WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Get in Motion 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:05.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:15.640 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:17.800 Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.680 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.599 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.000 Yeah, and so much for that. It's time for the Break. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.040 On Dallas Cowboys dot Com. We were on break with 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:36.879 Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.680 It is Monday, October twenty first, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.680 episode number fifty one. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.000 The Breakway Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.480 the Star, presented by lglg's the world's number one o 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.200 ed TV brand for eleven years in counting See why 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:04.480 at LG dot com. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.000 Forward slash o ed evo. Welcome to the show. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.480 We got our guys here with us ambers out. She's 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.320 handling some business for the team. Uh traveling, but she'll 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.720 be back tomorrow. Till then, though, today it's up to 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.640 us to get you guys. I guess restarted here. We 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.120 had a nice little quiet break here with with a 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.720 bye week. Cowboys didn't play yesterday, so that was a nice, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:28.959 nice moment just to sit back. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.240 It was nice. It was a nice moment just sit 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.200 back and watch some football. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.000 It was It's always nice in a bye week when 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.920 you work in the sport to be able to sit 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.800 and watch other teams and just kind of get a 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.200 feel for the rest of the NFL. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.600 It's a lot of fun. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.240 Actually, that's rekindle your your your love of NFL football. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.720 You wonder why you work for the Cowboys. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.480 And I don't know if it made me do that, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.680 but it did make me enjoy. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.560 Yeah, it's not not working for the Cowboys. Working with 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.960 the Cowboys. It's fine. It's covering. It's working where you 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.680 have to. You get to pay attention to other teams, 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.640 which is kind of fun. But then you realize how 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.440 much you really do like football when it's like you're 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:07.640 not on the line. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.000 Yeah right right, when you can just enjoy the game 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.720 and not really be like, well, yeah, you don't have. 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.280 To sweat whether the third down conversion or fourth down conversions. Yeah. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.760 Yeah. It just reminds me of the day. Come. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.880 The day will come when I'll retire from this and 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.200 I will be able to get back to sitting in 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.920 my lounger and watching some games and napping in between A. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.960 Long way to go, Bro, I do have commercial free football. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.040 Yeah, I have all the ways to go, But but 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:32.120 that day will be glorying. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.960 I never knew how much fun Red Zone was. Man, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.239 you can what I can't. 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.079 I can't really get into because I want to see 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.080 the storyline of the game develop as the game interesting. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.040 It's interesting just from the aspect of the action. Yeah, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.040 you know, but I'm with you that I'm with you 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.040 on the storyline stuff. But when I watch Red Zone, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.560 I get a headache because it happens so it's going 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:54.200 so fast. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:55.760 Yeah, yeah, I find difficult. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.720 I find difficulty in figuring out the p breaks and zone. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.080 That's like, give me a break. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.720 I need, I need, I need it erectly. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:03.760 I try to get it out of the way in 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.600 the first half of that noon Slate because then for 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.600 about four and a half straight hours it's it's full 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:08.040 on action. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:09.040 But no, it was really good. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.280 It was some really good games yesterday too, yeah Slate, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.320 and then three twenty five it was it was a 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:13.880 good day to be off. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:15.200 I think I tweeted it out yesterday it was like, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.359 this is a really good Sunday to be at the 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:17.280 Crow Yeah, and then. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.720 The night game even ended up being intriguing just because 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.799 again the storylines and how the game developed. That was 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.840 a fun game to watch as well. So I enjoyed 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.920 some NFL football yesterday. Didn't enjoy college as much on 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.840 the weekend. But you know, it happens. You have a 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.919 rough weekend and you just kind of rebound. Congratulations to 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.160 the LSU Tigers. You guys are moving along. She'd be 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:35.960 fun this weekend. You got to in them coming up. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:40.720 Yeah. Uh, as you're starting to understand the Southeastern Conference 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:41.440 could be no fun. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.760 Yeah, yeah, you have some Sundays on Saturdays like that. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.360 Yeah, there's there's days where you like, you think you're 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.280 like in good shape and then the next thing you know, 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.960 you're completely falling apart. I think that's the SEC in 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.240 general exactly. That's a great thing about college football too. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.480 I think with the the actual all the transfers and 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.240 the nil stuff, and I think there's a lot more 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.280 of these matchs where teams are even there's no more, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.000 there's there's halves and have nots. Don't get me wrong, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.600 but the have nots are because of the transfer portals 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.880 have kind of made a little bit of a little 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.960 bit of a jump where they're very, very competitive in 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.800 a lot of these games. So college football has been 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:17.920 a lot of fun to watch this year. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.240 It has, and I enjoyed it. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:20.400 Even in a loss. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.560 You still enjoyed the pageantry and the competition of college football. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.000 I really do. I enjoy I did you enjoy that 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.359 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine from throwing bottles? 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:28.680 Hey? 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.000 Man, it got us the call, so hey, pay it up. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.000 We got the money, man, Oh, I know you do. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.480 It's just funny. It's kind of SEC rules. Yeah, you 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.760 take the goalpost down, they charge. It's it's kind of 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.200 the fine. That's what they always charge. It's always But 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.520 I was curious, you know, you mentioned with a reverse 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.680 call in a game, and I know we get to 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.200 this quick the NFL stuff, but I was trying to 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.159 think the last time I saw a reverse called during 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.039 the game, and I think it was the Detroit playoff 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.960 game against Dallas. Did they have an interference call that 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.920 that it was on? It was on one the linebackers 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.280 they got, they got they had a pass interference call 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.160 and it got reversed and it was in the playoff 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.400 game and it was the game that Romo drove down 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:10.960 and I think through the ball to Witting and I 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.320 think it was a game winning touchdown, but I was 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.400 trying to remember it was one of the linebackers that 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.360 got called for pass interference or defensive holding, and then 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.599 they reversed the call initially call in the field and 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.880 then they reversed, and then Dallas uh, I think it 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.440 was Damian Wilson. It might have been called for for 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.760 holding in the game and they reversed, and I was 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.440 trying to think, when's the last time I saw officials 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.599 completely flip a call after after the call was made. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.080 That one was wild because when that first bottle was 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.440 thrown onto the field, Carson Beck and the Georgia offense 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.240 they were getting ready to write the snap like that 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.200 they would have stood if that didn't happen. 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.280 So I think I think the SEC said a. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.359 Very bad precedent, and I wonder how they kind of 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.559 approached that this week and if they lay the hammer 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.880 down on Texas a little bit harder. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:00.839 But yeah, that's their max. They have a they have it. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.680 I think it happened in twenty twenty one. They kind 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.640 of have a that's kind of their standard. Number when 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.080 you do something wrong, like the band plays the song 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.760 they're not supposed to play. It's two hundred and fiftys. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:12.479 I've done that before. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.479 Yeah, it's like they give you this amount, you know, like, yeah, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.000 it's kind of crazy how they handle things in the SEC. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.839 But I don't mind the reverse. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.240 And I know it sounds that sounds like, okay, you're 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.279 a Texas guy. Honestly, in any game, I don't mind 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.159 a reversal if the call is right. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:28.800 I'm a big believer in. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.880 Have the eye in the sky that's watching all these 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.839 games like the rest of us and has the benefit 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.000 of seeing that replay and being like, who whoa, whoa, Yeah, guys, 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:39.920 we messed this one up. Let's get it right. Because 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:40.880 at the end of the day, I just wanted to 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.720 be right. I want the games to be called as 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.520 close to perfect as possible, right, And so I don't 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.599 mind if you after the fact decide, you know, that 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.359 was a bad cause pick up that flag, you know, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.680 especially a play like that. That was so that was 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.039 such a big moment in the game. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.839 Yeah, I was telling the people that I was watching 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.520 the game with at the time. I was like, these 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.760 officials probably looked at it and said, Hey, we're gonna 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.360 have to answer to this anyway, we may as well 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:02.920 get the call right. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:03.200 Right. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.680 So, I as as weird as that was and as 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.880 probably not beneficial to Georgia, that was it was the 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.800 right call at the end of the day, But yeah, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:12.080 it was. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.840 It's fascinating. I don't think I've ever seen that. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:14.120 Yeah. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.320 I was texting back and forth with Patrick during the game, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.760 and I think he even kind of agreed, Yeah, that's 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.720 probably the right call. Like he had a couple of 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.520 calls he didn't like, but I don't think he wasn't 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.520 arguing that one too much. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.480 He was he was okay with that. All right, let's 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.320 jump in. Let's talk a little Cowboys football. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.520 We're gonna start first today, I guess a lot of 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:30.960 our early part of our show. And by the way, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.760 real quick, we're going to also take some calls in 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.640 the second and third segments of the show. So you 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.680 can call us at eight eight eight eight five five 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.000 two two ninety seven again eight eight eight eight five 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.320 five two two nine seven feel free good and light 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.680 up those phone lines. And we'll get to those calls 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.960 a little later in the show. But I think The 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.680 tenor of today's show is really about as as Mike 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.840 McCarthy says, the second trimester, what is Dallas going to 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.120 do now that they've completed the first trimester, They've had 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.640 a break, They've had a chance to absorb what's happened, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.920 and now they have to move on and try to 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.520 learn from that and be better in the next trimester 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.520 of the season. That being said, let's start first with 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.080 Mike McCarthy, and he had some comments this morning about how. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.920 They practice, and he was saying it was really I. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:14.360 Think the point of it was that he thinks they 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.480 need to practice better, not necessarily harder. He says, you know, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:21.080 their analytics tell them the team is practicing harder than 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.200 it has in the past. They just may not be 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.400 as crisp. They just may not be as detailed as 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.720 disciplined as maybe they need to be during practice. What 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.520 are your thoughts on that and maybe what that means 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.839 as far as the team's ability to play in the 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:34.800 way that they need to play. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.360 Yeah, I'll say one thing, Mike McCarthy's a big morning person, 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.240 because man, he was. He was giving us all the 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.280 good stuff this morning in the nine am press conference. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.240 But I had asked the question about practice because before 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.000 they went on the buy break, Dak Prescott was talking 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.040 about how guys are only showing up on Sundays, you 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.880 need to take the preparation during the week a little 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.600 bit more serious. And then McCarthy, like you said, had 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.679 said that guys were practicing hard, not necessarily well. So 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.839 I followed up on that and I was like, all 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.680 the evaluation that's come over the course of the last week. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.360 At the bye week, he said he was here every day. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.520 Did you guys take a look at practice and how 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.000 you guys are approaching that? Is there any tweaks to that? 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.480 And he said that they are going to be approaching 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.760 practice with a lot more group work. They're getting away 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.760 from the one on ones more two on two to 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.920 three on threes, and then on the nine on seven 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.719 stuff that we see during combination team periods that we 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.480 saw at training camp. They're going to ramp that up 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.120 a little bit more in the team period as well, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.719 so focusing more on group work. And that had kind 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.760 of stood out from something earlier that he had said 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.360 about meeting work as well. They want guys in group 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.640 meetings less individual meetings. Because I guess I could see 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.800 it from his perspective being Okay, if we're having all 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.400 these individual meetings, then all the guys are not getting 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.760 the same message. So group meetings it allows everybody to 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.280 be under one cohesive umbrella as far as coaching points 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.360 and things of that nature. So maybe that's kind of 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.760 the approach that they're taking post bye week here. But 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.880 there was a lot of evaluation taken in the building 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.040 over the course of the last week, and he was 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:56.840 actually really complimentary of a lot of guys that had 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.400 been in the building every day in the last week 0:09:58.400 --> 0:09:58.720 as well. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.439 That's you never want to hear that. You never want well, 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.760 I mean, you never want to hear that they're not practicing. Well. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.199 You know, there's there's times when you know you you're 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.920 going to have a bad practice. You know, maybe somebody, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.960 you know, maybe your team's just so beat up, you're 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.680 just not into it. You got back off a trip, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.360 you know. I mean there's a lot of things going 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.800 on too because you know with and a lot of 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.360 it has to do too with the way you lose. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.320 You know, if you're if you're practicing, and it's really 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.920 easy to practice when things are going good, you know, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.400 but when you're when you're getting you know that right now, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.920 this team's three and three and the three losses have 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.720 looked awful, you know, and and I think that, you know, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.760 you think, wow, they're hey, a lot of injuries, they're 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.560 good to get it to this point and all that. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.760 It's really not, you know. And then you add that 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.680 to you're getting beat up, and then you're not practicing well, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.280 and now you start to lead to other conversations like, well, 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.160 why aren't we practicing well? You know what, what's what's 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.840 the issues there is? Is leading is leading? 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:00.559 Uh? 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.680 Not is leading to not practicing well? Is that is 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.240 what's causing you not to play well? I just man, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.000 that to me, that's I just I don't like to 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.080 hear that. And you know, and I kind of feel 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.840 like they're looking for answers, you know, the answers that 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.559 I want to hear are you know, with Like to me, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.640 I don't think it's always the scheme when it when 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.080 you're talking about what's going on with the defense a 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.000 little bit, I think they're physically just getting beat up, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:34.960 you know, and whatever you have to do to rectify that, 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.960 that's where I would start to I mean I don't 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.280 think you could practice physicality like they you know, like 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.640 they did back in the day. The things I just 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.120 I don't know if things even by them talking about 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.760 it and doing talking about more group than this, I 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.400 don't know if it's necessarily going to help. I think 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.400 I think this team really is who they are when 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.440 it comes to how they play. When it comes to 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.280 playing defense, you know, I think they lack that. And 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.480 it's not toughness. They just don't have that ability to 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.280 take people on that play in a way that makes 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.960 that they use big personnel and blockers and stuff. They're 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.800 just not built that way. They're built to rush the passer. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.280 And they just can't get anybody into a game where 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.439 they can just rush the passer. They got the Cleveland 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.200 Browns into it, But I don't know if anything practice 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.960 wise is going to make this any different than what 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:29.679 they really are. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.960 Well, one thing he did say as an example was 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.920 something that we've talked about a lot on this show. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.240 He said, you start two rookie offensive lineman week one. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.760 They've been stunting and gaming us since we got off 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.360 the bus. We've been practicing, but not enough. And I 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.559 think that is one area that if you're not doing 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.840 enough of that type of tandem work, group work, if 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.600 you're doing spending most of your time in one on 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.720 ones when you got offensive line versus defensive line, maybe 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.840 you're not going to be as well prepared for handling 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.439 some of those games, some of those stunts when you 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.440 have so many guys changing in and out of the 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.080 offensive line, plus you in the inexperience of the offensive line. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.200 Do you think that's an area that more group work 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.400 could actually make a difference. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.960 Well, they practice in team and they you know, if 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.640 you're playing against somebody that moves the front. I mean, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.400 when we break down the opponent, we always talk about, oh, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.199 there's a twist front, and what are the things When 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.920 we talk about BB, we always say, and this has 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.720 gone back from two three weeks ago, he doesn't handle 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.400 the twist front. And now all of a sudden, everybody's like, oh, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.800 we need more work on the twist front. Why weren't 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.400 you working on twist front than in week two, week 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.760 three when teams were actually doing that. You know, I'm 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.160 sitter watching the tape and I'm like, the one problem 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.520 that Bib has is he gets too involved with pushing 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.040 a guy we talked about these these linemen that push 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.240 a that push a guy down and then they go 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.960 to the next level. And we said this about bb Hey, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.040 he gets too involved, he gets too involved, he gets 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.560 too involved. Well, here we are in week seven, and 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.839 now we're talking about it as we're seeing more of that. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.360 It's something that needed to be done, you know, three 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.319 weeks ago, because I mean, might me personally, I saw 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.640 it three weeks ago. If you asked me, what was 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.120 one problem with Cooper Bebe. He doesn't handle the twist 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.000 stunts very well, you know. And now all of a sudden, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.360 it's like, oh, we're seeing a lot more twist fronts. Yeah, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.400 because you didn't work on it three weeks ago, and yeah, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.000 and you know, and now it's like and you wonder, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.800 how like when he when they when they have pressure, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.760 when they have a pressure, it's usually something with moving 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.200 the front, and so you would think, like why not 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.880 get ahead of that and say, hey, listen, our sinners 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.840 are rookie. We gotta you know, we've got to work 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.080 on him not going down inside and taking those guys 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.080 because he's leaving a gap, He's leaving a big area 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.120 inside there. So this is something to me that when 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.880 you're not practicing, Well, I understand it, because three weeks 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.480 ago you could have got that right. It couldn't you know, 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.480 you could take Teams are going to do things to 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.560 you when you're not very good at it. You know, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.160 watch what's gonna happen this week? Even though they don't 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.240 have Brandon Ayuk and all that Detroit. Detroit is the 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.800 number one in the league for running in breaking routes. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:03.880 What do you think San Francisco is going to do 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.200 to you? You didn't cover one in breaking route the 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.000 other day? Not one. They are going to sit there 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.080 and say, wow, this team camp safeties, linebackers. You know, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.240 they don't they don't play, they don't do this. But 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.840 this is something that you've seen that you've seen with 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.840 this team, and now they're talking about it in the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.560 well we need to work on Well, why wudn't you 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.600 work on it three weeks ago when it when it 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.480 looked like it was going to be an issue. That's 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.120 the thing that drives me nuts. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.160 Yeah, I in my bye week evaluation of everything, I 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.440 look at the middle of this defense, the spine of 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.360 this defense as the core is the core problem of 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.200 all the issues that are happening. I think if you 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.000 had a defensive tackle that was playing up to a 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.320 first round caliber selection, and then you had better safety 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.080 play on the back end. I think the middle has 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.120 been fine. Was talking about the linebackers, but if you 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.040 had those two positions just playing just a notch better, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:55.560 I think you're a four and two or even a 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.600 five and one team at this point. I there's there's 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.640 been multiple multiple games, so for multiple games last year 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.760 with the middle of that defense was just getting exposed. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.920 And I think I'm probably. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.120 I had to take on some ownership in some sense 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.720 because I thought it was an issue last year of 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.640 just not having enough linebackers. I thought it was, you know, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.520 a linebacker depth problem, and they fixed that, and I 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.920 think that's where all my confidence kind of stemmed from 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.680 coming out of training camp, is like, I think this 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:22.520 defense is going to be pretty good because the biggest 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.560 problem they had last year has been solved, and it's 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.440 the linebacker depth. But they lost at that the defensive 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.440 tackle position and didn't anticipate the safeties playing as poorly 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.560 as I have been earlier early in this season. So 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.080 if those two positions can get it figured out, then 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.000 I believe that they can figure out some of these issues, and. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.800 That could be a practice thing too. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.040 Yeah, you get those guys more involved in team settings 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.960 as well, because you need Mazzie Smith taking on those 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.840 doubles out here. You need Mozzi Smith taking on multiple 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.880 bodies so that he understands that that's going to be 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.800 the case whenever they're trying to blow him off the 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.080 line on Sunday, whether it's Jordan Mason, Christian McCaffrey, or whoever. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.960 So I could team more team periods benefit this team overall, absolutely, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.120 but it would have to be with the right application. 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.880 Yeah. See the team period two is also when you 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.160 watch the offense work and I talked about this last week. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.000 Is like I guarantee you they ran that that that 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.320 route they got intercepted with lamb when Branch was sinking. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.040