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Speaker 1: Yeoman's the edition of Talking Cowboys live from the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studios in our respective homes. We're back for another
Speaker 1: edition as we break down what was a week one
Speaker 1: lost twenty to seventeen as the Cowboys fell on the
Speaker 1: road to the Los Angeles Rams, and we start getting
Speaker 1: you prepared this week for the Atlanta Falcons and the
Speaker 1: home opener of the twenty twenty season. I'm Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: alongside the normal cast of characters, Rob Phillips, Heck Ma
Speaker 1: Harrison and our residence Super Bowl champion Isaiah stand Back
Speaker 1: and guys, it's there's plenty to talk about. Sure, off
Speaker 1: of the loss that we had on Sunday in terms
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys and the way that that loss
Speaker 1: kind of came about and well overreaction Monday is certainly
Speaker 1: a thing. It absolutely is a thing, and we saw
Speaker 1: that yesterday. You're either one and oh as an NFL franchise,
Speaker 1: or you're O and one. There's no in between. There's
Speaker 1: no tie. I guess there is a tie, but nobody
Speaker 1: did ended up tying. I guess after the week came
Speaker 1: to an end, and overreaction Monday was in full fledged yesterday,
Speaker 1: and even I guess on our show we could have
Speaker 1: said there were some overreactions, but guys, I wanted to
Speaker 1: kind of give you, give you a chance to Let's
Speaker 1: let's let everybody kind of chill for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of those overreactions. And Rob will
Speaker 1: start with you. What was the biggest one that you
Speaker 1: saw yesterday? Well, I took a screenshot of my Twitter mentions,
Speaker 1: which you're always fun after a cowboy's loss. Here's one
Speaker 1: from Alberto we need a new quarterback and a new
Speaker 1: coaching staff. That was that, uh about ten thirty ten
Speaker 1: thirty on Sunday night. So sorry, Mike McCarthy, you got
Speaker 1: three weeks of practice and not what just it just
Speaker 1: didn't cut it, So apologize. There, gotta move on. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get much better than that. Isaiah, you got something
Speaker 1: the topic I you know, I just I just kept
Speaker 1: hearing a whole lot about this past interference stuff and
Speaker 1: that you know that that the referees were getting paid off.
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen up, guys, it's week one. Nobody's getting
Speaker 1: paid off, at least not yet, um at least the boys.
Speaker 1: The boys is how you did. It didn't go their way,
Speaker 1: so not too big. An overreaction is definitely nothing like
Speaker 1: you're like Rob experience. I would say that I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a neo fight to the overreaction. Monday, I was
Speaker 1: talking to Rob about that and whoa man, I went,
Speaker 1: I had to get some sleep last night. Overreaction was enormous. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything from fire coach Mike to get rid of Dak.
Speaker 1: I mean, where do we start. I mean, it is
Speaker 1: an overreaction across the board, but I'm hoping that we've
Speaker 1: got tempers brought down just a little bit now. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like Chris Beam, just our producer, just said
Speaker 1: in the chat, you're either going to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: after week one or you're headed for the first overall pick.
Speaker 1: There is no in between, never in between exactly. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't take a whole lot of time
Speaker 1: to turn it around either. That's the thing is you
Speaker 1: can win this week and all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: feeling great, and then if you win against Seattle, you're
Speaker 1: two in one and you've beaten a team that looks
Speaker 1: like a Super Bowl contender after their overreaction following their
Speaker 1: win over the Atlanta Falcons. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: overreaction on both sides of the coin. Unfortunately for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they were on the losing side of the coin this week,
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll turn that around. But that's a ton
Speaker 1: of fun. I always love Overreaction Monday as a media
Speaker 1: member because you kind of get to watch all the
Speaker 1: fans and you're a fan yourself. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you get to have some fun with it, and you
Speaker 1: get to make up these crazy storylines in your head
Speaker 1: and kind of say, Okay, is this what's happening? Or
Speaker 1: is this what's happening? And then you kind of get
Speaker 1: a chance to sit back and realize, Okay, it's week one.
Speaker 1: We've got fifteen more of these things coming up, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't take a whole lot of time to have
Speaker 1: some turnaround and pull a one eighty, especially with how
Speaker 1: sloppy things were on Sunday. The good news is is
Speaker 1: you do have an OH and one team on the
Speaker 1: other side of you this week in the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about them both tomorrow and on Thursday. We
Speaker 1: might even preview them later in the show. By the way,
Speaker 1: it is a Tuesday, so that means fans on the
Speaker 1: fifty for Talking Cowboys, send in your questions in the
Speaker 1: periscope chat. I'm watching the chat right now. I'll pick
Speaker 1: them up and we'll answer some of them here in
Speaker 1: our second segment. But before we get into that, guys,
Speaker 1: I want to kind of talk about the play calling
Speaker 1: and one of those overreactions that I had seen on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and really if some of the reactions from the fans
Speaker 1: overall was Kellen Moore? Is he really the most experienced
Speaker 1: play caller? No? Is he a capable play caller? I
Speaker 1: think he is, but he didn't necessarily show it on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, And Rob, we're gonna start with you again.
