WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Scheme or Execution? 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:17.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.680 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:32.280 Star in Frisco, SAT. And now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, Heck, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:37.920 My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. It is a 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.680 Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys here on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.839 Com and the various streaming platforms. Week thirteen, Episode number 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.559 three of UH the twenty twenty season. I say thirteen, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.120 it's week fourteen? Fourteen? Is it week fourteen? I'm already 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.960 trying to skip weeks at a certain point of the season. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.560 I don't want the season. Did you know? Football season's fun? 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.440 It's fun things. But yeah, it's Week fourteen, Episode three 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.920 here of Talking Cowboys. Here from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.679 Kyle Yeoman's alongside Isaiah stand Back in studio again. Today 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.080 we've got Rob Phillips with a gigantic, very nice looking 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.160 Christmas tree in the background, and then we've got Heck. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:24.360 But Harrison given his best effort. Wow, the milk's gone bad. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:32.240 That's how we got Heck. Just so you know every 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.520 day you like that, man, I would never do you 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.480 like that. Heck ah right, you know what I mean. Yeah, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.320 this is not is not meant to be a competition, 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.240 this tree thing. I no, it's it's just before we 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:49.560 for me, it was okay, well, well each of you move, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.000 move aside a little bit and just show these things off. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.920 I mean, the heck's got his on his desk, and 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:55.360 he was the first one to have it. And then 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.000 Rob was like, oh, I've got one for you. Heck 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:05.760 I covered heck, heck, we just completely covered his up. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.480 Heck me, you covered yours up. I love it. Oh, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.240 I mean yes, ornaments and everything on his tree. Bro, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.880 I look at my little naked tree back here that 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:25.800 he definitely spirit man. Yeah exactly. Oh well that's uh, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.320 that's how we're gonna start talking Cowboys today, just by 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.679 a little comparison between that and Rob. Always fun. But 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.200 the Cowboys were back out on the practice field yesterday. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.960 They will be back out there today following pretty much 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.600 right when we're done with this show, they'll take the 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.160 field and get back out here at the Star in Frisco. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.760 But there was an injury report yesterday and I just 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.160 kind of wanted to point this out Yesterday during the show, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.919 I mentioned I wouldn't be surprised if Ezekiel Elliott was 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.400 on that injury report. Well, he ended up being on 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.280 the injury report with a bit of a calf lingering 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.320 calf issue. Is that what it was, Robin? Were there 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.160 any other are injuries that stuck out to you off 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:07.720 of yesterday's practice? Yeah, it's a calf for Zeke coming 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.840 out of the game, and the other three players on 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:15.639 the report are related to past injuries. Anthony Brown with 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.680 ribs limited, what would have been limited how they practiced, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.720 Zeke would not or Zeke would have been limited if 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.959 they had practiced, So the report was an estimation. Cam 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.760 Irving would not have practice and Donovan Wilson would not 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.560 have either. So that's that's a pretty clean injury report. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.560 Although with a short week Nostradamas Kyle, I don't know 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.320 what the Zeke's status is going to be, you know, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.800 because you know how much work they are they really 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.120 going to get in. They'll probably have a normal practice 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.720 maybe Friday, but it's kind of that Thanksgiving week where 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.360 they're just gonna try to manage him and see if 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.960 he can go he is that really a big issue 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.240 this week if if Zeke's not available. I know recently 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.640 we've talked about the lack of production and we've talked 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.240 about uh really just Zeke not being Zeke in twenty twenty. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.040 But how worried does that make you feel against a 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.040 very winnable Cincinnati team? Uh coming up this weekend of 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:16.360 Zeke's not on the field. Now, I want to go 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.760 to what he said about you being no soredamic when 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.480 you call that out, I mean it came out of 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.000 left field really when you said it. So I think 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.280 you're really kind of Martha Stewart in the show right 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.880 now with inside of information. We're gonna let that. We're 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.960 gonna let that slide. But it does worry, It does 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.320 worry you a little bit. Yeah, of course I got you, Bertie, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.320 but you know, I a little worried about that that injury. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.720 I you know, obviously hope it's okay. Uh, in a 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.800 game like this and where the season is going for 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.720 the Dallas Cowboys, you know, look, man, you may want 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.920 to get an opportunity to see some other guys if 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.400 Zeke cannot go. Uh. So, Look, it's just it's the 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.680 most twenty twenty. Thing that continues to happen is, you know, 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.920 we get these freak injuries, got show up on the 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.800 injury report that you didn't think that that was anything 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.400 wrong with him, and Zeke is just another guy in 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.080 that long line of Cowboys that are injured. Gosh, yeah, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.680 I think he'd be all right. I mean, whatever he 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.320 has going on, I think it's probably relatively minorum. If anything, 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.680 they'll probably just monitor him, you know, like you already say, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.719 Rob going to you know, with a short week, making 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.600 sure that he's good. He's a vet, they know what 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.480 he could do. I think they probably feel bad and 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.040 they know they should have kept giving him the ball 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.359 this past week. So they're probably just giving him an 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.279 extra day off, right, and make sure that he's ready 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.000 to go out here and run against these boys this week. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.040 So with all that being said, I know a lot 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.640 of fans out there are looking at this as maybe 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.480 even a premature tank move. I mean sitting your veteran guys. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.240 And I'm not even just talking about Zeke, but I 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.520 mean even some of these corners. Anthony Brown, he's been 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.120 dealing with that issue kind of on and off all 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.719 year long, and now he's he's back on the injury report. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.800 Then you talk about Donovan Wilson, a guy who's been 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.720 an up and comer. I don't necessarily think he's one 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.640 of those guys that you would sit out, even if 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.280 you were trying to take because you want as many 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.479 reps for Donovan Wilson as possible. But could you see 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.680 this as a potential move with Zeke sitting him down 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.760 for the at least a couple weeks of the rest 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.200 of the season and getting him ready for twenty twenty 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.960 one a little bit early. I would. I would call 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.200 it a strategic move if that is what they're doing. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.680 I wouldn't call it a tank move. The tank term 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:27.239 is overutilized, and it isn't And yeah, it's definitely mismisused. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.239 There is no such thing as tanking in the NFL. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.240 We've already touched on that in previous weeks. But it 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.159 does make sense if you just pay somebody a bunch 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.200 of money, if you're committed to them long term, to 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.600 make sure that if this season, if they feel as 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.440 if this season is out of hand, if if it's 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.920 at a loss, right which it's right on the custom 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.920 of that, then it only makes sense to protect your guys, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:49.760 the guys that you know are going to be here, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.200 the guys that you know are going to be valuable 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.880 to you going down to stretch. I don't think that 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.280 they're doing that, but if they were to do that, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.080 it would be a strategic move. It would not be 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:05.320 a tank move, right. Yeah. No. Another example of that 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.160 would be Zach Martin maybe down the stretch here. You know, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.320 he's he's gonna miss minimum three games on irm with 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.720 a calf as well. And the thing with calfs are 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.680 like it's one of those soft tissue kind of things 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.440 that you don't want to mess around with. So, uh, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.360 you know, if the Cowboys are mathematically eliminated by the 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.760 time Zaxell's were to come back, like if he's not 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.400 one hundred percent, it makes no sense, like Isaiah said, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.600 to your best pound for pound player, to put him 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.200 out there. So we'll see what happens happens there. But 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.200 you know, the whole tank thing, it's like, you know, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.320 a discussion coming out of the game the other day was, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.080 you know, what was their effort level like and did 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.280 they you know, they look like they quit and all 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.000 that kind of stuff that fans hate, Well, what which 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:51.920 one do you want? You want them to just you know, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.400 I mean, you can't have it both ways. I've been 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.320 saying that all year. You can't. You can't accuse him 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:57.920 of not playing hard and all that kind of stuff 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.840 and it discuss you. But then you just want to 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.880 hank and get a higher draft pick. You can't have 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.720 it both ways. No, it definitely, it definitely is a 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.280 double led sward when you talk about the fan base 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.720 and that whole tanking uh thought process, and I think 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.640 it ticked us off when we you know, a couple 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.920 of games back when we when people were starting to 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.720 talk that way. But you know, at the end of 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.760 the day, I just feel as though that that whole 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:27.840 tanking thing is happening organically. Yeah. I mean you look 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.400 at our deepness and you look at their uh inability 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.400 to stop the run, and you talk about, hey, let's 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.400 you know, Anthony Brown being on the injury reserve. If 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.800 I believe if Anthony Brown had played last week, he 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.280 wouldn't have been would have been an afterthought in that game. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.760 So look, like I said, it's all happening, uh, and 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.480 it's happening organically. You may want to check Greg Williams 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.160 and him going cover zero for the Jets. Now, that's 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.880 that's example of team tank right there. He got fired 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.720 the next day. That's what they're trying to do. Yeah, lost, 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.960 here's the thing, K like, so organically, He's right. They're 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.840 down to their fifth and six offensive tackles. They're playing 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.319 all kinds of backups this year because they've kind of 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.120 had to. So, you know, I do think it's organ 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.240 It's like Jerry said on the fan recently, he said, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.080 if we if we earn it, we'll take the high 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.600 draft pick. If we earn it, they're earning it because 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.080 of what at what they're doing defensively and the struggles 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.920 they're having. It's like it's not quite history. It's historic 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.640 in Cowboys history, it's not quite historic in NFL history, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.559 but it's it's downright bad, no doubt about that. That 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.320 defense could arguably be historic in terms of NFL history. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.440 I think I think that defense would be right up 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.040 there in terms of some of the top were just 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.520 terrible defenses that the league has ever seen. But I 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.040 kind of want to go back to the offensive line, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.120 and you guys mentioned Zack Martin. Of course, he was 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:58.520 out against Baltimore here on Tuesday. But I wanted to 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.640 kind of talk about the offensive line and yesterday, and 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.319 we didn't get to it. But I thought the offensive 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.360 line fared quite well. I thought they had one of 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.160 the better games of the year. Whenever they didn't have 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.520 a Zach Martin, they didn't even have cam irving on 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.439 the edge. I mean, you lost both of your tackles, 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.760 and I mean these guys really kind of stepped up 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:18.719 and played well against a very heavy front seven. Yeah. No, 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.959 they played well. They played well, and I know most 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.199 people are gonna look at it and say, you know, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.880 Kalais Campbell was limping around his little gimpy Okay, but 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.960 they still had They still had the wolf, the wolf 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.640 on Wall Street as I referred to him, and he 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.480 had a presence there. And they still they still have 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.560 their dudes over there. Um, and the offensive line stepped up. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.319 They played well, and they allowed Annie Dalton get getting 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.240 in a rhythm, They allowed for him to get some sweat, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.240 They allow for him to disperse the ball all over 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.480 the place. Um, you know, I thought they did a 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.080 really good job. I think it right at the end 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.040 of the game there, they started having a little bit 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.560 of some cracks come through. But again, we were holding 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:52.920 onto the ball a little bit longer than we have 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.000 been um in an earlier in the game because we're 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.199 trying to get it downfield. So overall, for what they 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.000 for what we're playing with, and you know what those 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.240 guys had to do this week against that opponent, they 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:09.040 did a heck of a job. Yeah, I think they 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.760 came into the game with a great strategy called max 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.839 Protects slide protection, and that's what you have to do 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.800 for Andy Dalton in order for him to be upright 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.360 for most of the game. And you think about it, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.079 Andy Dalton was getting those quick passes out fast. It 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.480 was dinkin dunk and finding his tight ends. And that's 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.240 the game that that the Dallas Cowboys have to play 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.880 because of where we are with our offensive line. I mean, 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.319 there's a lot you know, we we've you know, a 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:41.440 lot of people are pleased with the with Andy Dalton's performance. Obviously, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.600 there were a few throws that he did miss, one 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.480 I believe, to Michael Gallup at the back of the 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.400 end zone. But still, I mean I think that we 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.760 still don't we don't have the full arsenal of our 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.960 offensive plays at our disposal because of how we're compromised 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.920 at the offensive line. I saw them do a lot 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.040 with Blake Bell to Bell Dozer should up not only 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:02.959 block him, but I think he had a catch as well, 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.240 And so you have we're gonna have to take that 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.600 with us for the rest of these games if we want, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:14.640 you know, Andy Doggs to have just a titch of success. Yeah, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.079 for sure. And you know, some of it was what 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.240 Baltimore was just giving them. I feel like the way 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:20.959 they were kind of playing their safeties, you know, just 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.640 let the Cowboys rich just try to go down the 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.719 field and and maybe they make a mistake on a 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.640 long drive. Kind of a strategy there. But the problem 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.640 with that is they didn't have any chunk plays in 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.599 the game. They had one play over twenty yards and 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.280 I was laid in the game to Michael Gallop. And 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.480 you know, when you combine that with what Baltimore did one, two, three, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.679 nine plays I believe over twenty yards in the game 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.120 or close to it, and four over thirty yards, Like 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.599 that's where you're struggling. I mean, defensively, believe it or not. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.040 They had some plays that were okay in the game, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.800 but when you give up those giant plays, you just 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.199 don't have much to stand on over the course of 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.200 a four quarter game. And that's been a problem all 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.280 year long. Now is that indicative of the offensive line, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.120 rob or is that something specific to play calling from 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.400 Kellen Moore? Because you can attack underneath against really any 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.520 defense and at some point they're going to creep up. Well, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.920 Baltimore didn't do that. Ultimately, they stayed in their game 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.240 plan over the course of the game and because of that, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.040 there was nothing over the top for this Dallas offense. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.200 Is that where does it start for the Cowboys if 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.719 you want to fix that and find some more big 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.599 place because they were really good at it earlier in 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:37.400 the year. Well, I may say it goes back to 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.480 play action too, and like Isaiah said, get Zeke involved 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.800 a little bit more and try to hit them that way. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.679 You know, if you got your running game really cooking, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.199 that's where you can take the top off at some 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.080 point in the game. And but yeah, I mean they 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.920 also though they have guys that can take short intermediate 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.200 passes and turn them into something Ceedee Lamb is one 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.840 that comes first to mind. So but either way, however 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.040 you do it you've got to be able to with 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.000 the line like this and the way they're compromised up front, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.160 you can't rely on these twelve play add r drives. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.720 You just can't do it. You gotta get some easy 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:18.160 ones every now and then. Ema No, I feel the 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.920 same way. I think that you know, Kellen Moore does 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.320 has done a better job of pulling back the game plan. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.760 I mean, we were seeing double reverses and triple option 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.480 plays and things that just didn't what are we gonna 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.240 do with that? And you know, I think that if 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.080 you want to get Andy Dalton through the rest of 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.560 the season, you're gonna have to max protect. I think 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.760 what Rob said is right. You know, you do have 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.360 those playmakers on your offense that can take a five 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.920 yard slant route to the house. But what teams are 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.760 doing is they're basically you know, man and man zone, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.760 keep your safeties high and bringing guys down in the 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.560 box to stop the run and daring Andy Dalton to 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.400 throw the ball along. You know. So I think that's 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.360 what Baltimore's strength was against us, because they have they 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.920 had so many good the defensive backs to a great guys, 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.640 and you know, they just didn't have the pass rush either. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.480 And I think when you talk about Wolf and Klais 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.760 Campbell and what they did and pushing the pocket, still 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.920 the offensive line has some success, which just you know, 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.880 getting a hat on the hat and big on big 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.640 and so I think you progressed in that and I 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.040 think you can take that, especially if you're not gonna 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:30.200 get Irvin or Zack Martin back. That that gives you 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.240 some positive. As far as the running game going into 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:38.360 the Cincinnati, I mean, I agree, I don't really have 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.000 much of else to add to that. I mean, those 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.520 guys said it, old line played well and he don't 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.280 got the ball out, you know. You know, we talked 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.880 about CD in the pregame show, and CD got the 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.120 ball early and often, right. I think he ended up 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.880 having six catches or so. You know. But but to 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.680 what you just said, Hey, Baltimore was playing, they're playing 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.960 soft and the secondary side of things keeping everything in 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.440 front of him because they knew that we couldn't beat 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:00.720 them over the time, but they weren't going to have 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.480 time to do. So, you know, we ran the ball whale, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.440 which is what you expect to do versus a heavy 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.040 two high safety team, and we just got away from 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.040 the run. Ye you know, Zeke was running like Zeke, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.760 and unfortunately we decided to not go back to him. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.680 I thought we'd moved a ball pretty dog on whale. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.840 We just didn't score enough points. Yeah, I didn't score 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.200 the points, didn't finish drives. Andy Dalton said that after 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.000 the game he talked about the fact that not finishing 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.720 those drives was big, I mean, stalling out right outside 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.520 the red zone, and it ultimately made the kicks harder 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.240 for Greg Zerline. He ended up leaving three kicks off 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.760 of the board, so nine points total. 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