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Speaker 1: now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips
Speaker 1: and Kyle Yeoman's. It's a Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Week five, Episode two. As we start looking ahead to
Speaker 1: the New York Giants, the first Divisional opponent of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, and we still well, we have to
Speaker 1: we gotta look back a little bit to the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns in a forty nine thirty eight loss, the final
Speaker 1: score of this past Sunday, and the Cowboys coming in
Speaker 1: at one in three. Glads, you're with us on Talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys on the very streaming platforms or live right now
Speaker 1: on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. I'm Kyle Yeoman's in studio
Speaker 1: with Isaiah stand Back. We've got heck My Harrison and
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips as always, and guys, it's uh, you still
Speaker 1: have that disappointment there. It still looms, It's still got
Speaker 1: the bubble guts, as heck My likes to say, whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to the losses past Sunday, you still have
Speaker 1: that little itch that you need to scratch whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to the Cowboys getting a win. But don't you
Speaker 1: feel just a little bit better on Tuesday now that
Speaker 1: it's kind of moved along a little bit here? Rob, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Isaiah can can speak to this. So there's
Speaker 1: a what is it a ten minute cooling down period
Speaker 1: after games where media is not allowed in the in
Speaker 1: the locker room and nobody's allowed in the locker room
Speaker 1: right now, but it's it's a situation where you, you know,
Speaker 1: you just kind of calmed down a little bit, and
Speaker 1: I think we all probably had a chance to go
Speaker 1: back watch the tape. Not pretty as as Heckma suggested
Speaker 1: a minute to go, but but you see, you get
Speaker 1: a better You kind of put the motions aside, and
Speaker 1: you look at the things that maybe did go well
Speaker 1: that you can build off of, and you get a
Speaker 1: clearer picture of what didn't go well, and a lot
Speaker 1: didn't go well. But but I think you know, usually
Speaker 1: by Tuesday you kind of take a big picture view
Speaker 1: of it and say, look, it's four games in the season.
Speaker 1: You're a half game out. Of first place, but you
Speaker 1: got a lot to clean up. Rob, I'm gonna disagree
Speaker 1: with both of y'all. Right now. Now I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know, I've had a lot of surgeries in my life,
Speaker 1: unfortunately in so when you get out of surgery, you know,
Speaker 1: because of the medicine they give you a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you get a little constipated, you know, get a little constipated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so when you get a little backed up, right, So,
Speaker 1: right right now, the cowboys got a little bubble bubble guts.
Speaker 1: You got the bubble guts, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: So that they're a little backed up right now. You
Speaker 1: don't get relief from being backed up until you go
Speaker 1: out there. You let it go, right, So we gotta
Speaker 1: go out there this week and let it go all right,
Speaker 1: So right now I'm not feeling any better. It's still
Speaker 1: the same until we go out there. Embussies, giants in
Speaker 1: the mouth. We need to get Isaiah some tums. Heck,
Speaker 1: you know what a segue? I love it. And there's
Speaker 1: no better way to come into a show talking about
Speaker 1: bubble guts and complication. Yeah, so you know, obviously obviously
Speaker 1: I'm smiling, but I'm crying inside. You know, I've watched
Speaker 1: this tape for the umpteenth time and it's it's it's there,
Speaker 1: and so I'm look, we're gonna what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: is find the silver lining today and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: your right right because, as the Great Nate Newton said,
Speaker 1: we have Giants RX coming this this Sunday. I know
Speaker 1: the title, the title today's show should be bubble Guts
Speaker 1: yea or let it Go? Yeah, let it Go might
Speaker 1: be the better one. I like that. And what Heck
Speaker 1: was referring to in terms of what Isaiah or excuse me,
Speaker 1: what Nate Newton said. He said it on the postgame
Speaker 1: show on Sunday and said, uh that hey, good thing
Speaker 1: that the RX drug stores coming in, the pharmacy's coming in,
Speaker 1: and that's the New York Giants. And the fact that
Speaker 1: all of their weaknesses or your strengths and the vice versa,
Speaker 1: really and the fact that this could fix a lot
Speaker 1: of things for the Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott even said
Speaker 1: in his postgame press conference that they need to find
Speaker 1: a little bit of confidence early and I think this
Speaker 1: is maybe that week to do so where you finally
Speaker 1: get a little bit of confidence and you're able to
Speaker 1: roll with it a little bit earlier than what they
Speaker 1: have done in the first four weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: But guys, I gave you a homework assignment last night,
Speaker 1: and I tease this at the end of the show yesterday.
Speaker 1: Of course, where the Cowboys are at this very moment,
Speaker 1: it comes to, really, where do you point the finger?
Speaker 1: Where do you point it at the coaching staff or
Speaker 1: at the players? And I think yesterday we kind of
Speaker 1: came to an agreement that it was really at the moment,
Speaker 1: it was to point the fingers at the players. You
Speaker 1: gotta step up. You gotta do your job. Cleveland did
Speaker 1: their job on Sundays. You did not. You did not
Speaker 1: play complimentary football. So I gave you, guys the role
Speaker 1: of playing general manager. Was like, oh, let it be
Speaker 1: a GM. So I know you would. I think you'd
Speaker 1: be pretty good at it too, and I know Rob
Speaker 1: would be very good at it as well. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing with playing GM. I'm giving you two acquisitions
Speaker 1: that you have to make. One is a free agency pickup,
Speaker 1: and it can't be the same as the other three analysts. Also,
Speaker 1: what would you be willing to trade We can't talk
Speaker 1: about other players specifically on other teams for various reasons,
Speaker 1: but we can talk about what we'd be willing to
Speaker 1: trade and for what position. So Isaiah Scher in studio,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with you first. We're gonna give you
Speaker 1: the acquisition first. Then we're gonna go to heck Butt,
Speaker 1: and then Rob will back things up on the on
Speaker 1: the third side. Is this really a question? Okay, you
Speaker 1: know you know exactly where I'm going with this. There's
Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name of Earlist Thomas. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: out there. He's a Hall of Fame caliber player. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be in a Hall of fame. He's all pro,
Speaker 1: he's an absolute comp editor. And you're hearing a lot
Speaker 1: of stirs and in terms of why people don't want
Speaker 1: him on his team, Listen up, y'all, these are grown men.