Speaker 1: But is Kellen Moore the right man for the job
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to calling plays for this offense? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. I think I think it was a
Speaker 1: surprise to some people that look there was no tape,
Speaker 1: no tape on the Cowboys before this game, and I
Speaker 1: think fans expected with Ceedee Lamb coming in with you know,
Speaker 1: a really strong running back duo with Pollard and Zeke,
Speaker 1: that you might see some really new things with McCarthy
Speaker 1: coming in. And I didn't see a whole lot of
Speaker 1: difference in terms of, you know, some of the things
Speaker 1: they ran. But then again, I don't think they planned
Speaker 1: on having a vastly different offense. And I think there
Speaker 1: were probably a couple of reasons for why we didn't
Speaker 1: see a lot of things down the field. We talked
Speaker 1: about it yesterday. I think the Rams tried to play
Speaker 1: their safeties deep, tried to keep things in front of them.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys were also mindful of having a
Speaker 1: undrafted our fans at home can hear that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they heard that. I got voices in my head,
Speaker 1: Um where was I? Oh, a rookie undrafted offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at right tackle. I think they, you know, they had
Speaker 1: to do some things to protect that situation. However, there
Speaker 1: are some things you can do to try to combat that,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think we probably could see some
Speaker 1: more creativity going forward. I am a fan of the
Speaker 1: screen guys. I want to see some more screens. I
Speaker 1: want to get Zeke and Pollard involved. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing I want to see. Well, you're going to see
Speaker 1: some more screens, Rob, That's that's definitely gonna happen, because
Speaker 1: defensives are going to play us aggressively. But I think
Speaker 1: that's an overreaction. Also, Kyle, when you talk about Kevin
Speaker 1: Moore's first week as a play caller, we know that
Speaker 1: coach Mike was was hired here as a head coach
Speaker 1: because of his impeccable play calling in Green Bay, and
Speaker 1: we're expecting to see that old Mike McCarthy with that
Speaker 1: laminated play sheet with those highlighters on the side of
Speaker 1: his hat calling these plays. But I think we all
Speaker 1: have to kind of remember that in the middle of
Speaker 1: this pandemic, the whole football season was thrown off, and
Speaker 1: the smart thing that the Cowboys did was keep calling
Speaker 1: Moore to be able to have what we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: that continuity between the offensive coordinator and the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: so look, I'm not ready to ditch this. After one week,
Speaker 1: I realized that from a creativity standpoint, we didn't see
Speaker 1: a lot of the formations and motions that we were
Speaker 1: expecting to see. You guys talked about it during the
Speaker 1: training camp, just saying that things would definitely be different
Speaker 1: or just from what you saw from the offensive output
Speaker 1: during practice, but we didn't see any of that. But
Speaker 1: after a vanilla outing, I believe in la we'll see
Speaker 1: more this week here at home against Atlanta. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: to answer your question in terms that it is he
Speaker 1: the right man for the job. I think he is
Speaker 1: at this point in time. I think that with the
Speaker 1: new Culture regime really coming in, and with this very
Speaker 1: unique offseason that we had with COVID and not being
Speaker 1: able to be on side and everything being virtual for
Speaker 1: the most part, I think it was probably the easiest
Speaker 1: transition into this season. Do I think that he's better
Speaker 1: than McCarthy, No, I said, if that has to your question,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that he's better than McCarthy. I do
Speaker 1: think that he is. Obviously he's younger, and he probably
Speaker 1: has great ideas. I would prefer to have McCarthy at
Speaker 1: the helm with the young Kellen Moore, you know, throwing
Speaker 1: ideas out there from time to time, but you know,
Speaker 1: under the circumstances, I think is probably the easiest transition
Speaker 1: into this season to kick everything off. It is an
Speaker 1: easy transition because go for it. Rob Well, Yeah, to
Speaker 1: piggyback on what Isaiah said, I mean, I think you know,
Speaker 1: if they had if they had hit a couple of
Speaker 1: those plays, I mean, if the gallop play goes goes
Speaker 1: deep and they score on that drive and they win
Speaker 1: the game, we're probably having a different discussion about the offense.
Speaker 1: You know that they went well over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: and they got twenty four points something like that, and
Speaker 1: we're slow in some spots, but still were able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. And I think one thing they've been
Speaker 1: able to do with Kellen Moore the last two years
Speaker 1: is move the ball. They can pile up yards. When
Speaker 1: they struggle, they can't finish drives, and that's what happened again.
Speaker 1: They were two and four, two or four in the
Speaker 1: red zone and miss two opportunities to score touchdowns. And
Speaker 1: so I think I try to take a big picture
Speaker 1: of view of it and say that they're able to
Speaker 1: do some good things, but the yards are not matching
Speaker 1: the points, and that goes back to last season and
Speaker 1: if that continues, that is definitely a concern, and that's
Speaker 1: what I believe everybody doesn't like to see the reflection
Speaker 1: of last season looking aerially familiar with what we saw
Speaker 1: on Sunday. But also, Isaiah, you've been in some offensive
Speaker 1: meeting rooms and you know that officeive coordinator they script
Speaker 1: out their plays, and so I believe that coach Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Kellen Moore are working, you know, hip and
Speaker 1: hip to make sure that they get this play calling together.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't necessarily believe that coach Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: is completely hands off in this process. So you know, look,
Speaker 1: all things being considered. If you look at the I
Speaker 1: mean looking at the where Ceedee Lamb had the blocking
Speaker 1: the back on the past for Mike Gallop that was
Speaker 1: just drive killing penalties that we had, the holding the past,
Speaker 1: interference from from shows, all of those things. I think
Speaker 1: it set us back. But Rob to your point, red
Speaker 1: zone was where we put a big old asterisk up
Speaker 1: there and said, look, this is what we have to
Speaker 1: get corrected, and being two and four in the red
Speaker 1: zone is not going to get it done. We need
Speaker 1: to do that. We need to be four or four
Speaker 1: in the red zone, red zone and go ahead answer. Now,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, just to clear this up, I
Speaker 1: don't want people to think just because I'm saying McCarthy
Speaker 1: is I feel that McCarthy's a better as a coordinator
Speaker 1: then Kelly Moore. Kelly Moore is doing a heck of
Speaker 1: a job. Let me lay that on the table. He's
Speaker 1: doing it. He's doing an excellent job. But we are
Speaker 1: comparing you know, you know, apples and apples, you know,
Speaker 1: And I feel McCarthy has that experience. I think that
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore is in a great position to go out
Speaker 1: there and calling the games like he's been doing. So
Speaker 1: my hope is that Mike McCarthy will step in when
Speaker 1: needed in certain situations since he has that situational awareness
Speaker 1: and he has that experience, My hope is that he
Speaker 1: will then chime in and say, no, we're not passing
Speaker 1: the bond this down. We're gonna continue to feed it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to feed zeke okay, And that's just
Speaker 1: my hope. So, Kelly Moore is doing a great job,
Speaker 1: but McCarthy needs to be able to and hopefully I
Speaker 1: know he has the power to, but I hope he
Speaker 1: will intervene when needed to make sure that we're on
Speaker 1: the right track. Well, I bet I bet he did.
