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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the

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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, Sabol Scott Today. It's a Tuesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys and for the first time in almost

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Speaker 1: four months or five months, what the opens correct? Half

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Speaker 1: of us are live from the Star in Frisco as

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Speaker 1: a part of Dallas Cowboys Training Camp. Welcome into the

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Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage studios for me. We've got virtual studios

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Speaker 1: for Rob Phillips, Isaiah Stanback, our resident Super Bowl Champion,

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Speaker 1: and we've got heck My Harrison joining as always. Boys

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Speaker 1: Camp is here. We're in the padded practices where four

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Speaker 1: practices into twenty twenty Dallas Cowboys Training Camp and Rob,

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Speaker 1: it just feels great to finally be back at the

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Speaker 1: Star and having football action being played. It's just great

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Speaker 1: to see your face in person, Kyle. I saw you

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Speaker 1: see you with the mask on. We're massed up in here.

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Speaker 1: It's very different. Uh, the media access is different. It's

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Speaker 1: the new normal for us. But yes, I told Dave

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Speaker 1: during training camp. Usually it's eighty ninety guys. I've never

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Speaker 1: looked forward to having a roster in my hand so

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Speaker 1: much and just be able to just watch football. It's

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Speaker 1: it's it's been great so far. Different, not great. We're

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Speaker 1: not trying to brag to heck mine. Yes, yes, it's

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Speaker 1: not say it all because we've been filling you guys in.

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Speaker 1: You've been up on top of things as well. But heck,

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Speaker 1: I know you from a fan standpoint that have just

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Speaker 1: been itching for the day to learn more, to find

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Speaker 1: out more about this Cowboys team. Where you're finally getting

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Speaker 1: that opportunity. Well, look, man, it's it's all about the

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Speaker 1: fact that training camp has started. All of these mysterious

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Speaker 1: things have started to happen. You're starting to see all

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Speaker 1: of the battles, position battles starting to take shape. So absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I'm ecstatic about it from that standpoint. But man, I'm

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Speaker 1: flying blind right now because I can't watch what you watch. Prey. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time, man, It is a

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Speaker 1: matter of time till we all get back together, I

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Speaker 1: do that as well, so that way you all can

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Speaker 1: join us here and they ask to BBC Mortgage Studios.

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Speaker 1: But Isaiah, from a players standpoint, now that if things

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Speaker 1: have kicked off, what's that excitement like building up to

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Speaker 1: training camp, especially whenever you've had a crazy off season,

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Speaker 1: none of which have been as crazy is this one.

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Speaker 1: But when you have a crazy off season that you've

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Speaker 1: had to deal with, what's that anticipation like to getting

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Speaker 1: to some form of normalcy, right, especially in the off

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Speaker 1: season that these guys have had, it's been everything but normal. Right.

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Speaker 1: So for the veterans, these guys are familiar with what

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Speaker 1: it typically should be like, so they're excited just to

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Speaker 1: regular your regular regiment, right, your regular schedule. And for

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Speaker 1: ecstatic about getting together and just you know, they can't

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Speaker 1: put COVID behind them because they're still in it, right.

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Speaker 1: But things are getting back to the way that which

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Speaker 1: And I think that's something that everybody looks forward to, media, player, coaches,

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Speaker 1: one unfortunate news event has happened throughout training camp this offseason,

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Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy was working in a role as the offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman as a blocker, just stepped wrong. Ultimately, is what

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Speaker 1: right only to the standpoint of the intangibles. He's a

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Speaker 1: like Isaiah said, it just sucks. It happens. Tyrone Crawford

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Speaker 1: options for their for their top guys. Now, I did

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Speaker 1: And I think he's six to eight. I don't I

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Speaker 1: was you say six seven. I feel like he was

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Speaker 1: like seven ten, all right. And you see this ginormous

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hit it. Wow, Kyle is back. Let's say hello again.

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Speaker 1: It's been It's been quite the first twenty minutes. I've

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Speaker 1: ton of positive storylines to roll around this Cowboys team,

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Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side of the football. Guys and Rob,

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Speaker 1: I want to start things off with you here because

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Speaker 1: there's been multiple good things about the defensive side. You

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Speaker 1: guys talked about it already, but I've really been looking

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Speaker 1: at Jalen Smith, and I've been looking at this line

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Speaker 1: back and court with Layton vander esh put back into

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Speaker 1: the fold. This is something that Cowboys fans have been

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Speaker 1: looking for, but Jaylen Smith's taking it to another level.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't even really been normal Jaylen smith type of play.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put out a prediction or anything,

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Speaker 1: but he looks Pro Bowl calider or caliber so far.

