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Speaker 2: the back of Kyle Yeoman's. Gentlemen, where do we start?
Speaker 1: We start?
Speaker 2: There are a lot of different things to break down.
Speaker 2: We could talk about, Yeah, we could talk about that,
Speaker 2: talk about Jayalen Carter, talk about a couple couple dropped opportunities,
Speaker 2: a couple of things that slipped right through your fingertips
Speaker 2: within spitting distance. If you yeah, all all the metaphors,
Speaker 2: all the puns, all the puns. Cowboys fall had a
Speaker 2: shot to beat the reigning Super Bowl champions on the
Speaker 2: road in Week one. It hurts the fact that they
Speaker 2: had a shot and they very easily could have won
Speaker 2: that game with as well as they played.
Speaker 5: That shot, And it hurts.
Speaker 2: Man. This is just we're on a roll here. No,
Speaker 2: but you had an opportunity late and ultimately just couldn't
Speaker 2: get it done.
Speaker 3: Listen, you guys know everything about talking cowboys. We don't
Speaker 3: do moral victories, no going to do moral victories. But
Speaker 3: I can tell you what last night last night, when
Speaker 3: there is no draw, right, win or lose? Right, obviously
Speaker 3: you lost. You were going to find out where your
Speaker 3: team was. You had you had no idea what your
Speaker 3: team was. You literally had no idea that most of
Speaker 3: the guys that were playing last night had not touched
Speaker 3: the field in the in the preseason. That's just what
Speaker 3: it is. You know what you have now in Cowboys Nation. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm going to say there are no moral victories, so
Speaker 3: don't don't at me. However, you should be highly encouraged.
Speaker 3: Absolutely you should be highly encouraged as to what you
Speaker 3: have for what's transpired with this organization over the past
Speaker 3: week in terms of losing your best defensive player and
Speaker 3: seeing exactly what your defense looks like now, seeing exactly
Speaker 3: what your coverage looks like with Trayvon Diggs coming off
Speaker 3: of injury, and you still have other guys that have
Speaker 3: to come off the injury report to make contributions, to
Speaker 3: see what your offense looks like. We're Brian's Schoenheimer and
Speaker 3: really everybody not even really being utilized last night.
Speaker 1: You should be encouraged by the running game.
Speaker 3: You had questions and concerns about who was going to
Speaker 3: be able to tote the rock and can you be
Speaker 3: effective on the ground with the ground game. You should
Speaker 3: be encouraged by your offensive line. How are these guys
Speaker 3: going to be able to be able to run block?
Speaker 3: Can these guys protect? Can they keep Daka? Is Dak's
Speaker 3: hamstring healthy? Can he run? Can he get out the pocket?
Speaker 3: All these things. There's a lot of questions that I
Speaker 3: don't want to say fully got answered, but you have
Speaker 3: a pretty good idea as to where you're at right now.
Speaker 3: And again, you just played the Super Bowl champs. Who
Speaker 3: returned almost everybody, almost seventeen out of twenty two starters.
Speaker 5: Impressive, they returned.
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl champions returned seventeen out of twenty two starters.
Speaker 3: And you just went total told with them, and you
Speaker 3: should have won. You should have won. You had your opportunities,
Speaker 3: absolutely right. So again, no moral victories, but I am encouraged. Right,
Speaker 3: I have predicted that they were going to lose twenty
Speaker 3: seven to twenty one, I think, right, just guys like eh,
Speaker 3: I just don't know who they are.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna be able to get
Speaker 1: over to edge. Right.
Speaker 3: This was this was a good matchup. And I've gotten
Speaker 3: through the first half of film so far. A lot
Speaker 3: of things clean up, but all these things that that
Speaker 3: you see on film are correctable.
Speaker 1: But again we'll get into the details. I'm highly encouraged.
Speaker 6: Is it a lot of things that you think would
Speaker 6: have benefited from a few snaps in the preseason.
Speaker 3: Yes, very much, so very much. I said it last
Speaker 3: night on a post game show.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, did you listen to post
Speaker 2: game last night?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And then that's kind of why I'm leading into that,
Speaker 6: because those are a lot of things and a lot
Speaker 6: of fans.
Speaker 5: We're kind of saying this too.
Speaker 6: You know, it's if you don't have Dak playing in
Speaker 6: the preseason at all, getting snaps, getting familiar. That was
Speaker 6: the first time we had seen the offensive line play
Speaker 6: together as one on the field Thursday Night Football Game one.
Speaker 6: That's a crazy that's a tall order if you will,
Speaker 6: to serve up for Opening Day. But the Cowboys went
Speaker 6: down the field on two drives in a row and
Speaker 6: score touchdowns. You have to love that. You have to
Speaker 6: love what Brian Schottenheimer came in with. Another thing that
Speaker 6: you said on the pregame show was that your coordinators
Speaker 6: were prepared.
Speaker 5: They got your guys prepared.
Speaker 6: I loved that because it was clear, it was obvious.
Speaker 6: I don't know that I necessarily loved Matt Eberflus's game
Speaker 6: plan when you look at the snaps of like a
Speaker 6: Maris lea foul, why he wasn't on the field, why
Speaker 6: he wasn't spying Jalen Hurts, Especially after the first few
Speaker 6: drives where they went down and scored touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Back to back to back. It's tough, but I think
Speaker 5: there's a lot to build on.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: And speaking to eber Flus really quickly before I get
Speaker 4: to some of my key takeaways, because a lot a
Speaker 4: lot here, but I'll give as some mestion. But Eberflus,
Speaker 4: we talk about culture change. Mazzie Smith was a healthy scratch.
Speaker 4: You don't see that under Michae McCarthy. Mich McCarthy is
Speaker 4: still in this building as head coach. Mazzie Smith is
Speaker 4: not a healthy scratch at any point ever. So I
Speaker 4: would like to say that Schottenheimer and eber Flus are
Speaker 4: keeping to what they said. They said they want to
Speaker 4: see more consistency from Mozzie Smith. Those were not words
Speaker 4: at all. Compete every day everything, So so kudos to
Speaker 4: them for that. Now, as far as some of the
Speaker 4: takeaways from those who did play, love what Isaiah's saying,
Speaker 4: love with Josh is saying, and I completely agree. Again,
Speaker 4: we will say this, and we will have to say
Speaker 4: this a million other times because we already know how
Speaker 4: fans are.
Speaker 1: There are no moral victories, zero whatever.
Speaker 4: Just as if the Cowboys had won, there would have
Speaker 4: been negatives to discuss as far as improvements. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: just like the Cowboys lost this game, there are positives
Speaker 4: to discuss along with the negatives. Yep, that's called football talk. Okay,
Speaker 4: there are a lot of positives. Schottenheimer came out his
Speaker 4: script was magnificent on that first drive. But then you're
Speaker 4: thinking to yourself, Okay, script looks magnificent. First twelve to
Speaker 4: fifteen plays cool. Second drive mostly on scripted, still look magnificent.
