WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: What Just Happened? 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:06.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.960 Cowboys. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.320 This He's Talking Cowboys, springing live. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.680 From the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.880 The Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:27.720 Street six second pscot tizon a touchdown and now your 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:34.520 hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.400 It's a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Black 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.479 Rifle Coffee Company, the official copy of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.920 Welcome in to the st WBC studios at the. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.680 Star in frest Call. I got the hiccups, guys, sorry 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:50.920 forgive me for a little bit. Here have some remedies 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.680 for that. Yeah, it's a little bit of a hiccup, 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.680 just like the Cowboys had a hiccup in week three. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.480 Whatso did you do there twenty eight to sixteen? Was 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.280 that SCRIPTA No, it wasn't. Actually that was off the 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.080 rip off the dome. That was off the dome. That's professional. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.000 Yeah, things didn't go well in Arizona. Nick Harris landed 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.080 at about ten thirty last night. Dude, that's good that 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.800 the team got off the plane in Dallas, because it 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.680 didn't seem like they got off the plane in Arizona. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.360 It didn't look like things happened well for the Cowboys. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.040 Just I mean, for the most part, that's what it is. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.680 I mean, this is a bad Arizona team, and the 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.600 Cowboys lost to a bad Arizona team. 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.160 You don't think so I didn't agree with it last week. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.760 I don't agree with it. Now, what did you? What's 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:32.600 your score prediction? 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:32.880 Though? 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.600 Yeah, I predicted that Dallas would win. But I also 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.240 stated that I felt like this team is a problem, right, 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.160 and so I mean, like, yeah, yeah, so, I mean 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.880 like Arizona's not a bad team. Arizona is a team 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.119 that's figuring themselves out. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.440 I think they're an undermanned and depleted cy I. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.880 Agree with that statement, right, But they're not a bad team. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.040 Dobbs is figuring out this team. He's only been there 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.680 for a little while. The head coach is figuring this 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.160 team out. They've only been there for a little while. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.560 Like they have some pieces now they do. They have 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.160 the level of talent that Dallas has. Absolutely not. Should 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.680 they lose a Dallas on paper, no, absolutely not, right, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.040 But in terms of some of the things that we 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.080 talked about, last week, they reared their ugly head. Right, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:07.920 we knew that they could run the ball, We knew 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.239 that their style of running was going to cause problems. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.639 We knew that Dobbs had a cannon. We knew these 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.040 things like these. There was there wasn't anything that happened 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.799 that we were surprised by. Right, we knew these things. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.079 These problems were prevalent, but Dallas just didn't didn't check 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.000 the boxes to take care of them. Yeah. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.400 Yeah, the running game especially was awful. It makes me 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.120 wonder if these running game problems still exists. It just 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.160 took a while to get exposed again. I mean, one 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.000 hundred and eighty two yards given up in the first 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.919 half on the ground, most for the franchise since nineteen 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:44.640 ninety one. So yeah, whether it was James Connor, Joshua Dobbs, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.079 even Rondelle Moore got back there and went forty five 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.200 yards untouched to the crib. It was tough, man, It 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:50.640 was tough. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.760 What now, I was just gonna say, just referencing some 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.280 of the things that we addressed last week. I mean, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.760 this is why people should tune in, because we try 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.399 to try to send the alert signals out of the back. Yeah, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.280 like we talked about, I know, at least I did 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.200 specifically about this is the type of running offense. Right, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.760 that's very philly Ish, Right, I said, it's very philly Ish, 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.200 right in terms of his own read, in terms of 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.040 those things and how they're able to take the defensive 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.600 ends out of the game. That's what happens when you 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.239 have a quarterback who's capable of running, and he hurts you. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.800 And he made you aware of that very very early 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.840 in the game. Right, he lets you know, Hey, I 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.560 can get out on you. So all of a sudden, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.400 now you're like, crap, I can't be as aggressive now. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.720 I have to really after respect the fact that he 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.000 can run. So now guess what. I can't pinch and 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.440 restrict the running the running gaps as I intended to, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.000 because I have to go out here and respect the 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.280 fact that he might boot leg out of it and 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.680 keep the ball. Right, I can't just be as aggressive 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.280 because they have the zone read and he could pull 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.600 it or he can give it. Either way, I'm creating 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.480 seams that's created problem for Dallas in the past, right, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.760 And that's why we reference that. Like Jalen Hurst the 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.240 Philadelphia Eagles They're able to run the ball against Dallas 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.120 in recent times because of that style of offense, and 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.520 everybody who has that and has the capability to actually 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.960 run it with their quarterback has been successful against Dallas. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.400 Now do you acknowledge it and you try to address it, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.080 it doesn't mean that you can stop it. And that's 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.880 where I think Dallas is at right now. They know 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.080 that they struggle with that type of offense. We knew 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.680 that they struggled with that type of offense, but they 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.880 still couldn't stop it. And that's where I think people 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:19.960 have a big concern right now. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.360 You talk about rushing yards allowed last season, when of 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.000 course it was a big red flag about this Cowboys defense. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.920 Nasty defense, one of the best in the NFL still is, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.360 and yeah, they're going to have a lapse every once 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.200 in a while, but run defense has always been a bugaboo. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.800 Two hundred and forty yards was the most they gave 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.560 up last year and that was in Week eight against 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.720 the Chicago Bears. Running quarterback Yep, justin Fields. A lot 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.480 of that came from his legs and the way he 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.800 was able to run the football. This would have ranked 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.160 second on the list two hundred and twenty two yards 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.120 allowed against Arizona. This would have been number two on 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.000 a list of a bad run defense last year as 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.080 most yards allowed. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.359 So it's not a good thought. Like you talked about, the. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.880 Point of focus throughout the entire offseason was let's sure 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:07.760 up to run defense. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.320 Let's go get a Mazzie Smith. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.920 He's been relatively ineffective, if not completely real ineffective through 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.000 the first three weeks of the season. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.960 He's a rookie, He's got fourteen games left. Hopefully more 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.880 than that. There's still time for him to make an impact. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:21.760 He just hasn't yet. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.680 But to this point, is there a red flag still 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.680 for this Cowboys defense saying this is still a problem 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:29.960 and it needs to be fixed. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.840 I mean, after yesterday, I don't think there's any other 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.680 conclusion than yes. With Joshua Dobbs and James Connor, I mean, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.440 both of those guys were able to find their holes, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.280 and man, they found a lot of yardage in those 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:45.520 holes too, So man, they were flushing out the defensive line. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.440 Michael Parsons was completely flushed out of the game at times. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.320 DeMarcus Lawrence in the same sense, whenever they ran to 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.520 his side. I mean, they attacked the middle of that 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.240 defense early and often, and it was the whether it 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.200 was Jonathan Hankins, Olso Digyezua Mazzi, Smith, Layton vander Esh, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.360 those guys, they just weren't able to get downhill. And 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.240 I think that's what eventually led to what that first 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.840 half lead looked like. And then trying to climb back 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.640 into it with this offense, which I'm sure we'll dive 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:12.920 into the offense a little bit later. I have my 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.280 thoughts on that as well, but I think it just 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.440 kind of created the perfect storm. It created the perfect 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.720 storm of identifying what the problems were and A, it's 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.160 still the run defense, and then b there's gotta be 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.120 some juice on offense. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.360 Yeah, and I want to save the offense to the 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.040 second segment because there is, like Nick just said, there's 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.520 a completely different storyline around the offense. But I think 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.200 the significant storyline in this game, and probably at the 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.400 top of the list, is the fact that the defense collapsed. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:40.160 With the way that it did. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.120 It looks so good in weeks one and two against 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.080 good opponents. I'm not going to discount the Giants yet, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:47.520 I'm not going to discount. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:48.280 The Jets yet. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.440 But both of those teams on paper are better than 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.160 what this Cardinals team was. But then you turn around 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.120 and you say, Okay, the defense has a performance like 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.520 they did in Week three, and it doesn't get much easier. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.600 You got the paytriots coming up this upcoming week. You 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.599 got Bill Square, you got Bill Belichick, Bill O'Brien running 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.160 that offense. Then you got the running back doe of 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.560 Ramandre Stevenson and oh this guy that of course wants 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.040 to get at your throat and that's Ezekiel Elliott. Those 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.840 are the run game coming up this week against New England. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.840 So where does it start defensively? Where do you want 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.640 to see the biggest uptick because it doesn't happen it 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.840 usually doesn't happen overnight, but you kind of need it 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:26.960 to happen overnight this week. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.400 Yeah, I mean you got to start today. You know, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.640 everybody all hands on deck, coming in here and watching 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.560 film and really having a heart to heart with everybody. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.600 Everybody gets their great shoes, so all those things happen. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.480 But if it's normally a two hour session and make 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.920 it four, right, we really have to get really in 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.200 tune and really particular about the things that need to 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.680 improve in this in this scheme, and I think that 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:57.880 there are more advanced rushing defense against base runs. Right, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.240 So when you have a breeze hal in delv Cook 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:01.600 and you were able to shut those guys down, those 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.280 guys are lining up and you know where they're going. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.800 They're coming downhill, right, or they're going just outside the box. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.800 I think that stuff is traditional. They're good with that. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.400 They sued that up, which is awesome. But this this new, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.320 this new little wrinkle, right, or not a new wrinkle, right, 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:18.200 but this that that that option you know, uh version 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.000 concept is just it's uneasy. It's really uneasy, man. And 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.760 then you look at it from the passing perspective, and 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.280 everybody's gonna pay aten to the rush defense. This dude, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.520 Dops was able to throw for eighty one percent completion rate. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.360 And these weren't These weren't hitches. He was effective. These 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.840 were not hitches. You know, there was there was dropped coverages. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.839 I mean know Jay Lou's getting back into the system, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.040 but that big play, you know, was jaylu dropping coverage. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.319 You know it was a man and man coverage and 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.959 apparently he didn't get the call that he thought it 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.679 was three, so he was saying in his own and 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.600 the guy ran to the open spot of the field 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.120 and was able to I was curious. I haven't been 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:52.559 able to go back and watch that from from what 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.560 I understand about the defense. Yes, it was Jay Lou's fault. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.400 I mean, just look at it. Look like a dropping 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.199 coverage and the safety throwing his arms up in the air, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.480 like what the heck kind of gave me a confirmation 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.920 of that. Then you look at Darron Blant. He struggled 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.280 on the outside. He struggled. You know, we talked about Gilmore, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.160 like Gilmore's good, but Gilmore don't have the juice that 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.880 he that he used to have, you know, so like, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.480 are we really this do you really have an expectation 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.880 of him to keep up with guys who were four 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:17.120 to three? 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.440 Yes to fund Gilmore really struggles with speed. I think 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.199 that's starting to become a little bit more prevalent. We 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:22.959 talked about it coming out of the Jets game, just 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.880 like Gary Wilson kind of got him a couple of times, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.000 Rondeo morg got him. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.000 Yeah, we talked about what what do we say before 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.199 speak four to three? Speed across the board? Like, you 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:32.959 have to stay on top of these guys, right. You 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.520 can't come up here and press like you've been pressing 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.840 everybody else up like give them space, respect it right, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.200 and play downhill And unfortunately just didn't work out that way. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.000 So there's some there was a lot of kings, and 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.840 everybody's going to say, well, you know, we're missing guys 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.360 on defense, Trayvon was missing on the defense, and offensive 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.360 line was in shambos, and yeah, those are all true statements, 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.439 but it doesn't mean that you can all of a 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.880 sudden just say, hey, we played down you know, and 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.200 that's I think that was a statement that I think 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.000 everybody's kind of up in arms about right now, that 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.240 you know, we played down to our opponent. You can't 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.719 say that you played down to anybody ad until you 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:02.720 played him at least once. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.120 Yeah, I don't think with the offensive line struggles that 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.480 they had, well excuse me, the offensive line replacements that 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.160 they had to make, three out of five starting offensive 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.199 linemen having to be replaced, and then Deron Blain having 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.920 to fill in for Trayvon Dicks, neither of those things 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.240 lost the game yesterday. I think that's the big biggest 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.400 takeaway that people need to kind of look at and 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.880 see what this loss was caused by. It was the 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.839 rush defense in the fact, you know, as we said, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.080 we'll get into the offense later. But yeah, offensive problems 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.679 as well, and it was neither of those things. It 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:29.520 was neither of those things. 