Speaker 1: I got to worry about. Yeah, and that's not what happened.
Speaker 1: He sat next to mister Lurie on the plane on
Speaker 1: the right home, they both sitting in first class, and
Speaker 1: talked about the game and what happened with him. And
Speaker 1: then I've talked to de Marco since then. Did he
Speaker 1: talk to you? You know, if he was sitting next
Speaker 1: to mister Lurie on the plane, that's where I don't
Speaker 1: he didn't go and request a meeting with the owner.
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from or home it was.
Speaker 1: But all of our players sit in first class, you
Speaker 1: know when we traveled, and mister when mister Lourie travels
Speaker 1: is he sits in first class. So they were sitting
Speaker 1: next to each other. So it went to ESPN and Edward.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that occurred? And what was the
Speaker 1: desired result? Why do I think stories go to the media?
Speaker 1: I don't know that got you know, and and I
Speaker 1: really gotten the owner to complaint about his role. That's
Speaker 1: a great question. I don't have an answer for that.
Speaker 1: That he I've had a meeting with DeMarco. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he's he's frustrated because he didn't get the ball out.
Speaker 1: On on Sunday, which most running backs are frustrated from
Speaker 1: that aspect, but he's not frustrated that we beat the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots and we had a big win in
Speaker 1: New England. So, um, I think everybody's at way. Every
Speaker 1: receiver wants the ball, every running back once at ball,
Speaker 1: every quarterback would like to throw every single time we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity. But um, the one thing I know
Speaker 1: about DeMarco, he's about winning. So this week here those
Speaker 1: frustrations with you. Are you disappointed that he went to Yoder.
Speaker 1: He did not go to the owner. He sat next
Speaker 1: to the owner on the plane we sit. All players
Speaker 1: always sit in first class, and when mister Lorry travels
Speaker 1: with us, he sits there next to him. They sat
Speaker 1: next to each other on the plane. So he didn't
Speaker 1: specifically go to mister Lorry and say I need to
Speaker 1: request a meeting. And disappointment, however, came out to the
Speaker 1: owner before he did to you. He expressed disappointment to
Speaker 1: me that he before that and he wasn't happy with
Speaker 1: his amount of carries, and rightly so, I think everybody
Speaker 1: wants to carry the ball in every game, So that's
Speaker 1: not a I mean going forward. No, we we we
Speaker 1: said the same thing. He knew going into the game
Speaker 1: that we were going to play and we we had
Speaker 1: a plan. We knew exactly what we were gonna do.
Speaker 1: We were gonna have Darren and uh and ken Ye,
Speaker 1: We're gonna play more, and he knew that going into
Speaker 1: the game. So it's it's you know, I think Deuce
Speaker 1: does a great job with those guys. Every one of
Speaker 1: our position coaches explains our rotation in terms of where
Speaker 1: we are based at the end of the week, when
Speaker 1: we understand who's healthy, who's who's going to be part
Speaker 1: of the forty six if the game goes the way
Speaker 1: it goes. The game didn't go the way from an
Speaker 1: offensive standpoint, the way we wanted to go. It was
Speaker 1: an outstanding third quarter, but we didn't have any really
Speaker 1: snaps in the third quarter, so we were it was
Speaker 1: a different game from that aspect. We had an interception
Speaker 1: return for a touchdown, so our defense goes back out
Speaker 1: on the field. We had a part return for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: so our defense goes back out on the field. So
Speaker 1: there was a limited number of reps. We were in
Speaker 1: the fifty snaps on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: So I knew it was frustrated. Yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to him after the game. I mean, when you win,
Speaker 1: when you win a big game like that, we want
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody's on the same page. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to him. Yeah, I saw him out.
Speaker 1: What comes out in the meetor I don't really care about,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, So and it's not the
Speaker 1: way it was. He didn't request a meeting with the
Speaker 1: owner and sit down and talk with the owner, and
Speaker 1: I just I don't care. We got ten minutes, we
Speaker 1: can talk about whatever you want to watch. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be out the practice field when we start stretched. So
Speaker 1: when you signed, yeah, he yes? Is he the person
Speaker 1: you expected when you signed? Yeah? I think we've had
Speaker 1: We've had uh different moving parts. Jason Peters has been
Speaker 1: out for part of three games and missed it and
Speaker 1: missed a game, you know what I mean, or came
Speaker 1: back and you know, there's a We've had some moving
Speaker 1: parts at UH. Gardner started the year force he was out.