Speaker 4: Oh mind, what are we doing?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 4: Are a lot there's a lot of pre snap motion
Speaker 4: here in that snap motion there, these are a lot
Speaker 4: of condensed offensive sets to make things that much more
Speaker 4: challenging on the defense for the Eagles. And then you
Speaker 4: look at Dak. Granted no preseason, but saw stat yesterday
Speaker 4: finished the game with ninety percent catchuple throws ninety percent.
Speaker 4: Dak was pristine out there the run game. To Isaiah's point,
Speaker 4: we had no idea what this run game would look like,
Speaker 4: or this new look offensive line would look like. Man,
Speaker 4: I get it. Jay Len Carter got removed, but guess what.
Speaker 4: They still have bodies out there like Jordan Davis for example.
Speaker 4: Shouts out to Javonte Williams. He was making the best
Speaker 4: of every opportunity given to him. In conjunction with the
Speaker 4: fact that man, this offensive line was just moving bodies
Speaker 4: they were moving.
Speaker 1: Bodies forward, sideways.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of steering going on out there.
Speaker 4: So run game looks good. Passing game looked great. Ceedee
Speaker 4: Lamb was virtually unstoppable in the first half. You know,
Speaker 4: he was approaching one hundred yard game at the half. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's see what else I got here. Defense iber Flus
Speaker 4: struggled with his initial game plan. Okay, first half did
Speaker 4: not look great in the run defense, and of course
Speaker 4: everyone include in us, I disagree, didn't look great because
Speaker 4: of Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: Yes, it wasn't because sa Quon was going off doing Saquon.
Speaker 2: They bottled him up.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was because Jalen Hurts his mobility. But if
Speaker 4: you go back and look at the film, as we
Speaker 4: do on Talking Cowboy, what you would notice is that
Speaker 4: a lot of those runs from Jalen Hurts, none of
Speaker 4: them were designed.
Speaker 1: They were broken.
Speaker 3: Plays because the covering bridge absolutely down Chef Kiss.
Speaker 4: Okay, so at that point, now another positive halftime adjustments.
Speaker 4: We saw halftime adjustments from the defense, absolutely.
Speaker 5: Oh Man.
Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty plus yards on the ground for
Speaker 4: the Eagles in the first half, roughly thirty on the
Speaker 4: ground in the second half. Three were ties in the
Speaker 4: first half, zero offensive touchdowns allowed in the second half.
Speaker 4: A lot of positives be taken to be taken away
Speaker 4: from here. Solomon Thomas, yes, sir played well, Okay Clark,
Speaker 4: Kenny Clark, sir Osa in the second half, three.
Speaker 2: Defensive tackles that did what he's going on?
Speaker 3: I did and shout out because I was shout out
Speaker 3: to Marshawn.
Speaker 1: Marshawant was not.
Speaker 3: Necessarily over the hill for the pass rush, but in
Speaker 3: terms of his had two sects physicality. The way that
Speaker 3: Marshawn o Sa, Solomon and Kenny Clark came off the
Speaker 3: ball that it was so encouraging when watching on film,
Speaker 3: like they were firing off the ball. Solomon Thomas is
Speaker 3: a madman coming off the snap like relent and he
Speaker 3: doesn't just look the part.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the second moves too. It was the
Speaker 2: fact that he would get locked up on one side
Speaker 2: and yeah, yeah, I mean there were so many different
Speaker 2: options on the film. When you go back and look
Speaker 2: at it, it's.
Speaker 1: A fun one. It really was.
Speaker 2: In the top of that adds to very exciting.
Speaker 4: How many times did we see in the past, just
Speaker 4: recent seasons, the Cowboys with go to go defense just
Speaker 4: basically find ways to partner it see or get bullied
Speaker 4: and just pushed into no not not last night against
Speaker 4: the arguably the best offensive line in the game.
Speaker 1: It took. For example, one off Jalen Hurts rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: was because it was go to go stuffed, stuffed and
Speaker 1: then he.
Speaker 3: Goes to it wasn't easy, right, he goes to roll out,
Speaker 3: He's like, Oh, I don't have anyone to pass too?
Speaker 4: Why because the coverage is Christine. He rolls out bootlegs
Speaker 4: and there you go. So lots of positive takeaways these negatives.
Speaker 6: One thing that you just brought up marsh On kneel
Speaker 6: and a guy that you've been critical of since for
Speaker 6: him to show out like you did yesterday was impressive.
Speaker 5: But what did you see? What was different from camp
Speaker 5: from yesterday?
Speaker 1: Violence?
Speaker 3: You don't you don't get that violence, and you get
Speaker 3: that violence in camp. You just don't know. You don't,
Speaker 3: you don't don't. You're not tackling it. Even when you
Speaker 3: are thudding up, you're still going three quarters. Let's call
Speaker 3: it what it is right in training camp and at
Speaker 3: the line position because you what are your coach is.
Speaker 1: Saying stay up, Stay up, Stay up.
Speaker 3: You can't go one hundred percent when you're worried about falling,
Speaker 3: you know, not trying not to fall on the ground.
Speaker 3: So that's just be really be real, be honest about it.
Speaker 3: The way that he was firing out the ball, even
Speaker 3: though I would like to see a I would like
Speaker 3: for him to get a bag of pass rushers when
Speaker 3: he even when he two gaps, he's powerful and he
Speaker 3: pushed Lane Johnson back numerous times into the into the
Speaker 3: lap of Jalen Hurts. So those things were very encouraging.
Speaker 3: Like I said, there's a lot to go through. But you,
Speaker 3: for fans understand you. You won the number of first downs,
Speaker 3: you one third down, you one total total yards, you
Speaker 3: one average game per play.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 2: Let me let me add you won the coaching Yeah,
Speaker 2: let me let me add to this a little bit.
Speaker 2: If you would have told me on Wednesday going into
Speaker 2: Thursday that Sakuon Barkley is held to three point three
Speaker 2: yards per case.
Speaker 1: Are cool?
Speaker 2: DeVante Smith finishes with three grabs for sixteen yards, no touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Longest was seven yards.
Speaker 1: I know a J.
Speaker 2: Brown one reception.
Speaker 1: Well, he was in the building. He was there.
Speaker 2: He was in the building.
