WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What Happened On Offense? 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.520 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:16.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.799 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:31.880 Star in Frisco. Elliott and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:38.879 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. It is 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.800 a Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Tostitos, helping 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.280 fans get in on the game and our favorite chip 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.440 and our favorite tip off. Talking Cowboys. Welcome into the 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.560 SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco. Heck My Harrison, 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.760 Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips, Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.000 In the final regular season episode of twenty twenty one, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.200 did you finish off the Golden Grounds? Uh? Yeah, we 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.000 get upstairs, Yeah, lays Golden Grounds. Golden Grounds man don't 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.600 win you a bag because there's only like five that 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:17.040 they're giving away. Wow, five by whom by lays? Oh 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.840 I believe so. I thought it was like two hundred 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.960 they made two hundred that they're giving away five, or 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.680 maybe the Cowboys are getting I don't think I wont 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.600 i tweeted at them, I didn't get anything back. You 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.920 didn't win. I don't think so. Goodness, I put my 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.199 name in a hat, but that's probably you already tasted 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.440 the golden ground. I did taste the golden ground. Yeah, 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.240 we had the nice crunch last week and they were delish. Yeah, 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.640 but how's everybody doing? Is the recovery set in yet? Oh? Yeah? 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:46.360 His sunken already. It is sunken like Quicksand I don't know, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.640 it feels very like like a freaking funeral around this part. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.240 Man disappointment. I get it, I get it. Man sucks. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.320 It's always like this on a Monday after a loss. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.040 But I think you got to multiply it by ten 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:03.400 yep this week and yeah, missed opportunity. Yeah really, I mean, 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.600 as good as they've had in years, you don't get 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.799 them back. No, And you only get so many tries 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.680 at a super Bowl, and you only get so many 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.280 tries in the playoffs to even get that direction, and 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.519 the fact that you're not there it is. It's disappointing. Heck. 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.359 But if you had one word to describe the way 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.960 that cowboys feel cowboys, it has to be a clean word. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.160 It has to be radio radio friend out commas. Yeah, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.440 I ain't trying to get me about it here right now. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.080 Radio friendly. One word to describe how Cowboys Nation is 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:41.440 feeling right now, oh down, it just sucks. This is 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.959 this is pretty bad on the level. I mean, you 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.680 you thought you had everything going this season, you thought 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.959 you had all the pieces, um, and it didn't come together. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.800 And after going back and watching the game again, we 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.280 were never even close in that game. And you know 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.440 what Jerry said it after the game in the tunnel 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:03.120 that the score was not indicative of the beat doo. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.840 in so many words, No, I wasn't close, kind of 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.040 like Arizona. Arizona, that game came down at the very end. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.840 But the better team that day clearly was the road team. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.880 I mean but even when I look at the Arizona 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.960 team the game last night, I was saying to myself, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.040 how much different would it have been if they had Hopkins? 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.480 You know, how much more of that offense was just 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.239 cut off because now the Rams just had to concentrate 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.440 on the guys that they had a just coming down 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.440 to stretch. If you don't have all of your guys, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.880 it affects the way that you play and that's just 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.040 that's just it, and that's that's the killer about this 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.720 team right here, is that we heard for weeks and 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.960 it was a fact like while a lot of teams 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.000 were getting depleted and decimated by injuries, yes it was 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.880 the Cowboys were getting healthier, as healthy as you could 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.920 possibly ask for. Count O'Neill was inactive for that game. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.520 Beyond that, Michael gallops on ir, a couple other guys 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.560 beyond that, that was a healthy football team. Yeah, and 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.520 you're expected to have some sort of injuries. But if 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.280 you're telling me that key On O'Neill and Michael Gallup 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.280 were the absolute difference in the way that offense looked, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.000 in the way that they were unable to stop the run, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.880 I would disagree with you. I don't think they would 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.960 have made that big of a difference because, like Heckma 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.880 just said, you were dominated through the first three and 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.360 a half quarters. It took you fifty nine minutes, sir, Now, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.680 maybe a little less than that, maybe fifty minutes of 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.680 that football game to finally wake up and realize what 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.400 the stakes were, that it was winner, go home, and 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.880 it took too long for them to realize and ultimately 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.600 that was the difference between being a playoff winner and 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.080 a playoff loser. But I just want to find out 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.039 what are we going to do with Theamark Cooper. I 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:43.919 think it's gonna be very important. How are we going 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.080 to go forward with the weapons that we have, because 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.520 he is legit a weapon. I think we would all agree. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.200 But if we're not gonna use him, if you know 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.479 the twenty million dollars that's being paid to him, I 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.799 think that's the one thing that they've got to figure 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.840 out how to go about that. Linebacker wise, I mean 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:02.800 just pieces just looking at where we're going with all 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.760 the names that we had on free that you read 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.320 off yesterday from free agency, like how many of those 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.599 guys are gonna be back? How many can you actually return? 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.760 But when even after going through all of that, I 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.279 guess the civil lining is, man, you gotta still have 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.000 a good young squad. Will McClay, Steven Stephen Jones have 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.560 put together a damn good squad. I think if you 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.559 trust your draft picks, if you trust boss Man Fat 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.479 to be the future at cornerback, Obviously it's maturity issues 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.279 things that he's gonna have to clean up. But guys 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.480 like Naean, right, what role do they play into next season? So, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.760 I mean there's a promise that you have a foundation, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.640 you have a base, and obviously with the Bazuka, you 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:48.960 gotta just build around that. I feel as if Cowboys 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.760 Nation is feeling so somber for a number of reasons, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.360 obviously not you know, showing up to putting out the 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.440 performance that they that they displayed the other night, That 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.560 obviously doesn't help. Then you you know, I'm pound that 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.880 problem by watching the La Rams last night do what 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.560 they did with their commitment to their roster, just like 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.840 Dallas committed to their roster this year and their coaching staff. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.960 But they had a totally flip side showing, right, they 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:13.800 showed up the way in which you would have hoped 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.599 Dallas would have showed up. So I think that was 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.640 like a double stab right there. And you had a 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.800 bad showing and you watch a team that pretty much 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.800 made the commitment, like like you made this year to 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.359 go all in with a with a stack roster, and 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.480 they showed up and balled out. So you looked at 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.960 that and said that should have been the way that 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.159 we that we played. So I think that's a double jab, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.320 But now the triple jab can't by by by right. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.200 The dog on Muhammad Ali tap tap tap on that 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:39.479 forehead comes in the form of even though what you 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.400 just mentioned, heckma, you have young talent coming back, even 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.279 though you know that you're gonna have a good roster, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.040 maybe not as good as this year, but you're gonna 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.200 have a solid roster going into the next year. Will 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.800 McClay and his staff are gonna do a heck of 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.839 a job like they always do. You're still left with 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.599 that feeling of then what because this year your roster 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.000 was stacked. This year you're coach staff was stacked, and 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.880 its steel left you empty handed. So it doesn't matter, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.560 just like you came in hype last week, you know, 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.520 because of the how they ended the season at twelve 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.880 to five. It doesn't matter with the regular season. The 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.560 missing piece with this organization is what happens when the 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.880 playoffs approach. Getting to the playoffs in stage one, but 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.600 then after that there's that empty that that bubble gusts. Right, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.480 we talked about the bubblegus. You have the bubblegus when 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.680 the Cowboys get to the playoffs, and that's what nobody 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.600 put their finger on right now. And that's what I 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.840 think is really leaving all Cowboys fans feeling uneasy. Why 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.240 why is that the case? Though? But why is it 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.680 that much of a disparity, Because, I mean, you should 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.000 have been excited about twelve and five. You should have 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.880 been excited about the way this roster was and the 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.160 way that everything was. That's why Cowboys Nation was ready. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.320 And then you come out so flat in the fact 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.680 that you're thirteen You're down thirteen oh before you can 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.560 really even find your footing on either side of the football. Like, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.760 why is it so much of a disparity between the 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.320 regular season and then of course the playoffs or is 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.280 it just the factor that you can't be to good team. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.600 I don't think it was a disparity, actually my opinion. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.880 I think the way they played in this game, unfortunately, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.480 is what we saw a lot of the time against 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.560 better teams in the league. And I'm not saying this 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.160 was a bad football team. This is a good team 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.320 won twelve games, give them all the credit. But the 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.920 stat about NFCS six and OZO six and six against 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.000 the rest of the NFL, I mean, I think that 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.080 that does carry some weight. Again, it's not a bad team, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.600 but they had some problems that cropped up in the 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.320 last half of the season, particularly offensively, that they never 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.000 solved and it showed up in this game. And I 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.760 think that's why we talked about yesterday why this game 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.040 was considered a toss up, because you were playing one 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.440 of the hottest teams in the NFL down the stretch 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.840 went seven and two, has been to a Super Bowl. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.400 So this was always going to be a tough game. 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.480 But to your point, it's still the playoffs. It's still 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.760 a home game that you earned that opportunity, and it 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.560 is very deflating and disappointing to start the game the 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.360 way they did and finished the game. No, it's kind 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.040 of hard to argue that point, uh pee, because you 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.600 look at the teams that they played with that went 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.920 to the playoffs, Teams with a winning record, teams with 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.040 a quote unquote top tier quarterback. How they fared. Um, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:16.680 you know, going in the next year, what I'm gonna 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.240 do is when we get the season schedule out, I'm 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.000 gonna say which one is a real team and which 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.960 one's a fake team. Okay, So that way, when we win, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.080 we can celebrate those and when we we win versus bums, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.680 we'll say, oh that was a bum we bump checked them. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.319 So let's not over celebrate on those, right, So when 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.600 we win, Chris can play the Mario. Yeah. I mean 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.880 when it's when it's when it's a quality win. Its 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.120 like in March Madness here, right, big quality resume win. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.520 Because I thought that the charges. Obviously, I thought that 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.400 was a quality win. You know, you don't everyone said 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.280 that Philly would win the division. I thought that was 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.560 a quality win. And so look, the goalpost moves so 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:59.000 much with Dallas Cowboy fans and the this this organization 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.040 period twelve and five. Yes, Isaiah, I was happy as hell. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.560 You should you should be, you should be. No, I was. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.760 I was happy to see this team battle back from 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.440 the disappointment that they had from last season. The culture 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.560 was the going theme of going into this season. You 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.000 made a lot about about these guys not being able 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.640 to bond be together. You saw the difference that that 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.720 actually made this season. The brotherhood that they had. I 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.320 love seeing that camaraderie all throughout the season. But that 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.160 does not negate the performance in the playoffs, because if 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.480 you're gonna do all of that and then get to 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.680 the playoffs and lay an egg, and then you look 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.200 back over the NFL and see how many home teams 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:44.880 won their games and you were not even close physically 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.080 in the game that you just played. That's that's the disappointment. Yeah, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:49.760 and that's why I didn't want to be And we 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.720 can go back, you know, for fact check, but that's 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.480 why I didn't want to be Debbie Downer when of 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.720 these victories came along. But like y'all know, I wasn't 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.280 hype about a lot of these victories because they were 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.120 against opponents that you're supposed to beat. And everybody says, oh, 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.240 it's still the NFL. Yeah, that's cool. However, there's there's levels. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.520 There's levels of this. I don't care what your record says, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.240 there's levels. So the twelve and five, yeah, that sounds good, awesome, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.079 But when you look back at the record of the 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.160 teams that you face, you lost against the teams that 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.559 really matter. And that's what this record showed. You lost 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.559 against the teams that actually matter, that can actually compete 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.400 at the next level of competition, which is the playoffs. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.079 And that's why I kept going back to saying, oh, whoa, whoa, 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.560 whoa simmer down because those games they like, they're cool, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.200 they're cool, but they really don't matter because you're showing 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.160 exactly who you are and how you're going to approach 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.280 that type of that level of competition when you face 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.880 those opponents. And the records showed that you back down 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.360 or that you don't show up against that type of opponent. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.600 And it showed up again the other day. Yeah, And 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.560 I'm not trying to take away what they accomplished and 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.240 some of the games that, you know, the first game 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.720 of the season looking back, might have been their best performance. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.439 You know, they took they took Tom Brady and the 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.000 Bucks to the wire. They went on the road against 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.640 New England and I know they got blown out in 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.000 the playoffs, but won that game. And honestly, when they 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.000 when they went to Minnesota and I know Minnesota and 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.200 wounded up having a disappointing season, but they in that 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.720 environment they won without Dak. For me personally, I thought, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.640 this is a special team. This is this is a 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.760 team that's got a chance because they are a complete 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.760 team and they could win it without Dak, win a 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.880 big game on the road without Dak Prescott. So everything 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.840 flipped after Denver, yep, I know when they when they 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.120 came the next week and blew out Atlanta. I know, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.320 I said, I felt like, well, okay, that was an aberration. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.960 But it turned out that it wasn't for the offense. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:35.280 There was some kind of blueprint whatever I was trying 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:40.080 to internal. Everybody laughed at me whenever I asked that question. Too. Well, 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.720 I think you're right, and I think a lot of 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.720 people didn't care because it was forty three to three 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.280 to the next week and you didn't think you thought 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.520 the Denver game was the exception, not the rule. Well, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.000 they were so machine like through the first six seven 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.839 games of the season. You were exactly right that based 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.720 on the full resume, you were like, well, they just 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.360 didn't bring it today. And I think we talked about it. Everybody, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.280 even the best teams in playoff halfway off the teas 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.520 have one of those hiccup games. It turned out not 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.960 to be a hiccup game. Yeah, And I can appreciate 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.120 your you know, perspective on that because I think after 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.960 the Denver game, you were one of the ones that 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.560 was like, oh, you know, oh they see it, you know, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.240 Oh it's out there now, and everybody kind of followed 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.240 that blueprint and said, look, this is who these guys are, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.360 and if we can show them this, we can actually 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.720 slow this offense down. The numbers indicate that that obviously 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.600 after the Denver game, that the production just went completely 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.079 through the floor. But it just when it comes down 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.160 like you, I use a team like Cincinnati. Cincinnati for 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.599 an example, They're a team that was trajectory wise, was 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.040 going down. Obviously Burrows hurt, but then they bring in 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:49.160 a wide receiver that is just game changing, transformative. And 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.920 if you had played them, say second week of the season, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:53.920 that wouldn't have been a team that you would have 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.840 thought in your head, Okay, this is a team that's 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.160 on the way up. No, you beat a team, a 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.760 young team, young quarterback, young receiver. Look, our our whole 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.160 thing is whether we build this rebuild, have to rebuild 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.720 this roster. You gotta get game changing guys, and we 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.679 didn't have a whole lot of game changes. You don't 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.240 think this roster has game changing guys. I think Parsons 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.680 was a game changer this year. Diggs was a game 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.400 changer this year. You never had to run Curse as 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.560 a as a game changer. At the beginning that nobody did. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.320 You couldn't have. You couldn't have guessed the way that 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.040 dan Quinn used him that he would have been the 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.000 kind of player that we needed. How many game changers 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.880 do you think are on each side of the ball? 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:38.080 Almost teams like True like true game changer. I liked it. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.240 I would like to think offensively, you'd have to have 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.920 two or three this team, this team has more than that. No, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.840 of course, well a lot of it has to be 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.760 in the right spots too, utilize that properly defensive line. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.280 That's why I think. That's what I'm saying that. So 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.200 I don't think this roster is short of that. So, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.640 you know, just to address your point, I don't this 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.800 roster is not short of game changers. The utilization of 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.640 those game changers was not used. It wasn't not proper. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.680 This offense is one of the most explosive offenses and 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.600 personnel wise in the league. You saw last night, what 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.840 the explosives is supposed to look like you saw the 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.880 other night Kansas City. What an explosive offense, but personnel 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.000 like we have is supposed to look like the utilization 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.280 was lacking. That's what's lacking. Dak is elite, Zeke is elite, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.600 regardless if he was hurt or not, Coop is elite, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:27.080 CD's elite. Those are four game changers right there, right there. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.920 On offense, defensively, we had two young guys go all pro, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.600 two young guys go all pro, and then you had 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.600 you got d Law, you got great. I would I would. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.480 I would label these guys as game changers now, whether 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.000 or not they cut that switch on or not, or 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.520 whether or not they're put in positions to be game changers, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.040 it's something different. And I think that's where there's a 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.360 there's a there's a separation by title, law, by production. Yeah, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.840 I mean because absolutely absolutely. Yeah. That's why I said 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.480 Jamar Chase, when you think about him as a number 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.600 one wide receiver, it's unquestionable his production in what he does. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.920 I mean, he separates himself. I don't know if we 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.000 had that. I mean, if I'm just looking, and this 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.960 is the thing about what we do, and you make 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.200 the evaluation when we evaluate teams, we get to see 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.200 them play against other teams, and you're like, oh damn, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.760 we oh we don't have one of those. And the 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.160 crazy thing is, and I agree with you in that regard, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.280 a little bit in that regard. But I think if 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.080 you look at this and we're just talking about offense, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.160 don't just look at the offense. Was Zeke used the 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:25.600 way he needed to be used this year? I don't 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.880 think you could, though, Okay, injury wise, Okay, that's fine, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.800 that's perfect fine, would you guys Zeke? Yes? No, no, no, okay, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.160 let's go to I might say more Pollard than Zeke. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.280 Zeke spent almost as Zeke was hurt, but Polar could 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.160 have been utilized more correct where his game changing the ability? Yes, yes, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.960 all right? What about Coop? Was he utilized properly? No? No, 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.600 it wasn't utilized properly. Okay, well I'm let's go ahead 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.360 and go to uh, let's go to CD. CD had 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.520 a good year. It could have been better, could have 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.760 been better consistent. Yeah, he dropped a lot of balls. Yeah, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.480 that was him. And he only had the six touchdowns, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.240 which I know that's kind of getting nitpicky, but you 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.840 look at the guys ahead of him that are in 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.480 the similar situation. Stefan Dix had ten, Jamar Chase had thirteen, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.280 Adams Jefferson. I mean, if you want him to be 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.119 that upper echelon. He's in year two. That's fine. Jamar 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.800 Chase is a rookie special, best rookie receiver maybe of 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.840 all time. Justin Jefferson did the same thing last year. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.480 He's still young, but you still want him to be 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.080 that upper echelon. Yea, you want him to be the 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.480 upper echelon. But again he wasn't used like he could 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.240 have been used that right. Deebo Samuel had eight touchdowns 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.000 from the backfield yep, and six receiving from the backfield 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.680 in match. It's still match CD in terms of receiving 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.080 difference maker. Absolutely. Also, they're being put in positions to 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.240 be successful, and that's the job of on offensive side 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.320 of the ball, of your offensive coordinator. The reason why 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.920 Michael Parsons had the year he had not only because 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.440 he's a special talent, he's an absolute goon, but also 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.679 he was put in the right position. Guess where by 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.840 half By mid season dan Quinn figured out, oh, if 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.359 I put him over the guard, they don't stand a 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.000 freaking chance, right If I put these guys wide and white, 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.920 why nine techniques? If I put d Law in the 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.920 inside and I put Michael Parsons on the inside. We 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.520 can kill these guys. They were put in amazing positions, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.359 great players put in position to be successful. This organization 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.440 has to figure out how to do that. On both 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:14.240 sides of the ball. They took turns. They took turns 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.840 often stepped up, defense flipped it, and the offense said, oh, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.800 y'all got it. What'll we'll just we'll just right, we'll 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.680 hop in the back, We'll hopping the back. They didn't. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.160 They didn't both say we're both driving this bus. So 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.359 I know we got to go to break now. Is 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.560 that the number one thing they got to fix this offseason? 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.480 Schematically offensively figure out how to fix what they what 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.160 went wrong the last ten games whatever. I think Kellen 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.480 Moore has a lot of homework to do on himself. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.440 First half, killer Moore, first half of the season. Second 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.840 half killer Moore is something that I don't really, really 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.719 really understand what was going on. And I think, and 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.200 I mentioned this earlier, I said, he went in his bag. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:53.560 I don't know how much is left in that bag. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:55.240 Remember I said he needs to he needs to go 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.119 find another bag. I don't know how much is left 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.240 in that bag. He should You could tell in this offseason, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.040 he put a lot of work, he watched a lot 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:02.800 of film, He analyzed himself, and he came out there 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.360 boom boom boom boom boom boom, shooting his gun. Then 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.920 he was out of Ammo. Yeah, who was out of Ama? 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:09.520 You go back to He tried to he tried to 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.399 get a little bit creative this pass game, going back 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.440 to the little reverse wishbone thing. But guess what I 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.400 think we ran that three times. Came out of that formation, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.840 all three of them passes, all three of them passes. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.320 None of them were out of run. You got two 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.520 linemen in the backfield, you're not gonna run come down hill. Yeah. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.040 The balance, the balance dissipated early in that game when 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.040 we talked about it going in, like you have to 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.040