Speaker 1: Did you know I was coming in from the left?
Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, Pat scouting report, it's change up. It's
Speaker 1: change up, but only a change up. M heavy blitz
Speaker 1: something you typically didn't always do. But was it it's
Speaker 1: just game related? Yeah, you know, if the game is different. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter what I was calling in that game.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys were playing at a different tempo. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they were um, you know, it's a prideful bunch.
Speaker 1: They wanted to put the performance from Washington behind them.
Speaker 1: I think they did, and it was easy to call
Speaker 1: the game because you know, they were execute and just
Speaker 1: about everything well, and they were doing it with with
Speaker 1: a lot of toughness and a lot of effort and
Speaker 1: a lot of spirit. Was different or was it really
Speaker 1: game day that you could tell if they were at
Speaker 1: a different level. Yeah, you know, you always wait until
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, but but I think you you
Speaker 1: go with we have some veteran players, and we have
Speaker 1: a prideful bunch, and you know, it's sixteen game season.
Speaker 1: You're not always at your best. But I think everybody
Speaker 1: felt the responsibility, from coaches down to players that we
Speaker 1: could perform better. And I think everybody everybody played their
Speaker 1: part in finding a way during the week to make
Speaker 1: sure that it happened on Sunday. Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean anytime you have a player, you know, go out,
Speaker 1: it juggles your line up a little bit. And Ron
Speaker 1: had also been playing some outside corner for us too. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the other guys have been playing.
Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully we can keep Leotis back on the field.
Speaker 1: That'll go a long way to alleviating some of that,
Speaker 1: because we've been playing without him for a month. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways to handle the slot. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll probably have you know, maybe three or four different
Speaker 1: ways to be able to do it, um, depending on
Speaker 1: the package. You know, it's it's probably a work in
Speaker 1: progress right now. What you want, Oh, well, I mean
Speaker 1: we have a lot of different personnel packages that we
Speaker 1: use that are all contingent on matchups and down in
Speaker 1: distance and offensive personnel. So I think that'll continue. Happy
Speaker 1: Malcolm in that role, Um, yeah, stepped in and did
Speaker 1: a nice job on on Sunday to finish that game.
Speaker 1: You know, after we went down. He's a good blitzer,
Speaker 1: he's a good run player. Um, you know, he's got
Speaker 1: some multidimensional skills. He's physical in there. You know, not
Speaker 1: every matchup is is going to be ideal, but he
Speaker 1: plays to his strengths. And you came here first, first
Speaker 1: started watching film with Jordan Hicks. Uh. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: he did it in a little bit in college. But
Speaker 1: what made you think that he'd be a good middle
Speaker 1: linebacker for for you in the scheme? Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's he's a smart player who knows his way to
Speaker 1: the ballo and execute the scheme. Um, Jordan played one
Speaker 1: of the best games I've seen all year. I mean,
Speaker 1: he played at a different level in this game was um,
Speaker 1: you know, covering, tackling in the open field. His tackle
Speaker 1: for a loss on that one toss play was a big,
Speaker 1: big play in the game. You know, he was all
Speaker 1: over the place and he was putting us in the
Speaker 1: right calls too. There's a lot on the middle linebacker
Speaker 1: and there's nothing that we've thrown at him that he
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to handle. Over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: You're number eleven. Colt Beasley has created so many problems.
Speaker 1: What do they do to get him so open? Well,
Speaker 1: he's quick as can be, you know, Meryl. He's not
Speaker 1: much taller than you. Um, you might even be able
Speaker 1: to look down on him, but he might outquick. You M.
Speaker 1: He's he's he's got a lot of respect from you know,
Speaker 1: not just our team, but from teams around the NFL. UM.
Speaker 1: He's their leading receiver, he's their leading third down receiver.
Speaker 1: He finds a way to get open. He's he's he's
Speaker 1: slippery in there, he's very very quick, and you know,
Speaker 1: they do a good job scheming to get him open.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's good run after the catch. Also, he's
Speaker 1: not just a novelty player. He's not just a you know,
Speaker 1: I don't will say a specialty player for them. He's
Speaker 1: a major part of their success. And we're going to
Speaker 1: have to do a great job, particularly on third downs,
Speaker 1: to keep the change from moving. Does Whitten's presence on
Speaker 1: the field effect you're thinking about how you're going to
Speaker 1: do your your sub packages. I mean, he's he's a
Speaker 1: different kind of guy. Yeah, he's a Hall of famer.
Speaker 1: Um that's been doing it for a long time. And
Speaker 1: you know, talked a little bit about Beasley running those
Speaker 1: option routes. I don't know, there might not be a
Speaker 1: better option runner in the history of of tight ends,
Speaker 1: tight ends have been different. Tony Gonzalez was a down
Speaker 1: the field guy, and you know Sharp and you know,
Speaker 1: those guys were sort of wide receiver type guys. But
Speaker 1: Witten is a great blocker, and he is really a
Speaker 1: tough matchup when it comes to option routes. He's very strong,
Speaker 1: he's incredibly durable. Yeah, it's not just Beasley. They can
Speaker 1: spread you a lot of different ways. And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, number eighty eights back too, and oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, they're leading the NFL and rushing um with
Speaker 1: the NFL's leading rusher. So you know, after a little while,
Speaker 1: it's um, you know, it's it's hard to cover all
Speaker 1: those guys. It's hard to scheme all those guys out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to win some individual matchups. But he's
Speaker 1: got great size, he's got great instincts. He knows how
Speaker 1: to get open. He's been doing it for a long time.
