WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Offensive Concerns? 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.240 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:14.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:19.400 Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:24.599 the Star. No. Your hosts Bury Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:32.080 new He scrugs. Good people, good people, good people. Welcome 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.000 to the Players Lounge. It's twelve thirty on this beautiful Monday. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.360 Not really a victory Monday. You know, we didn't get 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.000 to w in Kansas City like two of my co 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.960 hosts thot we would. But if you're used to hearing 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.519 Nwei's voice, knew he is on assignment right now, so 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.360 he's out. So it's just your average box safety Buried 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.440 Church hosting today. I'm with the Ultimate Survivor, Danny mccraig 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.920 and the ultimate winner of bets. Well, you know, all right, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.120 I guess you know, I guess y'all give you that. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:04.720 I'll give you up like we did. We did not 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.880 bet on the game. You didn't you right right up. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.839 You ain't beat me in the bed. And I'm just saying, 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.760 I'm just saying if we would have, I would have 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.920 came away with the devil. But I didn't, So you 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.560 know what, let's just dive straight into this thing right now. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.520 Or the Cowboys went up to Kansas City arrow Heads 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:26.199 Stadium three twenty five Game of the Week on Fox. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.480 We had Troy, we had John Bucking there. I mean, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.959 it was hype. It was hyped. Everybody was hyping it up. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.720 They felt like this would be the game of the year. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:34.480 Going into this game, we thought it was gonna be 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.360 a shootout, bang bang, bang, back and forth. But it 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.319 didn't happen that way. Mccraig, what was your thoughts on 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.520 the on Sunday's game. Well, let me clear it up, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.600 because Barry, I'm just saying I did not think it 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.560 was gonna be a shootout. I thought our defense was 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.160 going to play well and hold them to twenty four points, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.800 which is the NFL game is is that that's a 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.400 that's a good point total. We held him to nineteen, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.480 but our offense did not get off the bus. The 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:01.240 offense got left back here in Frisco. Buck, We could 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.480 not get in rolling. We suffered more injuries in the game. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.600 We had Ceedee Lamb go out somewhere around the second half. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.200 We couldn't get an old line to figure out how 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.880 how to block anyone. At that point, the noise was 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.480 getting to us at the at the stated communication was off, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.760 so man, just all around offensively, it was just a 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:26.760 bad performance by us. But bright spot, Okay, you text 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.120 me early in the in the game you said, I 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.639 said top ten defense. You was like, yeah, right, yeah, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.040 I said, stop it. I can't and I'm like you 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.160 just watch, you just watch and if you listen, the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.520 defense kept us in that game because there were so 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.160 many times where I was like a man, we stopped 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.160 them this many times. It was like five straight times 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.760 that we had stopped five or six straight drifts and uh, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.280 I was like, man, but one of these, if we 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.040 don't score some like offensive points, the next one is 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.960 gonna be twenty three. It's gonna look like the defense 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.960 played horrible. But they kept fighting. They did even even 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.600 when the offense would give them the ball, and in 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.600 our own territory of with horrible field positions, they figured 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.239 out a way to stop them. Ben but don't break 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.800 in make on kick field goals. Michael Parsons had another 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.280 hell of a game. Agah, Yeah, we're gonna get on 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.000 him a little bit later. That unbelievable, but I'm like, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.640 I'm still really excited about our defense. Um, I'm not 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.640 gonna take everything away from the offenses we were getting 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.680 into the injuries and and how hard it is to 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.160 come back from some of the stuff that we had 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.480 to deal with. But at the end of the day, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.760 they're still a way for us to win that game. Yeah, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.320 we had we had an opportunity. We definitely had an opportunity. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.639 Like you said, this game was hyped up. I was 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.640 talking about earlier. This game was hyped up from the jump. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.800 It was Dak Prescott, you know, is he in that 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.600 elite quarterback conversation. Then you got my Homes on the 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.200 other side, who everybody considers him, you know, the greatest 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.480 thing since sliced bread. So these two guys going at 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.360 it for the first time in their careers. You know, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.320 my Homes being a Texas boy. So this game was 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.720 hyped up. In my opinion, it didn't live up to 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.240 that height. You know, I thought it was gonna come 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.400 out here, shots were gonna be fired back and forth, 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.160 big plays here and there, tyree getting getting loose on 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.960 our defense. But that never happened. That never happened. And 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.080 I'll give you credit for that the defense played its 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.160 butt off. They kept this this high powered Kansas City 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.720 offense pretty much in check. Like you called it. It It 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.840 was a bend but don't break style of defense. When 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.320 they got into the red zone, they were able to 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.280 hold Kansas City to field goals and I think they 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.839 had well that three or four field goals tech gals, 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.280 two field goals, I believe exactly. And early on, early 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.719 on in that game, those first three drives, I was like, oh, 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.960 here we go. Q just had to figure it out. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.320 That he had to figure it out. You saw him 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.680 running the ball a little bit. They were completing some passes, 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.160 and then it was like that wake up of like, okay, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.039 we see what they're trying to do. I liken it 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.640 to like how Floyd maybe whether it is in the 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.800 beginning right, Usually he get out there in the first 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.600 couple of rounds he's like, oh, we don't know, we're 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.280 not sure what's going on, Floyd. And then all of 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.520 a sudden, you just pick it up and you saw it. Man. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.960 We started getting pressure, the defensive backs were locking down. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.560 They were playing some really good football, which is the 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.479 most disappointing part about it, because you say, man, if 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.840 your defense goes out there and holds Kansas City the 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.159 nineteen you should be able to at least beat in 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.760 the game, especially with the offense we got. We could 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.760 we could not find a way to get in the game. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.360 And I think this was like the so it was 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.600 like the Mahomes versus Dak thing, right, but this was 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.440 the Mahomes. This was like last year when we saw 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.479 Mahomes in the Super Bowl and this offensive line did 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.599 not have all their pieces and they didn't play well. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.240 And you say he's still Pat Mahomes. Man, I say 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.960 he's still Dak Prescott. But Prescott in that offensive line, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.800 we just they struggled and that was I think that's 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.320 the most they struggled all year. That was that was 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.920 a bad outing for for our offensive line. Well, let's 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.760 just dive straight into it then. I mean, we talked 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.159 about the game a little bit, but let's focus on 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.280 that offensive side of the ball. Let's focus on specifically 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.599 that offensive line. I mean, we going in here, you 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.840 know this week, you know the Cowboys are like, all right, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.720 we got to find a new solution at left guard. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.360 Connor Williams, you know, he struggled a lot when going 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.000 against the bull rush, and he was the most penalized player. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.520 I'm not if it's either in the NFL or on 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.880 the Cowboys. He's getting a lot of penalty. So they 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.000 decided to make the move put you know, mc governing 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:02.520 in there. Let's see what he got. He's done some 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.400 full back work and for this offense. But let's see 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.600 if he can go in there and establish that left 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.800 guard position. Let's get it down pat. So they put 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.479 him in there. They think they got their best five 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.880 out there. You know, Tyren Smith didn't go. So we 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.560 got Steel on the left side, and then we got 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.839 Collins on the right side. I was the last struggle. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.840 What was your thoughts on that. I'm just listen, I'm 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.880 just I'm just gonna go back to this, Okay, because 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.080 I've been saying this for a while. Okay, if you 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.920 go back over the last three to four years, Okay, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:36.040 the most evident thing when when we're missing a player 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.800 is that when we're missing Tyron Smith, yes, the game 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.720 looks totally different. Like every time he's out for an 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.920 extended period of time, we do not look like a 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.840 team that can beat anyone offensively. Right. I went back 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.640 to Atlanta a few years ago when Clayborne came out 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.440 and then he had six sacks. Right, and then you 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.240 watch last year, right, Tyren Smith's out, Layo's out, but 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.559 Tyren Smith is the guy. He's out. All of a sudden, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.800 everything's different this year. Now he's out two games one. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.120 You know, we hold up. Okay, this one it was, 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.880 it was bad. And then you throw in a new 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.280 guy right right next to Terren Still when you put 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.560 them on the left side, and you saw, you saw 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.840 players where the communication was so off that Still couldn't 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.320 even hear the snap count. He didn't even know the 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.680 ball was snapping. He's getting beat off the edge, right, 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.320 So I think I'm gonna go back to this. Okay, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.040 I do think still at the right it's still our 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.760 best option. And then you can you put Leo at 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.040 the left and give him some help. Okay, at least 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.600 you have McGovern over there with with the veteran player. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.000 Maybe they're able to play a little better. But if 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.000 you have to show up at least one side of 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.480 your offensive mind, you cannot have League Joan both. And 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.200 what we know is if you put Terry Still on 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.480 the right, based off what we've seen this year from him, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.840 he will be able to hold up on the right side. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.680 So at least you could depend on one thing, right 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.080 You could depend on the sprint out, you could depend 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.520 on some passes to whatever. You can find a way 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.440 to work with that. But when you have both both 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.480 edges under attack and the middle under attack, name you 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.400 got no chance, Yeah you got you got no chance. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.000 And I'm with you on this one. I mean, look, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.040 everybody on the officive line struggled. Everybody. I mean, I'm 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.880 even Zach Martin. He got he got worked a little 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.480 bit as well. So that to me, it's a little 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.280 worrisome because you know, at least if everybody else, you know, fails. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.360 We got Zach Martin in there. He played his butt 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.280 off and he had a pretty good game. But he 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.000 gave up one but Chris Jones. Chris Jones, he had 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.320 the game on that defensive line. I'm talking about. This 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.360 guy went ham on anybody. Everybody could have got something. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.320 He gave it to be honest, he gave it to 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.679 m McGovern, he gave it to steal on the outside. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.880 And then he said, you know what, I know this 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.679 guy's going to the Hall of Fame. I know he's 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.440 probably the best guard in the National Football League. But 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.520 I'm feeling myself. I'm on fire right now. He can 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.720 get it too. So he went over top of Zack Martin, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.480 gave him a one two steps, slapped him on by. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.480 Zach Martin's hand was all in the dirt, and he 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.440 went and sacked Dak Prescott. So to me, Jones, Chris Jones, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.000 I mean, he played a hell of a game. He 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.880 was just one of the most game wrecking performances I've 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.839 seen in the wild since the Dominicans who played that 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.120 Nebraska and he took over that big twelveth championship. I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.319 mean this was because he also tipped the ball that 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.160 led to the game selling interception. So this guy was unstoppable. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.600 But overall, this officive line it got me worried because 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.640 we don't know when Todd Smith is gonna get back. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.640 I mean, you know, I gotta concede to you. You 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.120 called it from the beginning, you said, you know what 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.439 this guy, you know, he says he's back to form, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.600 and I was believing it. But we just don't know 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.360 what burns bonespurs all that stuff. I've never had that 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:33.959 type of injury, so I don't know how long. That's 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.120 gonna last. But we're on a short week. We're on 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.079 a short week against the Raiders, and I don't know 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:39.599 if he's gonna be able to play against them. We 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.400 know we don't. We won't have him Mark Cooper because 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.439 of the COVID protocols for unvaccinated people. He probably won't 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.520 be back in time. But to me, the more significant 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.320 injury was that Tyrn Smith because that offensive line to me, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.719 seemed like it fell apart. Well, I mean, look, this 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.400 is gonna this is gonna sound like I'm going back 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.600 to the draft and all that. I love. Listen because 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.920 you say game, game wrecking performances, yil. On the opposite side, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.360 Michael Parsons had a game record, so he did him 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:09.360 him like they Christian Christians. They went out there, bro 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.920 and they really were like battling against each other to 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.160 see who can have who can have the biggest impact defensively, right, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.880 and they both were shutting it down. Um, but when 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.720 you when you get to Tyren Smith versus drafting Michael Parsons, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.400 all right, I love I love Michael Parsons, Like dude, 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.400 I'm not taking anything away from Michael Parsons, but you 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.240 see no matter how good Michael Parsons plays, if we're 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.520 missing and Tyren Smith on our offensive line, it does 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.560 not matter. And the point is when you when you 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.720 watch the Seattle it don't matter who was out there 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.240 against Seattle when Tyren Smith was out. You could have 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.640 had a Pro Bowl roster and missus Tyren Smith and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.480 Clayborne would have went out there and wrecked the game. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.280 Our game was wrecked. And it wasn't just a left 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.280 tackle position, but that just messes up the whole flow. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.120 The one position that you need to trust is your 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.040 left tackle position, and we and we did not have 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.040 that and Sith get paid it and it was evident. So, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.000 like I said, I love Michael Parsons, but when I'm 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.640 looking at our left tackle position, or actually our old 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.320 line as a whole, but our left tackle what Tyren 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.280 Smith is that we have to have some some consistency, there, 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.360 some some dependability of the fact that you're going to 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.280 be able to play the entire season. And we have 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.280 not seen it. Yeah, until we until we find it, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.880 You're always going to go into each week wondering which 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.840 which which week is it gonna be that Tyre Smith 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.079 is not gonna be able to play. You get into 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.920 a playoff run all of a sudden and he's out 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.839 three weeks. Yeah, well you only got one for sure. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.880 Saint Basketball got a game seven and only got one 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.959 for sure. So it's yeah, it's it's it's worthsome. It 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.920 is worries. Okay, so let me We're gonna stay on 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.720 this old line for a little bit. But the crowd 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.480 noise in Arrowhead. I played there twice, It gets loud. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.160 I took two els both both times playing an Arrowhead, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.960 It gets loud. Do you think that had a little 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.840 bit to do with the offensive line struggles? I mean, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.600 I know we got a young guys center with Bey Honest, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.040 she's supposed to be out there making all the calls 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.080 and making sure the offensive lines on the same page. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.360 And for the most part this season, I'm not saying 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.800 his play has been steller, but the communication along the 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.760 offensive line, it's been okay, it's been right. It ain't 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.240 Travis Frederick, but it's been all right. Do you think 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.760 that played a little bit into the struggles of the 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.720 offensive line yesterday? Yeah? Absolutely, That's something that you really 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.800 can't simulate. Right. We used to try to put all 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.000 the noise out there right and stuff. But then when 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.000 you when you go through and you're playing home games 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.840 or you're playing in Minnesota, it's not as loud as 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.960 Arrowhead that there are people who say, man, it's Arrowhead 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.640 and it's the Seattle Seall Stadium, right, who are the 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.280 two loudest? And it was evident not only for the 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.600 offensive line, this was for Dak talking to the receivers outside. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.120 You see plays where Dalton shows has no idea, where 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:38.600 he's like, man, well, what were we talking about here? 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.719 The Seaton's out there running the wrong playoff one of 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.840 the screen routes. So there was the communication thing because 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.080 of the crowd noise, and then also because of the situation, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.400 I think it affected us. I think that's something that 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.080 we are going to have to work on because if 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.280 we continue to slide, and we do, it's gonna be 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:59.000 away game at Lambeau, which quite which is no quiet place. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.800 It's not at all same playoff season come around and 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.440 and you know my thoughts on a on that crowd noise, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:06.800 I mean, I'm not sure you can do this because 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.840 you know, in college they got the whole clap system 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.440 and the silent count and all that good stuff. I'm 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.920 not quite sure you could pull that off in the NFL, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.360 you know, because there's so much communication going on. I 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.240 mean's do you think a silent count or something would 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:20.760 have helped a little bit better. I mean, I'm just 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.880 not sure we could have pulled that off, being as 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.920 though there's so much communication when you're talking about an 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.040 NFL off. Oh man, that's that's credited with Spagnola. Yeah, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.000 I mean they came out there, they ran zero, they 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.080 did some nickel blitzes. It was you never knew where 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.440 it was from. And like their defense is a perfect 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.480 example of what the coaches you should trying to get 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.040 us to do as far as disguise. You never know 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.720 what Tyran Matthew's gonna be at. Sometimes he's lined up 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.480 in the A gap and then in the middle of 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.800 the cadence you see him drop back to deep middle. 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.760 And then sometimes they line up in a zero look 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 and then they drop out. So it would be hard 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.160 for them to go on a silent account without having 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.800 to make that communication when you're seeing things switch so quickly, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.520 so you have to say, hey, man, hey, we need 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.760 to make sure that we're here to block this up right, 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.439 So we got to point it out to say it, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.840 and I think sometimes we got stuck on trying to 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.080 do that with the offensive line because you got some 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.360 new guys in there, new positions, right, So I think 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.880 all that kind of just went into this this this 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.240 down this downfall the offensive line. This game. It was 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.640 it was it really was what cost us the game. Yeah, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.720 because to me, I know, the Broncos situation was bad. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.480 The Broncos game. I mean, you know, they caught us sleepwalking. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.600 You know, Dak was kind of running for his life 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.240 in that situation. But to me, yesterday just felt a 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.680 little bit different because it was like everybody was getting 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.600 beaten along the offensive line. And it wasn't just you know, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.440 getting beat as far as Sacks concerned. They were stuffing 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.480 on a run run And I'm surprised. That's where I 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.200 gotta you know, I asked you this as well, But 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.480 I was surprised that Kelly Moore went away from the 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.760 run so quickly. I think Zeke only had maybe nine 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.400 nine carries, Tony Pollard had maybe seven, and like, and 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:58.840 you're in the game. It's not like the Chiefs were 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.760 blowing us out and we had to up with the past. 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.280 We were right there at the majority part of the game, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.680 we were right there. I just feel like we abandoned 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.800 the run game too quickly. I mean, it wasn't like 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.080 Zeke was just getting out just getting smashed. I mean 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.680 he was getting three yards in the cloud of dust. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.960 But we saw as as as a game goes on, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.840 that starts to wear a defense down, and we just 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.840 didn't keep them off balance enough. They knew what we 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.400 were going to We were passing the ball, so they 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.800 were playing coverage. As far as defense, I just feel 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.960 like we got away for the run too fast. What 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.200 do you think about them? There are a few things 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.120 that I did not like about us going away from 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.440 the running. This has been from the beginning of the season, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.680 right because I'm a firm believer of if you don't 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.640 establish your team as being able to run the ball 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.480 at the beginning of the season, then it's something that 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.040 you're not gonna be able to say we're gonna lean 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.640 on this one. It's time like when when we go 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.080 through a situation like we went through yesterday, right, So 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.960 so the confidence is saying, all right, look, pass game 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.520 and working offensive line is struggling, let's re establish our 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.720 ring game. It was. It wasn't there. And I also 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.880 think that this was a lack of confidence and our 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.320 ability as a defense to stop Kansas City because it 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.600 felt like it was like, this is our last chance. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.000 We gotta put up, we gotta put something on the 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.480 board because we don't. Then all of a sudden, they're 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.440 gonna stretch this game out. And you're watching the game, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.320 you said, no, the defense is balling. Okay, keep them 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.320 off the field a little bit. How about that, run 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.880 the ball, run the ball, give them a break, change 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.080 to play the field position game. And we got a 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.320 ninety million dollars run, ninety million dollars run back, We 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.400 got Tony Poler back there, and we cannot find out 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.880 a way to get Zeke twenty carry. Last week was 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.360 a Zeke twenty carre. I mean last yesterday was a 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.880 Zeke twenty carry game. That's a twenty carry game. Force 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.120 them to change the field position. Our defense is playing good. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.120 Help them out by putting them on the one like 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.080 they did us with that at the end of the game, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.240 hit the ninety nine. I think if we don't find 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.280 their way to establish a running game, there is no 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.560 deep playoff run for us because we have not seen 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.960 a game where we've been able to adjust once once 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.720 once you once the defense is not on the hills, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.760 right because Keller Moore is great at getting the defense 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.920 on the hills. But what happens when you're figured out 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.200 You have to have something to lean all got to 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.240 and usually it's the ring game. Gotta go on your wheel, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.800 and we we we haven't. We start to depend on 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.040 the Tampa Bay quick screens and the other version of 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.800 the ring game about throwing it out, and that stuff 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.600 doesn't work. Man. You have to help your old line 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.320 out by getting them, getting them ready, move the offensive 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.359 with the line of scrimmage. And we didn't do that 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.119 yesterday because not only will the run game, you know, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.080 help the defense, say off the field, but that's when 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.160 you know the Cowboys are at their peak powers, when 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.200 they're at the best of their abilities. Offensively, we're extremely balanced, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.760 you know, we got a heavy run attack, heavy pass attack. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.520 It's kind of like we make the defense pick their 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.320 poison out there. And yesterday I felt like kelling in 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.560 this offense kind of just you know, I don't want 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.320 to say dismissed the run game, but just kind of 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.160 went away from it extremely too fast, So shouts goes 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.199 out to Spagnol and that defense over there that you know, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:54.639 they held them in check for the most part. And 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:56.560