Speaker 1: Yeah, is depending on matchups throughout the practice. Here, they're
Speaker 1: just to kind of keep myself refreshed and UM up
Speaker 1: to speed. But it's it's something that UM at any
Speaker 1: point in time, I can drop down and play with
Speaker 1: no problem. I mean it just honestly, I just get
Speaker 1: bored playing deep sometimes, to be honest, UM, And it
Speaker 1: keeps you engaged. You you know, every snap you're rather
Speaker 1: UM covering somebody or you're blitzing, or you know you're
Speaker 1: you're close to the ball, you're fitting in a run. UM.
Speaker 1: So it just kind of keeps me engaged, keeps me
Speaker 1: around the football. UM. And the more you're rounding football
Speaker 1: and more players you get to make. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of guys coming back at the right time. Now,
Speaker 1: I think it doesn't bats coming back. So just how
Speaker 1: full of offensive this team is? The hurdle to see
Speaker 1: before already. I mean, well, it starts with the run.
Speaker 1: You never run the ball better than anybody in the
Speaker 1: leave right now. Got the leading rusher and Ezekie Elliott
Speaker 1: and everything else is UM built off of that. You
Speaker 1: can't stop the run. Then they're in third and shorts
Speaker 1: all day and they're converting. I think they're in. I
Speaker 1: know they're in the top five and one third down,
Speaker 1: I believe. Um. And then they keep running it until
Speaker 1: eventually that that that turns into one of those games
Speaker 1: where defense is on the field for a long time,
Speaker 1: you get tired, and eventually those holes get bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1: So first things first, we got to stop the run. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know they have weapons to that that compliment
Speaker 1: the run with Jason Waite and Cole Beasley, Dads Bryant
Speaker 1: coming back, um, you know, and and and Dak Press
Speaker 1: has been playing really well, especially if the play action pass.
Speaker 1: He's very very accurate, um when he's able to to
Speaker 1: to you know, fake the run, and he's got wide
Speaker 1: open lanes behind to throw win. Um. But all of
Speaker 1: that starts starts up front. Custom is a small ship guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you watched him on tape, he's a
Speaker 1: hard matchup for everybody. I mean, he's somebody that that
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of his routes are option routes,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't have a specific route that he has
Speaker 1: to run. He's really just playing off your leverage. He's
Speaker 1: finding an open space on the field, UM, and he
Speaker 1: has time to work it. You know, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be there, you know early. He can take his time,
Speaker 1: set you up to do everything, and he's crafty and that,
Speaker 1: and then once he catches the ball, he's up the field.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, it's definitely one of the matchups
Speaker 1: that that we have to win in order to be
Speaker 1: successful because he's somebody who moves to change for him.
Speaker 1: Similar to um, Jason Witten, he does the same stuff
Speaker 1: with option routes. He's working away from your leverage. He'll
Speaker 1: put you off turnaround the balls right on him. But
Speaker 1: where Jason uses his size as his an advantage, Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley just uses his quickness and feet to get open.
Speaker 1: So special. I mean, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what you can name that he doesn't do well. And
Speaker 1: as a back as great vision, the patience, he's got
Speaker 1: the speed to be a home run hitter. He's got
Speaker 1: the physicality to run through arm tackles and um finish runs.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, it's not much you can do college school
Speaker 1: the time you started at could you tell the transtell Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I remember telling us something our
Speaker 1: personnel here when he was getting getting ready to be
Speaker 1: in the draft that he's probably probably the best running
Speaker 1: back in that draft. Um, and you know, so I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not surprised to see what he's doing. Commits, Uh,
Speaker 1: cope easily. Is he the kind of player you want
Speaker 1: to be more physical with at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: because of that quickness. I mean it depends what type
Speaker 1: of player you are. For somebody like myself, UM, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you don't want to try to you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to try to go step for step
Speaker 1: or mirror somebody that's quicker than you. So a lot
Speaker 1: of times you try to knock him off his rod
Speaker 1: or pin him to to make sure that he can
Speaker 1: only one. You know, if he has an option about
Speaker 1: you take away one know, he's going to run the
Speaker 1: other one. Um. There's some things you can do, but
Speaker 1: they do a good job of keeping them in motion.
Speaker 1: They keep him off the ball so you can't get
Speaker 1: your hands on them early. Um. And he's savage enough.
Speaker 1: He's seen enough people try to press him. You know,
Speaker 1: that's not a new thing for him, so he knows
Speaker 1: how to get open. But Um, depending on that matchup,
Speaker 1: you got to play him differently and you got to
Speaker 1: keep that that technique changing throughout the game. I mean, Jen,
Speaker 1: he did what he what he's been doing since he's
Speaker 1: gotten here, is is in the right spots. He's made
Speaker 1: a few tackles, played physical. Um, he's very comfortable on
Speaker 1: tight ends, um making calls. So I mean we're excited
Speaker 1: to see him stepping into a bigger role. I mean,
Speaker 1: CJ has gotten better every day. Um, he probably had
Speaker 1: the best or the most. He probably stood out the
Speaker 1: most out of anybody the encamp as an undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: worked his way all way up to making the team
Speaker 1: in practice squad, and now he's active and you know,
Speaker 1: he's just basically waiting on an opportunity. But I think
Speaker 1: everybody would be comfortable if, at any point in time,
Speaker 1: you know, an emergency situation, he had to get out
Speaker 1: on the field. I think I think everybody's comfortable with him.
Speaker 1: He's made nothing but played since he's gotten here, and
Speaker 1: even though he's not necessarily on the field, he's still
Speaker 1: preparing with that mentality that at any point in time
Speaker 1: he could be called. He had one of those games
Speaker 1: in Washington, he didn't stop the wild but the any
Speaker 1: Westerns to take from that, Yeah, I mean, especially because
Speaker 1: this running game is similar, you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: the different concepts. It'll be pretty much the same running attack.