Speaker 1: At the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one reception for eight yards at the end of
Speaker 2: the game will at the end of the game. If
Speaker 2: you would have told me all three of those things
Speaker 2: were true, I don't care what anybody else does. I
Speaker 2: think Dallas wins the game. And that's part of why
Speaker 2: this one does hurt the way that it does. And
Speaker 2: I say hurt with the little emphasis because you talked
Speaker 2: about third down. That was the problem. That was the
Speaker 2: problem eight of thirteen and most of those thirteen that
Speaker 2: didn't end up on the positive side for Philly was
Speaker 2: late and that was part of the adjustment. In the
Speaker 2: forty five seconds that I saw my wife this morning,
Speaker 2: we talked to football because that was really all we
Speaker 2: had when we get home at two am and then
Speaker 2: turn around and get up here at eight am. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that's not even as bad as what Patrick's having
Speaker 2: to deal with and Chris beam are having to deal with.
Speaker 2: But for the forty five seconds I saw Laurena and
Speaker 2: I said, you know, I think it boils down to
Speaker 2: I loved Schottenheimer's game plan. I loved Eberflus's adjustments, and
Speaker 2: that's part of the game. Well, the game plan was
Speaker 2: there in the first half from the offense, and the
Speaker 2: game plan wasn't bad for Ebraflus in the first half.
Speaker 2: They did good things or else Saquon Barkley doesn't get
Speaker 2: held to three point three yards per carry. But the
Speaker 2: adjustments going into the second half from the defensive side
Speaker 2: gave the offense every opportunity to win that game in
Speaker 2: the third or the fourth quarter, and you didn't take advantage.
Speaker 6: To your point, Iberflus's game plan, I actually think in the.
Speaker 5: First half was really good.
Speaker 6: We're talking about like shutting down AJ Brown, We're talking
Speaker 6: about shutting in down DeVante Smith. That's the Barkley for
Speaker 6: the entire game. It was Jalen Hurts that hurt you,
Speaker 6: no pun intended. It was those third down situational things.
Speaker 6: It was Dante Fowler not have his best game. It
Speaker 6: was the linebackers not cleaning up, you know, the second level.
Speaker 6: It was the second level all day because Osa dige
Speaker 6: Zoo was in the backfield on every It was insane.
Speaker 3: And the reason why I pointed, I'm not pointing fingers
Speaker 3: at anybody. We're just no, no, we watch film around here, Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's what we do. Talking cowboys. I can't speak
Speaker 3: to the other shows. You know, we watched, We watched
Speaker 3: film and we.
Speaker 2: Talked watched it on the way home last night.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of.
Speaker 3: Things that you could point out as every coach on
Speaker 3: that staff is going to do. They are going to
Speaker 3: dissect it for those that are at home, and when
Speaker 3: you're a professional athlete in the NFL, the coaches come in,
Speaker 3: they watched the film first. They literally grade every single play.
Speaker 3: They give you a plus or they give you a minus.
Speaker 3: When you walk into that meeting room that morning to
Speaker 3: go over what just took place, you were handed a
Speaker 3: packet of every play that was had for your offensive
Speaker 3: or defensive snaps, which your grade for that play, whatever
Speaker 3: plays you're on, you're graded okay, and you go through
Speaker 3: every single play and you talk what you should have
Speaker 3: done better, what we could have done better.
Speaker 1: As a unit. We were talking about.
Speaker 3: The d line and how they were firing off and
Speaker 3: how they for the most part, had relatively good gap
Speaker 3: discipline the linebackers. I know it is going to be
Speaker 3: highlighted and Maddiebriflus as his position, so please believe he's
Speaker 3: going to correct this. These guys were not playing as
Speaker 3: a cohesive unit in the terms of reactionary action, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They weren't reacting, they were waiting. There was gaps that
Speaker 1: were there.
Speaker 3: That's why Saquan got off and got should have been
Speaker 3: negative two, negative three yards a couple times, and he
Speaker 3: was able to make it plus four, right, because we
Speaker 3: were not shooting the gaps. We weren't seeing ball hit ball.
Speaker 3: There's hesitation there, and I think those are things that
Speaker 3: you only get by knocking off the rust. Last night
Speaker 3: was knocking off the rust. You just wish that it
Speaker 3: would have happened somewhere in the preseason or a training camp.
Speaker 3: But again, these are all the correctable items, and I
Speaker 3: am encouraged by it. Only thing that sticks out to
Speaker 3: me had like a sore thumb. The Philadelphia Eagles were
Speaker 3: three for three in the red zone. If the Dallas
Speaker 3: Cowboys were three for three, Dallas Cowboys win the game.
Speaker 3: I'm not pointing saying that was the only thing. Officer's
Speaker 3: a gazillion things that took place. The fumble killed it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the fumble killed it. You were in the resid first
Speaker 3: of all, should never got to the fumbel because that
Speaker 3: was a heck of a blocked up great call by Schottenheimer,
Speaker 3: blocked up by the old line and the receivers should
Speaker 3: have been a house called, not a house call.
Speaker 1: Who cribs there right, Jade and Blue Jane, Blue cribs
Speaker 1: that understood. I mean it happened one of the few
Speaker 1: coaching It's not.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna. I'm not going to fifty back made
Speaker 3: a heck of a player, faulting him for that. But
Speaker 3: we're saying because two things can be true at the
Speaker 3: same time. It is a hell of a play that's
Speaker 3: blocked up wonderfully. Yeah, he executed it wonderfully, and it's
Speaker 3: also true that he got dragged down from behind.
Speaker 2: But the same thing about Cavante Turpin. Though you can
Speaker 2: throw anybody's name in the.
Speaker 4: Count on that particular plays Turping, but you can always always,
Speaker 4: so that's what I'm saying, But you always look.
Speaker 1: At this player was there.
Speaker 3: Blue is faster and in that particular play, all things
Speaker 3: being equal, Blue is not getting caught from behind.
Speaker 6: To counteract that, though you have Zach Bond in the
Speaker 6: backfield that is gone, I mean in the out in
Speaker 6: space who cleaned it up?
Speaker 5: It was Asle seven. I mean he was clearing up
Speaker 5: all day every day. I don't know.
Speaker 6: Necessarily that Jayden Blue cribs that the chances are much higher.
Speaker 1: Let's listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 3: We can't go down the line and say on this play,
Speaker 3: if that's what I'm saying, that player, We're not going
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 1: But it was.
Speaker 3: A heck of a play by Zach Bond. Heck of
Speaker 3: a played on the offense for the Dallas Cowboys. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: you didn't score. You would have liked to score, and
Speaker 3: the consequence of that was unfortunately, ball security wasn't there.
Speaker 1: You lost the ball. But we could point to that,
Speaker 1: we can point to the George.
Speaker 3: Picktt, you know what I'm saying, which killed you on
Speaker 3: your ability to score touchdown on that particular drive. So
Speaker 3: there was a number of things that took place. We're
Speaker 3: not pointing fingers. We're just addressing that one stat line.