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Speaker 1: Does any rob you calling a second Pro Bowl for

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Speaker 1: fifty four might if he can stop this trend after

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Speaker 1: four days of practice. I agree with you. I think

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Speaker 1: I said it a minute ago. I think he's he's

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Speaker 1: been my top stand out of camp, just how active

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Speaker 1: he's been. And they're not tackling and they've only been

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Speaker 1: in pads now for a couple of days, but he's

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Speaker 1: making plays and coverage. He's making plays moving forward and

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Speaker 1: so he's shown his athleticism. And I think it probably

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Speaker 1: helps him having Layton next to him because they work

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Speaker 1: so well together. And once you get done, Terry Pope

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Speaker 1: back in the mix working in team drills. You know,

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Speaker 1: you guys have talked about it, Heck Isaiah what he

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Speaker 1: can add in terms of eating up space and letting

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Speaker 1: those guys him even more. Yeah, I think it's very important.

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Speaker 1: I think it's very important guys when you when you

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Speaker 1: talk about smooth to just you know, think about what

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Speaker 1: being able to switch these defenses out and also have

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Speaker 1: him rush from the outside, you know, being past coverage,

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Speaker 1: all of those things that Jayle Smith is going to

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Speaker 1: be going to allow this defense. But to say that

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a Pro Bowl season for him,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he can make the Pro Bowl in his sleeping.

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Speaker 1: I know that's a little arrogant of a statement, but

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Speaker 1: that's just the kind of talent that he has and

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Speaker 1: when he's playing full till he's a no brainer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's there's no there's no question about his physical ability. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I can't speak to the Pro Bowl after a couple

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Speaker 1: of days of practice. I can't speak to that because

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Speaker 1: there's some amazing guys who you know who we added

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Speaker 1: on that list. But he is he's a he's a

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Speaker 1: pree cathlete man, and everybody knows that. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's back healthy. He's had a couple of seasons under

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Speaker 1: his belt, so he's good to go, and he has

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Speaker 1: he has a new defensive coordinator. You know, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: excited to see how he's utilized. I know he's excited

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Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, we've talked about how

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Speaker 1: that he's just looking forward to being free and having

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Speaker 1: an opportunity just to ball out, man, just to be

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Speaker 1: and I had just ball out with those big guys

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Speaker 1: in front of him. Even with McCoy going down, we

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Speaker 1: those it's really going to free him up. He looks

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Speaker 1: that much better. We lost Kyle again again. This is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: You're on bud. Here we go, Here we go again. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and you guys are so loud and you're hot in here,

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, my ears, I'm trying to listen

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Speaker 1: This is the craziest I'm at the Star. This doesn't

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Speaker 1: this bad. But it's okay. We're moving it forward. You

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Speaker 1: know what, it's because you've been bragging about being the

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Speaker 1: be it. That's fine, it's karma. I'm gonna move forward

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Speaker 1: with this question. I was going to ask you though,

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Speaker 1: and whenever we've we've talked about in the past, to

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Speaker 1: move from middle linebacker over to the week side linebacker.

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Speaker 1: For Jalen Smith, how much freer is he able to

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Speaker 1: play in that position and just play the football as

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Speaker 1: opposed to what he was doing in the past. He's

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Speaker 1: able to be free as you missed because as as

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Speaker 1: a as a middle linebacker, obviously you're responsible for everything

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Speaker 1: and everything on the defense, right. Um, you have to

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Speaker 1: be that center point right, you have to be able

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Speaker 1: to take it on all the blocks, and you have

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Speaker 1: to be able to get guys lined up. Where you're

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Speaker 1: a strong side linebacker, you're usually responsible for that tight end,

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Speaker 1: right and I'll lot of times the defense is set

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Speaker 1: to wherever the tight end goes. That's why it's called

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Speaker 1: a strong side linebacker. And that strong side linebacker goes

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Speaker 1: to the number one tight end, so you're responsible for that.

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Speaker 1: So when you're on the weak side, you have really

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Speaker 1: have the least amount of responsibility right, and you really

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Speaker 1: get the opportunity to run around and use your athleticism

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Speaker 1: and run around. You utilize more to blitz, utilize more

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Speaker 1: in coverage, utilize more if they do have a two

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Speaker 1: tight end set to get hands on that number two

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Speaker 1: tight end right to disrupt him so that your secondary

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Speaker 1: can now come and play coverage. So he's going to

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Speaker 1: be able to just be a guy man and just

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Speaker 1: be an athletic. And I'm really looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: how no one's going to use them. And that's something

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Speaker 1: heck that we've talked about. Yeah, Mike McCarthy has talked

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Speaker 1: about that and several of his press conference is just

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Speaker 1: saying that, look, it's all about rotation. It's all about

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Speaker 1: getting guys to play when it's important. And Jaylen Smith

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Speaker 1: and the other guys, and we have to bring some

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Speaker 1: light on the like Luke Gifford, Bernard Thomas, these guys

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Speaker 1: are gonna play a tremendous role in that linebacker rotation.