Speaker 1: So we talked about fitting our runs and getting population
Speaker 1: to the football tackling. There's not many teams that that's
Speaker 1: gonna be. Uh yeah, that's probably the number one key
Speaker 1: coming into this game, UM, is being in the right
Speaker 1: place on every play. And then when you are in
Speaker 1: the right place, get the ball carried down. UM. And
Speaker 1: then everybody's got to be running to the ball. And
Speaker 1: you know, those are things that we didn't do well
Speaker 1: that week, and we'll get a chance to kind of, um,
Speaker 1: get another shot at that scheme. What are the some
Speaker 1: of the other thiings that impress you about Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: he just mentioned him earlier. What qualities because you have
Speaker 1: that kind of stand up, He doesn't make mistakes. I
Speaker 1: think we have one interception something like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's impressive at this point in the season for
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback. That's usually where you see UM. You
Speaker 1: see their youth is in those mistakes or those turn turnovers. UM.
Speaker 1: And he's played well. I mean, especially like I said,
Speaker 1: I think it helps that they got the number one
Speaker 1: Russian back and right behind him. UM. So those those
Speaker 1: keep some of those lanes open. But he makes good
Speaker 1: decisions with the football. He's mobile enough to extend and play. Um,
Speaker 1: he's changed calls that the line of scrimmage, so he
Speaker 1: has some freedom there. Um, he's doing a good job.
Speaker 1: He's playing solid. Apaulie, You've probably been asked this air already,
Speaker 1: but going down into the slot that was something that
Speaker 1: you missed not doing. Can you talk about how you're
Speaker 1: you're looking forward to it. Yeah, I mean I'm obviously
Speaker 1: looking forward to I feel like that's probably, um, the
Speaker 1: best position for me. But similar to last year, it
Speaker 1: all comes down to what the matchups are and who
Speaker 1: we how we want to match up that personnel. Um,
Speaker 1: so that it's a fluid package. Really at any point
Speaker 1: in time, you can see Jaylen Watkins, Jaylen Mills, myself, um,
Speaker 1: really anybody else. We have that for that fact down
Speaker 1: at the Nickel, just based on how we want to
Speaker 1: match things up. So right now we're kind of working
Speaker 1: that out to see what that five down or that's
Speaker 1: five dB package will look like. Um, but we're pretty
Speaker 1: much confident in in in any guy that we put
Speaker 1: in there. Basically as for a slot receivers in this
Speaker 1: league right now. UM, I think he's I think he's
Speaker 1: getting better and better every year. So I think he's
Speaker 1: up there. If you watch him this year, he's having
Speaker 1: a really good year. UM. He's getting open, he's getting
Speaker 1: in the end zone. UM. So I mean he's he
Speaker 1: has a lot of respect for me. UM. I would
Speaker 1: probably I don't know what a number I put him
Speaker 1: right now, but he's definitely one of those um that
Speaker 1: if you're if you're a slot corner, you circle on
Speaker 1: your own your schedule said that Washington Dallas has similar
Speaker 1: running games here. What do you see? What kind of
Speaker 1: concepts are they that are similar? Well, you get stretched run,
Speaker 1: You'll get you know, the power to run. Um some crunches.
Speaker 1: So a lot of the things that that we kept
Speaker 1: seeing was the U the open side power, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I'm not a linebacker, but but it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where they if they get you cut out of
Speaker 1: a gap, that ball is downhill immediately and you know,
Speaker 1: so you don't have time to kind of make up
Speaker 1: for that mistake. UM. And and that was one of
Speaker 1: the things that gave us trouble in in uh Washington,
Speaker 1: is you know, somebody gets cut out of a gap
Speaker 1: and then we're gashed. Um, whether it's to the overside, backside,
Speaker 1: or we overrun a crack toss. They run a lot
Speaker 1: of crack toss as well, and they don't just line
Speaker 1: up in you know, the formation that tells you crack toss.
Speaker 1: They'll motion to it, they'll um, you know, do anything
Speaker 1: to kind of disguise it, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the balls on the edge. So we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be very dismalint especially we talk about our run fits
Speaker 1: gure facing. I think that's given perspective, given the fashion
Speaker 1: or provision Battle Division League, so I think like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys League and trying to balance all that album because
Speaker 1: you have the Division Battle the Road next at all. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean we talk about perspective. Our only perspective is
Speaker 1: that this is the only game we can play right now.
Speaker 1: So everything we got, this is the biggest game ever. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the only perspective that we have. So uh, we
Speaker 1: we embrace all of the hype that it's the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's on the road, it's the Division, um, you know,
Speaker 1: all of that. We embrace it because that's what it
Speaker 1: is and that's all we have right now. He's uh,
Speaker 1: this number of games under his belt. Is that element
Speaker 1: of surprise or not knowing him because he's a rookie
Speaker 1: gone or is there still things that you can't you
Speaker 1: don't see about him yet because there's not that much film.
Speaker 1: My dad always told me, you don't know what you
Speaker 1: don't know, So I mean, all I can see from
Speaker 1: or all I know about Dak is what you see
Speaker 1: on tape and what he's done, and what he's done
Speaker 1: is pretty impressive. He doesn't make mistakes, He's mobile enough
Speaker 1: to extend the ball or extend the play and make plays.
Speaker 1: He's very very accurate on the play action pass. And
Speaker 1: they got the number one running back in the league
Speaker 1: behind him, so, um, you know, if he if he
Speaker 1: has another trick up his sleeve, then that's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be unfortunate for us. But you know, we've we've got
Speaker 1: enough respect for him.