Speaker 3: If you were three for three, you win the game.
Speaker 2: Well, turnovers decide games, and that was the only turnover
Speaker 2: of the entire game.
Speaker 5: And drops and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, drops in your quarterback tried to say you even
Speaker 4: from that turnover.
Speaker 2: I want to talk a little more offense. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about the drops. Let's talk about the significance of Dak
Speaker 2: last night, and I thought he had some some ups
Speaker 2: and some downs, but really it was more ups than downs.
Speaker 2: Cowboys lose twenty four to twenty to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2: Let's talk offense when we come back right after this.
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Speaker 1: Normally they call it I am smiling.
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Speaker 2: They call it Black Monday most of the time on
Speaker 2: the week after the first game for every NFL team,
Speaker 2: because you're either winning the Super Bowl or you're gonna
Speaker 2: go oh and seventeen. And I think Dallas is about
Speaker 2: as in the middle as possible on that. And of
Speaker 2: course it's not a Monday, it's Black Friday, but it's
Speaker 2: not Thanksgiving. When you talk about some of the positives
Speaker 2: there for the offense, and we've kind of hit a
Speaker 2: couple of these. Dak Prescott finishes twenty one to thirty
Speaker 2: four passing, didn't have a passing touchdown, one eighty eight
Speaker 2: through the air. One ten of that went to one
Speaker 2: guy named Ceedee Lamb. However, even after going seven receptions
Speaker 2: for one hundred and ten yards, a lot of people
Speaker 2: looking at CD as a microcosm reason, and it's not
Speaker 2: the only reason, but it's a big reason that the
Speaker 2: Cowboys didn't come up with this. Football is a funny game,
Speaker 2: isn't it it is. Football is a funny game. He
Speaker 2: had four drops after putting up one hundred and ten
Speaker 2: yards receiving and being the majority of the offensive attack
Speaker 2: for the Dallas Cowboys. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you come up just shy on a couple of really
Speaker 2: tough catches and it's still not enough to get it done.
Speaker 2: And he said to himself, he said, I gotta catch
Speaker 2: those balls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, let's give credit to the maturity of cd Lan. Like,
Speaker 3: think about where he came from. He's a captain, he's
Speaker 3: not ducking, and he's a captain now right.
Speaker 1: I'm the captain now right.
Speaker 2: I was hoping to get that reference.
Speaker 3: He has taken so many strides towards leadership. Mean, I'm
Speaker 3: I you know, I don't have a personal relationship with
Speaker 3: him like that, but I'm proud of his development in
Speaker 3: that particular area, coming from where he was even in
Speaker 3: the beginning of last year. Go back a year, yep,
Speaker 3: where he was throwing tantrums and things like that, And
Speaker 3: I think that was kind of his awakening moment to
Speaker 3: see himself in the mirror. But like, I don't like that, right,
Speaker 3: he made changes to the point where there's nothing negative
Speaker 3: that you can say about how he addressed and owned
Speaker 3: his drops from yesterday.
Speaker 2: He owned that to a t Go watch it on
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys dot Com. The whole interviews up.
Speaker 3: Listen, no excuses, Hey, look no further than me. I
Speaker 3: got to catch the ball. All the things like I'm
Speaker 3: not looking anywhere else, I'm looking at the man in
Speaker 3: the mirror, Michael Jackson style. And that's what I love
Speaker 3: about how he handled that yesterday. He said, if you
Speaker 3: don't think that I'm gonna come back better than I
Speaker 3: was tonight, you guys don't know me.
Speaker 1: Love it. Love it.
Speaker 3: It happens. Everybody's not under a game every day. He
Speaker 3: bought out, he really did. He bought out, But there's
Speaker 3: some balls that he wish he would have brought in.
Speaker 3: It happens. You can talk about the old line they
Speaker 3: bought out for the most part. Yeah, we can point
Speaker 3: to the number of blocks that you wish you would
Speaker 3: have done better. Yeah, it would have made a difference.
Speaker 6: Right, And for any fan that says, you know, like
Speaker 6: he's getting up thirty four million dollars, he needs to
Speaker 6: make every single one of those catches. There were a
Speaker 6: couple of those catches I thought were pretty tough, and
Speaker 6: especially if you consider the secondary bearing down on him
Speaker 6: in those moments. But for him to outwardly say those
Speaker 6: are mine, I need to get those no matter.
Speaker 4: Here's the exact quote and quote Ceede Lamb after the
Speaker 4: game last night. Man, that was terrible. I can't point
Speaker 4: fingers at anybody else. I take full accountability and everything
Speaker 4: else that comes with that. As a player, I've prayed
Speaker 4: for moments like that, and for the ball to come
Speaker 4: my way to not come up with it, it stings
Speaker 4: a little bit. And then he went on to say,
Speaker 4: as Isaiah was saying, if you don't think that he's
Speaker 4: going to come back basically and cook, then you got
Speaker 4: another thing coming. And I'm standing right there with Isaiah.
Speaker 4: I cannot and I've I've said it a million times.
Speaker 4: One thing about me is I'm always going to give
Speaker 4: roses and kudos to a person who can be accountable. Right,
Speaker 4: they're not passing the buck off. He didn't even deflect,
Speaker 4: he didn't try to soften the blow. He basically stood
Speaker 4: right on the track, right on the tracks, looked at
Speaker 4: the train coming and said, okay, this is me.
Speaker 1: Now. Was he the only reason the Cowboys dropped that game.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: I mean my prediction was the Cowboys win twenty seven
Speaker 4: to twenty four, and damn it, they were right there.
Speaker 4: They were right all is in your hand three minutes
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 1: Got to make the catches, and he knows that.
Speaker 4: I think what what highlights the drops is the situation
Speaker 4: in which the drops occurred. Absolutely, and the receiver that
Speaker 4: dropped the passes. It's kind of a perfect storm of
Speaker 4: That's why they pay CD Lamb to me make those
Speaker 4: catches Ceedee Lamb said it himself. He's prayed for times
Speaker 4: like that, and in the past he's come up good
Speaker 4: for the Cowboys in times like that.
Speaker 1: In the future he will come up good.
Speaker 4: For the Cowboys and times like that also true though
Speaker 4: those drops were brutal. If he gets just one of
Speaker 4: the final two drops, just one.
Speaker 6: That that first or the second to last drop, Jack
Speaker 6: the ross deep cross.
Speaker 1: Jack put itam and it tipped up perfect spot.
Speaker 2: Thinks they were both good throws.
Speaker 5: They were both.
Speaker 1: They were both.
Speaker 6: The last one was a little tough, that would have
Speaker 6: been yeah, had extension. You had to put it there
Speaker 6: with the sat coming over the top and then never under.