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Speaker 1: So Sean Lee right now I've heard isn't you know

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Speaker 1: he's just on the sideline working in bands. But Jalen

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Speaker 1: Smith at the will linebacker is gonna be lethal. And

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Speaker 1: I guess if he have to look at it like this,

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Speaker 1: at the mic, you're controlling everything. You're pretty much the

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Speaker 1: quarterback of the defense, making sure coverages, your you know,

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Speaker 1: protection and everything is right. But now I mean he

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Speaker 1: just hey, he can let his hair down literally and

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Speaker 1: play a solid as he's been rob Yeah. Absolutely, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the key to this defense, what Mike Golan

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Speaker 1: wants to do, what Mike McCarthy wants for all of

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Speaker 1: his players is just find the best thing they're good

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Speaker 1: at and accentuated. And I think that's that's the biggest key,

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Speaker 1: the scheme itself. And I think they're gonna they're gonna

640
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: try some things out and see how players respond, and

641
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: if they're better suited to do something else from a

642
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: technique standpoint, maybe alignment standpoint, they'll they'll change gears. I mean,

643
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: you got to remember, it's the first time they've been

644
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: on the field with these guys. This is all brand

645
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: new for the coaching staff, and like we mentioned, for

646
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: the younger players, this is almost like a rookie camp

647
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: for some guys. So it's gonna be a little bit

648
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: of a feeling out process, even though they've had virtual

649
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: meetings and virtual discussions about scheme and those things. And Isaiah,

650
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: how refreshing is it? Because we've seen it with Layton Vandersch,

651
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: We've seen it with Jalen Smith, We've seen it with

652
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: a lot of these different players. You can even go

653
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: to the offensive side of the football and say the

654
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: same thing about Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup last year

655
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: with Kellen Moore. But how refreshing is it to have

656
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: a coach understand your strengths and play to those. From

657
00:33:54,400 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: a scheme perspective, it's Everything's absolutely everything, especially in this league. UM.

658
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: I think in college guys are are they do just

659
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: that right? Coaches put the best players in the best

660
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: position to be successful, right, um, their jobs on the

661
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: line for whatever reason. Typically when you get to the NFL,

662
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: you're now expected to work within our system. Right, whoever

663
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: you are, you work for me now, and I put

664
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: you wherever I want to that works my scheme, um,

665
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: And I think you're really starting to see a change

666
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: in that that mentality and that thought process around the

667
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: league as you're starting to see these these running backs

668
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: like Kmara, you know, and you're starting to see you know,

669
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: you got guys like you know, Leshan McCoy who really

670
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: changed that, you know, with with old coach Andy Reid

671
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: back in the day, and um so guys have really

672
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: changed that that dynamic and with this group here. You know,

673
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan, you look at his history, right when he

674
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: was with the Saints and everything else, he didn't care

675
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: who you were. If you can get to the ball,

676
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: he's putting you. He's putting you in the game, right

677
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: And if you can make plays, putting you in the game.

678
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: If you're explosive, I'm putting you in the game. I

679
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: don't care who you are. I don't care how big

680
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: you are. I don't care how small you are. If

681
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: you can get to the ball and disrupt things and

682
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: create havoc on that side of the ball and bring

683
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: energy to the team, you're my guy. So I think

684
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: that he's going to be excited about having all this

685
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: talent around him. And it's amazing to be able to

686
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: play for a coach like that who acknowledges that and

687
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: doesn't ask you to do more of what and ask

688
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: you to do what you're unable to do or ask

689
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: you to do something outside of yourself. He simply says, Okay,

690
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: this is what you do, well, I'm going to put

691
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: you in a position to excel at that because that's

692
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: where you're most confident, and when you're most confident, you

693
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: play free. That's so true. I mean that's when we

694
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: met with Mike the first two weeks on the job.