Speaker 1: I bet that The big playing question the fourth down.
Speaker 1: I bet you they were in lockstep on that because
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore told us on a call yesterday basically, look,
Speaker 1: they had two down territory in mine there with the
Speaker 1: third down when they ran it, and then had the
Speaker 1: fourth and three. So I think I think you're right
Speaker 1: that McCarthy's they're having discussions during the game, which is
Speaker 1: not as easy as it used to be with the
Speaker 1: mass and all that stuff, but on how they're gonna
Speaker 1: how they're gonna do, you know, handle some situations third downs.
Speaker 1: The other thing too, guys, because you know, didn't convert
Speaker 1: enough third downs and they weren't very manageable third downs
Speaker 1: a lot of times. That was the difference with the Rams.
Speaker 1: Man they were in second and one, third and one
Speaker 1: where they can they can basically fall forward and keep
Speaker 1: drives moving, and that was a credit to a lot
Speaker 1: of that quick game stuff they did on first down. Well,
Speaker 1: and what Kellen Moore mentioned yesterday about that third and
Speaker 1: six and running the football with Zeke and setting up
Speaker 1: what was going to be, Like you said, two down
Speaker 1: territory four down territory whenever they were inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: I have a much more I have much more comfort
Speaker 1: in that call, knowing what kind of success they were
Speaker 1: having running the ball with Zeke. You don't expect to
Speaker 1: only end up with three yards there. You think you're
Speaker 1: going to get four or five or six because of
Speaker 1: how tough he was running in the first three quarters.
Speaker 1: You think that's going to carry over in the fourth.
Speaker 1: And really what ultimately happened was the Rams defense just
Speaker 1: made two straight really good plays. Even on the play
Speaker 1: on the fourth and three and Ceede Lamb, Yes, he
Speaker 1: ran his route short, but that safety came up and
Speaker 1: made a tackle on Ceedee Lamb, a very shifty, a
Speaker 1: very elusive receiver, and the fact that he was able
Speaker 1: to tackle him in open space ultimately made the difference
Speaker 1: on that fourth and three. How to go, Yeah, how
Speaker 1: to go across the field to make that play too?
Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah, yeah, really impressive play. Yeah. I think Kellamore's
Speaker 1: still got growing to be done and that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: He's still a second year offensive coordinator. He was young
Speaker 1: boy genius last year. He's starting to grow into being
Speaker 1: the next guy. That's really one of those heralded offensive coordinators,
Speaker 1: I think in the NFL, and I think having that oversight,
Speaker 1: having that mentorship from a guy like Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 1: only going to expedite the process. It's only going to
Speaker 1: make it happen quicker. And I agree with Isaiah. I
Speaker 1: don't think if there's anything that needs to be done
Speaker 1: in terms of Kellen Moore, it's one game. Once again,
Speaker 1: it's overreaction Monday now into Tuesday. I'm not by any
Speaker 1: means saying let's replace Kellen Moore with Mike McCarthy calling
Speaker 1: plays yet, but sure, let's have some input, let's have
Speaker 1: that lockstep like Rob was saying, and let's continue to
Speaker 1: get better as an offense, because that's the only way
Speaker 1: you're able to go up as you have that communication
Speaker 1: as a coaching staff. And once again, and I made
Speaker 1: this point last night on the fan with a couple
Speaker 1: buddies of mine on there. But they said, or they
Speaker 1: asked me the same kind of question, and I said,
Speaker 1: it's remember this was also the first game for this
Speaker 1: coaching staff to call plays period. This was their preseason
Speaker 1: game number one pretty much. When it comes to actually
Speaker 1: having the personnel on the field and actually contributing whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to play calling and whoever you have the
Speaker 1: on the gridiron, and I think that definitely played a
Speaker 1: role as well. We're going to take a break. When
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Speaker 1: the fifty. It is the second week of us doing
Speaker 1: this every Tuesday at nine fifty. We'll answer your fan
Speaker 1: questions and we'll bring him in. Hopefully at some point
Speaker 1: whenever we're all back in studio, we'll take phone calls.
Speaker 1: Unable to do that at the moment, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do it via the periscope stream. Our first
Speaker 1: question actually comes from R. J. Wells says, I've got
Speaker 1: a question for a fan on the fifty. Does everyone
Speaker 1: think Xavier Woods was ready to go? Or am I
Speaker 1: the only one that thinks he wasn't. Rob will start
Speaker 1: with you. They wouldn't have put him out there if
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready, and the fact that he wasn't on
Speaker 1: the injury report at all. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think injuries were a factor there. And I thought he
Speaker 1: made some I thought he made some solid tackles in
Speaker 1: the game. Um. I think the way the way the
Speaker 1: Rams attacked the Cowboys defense, it really didn't put the
Speaker 1: safeties involved much early because they were attacking, attacking the edges,
Speaker 1: and obviously the run game h was up through the
Speaker 1: middle and attacking the Cowboys interior line. It really was
Speaker 1: about the first two levels of the defense. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys agree with that. No, I do,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Yeah, no, I was gonna say that I agree.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that the safeties really needed
Speaker 1: to be involved that much in this in this game, um,
Speaker 1: not only from the scheme of the rams, but also um,
Speaker 1: but Mike Nolan. Did you know Mike Nolan wasn't that aggressive.