Speaker 1: He's not going to influence grown man if he is
Speaker 1: this bad guy all of a sudden, go out there
Speaker 1: and shure up your secondary in a safety position. Because
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of blown plays back there, whether
Speaker 1: it's miscommunication, whether it's whether it's a you know, assignment errors,
Speaker 1: and I think you really handle those issues by going
Speaker 1: and picking up this free agent back there, somebody who's
Speaker 1: probably even more the way I know Earl, he's really
Speaker 1: angry right now. He can't wait to hit the fielder
Speaker 1: and just go show everybody wrong, okay, And then whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to a trade here also, by the way,
Speaker 1: the fans come in and send us your send us
Speaker 1: your picks and your trade willingness as well. But what
Speaker 1: position would you want to trade for and what would
Speaker 1: be you would be willing to give up. I would
Speaker 1: want to trade for an interior defensive alignment I would
Speaker 1: want to give I would want to get an absolute
Speaker 1: dog run stopper at the defensive interior D line position.
Speaker 1: And I would be willing to give up two to
Speaker 1: three players that we have at the in the secondary
Speaker 1: position because we have an assortment of guys back there
Speaker 1: right um, and none of them are necessarily you know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, what's the best way of saying this,
Speaker 1: rob None of them, I would say, none of them
Speaker 1: are necessarily dogs right now. I think the guys are
Speaker 1: going to get better, but I think there's two or
Speaker 1: three guys that you could probably trade away to add
Speaker 1: some depth to some other teams competitively. To go out
Speaker 1: there and get one absolute dog on a D line.
Speaker 1: So no draft picks there, Rob, Do you agree in
Speaker 1: the standpoint that maybe even another team would be willing
Speaker 1: to trade for our secondary players because I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's something that other teams might be necessarily interested in. Well,
Speaker 1: just it would just depend on, you know, what the
Speaker 1: needs are for other teams. I mean, I think usually
Speaker 1: usually in the NFL it's involving draft picks, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they got That's what they've done
Speaker 1: the last few years. I think Michael Bennett was a
Speaker 1: conditional seventh round pick that they brought him in from
Speaker 1: New England obviously the Amari trade. So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm probably giving away my answer here, but I'm a
Speaker 1: little hesitant to do that right now. Yea, with my
Speaker 1: draft picks, I like it. I like it all right, Hackma,
Speaker 1: you're up, man. Let's get the free agents in the
Speaker 1: mix here. Now, you know, yesterday when you gave us
Speaker 1: the homework a signment, I had to give you a
Speaker 1: call to ask you, what are you trying to do here?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to trick us out our spot by
Speaker 1: asking us to play a general manager and have all
Speaker 1: kind of heat on our head, and we know you
Speaker 1: like being in the principal's office, but we don't. So
Speaker 1: I thought about this long and hard, and my answer
Speaker 1: is this, man, I feel as though you know, we
Speaker 1: praised Will McClay and what he does in the off
Speaker 1: season and do the draft and putting this team together,
Speaker 1: we ignore the signs of the pandemic. And I understand. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not avoiding the question. I'm just saying that when
Speaker 1: you look at the interviews and you see everything that
Speaker 1: we're saying from a front office and organizational standpoint, they
Speaker 1: believe in the guys that they have. Obviously, you want
Speaker 1: to get other like start to having auditions for guys
Speaker 1: that are out there on the streets and you know
Speaker 1: that a Snax Harrison is out there. I think that's
Speaker 1: the way to go to start seeing who's there that
Speaker 1: may be able to help you with some of your
Speaker 1: interior line problems. But it's still gonna be what Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be having to look at the back half
Speaker 1: of our defense and fix a lot of the problems
Speaker 1: that we have. And guys, I want to ask you
Speaker 1: all question, do you know a gentleman by the name
Speaker 1: of t J. Karrie. I do have you? You do
Speaker 1: all right? Do you know Julian Blackman? Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: all right? So he played no. So these are guys
Speaker 1: that are safeties that are on the Indianapolis coach which
Speaker 1: is the number one number tied with the Steelers right now.
Speaker 1: But these are guys that are seventh and third round
Speaker 1: picks that nobody was raving about them or saying their
Speaker 1: name right, But it's because of the way that their
Speaker 1: defense plays, the takeaways and the turnover differential. We're right now,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are last in the league. Rob We've been
Speaker 1: talking about this a lot, the Cowboys not being able
Speaker 1: to get turnovers. We saw last night Monday night, the
Speaker 1: easy turnovers that gods were getting a pick six. When
Speaker 1: was the last time the Cowboys had an easy pick six?
Speaker 1: I'll wait twenty and seventeen, Okay, this was a Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a it's been a minute. It's been a minute.
Speaker 1: And so that just that just speaks to some of
Speaker 1: the woes and problems that you've had defensively. Look Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas Edwin Matten. If you had Earl Thomas Charles Haley,
Speaker 1: uh pick a defensive lineman from a great era. If
Speaker 1: you give up three hundred and seven yards running, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get beat. Period. So there's the long answer. So
Speaker 1: so you said, Earl Thomas, that's what you get. Oh gosh, okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear that at all. It was it was
Speaker 1: it was a little piece of it was a little
Speaker 1: piece in there in Isaiah. I've gone to the school
Speaker 1: of Isaiah's. I've gone to the school of Isaiah standback.
Speaker 1: So what I do is I present present the analysis
Speaker 1: right first, and then I present my argument, and then
Speaker 1: I cut you off at whatever else you We're going
Speaker 1: to come back try tout Oh that's awesome. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: really I'm glad you brought up brought that up in
Speaker 1: the way that you did, because one of the reasons
Speaker 1: we're having this conversation and playing GM is because of
Speaker 1: the reluctancy of the front office at least to look outside.
