WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Rings and Things 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.000 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:07.760 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.520 Cowboys. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:19.480 He's Talking Cowboys live from the Dallas Cowboys World at. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:20.960 The Stars. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:33.400 And now your host Isaiah Stan, Patrick Wi Harris, and 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:40.240 Kyle Yemans. It's another off season edition of Talking Cowboys. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.360 Here from the s w e C Studios at the 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.559 Star in Frisco, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, the 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:51.080 official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. Welcome into another episode. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:52.879 It's a different episode. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.040 We have Nick Harris's name in the intro for the 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.320 first time. Sounded good. It's official now, Yeah, we couldn't 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.360 give it away last week. Yeah, yeah, we had to. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.000 We had to wait a week kind of let the 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.280 surprise happen. Now now, now it's in there. Now it's official. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.000 We're good to go. Patrick Nosey Walker out on vacation 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:11.240 doing his thing. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.320 I scared him away, That's what really happened. All right, 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:16.560 he'll be back next week. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.320 Oh good, nice, I will not be here. So you 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.080 scared me away the second time around. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.320 But then we've got Isaiah stand back in the building. Hi, Kyle, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:25.200 how's your cracking? 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.880 What's cracking? Yeah, what's cracking seven to two on Sunday? 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.280 Oh my, you have to remind everybody about that. Yeah, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.920 it's okay. You know you need sometimes you need a 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.640 wake up call. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.680 Sometimes a series and it's just gonna it's gonna flip 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.080 where sometimes teams just wake up. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.240 It's gonna flip. That team's gonna wake up tonight. Oh 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.360 you guys sleeping? Oh they were through games. Oh yeah, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:48.640 no doubt. All right, no doubt. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.160 So go stars, go go get the win the night. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.880 Let's go ahead and forces at least to six and 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.600 then I'll go watch it clitching on the road and 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:56.120 that'd be great. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.720 Yeah, watch the watch the stars are six. I might 0:01:58.760 --> 0:01:59.680 have to come up there and meet you. 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.280 Come on with it. Oh, that would be fun. That 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.120 would be fun. Knuckles man, Why what's going on? I 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.320 don't know whatever reason I've been giving. I've been getting 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.560 called like knuckles today, and it. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.560 Just hurts a little bit at a little bit more 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.880 hardware on the little bit of a little bit of 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:13.560 shine there. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.720 Look at that. Yeah, nice Sunday baby. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.920 She is now officially Lorena Yeoman's your sun boomed? 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.200 How about that long term contract? 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:30.480 Lifetime kind bro The Night of our freaking lines. It 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.560 was incredible. So many freaking fantasy land right there. It was. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.480 It was it was a fairy tale and she's a 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:38.880 Disney princess, So there you go. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.080 I mean that's just kind of the. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.440 Whole whole thought process behind it. Everybody that's in here 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.960 was there. I mean it was you guys saw the 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.200 emotion that was there. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.240 And yeah, I mean you didn't hold it together at all, 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:50.560 due not at all. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:56.040 Once the once the videos come out, and I'm so 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.840 excited for the videos and the photos are going to 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.480 be incredible. We had a dream team, vendor team, like, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.760 I mean, they were all incredible, and uh the video 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.280 because I mean I was so in the moment and 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:09.760 you could see I was just trying to keep it 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.360 together as much as I possibly could. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.760 That didn't last very long. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.840 Yeah, you know what, Kyle, But man, it was it 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:16.320 was awesome. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.560 You know, you have, you and Steph Curry have some 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:20.200 things in common. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.040 Interested you and Steph Curry and you guys don't look 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.119 like brothers or nothing like that. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.760 But one comming olity is you guys both shoot your shots. Yeah, 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:31.560 and I don't know if. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.880 You know this, but take a look at your screen 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:38.600 right now, this was this was Kyle. This was the 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.960 napkin okay, at his at his reception, and this was 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.360 the first shot that he shot at his young wife, Lorena. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:48.840 Now let me just look at it. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.480 Then that's a wordsmith if I've ever seen one. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.240 Litten, let's god of read that out. Okay. So there 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.800 was a picture of his now wife, Okay. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.560 And it said this was what Kyle said in the DM, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.400 looking like a dime among the pines. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:07.560 Fire fire. That was your first shot at her? Yeah, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.280 if she responded, she did. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:09.880 So. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.280 We had known each other for years up to that 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.040 point because we had met in college and so we 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.440 just kind of kept up with each other. She was 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.760 actually an intern with the Cowboys for a little bit, Okay, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.760 so we kind of kept in touch. And then COVID 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.039 happened and she went on this trip in the middle 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.960 of twenty twenty and I sent her that DM. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:28.880 She kind of out of the blue. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.160 We had not talked, we had not texted, we had 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.560 not been romantically involved at all, like, but she was. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.839 She was looking like a dime amongst the pines, a 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.040 dime amongst the pipes. That was what works? Would that 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.200 have been your word choicing it. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.920 If it's that easy, then I don't know what. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.919 A dime among the pines. When mister Beemer in the 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.719 back saw that and I saw that, we we lost 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.520 it good. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:53.200 We lost it. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.080 But you know what, but we gained a lot of 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.040 You gained a lot of respect that day because I 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.200 don't think I would have shot that shot with those words, 0:04:59.200 --> 0:04:59.800 and it worked. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.880 The confidence, that's it's all. It's it's all about the confidence. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:03.760 As long as you have the confidence. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.400 Isaiah say to me, is like, hey, man, can you 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:07.279 get that on the screen? 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.120 And so it was Isaiah's I did I never do that. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.799 I mean I would have never thought that pine, trees 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.479 and fire go together, but he found a way to 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:18.080 make it go together. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.800 I don't know I should have put the tree emojis, honestly, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:21.600 but it worked out. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:22.440 I'm not going to change it. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.200 Normally you put three emojis back to back. You don't 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.520 even put two. So you were in a rush to 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:26.720 get that text out. You wanted to hurry. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:28.279 I want to get that thing out of there. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.200 How did I How long did I look at that 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:38.560 long two emojis? I think I was confident. I went 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.600 I shoved that shot up there man like it was. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.560 It was like a half court heave, Like that's what 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.000 I needed. And you talk about out kicking your coverage 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.360 and shooting your shot like, I mean I got both of. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:48.960 Those things down. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.440 All all of the sports analogies all kind of they 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:52.960 all were there. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.320 I mean she was. She was the most beautiful bride, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:55.919 she really was. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.480 And uh, I can't wait for for Cowboys Nation to 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.400 see the pictures because they're gonna see him garantee. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.200 She is an awesome individual. Yeah you really, you got 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.839 you him? And she is an awesome human. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:05.280 Uh. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.200 If you guys have never had the opportunity to meet her, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.880 she is just just genuine as they come. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.040 Like literally, like there's no there's no anger. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.479 I don't even know if she even gets mad, or 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.200 she does get mad, I wouldn't want to be around her. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.240 She gets mad, Yeah, she's She's from New York, so 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.760 she's fine. Probably smiles when she's mad. That's probably a 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.279 little bit. Yeah that's scary. Yeah, no, I'm gonna pray 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.480 for you. It hasn't. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.920 Luckily, it hasn't been towards me a lot because I'm 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.600 trying to avoid that. But every once in a while 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.320 every once in a while, but she's the best and 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.960 and I can't wait. But man, yeah, so much fun. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.320 I'm so glad you guys were there, and and I can't. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.080 Wait for sure, right man? 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.440 Yeah, dude, what did you think about the dance? By 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.320 the way, what do you think about the first dance? 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.760 Yeah, that was your goal to move man. I was 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.520 worried about your hamstring, but you did good. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:48.680 Bro. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.600 I worked out with you in the morning. You tried, 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.440 you tried to kill me. He y, he didn't sing 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.240 in that be real. I wish I could have put 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:57.600 that up here. Yeah. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.360 I did not send that to you. But but Khy 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.000 and his crew they came through in the morning. That 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.400 was Kyle's request, can we work out the morning of 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.200 my wedding? And I was like, are you serious right now? 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.880 He was like yeah, I'm like all right, I'm not 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:07.440 going to kill you. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.280 It was great. Actually, I love it. I'm glad you 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.080 guys had a good time. Somehow, some way. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.400 He has two guys and his as his groomsmen that 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.120 were both like mcglevin's. They one looks just like mcglevin, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.280 but he has two that act like mcglevin. I don't 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.600 know how that worked. But your guys are awesome too. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.920 They were great, And I mean there was one Giants 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.680 fan that was in there and he was geeking out 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.080 and he told me last night we were having dinner 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.240 and he was he was on the bench working out, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.520 and he was like, man, he. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:32.560 Won a Super Bowl for me. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.240 He was trying to finish his rap and he was 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.360 trying to push it through and and he was like, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.480 he did it for me, This is for him, Like 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:41.280 it was. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.640 It was fun, man. Everybody else was Cowboys fans. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.560 That makes it makes sense, I mean, because based upon 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.640 what these guys are doing with their roster, they look 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.360 like they're trying to get another thing on their form too. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.320 So let's let's talk about that. Enough about the wedding 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.520 and we'll talk plenty about it. I'm sure at some 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.920 point we'll get the b roll up there. But let's 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.320 talk about the yopsis for the Cowboys because we have 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.560 some some big dates coming up. Thursday schedule release, so 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.200 you get you're going to get to know the schedule, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.320 you know the home, you know the away opponents. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:10.720 We can kind of go through that if we really 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.120 want to, but Thursday, anyways. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.520 Is going to be where it's all organized and you 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.880 kind of know what's going on for this Cowboys schedule. 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.440 But this offseason has been a good one, right for 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.240 the most part. You kind of feel like it's been 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:23.360 a good off season. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.320 What has been the most improved part of this roster 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.080 from the beginning of the off season, through the draft, 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.840 through undrafted free agency, and now on to the point 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.040 where we're getting close to rookie mini camp, we're getting 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.040 close to OTA's nick. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.760 Where do you feel like they've taken the biggest step. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.520 I think it's just filling holes and parts of need. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.720 You know, there's going to be a lot of inexperienced 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.360 guys that are going to get an opportunity in training 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.520 camp to step up. You know, I'm doing a breakdown 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.959 the linebacker position right now, especially with the possibility that 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.520 Micah Parsons could be spinning down to defensive end. Maybe 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.520 that's something we get into later, but who kind of 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.160 fills that role? And you know, there's a lot of 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.520 open bodies that you know are ready to take on 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.960 that challenge. And then if you at the offensive line, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.559 you know, if injuries are to happen, we kind of 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.560 talked about it last week. You know, you have guys 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.959 that are ready to step in and potentially contribute, and 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.960 then you know, taking out Ezekiel Elliott, but inserting Deuce 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:11.119 Vaughan that's explosion. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:11.280 You know. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.720 Then there was explosion that was needed at times last year, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.400 especially whenever the offense got stagnant, you know, adding weapons 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.839 in the receiving corps with Brandon Cooks, more explosions. So 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:21.840 I think there was just a lot of points of need, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.800 especially on the offensive side of the ball. And we 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.600 saw how the season ended against San Francisco and needing 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.079 that extra explosion. I think that was the most important 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.240 part of need. So that maybe that was the biggest 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.800 addressing of need that happened, was adding that explosion, but 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.040 just overall on both sides of the ball, adding points 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:36.360 of need. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.240 I'm gonna have to lean it towards defense. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.199 I totally agree with what you said, But if I 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:42.760 had to pick a side, I'm gonna say that they 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.520 made a decision at the in this offseason, if we 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.320 had to make a choice between offense or defense being 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.000 more dominant, I think they chose defense. I think they 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.400 chose to be more dominant on defense. I mean that 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.080 probably goes towards the fact that they felt like they're 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.520 closer to being in that in that category of dominance, Right, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.120 It's like, we're probably closer. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.760 To being dominant on defense more so than offense. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.200 So let's just go ahead and just throw the extra 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.559 chips in it that we need to be unstoppable in 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.640 that regard, and I think that that's what they attained 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.599 to try to that's what they sought after the do 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.280 this offseason, obviously by adding to the secondary. Right, we 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.520 did that by going out there in slidi fying at 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.400 the quarterback position, and we went out there and added 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.040 in a draft as well at the d line position, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.360 addressing that hole. Okay, you added an overshown at the 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.360 linebacker position in terms of adding another speed guy at 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.360 that second level, because you knew that you were going 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.959 to lose lose quote unquote a linebacker, right, so you 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.240 needed somebody else in that regard. And I still think 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.120 they need to address that and within free agency, I 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.679 think that needs to be addressed because I think we 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.520 need probably two more guys at linebacker. But in terms 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.719 of speed at the second level and being able to 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.960 run and rush from that position, I think that they 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:49.840 addressed that as well. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.800 So the addition to Gilmore, the edition of Smith, the 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.240 addition of Overshow, I think. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.560 That they did a great job adding at every single 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.160 level of that, and I think they are now in 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.800 that category of dominant. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.160 Yeah, it goes back to I mean we've talked about 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.120 it before on this show. I know we talked about 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.920 it on the Draft show. But if you have enough 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.679 of one thing at another, if you are good at 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.480 one spot, go ahead and keep addict, right, I mean, 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.880 never relax in that regard. And you brought back Dan 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.760 quint because of what he did in his first season, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.839 how he improved upon that in his second season. And 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.439 of course he is well qualified to be a head 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.880 coach in the NFL. Everybody that's listening to this podcast 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.600 probably knows that he's here for a reason, and he's 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.079 here to be elite. He's here to build something special, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.840 and in order to do that, he needed a couple 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.240 of pieces. Went out and got a veteran corner that 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.360 can play with Trayvon Diggs, that can play with Doron Bland, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.280 that can play with these guys that you're gonna sprinkle 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.920 in like a nay Sean, Right, and then even in 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.280 Eric Scott if he ends up making a bit of 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:56.400 a push as a draft picker. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.839 But you have a veteran quarter in Stefan Gilmourre that 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:00.719 you can rely on. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.920 Now you have a big, big dude in the middle, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.199 not only to stop the run, but to try and 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:07.760 present a little pass. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:08.800 Rush too, And that's Manzi Smith. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.320 And if there was no day in Quinn, you wouldn't 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.120 have resigned Vanderish, you wouldn't have resigned Donal. Like those 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.199 were the huge additions as well that people don't really 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.880 look at. Obviously that kind of get overlooked, but those 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.679 were key acquisitions as well, because those guys could have 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.000 went wherever they wanted at that point. Right, So retaining Vanderish, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.280 retaining Donal, now all of a sudden, you're bringing guys 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.560 back that Okay, these are sure things in our defense. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.000 Now to your point, Kyle, let's add to it right now, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.839 let's add what do we need to push us over 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.880 the edge. It kind of gives me the vision of 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.080 the game at the arcade, you know, the little quarters, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:38.600 and it has a little thing that keeps a little 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.800 sweeper that keeps coming forward like they you just feel 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:41.240 like Okay, if I. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.439 Just put a quarter right here, they're all going to 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:43.960 fall forward. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.360 Like that's what they needed. They needed just those guys 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.800 in places. Okay, now they're there. Now let's go ahead 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.160 and drop a couple more in there, and they just 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.160 this just might push us over the edge. You got 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.560 the big tower leaning on the edge, right, because that's 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:55.400 what you were last year. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:55.839 You were there. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.760 You were there to be elite, you were there to 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.319 be dominant. So that coin tower standing right there on 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:02.240 the edge, and. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:03.520 It just needs to get pushed over. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.520 If your offense you now fear this defense. I mean 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:07.920 you already respected it. You had a high regard for 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.760 this defense. But now it's like where is the weak spot? 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:11.520 Based on paper? 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.679 Right, bas not only just paper, but what they have 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:14.600 shown in the past. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.560 So you retain pretty much everybody that you needed to retain, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.520 and then you add it onto it. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.640 So where they were weak, there's no longer a weakness there. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.000 There's not a soft spot. Right. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.319 It's like you were able to poke somebody in the 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.719 stomach like Pillsbury. Okay, now that's a dog on rock 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.040 hard stomach, right, Like this is no longer soft. The 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.160 middle of the defense is no longer soft. Right, the 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.120 linebacker of the corps is gonna get figured out. The 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.679 cornerback position. Okay, we had some guys go down last year. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.360 We had some young, inexperienced guys. Okay, but now guess what. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.280 I'll look over there and I and I and I 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.320 see dog On Gilmour. I look over on the other 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.199 side and I see Digs. It's like, crap, there's no 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.559 week spots. Let's go to the slot. Oh dog goner 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.679 goes that dog On, second year player that was out 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.719 there intercepting everything that came his way. Right, yeah, d 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.520 dB so mean. So now you have no weak spots there. Okay, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.720 let's go to the secondary. Crap, they got all three 0:13:58.760 --> 0:13:59.400 safeties back. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:13:59.920 Oh my god. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:01.920 Okay, cool, let's go to the d line. Oh, we 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.280 don't want to pass against these guys. Get in the backfield. Okay, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.520 let's run the ball. Shoot, you got a dog On, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.559 you got the big boys in the middle. Now can't 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.520 a twin tower. So now you have addressed all the 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:15.800 weak spots, and there's no good place to attack this defense. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.360 Just like there's these bowling ball fullbacks. There's no good 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.320 place to hit them. There's no big good place to 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:21.320 attack this defense. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:22.880 Yeah, and you got six hundred and fifty pounds and 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.040 then interior defensive behind. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:25.000 Now, no, it's just. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.960 That's that's not easy to run the ball off. But 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.600 the defense is it is creating a fail safe of 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.160 itself in some ways. You know, offense is like, Okay, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.360 we're gonna go out in that explosion, and defense is like, okay, 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.320 like we see that, but we're gonna be ready in 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.920 case that doesn't work out. And you know those times 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.920 last year where you know the defense and again I 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.800 mentioned this last week where the defense was on the 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.760 field so much. But if you have guys that can 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.720 rotate in and you don't have to have Mazie and 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.520 Hankins on the field at the same time they can 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:50.080 rotate in. 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.560 Then you're creating a fail safe for yourself. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.480 And they can't run the ball against those guys, and 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.320 you know that makes it a lot easier on your defense. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.280 Man, when's the last time that you have looked at 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.720 this defense and said, exactly what I said and what 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.960 Nick just said, you. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:04.440 Fear this defense? 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.080 Because yeah, they were feared last year to a certain extent, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.000 but there wasn't a culture around it of like, oh man, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:11.000 those Cowboys are coming. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.400 Yet there was a couple holes. There were a couple 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:12.760 of them. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.280 Yeah, And I mean we were through the middle of 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.200 October last year before they gave up two touchdowns in 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.680 a game. They were the only team that did not 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.360 give up multiple touchdowns. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.160 In a game until the later part of October. That's nuts, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.680 That is nuts. Two touchdowns, that's all it took. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.440 No, they only gave up one. Of course, there were 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.720 some up and downs toward the back half of the season. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.240 But if they've improved the way that they think they have, 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.840 or at least on paper it looks like they've improved, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.840 I think there is there's a culture that's being built, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.520