WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What Would You Fix? 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:18.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Talking Cowboys 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.079 training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:30.440 Star in Price Jollowing. The live says got Pa and 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:35.559 now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:41.839 and Kyle Yeoman's. It's a Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.080 Week five, Episode two. As we start looking ahead to 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.640 the New York Giants, the first Divisional opponent of the 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.199 twenty twenty season, and we still well, we have to 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.120 we gotta look back a little bit to the Cleveland 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.800 Browns in a forty nine thirty eight loss, the final 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.040 score of this past Sunday, and the Cowboys coming in 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.320 at one in three. Glads, you're with us on Talking 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.920 Cowboys on the very streaming platforms or live right now 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.560 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. I'm Kyle Yeoman's in studio 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.720 with Isaiah stand Back. We've got heck My Harrison and 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.800 Rob Phillips as always, and guys, it's uh, you still 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.560 have that disappointment there. It still looms, It's still got 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.759 the bubble guts, as heck My likes to say, whenever 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.640 it comes to the losses past Sunday, you still have 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.280 that little itch that you need to scratch whenever it 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.360 comes to the Cowboys getting a win. But don't you 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.120 feel just a little bit better on Tuesday now that 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:43.920 it's kind of moved along a little bit here? Rob, Yeah, 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.280 I mean Isaiah can can speak to this. So there's 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.960 a what is it a ten minute cooling down period 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.120 after games where media is not allowed in the in 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.600 the locker room and nobody's allowed in the locker room 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.360 right now, but it's it's a situation where you, you know, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.920 you just kind of calmed down a little bit, and 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.560 I think we all probably had a chance to go 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.800 back watch the tape. Not pretty as as Heckma suggested 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.160 a minute to go, but but you see, you get 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.160 a better You kind of put the motions aside, and 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.639 you look at the things that maybe did go well 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:13.679 that you can build off of, and you get a 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.680 clearer picture of what didn't go well, and a lot 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.799 didn't go well. But but I think you know, usually 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.760 by Tuesday you kind of take a big picture view 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.720 of it and say, look, it's four games in the season. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.760 You're a half game out. Of first place, but you 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.160 got a lot to clean up. Rob, I'm gonna disagree 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:31.919 with both of y'all. Right now. Now I'm gonna say, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.720 you know, I've had a lot of surgeries in my life, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.919 unfortunately in so when you get out of surgery, you know, 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.160 because of the medicine they give you a lot of times, 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.079 you get a little constipated, you know, get a little constipated. Yeah, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.919 so when you get a little backed up, right, So, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.919 right right now, the cowboys got a little bubble bubble guts. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:47.399 You got the bubble guts, you know what I'm saying, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:48.919 So that they're a little backed up right now. You 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.000 don't get relief from being backed up until you go 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.520 out there. You let it go, right, So we gotta 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.280 go out there this week and let it go all right, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.480 So right now I'm not feeling any better. It's still 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.720 the same until we go out there. Embussies, giants in 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.960 the mouth. We need to get Isaiah some tums. Heck, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.560 you know what a segue? I love it. And there's 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.880 no better way to come into a show talking about 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:17.520 bubble guts and complication. Yeah, so you know, obviously obviously 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.320 I'm smiling, but I'm crying inside. You know, I've watched 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.520 this tape for the umpteenth time and it's it's it's there, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.919 and so I'm look, we're gonna what we're gonna do 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.960 is find the silver lining today and we're gonna make 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.840 your right right because, as the Great Nate Newton said, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.920 we have Giants RX coming this this Sunday. I know 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.120 the title, the title today's show should be bubble Guts 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:47.680 yea or let it Go? Yeah, let it Go might 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.320 be the better one. I like that. And what Heck 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.280 was referring to in terms of what Isaiah or excuse me, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.360 what Nate Newton said. He said it on the postgame 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.840 show on Sunday and said, uh that hey, good thing 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.160 that the RX drug stores coming in, the pharmacy's coming in, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.800 and that's the New York Giants. And the fact that 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.760 all of their weaknesses or your strengths and the vice versa, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.320 really and the fact that this could fix a lot 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.080 of things for the Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott even said 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.200 in his postgame press conference that they need to find 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.000 a little bit of confidence early and I think this 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.279 is maybe that week to do so where you finally 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.440 get a little bit of confidence and you're able to 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.960 roll with it a little bit earlier than what they 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.960 have done in the first four weeks of the season. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.599 But guys, I gave you a homework assignment last night, 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.520 and I tease this at the end of the show yesterday. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.520 Of course, where the Cowboys are at this very moment, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.680 it comes to, really, where do you point the finger? 