Speaker 1: He did a lot of too high. He sat back
Speaker 1: there a lot. So those guys were back there and
Speaker 1: their rocking chair is pretty much cooling this this pass game.
Speaker 1: I don't know about so much this coming week though,
Speaker 1: but in terms of this pass game, yeah, they were chilling. No.
Speaker 1: I thought Xavier Woods played played a pretty good game
Speaker 1: once I went back and watched it again. Uh, he
Speaker 1: did a great job and run support on a few
Speaker 1: on a few plays. But again, it's just like you
Speaker 1: guys have stated that with the short passes, Uh, the
Speaker 1: safeties just couldn't be as effective as they would have
Speaker 1: been or should have been. Yeah. I definitely agree with
Speaker 1: all three of you guys, and I think the secondary. Sure,
Speaker 1: there were different problems on the defense, but I think
Speaker 1: the secondary still remains a large question Mark, whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to this team and moving forward, it was a
Speaker 1: survive type of mentality when it came to the secondary,
Speaker 1: and I think the secondary survived to it a certain extent.
Speaker 1: And they were also, I think expecting more pass rush
Speaker 1: and they didn't get that on Sunday. I think that
Speaker 1: was the really kind of the key that threw the
Speaker 1: whole thing off. Whenever it comes to Xavier Woods in
Speaker 1: those safeties and even the corners moving forward, even though
Speaker 1: I thought the corners played exceptional when it comes to
Speaker 1: digs and Cheetah Woozier. Now I've had a ton of people.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to read all the different names. Mark asked
Speaker 1: about this one. Justin asked about this one. There are
Speaker 1: a couple of different questions about going outside and finding
Speaker 1: extra talent, and going and finding a free agent to
Speaker 1: fill maybe some of the roles from a tight ends perspective,
Speaker 1: from a linebacker's perspective, and then even at safety, like
Speaker 1: we were just talking about maybe going out and adding
Speaker 1: a certain guy at safety. Isaiah, I know what you
Speaker 1: feel about Earl Thomas. You've been very adamant about potentially
Speaker 1: going in signing the veteran, but realistically do you see
Speaker 1: it happening and do you think that there are other
Speaker 1: positions of need that they could potentially go after h A, yes,
Speaker 1: I do see it happening today. Um at some point
Speaker 1: in time. Are you so positive? Dude, you're a positive guy.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if I that's why they shouldn't make
Speaker 1: me GM, because they would have been done already. But
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't see how you how
Speaker 1: you can pass up on a on a sure thing, right, Um,
Speaker 1: He's He's probably one of the few sure things that
Speaker 1: you know is out there, um in the whole league,
Speaker 1: just not even just free agency, but in the in
Speaker 1: the entire league. You know what you're gonna get when
Speaker 1: you have Earl Thomas on your team. So I do
Speaker 1: see them grabbing him to add that that experience and
Speaker 1: that that that threat really on defense. But also I think,
Speaker 1: if I'm correct, I think his name is Henderson, Big
Speaker 1: Henderson out They used to play in the the big
Speaker 1: Interior D Lineman. I think if we go this week
Speaker 1: with the same issues and the same woes that we
Speaker 1: that we experienced this past weekend, um with the interior
Speaker 1: D linement, I think that you have to go out
Speaker 1: and get him, because then you know, if we don't
Speaker 1: do well against Atlanta and we somehow drop it, dropped it,
Speaker 1: you know, dropped the game to Atlanta. Now you're owing
Speaker 1: two going into Seattle, and you know they're going to
Speaker 1: run the ball, so you can't go um, you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't start to seize it off like that. So
Speaker 1: these guys don't figure it out on the interior line
Speaker 1: and Paul doesn't wake up, then you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go and get some help on the interior and your
Speaker 1: references correct snacks, em. What do you think about going out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I got assets? Uh, Rob you or you're going ahead
Speaker 1: with Rob? Well, I heard, I just heard a pausitive.
Speaker 1: I know, go ahead, heck, go ahead. No. I mean
Speaker 1: I feel as though when when I just seeing the
Speaker 1: safety performance, it wasn't And I know everybody has Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas on the mind. I do too. I want this
Speaker 1: to happen, but at the same time, just dealing with
Speaker 1: the plate that I have in front of me offensive
Speaker 1: line is really a concern for me right now. I
Speaker 1: just feel as though right tackle and left guard Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: he won't have to go against Aaron Donald every week.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's a it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a new dog in front of him every week as well.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any easier in the NFL, does it. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, at the same time, we've got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get that to solidify offensive line at
Speaker 1: those two positions. Now. I know Leo Collins were just
Speaker 1: waiting a couple more weeks for him to come back.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard a lot about where he is with
Speaker 1: his hip. God knows we need him back. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, we have to get these problems fixed
Speaker 1: because man, the interior line last Sunday was a problem. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they had any more trouble at offensive
Speaker 1: tackle would they would they consider moving Connor Williams out
Speaker 1: to tackle, you know, and and putting in one of
Speaker 1: their interior lineman at hard I mean, I hopefully didn't
Speaker 1: get to that point. They do have Brandon Night, there
Speaker 1: is another option, and like you said, hopefully else's back
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Off of ir Jerry was
Speaker 1: on the fan and said, right now they're going to
Speaker 1: look to address you know, some of these injuries in house,
Speaker 1: and and I think it's probably practice squad to just
Speaker 1: get the numbers back where they are. But you're, you know,
Speaker 1: at the moment, then you'd be counting on Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: and and and Joe Thomas with probably maybe Fancy Francis
Speaker 1: Bernard coming up from the practice squad. We'll see And
Speaker 1: don't forget you know, Brandon cars there on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: They always can bring him up again. And I don't
Speaker 1: think they wanted to get him out there just yet.