695
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: It extends to the evaluation part, the drafting part two, like,

696
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: we're not going to draft guys just based on what

697
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: we think is gonna fit for us. We're gonna go

698
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: get good players and then we'll adjust. And that's that's

699
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: what they've done with their draft, with their free AC

700
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: and the heckless point. When you've got guys who are

701
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: versatile defensively. You mentioned Everson Griffin when he's starting to

702
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: work back in strength and conditioning and he'll get back

703
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: into practice here probably in the next few days. Alvin

704
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: Smith can play different spots. Like I said, I said,

705
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 1: you get these guys to get after the quarterback, they'll

706
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 1: find a spot for him on the field, and sometimes

707
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: they'll all be together, sometimes they'll be in a rotation

708
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: of sorts, but they're all gonna be able to contribute

709
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: in different ways that that's pretty exciting. And it's still

710
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: it's still amazed to be seen how they're going to

711
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: use everybody. But but they've got the pieces, even with

712
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: McCoy heart, they've still got so many pieces. Yeah, Rob,

713
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: I love to hear that when you saw hearing those

714
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 1: words from training camp. Defense is pinning their ears back,

715
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: guys are flying around, is they're being disrupted. Those are

716
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: all the defensive keywords that you want to hear. And

717
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: it sounds like to me, this whole new defensive regime

718
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: is gonna you know, look, I don't not better than

719
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: the last one, but just you know, there's gonna be

720
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: some improvements to the scheme that the Cowboys are playing.

721
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: And you've heard that in the interview with a Woozier

722
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: just talking about the way that the defense, the guys

723
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: up front are able to play more fast, more free,

724
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: and he sees it in the skies in the disguise

725
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: and scheme that they're the new disguise and scheme that

726
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: they're playing right now. So kind of taking both what

727
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: Heckmug just said and what Rob said of allowing these

728
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: schemes and fitting players, but also you're starting to see

729
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: the change from the previous staff into the new staff.

730
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: Rob out of the practices that you've watched, who's benefited

731
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 1: the most, who has been that player that you've said

732
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: from the last game into this new one, who has

733
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: actually played better because well he fits better. Well, I

734
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: don't know if it's all about fit, but I mean

735
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: I mentioned Jalen Smith earlier. I think Anthony Brown has

736
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: had a tremendous start to camp in terms of his coverage,

737
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,479
Speaker 1: being active around the ball. And I know you guys

738
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: have talked about the competition that we're seeing and we're

739
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: going to see different guys get opportunities. Traymon Dix has

740
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: made plays out there. I think guys are are comfortable

741
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: with being aggressive and knowing that they're getting pressure up front.

742
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: I will say this, you know, there's there's an issue

743
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: that the offense is having right now with Loud Collins

744
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: not practice and yet with Campa Irving not practicing yet.

745
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: And those aren't aren't serious injuries or issues there, but

746
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 1: their tackle depth is not what it should be right now,

747
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: and you're seeing Tank Lawrence get to the quarterback a lot,

748
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's affecting the offense a little bit earlier,

749
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: I think, but you are seeing dbs make a lot

750
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: of plays on the ball. It's exciting. Well in heck,

751
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: whenever you hear about these defensive backs, that's been a well.

752
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: Kyle was we lost Kyle again and he was asking

753
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: the question about Anthony Brown and his production. And for

754
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, I feel as though this training camp is

755
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: going to be pivotal. The coaching staff knows the type

756
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: of production that he's had and rob Anthony Brown out

757
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: of Purdue. His production his first year as a rookie

758
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. I believe he had forty forty breakups or no, no,

759
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: forty tackles and eighteen and eight. I'm in bellishing the numbers,

760
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: even does in the numbers, But what I'm saying is

761
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: he had the production his first year which gave everyone

762
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: in cowboy Land, you know, the impression that he is

763
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, a ball hawk, a guy

764
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: that's gonna be around. Uh. He took him, you know

765
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: after I believe it was Brandon Carr left in his

766
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: second year. But then we we drafted a Woozier, we

767
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: drafted Lewis and he had an opportunity to earn a

768
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: starting spot. Nolan Carroll I believe took that over, but

769
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: then he ended up playing ten games and then a Woozier.

770
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: I believe he was benched for a Woozier and week thirteen.

771
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 1: He's a guy that's had his opportunities. He's up and down.

772
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: He even competed in twenty eighteen. Uh with the guy

773
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: that's in I'll just refer to him and as the

774
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: guy that's in Miami right now now. But he had

775
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: plenty of he had plenty of opportunities to make an

776
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: impact and be a starter. I just believe that a

777
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: fresh set of eyes, as you know, a fresh opinion

778
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: about Anthony Brown is going to give him what he

779
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: needs to take that next step, because, look, he can

780
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: play on the outside and he can also play a

781
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: slot receiver. So his value, just like defensive linemen, are

782
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: there because he's a multidimensional player for us. You nailed it.

783
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: I mean, he's I was just gonna say that he

784
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: can play anywhere for you, like like George Lewis, and

785
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: they've been competing for that slot role the last couple

786
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: of years. When Brown's been healthy, he's been productive most

787
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: of the time. He's had some some penalties early in

788
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: his career, but I think he did a better job

789
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: with that as as he's gotten older in his career.

790
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: But I mean the competition, Isaiah, it's it's really good.

