WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Depth Tested By Niners? 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:27.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:38.800 training live from Dallas Cowboys training camp in Hawksnyard, California. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:45.040 Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Bronks, Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:50.000 and welcome into Talking Cowboys final week of training camp 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.559 out here in Oxnard, California. And boy, do we have 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.640 a show today, A full hour to digest Cowboys Niners 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.120 seventeen nine San Francisco wins the season opener on Saturday 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.880 night from Levi's Stadium. We all made it back safely, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.800 and we've got a lot of time to discuss everything. 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:14.560 First team, second team, third team highlights, lowlights. How are 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.200 you guys? Mickey and Brian brought using well, doing well, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.440 Ready to dive into this thing, putty to get too. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:24.160 As you said, I like the words safely Yeah yeah yeah. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.880 Long drive back from you. Another feet of strength from 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.800 Brian brought us, getting us through the night, through the fog, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.240 almost beat the bus back. Yeah, well safely though, he's 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:39.199 a safe driver. Rob My copolit got me home absolutely. Um, okay, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.560 we can we can take this anywhere we want to go. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.640 I was gonna break it into categories, but I really 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.320 want to just kind of open up to you guys. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.480 Top stand out from this game the other night, thing 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.440 that really stuck with you from watching four quarters of 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.680 Finally some preseason action from this team, good or bad 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.800 or both, either one both? Well, you know what, That's 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.800 what preseason games are, right, a little bit of good, 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.200 a little bit of bad, and you hope you don't 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.120 get two injured. And the Cowboys got out of the 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.640 game with just it looked like two injuries that we 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:17.239 know of. Unfortunately for Luke Gifford, after a fine first 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.720 half there, he had a couple of tackles, the interception 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.800 I think he had, might have had a pass broken up, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.440 He made a nice tackle right right before the pick, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.600 right open field. And then and then he suffers the 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.200 high ankle sprain. When I bumped into him yesterday, he's 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.720 walking around and crutches in a big old walking boot. Yeah, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.960 it sounded like he said that he tore a ligament 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.160 in his ankle. So that's the high ankle sprain and 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:49.040 that's probably usually six weeks. So Cowboys will probably have 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.080 a decision to make on what they do with a 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.560 guy when the roster cut gets down, because I think 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.960 they want to keep his right somehow. Say either you 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.000 put him on the fifty three and act like he's 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.040 the fifty third, or you put him on injured reserve 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.560 and you can say, okay, we'll we'll recall him once 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.200 his eight weeks are up and get him back on 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.240 the team so he can practice, and then Cedric Wilson 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.560 will be in the concussion protocol this week. That was 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.760 a vicious hit he took, sure did, but he got 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.679 the past led him right into it though. Ejectionjection for 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.200 that's how that's how vicious it was. And they didn't 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.760 even have to look at it very long. So, uh, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.360 he'll be and that's unfortunate because of all the young receivers. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.880 He caught everybody's eye right, absolutely did. I think it's 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.200 a great analogy and manny, and then he showed he 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.720 can return return punts. The big thing on that is 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.600 can you catch the punts right? And I thought both guys, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.880 Reggie Davis and Cedric did a nice job of catching 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.480 the ball. Yeah. I think that My biggest takeaway was 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.680 I was really pleased with what the first defense was 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.280 able to do. Again San Francisco, We're playing all their stars. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.760 Mullin's quarterback. You know, he's he's a quality quarterback if 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.400 you watch how he gets rid of the football, moves 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.960 things around. I was really encouraged how the secondary tackled. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.400 You know, they tried to get the ball out quick 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.080 a couple of different times. You had a Woozier on 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.200 a play. You had Jordan Lewis on a play. You know, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.440 you had Anthony Brown on a play. Tackling in the 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.799 secondary is so important. Not only can these guys cover, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.800 but the ability to come up, make plays, get their 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.839 guy on the ground, prevent that big run after catch. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.080 How many times have we seen a tackle get broken 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.440 and then it turns into an extra twenty or twenty 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.400 five yards. These guys didn't allow that from the first David. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.080 I loved what I saw from the linebackers too in this. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.520 I mean we talked about what Gifford was able to 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.880 do coming in, but also how about Justin Phillips coming 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.200 in second half, second half, and really, you know, he 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.520 had the type of game tackling that I thought that 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.159 that Luke Gifford was gonna have health provided, Yeah, provided, Yeah, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.760 And so you know, this shows you the little bit 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:02.880 of the depth that they have at there. And then 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.599 people we had a question this morning, I think in 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.480 the mail bag, and we worried about the depth of 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.200 the team. Of what you've seen from the threes and stuff. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.000 I think there's some key guys that played well, you know, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.520 some of those backup guys that played well, and then 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.560 the guys who didn't play well, well, they've got three 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.520 more weeks and they could cut themselves. That's you know, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.880 that's something that the depth on this team will be, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.479 in my opinion, will be the right depth. If we're 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.000 talking about keeping Luke Gifford as the fifty third guy, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.440 that's a pretty good problem to have, folks, because he's 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.400 worth he was going to, in all likelihood make this team. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.960 It's gonna it was gonna come down to likely him 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.560 or Covington or one of those guys. But I do 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.880 like what I saw defensively. I like what I saw 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.400 from the first offense. Now people say, oh, well, what 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.520 happened in the red zone, Brian, what happened with all that? 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.800 Oh he's sighing, Oh no, no, no no, no, That's what 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.400 I'm saying. The red zone stuff is you know, no Zeke, 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:02.719 no Zach Martin, no Amari Cooper. They gave Jason Jason Witten. Okay, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.120 And he's like, well, you worried about what you saw 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.000 from Kellen Moore a matter of fact, from the broadcast 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.320 booth watching and then going back and watching the tape. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.880 If that passes not tipped at the line of scrimmage, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.880 it's a touchdown to Blake Jarwin. I mean that made 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.800 the right read to get it there. Now, if you 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.800 want to talk about what happened at the end of 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.680 the game, okay, that's that's Mike White trying to do 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.039 something and you know he got caught all cuple. I 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.200 mean again, they had Devin Smith running free in the 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:31.680 back of the end zone and he tried to throw 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.560 the ball underneath Darius Jackson was open on the fourth down. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.520 I don't know what he saw with pressure, but they're 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.400 already there are opportunities. There were there were, And so 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.080 I'm not sitting here trying to blow smoke up everybody's 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.440 rear right now and say, oh, but you do have 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.640 to if you look at the first offense, you do 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.640 have to see that what the players they were minus, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.720 and again they're not going to do anything really creative 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.520 down there to make you feel like, Okay, this is 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.200 you know, yeah, you want him to score, but you 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.080 know what it is, what it is. And I'm not 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.280 sitting there. I'm not going to knee jerk after one game, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.600 one preseason game, because I think from what I've seen 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.760 out here, I've seen this offense move the ball in 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.960 the red zone against a good defense. That's what I've seen. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.480 So I'm not I'm not going to sit there and 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.240 say Kellen Moore's is just an idiot and they know 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.480 they don't know tap the brakes on all that. I 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.920 think they'll go one in fifteen and never score a touchdown, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.800 canceled the season. Yeah this is because this is just 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.400 a continuation of red zone from last year. Yeah, god, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.880 this is this is This is the pro and con 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.239 of preseason because you get to evaluate the young guys 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.320 on your team. But it also opens up to knee 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.880 jerk reactions off of a nine play drive. And that's it. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.680 And and I am not You're right, we've seen some 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.920 good things from this offensive camp, but I'm reserving declarations 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.640 about Kellen Moore's offense till Week one of the regular season. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.960 Because there they gain nothing by showing their hand right now. Yeah, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.480 to see, That's the thing to me is that I 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.200 I've seen enough and well I shouldn't say enough. I've 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:08.240 seen things out here in these practices, the practices that 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.800 we've been able to watch. That leads me to believe 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.560 that Kellen Moore is creative. Kellen Moore has an idea 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.920 of how he wants to get the ball to his personnel, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.800 and how he wants to use that personnel, and how 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.720 he could fit this offense to fit Dak Prescott right 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.040 and take advantage of this offensive line. You know. That's 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.320 to me, that's the encouraging thing. I mean, you're not 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.600 going to see that in a preseason game right now. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:34.440 I think, Look, the defense you mentioned did what they 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.480 should have absolutely against the backup San Francis. All they 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.920 did was start one wide receiver. The rest of their 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.640 offense was backups to start the game. And so the 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.679 defense did what they should have done. They lent them 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.320 into twenty eight yards in the first quarter. That's what 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.800 you want to see. The offense did what you wanted 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.960 to see. They drove from the twenty eight down to 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.800 the six yard line. So that's what you want to see. Okay, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.040 they didn't score, but as as as Brian said, the 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.160 ball got batted. Otherwise it's a touchdown watching the film, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.920 and again it wasn't the red zone, but it was 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:09.880 first and ten at the twenty four, and then it 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.040 was first and ten at the twelve. So they did 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.319 move the football and they weren't trying anything fancy. If 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:20.120 you look at it, first and ten at the twenty four, Pollard, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.320 second and seven at the twenty one, he throws a 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.600 little short pass for a couple of yards. Third and one, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.439 it's Pollard again. Then it's first and ten Pollard again. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.920 So they were trying to run the ball right and 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.160 get Pollard some work and then get him out of there. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.120 And one thing Jerry said, and Jerry's been through a 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.520 lot of these preseasons he said afterward, was in these games, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.520 I'm looking at players, right, I'm not looking at the 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.160 overall team. And how because there's so much interchange with 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.520 substitutions and everything. I thought Tony he was really complimentary 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.400 if Tony Pollard, he ran hard with the four carries 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.200 that he got. You saw Blake Jarwin take advantage of 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.440 some opportunities he wasn't getting the night off. Uh. And 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.880 what I what was encouraging me was there was there 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.400 was carry over with certain guys from what we've seen 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.520 out here, right, Jarwin getting up the field, right, Cedric 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.840 Wilson building on a solid uh camp and making a 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.640 case to grab a roster spot. Guys like that, And 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.640 let's not go to sleep on Tacoo. Good game, you 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.240 know with his rushes and uh that he created a 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.719 hold for there and he had he had the hit 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.760 and he had another hurry. Uh. Yeah, he had a 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.360 he had a nice day, yes, and so um yeah. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.280 You just can't get carried away. How would you like 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.160 to be San Francisco right now with practice today with 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.760 eighteen penalties for two hundred and sixteen Yeah, and you 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.760 know what it was eighteen that were assessed. Yeah. Right. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.040 There was a couple of double penalty plays and some 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.280 that got declined. Right, they had over twenty penalties. I 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.079 think the things we focus on the positive. I do 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.280 think there was some negatives with I think there was 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.920 some negatives with these young wide receivers, with the exception 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.960 of Cedric Wilson. I was hopeful that we would see 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.040 John Vay Johnson. We would see Jay link Guidon. We 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.440 would see these guys come up with more plays, more options, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.480 you know, Johnny Johnson eight opportunities, three catches. You know, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.760 if it's more like seven and eight or six and eight, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.720 you feel a little bit better about his game. That 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.840 was a bad drop he had because they did everything right, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.440 and he did everything right except catch the football. They 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.839 put the blocker up to take care of the a 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.760 gap blitz, which they're not prepping for, but they know 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.400 what's going to happen, so they get guiding or excuse me, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.360 they get a chun in position, he makes the block. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.079 Cooper rush those a beautiful pass, a beautiful I mean, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.600 and it's timed well. The separations well, you know, but 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.360 you don't get the finish. And I think that's that's 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.000 a little bit of an issue right there. You wanted 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.280 to see these guys come out and make Now you 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.000 want another negative thing. They did not play the waggle 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.840 the boot very well and the naked and stuff like that. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.840 Play the game, yeah, I mean, when you've got crossers, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.960 when you've got to run with crossers or you've got 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.480 to pick up crossers, that's that could be difficult. You know, 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.800 you gotta drop, you gotta turn, you gotta find guys, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.720 You gotta keep your eyes on the field. You know, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.439 is that safety play? Is that? You know? I want 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.560 to ask that question today to Jason Garrett. You know, 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.280 is you know? Is you know? Is there a concern 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.480 about current concerns? Are wrong word? But when you're looking 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.440 at it, he'll probably say, well, we weren't game planning 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.720 for that stuff? Is that ephasis? But that's but no. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.760 But That's what I'm saying though, is is it? Is 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.839 it one of those things where you're thinking, like, Okay, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.800 maybe this is something we need to work on. Because 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.120 they did the first play of the game. It wasn't 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.440 a backup. It was it was coming all the way 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.920 from a woozy a side, you know. Was he carry 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.320 He was carrying? And I'm thinking, okay, well it's supposed 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.280 to pass or something like that. But if you I 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.119 mean that to me? Was he really the only negative? 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.480 I felt like though the broadcast boot during the game, 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.199 I felt like that that Mitch Hyatt didn't play all 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.959 that well. From the broadcast boot. It wasn't all Mitch Hyatt, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.920 though there was some Mitch Hyatt there where was a 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.400 lot of Mitch Hyatt. I didn't feel like that watching 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.599 the tape though. It wasn't that's just me about you 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:12.080 watching the game and watching Sure he was getting beat regularly. Sure, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.240 but the thing was, you know my evaluation. You also 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.960 had some breakdowns with Sue Philo. You also had some 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:23.040 breakdowns with Redmond Campos. Campos, they all took a turn. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.880 Maybe four guys do their job, one guy not. But 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.000 but but some of that's on Mike White too, holding 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.600 the football. You know what I'm saying that some of 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.079 that's on And you talk to people in the organization, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.920 they will tell you the one issue that they have 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.160 with Mike White is holding the football. That's what they 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.000 tell you. Throw it, throw it. It got to the 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.960 point where Brad Sham was even saying he's back, throw it, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.960 throw it. I mean, we were talking in the broadcast 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.040 and that's going to be the problem. And we saw 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.560 with a sense of how he played a little bit 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.920 of a sense of urgency in that game. Late in 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.160 the game. Get rid of the ball, make throws go faster, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.440 play quicker play with pace. Guys are open, hit them. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.480 Don't wait for things to happen, You make things. Let 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.360 it rip as John Kitten would rip. We just spent 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.680 three minutes talking about guys that aren't going to be 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.160 on this team. So Mike White, after that performance, okay, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.959 let's let's let's go there before you know, let's finish 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.120 out the backup quarterback. But again, I appreciate you saying this, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.240 but again it's it's his I mean, it's his first 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.040 game since exactly since. I thought, both of them on 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.840 Rush two, first game since last preseason, and you know, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.160 and you can see it still hasn't played in a 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.640 real game since twenty seventeen. I thought, on the flip side, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.560 the second team offensive line gave Cooper Rush a really 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:44.200 good opportunity. Were three guys, three guys, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.960 is to a certain extent, I thought, and I wrote this, 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.000 you know, Cooper Rush had better fortune than Mike White did. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.440 We always talk about in these preseason games union some 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.920 protection to fully evaluate these. But San Francisco also had 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.440 defensive linemen that were signed that day pass rushing, and 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.000 they still had some mistress. Now, I think what happened 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.400 is that Joe Looney I think was pretty consistent throughout. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:12.480 But Redman Sue Philo, Hyatt Campos. Those guys broke down. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.760 They're playing seventy something plays. They're not used to playing 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.000 at any plays in the first game to the injuries 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.520 they've had out here, no question sure. So just recapping 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.320 the stats here, Cooper Rush played I believe one drive 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.600 into the third quarter. Right took over after the first 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.240 series that Dak played sixteen to twenty six, one hundred 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.120 and forty two yards, seventy six point one rating, Mike 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.800 White nine of twenty eighty seven yards, No touchdowns for 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.160 either of these guys. Pocket awareness was poor for sacked 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.160 three times, including a lost fumble. Yeah, it's got sacked 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.720 once and I think each of his first three drives 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.440 sack on a on a play. Now again, Weber missed 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.080 a block that very well could have been a touchdown. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.320 He's loading up to throw the ball on the outside 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.960 and they double moved the forty nine ers and they 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.720 get a holding on the other side of the field, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.840 which you know negated the sack in the fumble. But yeah, 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.400 you know, if you're if I'm interested to see if Mickey, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.480 if if you feel like that that that game, even 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.840 though they haven't played, even though they haven't played a 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.440 whole year. Is that game so damaging for Mike White 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:16.880 that all of a sudden now it's like we can 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.120 only keep too cool? Well, it might be his best 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.960 opportunity because you got a figure going forward. Dak's gonna 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.720 get more in the second game. Rush you'll probably get 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.680 the next and he's gonna get the scraps at the 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.600 end the third game he may not get anything, and 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.640 then the fourth game he gets to play again. So look, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.480 the biggest concern to me out of all that stuff. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.320 And there was guys that you wanted to see, but 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.400 you don't want to see John Veya uh dropping balls, 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.840 And he's done it now in the Blue White screm 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.480 and in this you will still still love him. You 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.760 just would still love him. Your backup offensive line would 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.840 have would have played better, but the kicker missed the 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.760 thirty five yard field goal, and that doesn't have to 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:02.120 do with anything about anybody. L let's let's that's a 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.160 great segue. Why don't we break early and come back 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.240 with Brett Maher Because I feel like backup quarterback and 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.720 the kicker might have been the two biggest topics going 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.080 into this camp other than Zeke and contracts and all 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.440 that stuff, and that's what we're talking about most coming 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.480 out of this game. So let's talk about Brett Maher 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.200 in the kicking situation. How we assess that? Next? 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Four 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.320 practices left in Oxnard. Is that correct about three and 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.760 a half. Three and a half, you'll think Thursday's probably 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.240 I'll walk through, don't you think before we leave, before 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.560 they break camp? Maybe not? Maybe not practice practice days 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.159 walk through. Yeah, they'll practice. Yeah, I was getting them 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.480 off their feet all right, sooner, right? Is it one 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.040 of those morning yeah? Yeah, so yeah, that's what happened. 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.280 That's good those practices. I like the morning practices I 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:48.840 do because it kind of gives us to get your 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:50.800 opportunity to get some stuff done and kind of figure 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:52.680 some things out. Yeah, we got to kind of pack 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:54.520 some things up here, and they don't able to wait 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.399 till the end of the day to analyze what happened. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.639 You no question. Done by twelve thirty, absolutely, and then 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:05.000 it's on the all right Aloha music or something not 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.840 yet not yet Hawaii five Oh definitely when we get there. Um, 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:14.760 all right, we've talked back up starters, backup quarterback. Let's 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.680