Speaker 1: Then even Stephen Jones said yesterday on the flagship Station
Speaker 1: one on five point three the fan that this is
Speaker 1: a team that you need to look inward on. You
Speaker 1: you built this team in the offseason. You have faith
Speaker 1: in the guys that you have. You have to look inward. Sure,
Speaker 1: that's the whole point of having a coaching staff. If not,
Speaker 1: it would just be daily fantasy playing football out there,
Speaker 1: and you would just have these these acquisitions here and there. However,
Speaker 1: there are some opportunities to go out and make improvements.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where the conversation and maybe even
Speaker 1: some of the frustration is for Cowboys fans is the
Speaker 1: fact that there are players available that could help you immediately.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that at least that's one
Speaker 1: of the big reasons why we're having this conversation because
Speaker 1: the front office is staying put, at least publicly they're
Speaker 1: staying put. They may be making those persons, they may
Speaker 1: be having those phone calls. However, whenever you turn things around,
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity to get better. All right, Rob, who
Speaker 1: you got as an acquisition? Can I can I just
Speaker 1: real quick? Can I just rebuttal that or play Deuvil's advocate? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The point you just made, well because because Jerry was
Speaker 1: asked about that exact question just now on the fan
Speaker 1: and he basically said, if you look at our roster
Speaker 1: currently constructed, we have gone out and found veterans to
Speaker 1: try to help the team. Now, this was off season,
Speaker 1: of course, and I know you guys are talking in season,
Speaker 1: but Aldin Smith is here, don Terry Poe is here, haha.
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix was here, Gerald McCoy was here. They they
Speaker 1: have gone the veteran route. Now they're not doing it
Speaker 1: right now, and there could be different reasons for that.
Speaker 1: You know, money is always involved in bringing in veteran guys.
Speaker 1: How much guaranteed money do they want. I'm just speaking
Speaker 1: in generalities here, but Jerry kind of spoke to that.
Speaker 1: Because of what their cap situation is going to be
Speaker 1: going forward, they've got to be careful with the money
Speaker 1: that they commit, and so maybe that has something to
Speaker 1: do with it. You know, we've talked about old Thomas
Speaker 1: for everybody has for a long time here. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much off the field is involved there. It's
Speaker 1: it's just it's really interesting to me he's still not
Speaker 1: found a new team because you know, I'll kind of
Speaker 1: seg into segue into your question. I mean, to Isaiah's point,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the best free agent out there in
Speaker 1: terms of accomplishments and probably what he could bring it
Speaker 1: to a team immediately. When I look when I watched
Speaker 1: the game back yesterday. The thing that jumped out to
Speaker 1: me the most is that front four. You know, I
Speaker 1: know Jalen Smith is getting crushed right now publicly for
Speaker 1: the game he played, But the game, the more I watched,
Speaker 1: it reminded me so much of that twenty eighteen game
Speaker 1: against Indianapolis, Like the first time we kind of saw
Speaker 1: cracks in the run defense with this kind of Cowboys
Speaker 1: era team, And it was like Isaiah said, you know,
Speaker 1: they just kind of you drawed up on a chalkboard,
Speaker 1: you block here, seal here, and that's what they did.
Speaker 1: And they were on the front flour so quickly and
Speaker 1: on Jalen Smith so quickly at times that I think
Speaker 1: that that really stood out to me. But there's you
Speaker 1: can point to. There's been something wrong in different spots
Speaker 1: every game the defense has had trouble with. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say one thing, but I would say interior rusher,
Speaker 1: I don't know what snacks Harrison where he is in
Speaker 1: his career, and I think, you know, I think the
Speaker 1: reports are he's visiting Seattle this week and obviously the
Speaker 1: Cowboys haven't gone in that direction. Jerry has been asked
Speaker 1: about him specifically and said they liked the guys upfront
Speaker 1: that they have, But I do think maybe finding somebody
Speaker 1: to help, or at least maybe bringing up Neville Gallimore
Speaker 1: and giving him a shot to try to seal things
Speaker 1: up in that front. Four I think is really important
Speaker 1: right now because I think that that was a big
Speaker 1: issue in the run defense yesterday at least or Sunday. Hey, Rob,
Speaker 1: when you got an up unity to watch the tape
Speaker 1: and you saw, like you talked about this, Jaylen Smith
Speaker 1: is taking a beating in the media and everyone is
Speaker 1: down on him, talking about getting rid of all kinds
Speaker 1: of thing. He doesn't deserve the money. But then you
Speaker 1: see him trying to pursue the ball and he has
Speaker 1: done terry post sitting in his lap. That's not a
Speaker 1: good image there. But this what's happening. He doesn't he's
Speaker 1: not able to get in those lays. He's not able
Speaker 1: to pursue the ball because he's fighting off his own guys.
Speaker 1: And it wouldn't matter. It really doesn't matter from a
Speaker 1: linebacker's standpoint if you have LV or whomever you have,
Speaker 1: But you have your linebackers taking on lineman and that's
Speaker 1: going to shorten their careers or at least get them hurt.
Speaker 1: And I'm knocking on Wood because I don't want that
Speaker 1: because we don't have anything behind him that's better than him.
Speaker 1: So we have to consider that when we start passing
Speaker 1: that criticism for Jaylen Smith, not saying that he hasn't
Speaker 1: had busted coverage and you can't circle other things where
Speaker 1: he has definitely missed a tackle. But guys, you have
Speaker 1: to when you turn on the Cleveland uh take, it's
Speaker 1: just evident that there's nothing that he can do with
Speaker 1: guys in his own guys in his face. Now that's
Speaker 1: not to say there weren't mistakes on his part. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it goes all around. Obviously, the penalty, the
Speaker 1: face face mass penalty. I think that that was a
Speaker 1: huge play in the game, changed the momentum around. There's
Speaker 1: obviously different angles you can take to try to make
Speaker 1: those plays and and and you know, Jerry talked about
Speaker 1: you gotta trust the scheme, and we talked about that yesterday.
Speaker 1: You can't overrun plays, you can't get outside of your job.