Speaker 1: We've had some there. Sam's missed some games. We haven't
Speaker 1: had everybody on the offensive side of the ball in there.
Speaker 1: We've had some drops at the receiver spot. Um, I
Speaker 1: think everybody's contributed. We're not exactly what where we want
Speaker 1: to be offensively from many aspect. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: running the ball. And I finish my answer before you
Speaker 1: ask me the next question. Or do we could just
Speaker 1: let you take the podium if you'd like. There we go,
Speaker 1: great question. I don't think I think anybody offensively, we're
Speaker 1: not where we've been offensively. I'm frustrated, all right, But
Speaker 1: when you look at that game, it was a unique
Speaker 1: football game. You score fourteen points in the third quarter
Speaker 1: with an interception return on a put return. But we're
Speaker 1: not having success on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But so be it. I'm pretty jacked up about that
Speaker 1: because we just scored fourteen points against the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots in New England after being down fourteen. So sometimes
Speaker 1: that a game expresses itself in a lot of different manners. Offense,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Matthews is still averaging take us yards
Speaker 1: per carry, Darren's had successives in their environers in there,
Speaker 1: why did that affected them? Well? There, it's all by game,
Speaker 1: so you kind of look at it where we had
Speaker 1: success as a group in the Jets game. Um, the
Speaker 1: ball didn't play in the Jets game, But there has
Speaker 1: been times when Demarcos played really well for us. So
Speaker 1: it's the same thing, the same message I've told our team.
Speaker 1: There's been times where we haven't played very well this year.
Speaker 1: There's also times where we played really well this year,
Speaker 1: and that's why I always believe we have a good
Speaker 1: football team. When we all play well, we're a pretty
Speaker 1: good operations. So I've got confidence in all those guys.
Speaker 1: You'll see all those backs again this week. They're all
Speaker 1: gonna if if Ryan makes it through the week and
Speaker 1: can play, then he marriage playing time. Darren Merrit's playing time.
Speaker 1: Can y'all marriage playing time? They all merritor playing time?
Speaker 1: When you signed, then why give that contract to a
Speaker 1: players playing fourteen snaps a game? He played fourteen snaps
Speaker 1: in this last game, because again we had fifty snaps overall,
Speaker 1: we didn't have the third quarter that we normally have
Speaker 1: when we go in every other game we've had, he's
Speaker 1: been the leading ball carrier. So we're gonna make game
Speaker 1: plans this week that's going to help us win the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills game. And that's not much else I can
Speaker 1: say about that. I believe with a player that has
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty or more carries in this season,
Speaker 1: he is last in average yards were run. Why is
Speaker 1: that the case? Because we haven't been successful overall offensively
Speaker 1: the way we'd like to be should kind of run
Speaker 1: place that DeMarco had success within Dallas and have any
Speaker 1: been implementing here. They were a stretch, they ran some
Speaker 1: counter counter sweep, which we run some of that. Um
Speaker 1: I know he had forty two carries from the gun
Speaker 1: for two hundred and six yards or for a four
Speaker 1: point eight yard average, so he's he had success running
Speaker 1: out of the ghan, he had success running from under.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were they were a good football team,
Speaker 1: lusher and they were They did a really nice job
Speaker 1: in terms of what they were doing offensively. But it's
Speaker 1: a different dynamic. You got a double we got a
Speaker 1: wide receiver outside that's gonna get doubled done every play
Speaker 1: because he may be the best receiver in the game.
