WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Making Changes 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.200 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:13.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.400 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:22.680 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:29.080 and Nicky Spagnola. Guess we can start once again this 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:33.800 week two out of three, ain't bad. Bill Jones called 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.479 away on duty at CBS eleven, So it will be 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:43.080 Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola on this Tuesday on Mick 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:48.160 Shots on Dallas Cowboys dot Com from the SWBC studio 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.440 here at the Star where the start. This place is 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.640 starting to bustle like Christmas is on the way, or 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.080 so hopefully playoffs is on the way. That's what I'm 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.320 hoping playoffs. Don't know it. Hey man, I need to 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.800 get paid more money. If Bill's gonna keep leaving this 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.240 hanging like this, you gotta get extra. We got to 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.640 get a full time. No man, I'm doing over time. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.600 That's right. Well, we are here for forty five minutes 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.960 on this Tuesday as the Cowboys get back to work. 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.959 By the way, uh, we already were in the locker room. Um, well, 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.480 you find out in the well, I saw that Malik 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.600 Jefferson was back in the locker room. Okay, I would 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.360 imagine he's getting ready to be placed on the practice 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:39.200 squad once again. Yeah. He said he'd just been hanging 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.399 for this month, and you know, just hanging. Kind of 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.360 told him not to go and he said he worked out. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.120 He went back to his high school to work out 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.200 a little bit, but glad to be back. It was 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.760 funny because his locker used to be if the locker room, well, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.360 I can't explain it anyway, it was down on the 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.040 other side. Now he's on the other side, on the 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.880 up part of it. And I said, they gave your 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.520 locker away that soon. Well they have it like there's 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.160 some hidden hidden lockers in there. Yeah, but they didn't 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.919 have to go back there with the practice squad guys. Oh, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.320 so that's what my picture is up there with the 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.880 practice squad. With the practice you gotta go around the corner, yeah, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.360 way up there. Yeah, or that's where the guys in 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.320 the when they have ninety guys. Yeah, that's where they 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.920 put them the overflow section. That's probably the guys that 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.560 didn't get drafted, right, that's what Yeah, But anyway he 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.720 will be back. And uh, I think you're talking about 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:41.160 the stadium. Oh, he's not talking about the locker. Locker 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.520 doesn't have pictures above. Oh you're right, yeah, you're right 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.760 stadium at the stadium because I took that to him. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.120 I took that tour with the group yea, and they 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.600 were trying to find thank you Christopher, and I was trying. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.360 I was confused for a second. I didn't think there 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.560 was any pictures back the pictures on top of the lockers. Yeah, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.840 they got like my my rookie picture at the stadium. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.120 So where all the rookies are all the yeah, undrafted 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.600 corner guys. Yeah, all right, Well, good we got that 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.040 cleared up, ran into Layton vander esh and good news. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.480 Then he was quite relieved himself, by the way, because 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.799 he's he was like, oh no, you know, and then 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.720 uh he said, yeah, it's just sore now. But you know, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.520 he's hoping a week or so he should be back. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.320 You know, I complained about about him a little bit, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.119 you know, because I wanted to be more aggressive, which 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.120 and he was. Through three or four games, he's been 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:38.120 really aggressive, right, but we still definitely need him his body. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.480 We need, we need bodies, we need depth, and if 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.280 he's out, then man, we're putting a lot of people 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.440 in some unfamiliar situations. Right And you know, especially with 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.960 Damon Clark, even though he had nine tackles, he's still 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.360 a young man, a half a year rookie, right, young man. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.560 So I would think that Luke Gifford, they might have 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.440 to start getting him a little bit more prepared to play. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:08.080 Uh that well, but see what guys like that? Then 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.680 you put him on the defense, and now somebody's got 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.200 to take a spot on special team. He's young, Why 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.840 can't do both? Well, because we did it, they want 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:23.240 to overload, which, by the way, t Y Hilton basically 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.760 everybody's like, okay, is this the week? And he goes, well, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.560 it could have been the last week, but uh, it 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.920 was pretty funny. He was talking about, you know, I'm 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.080 ready dota do? I guess And I didn't realize this, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.880 but I guess. His nickname and with the Colts was 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:42.480 the ghost because he would disappear on the defense right 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.480 right right, And and so he was talking and somebody said, 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.360 well what do you bring? He goes, one minute, I'm here. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.719 In the next minute, you won't see me. Yeah one second. Yeah, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:58.520 so he sounded ready. Um, and you know he said 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.400 he was ready, and he understood the ramp up part, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.880 like they're a little worried to put you out there. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:09.960 And uh, I mean for him, it's been months a year, right, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.920 so yeah, I can get that ramp up January to right. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.920 But it's not like he's you know, and coming back 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.680 from a yeah right. Yeah, So I thought that was 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.440 uh yeah, so he it sounds like they'll probably get 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.200 him good to go and again. You know, but when 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.000 you do that, that's bringing in another wide receiver that's 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.000 not going to play special teams. And as we talked 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.080 about yesterday, they struggled a little on their coverage units, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:44.200 punt return, kickoff return. They because they were getting yard. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.919 That was the beginning of the end of that game. Yeah. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:53.240 Absolutely so. Uh So anyway, Um, from a locker room standpoint, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.640 you know, jay Ryn cursed. You know, he knows he's 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.400 probably gonna have to have shoulder surgery, but he's playing 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:04.120 through it. Um. Sounded like Tyrant Smith got through the 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.560 game physically, okay. Uh And I would imagine no more 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.240 ramp up for him. Oh it's too late for that now, right, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:16.320 fifty four snaps is gonna have to be right, uh, 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.800 And they seem quite happy with how he played. Uh. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:26.359 And as I uh, you know, and Jay Ryan was 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.200 trying to explain, it's like, okay, this run defense. He goes, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.720 he said, we have to be more aware. He goes, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.120 agnew really hurt us on the end the rounds And 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.279 he goes, you know, we're an aggressive defense and we 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.640 got to keep our eyes on what's going on. And 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.640 as they say that, I'm sure it's been been repeated, 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.040 but when you get down on the field, you have 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.680 to adhere to it, right, I mean, because I'm sure 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.440 they talked about this before every game, especially since we've 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.520 been doing well except for this last game, right, holding 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.160 down uh, not just the points, but you're holding down 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:06.760 particular tendencies that you have, and that tendency continues now 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.240 with us. And I'm sure they talked about it coming 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.120 into that Jacksonville game. So for them not to listen, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.880 for them not to carry that out, that's the problems. Fact, 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.520 that's something that it was our downfall last year and 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.480 here we are, we're coming on that same trend. And 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.080 I'm not trying to be no high perple. Here, this 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.360 is for real, this is similar. This is a deja 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.440 vu moment. See, and they did a good job like 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.240 four games in a row. But then they got a 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:42.920 team that had the ability to expose their aggressiveness and 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.880 repeatedly did it too. And usually you get maybe one 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.360 end around, they must have got three or four. You 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.120 can't you can't be when they say you're exposed, then 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.720 that means you can't do any better than that, because 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.120 we knew this was coming. Anytime someone has speed and 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.920 they have a good quarterback, someone that can expose not 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.680 just our lack of comtainment, but also the ability to 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.720 cross us up on play action, and we have not, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:18.080 we have not consistently made those things our advance to 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.840 our advantage. So let me ask you, because they're gonna 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:27.080 have to get ready for both quarterbacks on Saturday, right, right, Menshew, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.200 how difficult is that when they're such different style of 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.599 quarterbacks to get ready for the guy that's going to 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.920 run and the guy that's basically going to be in 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.920 the pocket. Well, at that, if I I would look 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.800 at it like this, I don't care what Menshew can do. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.720 He's not Jalen hurts right, and That's the way I 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.560 would look at it. The way we would go into 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.839 a game. Usually when we have backups like that, then 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.199 we just exposed them defensively. That's whether I was with 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.720 the Cowboys or with the Giants. Yeah, we a guy 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.280 like Menshew, he just wouldn't be a threat to us 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.360 at all. I don't care how good the team is 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.679 or whatever his backup situation is. I don't recall us 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:13.480 losing to a Uh. To me, I was compared to Hurts. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.440 He's an unqualified backup compared to Hurts, right, and he 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.000 could he started he has I know what you're saying, Yeah, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.599 but he doesn't have you right. He's a guy that, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.720 you know, I wouldn't call him. I wouldn't call him Sunshine. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.920 I wouldn't call him Lawrence. He's not going to be 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.320 that he should. He's a guy that if we have 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.040 to play and I guess it's going to happen, uh, 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.680 then we could. It's a load off. I don't say 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.640 you relax, right, But that's one thing you don't have 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.079 to worry about is his ability to run the ball 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.200 as consistently as Jalen Hurts when it comes to the past. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.360 I'm not worried about either one of them if we 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.280 do our job. I'm worried about Jalen Hurts because he 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.000 is more diverse menshoe. I don't see him being that diverse. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:04.800 So Sirianni said, he wouldn't like say no, he's out 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.400 and everybody's saying it looks like he's out. All he 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.360 would say yesterday, would is it's not something long term, right, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.480 So we'll see where that goes. But you know, this 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.040 is this is what happens with running quarterbacks, right, And 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.720 I didn't realize fell in love with it. So he 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.840 got hurt in the third quarter on a three yard run. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.720 They were he had seventeen runs in the game. Too 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.959 many runs, right, Yes, And that's why I always say, yeah, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.480 it's nice to have a quarterback that can run. But 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.839 at some point they're gonna get hurt. And it's not 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.120 like you're as big as a Josh Allen, right, who 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.360 also has to be careful. But you you gout, Jalen Hurd. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.440 These guys land on you like they did. You know, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.520 I don't care how strong you are. What is he 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.880 two fifteen? Maybe? I mean, I mean he's he's solid. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.640 Talking about Jalen hurts. Yeah, but these guys come on, 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.400 these guys twice his size, chasing them down, and I'd 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.079 guess they're going to punish you. That's what I think 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.000 that's going to ask you, because when you get a 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.719 guy like that that frustrates you. Well, you saw it, right, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.400 if you saw land Yeah, that's like, okay, this is 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.840 what they tell you not to do for quarterbacks. That's 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.080 how they landed on him as a runner, right, he 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.960 was a runner. You're not in the pocket protection and 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.360 so they fall they keep falling in love with that, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.840 which I get it because let me, he's amazing. Yeah, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.000 I mean I've been bragging on him even when he 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.800 wasn't as good as he is right now he has 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.160 matured and everything. But he's still a quarterback and he 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.280 should not be considered a running back. I'm surprised as 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.160 subjecting him to that much when you have a decent 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:43.760 running back in the backfield. So I saw another one, uh, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.520 and this would be just as a quarterback. He's been 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:52.520 hit the third most times, one hundred and eighty four times. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.680 The only two that have been hit more justin fields. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.400 Oh what does he do right? Right? And Daniel Jones 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.959 another guy that kind of likes to run out of 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.719 the pocket. Yeah, so you got to be careful. I mean, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.240 Baltimore learned it right with Lamar Jackson. Thought he was invincible. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.520 Nice to have him running the ball and it didn't 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.320 even look like a serious hit, right, But the accumulation 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.719 of those that pounding that you take, you know, it's 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.520 got to add up and hurt you a little bit. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.720 And in that game, not only did he run seventeen times, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:32.680 he also got hit thirteen times any on thirty seven passes. Yes, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.080 that's that's a pretty high ratio. Right, so we'll see 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.360 if they have to, you know, kind of pay for 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.840 playing with that toy. That's why they like to throw 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.160 one time. He is so good when the timing is 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:49.480 there right, when he can sit back, play action, boom 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.360 set and just throw with not being impeded by any 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.520 other way in any other way, Um, that's when he's good. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.160 But as soon as you make him pull it down, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.240 he's look threat to run, which could be which could 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.840 also be bad if you're not alert. But I think 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.600 that's the best thing for him against him, is to 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.240 make sure that he does not throw one time. Throw 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.680 it off a little bit make him do something different, right, 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.480 sort of sort of have to improvise, which is how 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.760 he had his first interception in Chicago, which is a 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.640 horrible past. He threw it into coverage three guys around there, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.240 and hey, he's human like anybody else. You're gonna have 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.199 to make him do something different. And here was his 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.800 stats against the Bearers other than those thirteen hits, twenty 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.920 two or thirty seven, passing for three hundred and fifteen yards, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:42.520 three rushing touchdowns, two interceptions, and thus you had a 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.760 twenty five twenty game. It was close too. Yeah, and 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.360 his defense was able one thing, and no knock on ours. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.880 It is what it is that Eagles defense, along with 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.880 the forty nine ers, they saved their quarterback and offense 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.400 over and over again. It was twenty twenty a long 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.240 time in the game. Yeah, yeah, and so think about that, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.040 and and Philly, it's not like they can sit here 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.240 and go, well, okay, will wait on him to get healthy. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.920 We were thirteen and one, but they still need a 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.000 win to clinch the East and the number one seed, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.360 which I would imagine that's still important to Yeah, it is, 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.960 it is. And here's the thing. If we just keep 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.120 taking care of business. I'm not holding out for them 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.720 losing all three of their games, right, but you have 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.560 to do your job, right. I have to do what 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.040 I have to do. You what about those stories of 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.800 all the baseball teams that win second place all season? 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.280 But they kept creeping up and creeping up, and the 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.280 team up up that was up top they had to 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.080 fall to Two things have to happen. You gotta stay consistent, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.200 and they have to be inconsistent if you're If they're 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.320 inconsistent and you're inconsistent, who gives a damn. Yeah, we 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.880 have to do our job. We still have to win 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.760 our games. I don't give a damn what's going on 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.480 in Philly. We have to win our games. And when 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.640 you when you lift your head up, you see where 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.240 you are otherwise keeping those down, keeping those down. And 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.920 the funny thing is is, uh, this is probably the 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.640 best thing for this team if history means anything. This year, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.480 the Cowboys versus teams that are five hundred or better 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:27.080 are six and one against. Three losses are all against 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.320 teams with using record. I don't even know what to 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.920 do with that. I don't even know what do I go, Hey, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.400 that's good. Wow, you know, and I know, you know, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.680 no one's happy with that loss. But over the last 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.080 two months they're six and two, which is not bad. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.880 Right over the last eight games. Uh So you know, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.120 and I pointed it out last week, it's like, it's 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.760 hard to win four straight. It's hard to win five straight, right, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:00.760 And as I wrote on Friday, to do what the 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.400 Cowboys think they need to do was run the table 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.160 on the last four games. That would have meant they 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.920 had to win eighth straight, which is really hard even 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.040 if you're really good. But we're struggling. We're struggling, well, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:19.320 struggling defensively. Yeah, we are struggling. And that's got to improve. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.320 As Jay Ryan Curse said, if you had told me 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.440 the offense was going to score thirty four points, we 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.720 win that game, right, And he goes and we should 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.240 have won. And and so they they understand that, you 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.960 know where they're at. And um, you know, when when 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.680 we come back here, we're going to talk about the 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.760 cornerback position on things they might have to do their 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.000 uh and at the linebacker position. With the injuries the 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.000 Cowboys that are dealing with going into this Saturday game 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.960 against the Philadelphia Eagles, that next on mix shots on 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.120 Dallas Cowboys dot com. The Medal of Honor is our 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.920 country's highest military award for valor in combat. More than 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.040 forty million individuals have served in the armed forces since 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.359 the Civil War. Fewer than four thousand have received the 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.840 Medal of Honor. 