Speaker 1: They want to give him some time to get ready.
Speaker 1: He had no training camp. That's another option in the secondary.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, and I said this on
Speaker 1: the fan a minute ago. We've seen the Cowboys get
Speaker 1: aggressive midseason when they decide that their in house options
Speaker 1: aren't working. You know, they did it two years ago
Speaker 1: with Amari, they did it last year with Michael Bennett.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't rule that out, whether it's a free
Speaker 1: agent signing or a trade. At some point, if they decide,
Speaker 1: look what we're rolling with right now, Like Asaiah said,
Speaker 1: if it's not working, they may go out and make
Speaker 1: a move. And it is strange that all there are
Speaker 1: some high profile guys that are just sitting out there
Speaker 1: right now for whatever reason and another fan went on
Speaker 1: here and asked about Clay Matthews and whenever you throw
Speaker 1: the names out there, Earl Thomas, Snax Harrison, Clay Matthews,
Speaker 1: it sounds great. But are those the players that you're
Speaker 1: getting or is it just the names that you're getting?
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the that's my question mark, And
Speaker 1: we haven't had this debate about Earl Thomas previously. I
Speaker 1: think he's the best out of those three guys in
Speaker 1: terms of the player that you actually would be getting.
Speaker 1: Snax Harrison would probably be a close second. I think
Speaker 1: Clay Matthews is pretty far off in terms of whatever
Speaker 1: else they have out there. Now, this is a pretty
Speaker 1: good question from one of the fans says, with a
Speaker 1: poor offensive line, what is the next thing that you
Speaker 1: do at tight end? Are there any actual serviceable ask
Speaker 1: catchers at tight end as well? I would first of all,
Speaker 1: I have to address the poor offensive line. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I agree with that. Let offensive Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: that route. Yeah, would have banged up offensive line. I mean,
Speaker 1: the only person that really comes to mind out there
Speaker 1: that's a that's a savvy veteran um. You don't have
Speaker 1: anything to worry about with him. You know what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do. He's gonna come in and be physical, block
Speaker 1: and catch the rocket consistently as Delainey Walker. That's really
Speaker 1: the only guy that I that I foresee them potentially
Speaker 1: having to go out and grab. I mean, but you
Speaker 1: gotta remember, we did pick up some guys this offseason
Speaker 1: at that position, Um, you know, to you know, to
Speaker 1: back up Jarwin. I don't think you got those guys
Speaker 1: for them to be the lead dogs, right. Um, but
Speaker 1: I don't think that we're necessarily struggling at that position.
Speaker 1: We have enough weapons. Now, if we only had Cooper
Speaker 1: and Gallup and we're like, oh crap, we lost Jarwin,
Speaker 1: then yes, you probably want to go out and get
Speaker 1: you a Delainey Walker right now to have a third threat.
Speaker 1: But you have three threats, Um, you just need to
Speaker 1: tie in now to really be able to sit in there,
Speaker 1: block and get out occasionally and just worked it underneath.
Speaker 1: You're not going to replace Jarwin unless you go out
Speaker 1: in free agency to have a deep threat. Now, Champ,
Speaker 1: I love Delaney Walker, but I realized, you know, at
Speaker 1: thirty six, maybe you know he's on the end of
Speaker 1: his career and we're not talking about a long term
Speaker 1: contract by any means. I'm sure that will just be
Speaker 1: a bridge player for this year and if that's the
Speaker 1: route that we go, then we have to. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, Schultz, to me, has to take advantage
Speaker 1: of the opportunity that he's been given. And Blake Bell
Speaker 1: after being signed from Kansas City, I think that maybe
Speaker 1: we overestimated his involvement in this offense because he didn't
Speaker 1: get any looks at all on Sunday, And maybe it's
Speaker 1: just the blocking for him, But we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get that threat at the tight end position. But you're right,
Speaker 1: Champ's our offensive line has got to play a lot
Speaker 1: better and it's gonna make a lot of other things
Speaker 1: open up for us as an offense. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: disappointing that, you know, you're not going to see that
Speaker 1: eleven personnel with the top three receivers and Jarwin and
Speaker 1: Zeke and just like I mean that that was a
Speaker 1: matchup nightmare that we're just not going to see this season.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, guys, I mean, this is Dalton Schultz's
Speaker 1: opportunity when he was drafted two years ago, three years ago,
Speaker 1: four I know his fourth round pick. But guys in
Speaker 1: the Cowboys organization felt like this guy could develop into
Speaker 1: a starting tight end in the league, and he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna have his opportunity. It looks like, and he has
Speaker 1: shown flashes that he can be an all round tight end.
Speaker 1: But you got to do it down after down after down.
Speaker 1: It's a different story than being in for a few
Speaker 1: snaps a game. It is a little bit different. And
Speaker 1: whenever you talk about Delaney Walker, I know you heck, ma,
Speaker 1: you just brought that name up. It Also, there's injuries
Speaker 1: histories there too. I mean, I think he's had a
Speaker 1: couple of different injuries that have been lagging and nagging
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years of his career. It's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I believe he's still on
Speaker 1: the free agent market, even though he is a skilled
Speaker 1: tight end. It's intriguing though. I think it's something that
Speaker 1: you could look at. But once again, Jerry Jones on
Speaker 1: the Fan today said he wasn't necessarily intrigued in going
Speaker 1: out and looking for other free agents. They're gonna try
Speaker 1: and address these needs in house. You've got a Francis
Speaker 1: Bernard on the practice squad at linebacker. You have Dalton
Speaker 1: Shoals who have a couple tight ends on your practice squad,
Speaker 1: and Cole Hitcattini. Sean McKean is there as well, undrafted
Speaker 1: free agent out of Michigan. So there are options there.