Speaker 5: But the second to last, Dak put it on it.
Speaker 2: I agree with Patrick entirely because the only reason we
Speaker 2: have that expectation for Ceedee Lamb is because we've seen
Speaker 2: it in the past. We've seen him make those types
Speaker 2: of plays in the past. CD knows he can make
Speaker 2: those types of plays. He's paid to make those types
Speaker 2: of plays. And at the end of the day, that's
Speaker 2: going to separate Ceedee Lamb from being a great receiver
Speaker 2: in this league, of being an elite receiver in this league.
Speaker 2: And I do. I've said it before, I've said it
Speaker 2: since he was drafted. I think he has everything on
Speaker 2: the table to be an elite receiver in this league,
Speaker 2: and he has been at different points throughout his career.
Speaker 2: He had a chance to become the storyline last night.
Speaker 2: Imagine if he, like you said, grabs one or two
Speaker 2: of those four drops that he had on the night.
Speaker 2: You're talking about a buck thirty one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: yards possibly a touchdown in there. If things continue going
Speaker 2: your way and he's the main reason Dallas wins the
Speaker 2: game on the road against Philadelphia, that's what's gonna come
Speaker 2: with the territory. You ride the highs, you ride the lows.
Speaker 2: Just this just happened to be a low for CD Lamb.
Speaker 1: That was evidence of rust.
Speaker 3: You think so, yes, because I want you to tell you,
Speaker 3: all right, all right, tell me the last time that
Speaker 3: he had to make a catch with that kind of
Speaker 3: that kind of coverage and that kind of physicality.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 4: The only reason I'm not making this I'm and reason
Speaker 4: I disagree with that is if he hadn't been on
Speaker 4: fire the first half.
Speaker 1: So if you flip the halfs okay, but think about
Speaker 1: the catches, say that, I'm serious.
Speaker 3: You think about the catches that he made versus the
Speaker 3: catches that he didn't make.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, the last time that he had that level of
Speaker 3: physicality was last season. Yeah, this is this is real.
Speaker 3: I'm not making an excuse. I'm just saying this is
Speaker 3: this is this is real truth. This is the reason
Speaker 3: why some teams play some of their guys in the preseason,
Speaker 3: whether however long that might be, is because it allows
Speaker 3: for guys to kind of get recalibrated. You're not that
Speaker 3: physical in practice. You're not diving for catches in practice
Speaker 3: training camp. You're not risk versus reward. Right, did we
Speaker 3: see him have to dive? Did he die for anything
Speaker 3: in training camp. Now, a you see any of those
Speaker 3: receivers outside of the guys who are trying to make
Speaker 3: the roster die for anything in training camp.
Speaker 1: No, so what practice would he have at that.
Speaker 3: I'm just being real right now, Like, what's the last
Speaker 3: time somebody was that physical where you had a guy
Speaker 3: that's on your back and the guy's about to hit you,
Speaker 3: hit you in your face and you had to focus
Speaker 3: on the ball.
Speaker 2: Last season, you feel the footsteps coming.
Speaker 5: And that's lutting up.
Speaker 6: In practice is not the same as life around because
Speaker 6: you know that you're safe.
Speaker 1: It's a safe place. So your eyes, it's a safe place.
Speaker 3: It's a safe place in practice it is you're not
Speaker 3: worried about getting injured by somebody knocking your head off, right.
Speaker 3: But now all of a sudden, I'm thrust it into
Speaker 3: the game. And again he's paid to do it, he
Speaker 3: knows it, own the ship. But again he needed this
Speaker 3: one game to recalibrate himself. Say, we're back playing football
Speaker 3: again and there's a real chance that I can get hit, right,
Speaker 3: So now my eyes, my focus, everything has required to
Speaker 3: keep this guy off my back, catch the ball, and
Speaker 3: make sure that my eyes are wandering to the cat
Speaker 3: that's trying to take my head off. Yeah right, those
Speaker 3: are things that I have not had practice on since
Speaker 3: last season.
Speaker 2: All the separation, sorry, all the separation and the route
Speaker 2: running and all of the things that Ceedee Lamb can
Speaker 2: do well in practice. Was fine because when he had
Speaker 2: a cushion, it was there. But you go back, you
Speaker 2: look at all four drops, like challenge, you go back
Speaker 2: and look at all four of them. There was somebody
Speaker 2: in the city and this is it was a contestant,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't like it wasn't like he didn't come
Speaker 2: up with contested catches. He had a couple of those.
Speaker 2: But when it came to catches in heavy traffic and
Speaker 2: dangerous situations, the dive, the throw over the middle and
Speaker 2: the deep crosser, both of those situations were in heavy traffic,
Speaker 2: and as a receiver, you know you're about to get
Speaker 2: hit even if you catch the ball. Not saying I'm
Speaker 2: not saying he's backing down. He had, he had perfect position,
Speaker 2: he had an oppertity, but you know as soon as
Speaker 2: you grab that ball, you're getting lit up, and you
Speaker 2: know what, it is a little bit different.
Speaker 3: And on top of that, and again I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: go down every dog on the drop, okay or whatever.
Speaker 3: George Pickins forced a pass interference at that I think
Speaker 3: the second quarter or some running in my head, George
Speaker 3: Pickins makes that catch, even with the flag call, even
Speaker 3: with the passage one.
Speaker 1: In my head, that's a catch for George Piggins.
Speaker 3: He got his hand, he somehow some ways stacked the dB,
Speaker 3: got one hand on it, dropped it.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: I know that George is watching that film sometime today.
Speaker 3: It's like, I gotta make that catch.
Speaker 1: But when's the last time.
Speaker 5: When's the last time you had to make that catch.
Speaker 3: He had to make that physical of a catch, not
Speaker 3: in training camp, not in OTA's It hasn't happened. So
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not giving an excuse, but what I'm
Speaker 3: saying is be empathetic to the fact that they are
Speaker 3: doing a game to get recalibrate. Now, you wish that
Speaker 3: they wouldn't have to use a regular season game to
Speaker 3: get calibrated, but understand that as a human being, as
Speaker 3: a professional athlete, you have to get recalibrated to the
Speaker 3: reality and a physicality resport. This is why it's risk
Speaker 3: versus reward for guys in the preseason some teams play
Speaker 3: their guys, some teams don't.
Speaker 1: Why do some guys play their guys because they want.
Speaker 3: That Russ those plays to happen early so that now
Speaker 3: when the regular season starts, they're not worried about it. Counterpoint,
Speaker 3: Now that I've heard your entire explanation, as I don't
Speaker 3: disagree as much right now as I did before you
Speaker 3: exprep so credit to you. That being said, I think
Speaker 3: we're looking at the angle of rust differently my purview
Speaker 3: of rust. If I'm to agree with you that there
Speaker 3: was those drops were due to rust, I will agree
Speaker 3: that it was in the focused capacity. That much I'll
Speaker 3: give to you.