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.360 I really like the way that Babelfenberg put it. He 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.760 tweeted it out last night, and I just thought this 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:35.360 was well put. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:35.760 He said. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.840 He I say it all the time, and I said 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.920 it before the game today, not making an excuse for 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.400 a sloppy performance. But this is not Alabama playing Middle Tennessee, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.000 where as long and nothing against Middle Tennessee or the 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.840 Blue Raiders, where as long as the bus doesn't break down, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.160 they win. Arizona has NFL players, and I have a 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:53.560 source tell me that they also play. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.080 They also pay their coaches. It happens. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.600 I mean, that's part of the NFL is you can't, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.679 like you said, you can't play down to your opponent 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.560 until you play them. It certainly, from a talent standpoint, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.280 looks like Dallas played down to their opponent. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.920 And it looks like that, but you also this happens. 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.080 It does, and it happens. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.600 The good teams. Sometimes it happens to the great teams. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.559 I've got a couple of instances. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.840 I'll pull it up as i'm talking here, but where 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.520 great teams rebound from losses like this, Good teams will 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.719 lose games that they shouldn't and they'll lose them a 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.079 couple times throughout a season. Great teams rebound. You go 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.240 look at the ninety two, ninety three, and ninety five Cowboys. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.120 They lost to losing teams each of those years. Ninety 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.280 two they lost twenty seven to twenty three to a 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.880 four and six Rams team. In nineteen ninety three they 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.319 lost twenty seven to fourteen to a four and six 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.360 Falcons team. In nineteen ninety five they lost twenty four 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:51.079 to seventeen to a four to nine Washington team. I 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.319 almost said the old nickname that I shouldn't say anymore. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.280 And then if you want a recent example, you want 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.280 something else to throw into the fold. How about the 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.680 Kansas City Chiefs last year against they bad Indianapolis Colts team. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.600 Guess when Week three of the NFL season, Week three, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.880 they lost twenty to seventeen on the road to the 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.000 Indianapolis Colts, a team that was winless at the time 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.880 and the team that of course ended up being right 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.240 there at the top of the NFL draft. So there's 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.000 there's thought process around, Oh, this team is the same 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:18.480 old team. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.160 Nothing is off the board just yet. You got to 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:22.120 find a way to rebound. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:22.280 Though. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.320 If you don't rebound in a good way, then maybe 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.440 you are just another team. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.679 This team still has a chance to be great, but 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.000 it's how they rebound these next three weeks and really 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.719 tough matchups that's going to really show what this team 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:33.120 is made of. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.679 Yeah, we had a point last week. I believe it 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.599 was you, Kyle was saying, what do you want to 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.959 see more from this defense? And what do you want 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.599 to see more from this team as a whole, And 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.600 I think we just had consistency. It was like because 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.240 last year there were times when they'd go three four 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.160 weeks where it was a really rough stretch was Jacksonville Houston, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.839 you know that stretching like the middle to late part 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.160 of the season, and it kind of felt like that yesterday. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:56.959 You know, it kind of felt like to me, it 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.719 felt like they played down in the opponent and that 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.000 I mean they had in the locker room after that 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.640 they got punched in the mouth. You know that they 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.480 didn't expect this. They came out flat and it just 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.679 kind of snowballed from there. But yeah, I think there's 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.839 a really good opportunity here to rebound. I like that 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.040 it came at this point in the season, especially with 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.360 the adversity that happened this week with Treyvon Diggs going down, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.319 with the offensive line going down so late in the 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.720 week as they did. But it's a really good opportunity 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:23.920 to bounce back. And you have three really good opponents 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.280 before the bye week, so you're gonna have to, you know, 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.040 put this one behind you quick and get going. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:28.880 Man. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.280 Yeah, look at the schedule coming up for Dallas, because 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.040 it's not only New England next week. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:35.480 Who's coming off of a win. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.040 And I don't think the Patriots are scary by any means, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.960 but they're certainly a formidable opponent and they've got Bill Belichick. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.000 It's a good head coach. It's a really good opportunity 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:44.520 to bounce back. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.760 Yeah, And then, of course everybody has already had that 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.559 Week five matchup on the road in primetime against San Francisco, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.880 followed by another primetime matchup the week after that against 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.480 Los Angeles, Patriots, forty nine Ers, Chargers bye week, and 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.640 then you got the Rams and the Eagles right after that. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.360 So it doesn't slow down. It doesn't. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.800 And these are three crucial games. I think you got 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.400 to win at least two of the three, if not 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.400 all three, if you really want to be in position 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.640 to where you want to try and fight for that 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.920 number one seed in the NFC, because now it's it's 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.760 keeping pace now. Now you've got to find a way 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.280 to keep pace with those teams around you, including Philadelphia, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.960 which if we're talking about Philadelphia schemes in Philadelphia look alikes, 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.400 they still look like Philadelphia at times, even though they've 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.760 had their own fair share of struggles in their two wins. 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.360 Yeah, I mean, I'm not even be honest with you, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.320 I'm not even there yet, But I think this was 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.080 the most Philadelphia Ish team that we've that we faced, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.320 simply because their defensive coordinator obviously, and some of the 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.240 things that they do offensively, and it showed up. You know, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.360 people could write it off all you want to, but 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.200 that's the reality that was. That was my concern going 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.880 to this week, was that, hey, they do Philadelphia stuff 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.240 on defense, and then they do Philadelphia stuff on Hoffman's 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.320 in terms of their their running schemes, So it presented 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.000 a problem. People could say, oh, it was just a 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.640 one off game or all you want to, but this 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.360 style has been a problem and pain in there, but 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:08.840 offensively and defensively. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.920 What what was the feeling like in the locker room afterwards? 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.840 Was was it disappointment or was it more of just 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.040 an anger or where would you. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.840 Kind of I wouldn't say there was any linger, just 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.560 because I know what those those angry losses look like 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.840 at times. I would say more so disappointment. Jonathan Hankins 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.160 he's he's got a really good personality and he's just 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.600 kind of able to, you know, be really personable and 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.760 especially in situations like this. And we were able to 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.400 talk to him in the locker room after and he 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.040 was like, yeah, man, we got punched in the mouth. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.360 You know he kind of he laughed like, not laughing 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.160 like and not taking it seriously. You know, it's just 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:45.800 it is what it is. It's an any given Sunday 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.240 type moment, and you know, it kind of reared around 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.560 it and reminded everybody yesterday. Yesterday kind of gave everybody 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.560 a slice of humble pie in a sense. You know, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:16:00.280 everybody talked about, you know, them being humbled. You know, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.520 Dak Prescott was saying he kind of took it upon himself, saying, 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.000 you know, I have to do better. We have to 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.440 do better as an offensive group. I think the good 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.280 thing is is almost everybody took responsibility yesterday, because I 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.680 think there was responsibility to be taken in every position 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.640 group yesterday. I think the only position group I can 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.160 look at and be like, you know, what they did, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.520 as much as they could have done, was a running game. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.680 And you know, I really liked what they did. 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Quaker Oats the official oat, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.160 a sponsor of the Dallas Cowboys and of Isaiah Stanback. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:08.200 You already down those things the Ultragon Kyle got done. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:09.760 There you go, super Trusted super Food. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.200 The segment also brought to you by the Dallas Cowboys 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.680 Fan of the Year, presented by Captain Morgan. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.879 All right, let's talk about the offense. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:18.960 We've already hit the defense. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:23.440 Defense, for the most part, was the storyline collapsing, giving 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.000 up two hundred and twenty two yards on the ground. 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:27.720 Not pretty from that side of the ball. But it 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.639 wasn't perfect offensively either. Able to move the ball effectively. 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:33.800 I mean that was not a problem. Cowboys put up 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.000 four hundred and sixteen yards of total offense. Dak Prescott 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.440 finishes the day twenty five to forty, two hundred and 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.720 fifty yards through the year touchdown interception. Like Nick alluded to, 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.959 Tony Pollard twenty three carries one hundred and twenty two 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.920 yards didn't have a touchdown, but his first triple digit 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.639 performance of the twenty twenty three season. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.719 What were your overall takeaways. 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.240 Nick when it comes to this offense and what you 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.639 saw on Sunday, Man, I loved the fact that they 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:00.960 were able the march downfield. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:01.880 Man. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.800 Third down efficiency was remarkable. Yesterday it felt like nine 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.880 of sixteen. Yeah, it felt like at times you didn't 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.440 even want to watch first and second down because you 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:10.920 knew third down was where it was going to happen 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.719 by the end of the play. It was like by 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.480 the end of the drive. There was one drive specifically 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.560 where they drove down the field, battled two penalties, battled 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.239 a sack, and battled three third downs and got all 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.120 the way down to the red zone and couldn't score. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.320 And I think that was just the story of the 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.400 entire game yesterday, was the fact that they were able 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.280 to march down. It didn't matter where they were pinned 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.359 down to. They were able to get inside the twenty 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.479 and things just stalled out. So five red zone trips yesterday, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.639 only ten points to show for it. Dak press Got 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.359 said it after the game. He's like, the fact that 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.000 we couldn't score in the red zone is why we 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:43.280 lost this game. That's the story of this game, period. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.840 So red zone execution. You know, I think, you know, 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:49.920 we may have talked it down in a sense in 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:51.600 the first two weeks, like we had talked about it 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.040 being a problem, for sure, but I don't think I 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:55.560 don't think we realized how big of a problem it 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:57.480 could be. And I think it showed its ugly face 0:20:57.560 --> 0:20:58.200 yesterday for sure. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.800 I want to go back and clip the actual conversation 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:03.679 that we had, but it was like, Okay, they won 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.359 the game against New York. They looked great, but the 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.920 red zone was a problem, and you can't go five 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.720 or five Brandon Aubrey field goals later and feel like 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.800 that's a good thing going against good teams. 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.120 I mean, that was ultimately what we said last week. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.520 Did we realize or did we think it would happen 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.640 in week three against Arizona and it would rare it's 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:23.600 ugly had immediately? 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.080 Probably not, but it was certainly a talking point that 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:29.520 showed up again in week four or excuse me, in 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:32.200 week three. Yeah, I mean, it's it's an issue. First 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:33.800 two weeks, like you said, we tried to write it 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:35.480 off as Okay, they'll figure it out. 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:35.639 You know. 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.720 Coach McCarthy's getting used to the system. It's a problem. 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.400 It's a problem. It's an official problem. I think week 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:45.000 week one, we're like, nah, hand over the buzzer. Week two, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:49.200 took the lid off, Week three hitting the buzzer, hitting 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.520 the buzzer. Because this is you're being You're too efficient 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.600 on offense to get down there and not take advantage 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.119 of completely take advantage of the opportunities that you're presenting 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:01.560 for yourself and is dominant as your defense is, you're 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.040 still putting them in a bad predicament every time you 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.240 go down there and don't capitalize off of the red 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.240 zone opportunity. So to the next point, you're moving the ball, 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.320 that's awesome, Rushing the ball, throwing the ball, OK, highly effective, 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:14.160 But then you get down there and things are restricted 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:18.439 and you're not making decisions quick enough your play calling. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.920 I like on the interception that Dak through, I get it. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.840 I've I've ran that exact play like a gazillion times 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:28.920 before in practice and in the game, and it's it 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.280 wasn't there. It just wasn't there on that particular play 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:34.320 where the ball was supposed to go. It just wasn't there. 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.119 So one, Dak, you have to you have to make 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.240 the right decision in that particular instance. And then two 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:43.680 you know, I also I say, Dak, we need you 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.040 to use your legs. Bro, Yeah, you have to use 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:47.840 your legs man. Like there is a couple of times 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.240 down there where when you're facing one on one and 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:51.960 people are going to say, oh, but he's a quarterback. 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:53.240 I'm not. 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.480 I can't hear that right, Like as a competitor, I 0:22:57.600 --> 0:22:59.800 have one on one and I need five yards, like 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:02.960 not getting me down. That's that's my mentality. I can't 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:07.160 speak for another man, but my mentality offensively was you're 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:10.080 one man's not getting me down. And I want Dak 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:12.440 to get to that point if he's not already, and 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.239 then start utilizing that because it's going to help him. 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:17.880 We talked about it in camp because he was using 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:20.080 his legs in camp thatk wasn't practice at. 