WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Breaking the Norse Code 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.000 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:30.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is He's 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:35.120 Talking Cowboys, screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World hours 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:46.640 at the Star in Frischool and now your hosts Isaiah 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:53.760 stand Back, Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeomans. It is a 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:58.040 terrific Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.360 Coffee Company from the Star in Frisco in the SWBC 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:07.000 studios alongside Patrick No C. Walker. We've got Isaiah stand 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.960 Back look fresh as always and the nice little button up. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.720 But you've got an extra button unbuttoned that I do 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.839 you know what, Kyle, I gotta let it breathe. Man. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.000 We got a feeling for the next few hours. Yeah. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.440 You gotta let the ink breth. You got, you got 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.120 the breath. The truth is it doesn't button. Yeah. I 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.600 think Nick never actually has a button. It's popped off 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.760 long ago whenever he had this shirt on. Uh. We've 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.320 got Chris Beam in the back as always. Kyle Yeoman's 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.080 glad to be with you. Uh, gentlemen, how are we 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.880 doing doing? Will my friend swell swell? Yeah? Little chili 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.000 this morning? Who wasn't it. Yeah, it was nice, nice 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.280 and nippy. It was good. Nothing compared to what we 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.720 were about to flun into. Thankfully US Bank Stadium is 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.160 a dome. But yeah, Minnesota. On the wake up on 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.240 both side, well, we won't be the team won't be 0:01:55.240 --> 0:02:00.680 flying in. We won't landing until fob ish Saturday time Saturday, 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.960 so it won't be as bad. Um. But Sunday morning 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.840 on the wake up, five degrees fairn win chill, well 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:12.480 belows the roll walking into the state. It'll risk. That'll 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.840 be nice. But you remember when they had to when 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.040 they had to play at the college Minnesota. Oh yeah, listen, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.200 my blood is too southern. It's just my core plus 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.760 will start icing over. It's the coldest temperature that you've 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.519 been exposed to for a long duration of time. UM, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.440 Upstate New York January a few years ago, win chill 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:39.280 was minus twenty nine degrees Oh mine, Wow, seriously like it? 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.919 That kind of cold actually confuses your body, Like it 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.600 goes past being frigid as far as you're feeling it, it 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.680 it starts to burn. Yeah, Like the sensation feels like 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.560 you're burning your skins on fire, because right your nerves 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.519 are starting to get damaged. So, yeah, that was the cold. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.959 It's minus twenty nine degree win chill. What was yours? 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.320 Minus four? Team? Okay, and we're practicing in New England. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.359 there's zero degrees. It was actual temperature you were out 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:11.200 there thirty and that gust gust like a knife right through, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:16.080 right through whatever everything. And in a stadium. We're practicing 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:17.760 in the stadium, mean not in the practice city. That 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.519 wind swirls stock there to sucked straight to the bowl. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.760 Trying to think if I'm even close to any of that, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.720 I want to say I was in negative seven one 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:32.239 point sk yeah, yeah, but I don't want tons of layers. See, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.359 And that's the thing. I don't really go up north 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.880 in the winter very often. If I'm going up north, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.080 it's usually in the summer for either baseball at one 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.480 point or stuff like that. So it's a little bit 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.120 different whenever you're going up north in the winter because 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.040 then you're going up to guy in places like Buffalo. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.720 Buffalo expected six feet of snow, not inches. Six feet 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.960 of snow for their game against Cleveland. Yeah, no, thank you, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.200 thank you for US Bank Stadium to being a dome. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.920 For my friend Patrick you see and the Dallas Cowboys. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.160 Speaking of news and notes, Time had an injury report yesterday, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.120 one with a couple good news and a little bit 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:14.080 of bad news. Yeah, well bad news is subjective to 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.760 what happens today. We'll see context. So but that that 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.200 report was kind of bad news. Yeah, it was a 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:25.599 walk through. Yeah, okay, so explain all right? So wwrd 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.600 what would Rob do? We know you're watching Rob. So, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.279 first of all, promising both Ezekiel Elliott, which you know 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.240 he didn't suffer a setback last week anyway, so he 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.760 was a limited participant on Wednesday, as was Anthony Brown, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.839 who remains in concussion protocol. But the fact that Anthony 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.719 Brown was a participant at all means there is progress 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.520 being made as far as some of those initial hurdles 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.839 in the protocol being cleared. So that is promising. The 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.039 bad news that Kyle is referring to is that DeMarcus 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.000 Lawrence cropped up on the injury report with a foot injury. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.200 He was DNP, which is did not participate on a Wednesday. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.160 I circle that as something to watch, but I wouldn't 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.479 be concerned about it just yet because I personally want 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.839 to see Thursday's practice report, and there's actual actual practice, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.560 not just to walk through, which basically means they told 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.520 him to sit down and don't come out yesterday and 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.880 you know, just brush the foot. So today will be key, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.560 Tomorrow will be critical, and then of course Saturday. So 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.279 something to watch there not necessarily bad news just yet, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.440 but something to watch that's definitely bad news. Now he 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.120 has a history, Yeah, but he's been still playing out 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.040 of his mind, get it. But he wasn't putting him 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.720 on injury report. It wasn't. It's not the first time 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.320 he's been on the injury report with his foot this year. Yes, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.240 when you don't recall that he what game was that 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.040 that he suffered a foot injury or it ended up 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.600 being he said it was foot or tightness in his foot. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.080 He left for a few plays and he returned. Help 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.320 me out Twitter if Yeah, I don't remember that specific happened. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.640 I remember him leaving a game and then coming back, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.039 but I don't remember him ever actually being on the 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.640 injury or I believe you're about the week report in 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.040 the game that followed that I can look through. I've 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.479 got my email, I can go through it. So something 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.240 to watch they're flipping to the Vikings side of the 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.239 injury report. Christian Derris saw some bad news for them. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.560 If we're going to go that route. They're starting left tackle, 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.920 remains in the concussion protocol and unlike Anthony Brown who 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.599 is limited in their walk through for the Cowboys, Derrissaw 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.680 was a DNP. He did not even participate in the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.680 walk through yesterday, so doesn't look like looking like as 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:39.320 of yesterday, he's making any progress. That's key obviously, starting 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.480 left tackle, trying to protect Kirk Cousins, trying to open 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:47.320 up lanes for Dalvin Cook and Madison m Dalvin Tomlinson, 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.039 big body knows tackle. Cowboys know him well from his 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.080 time with the Giants. He was DNP with a calf injury. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:59.000 Something to watch there as well. And Justin Jefferson popped 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.120 up on the Vikings injury report for the toe issue. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.640 Justin Jefferson, he was limited yesterday in the walk through, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.760 but he is battling a toe issue. Big tour, pinky toe. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.560 Good question, good question. I don't know if we're gonna 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.560 go full Hall of Nights. I don't know if it 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.560 was I don't know if they know. It makes a 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.520 different we gotta we gotta know it doesn't make it's 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.760 investigative journalism that we can find out over the course 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.840 of today. If it's big toe, pinky toe, or one 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.400 of the three chest in one of the three medals, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.560 which one would you tall? Is it big is? Yeah? Yeah, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.480 because especially for a receiver running routes, breaks and things 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.280 like that. So yeah, Justin Jefferson something to watch nursing 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.960 a toe issue. So that's, uh, that's going to be 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.360 the big the big uns as far as the news 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.320 and notes. Toe injury has Michael Thomas sideline for the 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.800 rest of the year. It does, so, I mean for 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.000 a wide receiver, receivers and you don't want toe issues. Yeah, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.680 for a defensive lineman, a foot is significant too, to 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.040 keep in mind. So I'm just they're probably saying the 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.040 exact same thing we are qualified as. Let me see 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.960 today's report for both for both, Okay, for both. Okay, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.240 I was about to say, because they're saying the same thing. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.320 They're like, oh my gosh, de Marcus Lawrence isn't gonna play. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.040 We're gonna run all over this team. Keep that energy 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.280 over here. For both Justin Jefferson and for the Marcus Lawrence. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.160 Let's see today's injury report when practices actually occur in 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.160 both cities. Let's see what their status is at the 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.960 end of the day. Hashtag keep that, en keep that. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.360 Lets see if the Cowboys can keep that energy that 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:38.080 they had in the first three quarters against the Packers 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.240 and take that to all four quarters against this Vikings defense. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.120 I mean, there were times where that offense finally got 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.280 back off the ground. Giants game, Giants games, when he 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.240 was on the Big Dame. Just for playing on Twitter, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.199 Giants game, appreciate your big Dame. But there were times 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.719 where this offense looked like it was working again. There 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:00.880 were times and then and then it came to Nate 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:08.240 Newton is just simply to get on Isaiah's camera. Here. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.520 Look at there he is. Look at that, He's just watching. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.800 He's just watching. Look at trying he trying out today. Yeah, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.800 he's gonna take this fourth chair. Nate Newton about to 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.760 join us here. I'm talking Cowboys man to let him in. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:27.559 But previewing the Cowboys offense versus the Minnesota defense, there 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.400 were times where this looked like it was working. Nate 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.840 Newton in week number ten against the Minnesota Vikings. How 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.840 can they keep that consistency going the Cowboys offense, how 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:50.600 can they keep that consistency through all through? Why? Hey, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.040 I think up until this point, coach Cole Moore has 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.640 been doing a nice a nice job. And yesterday the 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.360 last game that we played, I didn't like that up 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.680 tempo and second half because I think we needed to 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.360 rest our defense. But he's been calling good games. And 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.839 if Zeke can get back this week and maybe give 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.400 him one or two more runs and continue to let 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.640 Tony Potla duty has to do. And I think we 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.360 need involved by tight ends a little bit more. I 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.960 think we should be okay going up in there trying 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.760 to control the time of possession. You agree there, Kyle, 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:29.040 I do agree. I think overall, Kellen's done a good job, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.960 but it's not a great job yet. He's still learning, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:37.160 he's still getting better. Isaiah, do you disagree? I can 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.080 bear everything too what I've seen him capable of, and 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.640 that's that's yeah, that's I mean, so once I know 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.280 what you're capable of, I know you can run a 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.880 four two four four is not not getting it done. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.160 It's not trash, it's not trash exactly. That's and that's 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.280 what we're saying, right, it's not trash, need improve, but 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.240 we know what you're capable of. I just wanted and 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.000 there's no limit on it, right like like like like 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.000 master p. So I'm trying to under understand what I 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:06.480 think once he overcomes his internal shackles that he has 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.920 on himself, he will be much better and this office 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.720 will be much more efficient because they're not struggling in 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.559 certain areas, but they're trying to force it in the 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.280 other area in other regions. So to Nate's point, how 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.319 do you control the clock? You control the clock. But 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.320 by being efficient. Now, I'm gonna go off off the 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.079 rails a little bit here and by saying, uh, this 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.880 this is about our wide receivers and our quarterback and 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:39.040 our tight ends. If these guys our own par yeah, 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.920 we we win this game, Fellas and and and that 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.760 is being more efficient not only falls on coach more 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.600 it falls on the individual players. And it takes me 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.079 back to what I've been saying and preaching all week, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.520 and I'm gonna continue to preach this until I see it. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.520 Do your job, you know, Uh, Coach Kelly can put 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.600 together game plans all day and try to get people 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.920 in position, and maybe he needs to do a better 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.160 job of saying, hey, tight end, you can't get caught up, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.040 whether it's in the end zone or whether it's a 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.400 neck a boot, because I've heard our quarterbacks said that, well, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.440 our guy got caught up. You can't get caught up. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.880 This is a necessary thing for us to develop our offense. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.080 So we can put more and more in and we 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.120 can be just we can tweak every week and gets 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.800 people a different look. Just about tweaking this. So the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.960 efficiency not only falls on coach more, it falls on 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.320 the quarterback, and it falls on the wide receivers. You 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:42.079 know running backs. They're doing their job even in third 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.640 down situations. Polit becomes better. Zeke is who he is, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.840 a little Malique Turner running like he's a young Zeke 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:53.840 with power and with skills. So this falls on three people. Yeah, 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:59.839 offensive line, do your job. Wide receivers, tight ends do 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.160 your job. And that allows the other two guys, Coach Kellerman, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.360 and they're efficient. They're really not as an offense, they're 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:13.599 not far from being. I don't want to use the 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.600 word prolific because prolific would be like what they were 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.040 in twenty twenty one, but they're not far from being 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.920 a threat on a weekly basis, because if you look 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.880 at what happened in Green Bay, it was lack of execution, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.120 and under that umbrella of lack of execution goes miscommunication 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.559 ques between QB and wide receiver. If you take those 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.440 two miscommunications away, you just deleted two interceptions and then 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.160 you delete fourteen points for Aaron Rodgers because he got 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.640 two touchdowns off of those two interceptions, and the Cowboys 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:44.040 win the game. So to Nate's point, Kellen until all 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.160 of our point, because we're all correctness aspect, Kellen needs 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:52.600 to improve in the aspect of understanding situationally when to 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.160 go into the hurry up versus when to slow the 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.320 game down and start pounding in you know the defense. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.439 I love when he starts out the game in the 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.320 hurry up because if everything's being executed, it tends to 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.880 put it tends to put the opposing defense on their heels. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.880 They're not ready for that. That's helping the Cowboys get 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.560 off the fast starts. Same for the third quarter. There's 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.760 a reason the Cowboys have been really, really good in 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.199 the third quarter. But if you look at a game 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.880 like the Packers, and they're red hot in the third quarter, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.040 as they typically are, but then they start coughing up 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.160 you know, points here and they're seventeen unanswered. You go 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:26.480 back and look at the film and you say, well, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.320 why what happened? It's because you were moving too fast. Yes, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.480 And going back to what I said yesterday, I don't 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.680 think that they missed Ezekiel Elliott so much so that 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.120 they couldn't have won the game against the Packers. But 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.360 once the game started to get away from them, that's 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.960 when they started to miss Ezekiel Elliott. Do you think 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.960 Zeke makes that much of a difference this week compared 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.440 to last week. I do, because of his running style. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.920 I do. If you're going to control time of possession, 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.880 that's the man. Zeke is the guy to do that, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.720 right may All, it's not so much that we need Zeke. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.040 It's just execution and what you're doing. And because I 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.840 thought the Malite Davis guy did what he had to do, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.040 it's just that we had to slow down. We had 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.080 to slow down the cards. One thing that has happened 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.640 is that and I say this, all of us up 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.280 until last week. Maybe not Zeke. I mean maybe not zoos, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.360 maybe not zoos, but all of us bought into the 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.480 Sack Party. To a man, to a woman, to a podcast, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.880 we all, wow, okay, they rushed with two unt of yards, 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:36.360 but we won. We bought into it. But now it 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.600 ain't happening no more. I think zeus spot into it too. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.400 You picked the Cowboys to win thirty one thirteen or 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.360 whatever it was, those two different conversations. We're talking about 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.520 the sack Party. Yeah, you're mbering about the Sack Party 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.520 as we're talking about That's what they said. Yeah, yes, sir, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.360 I understand, But when when did he know against the 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.360 Sack Party, I wouldn't. I made a point of emphasis 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.360 because you remember, against the Bears, You're like, oh, they 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.560 can have the two hundred pleasures. I'm like, yeah, yeah, 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.400 but but he gains nobody, like nobody. You can't allow 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.640 that versus nobody, because if you if you allow that, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.760 then you've already shown where your weakness is. Now. They 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.360 might be the Bears might be prolific and running the ball, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.520 and that might be what they do best, but they're 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.080 still attacking a weakness that you have. They're not just 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.920 simply overpowering your personnel. They're simply exposing you, and they 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.520 have better personnel for that particular type of the scheme. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.280 Once you show that on film, every team, every team 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.840 will expose that what happened to next week exposed what's 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.240 gonna happen this week. We're gonna see, We're gonna see it. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.200 Because if you load the box up, what's gonna happen, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.680 they're coming up and the thing outside. Yeah, justin Jefferson, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.800 you've got the dealings. So like that's that's when they're 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.880 talking about, Like, yeah, sad party is awesome. When you 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.320 force the team to have to pass, but you have 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.520 to get the team either out of their game plan 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.160 by getting up early, or you have to be so 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.880 prominent in your run defense that they now have to 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.520 pass the bar and now you can go do what 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.880 you do best. So here's the thing, And I'll say this, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.440 I said a hundred times, I'll say it again. I 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.760 don't care what happened in the Bears game because of 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.440 how the Bears game flowed. Care And I'm not trying 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.560 to take that away from you, Mike. I'm saying the 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.720 reason I don't care about that, it's simply because the 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.760 game was so dominated by the Cowboys that they said, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.720 we know that you want to go over the top 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.280 to get back in the game. So what we're gonna 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.600 do is protect that you can have all that you 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.520 can run into your hearts as I are not hold on, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.920 hold on. But then you flip it to Green Bay. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.920 That's a different story because remember what I said after 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.880 the Bears game. If the game was close against Chicago 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.440 and they run up two hundred plus yards, then it's 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.560 a problem because that you needed to stop that from 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.080 happening because the game was in the balance. The game 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.640 in Green Bay was you sold out to stop the run. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.600 You didn't set out to stop the run against Chicago 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.119 because you had the game one in hand and you 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.240 were letting, you know, the clock work against them and 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.000 they were just not smart enough to try to pass. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.359 The only problem we have here is one coach was 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.399 protecting this young quarterback and the other coach was just 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.919 putting this quarterback in position to win the game. And 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.639 this has always been the Achilles hial for the last 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.680 five to six years. What does the Cowboys do when 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:18.480 you have a running game with a good, solid quarterback 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.240 that can control tempo and we have lost every game 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:32.200 we have lost this year comes down to that. I speak, yes, yes, yes, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.800 you play nine games a year, correct, nine games a year? 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.360 How many games were not? One hundred yard games? Run 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.879 defensively run defense? Uh? Two? Two? Yeah, let me go 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.640 down the line. One hundred and fifty two yards, one 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.480 hundred and sixty seven yards, one hundred forty two yards, 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.320 one hundred and thirty six yards, one hundred seventeen yards 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.640 two forty two o seven. You don't see your problem here? 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:58.720 Who said they didn't see a problems? I'm saying to 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.560 say that you don't. It doesn't bother you. Like no 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.560 defensive coordinator's gonna say, hey, keep running the ball. Ultimately, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.879 your your goal is to win the ultimate contextually get it, 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.720 I get it, I get it. But contextually you've given 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:18.920 up my point. My point is exclusive to the Chicago 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.320 Bears game, and I'm saying it's not exclusive though, because 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.359 that was two forty against them. That's two or seven 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.199 in the following game. Prior to that, you gave up 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.479 one seventeen, one thirty six. So what I'm saying, if 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.520 I if I let you have, what's if I put 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.119 on my front yard something debate you to keep you 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.000 from trying to get what's in the backyard, and you 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.320 take that bait, that's all willing good. But if I 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.640 go on the front yard with my shotgun to keep 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.479 you from taking something on my front yard and you 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.080 take it anyway, I get it that surprised. How many 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.040 times have they done that this year? Have they put 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.639 it out there and say, I got a shotgun with you? 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.320 I got a shotgun. The only Game two game, the 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.000 only game that they weren't on the frontyard, on the 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.000 front line with the shotgun. What Chicago. Which is why 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.400 I'm saying I don't care because of how that game flowed. 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.960 I obviously care about what happened with Green. I obviously 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.359 care about what they allowed the Philadelphia Eagles to do 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.359 in the run game. Obviously I'm saying, don't take my 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.880 grain of rice that I'm describing and turn it into 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.080 a home to say. I'm just saying that this defense 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.360 has made valiant efforts to stop the run up every 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.800 team that they played. Some teams are gonna be more 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.200 of emphasis than others because of what those teams present, 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.520 But every team, aside from the Rams, who have no 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.360 running game, zero running game. So we could just eliminate 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.760 that one. Okay, the Cincinnati Bengals, they run the ball 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.640 pretty well, but they like to throw the ball. Okay, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.000 those are the only two teams that you had any 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.080 form of success stopping the run, and you jumped up 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:41.760 seventeen to three against Cincinnati and they didn't really Going 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.000 to what Nate said, which also goes to what Mike said, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.399 which was past rush is a privilege. And when I 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.879 spoke with Neville Gallimore yesterday, I love what he said 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.320 and that he said, coach, hit it on the head. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.200 You have to earn the You have to earn third 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.040 down by winning on first and second down. If you 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.280 can't win on first and second down and force you know, 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.600 third and minus third and long, then your pass rushers 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.119 are not going to be able to pin their ears 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.080 back and go and get guys because you guess what 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.280 you're gonna have to be and run defense again. But 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.159 now third and mid, third and short, the other team 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.560 has options. They could run the ball, or they could 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.440 do a quick slant. And now you're going up against 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.920 a Minnesota team that loves West Coast and your quick 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.720 ends and your quick out. So this is a game 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.199 going into Minnesota where the Cowboys absolutely have to. It 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.080 goes without saying they have to stop the run, but 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.800 in doing so, it will then free up the pass 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.879 rush because you're gonna put them in third and longs. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.560 And now this is against Kirk Cousins, who will throw 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.920 interceptions and make mistakes. So yeah, Cowboys have an issue 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.080 on run defense. All I'm saying is, after that, out 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.720 of that holy equation, take the Bears out and drop 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.840 them in the trash, and everything else is true. That's 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.439 all I'm saying, ding ding Ding Round one has come 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:54.159 to an end. I really enjoyed that. However, this is 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.080 a preview for the Cowboys offense versus the Minnesota defense, 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.320 and we haven't talked a single look of that side 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:04.920 of like the first twelve seconds he was blessing us 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.320