791
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you've talked about Daryl Worley as

792
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: a guy. I mean that guy has more experience than

793
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: anybody at the cornerback position. And Mike McCarthy has also

794
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: spoken very highly of what Traymond Digs has been able

795
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: to do as a natural athlete coming in. I'm still

796
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: very curious to see how it's all going to work out.

797
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: And I actually have a question for you. I don't know,

798
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: can you really can you establish a rotation of corners

799
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: within a season, within a game or would you? I mean,

800
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: is it more of a chemistry type issue like it

801
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: is with the offensive line, where you really need your

802
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: top three guys and go from there because they have

803
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: some tough decisions to make them feel like Yeah. I

804
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: think as a defensive coordinator, when you have so many

805
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: options at this position, right at this cornerback position, I

806
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,880
Speaker 1: think that you really have the freedom of putting putting

807
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 1: guys in a rotating guys through but you don't want

808
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,439
Speaker 1: to do that. At the cornerback position. You want guys

809
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: to be able to get in and get the flow

810
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: of the game right. You want guys to get used

811
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: to the releases of the receivers. You want them to

812
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: have the timing. You want them to be in sync

813
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: with their safeties and positioning and angles and all kinds

814
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: of things. Right. So you really that's not a position

815
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: that you want to swap guys out all the time.

816
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: You really want your staple of guys on the outside

817
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: and your third third guy on the inside. Um. But

818
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: as we're talking about Brown and some of these other guys,

819
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: when you're a veteran in this league, Um, first of all,

820
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: if you're a player in this league, right, if you're

821
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: if you're blessed to be in the NFL, you're you're

822
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: a competitor, period, point blank. Right. You had to work

823
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: your butt off to get to this point. Once you've

824
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: become a veteran, right, and you get a little bit

825
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: of status, and you've established yourself in an organization and

826
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: you have some respect, and then they draft, they draft

827
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: a couple of guys and they bring in a veteran. Oh,

828
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: your your your position is getting challenged, right, They're calling

829
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: you out in a sense, right, so that competitor has

830
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: to come out within you. And and I'm really looking

831
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: forward to see how some of these guys respond to

832
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: new acquisitions because we know the three guys that they

833
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: brought on, they're not going anywhere. Those guys are on

834
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: the roster. That's just called how it is. Those three

835
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: guys are on the roster. Right when we talk about

836
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: um um, well I can't. I just blanked out right now.

837
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: But we talked about yeah, yeah, but we were talking

838
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 1: about we talk about digs and some of those guys

839
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: that we just brought on, those guys are gonna be there,

840
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: so we talk about and all these other guys that

841
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: are gott to becoming Jordan Lewis. The guys got to compete.

842
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: So we're gonna see what they're made up. We're gonna see,

843
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: I think, the best version that they have to present

844
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: because they have to. They don't have a preseason. They

845
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: have to come out there. They got a bought out

846
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: in practice and didn't guess what if they're blessed to

847
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 1: be on a roster, they got to show up otherwise

848
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: they'll be calling it another guy back. Did we get

849
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:25,280
Speaker 1: off fearless leader back. Guys. Hey guys, Hey guys. Fearless

850
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: is probably not the right term, because my fears my

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914
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: let's go into these offensive tackles, because we've had a

915
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: lot of the positive story lines on the defensive side. Yes,

916
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: we really want to get into corners, linebackers, but really

917
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: it's been the pass rush that that's taken the storylines

918
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: even before Gerald McCoy's injury, because of what Alden Smith

919
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: has done, because of what DeMarcus Lawrence has been able

920
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,879
Speaker 1: to do, and then also you throw Tristan Hill having

921
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: a great start to camp as well. But Rob, is

922
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: this an issue moving into really the tackles. I know

923
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins is out at the moment, Tyrn Smith has

924
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: seemingly been on a back and forth battle with Alden Smith,

925
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: But are you worried at all about those offensive tackles

926
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: moving forward? No, I don't think so long term. I

927
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: think cam Irving and Lyle will be back at practice.

928
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be long but for right now,

929
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: as I mentioned earlier, it's just you know, it happens

930
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,760
Speaker 1: in preseason games with you when you've got younger players

931
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: and maybe you're trying to evaluate a quarterback in game situations.

932
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: It's harder when when the protection maybe isn't what it

933
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,919
Speaker 1: needs to be. And I think that's been an issue

934
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: in terms of just having young guys playing that right

935
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: tackle spot and cycling through without the depth there you've got,

936
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: you've had tiring left tackle. Brandon Knight was able to

937
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: work back in today and play a little bit. He

938
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: started off working with the trainers. He's a guy that's

939
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: played in the league already a little bit, so that'll help.

