WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Coaching Adjustments 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:15.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.919 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:27.720 Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing to the Scott and now 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.480 your hosts Isaiah stand Back, heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:38.640 and Kyle Yeomans. It is a terrific Tuesday edition of 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.760 Talking Cowboys presented by Tostidos, helping fans get in on 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.760 the game. Welcome into the Star in Frisco. As we 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.920 are live as always on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Chris 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.760 Bazi in the back, hooking us up as always, Rob Phillips, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.840 Isaiah stand back, Hello, heck Ma Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeomans. Hi. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.880 How's everybody doing. I'm kind of sad? Why because it 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.600 is our last day this week at least till Friday? Right, 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:05.960 A little sad too? Are you about to give me 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.320 some news on? Like? Yah, we got a Rappy has 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.800 all the all the news today. Okay, that's true. We 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.160 need to probably get into that pretty quick. Rapp has 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.039 all the all the tea today. Yeah, all the all 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.520 the fun timeline stuff on Twitter. Come on, man, pour 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:24.040 the earl Gray, pour some sugar on me. Uh, where 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.440 do you want? Where do you want me to start? 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.240 Come on, come on, you're too young to know that. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.240 Let's go. Let's go go for it. Where do you 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.200 want me? Well, let's start with Mike McCarthy. That's a 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.440 great way to start it. Okay, that's a hell of 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.400 a song. It's a hell of a week for the Cowboys. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.400 So everybody knows by now. And hey, it broke one 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.920 minute after our show ended. Yes, we literally said so 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.640 long from talking Cowboys, and we looked down on our 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.680 phones and it was like, Mike McCarthy unavailable for Thursday. Wow, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.480 that's how things are with you, Pee. Everything is G 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.840 fourteen classified and you don't give it to us to 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.480 the end. I didn't have I wasn't withholding any scoop 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.080 on that one. If I knew that one, I would 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.920 have told you. Yeah. He actually spoke to the media 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:11.280 via conference call yesterday, so he's feeling all right. But yeah, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.440 he will not coach Thursday night. He will not be 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.480 with the team at all this week. He will be 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.600 involved virtually all the way up until they leave the 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.680 hotel in New Orleans for the game, Like he's even 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.880 going to talk to him virtually that morning or that 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.000 day of so he's gonna be involved. But dan Quinn 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.359 is the stand in guy in terms of the endgame 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.240 operation Thursday night, and they're just gonna have to fill in. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.480 It's just one more thing that this team's having to 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:38.920 deal with. Heck and I were just talking about it. It 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.000 It has constantly been something and this is the craziest 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.560 one yet of this season. I think that's the biggest conversation, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.800 and it was what you guys were talking about off 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.320 air a moment ago. But how big of a loss 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.959 is that? How much of a change is that, because 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.959 not only are you missing your lead voice on the sideline, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.800 not only are you missing him, you might have him 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:04.440 throughout the week of practice via virtual connection. However, when 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.000 he's not there on the sideline, that starts a domino effect. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.000 And we've already seen that, the ripples of the domino 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.320 effect of shifting some coaches around and moving different guys 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.600 into different positions. But Isaiah, from your experience, I don't 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.079 know if you ever had a game without your head coach, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.679 But how big of a loss would that be if 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.440 that were the case. Yeah, I had to go back 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.520 to high school on that one. Geez the head coach 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.800 and had called all the plays. That was exciting. We 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.639 won that game. Nice. Uh No, I mean I don't 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.360 know how much of a voice he is on his team. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.280 I really don't. I obviously we see all the things 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.160 that he says in the media, but we don't know 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.560 how how how imposing he is to to the rest 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.400 of the team. So I can't sit here and say 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.960 how much he'll be missed in that regard. I do 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:52.080 know that he coaches the coaches, and having all these 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.960 coaches out that doesn't necessarily help. I think most of 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.040 them are not gonna say most of them, but strength coaches, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.360 assistant assistants, and so that shouldn't be that big of 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.480 an impact. But in terms of McCarthy, I think in 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.840 terms of his game management, you know, the decisions that 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.360 he meant that he makes in those regards. You know, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.880 when Kelly Moore wants to throw the ball versus pad 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.880 very versus run, you know, I think he affects that. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.840 You know, the fourth down calls, those will always come 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.440 through to the head coach. So now those things will 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.840 come through our defensive minnee coach. As we started thinking 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.640 about some of the situations that may present themselves, you know, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.839 you might find yourself punty Moore because he wants a 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.720 position of himself better for his defense. So those are 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.120 some of the things that you will probably see more 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.040 so affected on the game. Yeah. You know, when I 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.680 think about the maturation of Mike McCarthy from Green Bay 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.839 to Dallas, his hands own approach with the offense was 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.240 foremost in green Bay, called all the plays, and like 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.440 you just said, he coaches the coaches here in Dallas 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.360 that I think it makes it a little bit logistically 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.279 easier for something like this to happen. I think that 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.280 what I really worry about is the daily routine of 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.640 Mike McCarthy being in and out of meetings, what things 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.680 and other things that he delegates to others, right, because 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.359 that's obviously what he's doing. And I just think about 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.520 it as being an entrepreneur. We've owned our own businesses 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.680 and the hardest part about being an entrepreneur is delegating 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.480 to other people because you are the process. You control everything, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.920 and so sometimes that is the thing that will wear 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.640 you out, is trying to do everything. And I think 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.039 in this situation, especially with Dallas having as many coaches 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.280 as they have, as Jerry Jones was talking about this 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:25.920 morning on the FANI, it's like, look, we got twenty 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.640 seven coaches. We got one coach or every three players, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.159 so we're not at the shortage here on that. But 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.600 dan Quinn I felt like even when the news broke, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.240 he would be the person that we would go to 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.560 because of his experience and how lucky we are to 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.800 have a head coach that's moonlighting as a as a 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.479 an assistant right now. I think it's something that's gonna 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.520 help us. Look, there's no time to panic at all, 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.200 because for this team, this is as close to a 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.640 must win or as you're gonna get to in this season. 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.360 And I think that these guys are prepared, especially with 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.120 getting the health of a lot of other players. Now, 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.960 if Mike McCarthy was that coach that was completely entrenched 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.479 in every part of the offense and meetings and stuff 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.520 like that, I think then you would have to worry 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.440 a lot more. But I just think from his stance 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.200 and what you see from him right now, and look, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.520 we need our head coach, we need you to get better. Mike, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.120 who needs you to hurry up and get back. But 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.240 at the same time, I think you have soldiers use them. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.920 This is not a long term issue, thank goodness. If 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.640 it were a long term issue, I think we'd be 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.680 talking about this in a completely different way. Yeah, because 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.520 it is just a week or two, I think you're 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.800 built as a coaching staff for this kind of scenario. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.880 Look at all the veterans on the coaching staff, like 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.920 a Dan Quinn, like a Joe Witt junior, a Ben 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.080 McAdoo who's been a consult George George Edwards. I mean, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.360 there's so many guys that have been there, done that 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.919 in the NFL, all the way down the list. Like 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.159 he said, there's no shortage there. My one concern is 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.880 in terms of the play calling and the aggressiveness, because, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.320 like you said it, it might change. You may be 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.840 more conservative in the way that you call plays offensively, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.040 one more may not have that bug in his ear 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.360 saying I don't really like that. Let's let's go ahead 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.279 and dial it back, or even more so, let's go 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.920 ahead and push it here. Yeah, that's my biggest concerts 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.480 in those crucial moments. How much of a discrepancy are 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.600 we going to see from the play calling and really 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.200 the work of the offense and the going into this week. Yeah, Robbie, 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.280 can you clear up some stuff for myself and even 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.280 some of the fans if you're in a position too. Yeah, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:32.080 how many coaches are COVID positive versus contact tracing? I'm 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.520 not sure how that stuff works now this year, Right, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.240 some people, if you're if you have COVID, you have 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.800 one set of rules. If you're being close in proximity 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.600 to somebody, that's a whole other set of rules. Right. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.760 If you're unvaccinated, that's a whole other set of rules. Right, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.800 So how is that working? I don't know with every 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.840 single guy who's a positive test, but I do know 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.200 the fact that the whole staff has to be vaccinated. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:54.960 Let's just that. Yeah, we know that. Yeah, I think 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.600 fans are unclear about that. Yeah, Mike is vaccinated. He 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.560 had to be vaccinated to be in the war room 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.840 on draft night, So all the coaches are vaccinated. So 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.960 I think the fact, like the fact they ruled out 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.000 guys ahead of time, and Mike has said there's been 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.640 some positive tests, I think I think there have been 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.800 some positive tests with the staff, and we're talking about 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.920 all three as far as protocols, all three strength coaches. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.080 Cedric Smith could return because he was out last week. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.440 Joe Philbin is out again this week with the old line, 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.640 So I think it's like it's up to six or 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.559 seven assistant coaches that will not be available. As Heck said, 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.760 it's a huge staff, so guys will just kind of 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.800 fill in where they can, especially on the old line. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.080 What are some of the moves that are being done 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.599 to shift guys into those different positions You're gonna see 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.720 was you don't have Philbin and blastco at the old line, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.480 so you've got Linda Wells kind of moonlighting between O 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:55.040 line and tight end coaching. And I think Ben McAdoo 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.160 is an option there as well. He's a consultant that 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:58.640 can help out there as well. He's got an old 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:04.360 line background, So there's that, so you know, and you know, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.320 we'll just see how it goes with I think they'll 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.440 get at least one shrink guy back this week potentially. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.960 That's good. So moving into practice today, this is a 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:16.000 light practice on the field today and Amari Cooper was 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.640 not on the practice field yesterday. Ce d Lamb was 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.880 any updates on those two guys going into the weekend. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.319 Jerry said it. He said, you'll see DeMarcus Lawrence on 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.600 the field Thursday night. Let's go. And he said, you'll 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.920 see it Mary Cooper most likely on the field. He's 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.200 going to ramp up today coming off of the COVID list. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.480 He's still on the COVID list technically, so see how 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.120 he goes today. And he said, Zekiel, he's got a 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.920 full load coming on Thursday night. So enough talk about 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.880 him resting this week. And it does it sound like 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.960 that's going to happen. What do you do? You like 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.079 that or no? I think that's absolutely necessary. I think 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.040 for z and Zeke's not gonna want to beg out 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.679 of this game. There's no way in help. I think 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.480 he's missed one game due to injury in his entire career, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.120 and in this matchup they need his pass protection with 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.960 the noise factor, they need to try to find a 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.400 way to run the football. And if that's only him 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.480 for thirty snaps in this game, they could use him 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.400 in this game, try to push through, try to find 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.920 a way to get out of this situation. Win this game, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.880 and then he gets ten days off. And we were 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.440 originally going to talk Dallas offense in the second segment. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:16.880 I want to keep this going because I like this 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.719 transition because of Ezekiel Elliott. But Cam Jordan earlier in 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.839 the week on Scott Manpel's Sports Center, he said, there's 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.600 one key of slowing down the Cowboys, and that's taking 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.719 Ezekiel Elliott away. And to this point, you can't necessarily 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.679 disagree if they take away the run game. The Cowboys 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.920 have been flat three of the last four games, so 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.600 that's got to be the key. Even with those guys 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.520 getting back. Having those guys back helps you a ton, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.880 helps you wait Ton and trying to get the run 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.080 game going. But at the same time, you have to 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.800 make sure that he has a good game. Yeah, and 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.400 to the point the question that you ask Rob, you know, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 is that a good thing that Zeke's going to have 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.240 a full load. I think it's a good thing for 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.640 the team. It's a bad thing for Zeke. I think 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.120 I think any of us can sit here and say 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.800 that Zeke looks healthy. Zeke, You're doing a good job. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.440 Z Year, You're close to a one hundred percent. We 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.800 know that nobody, hardly anybody playing in this league today 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.120 as one hundred percent unless they just got signed from 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.560 the house or a practice squad. Even practice squad, you're 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.480 still hurting. Zeke looks like I don't know where he's 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.360 at physically, but he doesn't look like even a shadow 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.920 of himself right now. And I know he's toughing it out. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.800 I know that he's a beast about it. He's not 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.640 going to complain all the you know, the warrior type 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.080 mentality stuff that mostly most guys in the league really 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.280 have and that you have to have in order to be, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.560 you know, be an enforcer in this league. I don't 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.920 think it's good for Zeke because we recognize that when 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.000 you have injuries, when you're sustaining things, they're not going 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.640 to get better by putting more workload on them. That's 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.160 just reality. So is it good for Zeke? Nah? Is 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.560 it good for the team if he can be productive? Now? 