Speaker 1: It's just whether or not those are gonna be options
Speaker 1: that can fill those roles so quickly. You got a
Speaker 1: seven day turnaround and you're playing the Falcons and you
Speaker 1: are in a big time need of a win after
Speaker 1: the loss on Sunday. That's gonna do it. Here, four
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Speaker 1: Glad you're with us on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Kyle
Speaker 1: Yeoman's heck my Harrison, Isaiah stand back in the Great
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. As we were answering your fan questions, now
Speaker 1: I've got some questions for these three experts as we
Speaker 1: play a game of this or that. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you two options for all three of you guys, and
Speaker 1: you're all going to answer each question, and it's one
Speaker 1: or the other, no in between, no outside sourcing, nothing
Speaker 1: of the sort. Your opinion? What is the right answer.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start off by looking on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. Who needs a bigger bounce back game
Speaker 1: after what we saw on Sunday, Dontari Poe on the
Speaker 1: defensive line or Jalen Smith in that linebacking corps. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: We'll start with you. That's the easy one. Don Terry Poe.
Speaker 1: He was non existent. So I'm gonna need him to
Speaker 1: figure out who he is on the inside and bring
Speaker 1: it on. Ask that what explain it in on that out?
Speaker 1: I got you. I mean, I mean he was. I
Speaker 1: mean he for the physical He's a physical specimen, right,
Speaker 1: He's a large human being. He's he's three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty pounds of all grown man, right, and we know
Speaker 1: the impact player that he's been of years past. There
Speaker 1: was no resemblance of that player at all um this
Speaker 1: this past week. I'm not sure for what reason that
Speaker 1: we can. We can speculate on a whole lot of things,
Speaker 1: but there's no way. You know, there's many times I
Speaker 1: can I can attest to or go back and watching
Speaker 1: on film where he was just getting washed down the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And when I say washed down, I
Speaker 1: mean like he's actually just going with the flow of
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and nobody really was forcefully taking him there.
Speaker 1: He was just going along as if, just if it
Speaker 1: was just a thing to do. Um. He didn't put
Speaker 1: his foot in the ground and try to change directions.
Speaker 1: He didn't fight, try to spend back, he didn't really
Speaker 1: try to make any assertive effort to make a play
Speaker 1: on the ball. He was just going with where they
Speaker 1: wanted him to go. And as physical as he is,
Speaker 1: that's not really possible. So I need him to find
Speaker 1: his inner dog. I know he has it, and I
Speaker 1: look forward to scene it this week. ACMA bring us
Speaker 1: in on the out. I like that, man. Um, Well,
Speaker 1: well I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm gonna go with Jalen Smith is
Speaker 1: because from Kyle's notes that that I cheated off of
Speaker 1: that basically seen as though the Swiper was having a
Speaker 1: really good camp, and so I was expecting to see
Speaker 1: that I didn't, especially with his new role being a
Speaker 1: real linebacker. I really thought that coach Mike Nolan was
Speaker 1: gonna use him and in the scheme to blitz next
Speaker 1: to d Law didn't see any of that. I was
Speaker 1: I'm just really waiting on the guy that we know
Speaker 1: that he is to emerge. It just looked like he
Speaker 1: didn't have his sorts a bottom and especially in that
Speaker 1: first drive, he and Vanderesh were kind of out of it.
Speaker 1: It seemed like they those boot those bootlegs mister direction plays.
Speaker 1: They were on the complete opposite side of the field
Speaker 1: and not in the position to make a play. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking for Jalen Smith to come back and be
Speaker 1: the playmaker that he is in a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: swipe it. Yeah, y'all are both right, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with I'm gonna go with Jalen just because I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's hard to pick because I think I
Speaker 1: think they need big games from both guys. But I
Speaker 1: think I think with Layton going down, there is more
Speaker 1: on Jalen now. It's back to, you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, where you know, he's got to be
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the defense now and there's more on
Speaker 1: him to to to really set the tone, be physical
Speaker 1: from that linebacker spot and really give him production. Um
Speaker 1: you know, and you guys mentioned the screens. I think
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan said they had four screens that picked up
Speaker 1: sixty yards. You know, they've they've got to be they've
Speaker 1: got to be able to rally to the ball and
Speaker 1: stop those and that was you know, that was a
Speaker 1: problem at times last year too. And some of it
Speaker 1: was uh Rams Lineman getting up on the second level
Speaker 1: and taking out guys trying to rally to the ball.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's not it's not all on Jalen.
Speaker 1: It's not all on Poe. But but I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Jalen because I think he's got to beat a
Speaker 1: force now in the middle of the field, more so
Speaker 1: than ever with late now for a while, I think
Speaker 1: Rob you secretly supported my peak. I did. I successfully.
Speaker 1: I straddled that fence pretty good, pretty good. I would
Speaker 1: actually side with Isaiah here as well in my own question.
Speaker 1: I think Poe needs a bigger game because it just
Speaker 1: seems soft from the defensive line. It really did, and
Speaker 1: I think he could have a bigger game. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a bad player, I really don't. I think
Speaker 1: he's much more capable of what we saw on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and he needs a bigger game. Jalen Smith, I think
Speaker 1: he was thrown into a tough situation. He wasn't expected
Speaker 1: to be the quarterback of the team, and then about
Speaker 1: five minutes into the first quarter, seemingly he was the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the defense again, and so all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he was thrown back into that role and he
Speaker 1: had to make some adjustments. Those adjustments were right. Hey,
Speaker 1: Kyle makes a very valid point. Hey, listen up, Jayleen Smith.