940
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: And the reports that they've worked out a couple of

941
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: tackles for depth. We'll see what happens. But I'm not

942
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: worried about a long term just I think the rhythm

943
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: of your offense you're trying to get that early in

944
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: practice and it may be affected a little bit right

945
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: now because you're seeing a lot of pressure from the

946
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: defensive front. We've talked about it. It's a lot of good,

947
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: a lot of past on this defense trying to get

948
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: after the football here. You know, how big are the

949
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: eyes of the rookies. The right tackle steal from Texas

950
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: Tech where he sees de Marcus Lawrence in front of him,

951
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: I mean that is that's a large undertaking for a rookie.

952
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: And so I believe as Cowboy fans, for years we've

953
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: been despoiled with all of our embarrassment of riches at

954
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I mean for Pro bowlers every year

955
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: seems like and so now when we you know, a

956
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: guy like Leo Collinson, I don't know what's going on.

957
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: You know, everything has been mum from camp, but at

958
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: the same time, it doesn't sound like it's serious. I

959
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: think I believe it's a conditioning uh deal. And Lyell

960
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: is going to be back in the fold, and that's

961
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: gonna change everything because we still have our guys. For me,

962
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is who I want to like, circle him

963
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,439
Speaker 1: underline and highlight his name because he is the one

964
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: dude on that offensive line that has the most to prove.

965
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: I know, Looney's done it. You know, you've seen what

966
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: his production, but Connor Williams. He has got to anchor himself.

967
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: He's been in the league now for a number of years,

968
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: he's gotten stronger. We know, high draft pick for a

969
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: guy like him coming out of Texas, but this camp

970
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 1: is very important for him because look, guys, in two

971
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: and a half weeks we fly to LA and it's

972
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: a guy in LA that is a serious monster, and

973
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to deal with that guy. And so

974
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: I want to see things take shape for Connor Williams

975
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: right now. Heck, you gotta tell the fans who that

976
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: master is in Los Angeles. You gotta say the name.

977
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's it's I'm sorry, I'm sorry. His

978
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: name is Aaron Donald. Yeah, everybody you don't know, now

979
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: you know? Now you know? Yes, he's good. Yeah. Yeah.

980
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: And in reference to the old line, man, I feel

981
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: like we're in a good position. But to your point, Rob,

982
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: we gotta get these guys on the field. And there's

983
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: no there's not enough time. There's not practice games. You know,

984
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: to four practice games underneath your belt, even though the

985
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: starters are probably only playing maybe three quarters of that,

986
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: um you know, four games typically, But you know, these

987
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: guys need to get on the field. They need to

988
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: get and sync. There's too much communication that has to

989
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: take place between all these guys being connected on the

990
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: symmetry between the center and the guards and the tackles.

991
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: There's and a tight end. Right, we can't forget about

992
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: Jarwin now out there. He has to be able to

993
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: relay information as well. Sometimes he's in a position to

994
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 1: change the entire, the entire, the entire blocking schemes. So

995
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: these guys need to get together. There's too many new

996
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 1: moving parts. And you think about the fact that we

997
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: have Mike Nolan throwing all kinds of craziness at them.

998
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 1: Probably with by next week he'll probably start start dialing

999
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: enough the blitz packages. If these guys aren't working next

1000
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: to each other to be able to communicate properly and efficiently,

1001
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: it's going to cause problems. And then if we have

1002
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: any injuries at all to either of these tackles, right,

1003
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: I think we're okay on the interior, but at either

1004
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: of our tackles, if we lose one of those guys

1005
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: at any point in time, I think we are in trouble.

1006
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: I think we're in trouble because now you're putting a

1007
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: younger guy in that position or an unproven guy in

1008
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: that position, and with this defensive line that they're facing

1009
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: every day, at what point do they gain confidence? They

1010
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: don't get They don't gain confidence in practice, right, and

1011
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, their teammates don't trust them,

1012
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: their teammates don't believe in them, and then they go

1013
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: out there and then they face you know, somebody who's

1014
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: starting and getting paid a lot of money to make

1015
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: them look bad. So I want to make sure that

1016
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: these guys stay healthy. But to Rob's point, these guys

1017
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: that you get on the field and get in sync well,

1018
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: and Isaiah, I want to turn this back around on you.

