WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Overreaction Tuesday 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.520 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:18.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. He's Talking Cowboys screening 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.639 live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the Star 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:30.160 in fris Joe Elliot flowing to the good and now 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:35.800 your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heckm Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:42.200 Yeoman's the edition of Talking Cowboys live from the SWBC 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.680 Mortgage studios in our respective homes. We're back for another 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.720 edition as we break down what was a week one 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.400 lost twenty to seventeen as the Cowboys fell on the 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.320 road to the Los Angeles Rams, and we start getting 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.080 you prepared this week for the Atlanta Falcons and the 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.360 home opener of the twenty twenty season. I'm Kyle Yeoman's 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.840 alongside the normal cast of characters, Rob Phillips, Heck Ma 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.240 Harrison and our residence Super Bowl champion Isaiah stand Back 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.960 and guys, it's there's plenty to talk about. Sure, off 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.720 of the loss that we had on Sunday in terms 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.400 of the Dallas Cowboys and the way that that loss 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.920 kind of came about and well overreaction Monday is certainly 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.600 a thing. It absolutely is a thing, and we saw 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.760 that yesterday. You're either one and oh as an NFL franchise, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.440 or you're O and one. There's no in between. There's 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.959 no tie. I guess there is a tie, but nobody 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.280 did ended up tying. I guess after the week came 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.280 to an end, and overreaction Monday was in full fledged yesterday, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.200 and even I guess on our show we could have 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.000 said there were some overreactions, but guys, I wanted to 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.000 kind of give you, give you a chance to Let's 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.760 let's let everybody kind of chill for a little bit. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.800 Let's talk about some of those overreactions. And Rob will 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.760 start with you. What was the biggest one that you 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:04.440 saw yesterday? Well, I took a screenshot of my Twitter mentions, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.919 which you're always fun after a cowboy's loss. Here's one 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.959 from Alberto we need a new quarterback and a new 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.000 coaching staff. That was that, uh about ten thirty ten 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.320 thirty on Sunday night. So sorry, Mike McCarthy, you got 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.440 three weeks of practice and not what just it just 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.240 didn't cut it, So apologize. There, gotta move on. It 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.440 doesn't get much better than that. Isaiah, you got something 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.200 the topic I you know, I just I just kept 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.880 hearing a whole lot about this past interference stuff and 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.800 that you know that that the referees were getting paid off. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.680 I'm like, listen up, guys, it's week one. Nobody's getting 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.120 paid off, at least not yet, um at least the boys. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.880 The boys is how you did. It didn't go their way, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.359 so not too big. An overreaction is definitely nothing like 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.480 you're like Rob experience. I would say that I'm a 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.720 I'm a neo fight to the overreaction. Monday, I was 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.679 talking to Rob about that and whoa man, I went, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:08.079 I had to get some sleep last night. Overreaction was enormous. Um. Yeah, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:13.160 everything from fire coach Mike to get rid of Dak. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.080 I mean, where do we start. I mean, it is 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.480 an overreaction across the board, but I'm hoping that we've 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.440 got tempers brought down just a little bit now. It's 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.480 like it's like Chris Beam, just our producer, just said 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.079 in the chat, you're either going to the super Bowl 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.840 after week one or you're headed for the first overall pick. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.760 There is no in between, never in between exactly. And 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.200 it doesn't it doesn't take a whole lot of time 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.600 to turn it around either. That's the thing is you 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.240 can win this week and all of a sudden you're 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.240 feeling great, and then if you win against Seattle, you're 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.320 two in one and you've beaten a team that looks 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.880 like a Super Bowl contender after their overreaction following their 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.480 win over the Atlanta Falcons. So there's a lot of 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.600 overreaction on both sides of the coin. Unfortunately for the Cowboys, 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.440 they were on the losing side of the coin this week, 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.840 and hopefully they'll turn that around. But that's a ton 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.920 of fun. I always love Overreaction Monday as a media 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.720 member because you kind of get to watch all the 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.200 fans and you're a fan yourself. At the same time, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.680 you get to have some fun with it, and you 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.840 get to make up these crazy storylines in your head 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.960 and kind of say, Okay, is this what's happening? Or 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:16.520 is this what's happening? And then you kind of get 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.960 a chance to sit back and realize, Okay, it's week one. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.800 We've got fifteen more of these things coming up, and 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.680 it doesn't take a whole lot of time to have 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.640 some turnaround and pull a one eighty, especially with how 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.839 sloppy things were on Sunday. The good news is is 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.400 you do have an OH and one team on the 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.400 other side of you this week in the Atlanta Falcons. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.680 We'll talk about them both tomorrow and on Thursday. We 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.040 might even preview them later in the show. By the way, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.160 it is a Tuesday, so that means fans on the 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.000 fifty for Talking Cowboys, send in your questions in the 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.920 periscope chat. I'm watching the chat right now. I'll pick 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.080 them up and we'll answer some of them here in 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.240 our second segment. But before we get into that, guys, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.279 I want to kind of talk about the play calling 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.440 and one of those overreactions that I had seen on Twitter, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.839 and really if some of the reactions from the fans 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.760 overall was Kellen Moore? Is he really the most experienced 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.159 play caller? No? Is he a capable play caller? I 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.560 think he is, but he didn't necessarily show it on 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.880 Sunday night, And Rob, we're gonna start with you again. 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.599 But is Kellen Moore the right man for the job 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.800 whenever it comes to calling plays for this offense? Yeah? 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.120 I think so. I think I think it was a 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.360 surprise to some people that look there was no tape, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.440 no tape on the Cowboys before this game, and I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.480 think fans expected with Ceedee Lamb coming in with you know, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.320 a really strong running back duo with Pollard and Zeke, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.640 that you might see some really new things with McCarthy 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.120 coming in. And I didn't see a whole lot of 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.160 difference in terms of, you know, some of the things 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.960 they ran. But then again, I don't think they planned 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.280 on having a vastly different offense. And I think there 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.160 were probably a couple of reasons for why we didn't 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.680 see a lot of things down the field. We talked 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.680 about it yesterday. I think the Rams tried to play 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.000 their safeties deep, tried to keep things in front of them. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.680 I think the Cowboys were also mindful of having a 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:11.240 undrafted our fans at home can hear that. I don't 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.240 know if they heard that. I got voices in my head, 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.760 Um where was I? Oh, a rookie undrafted offensive lineman 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.440 at right tackle. I think they, you know, they had 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.960 to do some things to protect that situation. However, there 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.719 are some things you can do to try to combat that, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.880 and you know, I think we probably could see some 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.640 more creativity going forward. I am a fan of the 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.760 screen guys. I want to see some more screens. I 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.800 want to get Zeke and Pollard involved. That's the biggest 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.560 thing I want to see. Well, you're going to see 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.720 some more screens, Rob, That's that's definitely gonna happen, because 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.600 defensives are going to play us aggressively. But I think 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.400 that's an overreaction. Also, Kyle, when you talk about Kevin 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.560 Moore's first week as a play caller, we know that 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.000 coach Mike was was hired here as a head coach 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.680 because of his impeccable play calling in Green Bay, and 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.359 we're expecting to see that old Mike McCarthy with that 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.919 laminated play sheet with those highlighters on the side of 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.760 his hat calling these plays. But I think we all 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.280 have to kind of remember that in the middle of 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.080 this pandemic, the whole football season was thrown off, and 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.000 the smart thing that the Cowboys did was keep calling 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.679 Moore to be able to have what we've been talking about, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.720 that continuity between the offensive coordinator and the quarterback. And 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.320 so look, I'm not ready to ditch this. After one week, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.200 I realized that from a creativity standpoint, we didn't see 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.240 a lot of the formations and motions that we were 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.000 expecting to see. You guys talked about it during the 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.240 training camp, just saying that things would definitely be different 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.160 or just from what you saw from the offensive output 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.960 during practice, but we didn't see any of that. But 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.720 after a vanilla outing, I believe in la we'll see 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.840 more this week here at home against Atlanta. Yeah, it's 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.840 