WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: A Pressing Matter 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.640 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:16.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.079 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:31.200 Star in Frisco. And now your hosts, I say a 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:38.760 stand back, Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeomans. It is a 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.839 wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.640 Coffee Company, the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. We 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.480 are live from the Star in Frisco in the SWBC 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.560 studios here on this Wednesday, prior to wild Card weekend. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:59.520 It's a wild Card Wednesday, Tampa Bay Dallas coming up 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.840 on Monday, a night football ww it is When or 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.760 Go Home time. And today we are going to preview 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:11.600 the Cowboys defense versus the Tampa Bay offense. And one 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.880 of those guys that plays quarterback you never forget the 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:17.880 name of what was it again to Tom Thomas Tom Brady, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:23.160 Thomas H. Brady? Yeah, that guy, that guy Tom Brady 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.880 and company going up against Michael Parsons in that Cowboys defense. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.520 Will preview that throughout the show. I say a stand back, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:34.080 Patrick Nose Walker. We've got Chris Beam how's everybody doing? Tablo? Yeah? 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.479 Why is that time? Let's go? Time? You feel you 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.800 feel like this has the energy of a winner, go 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.000 home game just yet from a fan base standpoint, man, Yeah, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.080 I mean that's that's what it is. I mean, I 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.680 don't know, I feel I felt it on my way 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.040 in here today kind of. I know, I'm retired, super retired, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.520 but like I started getting those those little playoff jitters again, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.000 a little tings like today's like you're first real practice day, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.560 Like today's jel, it's goal, It's time to roll, you 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.880 know what I'm saying. Like the preparation. Hopefully these guys 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.120 have been studying like like crazy. I wholeheartedly believe that 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.360 this coaching staff has instilled in them that what is 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.359 required preparation wise for a game of this caliber. I mean, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.640 I totally agree. I hope that that's the case. But 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.480 I just hope that the players have received that. I 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.760 hope that the players have received that, because that is 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.919 going to be what is the difference maker. I agree, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.519 And we were kind of talking about it right before 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.480 we came on, Colin. We were saying, when you were 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.560 saying that the energy around the building, it seems a 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.000 bit quiet. I wouldn't even say around the building. That's 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.120 not necessarily what I was implying. I'm mostly saying amongst 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.760 Cowboys Nation right now. I think it's just subdued. And 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.760 it may be because it's Monday and it's not a 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.840 Sunday game. We've got an extra day to kind of 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.440 buffer calm before the storm. Yeah, and listened sometimes, and 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.400 we talked about it yesterday when we were talking about 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.800 just over the course of your life, when you've taken 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.240 some of your worst whoopings, would rather be on the 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.040 athletic field or in, you know, the career field, whatever 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.120 the case may be, how did you respond? And just 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.880 speaking solely for myself, that was always the calm before 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.320 the storm. So like after I got my teeth knocked 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.400 out in whatever fashion, and it might have been, I 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.120 locked in and I didn't want to talk to anybody. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.399 I didn't want anybody talking to me. Just just leave 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.799 me in my space so I can stay where I'm 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.720 at in this anger, in this fury and this frustration, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.440 so that it can remain as as concentrated as possible, 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.760 so that when I get back the next day or 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.640 the next round of the next matchup full explosion, So 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.280 that that's kind of what it feels like. It's bubbling 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.200 right now. And honestly, let again, we will say it 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.160 a million times, we did not want to see what 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.640 we had to witness on Sunday. But I tell you what, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.160 if that's what had to happen to keep you know, 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.720 the I'll say it this way. I love what Jerry 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.880 Jones said on yesterday one or five point three of 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.040 From the Fan. He said they were sobered up on 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.520 Sunday in Washington. Cool. I like it. That's the energy 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.360 I'm feeling. I'm feeling a lot of sobered you know, sobriety. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.080 As far as you're not going into this game against 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.159 Tampa Bay high off of fifty point bomb that's dropped 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.640 on the Eagles Week eighteen of last season. You're going 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:25.479 in with embarrassment and humiliation and you can't possibly feel cocky. Now. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.039 The energy has to be, hey man, we got to 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.240 get this done. What happened last week could happen this 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.640 week if we don't get it together. So I'm here 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.119 for that. It needs to be that type of energy 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.200 because you need to look at that game that way. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.160 I think one of the reasons why it is subdued 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.120 around Cowboys Nation right now is because it goes back 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.800 to what you were talking about, where you're hoping that 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.560 they show up and that it will be that up 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.400 until that point. Absolutely. Yeah, there's like Patrick saying, to 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.560 Patrick's point, earlier in the year, I mean earlier in 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.320 the week, the signs have been there before that you 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.919 can do it. You're just hoping that it does happen 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.600 after what happened in Washington. So there's there's a frustration 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.600 aspect to it. But I tend to agree with you 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.680 because come Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you're gonna hear it ramp up, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.480 ramp up, ramp up, ramp up. Sunday you're gonna watch 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.159 all these games and everybody's gonna be talking about, oh man, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.200 Monday night's coming around. That's gonna be a big game 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.840 coming up. Anytime Tom Brady faces the Cowboys, it's a massive, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.400 massive deal. And with it being said that Tom Brady 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.760 seven and oh against the Cowboys, Cowboys have a little 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.560 bit of a chip on your shoulder. Yeah, I don't 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.440 really go to that stuff. I mean, that's the reality. Right. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.200 You look at the analytics and you looked at the 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:38.880 stat line, all those kind of things that are gonna 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.159 favor TV twelve. I really look at the preparation stand point. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.719 I'm gonna keep coming back to a preparation No h, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:50.280 I'm just that this is you're gonna have to be 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.080 mentally tough, and the mental aspect of the game is 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.440 what really separates teams in the playoffs. Yeah, Like, like 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.240 the preparation is like I can't even I can't even 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.039 depict and explain to everybody, like how high it is. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.960 Like you're spending every moment trying to gain an edge, right. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:09.280 You remember last year when I was when I was 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.200 watching film and trying to I was trying to find 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.280 anything that's a tail, right, any little thing, right, you 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.640 know what I mean, maybe a little bit. Wow, you're 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.320 not going to share with the class. I can't share 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.839 it publicly, Yes, you share it publicly. Last year I 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.680 did kind of. Um. Yeah, then we got the carpet pool. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.440 That's fair. Oh so there's there's always something that a 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.600 team has done all year, all year long that's a tail. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.800 The mental aspect, the preparation aspect, is what's going to 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.840 give you that advantage. You have to go identify those things. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.760 This is when your scouting department goes to work. This 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.800 is when your coaches go to work. This is when 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.680 you're able to communicate that over to your players to 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.200 give them that extra edge, that half a step game. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.480 And then you have to also be mentally tough because 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.599 of the standpoint. Teams are gonna come out doing something different. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.960 First quarter. Teams are gonna do something different. They're gonna 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.920 yeah the first fifteen plus right, that first quarter is 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.960 really when they're gonna try to hit you upside. Set 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.800 the tone. That's where you set the tone, but also 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.320 where you're also that's where all your curveballs come. Yeah, 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.000 but then what happens in the second quarter, mid second quarters? 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.680 Now you start going back to what they've been doing 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.320 all year long? What did they do for seventeen games? 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.720 What did they do for seventeen games? Now ask me, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.320 y'all starts looking okay, Yeah, I was ready to weather 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.119 the storm because I might get punched in the mouth early. Okay, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.080 eat on both sides, right, Cowboys Tampa Bay, They're both 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.440 ready to get get those jabs. Right. But that's when 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.400 you start looking at TV twelve and start saying, okay, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.640 This guy is dangerous because he knows how to weather 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.400 those storms. This guy's dangerous because he knows that those 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.880 things are gonna happen. And Okay, once the game settles in, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.360 now all my preparation, if DQ had anything that he's 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.200 been doing all year long, then I could pick up on. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.000 Now I get to expose that. And on the flip side, right, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.280 killing Moore and same thing you know, going against going 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.120 against Tampa Bay. Okay, uh, they're gonna be They're gonna 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.480 start really relying on. There are the things that they've 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.520 been working on in practice, the film that the scouts 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.560 have been picking up all those things. And this is 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.560 what I love that aspect that it's a chess game. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.440 It's really a chess game. And that's why the turnovers 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:16.600 it can't happen, period, happened period because especially when you're 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.800 playing a quarterback of this caliber, most of the time 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.080 he's not going to give you that opportunity to get 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.760 that one up. So you just have to tighten things 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.240 down and and really it all boils down to what 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.720 you just said, and then wrap a big glaring lanyard 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.000 around it, and it's Tom Brady. It's Tom Brady. It's 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.719 Tom Brady a lanyard. You went with the lanyards? Do 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.800 you tie things with lanyards? I can such just the thing. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.679 I thought it would just be a bow work roll 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:48.400 everything with, you know, a bunge of code string, shoe string. Okay, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.280 what's your time? Time up? Hog time? And time up? 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.160 Hog time and leave him there. It all boils down 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.320 to Tom Brady. The Tampa Bay offense and team as 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.320 a whole goals as Tom Brady goes. They're not even 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.360 as as lowly as the NFC South has been this season. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.640 The Buccaneers don't even win this division and get themselves 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.880 in the playoffs if not for a couple of game 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.440 winning drives from Tom Brady. All you ever have to 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.720 do to to almost guarantee you lose the game is 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.160 be close late in the game with Tom Brady and 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.920 leave enough time for him to have the final possession. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.640 I want to talk about what makes playoff tom Brady 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.880 different when we come back on the other side of 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.520 the break. We're not taking the break right now, but 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.880 in the second segment we will talk about it. I 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.080 do want to get into news and notes, though, because 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.200 a couple of guys, of course, coming back from injury 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.000 this week. We mentioned it yesterday. Late and Vanderesh, Tyler Biadas, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.760 Jonathan Hankins. Are they all going to be back out 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.000 on the field today? Is that? What's the expectations? They'll 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.120 all be on the field today, awesome, as well as 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.840 Matt Farniac as well as the Ron Bland. We'll see 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.840 in what capacity. Late Vanderesh has been a limited practice participant, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.199 he was all last week, so I would exp that 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.520 he's going to ramp up the full on effective today 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.080 and we'll see what the others look like. If Tyler 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.040 Beadish is back on the field, I expect that he'd 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.880 be in a limited capacity. I don't see him them 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.559 throwing him back out in a full but we'll see. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.320 Jonathan Hankins. They have to activate him or I should say, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.520 designate him to return from i R first before he 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.480 can return to the official practice field. So we'll see 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.240 if that takes place today. That is the expectation. And 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.960 McCarthy will speak here at eleven o'clock, so we'll see 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:30.920 if he drops a tidbit on you know, kind of 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.400 a new news item there saying that Hankins is going 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.040 to be activated. I expect it to happen, and dron Bland. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.440 You know, like I said yesterday, no indications at any 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.440 turn that the Cowboys are concerned with that chest injury. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.240 So he should be a full goal if I mean 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.199 at best. At worst, I could see them making him 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.280 limited just as a precautionary attandpoint because you still have 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.880 several more days of practice and then Xavier Rhodes still 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.720 looking like Xavier Rhodes is going to take the field 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.200 for the Cowboys. I don't see why they wouldn't put 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.480 him on the field, elevate him. Yeah, yeah, make it happen. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.240 Make it happen, because if you think about it, this 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.680 is the playoffs. You don't win this game. There is 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:17.320 no next game. So if Xavier Rhodes doesn't participate in 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.480 this matchup against the Buccaneers and you knuckle would lose 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.640 this game, would you bring him in for Yeah? What 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.760 is he even doing? I mean, is it would? It 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.319 would be the conversation we had with t Y Hilton 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.160 where having a veteran in that room is great because 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.800 right now Trayvon Diggs in that room and he's in 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.720 year three in the NFL. Sure if anybody in year 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.480 three is qualified enough to be considered a veteran. It 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.360 would probably be Traybon Diggs, but Xavier Rhodes has seen 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.719 a lot, He's done a lot, so having him in 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.640 the room helps. But yeah, you would like to have 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.800 him as that piece, right. You didn't bring him in 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.959 as a consultant only, and which is what if he 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.080 was signed and then did not play in the playoff 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.560 game that you know happened immediately after he was signed, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.319 then again, what would you bring him in for as 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.600 a player? I mean you could have asked his advice 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.080 and and paypaled him somewhere a payment for all that. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.880 So yeah, get him on the field, especially against TB twill. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.360 What do you think about what Rhodes could bring? Is 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.680 he is he kind of a hidden piece right now 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.280 for this Cowboys defense? Or is that just hoping? I 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.880 don't think it's hidden. I think that he definitely asked 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.920 him depth to you now, you know you go again 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.880 to the Mike shot, you know and saying, you know, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.559 why was he out there type of deal all the 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.760 way through the whole season. I mean, well he was. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.120 He was only out there like a week's right. I 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.880 might know, no disrespect, but he adds value in the 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.480 sense that he's seen a lot, and you do not, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.840 I repeat, you do not want to go into playoffs, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.920 especially against the Tampa that is fully loaded offensively aside 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.400 from their center, right, they're fully loaded offensively, all their 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:01.599 weapons on the outside with young corners is just in 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.880 the most veteran of veteran quarterbacks dangerous. It's just not 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.760 something that you want to do because you need somebody 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.720 out there that's savvy enough, that's seen enough, that knows 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.679 how to watch film, that knows how to pick up 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.760 on indicators to communicate those, that knows how to bait him, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.720 that knows all the little intricacies in terms of coverages 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.200 and leverage. And I'm i'm a I'm a I'm an 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.480 outside shade him, but I really gonna work my way 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.640 to the inside shade. Right, there's a lot of little 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.400 different savvy things that that veteran corners do and know 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.880 and know how to do. And he's had reps against 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.160 dB twelve as well, So this is like, this is 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.640 somebody hopefully that is in shape enough to be able 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.320 to come in and make a contribution asap, because if 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.720 he can, now you're you're ensuring that at least you're 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.360 outsides or solid right, and then you throw dB and 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.520 you throw you know, darn Bland in there. Now you 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.720 have a solid three, right, you have a solid three. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.760 And then nay Sean walks up in there. I hope, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.160 I hope that he uses his physicality to his Evana. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.240 Have you seen them doing that a little bit more lately? 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:02.839 Who na just in general pressing, no getting hands on it? No? Why? 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.880 I don't know. Are they saved? It is just a 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.839 a process, yes, an al Harris question. Because Al Harris 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.120 was really good at it. Now, he played a lot 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.520 off coverage. He was really good at shadowing himself. But 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.160 he was quick enough to come out the breaks and 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.959 he was it was knowledgeable enough to be able to 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.960 break early based upon what he was seeing from the 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.120 quarterbacks drop and what the receiver's depth in the situation 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.560 or you know, a situation based upon down a distance. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.360 He was savvy enough to be able to break and 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.080 make plays on things. These guys aren't there yet, right, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.160 let sever Trayvon. These guys were not there yet. Darron 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:33.800 Blad is doing a great job of it. Based upon 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.360 film study, He's able to acknowledge what the downer distance 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.080 is what the situation is based upon. The formation, the 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.880 splits right, the quarterbacks drop given his eyes. There's a 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.640 whole lot that goes into being able to make a 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.080 really good reactive play at the cornerback position, which is 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.800 why it's good to have an xavier roads in there. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.440 But I think, and we mentioned it a few weeks ago, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.520 as far as spacing goes, I think it just goes 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.200 to trust that that that trust has to be built 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.200 with Al Harris, that trust has to be built with 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.160 Joe Witten, built with Dan Quinn, with these young guys 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.200 such as right that say, hey, I have enough trust 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.840 in you that I can have you press man and 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.480 know that you can recover and not get smoked on 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.720 a goal. It's worst case scenario, right, You're you're protecting 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.280 the worst case scenario exactly, the worst exactly. The last 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.240 thing that you want to do, right is simply come 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.400 up there, so the press. Right. You're confident in the 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.160 stature of your of your young bulls. But at the 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.040 same time, if you swing and miss, oh two piece 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.720 of a biscuit, and you know you and it is 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.560 hard to recover from a two piece in the biscuit, right. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:32.120 So the goal is, I was wondering where you were 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.120 going with that piece two piece in the busy. If 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.200 you swing right, you have the last scammage. You swing 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.720 and Mike Evan sent you with the UIE or Julio 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.040 Jones hit you with the UIE, or God would hit 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.640 you with the OUI. They're probably gonna be, oh, oh, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.440 I forgot engage, gonna hit you with the ouie. You 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.960 don't want to be chasing those guys, right, So it's 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.840 keeping keeping, keeping keeping. It's been, but don't break this. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.480 Keep this guy. These guys have done a great job 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.320 defensively in terms of red zone defense for the most 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.520 part this year. They've given up some yards as of late, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.480 but in terms of red zone defense, they do a 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.520 good job. So you would much rather have them have 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.880 a ten twelve, fourteen play drive that ends in the 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.360 field goal. Versus come up there, press them and then 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.320 they get one big shot over the top. And here's 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.640 the thing when it comes to the Cowboys, and the 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.360 Cowboys will have the ability to walk into this game 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.760 feeling like this is mostly a one dimensional matchup. Now, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.360 typically that is fantastic because your goal going into a 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.600 game is to make any offense one dimensional. What makes 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.640 it a little bit dangerous is that it's Tom Brady, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.960 so nothing he hasn't seen or done before. Okay, fine, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.960 but it still works in the Cowboys favorite they don't 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.680 necessarily have to no disrespect to Leonard Fournette, but they 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.040 don't necessarily have to worry about the prowess of the 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.560 Russian attack. When it comes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.200 they're not good at running the ball, and they know 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.880 they're not, which is why they don't run the ball 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.080 that often. I think they run the ball twenty two 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.440 less than twenty three percent of the time on first 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.040 What do they do in place of running? Holdo, I 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.920 get what you're saying. My point is it this schematically 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.240 speaking from a Dan Quinn aspect, and this is why 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.040 I said it's all about hog time tom Brady, because 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.040 if you hog tied Tom Brady, you just hog tied 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.200 more than three quarters of the offensive production for that team. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.280 And now you're moving. You're demanding that Leonard Fournette and 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.679 that rushing attack be effective and efficient. But they've not 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.080 been able to do that over the course of eighteen 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.639 seventeen games. I'm sorry they're thirty second in the league, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.359 and efficiency on yards per carry, thirty second in the league, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.119 in average yards rushing per game, the list goes on 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.479 and on. They quite literally have the worst rushing attack 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.119 in the entire NFL. And that's what should make Cowboys 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.480 fans feel a little bit better because what's one of 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.159 the what's been one of the achilles heels for the 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.879 Cowboys defense this season more often than not, run defense. Yeah, well, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.160 your run defense. Not only is it getting Jonathan Hankins 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.720 back in all likelihood and getting the LV back in 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.680 the middle of your play caller, one of the best 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.040 players that you have on your defense to help upgrade 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.679 or run defense, but you're getting that at a time 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.639 where you're playing against an offense that doesn't run the 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.280 ball well at all. So if these corners, to your 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.480 point and took How's point, if these corners can figure 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.440 it out against Tom Brady, and for me, figuring it 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.880 out against Tom Brady doesn't mean trying to outsmarter because 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.080 you won't. You can't not going to happen. But you 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.600 can outsmart Mike Evans, you can outsmart Godwin, you can 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.840 out smart Russell Gage. You can't a little less Julio 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.000 Jones because he's been there so long. But my point is, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.200 if you can get these guys to decide wrong on 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.320 smart routes, if you can knock them off of their 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:38.840 time and at the line of scrimmage, if you can 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.920 make them have a split second later on their breaks, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:43.800 whatever the case may be, then the ball that would 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.840 have been a great ball from Tom Brady now becomes 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.080 a questionable, questionable ball, not because of Brady, but because 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.439 of what happened on the receiving end of that that 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.159 might become an interception, that might become a pass break up. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:58.439 Get in the face of these these receivers, disrupt the 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.080 passing game, force the game. Aim on the run. For 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.879 Tampa Bay, Hankins lvee that run defense against the worst 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.040 rushing attack in the league ball game. I like to 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.760 agree with you. It sounds easy. I like to agree 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.320 with you. Let me, let me the blueprint. But you 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:19.680 got you gotta execute the blue blueprint, Jay z Oh, Yes, okay, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.879 so yes, I like what you did there. Okay, But 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.320 the reality is Tampa Bay doesn't care about running the 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.399 ball effectively. Right. If you're gonna give up the run, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.880 they'll give they'll they'll take it seventy seven yards per 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.520 game to go to patrick two or thirty second in 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.080 the country. Absolutely, But what are they leading last What 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.440 are they leading the league than number two in the league? 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.560 What are they leading the league? Passing yards? Passing seventy 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:46.320 passing play percentage? They're leading and passing? They don't They 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.679 don't want to run. They know they can't and it 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.800 doesn't matter what they got. So how do they run 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.439 up them to run? But how do they run the 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:57.399 ball physically? No, they run screens. That's their running game. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.920 It's about some people. They're running game is and that's 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:03.960 why stats don't tell the whole story. Right, So they're 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.960 not doing traditional run. They have quasite runs. But to 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.840 our point, what do our corners not do? For the 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.399 most part, they don't what right? No? Or not even 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.560