WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Lessons Learned? 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:07.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.640 Cowboys. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:17.960 This He's Talking Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.880 World Head Course at the Star in Frisco Streets. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.920 Seconds, got kids, textown. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:33.360 And now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.200 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.000 It's a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.400 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.080 Texas and the SWBC studios. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.200 As we welcome you into a preview of the Cowboys 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:57.520 defense versus the upcoming Philadelphia Eagles offense. We've got a 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.680 lot to get into here over the next fourty five minutes. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.120 Glad you're with us, Talking Cowboys Nation. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.360 We've got Nick Harris, chom Manchoda, Isaiah stand back, Chrispy 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:07.280 in the back of Kyle. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.039 You know, gentlemen, how we do in today? 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:09.920 Doing good? 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:10.520 All right? 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:10.760 Hey? 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.920 Rangers are up three to one. Rangers up three tonight. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.200 Chance to close it out with big game Night on 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.360 the mound. Nathan Valdi going for the Rangers. It's in Arizona. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.400 I know. Just wait till you come home. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.600 Uh, don't you want to go eleven and zer on 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:25.880 the road. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.600 I was about to say, I about that. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.920 Care about the ring, buddy. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:33.000 Exactly get it done, exactly get the Ringea, you have to. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.640 Get on a flight to go celebrate, like you rather 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.000 just drive to the crib and go celebrate. Yeah, or 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.160 turn up in the locker room and then drive home. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:41.400 I mean. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.399 Again, if you should drive home and you're turning up. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.440 Yeah, any good idea? Yeah, exactly. You know what I'm saying. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.880 They just want a world series. Those guys can afford 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.760 an uber. Oh, make it work. It'll it'll happen. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.400 But I didn't know what the sponsor was, so I 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.000 think so I don't even know. I don't know that. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.920 Actually I do know that one. I think it's an 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:09.160 NFL thing. But yeah, cowboys quiet at the trade deadline. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.959 The Rangers' bats not so quiet in Game five or 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:14.160 Game four. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:16.400 Let's talk about it a little bit. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.639 That's that's the number one news and note I would 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.120 assume is the fact that the Cowboys are not doing 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.840 anything or have not done anything and won't do anything. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.200 In terms of the NFL trade deadline. There's a lot 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.120 of frustration amongst Cowboys fans. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.640 Are you frustrated, Kyle A little bit? A little? 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.080 I don't think I'm as frustrated as everybody else. But 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.120 I would have liked them to make a move. We've 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.639 talked about this one hundred times. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:38.120 We did. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.320 I would like them to make a move. I would 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.360 have loved them to make it. To speak, it's past tense. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.399 Now they didn't. I'm not saying that they're just completely done. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.400 Oh my gosh, let's pack this thing up, let's go home. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.160 There's a lot of people that are doing that. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.519 I saw one content creator that did do that. He said, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.320 he was like, it's. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.480 Never been more over than it has been that. Now 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.640 that's not the case. There's a lot of games left to. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.639 People watch anything but the Cowboys. You could possibly think 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.919 that maybe, but if you keep up with the rest 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.280 of the NFL, it's kind of hard to sit there 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:08.760 and think that anything's over right now. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.880 Yeah, nothing's everything. 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:11.080 Is wide over. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.399 You still got a solid team. It's just you would 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.360 just like we talked about yesterday, you would just like 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.720 to see them just push things over the edge, just 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:18.720 just just load up. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:19.360 Why not? 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.120 And that was without other teams getting better too. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.000 Yeah, we didn't even talk about them. I mean, you 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.160 can't control what other teams do. That's the reality. And 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.000 you know, I was upset because of the lack of 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.239 movement from the Cowboys organization. We don't know what was attempted, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:34.920 and we don't know what phone calls were made, what 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.960 phone calls were received. I guess we should probably say 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:41.160 because we don't make phone calls, but no, no, you know, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.000 but you know other teams. You can't control the teams. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.320 So I'm less concerned about the other teams. Now I 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.840 can tip my hat off to the other teams for 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.000 continuing to be aggressive and fitting feeling their voids and 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.640 adding to depth to their rooms and creating more dominance 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.200 in terms of personnel on their on their rosters. Kudos 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.360 to them. We just would have liked to see that 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.440 from Dallas Cowboys. So I know a lot of people. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.280 I know I posted something yesterday and I never post 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.160 on Twitter's about to say X, I never post, but 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:11.000 I had to post. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.840 Yeah, I was, I was angry. I was. I was angry. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.560 It was it was unsettling cause to see other teams 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.760 just loading up and people are like, oh, you know, 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.240 well you couldn't have got that guy because indivision, I'm 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.760 not talking about getting those particular guys. I'm talking about 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.839 making those particular those type of moves, like those guys 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.800 were literally just boom. Let's let's take it over to Edge, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.600 Seattle boom, Philly boom? 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:34.240 Who else? 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.680 San Francisco, San Francisco boom, Buffalo Buffalo boom? 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:39.400 Who else? 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:41.159 One? 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.039 Name another one? You know? So, I mean, I don't know. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.960 That's my frustration. I am. 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.560 I am by no means saying that Dallas does not 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.000 have what they need to be competitive to go chase 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.040 a ring, not saying that at all. Let me lay 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.840 that out there before anybody has any speculation. These guys 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:59.640 still have a solid roster, but there is always always 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.159 room to improve your roster. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.359 Can I ask you something from a player standpoint? Yes, 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.599 what do you think it's like today in the locker 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.520 room because they didn't make a move? 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.680 Do you think that uh? Is it good? Bad and different? 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:16.599 What do you think it's in? Different? 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.880 It's business as usual. I mean it's one of those 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.680 things where you look at elesh. Yeah, we sure could 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:21.960 have used that or I wish we would have took 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:23.280 our shot and oh, well, here we go, let's go 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.240 to practice. You know, it's like this is what we got. Like, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.600 I'm good with what we have, but it would have 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.640 been nice to have another juggernaut somewhere on this roster. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.800 Because the one I think of is just like of 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.520 the notable players that moved most of the ones. I'm 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.560 trying to think up top my head aur defensive lineman. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.279 And I don't see them needing a defensive lineman here, don't. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.840 I'm not saying I shouldn't say it that way. I 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.279 could see them in the room thinking that they don't 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 need anybody else in a defensive line. So them seeing, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.520 oh they didn't make a move, Well, we didn't need 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:53.040 to make a move. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:53.960 We got the guys here. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.320 No, yeah, I think that's I believe that sentiment. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.359 But if you're on the team and you add another 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.360 dog to your to your meeting room, nobody's gonna be like, oh, 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:05.720 you know what I'm saying. Now you might be like, dang, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.600 I am my playing time just got cut a little bit. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:08.840 Or I guess what, I got to step my game 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:10.960 up a little bit more. Otherwise I'm gonna lose some snaps. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.119 But nobody's ever going to be like, I can't believe 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:18.640 they added more talent. I can't believe we're more dominant 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.520 than we were yesterday. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.159 You know, nobody in San Francisco world is. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.080 I still think there's some guys on the team that 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.040 are not even I can't speak necessarily this team, but 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.320 teams have covered in the past where guys be like, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.600 I can't believe they that guy I could have done, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.640 you know, give me more opportunities and stuff like that. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.120 And as a professional athlete, there's a party I can understand. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.000 Why why that way? 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.800 Why does Dallas' defensive line when it comes to you 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.040 needing to pass against them? 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.640 Why do they feel so confident. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.680 When when you're saying the opponent when. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.320 Opponent has to pass, why do they as a unit, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.480 the defensive line, Why do they feel so confident. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.400 Because of no interior pressure? 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:53.479 Huh? 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.720 Because of no interior pressure? 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:56.320 Cowboys? 