Speaker 4: But when I hear ceedee lamb affirm what I was
Speaker 4: thinking in my head, what I said out loud in
Speaker 4: the press box after the third drop, and then most
Speaker 4: certainly the fourth drop, but not necessarily the fourth drop.
Speaker 4: I really think that he was he refocused and tried
Speaker 4: to get that for it. That's why he laid out
Speaker 4: like that, and it just didn't happen for him. But
Speaker 4: after the third drop, I said out loud in the
Speaker 4: press box, I said something my grandma used to send
Speaker 4: my late grandma. I think he's smelling himself. I think
Speaker 4: he's smelling himself. It's an old Southern saying that basically
Speaker 4: says you're getting too big for your bridges. He had
Speaker 4: an outstanding training camp Ceedee Lamb did one of the.
Speaker 1: MVPs of training Best player on the field.
Speaker 4: Yep, he's torching these guys seventy six eighty yards. He's
Speaker 4: having his way with him. He single back motion out
Speaker 4: of the backfield on third down. You know, I mean
Speaker 4: like Shody has him cooking. He's cooking, Deck is cooking.
Speaker 4: Seedee Lamb is starting to feel unstoppable. He's starting to
Speaker 4: feel like, Okay, this might be a two thousand receiving
Speaker 4: yard season. And then the focus starts to wane. So
Speaker 4: I agree with you the focus Wayne, the question and
Speaker 4: the argument, and we'll put it to Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 1: Feel free to engage in the chat with it.
Speaker 4: Argument is, do you feel like the focus because we
Speaker 4: agree they were focus drops. Do you think it was
Speaker 4: due to rust or do you think it was due
Speaker 4: to CD Lamb being too confident that he didn't have
Speaker 4: to necessarily like look up example. One of the drops
Speaker 4: I think was the second drop. Yes, it's the second drop.
Speaker 4: It was going away from the press box. If you
Speaker 4: look at that play CD and it kind of goes
Speaker 4: to your point a little bit. He started to turn
Speaker 4: his head to assess what was coming. Okay, bring the
Speaker 4: ball in and then run. You know, that's football all ones.
Speaker 3: Last last time he had to worry about getting hit. Oh,
Speaker 3: that's why I'm That's why I said, fully disagree. So
Speaker 3: when I say the word rust I mean it's just
Speaker 3: a calibration. Maybe I should use the word calibration right
Speaker 3: wrong with that. He hasn't had to worry about that,
Speaker 3: that rusty.
Speaker 2: It was just just a timing element.
Speaker 1: And that's it's you don't you don't go off the
Speaker 1: way you're calibrating.
Speaker 3: It's it's calibrating, recalibrating, bro, Like I for dog on it.
Speaker 1: That's right, I'm about to get dog on a hit.
Speaker 3: Naturally for that point zero two seconds, my eyes went
Speaker 3: away from the ball because I'm like, oh, it's been
Speaker 3: a minute, so that it is a focus drop. But again,
Speaker 3: I have to get recalibrated, and I'm about to get
Speaker 3: dog on hit. And guess what, that's a part of
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 1: Dang it. I wish that didn't happen. And it's fun.
Speaker 3: The diving catch. Right, I died for the ball. I
Speaker 3: haven't done for the ball in freaking six months. Okay,
Speaker 3: last time I do for the ball, I tuck my elbows.
Speaker 3: This time my elbows were out. Dang it, all right,
Speaker 3: I said something that's easily correctable. I'll tuck my elbows
Speaker 3: next time, next time I get the cradle that that's
Speaker 3: a catch. I sure wish that didn't happen in the game, though,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, those are the things
Speaker 3: that I'm talking about in terms of like recalibrating himself.
Speaker 3: And that's why after the game, when you interview ceedde Lamb,
Speaker 3: he says, please believe I'm gonna come back stronger. Why
Speaker 3: because those are all things that are correctable. I already
Speaker 3: know how to correct those things. I just wish that
Speaker 3: they didn't happen in Again, you also know what he said.
Speaker 3: He said, God has a weird way of hem. He did,
Speaker 3: and that was the answer to the question of did
Speaker 3: he feel a little over confident then after the first
Speaker 3: half that he was having and then his answer was
Speaker 3: God has a strange way of humbling you. So that
Speaker 3: was him saying that maybe he did get over confident
Speaker 3: and he felt confident enough that he can do that,
Speaker 3: he can ditch the fundamentals at any get great.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 3: And now you're saying, here's the ball coming, it's from
Speaker 3: deck and let me get back.
Speaker 1: His hands are here, and you're like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: No, oh not so fast. My friends see the ball
Speaker 3: in and then make the place. And this applies to
Speaker 3: all across the bort I know we're talking about CD,
Speaker 3: but this was a calibration for a lot of guys.
Speaker 3: Jack Sanborn, Seaball, hit ball. There's too much hesitation, Fowler
Speaker 3: freaking keep your leverage, working on your passwords. I think
Speaker 3: I don't know if they were being told the two
Speaker 3: gaps in the first half and not really, we don't
Speaker 3: work on one one shoulder of the offensive tackles. But
Speaker 3: they were too gapping a lot. They worried it wasn't
Speaker 3: much pass rush going on. Uh, Malik hooker wrap up right,
Speaker 3: like there's there's We could point to a lot of different.
Speaker 1: The whole board.
Speaker 3: For guys that have not been playing in the preseason,
Speaker 3: this was their calibration and you just wish it didn't
Speaker 3: happen in the first game.
Speaker 1: But again, be encouraged, be encouraged.
Speaker 3: You just face arguably, and there's no reason to say
Speaker 3: anything different until these other teams start playing the best
Speaker 3: team in football. They're returning champions from last year. We
Speaker 3: returned seventeen starters and added players. Be encouraged. You wish
Speaker 3: you would have won the game. You had opportunities to
Speaker 3: win the game. There's things that you could point out
Speaker 3: in the film that you could say, had we made
Speaker 3: these plays, have we done these things better? We win
Speaker 3: the game? And guess what Philly's saying the same thing.
Speaker 3: Had we had Jalen Carter, we would have won.
Speaker 1: Buy more. Had we done these things, we would have won.
Speaker 1: Buy more.
Speaker 3: Like everybody's gonna do that. But be encouraged with you
Speaker 3: have now Cowboys Nation. You have an idea of what
Speaker 3: your team is. You have an idea of how impactful
Speaker 3: you are without Mike up Parsons. You have an idea
Speaker 3: of what your running game looks like. You have a
Speaker 3: deal about a lot of things. Now this is week one.