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:21.200 Least we saw in the first two weeks. 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.280 Yes, okay, we saw it, saw it, But like that 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:26.080 has to be prevalent, Like he has to bring that 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:30.119 aspect to the game because otherwise it in negates what 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.120 you're what you're capable of doing offensively, and they won't 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:35.320 respect it. And if they don't respect it, then they 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:36.320 don't have the scheme for it. 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.280 Yeah, I think. I think also what plays into this 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:41.720 is they don't have a red zone weapon. Ceedee Lamb 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.440 is probably your best red zone weapon, and he's not 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:45.400 the biggest guy in the world. He's not gonna out 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:47.359 physical you. You know, he could probably go up and 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:49.359 out jump you and headtop you a little bit, but 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.159 that's not going to be as reliable as you know, 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:54.119 what does has been for this team, or what you 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:56.399 know Witten was for this team, or even Ezekiel Elliott 0:23:57.040 --> 0:23:59.000 all the way up until last year. You know, they 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.680 don't have a bruise a tight end that can you know, 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:04.600 go up and just out physical you. I love what 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:06.720 Jake Ferguson has actually done in these first three weeks. 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:08.680 Let me say that, like even yesterday there were times 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.600 man Ferguson looked good. But they don't have a guy 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:13.440 that can just get in there, get his nose dirty 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:15.800 and go get those yards. And I think that's probably 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:19.000 the root of this issue. But also just very simplistic 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:21.040 play calling that they put out in the open field 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:24.119 trying to do the same thing within close quarters in 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.680 the red zone, and you know, when you're running, you 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:28.600 know mesh concepts in the red zone. I just don't 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:30.600 feel like that's the best thing to do in the world. 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:32.879 I mentioned this yesterday on a postgame show, but the 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:35.640 best weapon in the red zone, right. You talked about 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:37.760 the root of the problem. I believe the root of 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:39.880 the problem for the Dallas Cowboys in the red zone 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.520 is the inability to run the ball effectively down there. 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:46.080 Because when you're able to run the ball effectively down there, 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:48.600 then all of a sudden, all the tinging at placed 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:52.000 gets placed on the run. So then everybody has to 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:54.640 respect it. You have to respect it. If I could 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:57.000 literally line up and I'm gonna say, hey, we're in 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:58.680 a five yard line, We're about to just run through 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.000 your face, and we're gonna what's your entire line and 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.680 in linebackers back backwards into the end zone, and we're 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:05.399 gonna do this every single time we come down here. 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.200 Now play action becomes prevalent. Now I can do a 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:10.800 whole bunch of you know, different releases and everything else 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.080 I want to do, right, misdirection and all the other 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:15.160 foolery that you see down in Miami. Like you could 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:17.760 do that because I can line up and literally just 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:19.200 run the ball at you all day long if I 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:21.920 want to, Dallas doesn't possess that. We were excited about 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:23.879 the potential of that because the Tyler Smith coming back 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.360 this past week. Tyler Smith comes back and you lose 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:27.000 three other guys. 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.320 Honestly, I don't feel like the red zone issues even yesterday, 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:33.520 where the offensive line was was a huge facilitator. Yeah. 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:35.560 No, I'm talking about the confidence to be able to 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:38.679 line up. They move guys off the ball, right. Yesterday 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:40.600 was not a day where you felt like, Okay, you know, 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:42.560 with three replacements and I can feel like I just 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:44.800 move anybody off the ball, regardless of who who I'm playing. 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:46.719 But when Tyler Smith comes back and you have your 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:48.800 first your five starters for the first time ever, That's 0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:51.000 what we were referring to last week on the podcast, 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.639 like we felt confident that this running game was gonna 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:56.520 really get going, and that coach McCarthy in the rezone. 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:58.560 Now I'd be like, here you go, I don't care 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:00.320 who has the ball back there, right, We're going to 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:03.000 move you guys off the ball. You're excited about that potential, 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.320 and you didn't get a chance to see that because 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:06.640 all of a sudden you're missing your guys. 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:11.200 I'm looking at the play propensity. Is that how you 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:14.320 say propensity? We looked at you for I know I'm 0:26:14.400 --> 0:26:18.359 the pronunciation guy. Play propensity is. 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:19.159 I think what it is. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.400 It's on one of the NFL statistic websites, and I'm 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:24.800 looking at it. Percent of passing plays in the red 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:28.320 zone on goal to go scenarios. So whenever there's a 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:30.920 yard marker, so let's say there's one yard to go, 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:32.800 two yards to go, three, et cetera. 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:33.400 All the way down. 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:35.960 It's how many times a play is called in a 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:40.119 certain scenario in yard in goal to go scenarios. For 0:26:40.160 --> 0:26:43.360 the Dallas Cowboys in twenty twenty three, anywhere from two 0:26:43.440 --> 0:26:49.160 to six yards, it's one hundred passing plays anywhere from 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:52.800 two to six yards, it's one hundred percent called a pass. 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:56.920 I mean, that is an unbelievable amount of number. The 0:26:57.080 --> 0:27:00.119 only one where there's a little bit of a you 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:02.760 in terms of the run the run game is whenever 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:05.560 it's yards to go at one, that's it. That's the 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:07.720 only one where it's where it's one hundred percent run. 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:08.560 So many plays? 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:10.439 Does it say? I was looking for snaps, I. 0:27:10.400 --> 0:27:13.080 Can't find snaps yet, but that'll be part of my 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:15.399 weekly research because if that number stands the way that 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.720 it looks like here, that's certainly a problem. I think 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:21.679 for the most part, there's a storyline, there's a bit 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:25.840 of a there's a bit of a conversation among Cowboys 0:27:25.880 --> 0:27:28.440 fans right now. And I'm asking this question not because 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:30.600 I believe the answer is yes, but because I think 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:32.760 it is a question that needs to be addressed. 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:36.359 But I've had multiple people send it to me. 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:41.040 On Twitter, and whatever, does Mike McCarthy's play calling indicate 0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:44.159 that he doesn't trust Dak Prescott specifically in the red 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:45.080 zone play calling. 0:27:45.600 --> 0:27:47.800 If I'm looking at those numbers and those numbers are. 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:51.240 Correct based off of this propensity, I'm saying I don't 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:53.000 think it has anything to do with the trust of 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:54.480 Dak Prescott in the red zone. 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:58.120 I will say the offense yesterday was really dumb down. 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:01.560 I don't feel like there were were opportunities to get 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:05.320 guys open downfield. Again, we've talked about how they were 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:07.520 able to march down the field, but when you're you 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:10.639 had those long, methodical four five six minute drives, when 0:28:10.680 --> 0:28:12.639 you get down to the red zone, you're gassed, and 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:15.320 I think it was more so just like a gas sense. 