Speaker 1: And so that that just kind of goes all around
Speaker 1: with the whole defense right now, and that that's that's more,
Speaker 1: that's not talent, that's just making simple plays and and
Speaker 1: trusting your assignment. Yeah. Well, and even with Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: none of us here are saying that Jalen Smith's playing well.
Speaker 1: He's had his mistakes, like Rob just said. But whenever
Speaker 1: we were going into this season, we said, the additions
Speaker 1: to the defensive line, we're gonna take pressure off of
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith. It was gonna be an uphill back. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a tall mountain to climb without Layton
Speaker 1: vander esh next to them. But whenever you have an avalanche,
Speaker 1: it's easy to look lost. Whenever you're trying to climb
Speaker 1: a mountain with an avalanche coming at you, talking about
Speaker 1: those defensive linemen being pushed back, you have to dodge
Speaker 1: a couple of rocks and boulders back and forth. So overall, yes,
Speaker 1: the defense has issues. We're going to fix some of
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Speaker 1: us here on Talking Cowboys, Isaiah, stand back, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: heck Ma Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeoman's time now for some
Speaker 1: fans on the fifty. Fans on the fifty got our
Speaker 1: great sounder again from Chris Beam as always, and we've
Speaker 1: got some fantastic questions already coming in throughout the last
Speaker 1: couple of hours. I tweeted it out this morning. Continue
Speaker 1: sending them in though on the periscope stream. I'll definitely
Speaker 1: I'll read them off of there as well. But let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and talk about this. And we're gonna ask
Speaker 1: this specifically to Isaiah, and this is from our boy Gee,
Speaker 1: he says, please ask Isaiah, Woods, Cheeto, Brown, Lewis all
Speaker 1: had good rookie seasons. Do they Do you think that
Speaker 1: they've progressed as play over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and what are the reasons if they haven't, And what's
Speaker 1: the cutoff to move on if they haven't Woods, Cheeto,
Speaker 1: Brown and Lewis, so all of your secondary players ultimately, yeah,
Speaker 1: they definitely haven't improved. Um, you don't think Antoine or
Speaker 1: excuse me, you don't think Xavier Woods is improved? No? Wow, No, No.
Speaker 1: Only only person I say that has improved has been Digs.
Speaker 1: And that's because he's he's seeing things that he's never
Speaker 1: seen before. Right, So he's becoming more patient, he's gaining
Speaker 1: that experience. Now he's still getting torched sometimes, right, But
Speaker 1: you expected Ricky too, especially with some of the schemes
Speaker 1: that we're playing. But no, they answered the question directly. No,
Speaker 1: they haven't. Even they have not improved, not visibly at least,
Speaker 1: you know, not not something that it hasn't shown up
Speaker 1: on film. And when do you move on? You have
Speaker 1: nobody to move on to. So true, Um, if there
Speaker 1: was somebody to move on to, you know, we obviously would. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we saw, we saw Thompson get pulled you know,
Speaker 1: for Wilson. Um, But you know, I don't I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't see Xavier was getting getting pulled out the game.
Speaker 1: But you have if there were other guys to put
Speaker 1: in there, I think they would have been placed in
Speaker 1: there already. Rob, same question here whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: the secondary. Do you think you've seen an improvement from
Speaker 1: some of those guys after they kind of came out hot,
Speaker 1: even as late round pick. Yeah, that's a tough one
Speaker 1: to answer because I was looking forward to seeing and
Speaker 1: we'll still see it at some point. Cheeto with with
Speaker 1: you know, a new scheme, new secondary coach, how he
Speaker 1: could progress and you know, Jordan Lewis can make plays
Speaker 1: for you, uh in small packages, in short amount of
Speaker 1: plays like our snaps that he gets, But how does
Speaker 1: he do with the larger volume of plays that That's
Speaker 1: that's still got to be answered. Um. I thought Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown did a better job, like after his first or
Speaker 1: second year the penalties were too high. I think he
Speaker 1: was one of the top in the league, and penalties
Speaker 1: can cut that down. Um. You know, and Xander is
Speaker 1: a guy they really count on back there. But obviously there,
Speaker 1: you know, the big plays back there are contributed in
Speaker 1: parts to the safety. I can't you can't say that
Speaker 1: any parts has been productive so far. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: three of the four guys you mentioned there are going
Speaker 1: to be free agents next year. So you know, this
Speaker 1: could be a completely different looking secondary next year, depending
Speaker 1: on what where they go. I think only only Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown's got a three year deal, and that was signed
Speaker 1: over there, looking at looking at oh, go for it,
Speaker 1: go for it had Man. Yeah, basically, those those the
Speaker 1: four guys that you were speaking of. I thought Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown had a really good rookie season, as the question said,
Speaker 1: but you know, kind of regressed last year. I felt
Speaker 1: like he was playing a lot better before he was
Speaker 1: injured for Lewis Man. I just feel as though his
Speaker 1: skill set calls for him to be a slot corner
Speaker 1: and he's a liability when you try to play him
Speaker 1: on the outside. So I think those are the differences
Speaker 1: between him. I think he's just playing out of position.
Speaker 1: As far as Woods, I haven't I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: take the next step. I know that he's a locker
Speaker 1: room guy. Everybody one says great things about him, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't translate a lot of times to the field.
Speaker 1: And so especially with this first quarter of the season
Speaker 1: and our secondary giving up so many big plays, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of hard to say that a guys is
Speaker 1: playing good, you know, having a good season. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is tough to say, and man, once again, I think
Speaker 1: we need both of those guys back whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to Cheeto and for Anthony Brown, the fact that just
Speaker 1: having that reped and having that flexibility whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to having the depth chart and the guys that are
Speaker 1: actually at the top of the depth chart available, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna pay dividends for the secondary pretty much immediately.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come back in Dix is getting those reps.