to answer your question in terms that it is he 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.840 the right man for the job. I think he is 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.160 at this point in time. I think that with the 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.240 new Culture regime really coming in, and with this very 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.040 unique offseason that we had with COVID and not being 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.240 able to be on side and everything being virtual for 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.760 the most part, I think it was probably the easiest 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.880 transition into this season. Do I think that he's better 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.480 than McCarthy, No, I said, if that has to your question, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.560 I don't believe that he's better than McCarthy. I do 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.760 think that he is. Obviously he's younger, and he probably 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.160 has great ideas. I would prefer to have McCarthy at 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.240 the helm with the young Kellen Moore, you know, throwing 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.400 ideas out there from time to time, but you know, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.559 under the circumstances, I think is probably the easiest transition 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.440 into this season to kick everything off. It is an 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:51.400 easy transition because go for it. Rob Well, Yeah, to 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.440 piggyback on what Isaiah said, I mean, I think you know, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.640 if they had if they had hit a couple of 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.960 those plays, I mean, if the gallop play goes goes 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.520 deep and they score on that drive and they win 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.400 the game, we're probably having a different discussion about the offense. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.000 You know that they went well over four hundred yards 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.199 and they got twenty four points something like that, and 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.520 we're slow in some spots, but still were able to 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.280 move the ball. And I think one thing they've been 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.400 able to do with Kellen Moore the last two years 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.480 is move the ball. They can pile up yards. When 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.960 they struggle, they can't finish drives, and that's what happened again. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.600 They were two and four, two or four in the 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.079 red zone and miss two opportunities to score touchdowns. And 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.439 so I think I try to take a big picture 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.000 of view of it and say that they're able to 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.400 do some good things, but the yards are not matching 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.520 the points, and that goes back to last season and 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.240 if that continues, that is definitely a concern, and that's 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.640 what I believe everybody doesn't like to see the reflection 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.600 of last season looking aerially familiar with what we saw 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.320 on Sunday. But also, Isaiah, you've been in some offensive 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.760 meeting rooms and you know that officeive coordinator they script 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.320 out their plays, and so I believe that coach Mike 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.080 McCarthy and Kellen Moore are working, you know, hip and 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.040 hip to make sure that they get this play calling together. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.840 I don't I don't necessarily believe that coach Mike McCarthy 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.000 is completely hands off in this process. So you know, look, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.599 all things being considered. If you look at the I 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.520 mean looking at the where Ceedee Lamb had the blocking 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.680 the back on the past for Mike Gallop that was 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.920 just drive killing penalties that we had, the holding the past, 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.600 interference from from shows, all of those things. I think 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.520 it set us back. But Rob to your point, red 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.240 zone was where we put a big old asterisk up 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.280 there and said, look, this is what we have to 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.000 get corrected, and being two and four in the red 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.760 zone is not going to get it done. We need 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.320 to do that. We need to be four or four 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.320 in the red zone, red zone and go ahead answer. Now, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:55.719 I was gonna say, just to clear this up, I 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.840 don't want people to think just because I'm saying McCarthy 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.720 is I feel that McCarthy's a better as a coordinator 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.920 then Kelly Moore. Kelly Moore is doing a heck of 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.120 a job. Let me lay that on the table. He's 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.679 doing it. He's doing an excellent job. But we are 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.599 comparing you know, you know, apples and apples, you know, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.160 And I feel McCarthy has that experience. I think that 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.000 Kelly Moore is in a great position to go out 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.760 there and calling the games like he's been doing. So 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.840 my hope is that Mike McCarthy will step in when 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.160 needed in certain situations since he has that situational awareness 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.400 and he has that experience, My hope is that he 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.640 will then chime in and say, no, we're not passing 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.599 the bond this down. We're gonna continue to feed it. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:37.760 We're gonna continue to feed zeke okay, And that's just 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.760 my hope. So, Kelly Moore is doing a great job, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.200 but McCarthy needs to be able to and hopefully I 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.920 know he has the power to, but I hope he 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.240 will intervene when needed to make sure that we're on 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.640 the right track. Well, I bet I bet he did. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.560 I bet that The big playing question the fourth down. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.959 I bet you they were in lockstep on that because 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.000 Kelly Moore told us on a call yesterday basically, look, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.240 they had two down territory in mine there with the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.000 third down when they ran it, and then had the 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.640 fourth and three. So I think I think you're right 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.719 that McCarthy's they're having discussions during the game, which is 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.160 not as easy as it used to be with the 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.160 mass and all that stuff, but on how they're gonna 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.800 how they're gonna do, you know, handle some situations third downs. 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.200 The other thing too, guys, because you know, didn't convert 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.800 enough third downs and they weren't very manageable third downs 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.760 a lot of times. That was the difference with the Rams. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.040 Man they were in second and one, third and one 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.280 where they can they can basically fall forward and keep 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:31.959 drives moving, and that was a credit to a lot 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.079 of that quick game stuff they did on first down. Well, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.320 and what Kellen Moore mentioned yesterday about that third and 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.160 six and running the football with Zeke and setting up 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.280 what was going to be, Like you said, two down 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.600 territory four down territory whenever they were inside the red zone. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.000 I have a much more I have much more comfort 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.920 in that call, knowing what kind of success they were 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.920 having running the ball with Zeke. You don't expect to 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.880 only end up with three yards there. You think you're 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.800 going to get four or five or six because of 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.880 how tough he was running in the first three quarters. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.840 You think that's going to carry over in the fourth. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.400 And really what ultimately happened was the Rams defense just 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.280 made two straight really good plays. Even on the play 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.960 on the fourth and three and Ceede Lamb, Yes, he 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.920 ran his route short, but that safety came up and 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.560 made a tackle on Ceedee Lamb, a very shifty, a 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.120 very elusive receiver, and the fact that he was able 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.400 to tackle him in open space ultimately made the difference 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.720 on that fourth and three. How to go, Yeah, how 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.320 to go across the field to make that play too? 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:33.480 Yeah Yeah, yeah, really impressive play. Yeah. I think Kellamore's 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.440 still got growing to be done and that's going to happen. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.959 He's still a second year offensive coordinator. He was young 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.920 boy genius last year. He's starting to grow into being 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:46.640 the next guy. That's really one of those heralded offensive coordinators, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.559 I think in the NFL, and I think having that oversight, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.520 having that mentorship from a guy like Mike McCarthy is 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.120 only going to expedite the process. It's only going to 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.520 make it happen quicker. And I agree with Isaiah. I 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.480 don't think if there's anything that needs to be done 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.920 in terms of Kellen Moore, it's one game. Once again, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.559 it's overreaction Monday now into Tuesday. I'm not by any 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.800 means saying let's replace Kellen Moore with Mike McCarthy calling 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.600 plays yet, but sure, let's have some input, let's have 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.079 that lockstep like Rob was saying, and let's continue to 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:17.760 get better as an offense, because that's the only way 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.520 you're able to go up as you have that communication 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.720 as a coaching staff. And once again, and I made 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.760 this point last night on the fan with a couple 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.480 buddies of mine on there. But they said, or they 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.080 asked me the same kind of question, and I said, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.880 it's remember this was also the first game for this 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.320 coaching staff to call plays period. This was their preseason 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.360 game number one pretty much. When it comes to actually 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.440 having the personnel on the field and actually contributing whenever 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.560 it comes to play calling and whoever you have the 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.880 on the gridiron, and I think that definitely played a 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:50.800 role as well. We're going to take a break. When 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.640 we come back. Send in your questions. I've been reading 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.400 them on the periscope already, and continue to send those 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.720 in because fans on the fifty is next. 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It's Week two, episode two. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.560 As we lead you into Atlanta week here from the 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.919 Star in Frisco, cow Yomen's Rob Phillips, Heck Ma Harrison 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.120 and Isaiah stand back, glad you're with us, and continue 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.119 sending in those questions on the periscope stream before we 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.000 do that. If you want to change up your dinner routine, 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.440 go check out the Star District restaurants across the street. Man, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.600 there's a bevy of them. You talk about Wallburger's, Sushi Marquis, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.879 You've got the Ascension Coffee Shop. There's so many great options. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.720 Dine in, dine out, you take out, you can have 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.400 so many different options. Go check it out. It's at 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.560 the Star District dot com. So many different great places 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.000 over there. Go check them out. Frisco. What's that Hecko, 0:17:54.119 --> 0:18:01.320 the Sushi Marquee, the mister Miagi. Yes later, yes, mister Meagi. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.440 And I'll into that Chuck Norris on there as well. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.560 Fantastic that sub Nora, Yes, that sus Roll, Oh my god, 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.639 it's amazing. All sign Let's let's go into fans on 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.840 the fifty. It is the second week of us doing 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.800 this every Tuesday at nine fifty. We'll answer your fan 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.200 questions and we'll bring him in. Hopefully at some point 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.800 whenever we're all back in studio, we'll take phone calls. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.000 Unable to do that at the moment, so we're gonna 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.200 have to do it via the periscope stream. Our first 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.840 question actually comes from R. J. Wells says, I've got 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.200 a question for a fan on the fifty. Does everyone 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.879 think Xavier Woods was ready to go? Or am I 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.800 the only one that thinks he wasn't. Rob will start 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.879 with you. They wouldn't have put him out there if 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.479 he wasn't ready, and the fact that he wasn't on 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.320 the injury report at all. I don't think. I don't 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.080 think injuries were a factor there. And I thought he 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.919 made some I thought he made some solid tackles in 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.000 the game. Um. I think the way the way the 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.399 Rams attacked the Cowboys defense, it really didn't put the 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.080 safeties involved much early because they were attacking, attacking the edges, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.800 and obviously the run game h was up through the 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.600 middle and attacking the Cowboys interior line. It really was 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.360 about the first two levels of the defense. I don't 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.760 know if you guys agree with that. No, I do, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.119 go ahead, Yeah, no, I was gonna say that I agree. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.240 You know, I don't think that the safeties really needed 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.800 to be involved that much in this in this game, um, 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.640 not only from the scheme of the rams, but also um, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.800 but Mike Nolan. Did you know Mike Nolan wasn't that aggressive. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:32.919 He did a lot of too high. He sat back 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.920 there a lot. So those guys were back there and 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.800 their rocking chair is pretty much cooling this this pass game. 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.920 I don't know about so much this coming week though, 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.480 but in terms of this pass game, yeah, they were chilling. No. 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.480 I thought Xavier Woods played played a pretty good game 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.320 once I went back and watched it again. Uh, he 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.440 did a great job and run support on a few 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.400 on a few plays. But again, it's just like you 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.919 guys have stated that with the short passes, Uh, the 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.119 safeties just couldn't be as effective as they would have 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.439 been or should have been. Yeah. I definitely agree with 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.440 all three of you guys, and I think the secondary. Sure, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.439 there were different problems on the defense, but I think 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.439 the secondary still remains a large question Mark, whenever it 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.879 comes to this team and moving forward, it was a 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.240 survive type of mentality when it came to the secondary, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.480 and I think the secondary survived to it a certain extent. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.680 And they were also, I think expecting more pass rush 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.919 and they didn't get that on Sunday. I think that 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.359 was the really kind of the key that threw the 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.080 whole thing off. Whenever it comes to Xavier Woods in 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:34.320 those safeties and even the corners moving forward, even though 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.560 I thought the corners played exceptional when it comes to 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.160 digs and Cheetah Woozier. Now I've had a ton of people. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.320 I'm trying to read all the different names. Mark asked 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.760 about this one. Justin asked about this one. There are 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.560 a couple of different questions about going outside and finding 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.639 extra talent, and going and finding a free agent to 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.800 fill maybe some of the roles from a tight ends perspective, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.679 from a linebacker's perspective, and then even at safety, like 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.879