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:17.159 You know, I want them to take more shots in 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:19.520 the open field, And I think, does it have to 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:20.960 do with trust as I have to deal with not 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:23.600 having three starters on the offensive line. Who knows, but 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:26.720 I would have liked to see more shots taken downfield 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:28.639 and a little bit more trust in that game, just 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:31.399 because there were opportunities to do that yesterday those of 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:33.280 Mo where Ced Lamb was wide open for about a 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:35.440 forty five fifty yard touchdown. Dek just missed them. But 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:38.600 that was the only opportunity that I saw during the game, Yesterdy, 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:40.880 I was like, oh my god, someone got opened downfield. 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:43.880 You know, I want to see one one point thirty 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:46.200 drive where they go down the field, you know, seventy 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.600 five yards in that type of time. But when they 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:51.640 get down to the red zone, it's it's I think 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:53.400 it's more of a gas sense. I don't think there's 0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:55.320 a lack of trust in the red zone at all, 0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:59.120 just because again, this entire offense was constructed around deck. 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:01.000 They wouldn't have done that if there wasn't trust there. 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:03.360 But it may just be an energy thing. 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:06.880 Yeah, what do you think just from being a former quarterback, 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:10.560 being in those situations, in those scuddles, does it do. 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:14.360 How big is a trust? Let's just let's shift the 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:15.000 question this way. 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:17.240 How big is a trust between Mike McCarthy and a 0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:19.720 play collar Whenever you are in that situation like that, 0:29:20.320 --> 0:29:22.160 Mike McCarthy in his quarterback, I should say, I mean, 0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:22.640 it's everything. 0:29:22.720 --> 0:29:25.560 I don't mean. I don't think it's It just comes 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:28.520 down to decision making, right. I mean, but I think 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:32.480 you're I don't think your confidence varies with your quarterback 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.480 based upon where you're at on the field. I don't. 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:37.480 I don't believe that. I think that he has wholehearted trust, 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:39.680 and I think they probably have a relatively good relationship. 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:43.600 They have to head coach, quarterback, head coach, office coordinator. 0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:46.440 Those relationships are are are knit tight. They have to 0:29:46.520 --> 0:29:51.080 be otherwise you get Chicago. So I don't I don't 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:52.640 foresee that. I mean, the people are going to obviously 0:29:52.760 --> 0:29:54.440 look for talking points. I don't think that's an issue. 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:57.800 I just think that they have not been executing. Is 0:29:58.080 --> 0:29:59.080 conditioning an issue? 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:01.680 Whenever you're running away West Coast offense, because kind of 0:30:01.760 --> 0:30:04.080 like what Nick was talking about, you're running deep into 0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:08.040 down scenarios, you're running third downs, you're converting on those 0:30:08.080 --> 0:30:09.520 third downs, you're moving the chains. 0:30:09.320 --> 0:30:11.000 The way that this offense was built. 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:13.800 Is there a conditioning issue or is it just based 0:30:13.840 --> 0:30:15.280 off of the fact that, I mean, there is not 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:16.240 a whole lot of trust. 0:30:16.040 --> 0:30:18.120 In the offense. They said what they ran eighty somewhut 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.120 plays last week. They ran seventy five plays this week. 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:22.600 I believe you're getting up run to eighty play echelon 0:30:22.720 --> 0:30:24.920 most times, most teams are running sixty plays. So I mean, yeah, 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:27.000 conditioning plays a part in it. But that's again, it's 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:29.400 not the reason why they're not being successful. It's just 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:32.480 not they're just not executing, like you know, I'm not 0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:34.800 an excuse guy whatsoever. It's just they just are not 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:36.400 executing and they have to figure it out. 0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.680 Thirty four minutes and thirty three seconds time of possession yesterday, yeah, 0:30:41.000 --> 0:30:43.920 I mean they held the ball, they were doing things 0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:47.160 effectively in the open field, and when they got inside 0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:49.720 the twenty, it was just who knows. 0:30:50.120 --> 0:30:52.240 When the defense gets gashed for big yardage on the 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:54.239 ground too, I'm sure that helps out a little bit. 0:30:54.480 --> 0:30:56.080 It's a little bit happened a couple of times. So 0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:59.600 but I I mean, even we talked about it. This 0:30:59.760 --> 0:31:01.760 is a offense predicated on moving the chains. 0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:02.360 They did just that. 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:04.520 They had twenty six first downs, they were moving the ball, 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:06.040 they were effective on the third down. 0:31:06.440 --> 0:31:08.040 We just got sixteen yards is a lot. 0:31:08.120 --> 0:31:10.000 It's a good twenty yard. No, that's a good day. 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:11.800 You had a yes Underdard Rusher. 0:31:11.920 --> 0:31:14.320 You had a quarterback that threw the ball effectively for 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.200 the most part, outside of the interception late. 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:19.080 It just it didn't work out in the red zone. 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.640 That's that's the one big knock on this game is 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:25.160 the red zone is glaring at this team and it's 0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:26.960 something that has to be figured out. 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:31.560 Speaking of getting figured out, this injury situation wasn't good. 0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:33.360 I mean, when we were on the air Friday, we 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:37.080 thought we were having a first time all year, first 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:39.880 time since twenty twenty one, that all five offensive linemen 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:41.000 were available. 0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:41.960 That didn't happen. 0:31:42.040 --> 0:31:43.880 Let's talk about the injuries and what could happen next 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:45.680 for the Cowboys when we come back with more talking 0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:46.720 Cowboys right after this. 0:31:48.040 --> 0:31:51.960 They say champions are remembered, but legends are never forgotten. 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:55.360 United Agen Turf offers a winning lineup of John Deer 0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:59.000 equipment built to tackle any challenge on and off the field. 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:04.160 Legendary John Deere Tractors combines residential mowers, commercial mowers, compact 0:32:04.240 --> 0:32:07.760 construction equipment, hater utility vehicles, and a full line of 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:11.600 golf and sports turf equipment. 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Not a ton of miles from 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:07.560 Cowboys Nation today, though Cowboys fall to the Arizona Cardinals 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:10.080 twenty eight to sixteen, the final score in Week three 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:11.720 of the NFL season. 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:13.920 Back here with Nick Harris and Isaiah stand Back. 0:34:13.920 --> 0:34:17.239 I'm Kyle Yeomans breaking down the loss. The Cowboys vault 0:34:17.239 --> 0:34:19.279 to two and one. They'll look to rebound this week 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:22.080 at home against the New England Patriots. 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:26.960 But let's talk about the injuries going into week four. 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:30.120 Because Friday we sat here on this show, we looked 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:34.960 across the hallway and said, Wow, Tyler Smith looks like 0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:37.200 he's on his way back. We're going to get Tyler 0:34:37.239 --> 0:34:40.480 Smith back in the fold, starting five offensive linemen for 0:34:40.560 --> 0:34:43.359 the first time since twenty twenty one. All those guys, 0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:47.840 since Tyler Smith has been drafted, they have not played 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:51.480 a single snap of football where all five guys have 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:52.160 been on the field. 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:53.480 Madness, all five. 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:56.040 We were so close this week and then it just crumbles. 0:34:56.920 --> 0:34:57.680 And then it crumbled. 0:35:00.200 --> 0:35:05.560 Tyler battish out Zach Martin out, Tyrone Smith pat it up, 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:08.040 worked out beforehand, tried to go, it didn't go out. 0:35:08.360 --> 0:35:12.120 YEP three starting offensive line, and Tyler Smith was back 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:13.399 in the fole. It was good to see him back 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:15.600 out there and working. I'm sure he would have liked 0:35:15.640 --> 0:35:17.840 to ramp up period instead of being the cornerstone of 0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:18.680 the offensive line. 0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:19.879 I thought he did a nice job. 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:21.279 We'll have to go back and watch the film a 0:35:21.320 --> 0:35:24.000 little bit more, but I think for the most part. 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:26.560 He did did a decent job. The other side was 0:35:27.400 --> 0:35:27.880 his neighbor. 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.719 His neighbor had a rough day, Chumadga. 