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.400 Why cowboys confidence when you have to pass your way 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.040 back in the game because waves waves right, I look 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.839 next to me, he's a dog. I look next to me, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.360 he's a dog. When I got to come out, guess 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.280 what dogs are coming in? 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:07.560 Like? 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:12.120 Yeah, Like that's why. So that room together feels invincible. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.120 When it comes to the pass rush, they feel invincible. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.440 So that's what I'm talking about. When you start adding 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.760 pieces to rooms, you start creating a level of confidence 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.440 that can't be that can't be matched. Right right now, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.600 when you look at the interior defensive line, what team 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.800 would you say has the best interior defensive line? 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:29.600 Eagles? 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:30.960 Eagles, hands down, And. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.800 They when they step on the field, I guarantee they're like, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:34.360 nobody's running against us. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.320 Like I looked at it, right, I looked at my lep. Yeah, no, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:38.600 they're not running against us. Guess what. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.480 And when I need a breather, I don't feel as 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.760 if I have to keep going right and trying to 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.320 exert myself past my ability to be able to continue 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.200 to perform, because I can step out for a minute 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.120 and know that my that my dogs are coming in 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.680 the game. They're still going to perform too, right, So 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.360 I could when I get tired, I don't feel bad 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:55.000 taking a breather. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.640 And letting those guys go eat and then we just 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:57.960 keep this whole thing going. Right. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.280 Everybody stays at over seventy five percent exertion, just good, right, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.800 Everybody positive, positive plays doubtless. I feel that they feel 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.200 that same way when it comes to pass rush, right, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.800 but I don't think they feel that way in some 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.200 of the other areas. Right when you look at the 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.680 forty nine ers right now, the forty nine ers, they 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.600 they just did with what the Eagles have done, except 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.280 for they did it with pass rushers instead of doing 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.360 it inter your guys, like like the Eagles have been 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.360 focusing on the past few years, they focus on pass rushers. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.560 So now it doesn't matter if you shut down Bosa now, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.839 it doesn't matter if you shut down are set Now. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.160 You gotta worry about freaking Randy Gregory now, and you 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:40.720 gotta worry about freaking Chase Chase Young. Like those are waves. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.640 And when you're as an office alignment, offensive lineman don't 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.640 get to do what take a breather. They don't get 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.000 to take a breather. They get no substitutes. Defensive linemen do. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.040 So defense alignment can stay fresh all the time based 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.000 upon personnel groups and rotations. And they're going against office 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.440 alignment that are continually losing productivity because they're getting or gas. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.320 I feel like it's a case by case basis. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.480 Because Micah Parsons on one end is going to say, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.480 man would have loved to have some other dogs in here, 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.600 would have had some other guys in here. But if 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:16.240 you're let's say, I'm looking down the list Sam Williams. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.600 Sam Williams is probably like, I can do that. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.400 I'm let me step up, give me some rocks, give 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.800 me this, give me that same thing. I mean Jonathan 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.120 Hankins right now, he's about as solidified as anybody on 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.320 the interior of that defensive line. But further down the 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.760 list of Nebell Gallimore might be like, give me some run, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.679 give me some run. Instead it's case by case. Maybe 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.760 it's locker room by locker room. Because I think this 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.880 team is different than any other team in the country, 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.559 and vice versa. Every team in the country is different 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.719 than every other team in the country as well. I 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.040 feel like there was a pretty good indication that this 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.960 team wanted somebody to come in at least one move 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.480 something to shure up a spot of weakness, because it 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.520 may not look like it now, but down the line, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.680 it's gonna come back, and there's gonna be a moment 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.400 where somebody gets injured, where something happens in a long 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.040 seventeen game NFL season, and somebody's gonna look up and say, man, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.880 I wish we would have made a deal at the deadline, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.120 And there were chances to do so position groups. Maybe 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.560 not specific instances with trades, but position groups. The door 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:17.600 was open to get a deal done. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.200 I had a conversation with my daughter this morning. She 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.360 has a field trip today. Right we get where they are. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.760 They're going to the arboretum or something like that, right, fun, Oh, yeah, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.280 so they're going on a field trip. And I asked her, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.720 I say, do you have a good enough jacket? And 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.240 she was like, oh, you know, it's not even cold. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.400 I'm like, okay, so you don't feel cold right now, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.000 but if should you need a jacket, you're not going 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.440 to be in a position to have a jacket. Right So, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.000 right now you feel perfectly fine. But if you get cold, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.400 you're not in a situation because you did not prepare, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.520 right You did not prepare yourself, she said, be possibly. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:48.920 We're not doing this. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.040 For the partitional to be cold, to get ready. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.280 So Dallas, right now, they feel good. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.640 Dallas feels good right now about about certain aspects of 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:04.760 their rock. However, should something happen, they are not prepared 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:05.880 to wear the those storms. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:07.440 That's the reality. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.560 I do believe Mike McCarthy if he was here, he 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.200 would argue with you about the Packers team that he 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:15.040 won the Super Bowl with. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:15.959 He brings up all the. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.840 Time about how like that next man all that. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.920 Played a factor and other guys stepped up that maybe 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.560 earlier in this season you didn't see a role for. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.719 And I'm only saying this stuff because I'm with you 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.920 on ninety nine point nine percent of what you're saying. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:31.960 But I also don't think it sounds great on a 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.559 podcast if everybody just agrees. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.720 So I'm just. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.560 Trying to play double baby get a little bit just 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.520 to give you a little bit different perspective. But I'm 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.080 just just so you know, like, yeah, I agree with 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.800 just about every single thing that you've said the last 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.280 two days about this. If you lose, Cowboys fans have 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.680 every right to feel disappointed right now. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.840 If you lose Jonathan Hankins, what are you guys feeling? 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:49.560 Yeah? 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.160 Not great, that's great, The bubble's right. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.760 Fortunately you do have a guy like Massie Smith who's 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.040 at least strong in there. But it's gonna be a 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:57.760 learning curve. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.760 Like that would be a baptistm Is he ready to 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:00.559 fit the void? 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.960 By Jonathan Hanka, Now, so that's what I'm saying, Yeah, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.240 things like that, right, Like, there are position groups in 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.520 this and on this roster where you're good right now, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.080 and you're you're crossing your fingers and you're praying and 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.400 you're hoping and wishing that nothing happens, right and nobody 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.680 wants anything to happen, but you're not prepared for if 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:18.640 something does happen. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.360 Going off of something that John just brought up with 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.120 the depth that was needed from McCarthy's Packers team, right 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.480 and Super Bowl that they won, you they needed people 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:32.120 to players to step up into new roles that weren't foreseen. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.360 Is it an encouraging thing or a not so encouraging 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.360 thing to look at this team right now as they 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.200 stand going into week nine saying that there's not really 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.400 a whole lot of those guys that you expected or 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.720 maybe didn't expect to come through that haven't stepped up yet. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.600 I think the number one guy would probably be Deron Bland, right, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.120 But even Deron Bland had five picks last year, he 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.280 still showed last year that he was going to be 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.440 a significant starter on this defense. The way he's done 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.800 it this year is of course a surprise. But outside 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.560 of that, name one guy that you didn't expect to 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.120 come into the season and play a massive role and 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:08.640 has done that, Marcus. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.160 Marquis Bell will clearly be the one. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:10.760 Only thing that was. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.719 About Because you mentioned Bland, I will say, at the 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.240 cornerback position, if one of those corners were to go 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.920 down and it looked like Jacksonville from last year, and 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.280 you're just bringing in guys off the street, yeah, that's 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.719 that's that's no people going back to this. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.280 You know a lot of people, right and no. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.600 The guys yeah yeah, and a. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.920 Lot of people aging again is he yeah? 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:32.600 Interesting? 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.640 Somebody on the text line from the four h four 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.120 four said the Cowboys can still pick up both Scarborough, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:39.840 I don't know about that. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.199 While yeah, I like it. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.400 Sorry I cut you off about Marquis Bell. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.240 Go ahead, No, No, I was just saying Marquis Bell was 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:46.679 another one. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.680 But that's that's probably the one, right because, like I said, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.280 deron Bland, you could argue that he already showed it 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.480 last year. But is that an encouraging thing or a 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.840 discouraging thing? The fact that you haven't had those names 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.520 a rise. Yet the fact that I'm mean, we're seven 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.199 games end of the year but still tend to go. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.080 I think it's not so necessarily guys a rising, and 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.080 there are guys in positions to rise. Like we've talked 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.079 about the running back situation, there's still an opportunity for 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.400 Reco Doubtell to be able to prove to be a 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.800 change of pace back. And sure, I like what Rico 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.160 has done when he's been given opportunities, but I'd like 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.280 to see more of those opportunities, and I'd like to see, 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.880 you know, that kind of that carry split get a 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.120 little bit more even, not not fifty to fifty by 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:26.520 any means, but I'd like to see like a sixty 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.320 five thirty five there, just because I want to keep 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.560 Pollard fresh, as we've mentioned many times throughout leading up 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.840 to the trade deadline, and potentially wanting to get Letterard 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.160 Fournette and then he goes to the Bills. I'm trying 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.200 to think of other guys. I mean, there's Mazzie Smith 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.760 in the defensive interior. Again, that's just another instance of 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.920 you know, he's gonna have to play up to that 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.480 level and be the guy to be able to step 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.800 into a role like that. Augie Gurito, Texas baseball head 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.120 coach for long time thirty five forty years when a 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.400 ton of college roal series, he always said famously, he's 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.640 like a guy can't be a hero if you don't 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.920 let him. So I want to see those opportunities for 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:58.560 those young guys. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.920 Well, So for me, the position I look at as 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.760 offensive line and that's where I have the biggest question marks. 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.440 Just like we did go in the season about the depth, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.920 I will say that's a position. I didn't expect them 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.000 to upgrade at the trade deadline. It just that's a position. Yeah, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.520 It's just it's it's not very likely though, that you're 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.200 going to upgrade. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.760 I didn't. I didn't see that coming. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.520 On the offensive line to a level of what this 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.520 team needs. And that's one spot where there are a 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.280 lot of opportunities for some young guys to really step up. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.280 And I don't think up to this point we've seen 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.400 those young players step up to where you feel like, oh, yeah, 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.120 if one of these starters goes down for the rest 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.600 of the season, one of these young guys are going 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.080 to step in there and you're going to be fine. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.240 I think that you would probably have some pretty big 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:41.360 concerns if that happened. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.720 What position groups outside of defensive line do you feel 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.080 like if you lost a guy, lost a starter, a 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.360 key contributor that you're like, yo, we feel good about 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:50.960 next man up? 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:53.920 Safe safety? 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.360 Yeah, who comes in? 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.720 Well, you just have Jane. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:02.480 I'm not saying i'd feel great. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.000 Yeah, it makes you, it makes you thinner, but at 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.120 least you're there, at least you have guys they can 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.520 fill in this position. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.520 I'm not saying i'd feel great, but just based on 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.480 history and how it went last year when this problem arose, quarterback, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.800 yeah it would be high on that list. But other 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.800 than that, yeah, you have a point, just because the 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.200 depth is not is not really thick with this team. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.000 San Francisco is experiencing that problem right now. They're having 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.480 some key injuries in certain places and guys can't step up, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:31.880 and it's it's it's bothered them. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.280 So yeah, I mean it's a conversation. The deadline has 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.200 now come and gone. We're done talking about it until, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.600 of course, a situation like that arises, and maybe there 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.800 is a lack of depth at a certain position. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.880 But right now, you can't do anything about it. It's done. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:47.360 It's done. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.160