Speaker 3: That thought process is we can only get better from here.
Speaker 3: That's the thought process. Now we have to sit and weight.
Speaker 1: They are who we thought they were.
Speaker 2: If I've learned one thing in this segment, all the
Speaker 2: way through is that Isaiah is trying to talk about
Speaker 2: starters in his preseason broadcasts next year, and he's just
Speaker 2: trying to push Brian Schottenheimer to put the starters in
Speaker 2: so he and Bill Jones can talk about him against
Speaker 2: the Falcons next year in preseason Week two.
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Speaker 2: What happened with the container of Jalen Hurts early? And
Speaker 2: how can you take steps forward? Plus? Are the Cowboys
Speaker 2: good in coverage? Was the secondary good yesterday? When we
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Speaker 5: Go viral anything. You should have smashed a CD player.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, with my turtleneck with a big chain like Dwayne
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Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: Uh, we've talked offense, We've talked a little bit of
Speaker 2: the defense. I want to continue with the secondary question.
Speaker 4: Mark man Mark who put the question mark in the
Speaker 4: teleprocter that you know Kyle will read whatever.
Speaker 2: Whatever's on the telepropter. Uh. I liked the coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah you day yea, Yeah, turns pretty much. I thought
Speaker 3: a really nice job primarily all is one.
Speaker 2: They did a and I was on this show specifically,
Speaker 2: I've been very critical of the secondary and how without
Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs. Luckily he's even partially back in the fold.
Speaker 2: Without Trayvon Diggs, I don't know what the secondary is
Speaker 2: going to look like. And I said that all off
Speaker 2: season long. I feel much better about the secondary just
Speaker 2: seeing what they had out there. Was it perfect? No,
Speaker 2: but again, if you hold aj Brown to one reception
Speaker 2: for eight yards, and you hold Devonte Smith for three receptions.
Speaker 2: Even Dallas Goddard had seven catches, but he only went
Speaker 2: for forty four yards. They limited the passing game entirely
Speaker 2: in that even.
Speaker 4: Even the deep throw of the Dots and the big
Speaker 4: the chunk play, the biggest play of the game for
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles, that was good coverage.
Speaker 1: Elon was right there on his hip. That was just
Speaker 1: a damn yeah.
Speaker 4: That was just hurt seeing that the defender was on
Speaker 4: the outside hip and the safety had already shaved it,
Speaker 4: so he threw to the inside hip.
Speaker 3: And I still think the juries out I'm just being honest,
Speaker 3: that's for anything. No, no, no, I'm saying we did
Speaker 3: not truly have enough body of work in terms of coverage,
Speaker 3: man to man coverage, to really have an understanding of
Speaker 3: where you're at with your dB. And I think they
Speaker 3: were being protected by ibers in that regard.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: That's fine. There's nothing wrong with this as long as
Speaker 2: it's schemed.
Speaker 1: Up and they're and that's what it was. It was.
Speaker 1: I don't care if.
Speaker 2: It's a man's zone, guy by one High, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Guys play zones very well yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't know yet the ability of our DB's to
Speaker 3: play man to man for a majority of the game
Speaker 3: right now, I don't know. We don't have enough on
Speaker 3: film sure to state that. So that's why I said
Speaker 3: coverage wise, and and and scheme wise, it was great
Speaker 3: for whatever Philly was presenting, right Iberflus had those guys
Speaker 3: dialed up, whatever whatever else they were running, there was
Speaker 3: somebody in that zone making sure that they were taking
Speaker 3: it away. I don't know in terms of ability to
Speaker 3: cover yet. And I think with Deron Bland just coming
Speaker 3: back with Trayvon Diggs, you know, being on a kind
Speaker 3: of a pitch count, I don't think that Eberflus wanted
Speaker 3: to expose them, so that and also maybe Philadelphia's concepts
Speaker 3: didn't you know, we're better.
Speaker 1: Defended in his zone.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was right, but either way,
Speaker 1: they did a heck of a job with coverage.
Speaker 6: Their concepts didn't warrant man de man in the games
Speaker 6: the con it warranted a spy on the quarterback.
Speaker 5: That's kind of gonna be my gridge.
Speaker 1: You don't get, you don't get.
Speaker 5: Both totally understand totally understandable.
Speaker 6: But if you're not putting your most athletic linebacker out
Speaker 6: there the entire game, I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 6: Because Jack Sanmore did not have a great game, did
Speaker 6: not have a great one time getting.
Speaker 5: Stiff armed by.
Speaker 3: One time I saw foul out there, Lias. I don't
Speaker 3: remember what the route was. I think it was a
Speaker 3: running back. They tried to shave him up and he
Speaker 3: literally was like shadow boxing with this dude, Like the
Speaker 3: dude made a move lea foul made a move.
Speaker 1: His footwork was just like a mirror image with it.
Speaker 3: I would have liked to see him more, but again,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how he fit into the scheme that
Speaker 3: was executed yesterday. If you had to make a choice
Speaker 3: in terms of playing lea foul here to scheme him
Speaker 3: up to shadow. You know, Jalen Hurts versus have the
Speaker 3: coverage that you had last night.
Speaker 1: I'm taking what we saw like.
Speaker 4: In the coverage because what I would rather limited the
Speaker 4: big place, right, Because what I would rather do is
Speaker 4: I hate that Jalen Hurts was able to extend place.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to say that, but let me say it.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 4: However, if this is to pick your poison scenario, and
Speaker 4: it very much is to pick your poison scenario, would
Speaker 4: you rather have Jalen Hurts have the strong ground game
Speaker 4: that he had in the first half, or aj Brown
Speaker 4: and DeVante Smith combined for two hundred yards and three
Speaker 4: receiving touchdowns, like I would rather the latter or not
Speaker 4: be a thing. That being said, Also to Isaiah's point,
Speaker 4: something else to look at positively now that because they
Speaker 4: were forced into a zone coverage wisely so because of
Speaker 4: the concepts that are run by the Eagles, and you
Speaker 4: know their passing attack, you know that up against the
Speaker 4: best receivers in the league in zone this, this personnel
Speaker 4: can get the job done. Okay, that's with Treyvon Diggs
Speaker 4: only playing forty three percent of the snaps. Okay, so
Speaker 4: now when they're forced to go into a man coverage
Speaker 4: and Trayvon Diggs now is more time removed from playing
Speaker 4: in the rust being knocked off. Now you're looking at
Speaker 4: the three pack, You're looking at Elam and Diggs and
Speaker 4: Bland on the field at the same time.