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.480 I agree to a certain extent on that. But I 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.920 think if if Zeke was hurting of the Brett Brown, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.680 or if any of them saw that this is just 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.600 a guy that is just can't get it done, I 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.040 don't see them putting them out there, or maybe they would. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.199 I think that in his situation, particularly with the offensive line. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.480 You rely so heavily on him in pass pro, and 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.520 that's that's you need him, you need him there. I 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.520 don't think that Tony Pollard, you've seen anything from him 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:23.320 blocking wise that says that he can shoulder the responsibility 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.040 of doing that. Here's the thing, and it was going 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.880 back to what you were talking about about Mike McCarthy 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.760 not being there, and will you know, be pulling back 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.720 those reins on how aggressive we've been this entire time. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.319 I think Mike McCarthy has been. One thing we could 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.480 say is that he's taking some shots over the last 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.600 couple of weeks because we haven't had our weapons. We've 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.760 gone to a little bit of a short game, short 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.200 yardage game. But we've got to take our shots in 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.280 this game. Literally, Michael Jordan makes a comment, you miss 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.800 all the shots you don't take. We've got to try 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.360 and get down the field and be aggressive the entire 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.520 game versus Saints. Cam Jordan isn't saying anything that doesn't 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.000 anybody else know about the Dallas Cowboys. You got to 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.800 load up and you gotta stop the run, whether it's 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.280 Ezekiel Elliott or it's Tony Poller. So I expect for them, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.120 and I expect everyone until Dak Prescott makes defenses adjust 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.520 in that way and by stretching the field and also 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.360 trying to get the game, the running game going. One 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.520 thing we can't do in this game versus Saints' is 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.800 be going east and west. We cannot get our running 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.440 game to It has to be north and south. I mean, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.440 all of those things sound cliche, but we have to 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.520 get this ground game going at least twenty five thirty 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.280 rushes in this game to kind of back off this 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.000 defense no matter what, no matter what, because they're gonna press. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.120 They're gonna press us at the line of scrimmage, but 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.280 we are gonna have opportunities to hit these guys over 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.080 the top. What Cam Jordan's say, That's That's what I 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:47.920 was saying earlier where he said he was taking away 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.600 Ezekiel Elliott, that was the key. Yeah, I mean, and 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.360 they've taken away running game all year three point four 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.439 yards of carry. Teams have had trouble getting it going, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.720 but I they've They always say the road game travels. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.840 Game travels on the road, Like you've got to be 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.960 able to get that going and take the crowd out 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.920 of it. A little bit because that crowd is going 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.319 to be drunk, Yes, literally, figuratively, whatever you want to 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.280 call it, is coming on rocking. There's a couple of 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.680 Miller lights down the hatch. That's the toughest place I've played, really, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.160 hands down. And you've been in Seattle, Yeah, okay, more 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:23.480 so than played there when I was when I was 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.320 with New England and we got we got to hand 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.120 it to us. Did you get to play an arrowhead? 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.240 I don't believe so, Okay, I believe I ain't gonna 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.960 be remember that one. I'm telling you. That place gets rocking, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.400 That kids rocking. Wow, I've never been to a game there. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.840 I want to go. It's pretty dope, dope. This was massive. Yeah, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.120 it's on. It's one of those you can't hear yourself. Think. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.760 It feels like an old or At and T Stadium. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.440 That's what it feels like, an older version of an 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.080 older version of just way louder. And I was about 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.440 to say just it's probably a little louder you that 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.480 Cowboys has turned up, which which will make things tough 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.920 from an offensive perspective, But what is the what is 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.480 the adjustment you have to make from an offensive standpoint 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.760 to make sure that you were not affected like you were, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.600 say early in the game against Kansas City. I mean 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.160 you have to. I mean you you work all week 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.680 on non verbals. I mean, hopefully they're blasting the music. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.440 That's typically what you do. When I was hearing you know, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.800 Dallas and most other stops that I had, you know, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.760 they turned the black. They'd take all these speakers out 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.760 there and they blast them. When I was in Seattle, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.280 they had a live DJ out there and they blast 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.240 crowd noise and it's just like overbearing. Just you can't 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.320 even hear yourself. Think you can hear it. So they 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.120 blast the stuff and you you call your plays in 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.040 the huddle and you go out there and you work 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.160 on your nonverbals. You know, you're you're tapping the center 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.240 on the butt, you know, and that's that's her. That's 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:39.920 your snap count. You know, bone tap them on the 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:41.960 butt or two taps or whatever it may be. The 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.920 you know, in the gun, you'll see the guard look 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:46.520 back and look at the look at the look at 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.200 the quarterback and see that he's ready. He'll tap the 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.160 center on the butt. That's a snap count. But all 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.960 those things play a part in that defensive line getting 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.680 off the ball too. So you might have a couple 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.920 couple of razzle Dallas in there where you might you know, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.880 fake snap it or you know a double head bob 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.160 or whatever it may be for your center, But eighty 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.160 percent of the time he's gonna be snapping it after 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:05.960 he gets that tap on the hip. Well, if you're 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.640 a defense in lineman and you see that, you have 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.640 now have ability to get off the ball a lot 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.800 quicker than than you would have. So there's a lot 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.680 of things that in regard to help you that but 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.880 also can hurt you. But guys just have to be 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.160 in tune and they have to have their signals down impacked. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.480 Is that something that where not having Mike McCarthy as 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.760 a voice throughout practices could play a factor. Nah, there's 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.040 just too many, too much experience on your coaching staff, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.360 and you just talked about that. I mean, something that 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.239 small is not going to impact this game for the Cowboys. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.160 I just think you know, you got these guys have 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.880 got to correct their spacing. This Saints defense man. When 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.760 you pack these guys in together, they play really well, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.480 and they're fast and they have a lot of experience 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.720 I think when you spread them out, when you go 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.760 back to the Carolina tape and teams that were able 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.520 to get them out in space, I think that's where 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.880 you have the most success. We've got to get some 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.760 things corrected with blocking. There's a lot of questions being 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.760 asked about tight ends things like that. But when in 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.439 those zone runs, we've got to get to the second 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.800 level like we were in some of these other games. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.919 I mean, and you saw it versus San Diego, we 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.080 saw versus the Giants where we're able to get to 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.040 the second level. That's just tough. Man. They have guys 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.320 like Malcolm Jenkins that is the lynchpin of this defense, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.720 you know, Rich Homi, Kuan Alexander. They got some guys 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.199 so Demarrio Davis, Their linebackers flow really well. Yeah, they 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:27.879 got some guys that can get it there. I just 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.639 think that upfront physically, Lele and Zach you know that 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.320 right side, if we can get guys moving and get 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.159 to the second level, that's gonna make the difference for 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.359 the running game specifically. For sure, not having either of 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.520 your offensive line coaches doesn't seem very ideal for this guy, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.600 you know, but he's right, like Demario Davis to me, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.920 is their Bazuka. Like he's their guy in the middle 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:50.960 of the defense that if you don't get a hat 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.600 on him or two hats on him the second level, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.399 he can wreck the game and he could certainly stop 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.480 your run game. So to me, he's the one that 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.439 sticks out the most beyond and their front four is awesome. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.040 I mean that to me, they have. They were a 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.480 championship level defense last year and they've shown signs of 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.679 that this year as well. It's just offensively they've had 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.320 trouble getting going. He also got guys like Pete Warner 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.880 who's stepped up. He's in rookie out of Ohio State, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.240 mid round guy, and I mean he's the fifth rated 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.480 linebacker according to Pro Football Focus right now. Damary O'Davis 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.479 those one that opens that up. He draws a lot 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.600 of attention and you can see it on the film. Man, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.080 I mean, he flies around. It's pretty ridiculous how good 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.800 he is. Williams is playing exceptionally well on the back end. 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.920 You mentioned, Yeah, Davenport's been playing well. He's not even 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.680 a starter, he's a rotational piece and he's been playing 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.360 really well. But he's out is he done. Yeah, Davenports out. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.760 Oh I didn't know that. Yeah, big oh right here 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.760 next to his name. I guess that's what that means. Okay, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:49.040 then there you go. But h and been looking at Yeah, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.159 you might be uh you look at Jenkins too. You 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.359 mentioned him best a lynchpin. That's a perfect way to 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.639 describe it, because it feels like anytime there is a 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.680 hole in that New Orleans defense, plug and Jenkins because 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.280 he's gonna be there. And it hurts my heart to 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.359