0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:32.759 I really feel like Chum was a better guard. Is 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:34.880 he's got the he's got the skill set and the 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.880 traits that his body just looks like a guard. I 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:39.799 would have liked to have seen Tyler at left tackle 0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:42.919 and move in Chuma at left guard, but we didn't 0:35:42.920 --> 0:35:46.600 see that at all yesterday. I will say this offensive line, 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:48.799 once they settled in, they settled in and they did 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:51.040 a really good job job. TJ. Bass had an awesome 0:35:51.120 --> 0:35:53.359 day and I'm really excited to go back and watch 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:56.239 the film on him. But you can't look at this 0:35:56.360 --> 0:35:58.319 loss and look at the offensive line and be like, well, 0:35:58.360 --> 0:35:59.640 you know, maybe if we had all three of our 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:02.479 guys front. No, it's not the case, not in my opinion. Really, 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:05.480 if the starting five was upfront, they still lose that 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:07.239 game yesterday, Yeah, because it. 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.480 Was very problems for the most part. Outside of that. 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:12.200 Do you think the injury news, because it did happen 0:36:12.320 --> 0:36:14.759 so late in the week it happened basically Saturday was 0:36:14.800 --> 0:36:18.480 when news started kind of surfacing that these guys could 0:36:18.520 --> 0:36:21.959 be out, do you think that deflated the energy because 0:36:22.000 --> 0:36:24.560 already they took a hit on Thursday with Trayvon Dicks. 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:26.239 You kind of knew that one. You had a chance 0:36:26.320 --> 0:36:29.400 to at least let that sink in and motivate you 0:36:29.480 --> 0:36:30.120 going into the week. 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:31.480 But then boom, boom boom up. 0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:33.200 Front on the offensive line, all three of those guys 0:36:33.280 --> 0:36:36.080 go down. I think that's got to be deflating for anybody, 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:37.759 whether or not you're going to admit to it. 0:36:37.920 --> 0:36:39.959 Yeah, it definitely has to be a lot of people 0:36:40.000 --> 0:36:41.960 in the locker room. Yesterday we're talking about the adversity 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:43.719 that they had to overcome, not only during the week, 0:36:43.760 --> 0:36:45.879 but late in the week. You know, the Diggs injury 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.680 happened Thursday, the be Oddish injury happened Thursday. The Tyron 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:53.600 Smith injury happened Saturday. So yeah, a lot of stuff 0:36:53.600 --> 0:36:54.719 that they had to battle in the week. I mean, 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:56.600 they didn't they didn't know that Tyron Smith wouldn't be 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:58.399 able to go until he worked out on the field 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:03.200 pregame and he was going off the field pre game 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:05.479 right as you know, players were still coming in because 0:37:05.520 --> 0:37:07.680 he had taken the early bus to State Farm Stadium, 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:09.759 and it kind of looked like from that since that 0:37:09.800 --> 0:37:11.239 he wasn't going to be able to go, and so 0:37:11.400 --> 0:37:13.799 they had to readjust from that moment, which was about 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:16.920 two and a half hours before kickoff, and having that 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:18.920 type of time, I mean, that's tough in preparation when 0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:20.560 you could be preparing for other things, when you could 0:37:20.600 --> 0:37:24.040 be preparing for you know, as we just saw a 0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:26.680 discussed last week, all the different looks that they were 0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:28.719 going to see defensively. I mean, that was the things 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:30.120 that they could have prepared on in that sense, and 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:32.480 they weren't able to because they were having to prepare 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:33.880 to start three different guys up. 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:39.040 Frontez crazy. I do believe it had an effect on 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:43.279 the game because the fact Dak was under pressure. Back 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:49.040 was not comfortable yesterday. I don't think that it swayed 0:37:49.080 --> 0:37:51.239 the game heavily, but I do believe that it had 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:53.160 an effect on their offense and the things that they 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:57.200 wanted to do offensively because they were under way more 0:37:57.239 --> 0:37:59.280 pressure than they had been in the first two games. 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:02.120 Was unable to sit back on his back leg. We 0:38:02.320 --> 0:38:06.799 know you know that that you just can't. You can't 0:38:06.800 --> 0:38:09.040 put pressure on him, you can't allow for it, and 0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:10.680 you can't also allow for him to throw the ball 0:38:10.719 --> 0:38:11.239 forty times. 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:13.840 Yeah, but I think the quick game was effective. I 0:38:13.920 --> 0:38:15.880 mean what they did it was it was effective and 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:17.439 it should have worked. 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:18.480 Michael Gallup woke up. 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:21.000 Michael Gallup, Man, I would love to get into that 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:21.839 at some point this week. 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:22.400 He was awesome. 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:24.200 He was I mean, a couple of jump balls that 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:26.480 they gave him one on one opportunities on he brought 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:29.680 him down, fighting fracture yardist getting first downs. That was 0:38:29.960 --> 0:38:32.680 one of the biggest positive is the fact that wide 0:38:32.719 --> 0:38:33.600 receiver three is back. 0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:37.520 Yeah, and the only target that he didn't catch was the. 0:38:37.560 --> 0:38:39.000 One that was in the back of the end zone. 0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:39.239 Yeah. 0:38:39.280 --> 0:38:41.239 That was a PI that was not called a PI 0:38:42.160 --> 0:38:45.280 they picked the flag up. We talked about it in studio. 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:46.480 Berry Church agreed that it. 0:38:46.520 --> 0:38:48.759 Wasn't no call. What was your thoughts on Ceedee Lamb 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.000 and the resurgence of his body language. 0:38:51.600 --> 0:38:55.440 Body language specifically language. I didn't know this was a 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:56.359 talking point with you guys. 0:38:56.719 --> 0:38:57.239 Was last year? 0:38:57.400 --> 0:39:00.759 Gotcha? So the one where he was missed on the 0:39:01.080 --> 0:39:03.800 forty five to fifty yard touchdown he was. There was 0:39:03.840 --> 0:39:06.200 definitely some body language after that because he was open. 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:08.680 I mean it was tough, and he kind of lodged 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:10.239 back to the line a little bit, came in a 0:39:10.280 --> 0:39:13.399 little slow, got the call in late, and I think 0:39:13.400 --> 0:39:15.040 they had a snap with like two on the clock. 0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:18.719 I'm not saying it was a directive to him, but 0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:23.000 that was a moment for me, obviously, after the PI 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.759 call in the end zone or missed PI call in 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:27.520 the end zone. I don't think that was PI. I 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:29.480 think the gallop one was way closer than the CD 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:34.040 one was. I agree, but yeah, it probably wasn't great. 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:35.920 I would like to see him just kind of be 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:38.160 alpha in those moments and didn't really see that. 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:40.759 Yeah, don't don't look for the flag, look for the ball. 0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:43.440 Yeah, try and try and make a play, especially on 0:39:43.520 --> 0:39:46.120 third down. Yeah, especially on third day. 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:48.359 I felt like, just being candid, I feel like he's 0:39:48.400 --> 0:39:51.120 took a step back this week in terms of his 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:54.040 how he was carrying himself the leadership role he was 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:56.759 really stepping into. I feel like he went back to 0:39:56.880 --> 0:40:00.800 what he was of last year, and it was not 0:40:01.400 --> 0:40:03.200 It wasn't encouraging. I hate it. I hate it seeing 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:04.839 it and a lot of people to feel like that's 0:40:04.880 --> 0:40:06.880 not a big, big aspect of the game. Those are 0:40:06.880 --> 0:40:08.560 the little things that I, at least I pay attention to. 0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:10.120 I know I mentioned it to Kyle and those guys 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:12.759 in the studio yesterday we're watching the game. I was like, oh, oh, 0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:16.040 here it goes here, let's go I mean, stump that out. 0:40:16.360 --> 0:40:18.160 Don't let that fire get going again, right, you know, 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:20.400 it's like you're doing fireworks, Like hey, stomp that grass 0:40:20.440 --> 0:40:21.080 out real quick. 0:40:21.640 --> 0:40:21.800 You know. 0:40:21.840 --> 0:40:23.640 I hope that that that he sees that and he 0:40:23.960 --> 0:40:26.120 self corrects himself to get back on the course that 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:28.360 he was on, because you can't allow that the creep in. 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:30.400 You cannot allow that the creep in. You can be 0:40:30.400 --> 0:40:32.840 as frustrated as you want to, but everybody sees that. 0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:35.239 I had bad body language, So I'm fully aware of 0:40:35.320 --> 0:40:37.480 what that looks like. Most of the time, you're not 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:40.440 even mad about everybody else. You're frustrated with yourself, right, 0:40:40.480 --> 0:40:43.239 but it appears as if you're down and out about 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:45.839 everything else that's going on. So he just I hope 0:40:45.840 --> 0:40:47.600 that he's more aware of that, or somebody at least 0:40:47.640 --> 0:40:49.480 brings that to his attention. I've got to bring it 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:51.759 up to Isaiah at least once a week on the show. 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:53.839 I you got to get that. You got to get 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:55.719 the body language taken care of. 0:40:55.800 --> 0:40:58.319 You know, what do we make of Brandon Cook's two 0:40:58.400 --> 0:41:01.880 receptions on seven tar It's only seventeen yards yesterday, not 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:05.640 making that like him being the speed option. He should 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:08.680 work in this offense. He should have worked yesterday. Why 0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:10.960 didn't he work yesterday? That's that's going to be a 0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:11.799 big key of my film. 0:41:11.840 --> 0:41:14.840 Watch today. What did you see? Isaiah? I have to 0:41:14.880 --> 0:41:18.719 watch more, but I from what I saw, I don't 0:41:18.719 --> 0:41:21.080 think that his routes were as crisp as we've seen 0:41:21.160 --> 0:41:22.680 him do in the past. 