Speaker 1: Like Isaiah just said, he wasn't on the initial list
Speaker 1: from g but Digs is a guy who you have
Speaker 1: seen some improvement upon, but he's had to improve because
Speaker 1: if not, you're you're getting torched by everyone through the
Speaker 1: first four weeks this season. And he finally gets maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit of a break this week because who's
Speaker 1: he gonna go up against is a golden tape. No,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be suspended. But there's a couple different
Speaker 1: players you could look and point to to say they
Speaker 1: would make an immediate impact coming back. I think both
Speaker 1: those corners would all Right. This one's from Ross Waddell.
Speaker 1: He says, assuming there is no external free agent sign
Speaker 1: like we talked about in the last segment, what are
Speaker 1: some internal personnel changes, if any, do you see being
Speaker 1: made to improve the defense. Heck, we'll start with you
Speaker 1: on this one man. Internal personnel changes like say playing
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore instead of Tristan Hill. Yeah, yeah, though, I
Speaker 1: mean that's what you gotta do. You have to give.
Speaker 1: We just alluded to that, giving your rookies and guys
Speaker 1: that you need to get a look at, because right now,
Speaker 1: the looks that you're getting from Tristan Hill. Although Tristan Hill, again,
Speaker 1: he's a splash player, you see it, and then there's
Speaker 1: other times where you turn on the turn on the
Speaker 1: tape and he's getting reached and it's just it's a
Speaker 1: bad look for him. Done. Terry Poe, I don't as
Speaker 1: a as a veteran in this league for as long
Speaker 1: as he's been right now, he hasn't. He isn't pleased
Speaker 1: with his production. And Antoine Woods right now would be
Speaker 1: his replacement. We have it. We got to look pretty
Speaker 1: much at all hands on deck mentality with getting this
Speaker 1: front four shored up. Rob. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: And you know Antoine has gotten more snaps the last
Speaker 1: two or three games, So I wonder if that's going
Speaker 1: to continue to try to shore up things in there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what happens with the safety position
Speaker 1: next to Xavier Um. Mike Nolan wasn't ready to Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy weren't answer ready to answer that question about Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson or Darian Thompson. I'm still waiting on Brandon Carr.
Speaker 1: You know, if they're not going to do anything outside
Speaker 1: the roster, where's he at? You know, where can we
Speaker 1: cease more of him? Because I think he's gotten like
Speaker 1: four snaps the last two games, and he's been at
Speaker 1: corner a couple of times. But uh, they signed him
Speaker 1: with the idea that he could help at safety. So
Speaker 1: I wonder you know where he is, you know, coming
Speaker 1: off no training camp, and and uh whether they could
Speaker 1: get him involved the other thing too. I thought Mickey
Speaker 1: Spagnola made a great point in terms of setting the
Speaker 1: edge in the run game. You know, when they're in
Speaker 1: a three four look, you're asking edge rushers to be
Speaker 1: you know, function as strong side linebackers, and or can
Speaker 1: they can they do that? You know? And so how
Speaker 1: you know, how from an alignment standpoint, are they going
Speaker 1: to maybe change things up to try to help in
Speaker 1: that area that that was That was something that popped
Speaker 1: up watching it back that I thought was a really
Speaker 1: good point. So if you were to switch that up, Rob,
Speaker 1: would it be going back to like a base four
Speaker 1: three instead of staying with that that three four or
Speaker 1: that four three under type of Look, you might, I
Speaker 1: mean you might have to look at it, you know
Speaker 1: it just you know, you're a month end of the
Speaker 1: season and you got to look at your personnel and say,
Speaker 1: are we equipped to do that or at least as
Speaker 1: much as you would like to. And so maybe they're not,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe because some of the injuries. You know,
Speaker 1: Isaiah spoke to it, and after watching this last game,
Speaker 1: like I think the question was who are they missing most?
Speaker 1: Who's injured? Joe Thomas is coming and done some really
Speaker 1: good things, but man, they miss late in Vanderish. They're
Speaker 1: really miss him because I think he compliments Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: skills so well and they don't. They don't have that
Speaker 1: linebacking corps is really is really hurting just from a
Speaker 1: number standpoint right now. And Isaiah, I know last week,
Speaker 1: whenever we asked that question on who we miss the
Speaker 1: most in terms of who was not available for the cowboys,
Speaker 1: you said late in Vanderesh, But does that kind of
Speaker 1: translate into maybe some of the switches you would make internally?
Speaker 1: I think you guys are starting to allude to it.
Speaker 1: I think you have It has to be a scheme thing.
Speaker 1: I think they probably recognize at this point in ten
Speaker 1: at three four, we're not equipped properly for a three four,
Speaker 1: or at least the guys aren't play up to that
Speaker 1: level right now. So I think it is one part
Speaker 1: as a scheme, and then the second part is, man,
Speaker 1: just competition, peer competition. Man, those guys have to figure
Speaker 1: out a way. I don't know what the practices look like, obviously,
Speaker 1: but they have to find a way to get the
Speaker 1: competitive juices flowing because right now it looks like guys
Speaker 1: are just collecting the check. And to Rob's point, I
Speaker 1: want to see Reggie Robinson, man, Yeah, but Reggie at man,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to see I want to
Speaker 1: see Robinson. I mean, he's competitive in college. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that they're allowing him to kind of get his feet
Speaker 1: underneath them. But shoot, at this point, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: throw anybody out there. Yeah. Well, and that's the thing
Speaker 1: is they made the switch because he was drafted in
Speaker 1: the fourth round out of Tulsa. He was a corner,
Speaker 1: he was a straight corner, didn't play any safety. They
Speaker 1: made the switch in training camp seemingly to move him
Speaker 1: over to safety, and he was seeing some first second
Speaker 1: team reps. So if you're not gonna go with Darien Thompson,
Speaker 1: or you're not gonna develop Donovan Wilson, why not give
Speaker 1: some opportunities to Reggie Robinson. I'll throw another name in here.
Speaker 1: I want to see Bradley and I fellas. I want
Speaker 1: to see Bradley and I can do. I know he's
Speaker 1: only had like, I think he's had maybe six snaps
Speaker 1: in terms of the entirety of the season. He's looked
Speaker 1: good on couple of let me even add a pressure.
