WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Evaluating the Week 1 Loss 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:17.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he is Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.040 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:32.160 Star in Frisco. Sat. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.560 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. What's up? Welcome into Talking 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:42.400 Cowboys inside the SWBC Mortgage studio. As the returning Mickey 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.559 Spagnola would say, it's a blue Monday out here at 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.280 the Star in Frisco, but we're here for the next 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.200 hour to talk about it. Rob Phillips hosting for Bill 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.360 Jones today, Brian brought us joining as always, read his 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.000 notebook on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Right now breaking down 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:02.240 the cowboys sixteen to eight opening loss Carolina, William Boykin's 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:07.400 next door producing and before we get started, welcome back, Mick. Yeah. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.520 Should I hang my headphones on the on the mic here? Yeah? Sure, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.840 that was pretty cute. I hang them up. That's being 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.160 really creative, right there, some creative producing. Yes, absolutely, that 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:23.760 was kind of genius. I expecting done. I expect we 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.319 have more drops of you, Mickey, so we could have 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.760 just done you from Scott Ahead and just kept dropping 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.200 and have my answers. Yeah, I expected to see one 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.000 of those big head fans sitting here, you know, with 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.839 my face on it, a big mickey fathead. That'd be cool. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.399 I watched, Yeah, almost called in, but I didn't want 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.959 to stop down the show. Blood pressure, Okay after watching 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.960 that night, Yeah, I think so it actually went down 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.000 this morning. That's good. That's good. We're glad to have 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.120 you back. Glad you're feeling better, and uh, glad you 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.400 could join us for breaking down a tough loss yesterday. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.120 I mean, there was some good, There was some and 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.480 like Brian's headline said on the website, there was definitely 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.280 some ugly. Cowboys lose of the Panthers sixteen to eight, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.160 fifth time in the last nine games this football team 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.680 hasn't reached ten points. Yeah, single digit points. Offense struggled. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.720 What's what's y'all's first impressions or quick impressions from the game. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.040 It was awful. It was as bad as opener I 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.040 think I've seen. It actually took me back to nineteen 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.880 eighty nine, a one in fifteen team twenty eight to 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:39.720 nothing to the Saints offensive ineptitude. They didn't do anything 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.160 right that day. I think they ran for like twenty yards, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.400 never came close to scoring. The quarterback got beat up, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:54.200 and yeah, this was I expected it to be a 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.080 little bit of a struggle, but not that bad. I 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.520 just think it didn't think it would be that bad. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.760 My column that I'm going to send to you here 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.280 and when we finish said it looked like a team 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.960 that hadn't played football in three weeks. And that's exactly 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.079 what it looked like. Maybe they needed a few preseason reps. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.920 Well I don't know. I don't know how you handle that, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.160 but it took them all the way to the fourth 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.280 quarter before offensively, they acted like they were knowing what 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.000 they were doing. And the worst part was is those 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:31.679 first four possessions, you had two penalties and two sacks 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.320 out of those four possessions, and you were facing second 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.720 and seventeen, third and twenty six. And then finally when 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:41.640 you got to the fifth possession, when you had a 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:46.280 chance on third and seven, Dak on the run instead 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.680 of setting his feet, tries to throw off his back 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.280 foot and short hops Jarwin by what ten yards? Yeah, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.160 clearly wide open. Yeah, And when you're struggling like that, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:00.440 you just can't make a mistake like that, and you know, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.640 and not to keep going on and on, but the 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:08.800 darnedest thing of the whole game, they only lost sixteen 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.640 to eight. It was sixteen to eight, had a chance, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:17.240 had possession right. As bad as they played, Carolina wasn't 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.720 great either offensively, Brian, but they were. But it's hard 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.080 to be as poor offensively as the Cowboys were, especially 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.719 early in the game. Yeah, you know, and I want 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.000 to believe that the coach and staff had a really 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.440 good plan for how to handle Looke Keekley early in 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.560 that game, you know, or how to how to kind 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.800 of take care of him, and it seemed like though 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.839 in the second half they were able to do some 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.800 things where they were able to get him blocked and 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.359 didn't allow him to completely wreck what they were doing. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.719 The thing that you know, Mickey talked about the third 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.080 and seven and the short hot plays and all that 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.480 stuff like that, and you know that he's absolutely right 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.799 about that. It looked just as bad on film this morning, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.760 is that, as you saw yesterday, he could have helped 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.720 Williams on the sack that he gave up. Yeah, you know, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.680 Kwan short beat him clean early, but he had, He 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.120 had Jeff Sway curled up, you know, and he was 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.400 looking right at him for a chance to throw the ball. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.200 I have no idea why he didn't try and hit 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.240 Jeff Swain to get the first down. You know, he 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.440 looked at him, and you know, he just didn't pull 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.960 the trigger. And there were several plays like that where 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.160 you know, people are saying, well, with the receivers open, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.400 and that was something I was looking at last night. 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.720 I was thinking, okay, am I gonna watch this tape 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.440 this morning and feel like that receivers weren't getting open. 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.880 And there were times where there were receivers open and 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.800 Prescott came off one one time where he had the 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.120 opportunity on third a third down play, you know late 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.200 in the game, where he could have hit Swain for 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.240 a touchdown. He could have hit a Gallop for a touchdown. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.280 Uh in the you know, on the same play he 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.320 didn't throw, he ran. He luckily he got the first down, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.440 kept the drive going. He missed a Gallop on the 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.560 on the crossing route right there late in the game 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.360 that would have put them deep in Carolina territory. If 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.240 he throws the ball in front of Gallop right there, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.560 Gallop is on his way, and you know, you're looking 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.880 at maybe a different situation right there. But I just 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.200 feel like though that there was there was too many 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:18.320 times in this game where Prescott made reads and didn't 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.200 read the correct thing or for some reason, and he's 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:22.720 going to sit down and look at the tape and go, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.040 oh my gosh, why did I not throw that? Why 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.000 did I not see that? Why did I You know, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.440 he's got Cole Beasley on a third down play too, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.599 where you know, it's a bunch of formation. It's the 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.040 third and three play. I want to believe and if 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.080 I had the distance right, but he's still they got 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.839 bunch of formation, and the design is to get Beasley inside, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.599 and Beasley's inside it, but for some reason, Prescott not 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.440 patient enough to allow him. You know, he looks at 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.839 him and then he immediately takes his eyes and goes outside, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.520 and you're going, wait a minute. Design of the play 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.520 is to get Cole Beasley inside. You had him, he 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.200 had the corners beat, you had their coverage on their heels. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:06:59.520 You could have hit him. It would have been a 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.279 first down. So there were a lot of plays in 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:07.880 this game where either Dak Prescott reads affected the way 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.840 that the play was executed, and the offensive coordinator will 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.400 get a lot of grief for bad play calling, but 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.040 there was a lot of poor execution, mainly by your quarterback, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.600 that affected the way those plays were run, you know. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:26.640 And this is and I got reminded the downside of 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.560 watching the game on television, which I hadn't done since 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:36.360 nineteen eighty eight. Broke your streak, unfortunately. Well, but at 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.320 least I was working when I didn't cover those games. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.040 But when I was at the Olympics in Seoul, South 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.320 Korea in eighty eight, the Summer Olympics, we watched the 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.640 games on TV, and I forgot how much you can't 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:54.440 see on television. It was frustrating, number one, that you 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.480 can't tell who's in the game and who isn't. And 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.840 then number two, you never know what's going on in 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.640 the secondary with the receivers right right right, And you know, 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.440 and I probably should apologize to the fans out there 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.960 that have to watch the game on TV when I 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:15.240 get impatient with them when they talk about, well, the 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:19.040 receivers did this. You can't see what the receivers are doing. Yeah, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.440 it's impass it's tough, and I went back and you know, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:27.080 watch the game again, and you just don't know, and 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.600 so you can't see what the quarterback should be seeing 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.000 or not seeing. And it's it's it's what a luxury 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.920 to be at the games to see those things from above. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.160 No question two is great. Yeah, And it's one of 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.679 the things why you know, after games and stuff, I 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.200 sit there and talk about Okay, this that and the other, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.200 a rite about it. Then then you get to the 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.600 opportunity and fortunately we get to sit down and watch 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.240 this and you do, like Mickey says, you do get 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.720 to see receivers run routes. You do get to see 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.040 tight ends run routes. You do get to see, oh 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.480 my gosh, Ezekiel, if he doesn't get tripped up in 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.959 the flat, that's going to be a big play. It's 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.080 gonna be him and Luke Keikley one on one at 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.320 the sticks to see if they can get this first down. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.160 You know, those are things you don't always see, you know. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.720 You know, Dak Prescott, well, oh on that throw to 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:16.400 the short hop throw, well, immediately you think run run run. No, Well, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.960 Luke Keikley standing right there bearing down on you. So 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.000 he had to make a decision like, okay, am I 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.640 gonna beat Luke Keikley to the sticks or I'm I 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.000 gonna try and make this throw with my feet, like 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.440 Mickey said, not being stable. You know, he comes back 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.800 and makes that same throw later in the game. It's 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.839 just from a little bit less of a distance of him. Now, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.920 I'll tell you what though, Jarwin is is you know, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.560 and I'm not blaming Jarwin. He's a young kid, but 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.360 he's drifting away from Prescott instead of if he felt 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.160 like I'm so open, I need to stop and just 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.000 allowed Dak to get me the ball, that probably would 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.680 have been the best thing to have happened. Maybe a 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.680 veteran tied end or a veteran receiver makes that adjustment 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.920 like I'm so open, I don't need to keep drift 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.200 up the field. I need to keep in position here 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.800 to allow my quarterback to get me the ball. If 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.720 he's probably four yards further up the field, they have 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.880 a chance for a completion there. But it didn't work out. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.559 There were a lot of plays during this game where 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.520 it was what if, Oh my gosh, they could have 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.760 why didn't they execute? Again, I am not defending Scott 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.320 Linahan here, I am defending. I'm not defending anybody, really, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.840 I'm just saying though he asked these guys to make plays, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.160 and there were several guys in this game that did 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.360 not make enough plays. That was the bottom line, because 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.280 that's the narrative coming out of this game. Of course, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.040 it's fire the coaches and all that, and you're talking 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.920 to a guy who's the blowtorch of fire coaches. Okay, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.800 I you know that's something that I live with, you know, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.080 But but I'm trying to also be fair. And when 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.400 you watch, if you know, quarterbacks always Jason Garrey says, 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.600 we try and put these players in position to make plays. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.360 Somebody should have been blocking Luke Keikley, you know, whether 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.480 it was a puller, whether it was a down block, 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.520 whether it was a combo block. You don't allow Luke 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.640 Keikley just to run free all day. That is a 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.360 poor game plan if that's your game plan. But what 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.000 happened they did in the second half. They got bodies 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.000 on him. One of Zekiel It's best runs was, Okay, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.280 they get a chip, they get a down block from 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.400 the tight end to seal the edge, and then they 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.400 get and then they get swayed inside on Keikley. Now 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.280 what happens you're running on the safety. That's how the 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.200 plays designed to go when it's executed well and blocked well. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.920 But again the narrative is the offensive coordinator sucks. And 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.080 to Mickey's point, when you watch the TV copy, you 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.280 say the offensive coordinator sucks. But then when you get 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.680 into watching the All twenty two, you're like, Prescott missed this. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.600 Oh what was he looking at there? Oh, really good route? 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.000 Wait a minute, why didn't Why didn't Jeff Swayin blocked 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.240 down on that time to get Keikle. If he gets Chickley, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.000 they got a shot. That's what happens to in these games. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.880 I think. I think it also emerged that there was 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.760 no Travis Frederick out there. Yeah, but you know, I 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.200 didn't feel like Mickey when you go back, I'm saying 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.240 Looney played, yeah, poorly well, but I think the second 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.000 the second level blocks that weren't fair. That is fair. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.560 That is where you you know, with with Frederick, we 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.760 always say this, he cuts the defense in half with 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.319 his ability to play in the second level. He knows 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.080 how to Okay, Travis has got he's got excuse me, 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.160 h Zach's goott has got here. I've got to go 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.559 up where Looney's not. Really I'm fighting, I'm fighting. I'm fighting. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:30.679 Oh wait a minute, I got to get to the 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.880 second level and I can't quite get there. And then 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.600 now you have guys running free. You're concerned going into 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.040 this game. As we were wrapping up the week, Bryan's concern, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.920 Mick was that Carolina front seven, not necessarily the defensive line, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.040 but that whole front seven. Keikley flowing to the ball, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.960 fast linebackers, he got Coan short and done, Terry Poe 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.199 in there. Can they block up front for Zeke? And 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.320 Zeke finishes with fifteen kerries sixty nine yards. I think 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.120 he only had eighteen yards in the first half. They 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.000 just couldn't get anything going up the front, Zeke and 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.040 the talk coming out of the game, and Zeke said 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:07.839 in the second half they didn't really run anything much differently, No, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.840 they just executed better as you said they did. You 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.920 know that first half, Mick, I think you alluded to it. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.160 Third and twenty six, third and twelve, third and ten, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.280 third and eleven, third and seven there had said that 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.520 they're behind the change. Really the whole first half. So 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.600 what are you gonna call. You're the offensive coordinator, what 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.120 are you calling? That's tough, right, He called a screen 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.040 and if the if the running back would have kept 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.040 his balance, it might have been a first down. I mean, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.000 they're trying to chip away at that. Again, I am 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:36.360 not defending Scott Lenahan. I think there's criticism for everybody here, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.719 you know, I really do. But but to put to 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.360 put it all, I think my saying is always its 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.560 slow hanging fruit to say, Okay, it's the OC's fault. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.640 There's no creativity here. You know they were they were 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:52.720 a Travis Frederick blocking the back from having a really 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.000 good design. Play on that screenplay, second play of the game. Smith, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.400 Oh it's gonna be Tyron Smith. Excuse me, Tyren Smith. Yeah, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.720 that Tyron Smith at this fighting like hell to get 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.559 to the outside to get that block. Bradberry, the cornerback, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.319 ducks him and it makes it Tyren Smith's in a 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.280 rough spot because he's thinking, if I don't get this block, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.840 is Tavon Austin gonna make this play? And this is 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.640 not having enough experience with Tavon Austin knowing that he's 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.760 a little bit of an elusive guy. You know, if 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.920 you have a guy out there you're kind of comfortable with, like, Okay, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.640 I don't need to get this block. He's gonna make 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.880 the first guy miss. But he gets caught no man's land. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.760 He says, I've got to get this block, where an 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.720 actual ouity he really didn't need to get the block. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.080 Smith's gonna make the play. Those are the kinds of 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.120 things that happen when you do call the good play, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.520 but you do have a negative play or a negative 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:42.120 result because of a penalty or a misread or an 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.840 indecision or a sack or a sack yeah, or a 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.120 minus run early and that is that one of the 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.720 rules they changed on the line of scrimmage that you 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.240 can't push a guy from behind. You can't push a guy. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.200 I always thought you could do it within the tackle box. Yeah, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.320 that was that was clipping and pushing and all that 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.200 was available there but on the outside. Because they had 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.000 it come back, they ran another screen that had the 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:06.080 same exact thing happened and they got another push. I 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.160 mean Zack Martin pushed as well, but they didn't call it. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.240 So sometimes you're at the mercy of what happens. But 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.160 I'm not sitting here and making excuses for the offense 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.400 because they've got to be better. They've got to be 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.600 better running the football, they've got to be better executing blocks, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.560 and the quarterback has to be better making decisions. He 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.600 didn't help Connor Williams on that sack. Connor Williams is beating. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.000 We talked about that at nauseum, that Connor Williams is 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.320 going to struggle at certain points and times in this game. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.720 And that was the one time that Kawan Short got 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.120 him and dacted at an opportunity to get rid of 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.360 the football, and for some reason he didn't do it, 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.480 you know. And on that play, it was very smart 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.800 on the Panthers because it looked like Looney was set 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.520 up to help Connor Williams, but Short went to the 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.560 outside where there was no help, right, and then he 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.920 got bent over. You know, you were talking about Keekley. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.640 There was one play he was in the middle and 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.480 he ran across all the way to the end to 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.240 make the play and no one touched him. It was 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.600 just like me saying, Okay, I'm going to go over 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.720 there and run around and make a play. It's it's 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.640 you know, there's it's a bad If you want to 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.040 blame the coaches for that, then bad game plan. If 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.480 your game plan was not to block Looke Keekly, that's 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.520 a bad that's a bad game plan. But I want 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.760 to believe their game plan was to block Looke Keeklely. Yeah, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.480 he's there, Sean Lee, He's gonna make plays all over 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.560 the field. The one the one thing I didn't like, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.960 and it was almost being stubborn. I think that this 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.680 is what we do on offense, right when you run 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.680 two tight ends, when you run three tight ends, all 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.560 you were doing is inviting Carolina and put eight guys 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.240 in the box. And the one time they had three 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.520 tight ends, they had nine guys. They had nine guys 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.840 up there. Well, where do you think you're going? Yeah, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.840 why this team is always ability to run out eleven 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.600 personnel And I guarantee the Giants game plan this week. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.280 They need to sit down and look at the Giants 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.399 and what Jacksonville tried to do to him. But you know, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.040 you know they Garrett even mentioned it in the post game. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.680 He said, hey, we started to spread them out a 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.280 little bit. We had some success. Should have done that soon. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.840 But that's that's that's where that's where, that's where you're 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.200 that's where it. Now you fall the coaches, how quick 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.440 did you get to the adjustment? Should you have been 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.800 running the ball inside? And Connor Williams didn't play terrible. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.000 He Connor Williams and Joe Looney did not play terrible. Kanto. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.640 I thought he was going to wreck this run game, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.160 but they had. It was really Luke Keikley. Luke Keikley. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.320 The inability to stop Luke Keikley hurt them early, but 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.200 again once they started blocking him or at least getting 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.800 a hat on him. You know, they run a play. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.040 They ran a play where um, they get the ball. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:50.760 They get the ball the outside to Zeke and he's 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.280 but you know, Lyle Collins is able just to get enough, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.560 just to get enough at Keikley. It was the the 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.359 option play for the touchdown, you know, on the I 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.840 thought it was all designed play option on the goal line. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.399 Dac does a nice job fake the read and you know, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.159 or fake the pitch, gets the defense to commit and 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.680 then pitches it. You get a block on the outside 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.760 from Hearns. But but Lyle Collins was able to get 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.440 just enough of Keikley to affect his ability to get 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.639 all the way of the outside, like Mickey's talking about, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.240 so Zeke outruns him. That's what you had to do. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.000 You didn't have enough of those affect Luke Keikley affect 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.320 Luke Keikley, affect Luke Keikley. You allowed him early in 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.400 that game to affect the way you ran the football 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.000 tackles that he was all over the field. He was 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.119 man of the match. He trust the man of the match. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.439 And by the way, else struggled some too. Yeah, it 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.040 wasn't just those guys in Oh no, the holding call 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.919 was a devastating play late in that game. Yeah that 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.800 led Oh yeah, well, n of the one that led 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.560 to the forty seven, not the one where not the 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.480 one where he tackled, not the one where he tackle 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.800 the guy where he the holding call on the final 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.399 drive of the game was it was a and he 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.680 and it was a rodeo move. I mean, he he 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.080 was over extended. He had no choice but trying to 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.680 pull the defender down. And you know the official is 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.840 standing right there. They're gonna call that every time that 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.600 is a He's like it was like bulldogging. You know, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.320 you grabbed the stair around the head and you take 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.800 him to the ground. Which, by the way, I did 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.000 get the opportunity to watch the Giants game, and the 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:23.480 Jaguars did a really nice job. When Fournette was in 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.800 the game, he got hurt, sure. I think it was 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.720 sometime in the second quarter, and they were doing a 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.320 lot of misdirection. They were getting the ball on the outside, 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.080 pulling their offensive lineman and not trying to go head 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.880 up with snacks and all the rest of them, and 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.280 they were having a lot of success running the football, 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.439 and then for some reason when Fournette went out, it 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.879 just kind of changed what yelled in there. It wasn't bad, 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.120 but they had they had gotten the ball on the 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.760 edge on those guys the way you would want to 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.320 put those big heavyweights if you if you find a 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.160 way to get the ball to the edge, you could 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.119 set some stuff up going inside. The adjustment is play wide, 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.480 play wide, play wide. Don't you get him. Continue to 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.119 do that and then you have some opportunities up inside. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.000 I may note of it that first drive out of 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:14.439 the second half, third quarter, Zee gets two yards on 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.560 first down and then they go four wide. The next 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.320 two plays, Herns gets a twenty yard game right and 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.800 then and then Zeke he captures that edge. A couple 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.720 of plays later they spread them out it. Yeah, that 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.760 was an adjustment. I thought that started to work a 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.960 little bit. Yeah, they did. And the Herns play for 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.240 twenty yards was been critical of Prescott here, but nice 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.440 read on his part, keeping his eyes down the field. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.040 He's gonna flush to his right, He's gonna go back 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.320 to the inside. Hearns does a veteran move of getting 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.000 making sure that Luke Keickley goes past him. As Keickley 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.600 goes past, he curls up inside. That's what you have 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:46.720