Speaker 3: You didn't often see that last night. Trevon Diggs didn't
Speaker 3: even technically start the game last night. So as he
Speaker 3: gets that Russ knocked off. Now you know, can we
Speaker 3: go zone against a team that has two right, that
Speaker 3: has two arguably elite receivers. Yes, and you can do
Speaker 3: it with one of your guys. You're all pro record
Speaker 3: setting cornerback playing less than half the snaps, he's going
Speaker 3: to play more than this going festal So man zone.
Speaker 3: To Kyle's point with a question mark, the coverage was secondary.
Speaker 3: The secondary was good.
Speaker 6: And if you're going to do that, though, if you're
Speaker 6: going to have zone, you're going to need a cleanup
Speaker 6: crew on the second level, and I just don't think
Speaker 6: the linebackers were that. And we had talked about how
Speaker 6: well the linebackers were playing up until throughout the preseason,
Speaker 6: throughout camp, and then in Week one it just wasn't there.
Speaker 1: They were tasked with play zone. Right.
Speaker 3: Now, you have linebackers, you know, you got two A
Speaker 3: lot of times it was two linebackers, right, Samborne and
Speaker 3: Murray playing in space, and they're covering so much ground
Speaker 3: where they're responsible for. Aj Brown was running a lot
Speaker 3: of whip routes and hunting short underneath routes. Dotson was
Speaker 3: running across the middle of the field. So you had
Speaker 3: these guys that were literally covering receivers right because the
Speaker 3: zone defense demanded that they guard that area, right. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: there was elements that you wish were different, But again,
Speaker 3: you're in a situation where you had to say, hey,
Speaker 3: we either got to do this and limit limit, you know,
Speaker 3: the big plays, or we got to do this and
Speaker 3: we're subject to big plays with you know, with guys
Speaker 3: who necessarily haven't played a lot lately. They have a
Speaker 3: responsibility to make sure Trayvon was healthy coming out of Again,
Speaker 3: I had a responsibility to make sure that Deron Bland
Speaker 3: was able to do what he needed to do and
Speaker 3: build his confidence.
Speaker 1: So I understand, and I am perfectly fine.
Speaker 3: I am perfectly fine with the scheme that was brought
Speaker 3: to the game by Matt Eberfleece yesterday. You just would
Speaker 3: love to see them restricted the rushing lanes a little
Speaker 3: bit more. You'd like to see them get a little
Speaker 3: bit better pass rush. These are all things that are correctable,
Speaker 3: but in terms of what their responsibilities were defensively outside
Speaker 3: of that front d line, those guys did a heck
Speaker 3: of a job.
Speaker 6: Yes, one thing, one thing, and I want to do
Speaker 6: this probably for the last time.
Speaker 5: I want to bring it out. But this has brought
Speaker 5: up a lot yesterday. It's like Dallas really missed a
Speaker 5: guy like Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: It's true, it's true.
Speaker 5: It's no doubt, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And you didn't have a guy like them on over shown.
Speaker 5: You didn't have a guy like Kenny Clark out there.
Speaker 5: You did not have a guy huge impact. So if
Speaker 5: you would have had Michael Parsons, you wouldn't MASI would
Speaker 5: have had more yards, had a lot more yards. You
Speaker 5: have had a way bigger issue in the running game.
Speaker 1: So he got redirected a lot.
Speaker 6: People are forgetting that fact is that the run defense
Speaker 6: would not have been and they weren't terrific yesterday. Granted
Speaker 6: they did hold U s Bark to fifty yards, you
Speaker 6: did not have Kenny Clark before Michael Parks.
Speaker 4: I will honestly say Parson pars with the game. They
Speaker 4: were not terrific in the first half. They were pretty
Speaker 4: freaking terrific in the second.
Speaker 5: They cleaned it up. Yew adjustments.
Speaker 4: Like we said, i'mna lobby right back to k Why
Speaker 4: you could have had if the defensive front would have
Speaker 4: been able to maintain or keep contained on Jalen Hurts
Speaker 4: and shore up that the rushing lanes, you could have
Speaker 4: had three or four covered sects.
Speaker 1: Last night.
Speaker 4: They almost got home on him, yeah twice, in particular
Speaker 4: Trayvon Diggs. He had just missed on it and they
Speaker 4: couldn't clean up on the back end.
Speaker 1: First touchdown was coverage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he only reason why he was able to get
Speaker 3: out of the pocket because the fowler went inside. Everybody else
Speaker 3: was covered up in like that. One guy went outside
Speaker 3: of the scheme and they allowed for Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4: If your coverage plays, if your secondary plays, this will
Speaker 4: see fifteen out of seventeen regular season games. Keep in mind,
Speaker 4: you're not going to go against every week or every
Speaker 4: other week a quarterback with the mobility and the talent
Speaker 4: that Jalen Hurts has. Sure, Okay, you will pay off, right,
Speaker 4: So if you get there first playoffs, I'm getting first.
Speaker 1: That's why I said fifteen or seventeen. I ain't in January.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you, if your secondary, your coverage can play
Speaker 4: like this for the majority of the season, you will
Speaker 4: win a lot more games than you will lose because
Speaker 4: your defensive line will get home a lot more times
Speaker 4: than they don't get home. Because a lot of these
Speaker 4: quarterbacks they have some mobility, but they don't have Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts's type of mobility. They don't have the what's my
Speaker 4: guy Josh Allen. They don't have his mobility. They don't
Speaker 4: have the Lamar Jackson's mobility. You're going to have just
Speaker 4: traditional pocket passers who will see a Sam Williams clapsing
Speaker 4: down and they'll see, you know, mayor Sleafile being sent
Speaker 4: after you. They'll see Dante Fowler come in and they'll
Speaker 4: blink and once they blink, they're down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: There were times where Micah Parsons would have made an
Speaker 2: impact in this game one way or the other They
Speaker 2: missed him at times, but I also think we've now
Speaker 2: seen that Dallas will survive without him in the full defense.
Speaker 5: Kenny Clark played.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of things that went well for Dallas,
Speaker 2: and that was his first game. He's only been here
Speaker 2: a week and he played to that standard. Like I
Speaker 2: said last week, he gets off the plane as your
Speaker 2: best interior defensive lineman maybe not named Dosa di Zua
Speaker 2: because he was Oh, Sally is Sally Soloman was great.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of of positives to talk about it.
Speaker 2: So however, we've got to move on to next week,
Speaker 2: the Giants on Sunday. A little bit of a long
Speaker 2: week here. Cowboys fall twenty four to twenty will have
Speaker 2: to stew on it for a little bit. Have a
Speaker 2: great weekend, everybody. Everybody stays safe from sleep. Get some sleep.
Speaker 2: Patrick especially, please go to sleep. Beam whenever you get back,
Speaker 2: go to sleep. I know you've got kids to worry about.
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