WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: One Down 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:19.240 Cowboys, Let's go. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.120 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:21.919 Absolutely? 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.000 Ready for a break? 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:24.560 Yeah? 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.279 And so much for that. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.640 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:38.360 with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.519 It is Monday, September ninth, twenty twenty four, and we 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.120 are here. Man, what a weekend, What a weekend. That 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.720 was awesome. Cowboys kick off the NFL season with a win, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.680 big win on the road against the Cleveland Browns. I 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.320 think it was probably much more in the way of 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.880 scoring by the out Boys than any of us expected, 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.640 but it was a win, and it was an impressive 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.640 win to get things kicked off for this season. We're 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.520 presented by LG and so let's jump right in. Let's 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.440 get into the meat of this game. Let's start first 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.560 with what we thought was the story of the game. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.840 As we did last year, We'll go around the table 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.000 and tell what you think was the big story, the 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.200 big picture story of the game. No One, we'll get 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.000 into some of the details. What was the big picture story, 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:25.479 I'll start. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:25.680 With you Nick. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.360 For me, it has to start with the defensive unit. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.520 I mean, at all three levels, just executed to perfection. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.600 I think we expected it with this defensive front. Like 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.040 we talked about last week. You know, they were battling 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.039 some injuries at the tackle positions, ended up being both 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.600 the starting left tackle and starting right tackle did not 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.880 play in this game. So I mean, you look at 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.760 the pressures that were generated on Deshaun Watson, it was 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.840 twenty plus. Micah himself had twelve plus. It was a 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.280 big day for that defensive line. Then you look at 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.320 the linebacking corps, and we talked about during training camp 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.480 and as we've seen these guys get on the field 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.920 and work together, they are so much more improved in 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.680 that position. You saw Eric Kendricks get after it to 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.800 Marvin Overshown got after it. If I had to pick 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.160 my top two defenders from yesterday, it might be those 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.480 two guys. They looked so strong, they were filling running lanes, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.280 they were getting after the quarterback. Eric Kendricks had two sacks, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.840 Overshown had one, and then you look at the secondary. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.519 Trayvon Dix gets an interception on one of the rare 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.440 opportunities that he was even tested. And then you look 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.720 at Kaylin Carson and he did just fine for his 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.639 NFL debut. Safety group was strong. It has to start 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.280 with the defense for me. Sure they gave up a 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.000 garbage time touchdown late, but this defense, it really stood 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.239 tall and made life really difficult for the pass and 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:38.240 run game for Cleveland. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.880 Absolutely. I think the defense is a great storyline for sure. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.680 But to me, what caught my even more was the 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.720 offense overall. Because we went into a game wondering, Okay, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.800 Ceedee Lamb actually gonna be able to step up his 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.760 you know, not miss a beat. Is dok Presca going 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.120 to be able to perform right after getting such a 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.680 big so a lot of questions surrounding that, as well 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.880 as the the o line and the running game. And 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.760 I think for me, and when you see an offense 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.760 or Brandon Aubrey scoring for field goals, obviously you're like, Okay, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.000 there's a room for improvement for the offense for sure. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.920 But something that I caught my eye and that was 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.360 very impressive was that they were able to put up 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.240 with the physicality and how tough and physical was the 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.200 Brown's defense sometimes, and not to say that the Cowboys 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.840 are not physical themselves when it comes to offense, but 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.040 you know, you see games where it does wear them 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.360 down and then they start kind of playing not as strong. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:44.760 And these guys, man, they were hitting hard and just 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.240 tackling hard. So for me, that's something that when I 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.560 saw some of those hits and it still didn't stop them. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 In general, you saw the players get back up Hunter Lipke, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.160 another guy Zeke making some of those helping blocking. It's 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.640 just the offense was a lot more physical than I 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.560 expected them to be in week one and to meet 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.280 that caught my eye. Of course, room for improvement, but 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.080 that's something that was good to me. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.120 I think even if Cleveland was healthy on offense, Dallas 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.680 would have done the same thing. Defensively to them, they 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.920 played that well. They were buttoned up in this one. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.080 The rotations they had at the defensive line spot, the 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.599 ability of Mike and the staff to be able to 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.159 kind of put guys in position to make plays, the 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.480 guys in the back end or able to hold up 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.159 the safeties played well. You know, you got some guys 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.080 that probably didn't show up on the stat sheet that 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.719 looked really well OsO, Diggy Zoo. Well, I had some 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.239 really some nice plays, some rushes there again, Mike moving around, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.440 Micah moving around Tank, putting them on the same side. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.360 They really did a nice job of confusing not only 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.000 the quarterback, but they did a really good job of refuge, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.760 of confusing the blocking scheme for the Browns. You could 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.919 see there were several times where guys were blocking air 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.280 instead of like maybe being a double on Parsons, maybe 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.960 being a double on Tank, maybe you know, trying to 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.800 help out there. So there were some scheme things that 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.080 they were able to do defensively. This group at linebackers 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.360 completely different. And it's not just overshown, but all these 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.480 guys lea foul got in there for a few plays 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.279 was effective. You know, look at Kendricks the way that 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.960 he plays, He's just always around the ball. They just 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.800 it was really impressive to watch how they played as 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.039 a unit up front and even I mean Lewis playing 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.120 the nickel. They just did not give anything up on 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.560 the back end. And so much of that pressure was 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.760 because of the scheme and the way that guys were 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.400 able to play throughout the scheme, and they were in 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.440 good shape. We remember Green Bay and what a disaster 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.840 that was with guys running open and guys out of 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.280 position all that. No, that was a complete opposite of 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.560 what we saw in that day yesterday. And they took 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.440 advantage of a broken quarterback, and that's good. You take 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.640 advantage of a broken offensive line, that's good. Times we've 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.000 been around here and that hasn't always been the case. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.120 It's like I remember games where oh the Giants are 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.480 down four offensive linemen and Eli Manning throws for four 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.440 hundred yards. You know they used to not do these things. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.800 Now you see that, And I think that's really what 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.680 came off to me is that group was buttoned up. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.880 They were ready to play. The scheme was good, the 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.000 players were good. It was well coached. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.760 I'll say this is about the defensive unit. They probably 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.000 should have had ten sacks. Yes, sure, yeah, there was 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:25.840 so the. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.080 Game you could say, like Michael was like, yeah, we 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.480 had some opportunities we missed. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.080 We miss well. That's we talked about in the breakdown 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.599 is weak arm tackle. You got to go in there. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.159 You saw how you need to bring Deshaun Watson to 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.840 the ground. Overshown is that you know in space, you tackle, 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.760 you wrap, you see you know, that's what you got 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.120 to do, and that's that's the lesson you learned. Tank 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.159 had the same thing happened to him. When you watch 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.720 he you know, there was some really good blitz designs. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.200 The one of the one of the sacks they had 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.200 I thought was a really good design was your two 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.040 best pass rushers dropped in coverage. They brought the They 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.480 brought the slot bliz with Lewis. It's the first time 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.839 he does it the whole game. He drops Mikey, he 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.719 drops Tank, and next you know, it's like they're on 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:11.800 top of the quarterback. And so Mike had some ideas 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.760 of how he wanted to attack these guys, and his 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.360 players played really hard for him and did an excellent 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.400 job of executing that. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:19.000 I just saw. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.240 And Kendricks he's a freaking beast. I just saw him. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.360 He's he was running around the field just now before 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.560 the show. I'm like, dude, I'm tired. I will and 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.480 I'm tired. But they're out there. So again, it's just very, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.800 very impressive to finally see the linebacker group played the 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.760 way they did after what happened last season. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.880 Yeah, they it was It's one of those things and 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.240 we talked about it a bunch coming out of Oxnard. Though. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.800 This linebacker group will be better, and I think they 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.080 got off to a great start yesterday. I really do. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.080 Let's flip to the offensive side of the ball. I 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.080 want to talk about my man Dak Prescott. Yesterday, he's 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.600 nineteen thirty two, fifty nine percent completion, one hundred and 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.720 seventy nine yards, one touchdown, eighty five point three quarterback grating, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:03.600 and sixty million dollars a year. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.600 Yeah, wealthier. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.320 And then well I told my wife, I said, baby 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.400 MJ's grandkids just got really yeah rich, Like that's the 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.120 kind of money we're talking This is generational wealth that 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.680 we're talking about for Dak Prescott. But the interesting part 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.520 about it yesterday was I just read off those numbers 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.400 not terribly impressive, but if you look at the first half, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.760 you thought he was on his way to a monster day. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:24.200 He had. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.120 He was fourteen to twenty one, sixty seven percent completions, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.440 one hundred and fifty six yards through the air, a touchdown, 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.320 and a one oh four point five rating just in 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.360 the first half. So my question for you guys is 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.160 what was the difference in the first and the second half? 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:36.680 Was it more. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.760 Hey, they didn't have to do as much, so they 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.880 didn't do as much, did they did? They start running 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.360 in some bigger problems with Cleveland that they didn't experience 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:43.880 in the first half. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.000 What was the different Brian might have a different perspective here, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.560 but for me, it was just a really good defensive 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.280 coordinator making really good defensive adjustments and it stifled this offense. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.360 And there's definitely some concerns that are not concerns, But 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:55.559 I think there's a lot of things that they can 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.880 go back and watch today in the passing game. In 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.480 the running game, was just no momentum created after the 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.800 halftime break. And fortunately you have a guy like Brandon 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.199 Aubrey who could bailw you out of a couple of 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.240 situations and get you three points. But didn't love the 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.400 offensive production in the second half. In the passing game specifically, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.520 I think you started to see a little bit of 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.320 that rhythm between DAK and CD, maybe not being one 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.560 hundred percent, I think you maybe saw it at seventy 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.680 five percent in this game, and you started to see 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.560 why that was the case. In the second half, that 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.600 Brandon Cooks comes out for dehydration, it kind of messes 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.360 up the passing game a little bit, but overall, I mean, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.920 that's why you build that first half lead. Fortunately for them, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.240 they built it strongly enough. But I thought it was 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.679 just a really good defensive coach who made really good 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:37.440 defensive adjustments. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.040 Yeah, I think you're onto something there too, and you 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.840 look the start to talk it to me, if the 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.720 second half for Ezekiel Elliott would have been ten carries 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.400 for forty yards, I would have felt a lot better 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.560 about the offense, you know, and initially though there was 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.880 some really good design. You're get to give Dak credit 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.560 on the touchdown to Cooks because they don't block. The 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.800 front's not blocked, right. You know, they did catchup Blitzer. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.040 They had enough blockers to take care of the Blitzer. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.360 Dak just did a great job of getting rid of 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.760 the football and find knowing that Cooks was on Thornhill 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.480 and Thornhill can't cover me. I'm sorry, Thornhill, you can't 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.720 cover me on the rock. But it just you know, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.000 they run by. It's a great design and yeah, but 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.319 there was some creativity the way. The creativity came with 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.160 them with running the ball early, and that's what I 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.920 think they had some success was the traps, the polls movement. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.719 It wasn't like, listen, we're going to sit there and 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.640 get go shoe to shoe and try and push these guys. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.640 We're gonna try and be a little bit more creative 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.640 with it. And there's some things. You're gonna watch this 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.880 game and you're gonna go back and you're gonna go darn, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.599 you know, come on, daddle. That thing's blocked, right, You 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.839 got to cut that ball. You can't run the darkness there, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.920 you know. The traps and the things that they were 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.400 able to do to spring Zeke I thought were really good. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.640 I think at the second half it just came how 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.319 do you run the how do you just try and 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.679 run the clock? Mike comes out. I think got lost 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.760 as a game as a play call on the second 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.719 three straight pass players and you're like going, all right, now, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.200 where's your where's your running? To me? It would have 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.240 been running game, waggles boots, running game, running game, running game, 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.760 waggle boot, you know, just make they did in the 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.120 first half. They did a great job of making the 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.560 Browns have to defend the whole field that they were playing, sidelines, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.440 the sideline, and we really weren't getting you know, we 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.880 weren't getting a lot of the vertical shots. You know, 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.480 but it's a shame that you had the deep incut 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.720 that that Turpin dropped. You know, that was that was 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.080 one of the best balls that pressures all around Dak 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.320 and they throw it down the middle and Turpin drops it. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.720 You're like, damn, you got to catch that ball. You know. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.200 Those are things in the first half where you were 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.360 kind of like encouraged, and in the second half it 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.400 was like playing watching a preseason game where you're just like, why, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.480 why is the ball, Why is the ball going into 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.640 the ground, Why is the running game not working? Why? 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.360 You know, it was just like the defense was playing 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.640 so well that McCarthy knew that, and it's like instead 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.720 of saying, Okay, we got to amp this thing up, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.200 I've got to find a way to get that get 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.000 the running game going a little bit. You know, that's 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.280 where I was hopeful. I was hoping that second half 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.480 they come out and all of a sudden, it's like, Okay, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.840 let's see how well and Guiden much better run blocker 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.600 than pass blocker yesterday, bbe much better pass blocker than 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.600 run blocker yesterday. You know, still outstanding. Was worried about 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.079 him in this game. They had some guys that were 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.840 playing at a high level. They just they missed some opportunities. 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.080 I think in the second half. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.360 That's the thing that I feel like you saw a 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.640 lot of different elements are very promising there. You're like, Okay, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.360 I can work with this, you can work with this. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.080 They can make it happen. But it is concerning and 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.520 I'm not going to kill them this first week because Okay, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.960 at least he didn't give up the ball, he didn't 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.520 throw an interception, and they were able to manage to 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:47.959 win the game. But I hope it doesn't become that 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.480 whole thing that is happened in previous year where the 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.240 defense is playing so hard, then you got Brandon Nobrey 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.280 the one scoring points, and then the offense is just 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.079 not really doing enough. Because we've seen that, I know, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:03.400 I don't know if it's been two years in a 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.360 row now where we've seen kind of some of that 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.400 happening at some point in the season where the offense 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.080 is just kind of trailing behind, and then it's happened 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.080 where it just kind of flips and the defense started 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.800 trailing behind and then the offense scoring points. But all 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.760 that to say, I think we saw a lot of 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.400 different elements that are very very makes me feel very 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.680 hopeful in the running game Tyler Guyan, things are very promising. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:32.120 You talked about the difference in him and bebe at 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.320 least there's some balance there. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.520 Yeah, no, no, it was Yeah. When you watch, when 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.240 you watch him play, I felt like it was a 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.120 matter of survival for Tyler Guyton out there attack and 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.360 it wasn't always just it was not just dealing with Garrett, 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.360 it was dealing with Smith and everybody. I mean, he 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.319 was fighting to he was bending, he was Yeah, he 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.880 was trying his best not to. The run blocking stuff 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.600 I thought was very encouraging. And we've seen him, you 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.079 know in Oklahoma. We didn't always talk about Tyler Guyton 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.320 is a good run block, but they had some situations 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.400 in that game. Bbe's got to figure out a little 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.079 bit more. But when they pushed that thing second level, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.280 he's got to locate. And Cormora can play. Corey Mora 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.600 the linebacker for the Browns. He will make every single 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.600 tackle if you don't block him in the running game, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.240 and there was a couple of times where you know, 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.880 bbe they got hooked up and he couldn't get off, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.920 he couldn't get to the guy, and then they and 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.200 then when they would block it, well, well, as I mentioned, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.560 daddle runs the darkness, make the cut, you you know, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.280 keep your eyes open. But that's the kind of stuff. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.280 I just they lost that in the second half. They 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.800 lost the ability to separate, They lost the ability to 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.320 the quarterback to be accurate throwing the football. The play caller, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.200 I think got out of a little bit of rhythm too, 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.360 with how he was he was thinking, well, my defense 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.960 is playing great. I'm just gonna just gonna call ball 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.760 plays here. And then you know, but there could have 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.080 been some purpose, There could have been some better purpose 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:54.440 with him in the second half. You know. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.720 That's something I think I've noticed about Mike McCarthy, And 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.280 I go back to what he said. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.280 He had a comment. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.560 I can't remember exactly when it happened, but it was 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:06.560 after they had let or they separated with Kellen Moore 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.480 and something. It was something to the effect of, you know, 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.720 sometimes you get in these games and Kellen wants to 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.720 get to swing the score up, and we just see 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.600 we want to win the game, and I think he 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.120 calls games like that. I think he's gonna be that 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.240 type where if he's got a league, he may try 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.960 to just protect that lead versus getting more aggressive at 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.200 that point to keep running the score up, which can 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.880 be good or bad. Now, when you got a defense 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.960 that's playing as well as a defense played yesterday, it 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.160 actually could be okay. But it does get you a 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.520 little nervous in the NFL, because we saw three teams 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.800 yesterday in the NFL were down fourteen points that came 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.480 back and won a lead. Is not safe in the NFL. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.760 No, it's not. And the thing the way they kind 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.040 of went around it to to try and get some 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.320 offense or maybe run the ball a little bit better, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.720 was they got into that twenty two personnel with the 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.280 two backs, two tight ends. Yeah that, and then twenty 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.240 one personnel with the two backs one tight end, and 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.680 it became Hunter Lipkey. Hunter Lipkey was actually your best 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.520 point of attack. And I know I'm not sure because 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:01.920 you're sitting there and I know you like should be. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.000 But the thing with Hunter Lipkey, he was your Ferguson's 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.840 out and now you got to kind of kind of 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.840 cobble this thing together hunter Lipkey figured out he was 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.400 your best point of attack blocker when you watched him. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.760 He was the one guy that like, Okay, I can 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.480 see why they're running twenty two personnel. I could see 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.400 why they're running twenty one personnel here because he was 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.880 able to do some things. Now, the players weren't always successful, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.760 but he was successful in in his task. I was 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.840 watching him like, oh, that's a plus block. Well that 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.200 was a plus block. Well that was another plus block. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.800 You know they didn't have that always across the board 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:37.560 in the second half. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.640 Yeah, he's turning into one of those players. I think 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:40.880 that you could see the vision. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:41.920 You can rely on him. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.400 But over time you're seeing get better and better and better, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:45.880 and it is going to come a point when he's 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.840 gonna be a really, really nice piece for this offense. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.560 All right, let's sick our first break. We're gonna come back. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.680 We'll talk a little bit about the running game a 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.680 little deeper. 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