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.480 a hint And it was during the State of the 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:01.160 Cowboys one set owner of the football team, Oh the 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:06.440 ring of Honor I made. I told you, I told y'all, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.600 don't fall for the banana and the tailpipe. He got 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.440 up on stage and he did all those Jerry popping 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.359 tears and you all like crying, And I told y'all, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.519 I said, mark my words between before the end of 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.040 training camp, don't be shocked if you hear that Jimmy 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.280 Johnson will be going into the Ring of honor. Yeah, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.960 And some of y'all kind of might have casually rod 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.280 jaws like, oh you go Jesse again making those bold predictions. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.359 But last night on the broadcast, you heard that very 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.760 said owner of this here football team say what he's 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.560 going into the Ring of honor? And let me say this, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:49.799 like last night my show was done. Y'all talk unbelievable, Jesse, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.400 how do you start out day? I'm telling you. I 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.280 was driving here today, I was like, somebody better, No, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.800 nobody has to get I'm taking the cray credit. You 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.240 said it, and that Jimmy's going into the Ring of Honor. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:11.359 Absolutely he is, And that was announced on Fox yesterday, 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:16.120 with owner Jerry Jones saying that this year, don't we 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.520 don't know what day or which game that's gonna be. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.880 I just think I don't. I don't. I have to 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.440 be honest. I was not listening live because I was 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.360 hosting the pregame show, which tells me that maybe the 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.320 three of you have not gone back to watch it 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.440 yet if you were all watching that. But that's okay, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.160 you're watching the Fox Show and said that's okay. But 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.160 earlier Jerry Jones has said that probably not twenty twenty one. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.080 Doesn't want to take away from his Hall of Fame 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.680 induction year, but we'll see that could be up in there. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.880 One of the one of the highlights of the night 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:50.360 was Jimmy saying when I while I'm alive, So that 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.600 was just awesome. And again star stud at night, all 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.440 of the greats, the guys that are being inducted into 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.040 the Hall of Fame, like Steve Atwater, one of my 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:03.440 favorite players of all time, but also our guys Captain Crash. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.800 Cliff Harris is going into the Hall of Fame, Jimmy 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.720 Johnson is going into the Hall of Fame, and the 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.600 original eighty eight Drew Pearson's going into the Hall of Fame. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.120 So all of the Cowboys, all of the nostalgia, all 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.640 the Pittsburgh Still is all that it was there on 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.520 tilt for us to witness last night, and look, the 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.240 Cowboys lost to the Pittsburgh Still is sixteen to three. 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.800 Not a lot to be made of the game. I mean, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.080 we talked about evaluations and what we could pull from 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.320 this game. Gang, I'm gonna open the floor on this 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.640 to get some just clarity, please, you know, give me 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.039 some clarity on what I saw. I'm talking about digesting 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.080 this the way you were talking before the show. I'm 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.240 wondering if you got a stomachache over there. I got toms. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.120 I got toms in my pocket. You can hear them 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.359 rattling right now. It was. Look, I'm gonna open the 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.880 floor with you guys, because I want to know how 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.000 you felt, Danny Ladies. First, I don't know. I didn't 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.400 love a lot of what I saw, but I don't 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.320 know how concerned I am of Like the first preseason game, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.240 we didn't see a lot of starters, and of course 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.200 that's still important because you want to see the depth 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.679 and the backups and what you have on this roster. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.200 I think it was really great to see Micah Parsons 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.320 have a good few snaps that he played the fumble recovery. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.400 Of course, you want to see your first round draft pick, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.520 excuse me, you know, play well, first chance he gets. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.080 I loved seeing Lyle Collins back on the field again, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.080 not a lot of snaps, but just seeing him out 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.719 on the field was phenomenal. So there are parts that 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.760 I feel pretty good about in terms of the progress 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.440 and where we're moving forward. But there's also a lot 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:45.680 of parts that really worry me. Agreed, Yeah, I totally 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.560 agree with that. I mean, there were some highlights, some 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.360 guys like Parsons was probably the highlight as far as 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.719 what we were looking for and hoping to see. Really 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.680 like what he kind of showed right off the bat, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.680 But I don't you know, it's hard to say this 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.760 first preseason game, Hall of Famer, Hall of Fame game 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.719 is You're never gonna get much out of it. I 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.279 don't think, and I don't. It's hard for me to 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.000 say one way or the other is this good? Is 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.640 it's bad because they're just shaking the rust off really 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.520 and so but you know, first impression, yeah, there's a lot. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.840 There are a lot of concerns there, you know. But 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.640 I'm trying not to get two worked up about it. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.760 Given given the situation in the game, are you You're 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:30.279 so good? You are good, so good? And I promise 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.920 I won't still get thunder this time. I will say 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:41.040 this um our backup quarterbacks situation is is bad. And 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.680 I know that Garrett give it played decently, but we 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.040 can't go onto twenty twenty one with that situation like that. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.919 We'll talk more into it about the whole doc in 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.040 the shoulder situation, but we need to really take an 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.440 in depth look of where we're going to go as 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.480 far as backup quarterback that is. It was on display 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.880 last night and I get it. We had about sixteen 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.160 players that didn't travel and anytime you don't have your 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.600 backup guys thrive when they have the elite players around them. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.160 When you have to have backup guys do starter type 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.440 things as when you ask them to do a little 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.080 bit too much, right, It's like it's like asking a 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.080 fish to climb a tree like a monkey. You're just 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:28.920 asking me to do a little bit too much out 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.200 of my element. So, not having all of the starters 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.480 there and to play a piece instead of playing the 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.640 entire role, a lot of these guys are playing kind 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.360 of almost fish out of water. Yes it's still football, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.720 Yes they're still playing that position, but it's different when 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.160 I'm the nose tackle and I'm rushing up the field 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.440 and the officer line have to worry about Tank and 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.600 Randy Gregory opposed to some other guys who we don't 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.360 even know, right, and that gives you a different look. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.800 Or when I'm you know, when I'm a dB and 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.840 and the rush is different, or my secondary is different, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.280 and it gives it a different look. But just one 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.560 of the perspectives I saw, and a lot of people 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.480 are looking at that and it's probably low hanging fruit 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.000 for me to even grab it. But the quarterback, the 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:16.360 backup quarterback position, he isn't he isn't in the Dallas 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.720 Cowboys uniform right now, Why what makes you say that? 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.720 I mean, why why would a guy off the street 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.160 be better than I mean, because right now, I don't 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.720 want to see much out there that would be that 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.720 much better than once you got with Gilbert, who already 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.400 knows the system. And that's the thing is when you 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.839 have guys who already know the system, and it seems 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.720 like you're not seeing any progression, and when it seems 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.240 like you're still not seeing guys take the next step, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.079 but I don't even know what the real next because like, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.240 if you're a backup, that next step is probably a starter, right, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.760 But just to look different, like just to command the offense, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.760 make the right throws, make the right reads, complete the 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.439 right passes, those type of things. You just kind of like, well, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.360 how long will it take for you guys to kind of, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.400 you know, get on get on pace with doing that 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.520 at a at a at a decent clip. I'm not 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.319 a can do to the the league clip, but doing at 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.880 a decent clip. But we're able to put you in 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:01.320 the game and maybe win a game or two if 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.080 you need to. So we're gonna we're gonna get into 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.360 the backup quarterback discussion and because that's gonna take up 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.760 the whole podcast when when we go there. But you know, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.760 just general assessment for me, and we asked these questions 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.480 in the last podcast about what did you need to 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.920 see from the defense some of the questions that needed 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.800 to be answered. Uh. Energy, you guys talked about that 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.040 guys pursuing the ball, you know, all eleven to the ball. Uh, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.320 seeing how they look up front? I didn't see. I 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.920 didn't see a lot of that. You know. Michael Parsons, Yes, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.240 shine a bright spot on that pick because I think 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.840 he is that he showed us in just a little 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.080 sample size that we got, he is that. Some of 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.080 the other guys that I was looking forward to get 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.840 