Speaker 1: There's nothing you're going to throw out him coverage wise
Speaker 1: that he hasn't seen, you know, a dozen times in
Speaker 1: his career, more than a dozen. And he's a big
Speaker 1: played player for him. Um, he's a guy that they
Speaker 1: throw to even if he's covered. He's very very strong, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that that ability to make
Speaker 1: a big play is something that you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about guys that move to chains. Um, he can move
Speaker 1: to chains, but he can also make you pay for
Speaker 1: a touchdown because there offen un obviously you guys had
Speaker 1: different really spends Washington. I would imagine that Dallas is
Speaker 1: probably just as good. Yeah, you know, they've given the
Speaker 1: quarterback a ton of time. You know, Prescott has has
Speaker 1: done a good job of um, you know, leading them
Speaker 1: to their record. And you know, quarterback the most important
Speaker 1: status wins and he's done that. They've given him a
Speaker 1: lot of time, um, you know, and they've helped him
Speaker 1: run the ball, and that's pretty good formula for any quarterback,
Speaker 1: much less a rookie quarterback. You know, a lot has
Speaker 1: been made of you know, the few amount of turnovers.
Speaker 1: A lot of that can be attributed to the offensive
Speaker 1: line because he hasn't had to throw a ball before
Speaker 1: he wanted to or you know, got hit when he
Speaker 1: was thrown actually the one the one he has as
Speaker 1: he was hit when he was thrown. But it's been
Speaker 1: very rare that he's been hit. He's had some clean pockets.
Speaker 1: He's been able to buy time, he's been able to
Speaker 1: run when he m you know, when he needs to,
Speaker 1: and they've been able to run the ball and take
Speaker 1: them out of some tough conversion situations. Also, so their
Speaker 1: offensive line has triggered a lot of that. Um, I
Speaker 1: feel strong about our defense. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: great match up on Sunday. Become such as league usual
Speaker 1: to see a team like Dallas that really wants to
Speaker 1: establish a run first and run a thirty five forty
Speaker 1: times game. Yeah, I mean, I think everybody's different. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it plays to it plays did their strengths
Speaker 1: with a couple of years ago when they were a
Speaker 1: playoff team, they did the same thing. It was different
Speaker 1: running back, but same scheme and a lot of the
Speaker 1: same offensive players other than the running back, same offensive coordinator, um,
Speaker 1: you know, same head coach, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: that philosophy means an awful lot. I think it matches
Speaker 1: well with the players that they have. And I think
Speaker 1: that's probably the you know, the most important thing when
Speaker 1: you consider schemes and you know, managing games and everything else.
Speaker 1: It's you know, playing to your strengths. And I think
Speaker 1: they've done a very good job of that. We're going
Speaker 1: to have to find a way to take them off
Speaker 1: of that formula, you know, and go ahead. I don't
Speaker 1: have much else to say, so I was just I
Speaker 1: was just philibustering right there. And percentage went down a
Speaker 1: little bit for Barwin last week, up a little bit
Speaker 1: for Curry. Do you think you'll be able to maintain
Speaker 1: that against a team that runs the ball as well
Speaker 1: as Della's. Yeah, you know, a lot of those things.
Speaker 1: Vinny rushes inside and some of that snap count was
Speaker 1: up because of that. You know, every game is going
Speaker 1: to be a little bit different. I don't know if
Speaker 1: i'd I don't think one game, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit like question before about how he handled Nickel. So
Speaker 1: much of it as personnel based and matchup based and
Speaker 1: what the offense is in and down in distance and
Speaker 1: things like that. Every game is going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit different. We played an awful lot of reps
Speaker 1: in that game, you know, and early in the season
Speaker 1: we weren't playing very much. The last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: we played a lot, maybe the week before on our
Speaker 1: own fault, but last week we had to play a
Speaker 1: lot of reps and you know, I was proud of
Speaker 1: the guys. They came out early and you know we're
Speaker 1: getting stops. I think we only give up one first
Speaker 1: down in five series. You know, that helped us to
Speaker 1: be able to get to a point where we could
Speaker 1: get that game because there were some fires to put
Speaker 1: out early in that game. We had a penalty on
Speaker 1: them on the first punt, you know, after three and out,
Speaker 1: and then turnovers and things like that. But the guys
Speaker 1: didn't bad an eye. We had good rotations. We were
Speaker 1: able to keep them fresh late in the game. You know,
Speaker 1: that's when you saw guys like Stephen Means get in there.