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:26.440 Because you've been very critical of gallups routes of not 0:41:26.560 --> 0:41:27.759 being able to get out of the state. 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:29.640 Don't believe that gallup is getting out of his breaks. 0:41:29.680 --> 0:41:31.759 I think that what he does well, which we talked 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:33.480 about last week. I said, he still can make the 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:36.680 contested catch. He's still can run straight. Obviously, a slant 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:38.200 route he can run that. But a lot of those 0:41:38.280 --> 0:41:41.600 comebacks and curls and a lot of those things, he's 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:43.239 a little slow to come out the breaks. And I 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.360 just you know, that is what it is. Cooks is 0:41:45.440 --> 0:41:48.880 normally your route guy, and I haven't watched enough of 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:51.360 it yet to be able to make a full conclusion. 0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:52.640 But from the some of the routes that I was 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:56.560 paying attention to, he was not very precise with his routes. 0:41:56.640 --> 0:41:58.560 And some of those routes you have to be precise with. 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:01.200 I mean, especially the one down the red zone that 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:03.320 Dack through. Would he have been opened even if he 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.719 would have ran a precise route. No, But you know 0:42:06.960 --> 0:42:09.480 you still have to do your part. Yeah, what did 0:42:09.560 --> 0:42:12.120 you think about Cooks and what you saw off the rip? 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:14.800 Yeah, as far as the initial watch yesterday from the 0:42:14.960 --> 0:42:17.160 back corner of the end zone and over the press, 0:42:17.160 --> 0:42:18.120 fox was at State Farm State. 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:19.560 Yeah, they took you guys back there, don't they. 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:21.160 Yeah, But honestly, it was it was a great time 0:42:21.200 --> 0:42:23.080 we had. It was one of the cooler stadiums I've 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:25.960 been to. But again, I'm gonna have to go back 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:28.920 and watch film. But it's just it felt like he 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:32.160 was getting out physical at times and he wasn't able 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:34.400 to get inside off his release. And I think they 0:42:34.440 --> 0:42:36.719 were doing a really good job of preventing that. A 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:38.440 couple of times he was and a couple of times 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.560 he got receptions. But the fact that he couldn't get 0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:44.640 downfield and break the break the offense open downfield, I 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:47.200 think that was a really big key indicator. But also 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:50.600 this offense yesterday wasn't designed to get people open downfield, 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:53.800 and that's what him and Gallup do best at times. 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:55.919 And even CD, I mean CD, I mean he's really 0:42:55.960 --> 0:42:58.080 good in that short intermediate game, but like, these are 0:42:58.200 --> 0:43:01.200 downfield weapons and they weren't playing to those strengths yesterday. 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:04.120 I understand not wanting to do that with three offensive 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:06.360 linemen out up front, but those guys settled in. 0:43:06.400 --> 0:43:07.359 By the third fourth quarter. 0:43:07.600 --> 0:43:10.560 Take those shots you're down ten, you know, like take 0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:14.320 those shots, those those five six minute drives. It's not 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:15.640 going to be effective at the end of the day. 0:43:15.800 --> 0:43:18.880 Let's say Dak ends up scoring on that play that 0:43:18.960 --> 0:43:20.719 he threw the interception on the end zone. Let's say 0:43:20.719 --> 0:43:22.160 they get a touchdown there. Cut it to what that 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:24.359 would have been twenty eight twenty three or yeah, twenty 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:26.879 eight twenty three. There was only three and a half 0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:28.560 four minutes on the clock, and you were working with 0:43:28.600 --> 0:43:31.720 two timeouts. They had drove, they had taken five minutes 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:33.880 off the clock driving down the field, and they were 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:35.520 taking their sweet time in the red zone two. So 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:39.279 I mean, I just want to see more downfield opportunities 0:43:39.280 --> 0:43:41.160 for a lot of these guys, but especially Brandon Cooks 0:43:41.200 --> 0:43:43.040 because that's what he was brought here to do. We 0:43:43.160 --> 0:43:45.280 talked about him coming in this season. Oh, a thousand 0:43:45.360 --> 0:43:47.000 yard type guy. You know, he's gotten it with what 0:43:47.120 --> 0:43:49.040 five different teams. You know, this is an opportunity for 0:43:49.120 --> 0:43:50.880 him to do it with the six team. Thirty nine 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:52.600 yards in three weeks. I understand he didn't play in 0:43:52.640 --> 0:43:54.800 Week two, but thirty nine yards in three weeks. You 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:55.640 gotta get him open. 0:43:55.800 --> 0:43:56.520 Well. I think it. 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:58.399 Goes back to what we've talked about with the West 0:43:58.440 --> 0:44:00.680 Coast scheme in general, is the fact that it's predicated 0:44:00.760 --> 0:44:03.799 on playing with the league and the defense setting the tone. 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:06.080 If the defense doesn't do their job and doesn't set 0:44:06.120 --> 0:44:07.560 the tone, then the offense is going to have a 0:44:07.680 --> 0:44:08.920 tough time playing from behind. 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:10.000 And we saw that on Sunday. 0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:11.640 So are you saying that the offense cannot win a 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:13.200 game this year? It's going to have to be the defense? 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:13.680 Is that? 0:44:14.320 --> 0:44:16.919 Is that what it is right now? Yeah? Yeah? 0:44:16.960 --> 0:44:19.600 Actually yeah, I mean I will say that because I 0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:22.560 think that the offense can win a game, say what 0:44:22.600 --> 0:44:23.880 you just Monday, But it can't be. 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:27.440 It's got to be from ahead. You either got to 0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:28.480 go down and score first. 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:31.480 When you get the ball, you choose to receive or 0:44:31.520 --> 0:44:35.120 whatever the other team defers, you go down, you score. 0:44:35.320 --> 0:44:37.960 Okay, that's the way that the offense can set the tone. 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:39.560 You've got to do that right off the jump. 0:44:40.160 --> 0:44:42.000 But then from a defensive standpoint, if you're on the 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:44.640 field first, you can't allow for points first, and then 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:46.440 a three and out from your offense, and then a 0:44:46.520 --> 0:44:48.879 touchdown with James Connor to make a nine to nothing. 0:44:48.920 --> 0:44:50.960 Even with a miss two point conversion, you're down by 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:53.520 two scores. Yeah, that's that's the type of. 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:56.759 Scenario that puts this offense in a pint. 0:44:56.840 --> 0:44:58.920 That's the type of thing that by. 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:00.640 That point you're down by two score, it's like, okay, 0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:02.000 where are you going to get those two scores. You're 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:03.360 gonna have to have a turnover, You're gonna have to 0:45:03.360 --> 0:45:05.959 have a stop. Then your defense has to win you games. 0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:08.600 If you're playing from behind, the offense can win you games, 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:10.680 no doubt about it, but they've got to start ahead 0:45:10.680 --> 0:45:12.560 in order for the offense to win you games. The 0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:14.600 offense is not gonna win a game for you behind. 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:16.640 It's gonna have to start with your defense, you know. 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:18.520 And that's the question for Mike McCarthy today, whether it 0:45:18.600 --> 0:45:21.719 be from here anybody else, is what's the reason of 0:45:21.800 --> 0:45:23.960 not going downfield? What was the reason of taking these 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:26.000 five six minute drives when you were down two possions 0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:26.600 in the second half? 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:28.839 I bets you is his answer is offensive line. 0:45:29.040 --> 0:45:33.080 Yeah, I'm just sure, and that's and that's that's very valid. 0:45:33.160 --> 0:45:35.279 But at the end of the day, you're still down 0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:37.319 two possessions. You got to take those shots, no doubt, 0:45:37.600 --> 0:45:38.000 no doubt. 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:40.160 All right, real quickly before we get out of here, 0:45:40.560 --> 0:45:43.440 one position group, because this was a complete team loss, 0:45:44.080 --> 0:45:47.120 as were the first two weeks complete team wins. What 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:49.560 is one position group that has to see a major 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:51.000 improvement going into week four? 0:45:51.120 --> 0:45:51.680 Linebackers? 0:45:52.000 --> 0:45:54.600 Linebackers, Okay, we'll talk more about that, I think tomorrow, 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:56.000 maybe maybe even Wednesday. 0:45:56.400 --> 0:46:02.000 What do you think secondary? Okay, cornerback specifically without Trayvon 0:46:02.920 --> 0:46:05.239 Making and these guys, I mean this new Engand's going 0:46:05.280 --> 0:46:08.399 to throw the ball. So yeah, you think they throw 0:46:08.440 --> 0:46:09.160 it more than they run it. 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:09.560 I do. 0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:13.960 That's interesting. That'll be a fun breakdown coming up on Thursday. 0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:16.920 Keep in mind we will be here all week. We've 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:18.880 got plenty more to come. John Minchoda, We'll be back 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:21.800 with us tomorrow. We'll also be taking your phone calls 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.040 eight eight, eight, eight, five, five two two nine seven, 0:46:24.120 --> 0:46:27.000 and then the text messages as well. Eight one seven, 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:29.920 two nine zero three two nine to eight. You can 0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:33.120 use both of those lines. Starting right now ten am 0:46:33.239 --> 0:46:36.120 Central Time, Cowboys storyline with Nick Eatman begins. 0:46:36.239 --> 0:46:38.960 He's taking all the fan calls. 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