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith's game automatically, all right, It automatically elevates as
Speaker 1: soon as he has an interior presence on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: Two woes against him. Pole was backing up and running
Speaker 1: around down the side, down, up and down the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage instead of coming vertical right. And then he
Speaker 1: lost his his dog right, So he lost his He
Speaker 1: lost he lost his interior presence which was gonna allow
Speaker 1: for him to roam free like he hoped, like he
Speaker 1: hoped for offseason, and he lost his his his number one,
Speaker 1: a row dog. So he had back to back things
Speaker 1: that happened to him. So he was out there like,
Speaker 1: what the heck is happening right now? So both of
Speaker 1: those guys you have a better game, but Pole is
Speaker 1: the key. I made your point, but with what I said, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, You're right switch And I understand like it
Speaker 1: felt as though it felt as though done Terry Poe
Speaker 1: was playing linebacker the way he was being pushed back.
Speaker 1: But that's but where I feel what I understand is
Speaker 1: that we have more depth at our interior line. If
Speaker 1: it's not working out, we have a guy that's coming
Speaker 1: in right behind him in Woods. We still Gallen Wore,
Speaker 1: We still have a lot of depth dead offensive line.
Speaker 1: I just feel like for Jalen Smith, that wasn't his
Speaker 1: best outing and we could save trouble. It wasn't his either,
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't his best outing. When it comes
Speaker 1: down to being now the captain of the defense man,
Speaker 1: he has to wear a multitude of hats and he
Speaker 1: still has to be a playmaker. We're relying on him
Speaker 1: to give us that presence. He cannot just disappear on series.
Speaker 1: He needs to be there. He needs to be the
Speaker 1: guy in the middle of that defense to find a way. Sure,
Speaker 1: he could use some help from that defensive line, but
Speaker 1: in the end, he's gonna have to be the one
Speaker 1: to make some of those plays. Now, keeping with some
Speaker 1: of that same track, and these are two guys that
Speaker 1: we still expect, we still have high expectations for didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily see it on Monday. Wasn't players wise? Though? How
Speaker 1: about coaches? Which one are you watching more closely on
Speaker 1: Sunday to see how they improve? Kellen Moore or Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan offensive coordinator defensive coordinator? Heck? I starting with you, man,
Speaker 1: this is uh. I'll tell you what with the challenges
Speaker 1: that we're gonna have this week again with the receiving corps,
Speaker 1: I want to see what Mike Nolan is gonna do.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to generate, you know, some pressure for
Speaker 1: this defense because if you let Mattie Ice just sit
Speaker 1: back there and pick it a hord, and especially with
Speaker 1: what they have on the outside with Jones and Ridley. Man,
Speaker 1: you talk about the trio engage the trio receivers that
Speaker 1: we have, Man, they have a trio as well. That
Speaker 1: went for I got I think four hundred and something
Speaker 1: yards combined between the may have been less, but still
Speaker 1: they accumulated a bunch of yards for Atlanta. So Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for all of the talk about we're not
Speaker 1: gonna be predictable, We're gonna pay a multiple multitude of schemes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be flexible, We're gonna be a hybrid. I
Speaker 1: just didn't see that on Sunday, so I'm expecting to
Speaker 1: see it this Sunday at home. Hey. I don't know
Speaker 1: who set this schedule, but when Mike, Mike Nolan needed
Speaker 1: to take this these first three games, he gives an
Speaker 1: opportunity to make this money, right, he has an opportunity
Speaker 1: to show exactly why he's worth the money, however much
Speaker 1: money he's making, because he has his work cut out
Speaker 1: for him. You know, it doesn't get easier from week
Speaker 1: one to week two. Like I said, you got some
Speaker 1: dogs coming in there. If I if I'm if I'm correct,
Speaker 1: I think Maddie Ice threw for over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: and three one hundred yard receivers four fifty three one
Speaker 1: hundred yard receivers. Uh, and we didn't have any pressure. So,
Speaker 1: like to your point, you cannot let Maddie Ice sit
Speaker 1: back there and throw the ball. You don't have all
Speaker 1: your weapons that you want. I'm pretty sure he's having
Speaker 1: a pep talk with his defensive line and you need these,
Speaker 1: you need these, these outside linebackers right to pin their
Speaker 1: ears back and be able to get some pressure because um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta strap up. So yeah, Mike no on them
Speaker 1: most definitely. Yep, it's unanimous Mike Nolan because they've got
Speaker 1: to find a way to get the Falcons in some
Speaker 1: third and longs to be able to rush the pass
Speaker 1: or they didn't do that on Sunday night. And you know,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley was really good until Atlanta fell behind, So
Speaker 1: they've got to be able to hone in on that
Speaker 1: run game. By the way, he's another versatile back that
Speaker 1: can help them out of the backfield. They can't they
Speaker 1: you know, they can't allow what happened on Sunday with
Speaker 1: the Rams with Todd Gurley, who could beat you the
Speaker 1: same way. So yeah, I gotta go with Nolan in
Speaker 1: the defense too. It's overwhelming. In the chat by the way, awe,
Speaker 1: the answer was Mike Nolan. It was saying, Mike Nolan's
Speaker 1: got to step it up. This has got to be
Speaker 1: a defensive game, especially when, like I think Isaiah made
Speaker 1: a fantastic point, the Falcons didn't look bad on offense.
Speaker 1: Their defense is a little bit suspect, especially outside of
Speaker 1: their front seven. What does that sound like? Oh? It
Speaker 1: sounds kind of like the Cowboys, two very desperate teams
Speaker 1: coming together and playing on Sunday. At the chat was
Speaker 1: actually the one that made that point as well. So
Speaker 1: I think that really there's a lot of up. There's
Speaker 1: a lot up in the air whenever Sunday comes around,
Speaker 1: and both teams are going to really have to take advantage. Okay,
Speaker 1: most likely in house replacement. And I know we talked
Speaker 1: about this last segment, but I want to know which
Speaker 1: one is more likely to stay in the house and
Speaker 1: which one's more likely to leave it tight end or linebacker.
