WEBVTT - Girls Talk, 'Boys Talk: Title: Late Game Execution 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.800 The following is a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:06.320 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:09.680 Cowboys. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:16.680 This is Girls Talkboys Talk, presented by Jigsaw Dating, preferred 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.520 dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys, and broadcasting live from 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.400 Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.800 At the Star. Now your host, Nicole Hutchinson. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.800 All right, welco Man Cowboys Nation to Girls Talk Boys 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.519 Talk presented by Jigsaw, the preferred dating partner of the 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.120 Dallas Cowboys. In the SWBC studio. I'm Nicole Hutchinson alongside 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.800 of Easham Morrison and Christie Scales. And ladies, it is 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.720 a victory Monday. Wow, don't we like the sound of that? 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:48.560 It was a game. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.080 It was a game, the Cowboys getting the job done 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.280 on the road in a hostile environment, shorthanded on both 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.480 sides of the ball, freaking turnovers all over the place, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.200 field goals. Oh my goodness, the list can go on. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:10.000 Was stressful, stressing, penalties, penalty, injuries, injuries, a lot to 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:10.840 talk about. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.840 A lot to talk about, ladies. But how much time. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:16.720 In a little times? 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.440 I know, right, I know, But that's why we had 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.400 the whole rest of the week. Yes, unpacked. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.440 It from Mike McCarthy. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.279 Got to hear from Mike McCarthy some good stuff coming 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.039 from him. But just I'll start with the last drive, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.120 I mean, fourth and goal, Jalen Tolbert stepping up when 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:37.440 needed because of course Brandon Cook's not there. What did 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.840 y'all like from this offense that y'all saw on Sunday. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:45.840 Well, specifically that final drive, just how multiple it was 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:51.400 in terms of ball distribution. And one thing that McCarthy 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.920 was just talking about was the offensive line playing well enough, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.280 holding up well enough, and giving him, in Mike McCarthy's 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.640 words as a play caller of fifty to fifty meaning 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:07.680 run or pass and then dak the trust and everything 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.320 to go to young players. And McCarthy referenced, you know, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.000 we knew he had that screen pass ready to go 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.920 to Hunter Lipke used it a little bit later in 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.840 the drive than he anticipated, But I thought that's what 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.720 was so impressive, because you knew that the Steelers were 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.680 going to concentrate on CD Lamb and especially in the 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.560 second half. It was a near shutout again of CD 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.080 in the second half, but the other guy's rising to 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.680 the occasion and everyone doing just enough, especially with the 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.560 injuries in the first half to come out with a 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.840 very hard fought, very gritty victory. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:49.560 Excuse me, yes, absolutely, I mean Christy you mentioned them, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.720 you know, just doing just enough. I mean I would 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.640 argue that this offensive line didn't more than enough in 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.160 a sense of, you know, we've been waiting for this 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.240 run game to get going, and I know, for me, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.480 I've been saying, like, I want the run game to 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.120 get going, to open up the rest of your offense 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.040 and things like that. But another thing that the run 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.280 game does is wears people down. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:12.880 And if you are. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.080 Paying attention, if you're paying attention, towards the end of 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:19.240 that game, those Steelers players retired, Cowboys players retired too. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.200 You could tell there was some hands on knees and like, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:26.160 you know, it's late, Yester time, it's late. You know, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.519 it's late. But I'm saying, as far as the physicality 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.920 that took place in the run game and the push 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.000 they were able to get doing, some things really wore 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.440 down that Steelers defense towards the end of the game, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.720 and those last two drives, you know, them dictating pace 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.000 and Mike McCarthy just saying like we wanted to have, 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.400 you know, move effectively down the field for them to 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.320 be able to do that despite having some penalties that 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.000 could have set them back, because I think that last 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.720 drive was like first and twenty. He started at first 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.880 in twenty because you had a false start, right if 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.440 I'm not so to overcome that even in its self, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.840 you know, Yeah, and then move down the field and 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.160 go score speaks to you know how bad they wanted it. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.200 And I thought the offensive line did they. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:09.920 Did their job last night? 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:10.200 Yeah? 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.640 And what have we been talking about in terms of 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.880 third down conversions and not being able to sustain drives 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.119 or the run game's not going because you're not getting 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.159 enough trips to the plate sixty percent conversion rate on 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.839 third downs yesterday, the Cowboys ended up on offense with 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.120 seventy six plays. Yes, normally between sixty sixty five is 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.240 kind of average for an NFL game. You're having a 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.320 pretty good day on offense if you're getting sixty to 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.719 sixty five plays and the Cowboys having seventy six, and 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.359 I believe the Steelers only had fifty eight on offense, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.440 so exactly what you're saying, Aisha, I think the Steelers 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:48.920 defenders were getting worn down. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.719 And we talk about plays pretty much left off the 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.159 field on the field too, because four trips to the 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.800 red zone, two red zone turnovers. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:56.960 That wow. 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.400 So I don't think the issue was never of how 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.440 Mike McCarthy can you know, cook up some things to 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.720 drive down the field. It's just always punching it in 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.320 and the red zone and those self inflicted wounds. But 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.080 you talked about how the defense was kind of worn 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.000 down the Steelers. I was looking at the first half 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.400 rushing stats. The Cowboys only had twenty three, but they 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.360 of course ended the game with one hundred and nine, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.440 So certainly improvement there. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.200 But what about Rico Daludle, Can we like give him, Yeah, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:25.760 some very flowers. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.719 I was excited to see him get going, and certainly 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.120 I feel like I think this game he established himself 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.800 as that running back one, which I'll think. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.200 Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean again, I think we've been 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.240 talking about it. It starts with that offensive line and some 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:42.880 of the push they were able to do. They did 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.200 some inside outside zone, they did tosses, they did bubble screens, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.400 they did yeah, they did some motion they did you know, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.440 like and also too, but they saw success in their 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.599 combo and duo blocking. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.480 Thank you. Which excellent. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.080 Yeah, which we watched them do and have a lot 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.160 of success in during training camp. And if you're not mistaken, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.159 that's what teams kind of have done to you and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.039 you were in their run games. So seeing Terrence Steele 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.720 and Zach Martin kind of start to become that tandem 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.719 again a little bit, I think your offensive line, despite 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.040 the injuries and some of the stuff that happened, is 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.279 starting to find some cohesion. Because that road it was 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:20.960 loud over. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.920 There, loud, extremely loud, even with an eighty three minute 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.119 delay weather delay before kickoff. I'm looking up like nobody left, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.040 nobody left, everybody stayed. Wow, it was amazing. Yeah, kudos 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:34.359 to all of those fans. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.400 Yeah, but it was loud in there. And for this 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.800 offensive line, like you you know, like I think past 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.120 rushers will say, like we rush is one, but the 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.080 offensive line, like a lot of their movements were in Unison, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.400 and I think you saw that with the push that 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.640 they got. The tight ends did some good things blocking 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.320 as well. So with Rico Daddle, I think he's just 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.800 getting more experience, Like this is the first game where 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.800 I'm seeing him start to slow down process us. Look 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.240 at what he's being given and they see him bounce outside. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:05.080 You know, you see it. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.839 I'm starting, You're starting to the more experienced in rhythm 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.080 he's able to get in because again they haven't really 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.360 been able to get into a rhythm. They're giving him 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.960 more snaps. He's able to read the defense, make some 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.480 decisions and then use his ability to cut up field 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.200 or bounce to the outside or run in between the tackles. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.160 So yeah, exciting for him. He had to pass the 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:25.520 twenty two yard Yeah. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.760 You know what was fine about that that was really 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.080 cool was that in that formation there was I thought 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.360 there was some real creativity there was in the play 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.000 calling and some of the design. And so for that one, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.440 they had little Cavante Turpin in the backfield and they 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.800 had taken Rico and put him basically like slot right. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.960 So something that surely Pittsburgh probably well, I would think 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.680 that they hadn't seen that and weren't really expecting that. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.480 But and it's fun for the players too to keep 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.920 engaged in that way. You know, Rico to get to 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.280 do something doing different. Not that he's never sent out 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.760 on passing routes, we know that he's very effective as 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.640 a pass catcher. But to be utilized that way and 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:13.120 in that particular situation and the use of personnel, I 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.160 thought that was really fun. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.640 What'd you think? What'd you think about his performance? 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:17.559 I thought it was great. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.320 I know he had a career day eighty seven yards 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.440 on the ground, twenty carries. But something that I loved 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.119 was there finally starting to give him more touches, something 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.240 that Micha McCarthy's been talking about all years that they 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.440 haven't had the good amount of attempts. I think they 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.000 had a season hot, oh my goodness, season high thirty 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.520 one attempts in the running back room. So I think 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.320 that this game was actually crucial for him to kind 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.040 of start establishing himself, not that he hadn't before, especially 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.040 last week, but this offensive line, particularly of course Tyler 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.640 Guiden going down early, and then you had brock Hoffman 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.160 come in for Zach Martin at guard, then TJ. Bass 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.360 coming in making the switch to Tyler Smith out to 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.080 left tackle, just the way that they were still able 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.200 to have that cohesionists despite not having your starting left tackle, 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.080 not having Zach Martin for for quite some time. What 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:11.959 did y'all think about it? 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.599 I think they understood what this game. This game was 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.000 an important game. Yeah, I think they understood that it 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.080 was important to you know, what they want to do. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.320 They got a nice little gauntlet coming up, but they 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.439 they have played defenses kind of like this is already, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.880 you know, so I think that talking to the guys 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.320 in the locker room this past week, they seemed prepared 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.800 for this game. I will say as far as the 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:39.920 offensive line goes, like, I mean, I know, we talk 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.679 about Tyler Smith and you know how great like he 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.960 is and everything, but his doing what he did last night, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.680 y'all like this is not normal, and I just I 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.920 feel like it's a little understated what he's being, what 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.040 he's been asked to do. He I know, he hasn't 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.439 been practicing at left tackle probably and just having a 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.800 kick out there and go against you know, one of 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.480 the best defensive lines. I mean, Nick Herbrig went down 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.120 in the third quarter, but even so, you know that 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.880 defensive line could get after it and for him to 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.720 come in and be stealthy like that TJ. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.800 Bass like because he plays right guard for Zach Martin. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.600 It's not like he plays a lot of left guard. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.800 This is just what he had to stay And even 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.280 so like, let me give let me make sure I 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.560 give Terrence Steel his flowers as well, because Terrence Steele 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.440 is a guy that has been, you know, struggling, and 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.640 he's going up against some of the best ed rushers 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.680 in the game as well. But I felt like he 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.400 held his own and he found some things going up 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.240 against t. J. Watt this game. They did have some 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.319 guys over there helping him sometimes most of the time 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.400 he was one on one, but I think the run 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.920 game helped him because, and that's what I'm saying, like 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.200 running the ball is not just for decoration, it also too. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.760 They also did a good job of making these edges 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.800 chase them. They did things to get these guys this 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.800 defensive line sucking win because they're on the move. And 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.880 I thought, personally, I thought this was Mike McCarthy's best 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.520 called game. And it's no mistake that they had so 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.280 many plays. Four hundred and forty five total yards, twenty 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.080 five first downs, y'all, Like that's that's a lot of football. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.760 They were able to do a lot of stuff that 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.680 maybe they had been wanting to do that they got 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.640 to do, so shout out to Mike McCartney. They had 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.880 a plan and I think that's why even though they 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.080 lost guys, they were able to still execute it because 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.160 it was a solid plan. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:33.360 Regardless who's the guy that you didn't expect to, I 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.599 guess step. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.160 Up on Sunday. That is kind of like your surpriser, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.160 tell us yours. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.360 Yeah, please, you fol like you. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:42.080 Got one in mine. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.680 Yeah, dang, this is hard. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:45.400 Okay, that's right. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.920 It's been in offense or defense. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.160 Let's go offense first. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:55.000 Oh, offense first. Well, uh, Tyler Smith just because to 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.160 everything Yaisha just said, but he ended up playing seventy 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:03.440 percent of snaps yesterday tackle and then TJ Bass seventy 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.240 percent of snaps coming in with Tyler Goyton. I'll just 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.600 say from a sideline perspective, when Marshawn Neeland, the Roocky 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.920 defensive end, went down early in the first quarter, just 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.160 four plays, four defensive plays into the game, you could 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.240 tell that was very serious. Especially he needed help to 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.080 get to the blue medical tent. They called out for 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.360 a cart. We'll talk more about Nieland's injury, but with 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.079 Tyler Gotton, he was able to walk off the field. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.920 He walked under his own power to the locker room. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.680 His injury happened early in the second quarter, and he 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.160 stayed in uniform. He didn't come back out in the 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.000 second quarter, but he came out to start the He 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.680 was on the bench area for the entire second half, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.800 still in uniform, and just before the second half started, 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.120 he was down in the bench area kind of getting 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.040 down in a position, trying to see if he could 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.080 fire out right and come out of his stance and 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.080 things like that, and so I thought, oh, man, he's 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.600 going to give it a go. There's a chance that 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.800 Guyton's going to come back in the game. He ended 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.319 up not, of course, and Mike McCarthy didn't have a 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.560 true update on Guyton today. We'll know more on Wednesday 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.760 to see if he's able to practice. But yeah, for 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.160 a while I thought, oh, Tyler will slide back into guard, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.000 but he didn't. He ended up playing left side. But 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.160 another surprise. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:30.040 Oh okay, now I'm just gonna say, Jalen Tolbert, Jalen 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.200 Tolbert a minute after getting hit the last place a 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.440 man wants to get hit and literally staggering, the guy 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:38.280 couldn't walk. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.480 And then if Pittsburgh had not called that time out, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.920 then yeah, Mike Tomlin because if they hadn't called that 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.280 time out, Jalen would have still been on the sideline 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.400 and wouldn't have been out there to catch the game 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.960 winning touchdown pass with twenty seconds left to play. But 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.840 good for him not only a strong game, but to 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.000 be able to come back in that kind of situation 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:02.920 and get the game winner. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.240 I want to cheat. I'm gonna go okay, and I'm 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.040 only gonna say turping because I knew he was gonna 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.480 be needed this game, but I wasn't sure if he 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:13.880 would be able to step up the challenge. And I 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.680 say that because his confidence has. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.319 Really been wavering this year. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.480 Even in training cam you didn't see that confidence as 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.040 far as his route running and things like that. But 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.240 I saw him just be a little bit more assertive, assertive, confident. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.440 There was one play, I believe the third quarter and 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.120 they were running cover two so that uh Dak attacked 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.560 the middle of the field with turf, So that was 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.280 a big reception there. But I don't know, I just 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.480 saw a little bit more confidence in him. And I 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.680 think that's because he knew obviously Brandon cooksn and are 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.560 absent on Sunday, he was a guy that was gonna 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.480 be needed. Even Drellen Tolbert, a lot of those guys 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.280 are going to step up. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.480 Yeah, he's getting comfortable to your point, I think even 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.360 I mean they used him as a decoy. He was 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.680 clearing guys out and doing some things like that. But 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.800 he is just out. Like I honestly felt like he 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.600 had a good camp and we just haven't seen the 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.160 stuff that he was doing in camp on the field 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.520 this year. And I can understand how God could get 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.520 down from that because he was very active in camp. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.320 I feel like I was hearing his name every other day, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.720 every day, and then the season starts and it's just 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.760 like you can't get going. So I do think this 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.280 was a big confidence booster for him and seeing him 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.280 do some of the things that you know, we were 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.440 looking for Brandon Cooks to do for whatever reason, whether 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.800 it's health or anything. Some of those crossers, some of 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.040 those seam routes, some of those bubble screens, getting him 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:39.160 out space like utilizing his speed. But also too, I 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:44.360 thought that Mike McCarthy used him in motion sets correctly. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.480 And now that people see that he is becoming a 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.680 receiving threat, they're gonna honor when he starts moving across 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.440 that line of scrimmage, you best believe somebody's gonna be 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.720 They're gonna be carrying someone with him through the formation 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.920 and stuff. So I thought that was great too. To 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.680 your point about take turpent, Mike, my guy is gonna 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.480 be on the defensive side. Uh, weird enough, he only 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:11.200 had two pressures. Ohso DIGGI zua uh he he really. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.680 I mean if you look at him, you did see 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.960 him getting some penetration. You said you saw the get 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.320 off and stuff. But yeah, uh, they they committed to 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.280 stopping him and double teaming him. He was double team 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:27.560 on fifty of uh of all of his snaps. But 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.640 he did a good job of stacking, shedding and being 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.320 disruptive with his hands despite like, yeah, he played twenty 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.720 four pass sets and they yeah, they double teamed him 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.440 on twelve of those. And what those were able to do, though, 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.120 was open up lanes for other guys and you know, 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.920 allow these linebackers to get you know, get some blitzing 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.720 pressure and stuff like that. They brought Kendricks, they brought 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.080 the Barbarian overshow, and they brought a couple guys off 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.520 the edge. So yeah, I wanted to highlight also Digizua, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.560 because double teams are something that he actually has struggle with. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:00.800 This is not this is a three techy. He's not 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.280 a one sex. He's not big in that way. 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