Speaker 1: I think his first or second snap of his NFL
Speaker 1: career he had a pressure and he was in the
Speaker 1: backfield immediately. So I like Bradley and I on tape,
Speaker 1: and I think he could make an impact. Yes, heckma, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, and Isaiah, I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you something, especially you know, being that you came
Speaker 1: out of a Belichick system and I feel as though
Speaker 1: when we were talking about what Rob was saying that
Speaker 1: on the Mickey conversation with Lineman actually scheme wise playing
Speaker 1: out of position. Now, coaches break down their practices by
Speaker 1: periods and so all of it is about teaching the fundamentals.
Speaker 1: And when you turn on the tape, there are just
Speaker 1: certain things that you see that are just not showing
Speaker 1: up that should be taught. And just like inside drills,
Speaker 1: when you do an inside drill, that's just practicing against
Speaker 1: the team running the ball, against your look. And if
Speaker 1: you knew going into the Cleveland game they were going
Speaker 1: to hold up on you with you know, twelve and
Speaker 1: all the different personnel packages that they have, and you
Speaker 1: still gave up three hundred and seven. What's happening during
Speaker 1: that inside drill of that period that's not translating to
Speaker 1: the game. I wish I could watch practice, and I
Speaker 1: wish I could answer that. Um, you know, definitively, I
Speaker 1: don't know what their practices look like. I can tell
Speaker 1: you when I was in New England, I can tell
Speaker 1: you when I was in Seattle, you know, even here
Speaker 1: in Dallas, Man, you know, it was competitive, I mean
Speaker 1: like it was. Those periods were very competitive, and it
Speaker 1: was because of the culture that was established at those
Speaker 1: at those places, and the players there they cared enough, right,
Speaker 1: I mean when you when I was here in Dallas,
Speaker 1: you mean you had Tank and Spears and Hatch and Ratliff,
Speaker 1: and those guys weren't gonna just take getting blown off
Speaker 1: the ball. Even though you had Flozella, Adams and Colombo
Speaker 1: and Andre Gerade. There were bullies on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball, and nobody we talked about that manhood thing, right,
Speaker 1: We talked about manhood yesterday, right, Nobody wanted to get
Speaker 1: their manhood taken right on. And even in practice, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't okay, right, So you take that,
Speaker 1: you know, you take that competitive environment. You play way
Speaker 1: more snaps in practice than you ever play in a game, right,
Speaker 1: So if it's not established in practice, don't expect for
Speaker 1: the show up in the game. Yeah, it's got to
Speaker 1: carry over. And I like the question, Heckman, because especially
Speaker 1: with a Belichick kind of background here, you gotta see
Speaker 1: what practice is, because that's what's important, are the reps
Speaker 1: you get in practice for those young guys to develop
Speaker 1: and to find their way into positions. Maybe that's why
Speaker 1: we're not seeing a Bradley and I are Reggie Robinson
Speaker 1: and Gallimore and guys like that who we thought could
Speaker 1: make an impact in twenty twenty. But uh, it's something
Speaker 1: to look forward to moving on. They might be brother
Speaker 1: in law in it. You never know, right, and brother
Speaker 1: in lawn is just hey. In practice, you know where
Speaker 1: guys are kind of taking, you know, a half speed
Speaker 1: reps because I'm a vet and I don't I can't
Speaker 1: risk getting hurt. You know what I'm saying. I know
Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to be. This is my capit supps
Speaker 1: to be in and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: go into the game and all I'm much gonna cut
Speaker 1: it on. No you're not. No, you're not You're not
Speaker 1: gonna cut it on because that's not you. That's not
Speaker 1: your brother in law. On the other side, now, that's
Speaker 1: a grown man that really doesn't care much about you.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's what they're doing. I
Speaker 1: wish I could see it, but I get the feeling
Speaker 1: as if there's they're they're not going as fast as
Speaker 1: they can in practice. Maybe they're trying to preserve these
Speaker 1: guys and they don't want them to get injured because
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of depth at this point, Fellas.
Speaker 1: We got to compete, man, we got to compete, and
Speaker 1: it's not showing up And just for the fans perspective,
Speaker 1: And Chris Beam reminded me in the back, it wasn't
Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence on those teams. It was Tank Johnson. Correct,
Speaker 1: But I say, Lawrence, I think you said Lawrence my fault.
Speaker 1: You said Tank. You just said Tea ninety nine the
Speaker 1: doll that's my guy. Different most, I guess, can't fans.
Speaker 1: Most Cowboys fans would probably realize that Tank Lawrence has
Speaker 1: been here for the entire of his career. No, it's
Speaker 1: not on you. We're it's not on you. We're just
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Speaker 1: it see dances here in the studio for those who
Speaker 1: are listening to the podcast not watching. But we can't
Speaker 1: see it today. I know even even the two virtual
Speaker 1: members of our crew today can't see Isaiah. This is
Speaker 1: just dancing on the side. It's a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: a bit of a travesty. I'm everywhere and nowhere, everywhere
Speaker 1: and nowhere at the same time. Okay, So starting this week,
Speaker 1: and we'll do this at the end of every quarter
Speaker 1: of the season. Of course, coaches, media, front office members,
Speaker 1: they always want to look at the NFL season in quarters,
Speaker 1: and of course the Cowboys first quarter a one and
Speaker 1: three one and very easily could have been one. Who
Speaker 1: are three and one? A very easily could have been
Speaker 1: oh and four. There's different ways where it could have gone.
Speaker 1: But it ended up one and three. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: give individual grades to each of these units whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to the Cowboys, and we're gonna start on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football, and we'll start with the
Speaker 1: passing game. And these are grades A through F. You
Speaker 1: can give a plus, you can give a minus. It's
Speaker 1: anything goes here. But Rob will start with you on
Speaker 1: this one. Passing game is where we'll start A through F.
Speaker 1: What's your first quarter grade? I gotta give it an A.