1019
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: You mentioned these moving parts, and you mentioned the different

1020
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: looks on the defense, but explain how challenging that is

1021
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,720
Speaker 1: to pick up from an offensive perspective. You're a quarterback,

1022
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: you're a former wide receiver, You've played on both ends

1023
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: of it. It's a challenge. It's not something that is

1024
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: just an overnight thing. This is something that Dak Prescott

1025
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: and the entire offense have to do is continue to

1026
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: challenge themselves to pick up that defense. Yeah, I mean,

1027
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,720
Speaker 1: especially when you have a wild card and defensive coordinator

1028
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: like Nolan, who's throwing craziness at you? Right? I mean

1029
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: I can, I can. I can remember back when I

1030
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: was playing with the Patriots and I was, you know,

1031
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: backing up when I was backing up Tom Brady. And

1032
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: we're getting in preparation for the Jets at the time, right, Um,

1033
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: and there's a crazy defensive coordinator that happened that happened

1034
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: to be for with the with the Jets back back

1035
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 1: in the day, and um, and he would he would

1036
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: dial up and in the name of Rex Ryan, let

1037
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: me go ahead and say that Rex Ryan. He would

1038
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,160
Speaker 1: dial up the craziest place, right, Rex Ryan would put

1039
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: one defensive lineman, five linebackers, five dbs, and he would

1040
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: have guys walking around. And as a quarterback, you have

1041
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: to be able to identify, Hey, if we're gonna be wrong,

1042
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna be wrong together. Right. But the person you're

1043
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: talking to is you're talking to that center. Right, So

1044
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: as we talk about that center battle, right, whether it's

1045
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: gonna be looney or or it's gonna be the rookie

1046
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: right that we just drafted, right, it doesn't matter. Beyond

1047
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: and beyond is I don't want to mess up his name,

1048
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: but uh, if it whether, you know, you want somebody

1049
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: who's gonna be there. So most of the most likely

1050
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: it's gonna be looney because you need that guy who's

1051
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: confident and you need somebody who can handle that dog

1052
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: that you guys just referred to Aaron Donald in week one.

1053
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: So there's so much symmetry, there's so much communication that

1054
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: takes place. You know, we're talking. Not only is Dak

1055
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: talking and calling out the middle linebacker and telling everybody, Hey,

1056
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: that's who that center. Now listen to the center. Now

1057
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: the center has to communicate that all the way out

1058
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: to the tight end. Right. If you don't have your

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Speaker 1: guys and they're practicing, how do you work in that communication?

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Speaker 1: You don't. Yeah, it's tough, and you're going to see

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a defensive side of the football.

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Speaker 1: Have that advantage early in camp. You see absolutely year

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Speaker 1: because of especially with a new system, it's so tough

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Speaker 1: to pick up. But heck, when we were kind of

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Speaker 1: mentioning this offense and really going into the season with

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Speaker 1: the new edition of Ceedee Lamb with all these weapons

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Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott and company have to work with on

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Speaker 1: the offensive side, is really the entire success of the offense,

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Speaker 1: or are we getting our ahead of ourselves in the

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Speaker 1: fact that it's really the offensive line that needs to

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Speaker 1: answer their questions before we really have a big year

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Speaker 1: on that side of the football. Well, I mean, the

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Speaker 1: thing that we have to draw into account, put into

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Speaker 1: account and is the fact that these guys haven't had

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Speaker 1: any OTA's quarterback camps, any of that. So the timing

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Speaker 1: of the offense is completely thrown off. And so it

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Speaker 1: may be we try and make this an indictment against them,

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Speaker 1: but truly, defenses are going to be a little bit

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Speaker 1: ahead of the curve because they just read and react right.

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Speaker 1: But for offenses, it's a timing thing. And I gotta

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Speaker 1: say this about something that Champ said about the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and man, we're just fall because of all the great

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Speaker 1: guys that we've had, and you look around the league

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Speaker 1: at offensive linemen and there are not a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams that have as great offensive line as the one

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Speaker 1: that we have. I think Indianapolis is the only team

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Speaker 1: that I can think of with Nelson. But look, we

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Speaker 1: have to really concentrate on the fact that we have

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Speaker 1: a very dynamic running back in Zeke and don't matter

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Speaker 1: what the timing is looking like what the easiest thing

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Speaker 1: to do is turnaround and hand numb between one the

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Speaker 1: ball inside zone, outside zone. Let him do his think

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Speaker 1: because everything is going to be predicated on that. And

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Speaker 1: if you think about Mike McCarthy and what he's doing

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Speaker 1: right now, and even Kellen Moore with the offense from

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Speaker 1: last year, he's able to communicate a lot of that

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Speaker 1: to the new guys and the guys that we've had

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Speaker 1: from previous years. But we understand that Zeke is going

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Speaker 1: to be a big part of that. I know Ceedee

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Speaker 1: Lamb is attractive to talk about and the offense and explosion,

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Speaker 1: but guys, the truth is Ezekiel Elliott is going to

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Speaker 1: be the guy that makes all of this run succinctly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I want to be clear to the offense has

