WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Six Weeks Report Card 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.560 Cowboys. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.960 This He's Talking Cowboys, springing live. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:21.280 From the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:27.240 Six past second, Pascot tizonasdown and now. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:52.080 Your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.159 Welcome into Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.120 live from the Star in Frisco, Texas, in the SWBC studios. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.720 It is the bye week, everybody, and we've got Brian 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.400 brought us, Barry Church and Chris Beam in the back, 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.840 back in the fold and game. You're on this Talking 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.440 Cowboys a wonderful Wednesday edition. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:04.360 I'm Kyle Yeoman. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.880 A little bit of chilly outside. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.560 Right baby, everybody's got a little fleece action. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.680 Going on, and Barry's looked like he's ready for eighteen today. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.400 You see, that's gotta be able to swing. That's a movement, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.720 that's gotta be able to turn on that ball. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.319 Yes, indeed, if I started a timer from when I 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.559 sign off and I say we'll see you next week 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.080 on Talking Cowboys, Yes, sir to the point where you 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.119 t off on whole one. How what would the time 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:31.720 be today? 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:38.240 That's gonna take me probably about forty get under an hour. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.759 I'm on. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:42.840 I'm not going to tell the. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.880 Fans where you're playing, because then there will be a 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.120 line out the door to see Barry Church to me. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:52.960 Off, He'll take your money, he'll take your movie playing 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:53.440 with today? 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:54.680 Who am I playing with? 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.280 A guy by the name of Ali and Broderick. Ali 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.600 played for the for the cardon Us for a while. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.520 Projects just stick out there, mad dude's unreal on the 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:05.080 golf course. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.600 So you got to play with What is your handicap 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:07.880 right now? 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.920 What are you shooting at fifteen? I'm a fifteen okay, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.160 So I'm just trying. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.200 To get better than when we were just talking about 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:14.080 around that year. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.359 We were like mid forties along the way brought us 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.640 when you when you pulled out. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.800 That jacket today, this fleece today. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.760 How how many times have you pulled that out of 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:27.880 your closet period? 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.320 But the l issues, Yeah, I got more LSU gear. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.920 That's my love right there. I mean that that I 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.800 live and die with my school there and yeah, so yeah, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.560 it's it's a but yeah, I enjoy I got a 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.359 lot of a lot of my head. I was telling 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.840 you about my We were talking about Starter jackets. Yeah, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:46.639 I was telling me about stuff we used to wear 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.560 in Green Bay and it was like a sleeping bag. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.200 I had to still have this long like jacket that 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.560 went past my knees that you wore in those games 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.360 when it was like, you know, ten degrees. Starter used 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.920 to make some badass jackets. They still do. We were 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.560 talking about today. You break them out, they're like and 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.400 I have a bunch of packer ones that I kept. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.560 Always kept my rain suits because of the playing golf, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.880 for going fishing in them. So like there were a 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.839 lot of times like I would take all my gear 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.360 when I was leaving a job and I would just 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.440 leave it in my locker, just bag it all up 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.680 and okay, it's yours, but I take the rain suit. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.359 So you might be burying on me, be playing golf, 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.440 and I'll have on a Jacksonville Jaguar, Jacksonville Jaguar rain 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.320 suit all black with the little logo on it, you know, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.280 and you guys could mention that Jackson Well, I used 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.200 to when I was in Jacksonville Bury. I understand this 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.720 I used to live in Panda Vidra. I lived at 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.520 TPC and matter of fact, I lived on the at 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.400 the eighteenth Green. There was the team doctor of the Jaguars. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.200 He let me rent his house. Oh wow, yeah, and 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.200 so it was like it's kind of a little bit 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.360 of a funny story. He goes. He goes, hey, you 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.560 have a place to live, Brian, and I'm like, no, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.520 I don't. He is, I got this place at Sawgrass, Doc, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 I'm just a scout. It's a scout. He goes, two 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.320 thousand bucks this nineteen ninety eight, and I said, two 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.400 thousand bucks. Wig, what's the hook? He goes, I don't 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.200 want the wife to have the house and the divorce 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.880 in this house, I mean this house. So like I 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.599 had pro golfers living around me, and doctor said, I 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.960 don't want the wife to have the house. So yeah, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:20.520 he rented it to me. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.279 While I was that's awesome. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:24.400 That course is unreal. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.919 It is. I used to walk out the back door 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.240 and literally had like my little carry bag and I 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.080 played nine holes of golf every day after work. I drive. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.599 But you talk about yes, Barry was time from the 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.279 time from the old Alltel Stadium, the Gator bowl to 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.919 where I was living in Ponavidra there. I mean I 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.960 could time it. I mean I was just twenty minutes 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.560 cammera down and I got as soon as I walked 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.880 in the house, I threw my keys, walked out the 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.440 back door, had my club's waiting at the door, and 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.960 went onto the course. That's what we were playing. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.000 So when you were playing every day, what was your handicap? 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.680 What were you Yes, I got the would I would 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.440 shoot in high seventies. Wow, I got to the point 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.320 where I was playing and then and then it's so 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.719 funny when I left. Matter of fact, when I got 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.159 the Cowboys job. You know, when Larry Lacewell called me 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.760 in nineteen ninety nine, it was the summer of I 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.800 was working in Jacksonville, but I was angling for this job, 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.320 is what I was doing. I was standing in the 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.360 eighteenth fairway at TPC when Larry Lacewell called and said, hey, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.760 we want to bring you in and all that. I said, great, Yeah, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.039 I really do appreciate look forward to seeing it. And 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.599 then it hit my shot to the green and made 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.520 the butt and that was really but. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.279 Like everything's finally coming again. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.160 But when I came to Dallas. When I came to Dallas, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.839 I was like, you know, it was like I stopped playing, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.320 which was weird being from here, but having the ability 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.039 to walk outside and play every single day, you know, 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.680 at least to get exercise. I walked nine holes and 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.320 carried ten clubs and played those ten clubs the whole day, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.120 you know. And so but yeah, when I came to Dallas, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.400 and then I was we were laughing about Terrence Newman 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.320 and golf and stuff like that, and playing out a TPC. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:03.640 So it's a great, great game. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.920 It is the second day in a row we've had 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.600 a golf reference. In the opening segment yesterday we were 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.120 talking about we were talking about the Cowboys want a mulligan, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.520 and today we're talking about the strokes and the handicaps 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.080 and all sorts of stuff. It definitely is fun, but 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.239 no such golf this weekend for the Cowboys. Maybe somebody 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.560 will play some golf, who knows. But right now it's 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.400 really kind of a time to focus in and try 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.839 and fix some things. We talked in depth yesterday about 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.160 what a realistic expectation for a bye week should be. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:32.120 Sure, it should be. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.760 The coaching staff in the front office, doing some self scouting, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.320 doing some self reflection, and trying to turn some things around. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.120 But from a player standpoint, you're off and there's not 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.920 a whole lot you can do other than your own 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:49.360 personal training and your own specific routines that these guys 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.840 go through. But it gives us an opportunity to kind 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.960 of reflect on the first third of the season as well. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.720 And you guys remember getting a report card every six 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.560 weeks back in the day for a little this six 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.000 week report guards. He either got a good grade or 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.440 a bad grade, and you didn't want to show your 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:06.200 parents either. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.080 Way, learn how to sign their name exactly. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.440 I love how Chris is chiming in on that one. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.720 He's like, yes, sir, got it. I want to give 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.240 some six week grades the. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.440 Report cards for the first start of the season, and 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.520 I'm going to split it up defense, then offense, and 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.920 then I'm going to categorize the last one as quote 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.800 unquote leadership. Sure in the final segment, but we'll start 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.080 with and these are individuals. I don't want to do units. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.160 I want to do individuals based on what you've seen 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.160 so far this year. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.560 I'll start with Trayvon diggs. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.080 Berry Church I'll let you start here. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:39.240 That's grading. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.520 What would you give Trayvon Diggs in his first year 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.680 or first couple games back from a huge injury last year. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.560 I was thinking about this a lot, you know, coming 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.960 in on the draft, I saw the rundown. I'm looking 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.800 at the dig situation there, and to me, it's tough. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.200 It's tough because. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.600 I played with a lot of good corners who gave 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.160 you both physicality and was able to cover as well. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.560 And Diggs has made, you know, plays on the ball. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.960 So far this season, he has done that. He's gotten 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:06.800 beat as well and get up some passes as well. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.760 But he's made some plays on the football. But the 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.520 reason I'm going to give him got to give him 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.880 a C plus on this one. And the reason I 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.840 do that is because I've seen too much consistency as 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.000 far as not being able to come down and make 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.040 a play on the run game. And now I know 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.040 that's not you know, the cornerback's primary role, primary roles 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.680 to be able to go out there shut down receivers 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.240 and take the football away. I understand that. But with 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.680 the corners I played with, the great ones, at least 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.360 they were able to give you both you know, the 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.080 Jalen Ramseys of the world, the AJ Boyers. When he 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.400 was at the top of his game, they were able 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:42.800 to lock down wide receivers, make plays on the football, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.400 and if the ball ended up coming their way running wise, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.480 they weren't afraid to stick their head in there. And 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.600 you know, so far this season, I've seen too many, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.600 you know, inconsistencies. I don't want to say turning it 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.880 down or making business decisions. I don't want to say that, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.319 but there's been times where hey man, you got to 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.120 stick your nose in there. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:00.760 You got to make the play. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.880 And if you do that, it turns a ten to 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.360 fifteen yard game to maybe a five yard game, maybe 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.720 a six yard game, and you're able to rally as 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.319 a defense. But to me, I've just seen too many 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.480 instances Baltimore Detroit, whatever game you want to call it, 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.360 where the guys were getting ran down, where teams were 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.559 leaving him on an island saying we need you. We're 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.960 going to see if you want to tackle. We want 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.199 to see if you're want to stick your nose in 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.320 there and do this. And there's just been too many 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.720 times where I haven't seen him come to the calling 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.640 and make the play out there. Now, if there's one thing, 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.320 if you want to stick your nose in there and 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.440 you missed the tackle. I mean everybody, there's nobody's perfect 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.880 out there, but you know it's another thing to where 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.520 you know, the effort just isn't there. 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.280 So to me, I'm gonna give him a C plus 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:39.800 on this one. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.440 You know, I still like his ability to make plays 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.280 in the passing game, but to. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.000 Me, he just has to be a little bit more. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:47.960 I want to call it physical because that's not his 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.160 you know, it's not his cup of tea. But just 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.480 give me a little bit more effort in the run 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:52.640 game because your defense needs. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.520 It's a C minus because his technique is not really 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.920 good right now. And we mentioned yesterday about the routes 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.199 that Williams got behind him on the midst of the jam. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.040 We talk about the third down play against Baltimore where 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.160 they got the to kind of get the first down 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.000 to to keep the to keep the drive going to Dallas, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.800 could have got the ball back, they maybe win that 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.559 football game. You know, Uh, it's unfortunate his technique has 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.439 not been nearly good enough. There's been too many times where, uh, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.120 where he's had, he's trailed, he's missed with his hands, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.520 things that he is generally pretty good at. Is the 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.000 knee injury? Is it one of those comeback things where 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.400 we've seen this before with guys like Pollard and Steel 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.280 and guys like that, where all of a sudden they're 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.520 trying to play their way through some things. You know. Yeah, 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.439 you talk about the the stuff with the tackling and 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.680 all that. I mean, I've seen this guy make tackles. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.640 I saw him in a game against Cincinnati, I believe 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.920 a couple of years ago, maybe last year, where he 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.240 where they ran a third down play on a crossing 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.200 route tackle, the guy made it play on fourth down tackle, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.800 the guy got the defense off the field. He's capable 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.079 of these things. When he plays good technique, he's one 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.480 of the better cornerback in the league. When he doesn't 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.640 play technique and he doesn't want to stick his nose 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.560 in the action, right there, he's just a guy, and 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.720 right now he's playing like at a C minus level. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.320 If he approves the things that we've talked about here, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.480 you're going to get a much better football player. But 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.600 through the first six weeks of the season, I've seen 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.920 a guy that looks pretty average right now, Yeah, or 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:19.640 below average. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.160 I'll split the difference between the two. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:22.800 I was gonna say, see right up. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.280 So I agree with you and everything that you said 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.840 when it comes to Trayvon Diggs. It's been that way before, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.559 where there's been parts of his career where he doesn't 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:32.480 want to come down and hit. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.400 Yeah, but like you said, the ability is there. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.280 I've seen him do it before going into the injury 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.000 last year. That was a huge key for him, and 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.040 how well he played through the first three weeks of 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.720 the year was because he was showing physicality and he 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:46.560 was going downhill. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.080 That didn't lead to the injury, no doubt about it. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.960 That was just a freak thing on the practice field 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.520 and it just was unfortunate the way that it happened. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.920 But his physicality in the game was apparently better all 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.599 the way across the board than it had been the 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.839 year poor. We haven't seen that. I'm seeing twenty twenty 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.360 two physicality, not twenty twenty three physicality from Trayvon Diggs. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.520 And I think there's there's ways that he's been good. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.400 He's had he's made some plays, he's been decent in coverage. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.160 He's only allowed eighteen receptions, which is top twenty five 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.959 in the league right now. But the thing you got 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.400 to remember, their teams aren't necessarily throwing that direction. They're 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.760 throwing toward Kaylin Carson, They're throwing toward Amonioliwara. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.880 You also see those explosive plays of the eighteen go 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.640 back and look at him. Those are you know, the 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.640 big plays and stuff like that. So you got to 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:30.400 be careful. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.120 With nearly two hundred yards receiving allowed, so that's yards 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.000 per reception about eleven. And he gave up some big 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.640 plays against New Orleans thirty nine yards per reception and 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.400 then last week against Detroit twenty yards per reception. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:42.360 So that's not cut it. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.440 Not that he's not an all pro right now. He's 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:46.720 not playing at an all pro level. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.280 He's he's certainly he's baited at all pro level before 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.960 level before. He's just right now, he's not Chris Games. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:54.520 About what we see so far. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.079 Always in saw films, see across the board, all right, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.360 Eric Kendricks, Bryan, I'll let you see Eric Kendricks. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.440 You know, I felt like they really missed him in 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.840 the game last week. I mean, he every week you 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.320 look up with the tackles and where he's at that 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.560 to me is a C plus level right there. Every 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.360 week he leads the team in tackles, but you're kind 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.440 of seeing some things that some a little bit you 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.520 thought maybe there's gonna be a little bit better coverage stuff. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.040 You thought maybe there was gonna be a little bit 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.920 of downhill play. There's been times where he's been fooled 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.120 on plays. There's been times where he's missed. There's been 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.960 times where he's been late to the ball. You know, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.559 he does, he does find his way to the ball. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.400 Some of the finish hasn't always been great for him, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.160 but he is, Like I said, it's nine ten tackles 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.920 a game, but he's getting a lot of opportunities to 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.640 do that. And so I kind of feel like that 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.720 that level right now is right about a C plus. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.520 Okay, yeah, I'm in that range as well. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.520 I'm gonna go see when you talk about Kendricks out there, 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.760 and like me said, he's all over the field as 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.920 far as making these tackles. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.959 But and I know he's you know, a year level. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:00.960 I get it. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.280 You know, you kind of lose a step as you 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.800 get there, as you get older. I was a part 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.320 of that as well. But there was just times in 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.120 previous years where you would see this guy knife through 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.280 the line, like he. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.880 Would just get through there, get low, get skinny through the. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.439 Blocks and make plays. We just haven't seen that. We 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.640 haven't seen that so far this season. And I get it. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.680 It's tough when you got you know, offsive lineman on 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.760 the second level like that and you got to shed 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.600 them to get downhill to make a tackle. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:25.360 I understand that. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.040 But I've seen guys with worst defensive lines make those 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:29.680 same plays. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.080 I played with the Orlando mcclaim. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.600 I've played with a Shawn Lee where our d line 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.920 was nowhere near the level that this Disney line for 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:36.840 the Dallas Cowboys had. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:37.840 They had guys in their lap. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.240 And you still believe that right now with Tyrus whet 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:41.440 and and. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.840 Well, if we're talking about of the season, you know, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.160 I gotta go about what we've seen from the entirety 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.400 of the season. Yeah, so to me, you know, he's 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.280 not shedding, he's not shock loocking releasing as much, and 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.640 he's and he's the finish like but Brian is talking 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.680 about this guy I'm used to seeing, all Right, you're 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.360 gonna hit a guy and you're driving him backwards. That's 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.160 what I'm used to seeing from m Kendricks, not a 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.000 guy falling forward and getting leaky yardage. Those two three 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.360 yards falling forward, they add up over time. So to me, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:09.560 you know, I'd like to see a little bit more 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.200 thumb from him, and hopefully when he comes back from 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.480 this injury, you know, we'll see a little bit of 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:13.240 that old Kendricks. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.040 I think I'm a little higher than you guys are. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.240 I'm going to say a bee just a straight B, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.720 not being minus just because one, I'm taking in account 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:22.720 what you got. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.000 Him for in the offseason, which is what not much. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.200 And you went out and you got a guy that 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.560 could be this centric part of your defense with the 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.480 green dot, the leadership ability, and a lot of times 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.640 he's trying to do those things where he's trying to 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.520 get skinny, he's trying to shed blocks, and he's trying 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.000 to do all these things, but the entire defensive line 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.680 is getting washed out. He's not getting a ton of 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.040 help from the interior defensive line. And when he did 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.840 it was in one game, specifically against the New York Giants. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.800 For Mazzie Smith's in his. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:48.800 Best game of his career. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.360 Eric Kendricks is a very capable player, very capable and 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.960 heady player. I think he's probably the best linebacker you 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.640 have in terms of football IQ athleticism. It's just not 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.720 there because he's in year eleven, and so I'm gonna 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.040 give him a little bit of a break there. I'll 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.120 give him a B. But I'll start this next one 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:06.880 since I went last on the first two, and I'll 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:07.280 start it. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:08.720 Off Mozzie Smith. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.040 So this kind of goes hand in hand to me 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.120 D for Mozzie Smith, straight up D. And the only 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.960 reason I don't give him an F is because I've 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:21.040 seen improvement and I think from training camp on the 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.840 expectation is you want to see more from Mozzie Smith. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.960 Check the box. He's done more. Has he done enough 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.040 as a former first round pick? Absolutely not. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.800 Has he done enough to make me solidify or make 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.360 me think they've solidified the interior of the defensive line, 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.600 Absolutely not. So I'm going to give Mozzie Smith a D. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.680 I want to see more from the Giants game. What 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.240 he did against the Giants. That's Mozzie Smith I need. 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.360 And that's not even really the be all end all 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.440 for Mazzie. I want it to be higher than that. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.320 I want that to be the floor, but instead that's 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:52.240 been the ceiling so far. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.880 Yeah, it's a d and it's and you're absolutely right 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.080 about the thing that always scared me as a scout 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.240 was a flash player that every once in a while 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.680 flashes that ability and then flashes and you talked about 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.320 the Giants game, and you know, there's something there. There 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.720 are there there are say there's twenty five plays. There 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.040 are four to five plays where you go, he gets it, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.680