Speaker 1: I have to dax On pace for like sixty seven
Speaker 1: hundred yards or something, just absurd. I think the record
Speaker 1: is fifty seven hundred maybe something by by Paid Manning
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen when he put fifty one on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and in that duels Romo. I mean, it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: just based off stats. That being said, it's not leading
Speaker 1: to wins, and it's not the way they want to
Speaker 1: play offensively, but when you see the capability that they
Speaker 1: have in the passing game, so I have to give
Speaker 1: it a name. Okay, Rob, all right, excuse me, heckman,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go A. I gotta go A. And I
Speaker 1: believe that these three well ceedee Lamb is as advertised.
Speaker 1: I know, with the secondary of problems, you've even sought
Speaker 1: to hear the rumblings of people saying, well, oh, we
Speaker 1: shouldn't got a safety. No, we shouldn't have got a
Speaker 1: ceedee lamb in seventeen and he is. He's proven it, man,
Speaker 1: He's one of those two eights with pride, and he's
Speaker 1: putting in work. I think there are some things that
Speaker 1: you can look back to as far as the Seattle
Speaker 1: game on some routes that I received was just kind
Speaker 1: of alligator on, didn't run the route completely and cause
Speaker 1: the turnover. Maybe uh, it's just those little things that
Speaker 1: maybe get you the A minus. But when dak is
Speaker 1: on pace to throw for sixty seven sixty seven hundred yards,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to say anything less than an A
Speaker 1: for the passing game. Well, I'm gonna say something else
Speaker 1: that beside from A. Heckma, all right, I'm coming in
Speaker 1: there and I'm saying a B, not even a B plus,
Speaker 1: not even a B plus. It was I knew it,
Speaker 1: it was. That's that's what you got rout this guy. Man.
Speaker 1: That's why I couch, I said, because it's not leading.
Speaker 1: Because I couch, I say it's not leading to win
Speaker 1: because I knew, I say, I was gonna say, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great number. The numbers are these are empty calories.
Speaker 1: But you know what he's doing to us. He's he's cattle,
Speaker 1: He's cattle proud and us man understand this. I might
Speaker 1: have played a lot of positions. One of the one
Speaker 1: of the positions was quarterback, right, and I happen to
Speaker 1: play quarterback for the New England Patriots for a while. Right,
Speaker 1: My standards for quarterback play and precision and game management
Speaker 1: is rather high. And Dak has not been the most
Speaker 1: accurate passer this year, and he has gotten lucky on
Speaker 1: a lot of balls. If you go back and watch
Speaker 1: these first four games, there's probably at least nine to
Speaker 1: ten balls that should have been intercepted. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: straight through guy's hands. Straight not even tip balls, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: these are balls straight to through guy's hands. Linebackers, safeties, corners,
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers sitting on the floor. Right, ball hit him
Speaker 1: in a chest. So they've gotten really lucky, really lucky
Speaker 1: through this first quarter of the season. And yes, he
Speaker 1: has amazing stats, but a lot of those stats can
Speaker 1: win when you're when you're when you're when you're coming
Speaker 1: from behind. I've been mentioning it. You're coming from behind,
Speaker 1: and the secondaries are playing soft. You're not seeing the
Speaker 1: team's best. So I'm gonna give it a B because
Speaker 1: it's not happening when it matters. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: And there have been multiple occasions where it could have
Speaker 1: easily ended up in a turnover. I mean, even though
Speaker 1: Mari touchdown passed, and the first quarter of Sunday's game
Speaker 1: could have ended up in an interception or a knockdown
Speaker 1: pass turnover on downs. And that's the one thing that
Speaker 1: Isaiah will not let anybody hang their hat on. Anything
Speaker 1: that starts with if right. He has a saying for
Speaker 1: and if true, and that's what he basically just did himself.
Speaker 1: He just said, if happens, goot, if the if the
Speaker 1: ball if I mean, come on, man, no, it was
Speaker 1: a completion. You have to go with what what what? What?
Speaker 1: What happened in the game. We can't say that was
Speaker 1: almost he got the yard and he did. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have I'm not taking I'm not taking. So you got
Speaker 1: a great at least a B plus. No, it's a
Speaker 1: bus It was almost as it was. It was almost
Speaker 1: a B minus. Heck, what I'm saying is I'm not
Speaker 1: taking anything waste. But he's done. But the same way
Speaker 1: that you say him and Baker Mayfield had very similar
Speaker 1: stats in terms of touchdown turnover ratio coming into the game.
Speaker 1: Actually Dak had more turnover yes, right, so the same
Speaker 1: way that we say, hey, well, force Baker Mayfield to
Speaker 1: throw the ball because guess what, He's gonna give you
Speaker 1: a few opportunities. Right, How how can we look at
Speaker 1: it any differently when we look at that he's gonna
Speaker 1: if I'm he's gonna give you some opportunities. Good. He
Speaker 1: might bring the fire whenever it comes to some of
Speaker 1: these hot takes, but he backs it up with a
Speaker 1: bit of gas too when he comes in there hot
Speaker 1: whenever you need it. I would give an a minus
Speaker 1: based off of the turnovers and the lack of winning.
Speaker 1: But I think Dak still is cooking. I think he's
Speaker 1: a guy who can he can lead you to the
Speaker 1: promised Land. I've said that forever. He's still really good
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. And I think this wide receiving corps
Speaker 1: is just the real deal. All Right, we only have
Speaker 1: time for one more, so we'll get into the trenches tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Running game heckma, what are you guy in terms of
Speaker 1: your running game grade so far? Right now? You know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna get into tomorrow on the running game
Speaker 1: kind of intertwined, but we're gonna have to get a
Speaker 1: running game a see at this point because the our
Speaker 1: running game has been because of leads and things like that.
Speaker 1: We just had and had much of it, and we
Speaker 1: haven't been able to set the pacing games and you know,
Speaker 1: take the air out of the ball by just pounding
Speaker 1: guys and running ruling time of possession. And I'm especially
Speaker 1: last game, man, it didn't look as though Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: could get into any kind of rhythm. And this the
Speaker 1: turnovers just starting to worry me. You know, Zeke coming
Speaker 1: out of college was never a guy that we thought
Speaker 1: was going to be a turnover machine. But now going
Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty season, man, he's put a couple
Speaker 1: of balls on the ground and it's not starting to
Speaker 1: look good. And it's four defensive guys. I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: one of their achilles hill and one of the things
Speaker 1: that they hate the most is a running back that fumbles.