Speaker 1: Of course, Blake Jarwin going down in the tight endside,
Speaker 1: and then Layton vanderesh out six to eight weeks with
Speaker 1: a fractured clavicle on the linebacking side. Which one most
Speaker 1: likely to stay in a house? Rob Oh, that's tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think both both could, but I would
Speaker 1: go with linebacker because I think I think Joe Thomas's experience,
Speaker 1: he played well when he came in there. I thought
Speaker 1: the second half they did a better job and you
Speaker 1: got hopefully you got Sean Lee coming back in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, So I think that that will help
Speaker 1: the depth as long as they can stay healthy until
Speaker 1: until Vanderesh gets back in a you know, six to
Speaker 1: eight weeks. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm gonna go linebacker as well.
Speaker 1: I believe that Francis Bernard has to be pulled up
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. Everything that I heard about him
Speaker 1: during training camp said that this kid came out and
Speaker 1: was aggressive and it was also a ball haulk at
Speaker 1: the linebacker positions. So that's a little bit of what
Speaker 1: we're gonna need this week or weeks ahead with the
Speaker 1: schedule that we have, is a linebacker that can play
Speaker 1: very well in past bro in past cover. Excuse me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, guys. I mean, right right now,
Speaker 1: with the scheme that we've seen from Mike Nolan so far,
Speaker 1: we're only using two true linebackers in a game at
Speaker 1: any given time. So right now we have two rotations
Speaker 1: honestly currently as it stands, and obviously with Sean League
Speaker 1: is back, that obviously helps. So I don't I don't
Speaker 1: see it being a big issue right now, especially if
Speaker 1: the d line does what they're supposed to do, which
Speaker 1: has put pressure on the quarterback and it's something that
Speaker 1: they didn't do on Sunday. Absolutely, yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think it is. I think linebacker. You talked about
Speaker 1: Francis Bernard, but you also got to remember Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll come back, and he saw we saw at
Speaker 1: the end of last year that he had a little
Speaker 1: bit left in the tank. Sure, you can't necessarily rely
Speaker 1: on his health, much like how we've kind of learned
Speaker 1: about Layton vander Rash, but at least having some of
Speaker 1: that depth there, I think presents itself as an opportunity
Speaker 1: more with the linebackers than it does with tight end.
Speaker 1: Even with some of those guys on the practice squad
Speaker 1: who could have a chance to step up this week,
Speaker 1: and I think they will have a chance to step
Speaker 1: up this week. Okay, final question before we wrap things
Speaker 1: up here on this Tuesday edition. Which one would you
Speaker 1: like to see more in? Isaiah? We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: you eleven personnel, one running back, one tight end, or
Speaker 1: let's get rid of the tight ends completely and go
Speaker 1: twenty personnel, two running backs, no tight ends. Which one
Speaker 1: would you rather see? Isaiah Kyle kow Kyle Kyle wants
Speaker 1: to get weird, man, I want to get real weird.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. I don't know if you that's what
Speaker 1: it was. This dude named CD Lamb. You picked up
Speaker 1: CD Lamb, gentlemen who you absolutely love your darn right.
Speaker 1: He asked me this question. You asked me this question
Speaker 1: eleven personnel all day. It's not even a question. Leave.
Speaker 1: I love Polar, but Polar Stink stay in the sideline
Speaker 1: for this one. We're gonna go out there with Freaky
Speaker 1: Zeki and bring all Shultz in and then we'll go
Speaker 1: out there with with our three dogs. That receiver you know,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty personnel and eleven. You know twenty and
Speaker 1: eleven don't take a receiver off the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's still three understanding. But Paula got to sit out
Speaker 1: you still, and you forget that we don't have a
Speaker 1: right tackle the way with which we want to. So
Speaker 1: you need a tight end in there to help out
Speaker 1: big go. I don't need to answers it. That's it.
Speaker 1: You need that you a tight end in there to
Speaker 1: help you need that tight end in there, Okay, you
Speaker 1: need to tight end to help chip block. I know, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: you had talked about that previously, having a tight end
Speaker 1: to come in. Can Blake Bell be that tight end
Speaker 1: and eleven personnel to come and help that right now,
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would prefer to see that. I want. I don't
Speaker 1: know where Bill was, but I can guarantee you almost
Speaker 1: that he will be present substantially more than what we've
Speaker 1: seen already. Yeah, I think so, it's definitely eleven for me, Kyle,
Speaker 1: eleven for me. I think anything that Zeke is your guy.
Speaker 1: The formations that if we can put you know, trips formation,
Speaker 1: put these guys all on the same side of the ball,
Speaker 1: go vertical, you know, get correct our spacing that was
Speaker 1: a big problem in Sunday's game, just seemed like we
Speaker 1: had receivers running into the same area. But I like
Speaker 1: our eleven package, and I think we're really strong even
Speaker 1: running out of it. Yeah, I think eleven is probably
Speaker 1: the more strong one. But I want to see more twenty.
Speaker 1: I really do. If I had to say which one,
Speaker 1: I wanted to see more of eleven. But let's throw
Speaker 1: some twenty in there. I want to see Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: and Ezekiel Elliott in a dual backfield or even out
Speaker 1: as wide receivers. I want to see that happen because
Speaker 1: I feel like it could spread out the offense a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I'm telling you. That's what I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna have to wait till after week three,
Speaker 1: then buddy, that makes sense. Yeah, okay, I like it.
Speaker 1: I love the points you guys are making in your
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