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Obviously, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:03.639 the Cowboys took Kelvin Joseph out of the game in 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.080 the fourth quarter he had given up two touchdown passes, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.080 came in with no Shon Wright who played the rest 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.080 of that and the way Dan Quinn explained it yesterday 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:20.280 that they were going to have and Jerry Jones emphasized 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.119 that they were going to have competition for that corner. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.880 So if that somewhat of saying we're not benching one 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:32.200 guy because how much competition can you have, I mean, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.520 you know what everybody can do. You know what he's 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.840 trying to say, right, he's trying to say, well, somebody 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.879 please step up besides boss man fat right, that's what 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.600 he's trying to say. We gave him a shot, more 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.080 than one shot, and he's been a bit inconsistent, much better, 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.199 much more inconsistent than he is consistent. It's just the 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.280 way it is. You know, if you have the ability 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.080 to do better, then you put somebody else out there. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.679 But let's be real, there are a lot of cornerbacks 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.399 in this league that give it up every week and 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.160 they still have starting jobs. Some of them might even 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.679 get a pay raise, so you know we're holding them 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.399 to high standers here. Of course. Uh, this guy was 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:17.480 highly talented, you know, came with confidence, a lot of talent, 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.400 a lot of talent. You gotta know how to cover, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.720 you gotta know. And so the play where you got beat, 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:24.639 I gotta beat on that play more than one stop 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.479 and go. Yeah, come on, man, we trying to make 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.040 a plaint, but he really ye ain't trust me. I 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:34.800 gotta beat so bad by Brian Cephalo, Miami Dolphins, Sunday Night, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.480 nineteen eighty one. I mean, I gotta be so badly. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:43.800 I clapped my hands in disgust as I'm chasing him. Okay, 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.160 I have seen that moved before. You know, when you're 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.159 when you're kind of feeling yourself, then you think you 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.679 can do that. So I'll give any cornerback some grace, 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.679 but you gotta make your play right. He didn't do 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.399 well the last game, a game before last, but he 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.200 still made some plays to overcome what he had not done, 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.720 and so he still has to overcome that by okay, 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.679 let me shake it off and let me make a 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.840 play that's going to be significant in this ball game 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.600 that he did not do. He continued to fail and 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.920 fail and fail. Now the other one on the goal 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.760 lines a tough route to cover. Yeah, it is when 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.680 you're man and all the guy's got to do is 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:25.680 fake in and go back the other way. That's why 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.120 the aggression has to be there. When you start beating, 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:30.800 getting beat like that, then you become soft, right, And 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.600 if you're gonna be aggressive, then you become aggressive in 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.280 a stupid manner. Trust me, been there not talking this 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.679 about Joseph, talking about myself. Any other cornerback. If you're 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.480 gonna get up and be aggressive I talked about yesterday, 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:45.879 you gotta have patience. You gotta her poise. When you 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:51.280 cover somebody, you can't just try to You can't outthink yourself, Okay, 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.399 you have to be instinctive. And any other time that 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.720 he comes up against a guy that's lined up tight, 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:00.199 the guy was lined up tight. I mean, I mean 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.560 real type, but he was. It was he was definitely 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:05.400 in set to where you know that he's he could 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.240 go across, yes, he could go outside, yes, but whatever 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:12.280 you do, don't wait. He waited, he didn't get up 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.000 and aggression taking the use of his five yards and 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:19.240 wear him out because you, yes, you have nothing to 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.560 lose at that point. That's the smart way to go. 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:24.879 Playing off. You give him the ability to do what 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:27.840 he wants. If you're jamming him right there, then he 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:29.600 and the quarterback have to be on a different page. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.640 It probably will turn into a a fade as opposed 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:34.760