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.880 Where do you point it at the coaching staff or 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.680 at the players? And I think yesterday we kind of 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.360 came to an agreement that it was really at the moment, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.720 it was to point the fingers at the players. You 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.279 gotta step up. You gotta do your job. Cleveland did 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.640 their job on Sundays. You did not. You did not 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.520 play complimentary football. So I gave you, guys the role 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.640 of playing general manager. Was like, oh, let it be 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.680 a GM. So I know you would. I think you'd 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.120 be pretty good at it too, and I know Rob 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.039 would be very good at it as well. But here's 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.000 the thing with playing GM. I'm giving you two acquisitions 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.560 that you have to make. One is a free agency pickup, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.640 and it can't be the same as the other three analysts. Also, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.560 what would you be willing to trade We can't talk 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.840 about other players specifically on other teams for various reasons, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.600 but we can talk about what we'd be willing to 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.000 trade and for what position. So Isaiah Scher in studio, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.560 we're gonna start with you first. We're gonna give you 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.680 the acquisition first. Then we're gonna go to heck Butt, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.600 and then Rob will back things up on the on 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.640 the third side. Is this really a question? Okay, you 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.839 know you know exactly where I'm going with this. There's 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.719 a gentleman by the name of Earlist Thomas. Okay, he's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.800 out there. He's a Hall of Fame caliber player. He's 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.560 gonna be in a Hall of fame. He's all pro, 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.880 he's an absolute comp editor. And you're hearing a lot 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.560 of stirs and in terms of why people don't want 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.040 him on his team, Listen up, y'all, these are grown men. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.120 He's not going to influence grown man if he is 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.479 this bad guy all of a sudden, go out there 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.480 and shure up your secondary in a safety position. Because 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.640 we've had a lot of blown plays back there, whether 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.960 it's miscommunication, whether it's whether it's a you know, assignment errors, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.160 and I think you really handle those issues by going 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.760 and picking up this free agent back there, somebody who's 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.720 probably even more the way I know Earl, he's really 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.599 angry right now. He can't wait to hit the fielder 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.839 and just go show everybody wrong, okay, And then whenever 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.520 it comes to a trade here also, by the way, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.080 the fans come in and send us your send us 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.760 your picks and your trade willingness as well. But what 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.760 position would you want to trade for and what would 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.760 be you would be willing to give up. I would 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.680 want to trade for an interior defensive alignment I would 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.480 want to give I would want to get an absolute 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.120 dog run stopper at the defensive interior D line position. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.720 And I would be willing to give up two to 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.080 three players that we have at the in the secondary 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.160 position because we have an assortment of guys back there 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.920 right um, and none of them are necessarily you know, um, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.760 you know, uh, what's the best way of saying this, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.400 rob None of them, I would say, none of them 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.320 are necessarily dogs right now. I think the guys are 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:15.920 going to get better, but I think there's two or 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.720 three guys that you could probably trade away to add 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.560 some depth to some other teams competitively. To go out 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.640 there and get one absolute dog on a D line. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.800 So no draft picks there, Rob, Do you agree in 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.720 the standpoint that maybe even another team would be willing 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.960 to trade for our secondary players because I don't know 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:38.800 if that's something that other teams might be necessarily interested in. Well, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.600 just it would just depend on, you know, what the 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.560 needs are for other teams. I mean, I think usually 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.040 usually in the NFL it's involving draft picks, and um, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.960 you know, I think they got That's what they've done 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.920 the last few years. I think Michael Bennett was a 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.400 conditional seventh round pick that they brought him in from 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.840 New England obviously the Amari trade. So you know, I'm 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.520 I'm probably giving away my answer here, but I'm a 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.840 little hesitant to do that right now. Yea, with my 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.360 draft picks, I like it. I like it all right, Hackma, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.080 you're up, man. Let's get the free agents in the 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:15.040 mix here. Now, you know, yesterday when you gave us 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:16.880 the homework a signment, I had to give you a 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.320 call to ask you, what are you trying to do here? 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.560 Are you trying to trick us out our spot by 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.680 asking us to play a general manager and have all 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.600 kind of heat on our head, and we know you 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.040 like being in the principal's office, but we don't. So 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.080 I thought about this long and hard, and my answer 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.360 is this, man, I feel as though you know, we 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.880 praised Will McClay and what he does in the off 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.360 season and do the draft and putting this team together, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.880 we ignore the signs of the pandemic. And I understand. Look, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.520 I'm not avoiding the question. I'm just saying that when 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.000 you look at the interviews and you see everything that 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.120 we're saying from a front office and organizational standpoint, they 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.480 believe in the guys that they have. Obviously, you want 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.440 to get other like start to having auditions for guys 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.160 that are out there on the streets and you know 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.880 that a Snax Harrison is out there. I think that's 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.520 the way to go to start seeing who's there that 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.839 may be able to help you with some of your 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.760 interior line problems. But it's still gonna be what Isaiah said, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.920 It's gonna be having to look at the back half 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.320 of our defense and fix a lot of the problems 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:18.719 that we have. And guys, I want to ask you 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.160 all question, do you know a gentleman by the name 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.120 of t J. Karrie. I do have you? You do 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.920 all right? Do you know Julian Blackman? Yes, you know, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.720 all right? So he played no. So these are guys 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.520 that are safeties that are on the Indianapolis coach which 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.439 is the number one number tied with the Steelers right now. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.200 But these are guys that are seventh and third round 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.240 picks that nobody was raving about them or saying their 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.120 name right, But it's because of the way that their 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.080 defense plays, the takeaways and the turnover differential. We're right now, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.760 the Cowboys are last in the league. Rob We've been 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.439 talking about this a lot, the Cowboys not being able 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.839 to get turnovers. We saw last night Monday night, the 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.760 easy turnovers that gods were getting a pick six. When 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.760 was the last time the Cowboys had an easy pick six? 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.280 I'll wait twenty and seventeen, Okay, this was a Yeah, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.079 it's been a it's been a minute. It's been a minute. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.719 And so that just that just speaks to some of 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:22.480 the woes and problems that you've had defensively. Look Earl 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.040 Thomas Edwin Matten. If you had Earl Thomas Charles Haley, 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.240 uh pick a defensive lineman from a great era. If 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.960 you give up three hundred and seven yards running, you're 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.319 gonna get beat. Period. So there's the long answer. So 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.680 so you said, Earl Thomas, that's what you get. Oh gosh, okay, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:46.480 I didn't hear that at all. It was it was 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.120 it was a little piece of it was a little 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.600 piece in there in Isaiah. I've gone to the school 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.400 of Isaiah's. I've gone to the school of Isaiah standback. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.000 So what I do is I present present the analysis 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.880 right first, and then I present my argument, and then 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.640 I cut you off at whatever else you We're going 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:06.120 to come back try tout Oh that's awesome. Yeah, And 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.679 really I'm glad you brought up brought that up in 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.520 the way that you did, because one of the reasons 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.679 we're having this conversation and playing GM is because of 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.959 the reluctancy of the front office at least to look outside. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.680 Then even Stephen Jones said yesterday on the flagship Station 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.439 one on five point three the fan that this is 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.920 a team that you need to look inward on. You 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.320 you built this team in the offseason. You have faith 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.800 in the guys that you have. You have to look inward. Sure, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.679 that's the whole point of having a coaching staff. If not, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.320 it would just be daily fantasy playing football out there, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.400 and you would just have these these acquisitions here and there. However, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.280 there are some opportunities to go out and make improvements. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.520 And I think that's where the conversation and maybe even 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.280 some of the frustration is for Cowboys fans is the 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.000 fact that there are players available that could help you immediately. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.640 And I think that's something that at least that's one 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.959 of the big reasons why we're having this conversation because 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.040 the front office is staying put, at least publicly they're 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.960 staying put. They may be making those persons, they may 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.040 be having those phone calls. However, whenever you turn things around, 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.760 there's an opportunity to get better. All right, Rob, who 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.599 you got as an acquisition? Can I can I just 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:20.040 real quick? Can I just rebuttal that or play Deuvil's advocate? Yeah? 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.319 The point you just made, well because because Jerry was 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.960 asked about that exact question just now on the fan 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.200 and he basically said, if you look at our roster 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:33.480 currently constructed, we have gone out and found veterans to 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.880 try to help the team. Now, this was off season, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.200 of course, and I know you guys are talking in season, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.600 but Aldin Smith is here, don Terry Poe is here, haha. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:47.880 Clinton Dix was here, Gerald McCoy was here. They they 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.400 have gone the veteran route. Now they're not doing it 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.520 right now, and there could be different reasons for that. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.679 You know, money is always involved in bringing in veteran guys. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.960 How much guaranteed money do they want. I'm just speaking 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.240 in generalities here, but Jerry kind of spoke to that. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.439 Because of what their cap situation is going to be 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.400 going forward, they've got to be careful with the money 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.240 that they commit, and so maybe that has something to 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.439 do with it. You know, we've talked about old Thomas 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.440 for everybody has for a long time here. I don't 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.839 know how much off the field is involved there. It's 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.160 it's just it's really interesting to me he's still not 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.000 found a new team because you know, I'll kind of 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:33.480 seg into segue into your question. I mean, to Isaiah's point, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.599 I mean, he's the best free agent out there in 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.400 terms of accomplishments and probably what he could bring it 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.760 to a team immediately. When I look when I watched 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.280 the game back yesterday. The thing that jumped out to 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.800 me the most is that front four. You know, I 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.839 know Jalen Smith is getting crushed right now publicly for 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.760 the game he played, But the game, the more I watched, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.600 it reminded me so much of that twenty eighteen game 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.079 against Indianapolis, Like the first time we kind of saw 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.000 cracks in the run defense with this kind of Cowboys 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.400 era team, And it was like Isaiah said, you know, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.920 they just kind of you drawed up on a chalkboard, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.120 you block here, seal here, and that's what they did. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.319 And they were on the front flour so quickly and 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.080 on Jalen Smith so quickly at times that I think 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.760 that that really stood out to me. But there's you 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.840 can point to. There's been something wrong in different spots 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.600 every game the defense has had trouble with. So I 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.800 wouldn't say one thing, but I would say interior rusher, 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.720 I don't know what snacks Harrison where he is in 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.800 his career, and I think, you know, I think the 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.760 reports are he's visiting Seattle this week and obviously the 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.920 Cowboys haven't gone in that direction. Jerry has been asked 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.440 about him specifically and said they liked the guys upfront 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.000 that they have, But I do think maybe finding somebody 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.560 to help, or at least maybe bringing up Neville Gallimore 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.160 and giving him a shot to try to seal things 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.480 up in that front. Four I think is really important 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.920 right now because I think that that was a big 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.400 issue in the run defense yesterday at least or Sunday. Hey, Rob, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.080 when you got an up unity to watch the tape 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.040 and you saw, like you talked about this, Jaylen Smith 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.480 is taking a beating in the media and everyone is 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.840 down on him, talking about getting rid of all kinds 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.040 of thing. He doesn't deserve the money. But then you 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.080 see him trying to pursue the ball and he has 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.240 done terry post sitting in his lap. That's not a 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.640 good image there. But this what's happening. He doesn't he's 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.520 not able to get in those lays. He's not able 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.040 to pursue the ball because he's fighting off his own guys. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.880 And it wouldn't matter. It really doesn't matter from a 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.840 linebacker's standpoint if you have LV or whomever you have, 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.600 But you have your linebackers taking on lineman and that's 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.240 going to shorten their careers or at least get them hurt. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.560 And I'm knocking on Wood because I don't want that 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.280 because we don't have anything behind him that's better than him. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.760 So we have to consider that when we start passing 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.680 that criticism for Jaylen Smith, not saying that he hasn't 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.560 had busted coverage and you can't circle other things where 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.920 he has definitely missed a tackle. But guys, you have 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.080 to when you turn on the Cleveland uh take, it's 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.240 just evident that there's nothing that he can do with 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.360 guys in his own guys in his face. Now that's 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.840 not to say there weren't mistakes on his part. I mean, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.040 I think it goes all around. Obviously, the penalty, the 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.480 face face mass penalty. I think that that was a 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.920 huge play in the game, changed the momentum around. There's 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.160 obviously different angles you can take to try to make 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.600 those plays and and and you know, Jerry talked about 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.280 you gotta trust the scheme, and we talked about that yesterday. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.040 You can't overrun plays, you can't get outside of your job. 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.400 And so that that just kind of goes all around 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.360 with the whole defense right now, and that that's that's more, 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.600 that's not talent, that's just making simple plays and and 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.560 trusting your assignment. Yeah. Well, and even with Jalen Smith, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.480 none of us here are saying that Jalen Smith's playing well. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.360 He's had his mistakes, like Rob just said. But whenever 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.760 we were going into this season, we said, the additions 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.680 to the defensive line, we're gonna take pressure off of 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.360 Jalen Smith. It was gonna be an uphill back. It's 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.080 going to be a tall mountain to climb without Layton 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.480 vander esh next to them. But whenever you have an avalanche, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.720 it's easy to look lost. Whenever you're trying to climb 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.600 a mountain with an avalanche coming at you, talking about 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.160 those defensive linemen being pushed back, you have to dodge 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.880 a couple of rocks and boulders back and forth. So overall, yes, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.840 the defense has issues. 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Across the street. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:10.000 We invited Isaiah said no, he couldn't come, so but 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.000 that was okay. We had a we had a nice 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.000 little broad date over at Sushi. Markie, glad you're with 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.320 us here on Talking Cowboys, Isaiah, stand back, Rob Phillips, 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.520 heck Ma Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeoman's time now for some 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:27.520 fans on the fifty. Fans on the fifty got our 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.120 great sounder again from Chris Beam as always, and we've 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.440 got some fantastic questions already coming in throughout the last 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.040 couple of hours. I tweeted it out this morning. Continue 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.000 sending them in though on the periscope stream. I'll definitely 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.280 I'll read them off of there as well. But let's 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.600 go ahead and talk about this. And we're gonna ask 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.800 this specifically to Isaiah, and this is from our boy Gee, 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:55.480 he says, please ask Isaiah, Woods, Cheeto, Brown, Lewis all 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.000 had good rookie seasons. Do they Do you think that 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.160 they've progressed as play over the last couple of weeks, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.560