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Speaker 1: had their moments too. I thought yesterday it was a

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Speaker 1: really good day for the offense. We've seen some great

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Speaker 1: connections between Dak and Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup, Ceedee Lamb,

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Speaker 1: Blake Jerwin and Zeke two hack to your point, because

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Speaker 1: one thing he spoke about yes a via conference call

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Speaker 1: was trying to be more of even better as a

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Speaker 1: pass catcher and This is a guy that's had I

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Speaker 1: think seventy seven catches in a season, but he wants

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Speaker 1: to be even more well rounded. And then now you

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Speaker 1: add in, you know Tony Pollard as a guy that

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Speaker 1: can be a compliment in the same manner, a guy

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Speaker 1: that can that can beat you a bunch of different ways,

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Speaker 1: and it just kind of adds to that whole versatility

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Speaker 1: thing we're talking about now on the offensive side of

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Speaker 1: the ball. But yeah, I think the offensive line is

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Speaker 1: gonna be fine. That just the right side is just

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Speaker 1: not where it normally would be. Right now, you still

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Speaker 1: got Zack Martin, you still got Tyrn Smith, Tech mentioned

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Speaker 1: Connor Williams. He's gonna be fine. Joe Looney has experience,

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Speaker 1: h and you can turn around and hand the ball

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Speaker 1: at twenty one. That's pretty good. Heckman's looking really nice

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Speaker 1: up on that screen right now. I think he's just

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Speaker 1: he's just owning the camera time at the moment. But

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Speaker 1: I'd have to agree because there's so many different Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's there's so many fun things about this offense. When

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Speaker 1: you look at Zeke, when you look at Tony Pollard

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Speaker 1: getting the backfield and involved with both of those guys,

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Speaker 1: I know Mike McCarthy briefly mentioned did Zeke talked about

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Speaker 1: it like you mentioned Rob, But I think whenever you

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Speaker 1: get to the point Rob of looking at this offense,

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Speaker 1: it's really how creative is Kellen Moore going to get

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Speaker 1: to be and what are some of the ways that

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Speaker 1: he can be creative with this offense and can get

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Speaker 1: all of these weapons involved in order to get the

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Speaker 1: touches that they need. Yeah, and Zeke spoke to him yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He was asked about they used he and Pollard together

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Speaker 1: at times last season, and he just talked about how

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Speaker 1: they can really play off of each other in terms

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Speaker 1: of their roles and keeps the defenses honest and it

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Speaker 1: you know Pollard as a guy, they really love his potential.

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Speaker 1: The issue, like as as Hegma has said, I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: as Aias said, there's just guys that have a hard

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Speaker 1: time ever really breaking out in the NFL, just simply

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Speaker 1: because there are great players in front of him. So

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Speaker 1: I'm still curious to see what his snapcount's going to

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00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,480
Speaker 1: be because we saw him blow up in certain games

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Speaker 1: and then he might get five or six snaps on offense,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just curious to see how consistent it's gonna be,

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Speaker 1: but there is no doubt about his talent. Isaiah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean we've already touched on it to boy can

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Speaker 1: play unfortunate as a due by the name of Freaky

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Speaker 1: Ezekie in front of him, and they don't have to

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Speaker 1: find a way to get both of those guys in

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Speaker 1: the game while getting all three receivers in the game

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Speaker 1: while also trying to get both tight ends in the game.

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Speaker 1: I am not Kellen Moore. I don't want to be.

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Speaker 1: He has a good problem on his hand, but he's

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Speaker 1: got to earn his check for this year. For sure.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting because there's so many different ways

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Speaker 1: that you can ultimately move with this offense, and there's

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Speaker 1: so many different weapons to use. How you use them

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest question moving forward. We can't wait to

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Speaker 1: answer those for you here on Talking Cowboys. Throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of Cowboys training camp, keep up to date with

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Speaker 1: all four of us. Whenever we're reporting here about the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: You've got Heckma Harrison on Twitter at Heckma Underscore Harrison.

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Speaker 1: You've got Rob Phillips. He's Rob Phillips three on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: And then Isaiah SA and back as well. I am

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Speaker 1: stand Back the champ. I love it. Go and follow

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Speaker 1: those guys on Twitter because they're fantastic all the way through.

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Speaker 1: I'm at Kyle underscore Yeoman's Hopefully no Wi Fi problems

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Speaker 1: on my tweeting side of things, but that's gonna do

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Speaker 1: it here for talking Cowboys today. Sorry for my technical difficulties.

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Speaker 1: I'll be better next week, I promise. But for heck

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Speaker 1: My Harrison, for Rob Phillips, for Isaiah stand back, I'm

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Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman saying so long from the start in Frisco.

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