a feel for where they were, guys like bash them, Um, 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.960 guys like Watkins. I didn't see it. Urban, I didn't 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.000 see it. I didn't see the push. We got gashed 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.560 in the run. Last year Pittsburgh opened up. They had 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:05.960 some quality runs from Naja Harris all right, Um the 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:10.000 fumble that Michael cover. Great. We led the NFL in 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.559 turnover and turnovers there for a quarter. We were there 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.360 for one quarter and then all of a sudden it 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.240 was gone. But then you start to say, okay, wow, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.079 I like that, you know. But all in all, and 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.480 I'm just talking about just from the defensive side of 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.200 the ball. I didn't see the push. I did not 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:31.920 see I didn't see ends. I didn't see any pressure 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.640 on quarterbacks things that we're looking for for our new guys. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.600 You know. I did see Darren's Armstrong set the edge 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.120 a few times. Those were good, great things. Um. I 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:45.640 saw our rookies with both Hannon he did some good 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.280 things and then he did some bad things. But that's 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.880 what you expect out of a rookie in preseason. I 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.520 don't want to overreact about these things. But the things 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.400 that I was looking for last night, the questions that 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.680 I had, I just added another question mark my question 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.320 because my questions still have questions, and I still want 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.240 to know who and where is this team right now. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.280 But Danny, let me ask you, do you have the 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.760 stats from last night so that we can at least 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.080 deal with the numbers from what happened last night? Sure well, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.760 Cowboys finished with three points, obviously struggled in the red zone. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.480 Pittsburgh sixteen total yards, Dallas three hundred and thirty one 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.880 Pittsburgh two fifty rushing yards Dallas one oh nine Pittsburgh, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.080 seventy six passing yards for the Cowboys, two hundred and 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.760 forty nine one hundred and seventy four for Pittsburgh. Turnovers 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.760 three for the Cowboys, one for the Steelers. Thirdy down 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.360 third down conversion seven for sixteen for the Cowboys, five 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.160 of thirteen for Pittsburgh. Time of possession thirty minutes five 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:50.360 seconds for Dallas, twenty nine minutes forty eight seconds for Pittsburgh. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.720 So I mean, these are stat lines that we've become 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.160 used to, you know, dominate, not even dominating time of possession, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:02.840 but having stats that racking up the duet and not scoring, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.960 and then the turnover differential not going in our favor, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.240 and so you know, those little things. Again, heckmunk, don't overreact, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.120 talk yourself down. But I did see some good things. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.760 There was some players that I was able to look 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.760 at and say, oh, yeah, that guy is somebody that 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.120 we definitely definitely need to pay attention to. And that's 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.360 Maurice Kennedy. I'll just start with him. Maurice Kennedy, to me, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.840 showed that if he had played last year then I 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.080 understand he opted out for health reasons, had a baby 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.040 and all of that, but if he had been on 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.360 this roster last year, we might we might have seen 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:43.200 some improvements from a defense that struggled mightily because of 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.760 how tough he played last night. Anyone that you came 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.319 away saying that this is my guy, I'm sorry real quick, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.760 I'm going to take the credit because you remember last week, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.680 earlier in the week, when we talked about a player 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.960 that you know, maybe third or four string that could 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.040 be making a push. My player was Maurice Kennedy. So 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.960 now get your flowers, get your get your flowers. I 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.400 love it. Get you. This is just how we're doing Friday. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.080 This is Friday. This, this is flowers Friday. You pick 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:21.440 your own flowers a day. Where are we at players, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.520 players that that that you saw it last night that 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.560 you were saying, hey, this is our guy. You know. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.800 I liked what I saw from Um from the cornerback 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.440 na right. Um. I like what I saw from National. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.280 I like the way that he responded after giving up 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.480 the big play. Um. I like his physicalness. He came up. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.760 It's not afraid to tackle. Right. He showed some some 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.880 some physicality. I do think with him being such a 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.000 large corner right, six foot three, six foot four, that 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.840 transition right, that ability to turn and run. Now he 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.320 once he gets going, he can stay with you. But 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.520 when you have to deal, you're not gonna deal with 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:01.319 a six foot five Chase Claypool every single week. You're 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.560 gonna deal with some of those smaller, shiftier guys. So 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.480 what happens when those guys turn the corner and get 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.520 going and put the brakes on? Are you able to 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.319 stop and transition, come back and make the tackle? And 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.360 what happens when you go up against to Tom Brady 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:14.960 and he knows that you are rookie and he knows 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.920 the place that you struggle at and he attacks you 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.040 every single time down the field? Right, where does your 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.000 confidence go? Then? How do you respond on certain situations 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.480 like that? So it was good to see him have 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.040 the big play giving up against Claypool and then respond 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.400 by still sticking his nose in there, coming up, making tackles, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.360 being physical, and he'll learn the growing pains will happen 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.000 throughout the season. But he was another one that showed 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.800 that you know what I'm hear me like, don't don't 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.440 just forget about me. Don't write me off and say, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.080 oh Anthony Brown and say you know Kelvin Joseph and 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:51.120 and and T Digs. But I'm in that mix too, offensively. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.200 Rico Dowell out of the backfield looked good, shifty, quick, 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.760 which he's had in the past. I mean, he's not 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.560 a rookie by any means, but I thought that he 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.000 looked good and then kind of on the same page 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.560 of National right of not necessarily a great start, but 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.440 working through that mentally and physically and having a better 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.800 finish to the game. Connor Williams after the starters came 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.440 out after the first few snaps and centered entirely. Beotish 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.680 was done for the game. They moved Williams from left 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.120 guard to center, and they put Connor mcgoverned in at 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.080 left guard. So now we've been seeing the last couple 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.160 of weeks at Connor Williams, which we've kind of been 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.600 wondering the last couple of years. He's now getting those 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.160 backup reps under as center, and he had a few 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.360 errant snaps early on when that, you know, change happened, 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.160 But then I thought he kind of got his footing 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:38.360 played better after you know those few mental errors, physical errors, whatnot, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.680 and so kind of on that same realm of national right. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.080 I thought Connor Williams recovered well when he moved to center. Yeah, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:45.880 the guy that kind of stood up for me and 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.200 the fact that I had. He wasn't on my radar 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.640 at all. I didn't expect to see anything from him. 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:56.320 Was this fullback all in Nulla or butcher and his name? 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.400 I apologize, but he who would have thought he'd Paul 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.640 in a seventeen yard reception and he had a couple 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.400 of nice little blocks in there. Maybe he's making a 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.320 case of cowboys or keep a fullback. I don't know 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.600 his size, if he can do that kind of stuff, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.400 you know, the world beater, not necessarily, but he was 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.360 a guy who had no clue. I mean I wasn't 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:16.840 looking for him at all. I'm like, wow, where'd this 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.240 come from? Kurt? That is a That is awesome that 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.640 you picked him, because he was my second player on 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.200 that list, because of that seventeen yard game that little 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.880 will route Gilbert found him out of the backfield. You know, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.280 a guy that did great on special teams last night 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.840 as well. So yeah, I mean, will they keep a 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.120 fullback they hadn't in the past, but I think if 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.280 he keeps making those strides and special teams, and you know, 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.000 he would be a guy that I'd definitely be pulling 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.880 for to make this make the fifty three. But also 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.480 the questions about dan Quinn's defense. I know we kind 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.200 of talked about this a little bit, but where's that. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.920 Were there any improvements for you guys that you saw 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.280 last night, anything that you could point to this is 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.320 I that wrinkle was a little different anything that you 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.440 saw last night. I just see more of a combined 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.879 speed to the football, Like they looked like they were 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.439 running around flying physically. That that part stood out to 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.439 me early on, especially when you had the guys in 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.760 there and that first series when you had Jalen and 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.280 you had Parsons in there. The speed it translated. It 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.240 looked like they took that stuff from practice and was 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.480 flying around to the football. And you know, honestly, defensively, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.040 when you're playing eleven guys to the football and you're 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.240 playing with speed and you're playing with that verocity, you 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.360 find the football and so like even Parsons fumble pick up, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.159 it's because you had a bunch of guys coming to 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.040 the football, the football finds energy, right, and so if 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.200 you're on the positive side of that and you're always 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:42.680 in the right place because you got a bunch of 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.159 guys coming to the football, good things happened to you. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.280 And I thought defensively, especially early on, I don't really 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.199 want to get into the second half, when you know, 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.320 things kind of went really downhill just with the players. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.360 But early on you were able to see that that 0:17:55.560 --> 0:18:01.240 energy just be something that was worried all that when 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.480 the first team unit was out there, most of the 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.240 first the starters, you're you're starting linebackers are in there. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.840 That Pittsburgh's first drive, they were kind of moving the 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.240 ball and they it wasn't like a force fumble. They've 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.040 muffed a you know, a handoff. I mean, was that 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:21.320 concerning to you all at all? I only say no 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.960 in the sense of, like, it's still so early in 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:28.840 the preseason. Um, I'm not gonna say this necessarily true 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.199 because I'm obviously not a player on that team, but 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:32.639 I wondered too, Like, you know, I'm sure they have 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.560 the same mentality for any game, but like it's it's 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.000 still the Hall of Fame game. It's not even obviously 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.119 every game is important for film and showing why you 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.959 deserve to be on this roster, and I get that. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.120 I just think that it nothing of this of this 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.399 game is really so pressing to me. Of like, let 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.200 let's sound the alarm, like we need to start freaking out, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.240 Like sure, I think they have a better idea of improvement. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:19:00.080 What you're freaking out bringing out, I'm breaking out. And 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.879 what I'm figured out about is just some of the 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.080 back to depth. I don't see it. We need it, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.119 you know, guys that are gonna be coming in and 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.600 these sub packages. I didn't see the penetration from you know, 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.639 getting up the field, stopping the run, getting pressure on 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.880 the quarterback. We had none of that. I mean they 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:19.719 had their second and third guys and we had our 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.760 second and third guys and competing against one another, and 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.800 I still saw none of that. So I am, I am. Look, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.240 I'm gonna pull pull back a little bit. I'm gonna 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.680 I'm gonna wait on Saturday because I think Saturday we 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.359 get more of an assessment of what our number ones 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.199 are gonna do. Mean, while let me just say this 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.680 on Dallas Cowboys dot com, We're gonna have our guys 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:45.320 down in Oxnard for the practice between the Cowboys and 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.679 the Rams, and so guys please tune in for that 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.000 because that's gonna be great competition battles going on. But 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.159 I just didn't see it. I think I will be 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.879 more concerned after the next preseason game against the Cardinals 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.600 on Friday the third teenth, because let's let's at least 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.600 give like the coaching staff. Maybe now they have a 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.439 better idea of idea of what they need to focus on, 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.960 maybe different drills or things. You know, now that they're 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.320 not just going against their own teammates. You know, they're 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.440 out and pads, they're they're playing full speed. I would 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.480 say I will start to get a little more nervous 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.200 if it doesn't look that much better after their next 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.080 preseason game. And then again, I can't really ding a 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.760 guy like you know, bohand like, oh, he's not giving 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.520 what I need when I don't have the other guys 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.720 around him. Like we people got so excited about Urban 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.800 coming in, like, oh, man, he's been a great run stopper. Yeah, 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.320 but people failed to realize that Urban was probably a 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.240 really good run stopper because they had to worry about 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.280 this other guy on the Khalil Man. Yeah, that you know, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.000 it's like when you line up, you find out where 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.200 Khalil Mack is at. Everybody like, you know, you break 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.400 the huddle and you're looking around, where's where's fifty two? 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.280 Let's find Khalil Mack. And so when you don't have 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.399 those other guys around you that people have to worry about, 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.000 they don't got to swing the rotation till there double 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.040 that guy or do things differently. So now you're able 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.040 to have more winnable matchups on a down and down basis. 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:15.560 That's why I'm gonna say, like, just you can just 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:17.400 come back in a little bit. Heck, you ain't gotta 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.600