Speaker 1: You know, he gave us a little boost late in
Speaker 1: the game. It was it's hard to rush all those times,
Speaker 1: and um, you know he was able to give it
Speaker 1: something to break of Dallas. Run game isn't necessarily going
Speaker 1: to affect your selection there, well yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's going to just as as the game develops. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's more just how it develops. Leodis and Jalon.
Speaker 1: Was that more because you're trying to ease uh Leodis
Speaker 1: back in or do you like, do you want to
Speaker 1: see more or more of Jean Jalen's earned playing time,
Speaker 1: but it was probably more to try to manage Leotis
Speaker 1: in that game. You know, it was his first time
Speaker 1: back and um, you know try and well wasn't his
Speaker 1: first time back, but he's had some setbacks and we
Speaker 1: just wanted to make sure that fatigue wasn't an issue.
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of times you can get
Speaker 1: you can you can aggravate injuries because of fatigue. And
Speaker 1: I thought that you know, he was available when you
Speaker 1: know when, Um, it helped to make him available. A
Speaker 1: guy like Elliott present you that can run over you
Speaker 1: but run around you if he needs to. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: he's he can run outside, he can run inside. He's
Speaker 1: a one cut runner. Um. He fits their offense really well. Um,
Speaker 1: and I just you know, there's some guys that you say, okay,
Speaker 1: we take their inside away and they can't go outside.
Speaker 1: Other guys you say, hey, if you make them run
Speaker 1: inside the darkness, they're not going to be as effective. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, their scheme gives him the ability to make
Speaker 1: the cut as he sees it. So it turns into um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's not just a single man. Everybody
Speaker 1: on defense has to do the job. If one guy's
Speaker 1: out of place or one guy misses a tackle, he
Speaker 1: can make a big play. You know, it is. I
Speaker 1: mean Callahan obviously was at UM at Dallas a few
Speaker 1: years ago, and there's some similarities in that game, and
Speaker 1: we did some things that rad a character in that
Speaker 1: game and some things that we did better. Minnesota tried
Speaker 1: a few of those things and we were able to
Speaker 1: play some of them better. But every game is different
Speaker 1: and different personnel, different situation. UM. You know, UM, you know, hope,
Speaker 1: hopefully we've hopefully we learned some lessons from it and
Speaker 1: that will carry us forward. Brandon Graham being a guy
Speaker 1: that kind of sets the help sets the tempo on defense. Um.
Speaker 1: What are some of the things specifically that he does
Speaker 1: that you know the other players feed off of. Um.
Speaker 1: He's a playmaker, you know, tackles for losses, sack strips, hustle,
Speaker 1: plays down the field, all those things combined. He plays
Speaker 1: with a lot of energy, he plays with a lot
Speaker 1: of toughness. He's a reliable player. Previous two home games
Speaker 1: or road games, rather, the defense has got off a
Speaker 1: pretty slow start. Twenty one first in points. Is there
Speaker 1: anything you can do as a coordinator to to change that,
Speaker 1: to get them out to play clicker or what was
Speaker 1: that you same name? Yeah, I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: I think sometimes you can you can overdo that, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes if you try to be too aggressive,
Speaker 1: you try to play out a character that can you know,
Speaker 1: that can change things also, I mean that can that
Speaker 1: can work against you also. I think the thing we
Speaker 1: did last week is we went back to I will
Speaker 1: say back to basics, but we went back to being
Speaker 1: us and some of the things that we're designed to do.
Speaker 1: And um, we didn't do those well against Washington. Um,
Speaker 1: we weren't necessarily doing them poorly against against Dallas, but
Speaker 1: there were some things at a character, particularly in the
Speaker 1: first half, that we did in that game too. I
Speaker 1: think that you know, more than anything, you just have
Speaker 1: to play. You have to play within yourself. And if
Speaker 1: you do a good job of that, you play with energy,
Speaker 1: you play with emotion, um, you play team defense. I
Speaker 1: think you'll see good results in those games. We didn't
Speaker 1: we did, we didn't. We didn't do enough of those things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy from the very beginning that you know, nothing
Speaker 1: has been too big for him. If he's called upon Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're confident in him going out and getting
Speaker 1: a job done. Looking at like carsoning Dad Prescott, how
Speaker 1: much do you think like the situation looking quarterbacks coming too,
Speaker 1: you know, to their success is reduced. Well, I'll just
Speaker 1: speak on Prescott. Um, you know he does. He has
Speaker 1: a team that's leading the NFL and rushing. Now he
Speaker 1: has something to do with that. He's made some plays
Speaker 1: with his feet, He's given him some read option capabilities. Um,
Speaker 1: he's extended plays on third down. Um. You know, he's
Speaker 1: run the bootleg very effectively. Um, so all that helps him.
Speaker 1: I mean, his bootleg probably isn't as effective if he
Speaker 1: doesn't have Elliott, and he doesn't have you know, the
Speaker 1: number one rushing attack in the NFL. And he has
Speaker 1: other good players around him, Wit and Beasley inside receivers,
Speaker 1: and he's a big play receiver. So I think it
Speaker 1: certainly has a lot to do with the success he has.
Speaker 1: But I'll just keep my comments to Prescott on that.
Speaker 1: Jim H.