Speaker 1: So what was your grade again? I didn't hear the
Speaker 1: letter grade. It's a C. It was a C MICUs
Speaker 1: C minus. Okay, Rob, what you gut um, I'll probably
Speaker 1: go like a C plus. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: been it's almost like an incomplete sample in a way
Speaker 1: because of what Heckma just said. They haven't we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen it. You know, it's not the way they
Speaker 1: wanted to be. I think he's only got seventy two carries,
Speaker 1: and aside from putting the ball in the ground, I
Speaker 1: think he looks like he's he's running well, he looks
Speaker 1: he looks great. But you know, can they establish the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage to help achieve that balance. I don't
Speaker 1: think we've yet to see that consistently because of the
Speaker 1: time and score and all that. But I mean, he's
Speaker 1: under he's on pace to have under three hundred carries
Speaker 1: for the first time in his career. So it's just
Speaker 1: been a weird start. So I don't think you can
Speaker 1: give it, you know, a B or above at this point. Okay, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: before you go, I know you're about to go off
Speaker 1: here because I know you're upset with the running game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give mine and I'm gonna say a D plus.
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because one Tony Pollard has
Speaker 1: been nothing but just kind of a couple carries here
Speaker 1: and there. He hasn't had that same kind of explosiveness
Speaker 1: that we've seen. I agree with Rob and the fact
Speaker 1: that it's been a simple or a very small sample size,
Speaker 1: but overall, I want Tony Pollard to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more. And then when it comes to Ezekiel Elliot,
Speaker 1: you can't average a fumble per game. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you had sixty fumbles on a season, that's you're not
Speaker 1: just talking about one of the worst seasons in his career,
Speaker 1: but one of the luster season. Owns it too exactly,
Speaker 1: and he said that in this postgame crash conference, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll say it throughout the week. Is he's
Speaker 1: got to hold onto the football and he will. I
Speaker 1: have faith that he'll turn it around. But in terms
Speaker 1: of the first quarter of the season, you can't average
Speaker 1: a fumble a game. You have, like you said, the
Speaker 1: lack of carries, but still even yards per play has
Speaker 1: not been as high as we've seen for Ezekiel Elliot
Speaker 1: as well. So I'm gonna give him a D plus
Speaker 1: with room for improvement, much room for improvement, but it
Speaker 1: just hasn't been there yet. I appreciate you for keeping
Speaker 1: getting up here. You guys gave a passing grade. A passing.
Speaker 1: Y'all passed the Cowboys. Yeah, y'all just pushed them up
Speaker 1: to the next level. If they were in the mind,
Speaker 1: if they were in eleventh grade. Right now, you guys
Speaker 1: are pushing them over all the way to twelfth grade
Speaker 1: right now. That's what y'all are doing right now. I'll
Speaker 1: come on, you've gotten one of those coaches are to
Speaker 1: keep it real. People rely on us to keep it
Speaker 1: one hundred with them, regardless if it's popular or not.
Speaker 1: These dudes are a D, and I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: I'll just say D. I'm not even gonna say pless
Speaker 1: or mind. I'm just gonna say a D. It's six
Speaker 1: it's dog sixty five percent. They sitting right in the middle,
Speaker 1: all right, and listen up. This is why these passing
Speaker 1: Is it passing? He No, it ain't passing. You can't
Speaker 1: even pass college what it would would have c I mean,
Speaker 1: listen up. These dudes have abandoned. They have abandoned the
Speaker 1: run in half of their games this year. They've had
Speaker 1: to abandon their run in over half of their games.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, What in the Seattle game had how many
Speaker 1: rushing yards? Thirty four yards off twelve carries? This game
Speaker 1: he had what or fourteen carries? He had fifty four
Speaker 1: yards on what fourteen carries? Yeah? Okay, and you guys
Speaker 1: are giving me that at C. Come on, fellas, that's
Speaker 1: that's not even That's not even a real thing. Cowboys
Speaker 1: are known for running the ball. So what we have
Speaker 1: amazing receivers, So what we have a quarterback who's throwing
Speaker 1: it all over the field in the second half, right,
Speaker 1: but these dudes are are known for running the ball.
Speaker 1: This offensive line, even with that the depth issues, is
Speaker 1: still above average offensive line. So how is it that
Speaker 1: they can't establish a running game? This is not a
Speaker 1: C running game right now. It should be, and hopefully
Speaker 1: it will be once all these guys get back on
Speaker 1: officsive line. But right now they had they don't get
Speaker 1: a passing grade. They gotta they gotta redo the class,
Speaker 1: gotta redo it. Yes, it was eighty six, the first game,
Speaker 1: eighty six, the first game like eighty five, the second
Speaker 1: game one hundred and thirteen. No, no, so what Kyle asked,
Speaker 1: was the first quarter of the season, and we have
Speaker 1: to take into consideration the first two games. Isaiah. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: well come on, I see I see your point, because
Speaker 1: like they're they're out of whack balance wise by their
Speaker 1: own doing because of the turnovers. So I get that.
Speaker 1: So maybe I'll drop it to a sea. But I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give it a d. We just haven't seen
Speaker 1: it enough. I think they have the capability to do it,
Speaker 1: but they haven't. It hasn't been established at all. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like they've been unable to run
Speaker 1: the ball. They just the time and score by their
Speaker 1: own doing hasn't allowed it. kW I'm pretty sure these
Speaker 1: guys got nice honey Chris apples on their desk the
Speaker 1: first day of class because this is ridiculous. We can
Speaker 1: definitely see where who was that? Yeah in school? Yeah,
Speaker 1: now there you go. That's gonna do it for talking.
Speaker 1: We're gonna end it on that note. For Parson, for
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, for Isaiah danback special thanks to Chris Beam
Speaker 1: in the back up Kyle Yeoman, thanks for joining us.
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