Speaker 1: And Dez Bryant, you got a Hall of Fame tight end.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a it's a different dynamic in terms
Speaker 1: of how people defended Dallas in terms of how people
Speaker 1: defend us. So that's just to compare what he was
Speaker 1: like in this to where he is now. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's you've got so many different moving parts. I don't
Speaker 1: it's it's not a I don't think the comparison fits
Speaker 1: in any aspect of the amount of under center as
Speaker 1: opposed to in the shock. And I think the stat
Speaker 1: was that he ran from ninety one percent just when
Speaker 1: the quarterback was under center as seventeen percent now and
Speaker 1: he seems you look comfortable with the quarterback under center. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but in college he ran from the gun every single snap.
Speaker 1: So how many snaps did he have there? And he
Speaker 1: knew coming in, just like we knew coming in what
Speaker 1: we were gonna do. We never had any discussion that
Speaker 1: we were gonna change our system, you know, the only
Speaker 1: discussions we had. This is why I like De marco Is.
Speaker 1: We all talked about winning when he came here on
Speaker 1: his visit, and Ryan Matthews was here on his visit,
Speaker 1: when when De Marcoka, they both knew exactly what we
Speaker 1: were trying to get accomplished here, so exactly it will help,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that the one thing he may
Speaker 1: be the most explosive one we have there. You know,
Speaker 1: when you watch the run against the U you know,
Speaker 1: with the growing the run against the Carolina where he
Speaker 1: hits the home run from from sixty, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think, um, he's got that kind of extra gear.
Speaker 1: I think then all all of those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that that helps. But we also know, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't saddle him up and go with him because
Speaker 1: he's been out for an extended period of time and
Speaker 1: we're we're using him back into kind of where he is.
Speaker 1: But anytime you can get a player of Ryan back,
Speaker 1: I think it should help us on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. We just had it. We were trying
Speaker 1: to get another guy in here. We're an outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: We decided we really liked means. We had him in
Speaker 1: here for a workout. Um, we were afraid Houston was
Speaker 1: going to put him up, uh, and then we wouldn't
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to get him. It's kind of that
Speaker 1: time of year where people are kind of looking at
Speaker 1: practice squad players and which guys actually go up, which
Speaker 1: guys come down. It was about this time last year
Speaker 1: we ended up getting Joe Coupling from Detroit kind of
Speaker 1: in a similar situation. Um, he's a guy we kind
Speaker 1: of coveted, and then we had to have a roster's platform,
Speaker 1: so we were over at receiver. We had seven receivers
Speaker 1: on the fifty three and we usually carry six on
Speaker 1: the fifty three. Sought Tyrod Taylor the way he's played
Speaker 1: this year, and what does it duel for quarterback too?
Speaker 1: For an offense obviously can run the ball, but the
Speaker 1: overall offense, what does he do. It's it's a different dynamic,
Speaker 1: you know, And it's similar to playing not that he's
Speaker 1: the same player as Cam because Cam's obviously different body type, whatever.
Speaker 1: But when that quarterback has the ability to run, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's different. It's different and how you cover because
Speaker 1: now if if he's if you play a lot of
Speaker 1: man under too deep man under where the defensive backs
Speaker 1: have their backs turned to the quarterback and it's third
Speaker 1: and ten, if they're all covered, he can tuck the
Speaker 1: ball and run for the first down, and you can
Speaker 1: start to you know, now you're rush lanes. The rush
Speaker 1: lanes against Tyrod are different than the rush lanes against
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady just because you're not worried as much
Speaker 1: as Tom taking it and tucking it and run for
Speaker 1: a first down. But you really have to be concerned
Speaker 1: with Taylor in that situation. They do have some design
Speaker 1: quarterback runs um you know, similar not similar, but it's
Speaker 1: like facing Carolina because they have design quarterback runs. They'll
Speaker 1: run some zone read um where you now have to
Speaker 1: do you tackle the back. If you tackle the back,
Speaker 1: the quarterback is a threat on the perimeter. Other teams
Speaker 1: run some of that, but the quarterbacks not as much
Speaker 1: of a threat. So you feel like you can tackle
Speaker 1: the back and then rally to the quarterback. So it
Speaker 1: makes you play a little bit more assignment defense on
Speaker 1: going into a game like that because of his ability
Speaker 1: to run the ball, and he can really hurt your
Speaker 1: run in the football bas