WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Bold Predictions For Week 2 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:17.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.279 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:32.920 Star in Frisco. And now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:39.280 My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. It's the same 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.360 with your chest Friday here on Talking Cowboy Let Go, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.080 presented by Tostitos, the official chip and Dip of the 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.520 Dallas Cowboys. As we are alive from the s WBC 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:55.000 Mortgage Studios at the Star in Frisco. My goodness, it 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.000 feels good to be back, idiot, It is good to 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.520 be back. We've got any going on here over the 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.679 next forty minutes or so. Heck Ma Harrison, We've got 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.720 Isaiah standback. Of course, we're Hob Phillips looking dapper as 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.880 always here on this Friday. I'm Kyle Yeoman's and gentlemen, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.959 we're gonna bring the mojo today. You know that we 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.440 always bring the mojo, Yeah, but we're gonna bring the 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.520 mojo a little bit more Austin powers. Yeah. However last 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.399 night and Mike McCarthy mentioned this this morning on the fan, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.920 but the dojo was not or was was left behind, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.000 and that's don't jump offsides the dojo. On a little 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.880 Thursday night football in the NFC East as well, the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.240 New York Giants gave that football game away, didn't that? 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.240 They didn't do that. I fell asleep. Did you not 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.440 watch it? I was watching it? You didn't watch the 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.160 end of it? I fell asleep. You're the oldest young guy. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.480 I'm the lighthouse guy, that lighthouse. I don't know if 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.840 it's gonna happen. Heck, you see. So the guy they 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.920 threw the game away pretty much. Yeah, I mean Washington 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.040 botched a field goal attempt and then there was offsides called. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.720 They got another chance at it, and he knocked it 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.840 through to win it. Yeah, after the Giants were up 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.440 by more than a touchdown with like two forty five 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.080 left on the clock. Did you see Washington's Twitter account? No? 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.400 I didn't. Was it savage? They? Yeah, they did a 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:21.440 gift from dealer, no deal open up the suitcase. Yeah, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.440 and then the guy the contestant with the Giant's logo 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.960 on his face very disappointed. That was genius. Yeah, but yeah, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.800 so Washington comes out on top on on Thursday Night 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.520 Football over the Giants thirty to twenty nine. Really what 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.840 was a very sloppily pit played football game, which I 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.520 think is a that's a win for for the Cowboys 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.200 overall as a fact of how sloppy it was beginning 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.800 to end. But at the same time, the Cowboys have 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.480 some more stuff going on in their own right as well. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.760 As we get into the weekend. I want to talk 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.280 about Randy Gregory really quickly. Where is the update status, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.320 Where where he's at right now, and the protocol of 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.079 COVID nineteen and should he be able to play coming 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.240 up on Sunday. Mike actually addressed it on the fan 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.000 this morning. He said he's still in protocol if he's 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:11.040 not able to practice by Saturday, because today's that kind 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.520 of rest regeneration day for the Cowboys. If he's not 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.919 practicing Saturday before their trip to LA then he will 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.560 not play in the game. And I would not count 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.400 on it, you know, Zack Martin said last week was 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.000 there you know, he was asked, was there any chance 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.040 you were going to play coming off the COVID stuff, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.919 And he's like, no, no. So I mean every case 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.120 is different, but I think they're preparing not to play 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.800 with with Randy on Sunday. Yeah, the fact of the 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.480 matter is if he has to either be testing negative 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.360 twice right in a forty eight hours span or is 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.360 it twenty four hours span twenty four hours apart? Okay, yeah, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.760 and then asymptomatic as well, so for forty eight hours 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:52.000 if he does, if he is experiencing symptoms right now, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.280 it looks like Randy Gregory is going to be right 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.320 up on the window and it doesn't look like he'll play. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.320 So the Cowboys certainly look like they need to have 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.640 a backup plan in terms of the past rusher spot, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.640 and we talked about it yesterday. There's a massive amount 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.960 of guys that are going to be there. But is 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.680 this the biggest area of concern Isaiah going into the 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.600 Chargers matchup or there are other areas of concern outside 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.479 of the edge rusher spot that you have your mind on. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.360 Right tackle? It is right tackle, state tackle hands. Now, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.920 we have other guys, now understand, they're not Randy Gregory, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.479 they're not DeMarcus Lawrence. Don't I want everybody coming after me. However, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.760 I said it on one of the other shows. I 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.599 don't believe that we were going to have a great 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.640 opportunity to get back in and get justin Herbert. Anyways, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.040 I don't think that he was going to sit back 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.680 there and allow for our defense ends to have a 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.840 shot at sacking him or strip sacking him, whatever you 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.960 want to call it. Um So I don't think. I 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.960 mean now, in the rushing game, I think that those 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.960 will we will miss their presence in that form. But 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.960 I think at Bradley and I I think at Duran's armstrot, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.480 I think at to rub bash them. I think those 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:51.919 guys will be able to come in and give the 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.280 effort right that we were we've grown to expect from 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.600 Gregory and Lawrence. Effort will be there. What impact will 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.520 they have on the running game, We'll see. I believe 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.360 that we were going to have the blitz to get 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.440 pressure anyways, But this is a West Coast style offense. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.159 The ball is coming out hot. So just like we 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.480 did not get into TV twelve last week, that that's 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.039 what I would expect to really go into. That's what 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.320 be my expectation going into this game as well. But 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.799 in terms of the right tackle position, I'm worried there 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.040 because of just the dogs that they have on an 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.920 opposing side, but also what we have to do and 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.520 what we have to take away from our offense in 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.479 order to make sure we account for that. So the 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.320 opportunity is that the opportunity costs is what I'm really 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.800 concerned about. Well, obviously the organization isn't worried about it 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.040 because they hadn't made any changes, they hadn't gone out 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.200 and gotten and you know, they hadn't done anything hasty 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.120 at all, so they trust their depth at the position. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.400 And I for one want to see how this plays out. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.400 But I think, how do you mitigate this? Right, you 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.960 want to go by by committee with the guys that 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.080 you just named, but I think you do it by 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.960 getting pressure in the middle. And I think if you 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.479 don't allow Herbert to step up in the pocket, then 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.320 I think all of those things on the outside start 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.159 happening for you. And I think that's where Tank maybe 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.960 has suffered in the past, because we just have not 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.280 had that pressure in the front. I mean last year, 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.720 and I know, like we don't like to go back 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.280 to last year, but it was horrid. We were not 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.840 getting any pressure at all in the middle of our defense. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.839 And so I'm just hoping I don't know if they're 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.839 gonna bring Hamilton up from the practice squad, but I 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.359 know we need to beef it up in the middle 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.720 and just make sure that they do not establish the 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.440 run in this game. This is important. I know we're 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.159 going to talk about Justin Herbert and his weapons and 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.800 what he can do, but every team against us, they 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.400 want to establish the run first. And I think, you know, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.000 Austin Eckler is going to be a massive part of 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.680 what the Chargers want to do. Yeah, for sure. One 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.680 quick update on Tank. You did have surgery yesterday that 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.720 actually will help probably speed up the healing process because 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.359 they put a screw or pen or whatever they do 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.040 in there. So I would think, you know, sometime after 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.359 the buy he'll be able to come back if everything 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.279 goes well. So that's good to your point. Heck, they've 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.520 got a couple of defensive ends on the practice squad. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.800 Brelan Speaks is a VET. He's one of those guys. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.600 Maybe they elevate him on Saturday. Sprinkle might be the 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.600 other guy. A tied end once again, because they've only 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.000 got two tight ends on the active roster. But yeah, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.160 I'm interested to see what they do I'm I'm with you, guys. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.800 I mean, I think right tackle, with this particular matchup, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.640 it's a tough It's a really tough matchup, no question 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.240 about that. I'm curious to see how they what they 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.720 do to manufacture pressure. I mean, obviously, if it's if 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.080 it's no Gregory too, then it's gonna be bash him 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.480 and Dorance Armstrong. And then what's Micah Parsons role look like. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.560 I know reporters were trying to get Mike McCarthy to 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.040 tip his hand yesterday and he didn't do that, obviously, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.280 but they drafted Mica in part because of his ability 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.600 to be a pressure player. I went back and watched 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.200 the game. He had about a dozen rushes either blitzing 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.480 or lining up at the left or right edge. So 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.880 I don't think, I know fans are excited about what 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.480 he can do in that regard. I don't think he's 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.840 gonna line up for forty snaps on the right or 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.040 left edge, but I think he can help them in 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.400 that category. And there, you know, Dan Quinn is probably 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.000 gonna have to get a little creative to try to 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.800 help without both of his top guys there, I think 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.480 that's weirdly where it boils down to is sure the 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.280 personnel's not going to be there, but you got to 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.800 find a way to have success. And dan Quinn, I 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.720 think a lot of the pressure falls on his shoulders 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.560 again this week because if he doesn't perform, then you're 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.680 gonna be at a tough time and Justin Herbert's going 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.520 to pick you apart, even as a second year guy. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.280 But kind of going along those same lines, Dak Prescott 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.840 yesterday spoke to the media, and I really like one 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.880 of the stories that was put up on Dallas Cowboys 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.320 dot Com. This was this helman that wrote this on 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.160 Dak Yeah, yes, okay, because it wasn't he didn't have 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.280 a title card or anything, but it says basically, the 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.640 story is about how you can't afford to dwell on 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.480 the past. And Dak Prescott spoke at Linked about this yesterday. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.440 The last thing you can dwell on is what happened. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.080 I've learned personally, and I think it's what the team 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.160 learned last year. He went on to talk about how 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.120 you were still alive despite all the injuries down to 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.240 week seventeen of the final week of the regular season 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.360 last year, and you still had a chance to go 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.599 to the playoffs because of the division and because of 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.600 the scenario right now, you kind of gotta look at 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.319 it again and say, wow, all of this is happening. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.839 We're going through twenty twenty again. But heck, why is 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.480 there a bit more positivity? Is it because we're just 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.360 in week two or is that still a point of 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.439 concern as well? Now? I just think it's the maturity 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.959 of your team. They recognize that injuries are part of 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.120 this league. You're gonna have guys. I mean, even if 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.800 you look at Kansas City last year, they lost offensive linemen, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.000 cornerbacks and they still whether the storm I mean, in 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.000 any franchise or that's gone and had any success they've 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.640 gotten there without their core guys. We're just gonna have 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.680 to learn how to live with that. And nobody's gonna 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.040 cry for us. You know, anybody's gonna cry for us. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.600 There's not a pity committee waiting to say, oh, poor cowboys. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.600 You know, we have got to look next man up. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.800 You won't allow me to even put a feather in 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.400 that hat. At the same time, these guys are capable, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.360 and you got to see what your guys are capable 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.959 of doing. The twenty twenty all by itself. I wish 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:12.800 I could forget the whole year. Yes, blank my memory 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.040 on that thing, because it was. It was horrible for 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.320 this team. But I think it's a part. It's a 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.199 part of our maturity. And when you hear your leader 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.800 and Dak Prescott say, look, we're not gonna dwell on 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.640 any of that, We're just gonna go forward with what 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.560 we have. I like hearing that. Yeah, I mean, dwelling 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.760 on it does nothing for you. I mean, acknowledging is everything, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.480 but dwelling does nothing. So I mean, you know him 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.200 speaking to um, you know what was and what isn't 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.120 you know what? I guess. I guess your question is 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.120 how do we feel? Why do we feel better this year? 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.400 We have Dak? Yes, that's great, That's pretty simple in 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.120 that regard. We have Dak, and then we have Dan 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.440 Quinn and some new guys that can make them make 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:50.920 some plays on that side of the ball. So I 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.240 think we feel overall, we feel better about our defense. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.880 Last year we were hopeful. Um, this year we've seen it, right, 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.440 we had a whole preseason to see it, and now 0:10:58.440 --> 0:10:59.959 all of a sudden we've had one one whole game 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.520 aim to see us. So I think we feel better 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.000 overall with our defense and our defensive approach. And then 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.080 there's a dude by the name of Dak Prescott that 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:12.480 just happens to be back there, Dak Tyrn Smith, Lyle 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.000 Collins eventually in five games, Blake Jarwin. I mean, they 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.320 are much healthier on offense. And I was talking to 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.959 Hellman about this yesterday, like he we all think Tanks 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.959 a really good player, best player on the defense. He 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.240 was saying, you know, it just kind of comes down 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.439 to Dak regardless. I mean, he's they're gonna go as 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.720 far as as he takes them. I kind of disagree. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.680 I mean, I think there's still, like Isaiah is saying, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.880 they're still optimism. This defense can be better, and it 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.040 needs to be better. You can't be in shootouts every 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.720 single week. But it does come down to having your best, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.480 you know, at the key position, one of your best players, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.439 if not your best player, and Dak Prescott giving you 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.679 an opportunity to score thirty plus points every game, and 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.000 they have that opportunity this particular week against this particular matchup. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.280 I think, But like you said about injuries, Terrell Asham 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.800 Steady yesterday. It's one hundred percent injury rate in this league, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:04.839 and that reminded me. I don't know if you guys 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.320 watched Delia's catch, but that's what they say about that catch. Dude, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.040 reminded me of that. Like crab fishing is different than football, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.800 but it's kind of the same thing. It's it's that's 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.680 the nature of this business. How many of you guys 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.880 on the bingo cards at home had crab fishing talking 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.320 talked about on Talking talboys to show it is a 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.800 great show, actually, um, kind of. I love the point 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.240 y'all brought up about the defense because entering Sunday, you're 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.320 most likely going to me missing three of your four 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:38.040 starting defensive linemen, DeMarcus Lawrence, Randy Gregory. You already lost 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.719 Neville Gallimore. He's out for an extended period of time. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.480 Carlos Watkins is looking around him and saying, what is 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.600 going on? Why? Like why am I the lone ranger here? 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.920 He's like Connor Williams was last year on the offensive line, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.640 except on the defensive line. Exactly right. But you still, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.960 I don't know to this point, you feel better now 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:58.960 than you did a year ago. If you were to 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.079 have that same sort of faith, why is it just 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.120 Dan Quinn, Because it's gotta be more than this, right, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.080 it is definitely more than that. I think our personnel 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.400 is better, and I think that we match up against 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:16.480 any team. Don't let me. We have personnel to be 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.120 competitive against any team. We have personnel to be competitive 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.720 against any team. We're gonna say something else, so on paper, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.199 on paper, right, we match up well. And I think 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.800 they did that through the draft, right, some of the 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.280 acquisitions that we have, you know, with our linebacker position, 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.160 guess what, we have a rotation. I think that we 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.920 can expect to see Jaylen Smith and Vander Esh substantially 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.160 more of this game. And guess what, Who're gonna get 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.760 pressure with Parsons, right, Jim bill Cox. We have those 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.800 guys that can add pressure from the outside. We could 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.240 really go to a three four. We're not gonna get 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.199 into us changing schemes and all that, but we can 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.679 do what we want to if we need to, right, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:46.800 we could be a four or three, could be a 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.520 three to four. We have the personnel for it. If 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.400 we need to match up against big receivers, guess what 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.360 we have big dbs now right, so we have we 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:56.280 can we can approach the game differently every single week 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.319 to match up and give us the best opportunity to 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.000 win games. And I think because of that, that's why 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:02.600 I think we feel good on that side of the wall. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.640 You mentioned you said you didn't want to get into it, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.959 but I want to get into it a little bit. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.160 We're not changing schemes, yeah, but dan Quinn had talked 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.439 about in all preseason long that we are a hybrid defense. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.840 The Cowboys are a hybrid defense. It's not gonna be 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.000 a four down linemen look. Every single time. There's gonna 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.760 be three down linemen. You're gonna see a couple drop 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.960 back into coverage. You can see that mixed up. Do 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.320 you expect, let's say three fourths of the plays this 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.680 week to be a three four look rather than the 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.280 four three, just based off of the personnel that's available. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.480 I would want to If I was playing Madden, I 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.880 would go three four. And the reason of being is 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.680 I'm not that concerned with their running game. I don't 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.240 think that their office in linemen are that dominant where 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.320 they can just just run our guys off the ball. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.320 I would much rather have three down linemen and have 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.840 vander Esh and Jalon Smith shooting the gaps and have 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.360 Neil and Parsons on the outside. That's not a bad 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.800 freaking combination, right, and then we still have guys to 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.240 match up. The other reason why I lack a three 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.360 four It really allows for us to get into cover 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.600 three relative easy, right with our five guys underneath, so 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.200 we can drop out. We can play his own because 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.840 these guys are gonna be tight splits. They're gonna be 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.320 running a lot of quick out routes, are gonna be 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.360 running a lot of corner routes, smash concepts out corner routes, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.280 so that a lot of their stuff comes from in tight. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.960 So guess what if you have guys that can be 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.880 off the ball and can jam those guys up and 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.400 really muddy up their ability to get off the ball cleanly, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.360 and then I think we have a great opportunity as 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.120 a part of the front seven. How tough of a 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.960 transition is that for an individual player? Heckma, I mean 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.320 I think they practice every day on it. They don't 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.680 play a variation of it. It's not that we play 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.320 maybe our bases four three, but in certain blitch packages 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.360 are going nickel, they take a guy out and that's 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.080 a completely three four hybrid look that they give you. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.880 And I agree with you on that because you look 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.560 at the guys that you have that you're going to 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.560 war with this weekend, you would think that they would 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.880 play a little bit more three four just to allow 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.120 that Mitch mismatch with Michael Parsons on the outside. But look, 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.520 it's gonna come down to how pass coverage, you know, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.640 how can we get can we get pressure on the 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.440 quarter back, and how long can our guys hold I 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.840 think we feel good about trey Lon Diggs. I think 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.360 we we we don't feel as good in some other positions, 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.120 but I think the defensive line and manufacturing and practice 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.080 pressure through Quinn's defense can mitigate a lot of that. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.760 One other thing to add about the secondary, and you're 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.200 not gonna like this. Come on, Donovan Wilson didn't practice 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.480 again yesterday. Not sure he's I would say he's iffy 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.160 for this game at this point with a groin injury. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.400 Demante Casey was limited yesterday with thigh injury, and I 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.400 think that's something to watch as well. Okay, this game too, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.080 But you know what, even even with sorry heck, Malie Cooker, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.120 time is Malie Cooker. But you know, but even with that, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.080 I mean to you to your point called we still 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.920 feel good. I mean, I do the depth depth essentially, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.440 it's not like you have a number one and just 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.000 like number two. It's like, Okay, guess what, Donovan Wilson, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.960 you're out. Okay, well, guess what we got? We got curse. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.240 Curse played forty plus snaps last week. I don't know 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.120 if that's right, good thing, but I'm but I'm saying, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.320 but you're right, but did he played forty Wilson to 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.880 whoever plays forty plus naps is the best team in 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.280 NFL based off of last year? And do you also 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.720 think Neil could play this? Mean he could if he 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.200 needed to, if he needed to go back there. But 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.359 guess what, Malie Hooker, guess what we've been waiting for 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.480 see him. They've been trying to. We haven't pulled, we 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.200 haven't not allowed him to go out there simply because 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.960 he can't. We've been just being smart about our approach. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.000 But sometimes you gotta get thrown into the fires. I 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.320 guess what, Hey, Bla, you're a baller in this league, right, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.240 go play? Could say the exact same thing for the 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.640 other guy who was inactive in the secondary last week, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.840 and that's Israel Mquamo could say the exact same thing. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.800 Both guys who were inactive last week might find their 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.840 way on the field this week. 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