WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Couldn't Ask For Moore 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:17.239 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.079 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:32.319 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.920 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, and welcome into Talking Cowboys 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:43.040 inside the SWNBC Mortgage studio. Happy Monday to everybody. It's 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.600 a victory Monday out here at the Star. Cowboys thirty 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.280 five New York Giants seventeen in the season opener, and 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.800 I don't think it was really that close either. Dominant performance, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.920 Rob Phillips, Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Bill Jones will 0:00:59.920 --> 0:01:02.240 be back tomorrow. But we have so much to talk 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.440 about over this next forty five minutes. Not a bad 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.000 way to start the season. Huh. Took the words right 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:14.000 out of my mouth. Yes, absolutely, you know, And I think, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.560 as I when my column gets up, I wrote, they 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.840 answered a lot of questions. I think that we're kind 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.320 of swirling around the team as they went into this 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.240 first game, and almost every one of the answers came 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.240 out awfully positive. In a game like that, when you 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.720 dominate an opponent. You should have dominated and go out 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.000 there and do what you're supposed to do. I didn't 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:41.160 see thirty five points coming, but I thought that they 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.880 were just so efficient and I just don't think you 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.760 could criticize much of anything they did offensively. Yeah, it 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.280 looks like to me a team that actually got preseason 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.920 snaps that were able to get a series or two 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.080 and then kind of parlay that into thirty practices that 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.960 we saw. Some of the things. Some of the questions, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.440 It's like Mickey talked about, were what kind of game 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.160 was Kellen Morgan a call? And you know, Kellen Moore, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.960 to his credit, saw a defense that he felt like 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.520 that he could attack, and he attacked it with play action. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:19.480 He attacked it with clearly better skill players than what 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.320 the Giants had. We talked about it all week. It's 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.880 why you should listen to the show is we talked 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.359 about the Giants lacked of pass rush and even when 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.280 they tried to blitz, they got the pickups. They used 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.240 old Wally and pickups, they used Zeke and pickups. They 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.440 even used Tony Pollard in some pickups. So you know, 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.360 when the Giants tried to answer with some things. The 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.880 Cowboys had their own answers, and you know, give Dak 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.280 Press got a lot of credit clean pocket in front 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.000 of him. Receivers went in on the outside tight ends, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.639 winning when they had to. So overall, offensively, I think 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.440 it was really a very well played game, even to 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.280 the aspect that, like I say, we learned a little 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.760 bit about the player coming out in multiple formations, even 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.760 sometimes getting in twelve personnel and then still throwing the football. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.960 You know, that's something in the past we've kind of seen. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.600 Twelve personnel was a Zeke handoff, and you know, but 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.120 here he is. I counted one time where he had 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.560 a play and I wrote about this last night, that 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.920 he had a play where he had four players moving 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.920 pre snap, yeah, you know, one after the other, and 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.760 then brought the first player, which was Randall Cobb, all 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.880 the way across the formation and then brought him back 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.200 on the fake on the jet sweep and through the 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.520 screen to Ezekiel Elliott going the other way out the 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.080 back door. So he's trying to show creativity. He's trying 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:42.280 to show that he can find ways to attack defenses 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.840 when they're just not good enough to handle you. And 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.160 I think that's a very very positive sign coming out 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.720 of that, you know. And one of the things that 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.000 I think was probably with all the things that happened, 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.960 maybe was underscored, was the fact that he went a 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.000 lot of hurry up offense. We didn't see that in preseason, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.960 and I don't know that we saw it in training camp. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.480 They would have a session maybe for hurry up, but 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.600 it wasn't like in the concept of just they drive 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.360 down the field. And what I liked the most was 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.720 when they hit him with a big play. There was 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.200 no celebrating. It was get your butt to the line 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.680 of scrimmage and let's go. We're we're we're not going 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.480 to let them regroup. We know we're we're gonna snap 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.920 the ball. And then the other thing, and maybe not 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:30.480 so much in the running game, but the offensive line 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.159 keeping Dak clean. No sacks. This is a guy that 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.960 was sacked fifty six times last year and he only 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.800 got hit twice. Right, And the other thing is he 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.320 didn't save any sacks by having to run out of 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.480 the pocket. His only two runs were called quarterback runs 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.440 and then to kneel down, So to me, the pocket 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.599 was clean. He had time to kind of survey the field, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.560 come off his first bread, go to the second one, 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.240 sometimes the third. That was the time that he had 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.400 in the pocket. Uh. And you got to credit that 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.640 offensive line that really hadn't played together much at all 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.720 during the preseason. Maybe one time. I'm trying to remember 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.440 that second game, but I don't know that because Zach 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.880 Martin probably didn't play in that. He did not when 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.320 they played the starters exactly exactly. Do you want to 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.800 retract that this is a sky Wars offense? It is 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.240 one way you said that back in camp. Don't expect, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:31.279 you know, Mike Leach offense necessarily for this team. And 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.760 I get your point because Dak said it after the 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.880 game was over. We're not running necessarily a bunch of 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.359 new plays like you said, Brian. They're presenting things a 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.080 little bit differently pre snap, making the defense guess and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.680 dialing some things up at the right time. That's you know, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.039 you know it's it's dialed up right when a couple 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.480 of these touchdowns, I mean, there's nobody within ten yards 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.560 of these guys. Blake jarr went on the opening touchdown 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.520 from twenty eight yards out, etc. Yeah, they caught. They 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.479 did a nice job when you have a lot of 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.280 weapons like they have, or players that can make plays. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.880 You know, guys like Randall Cobb in the slot. We 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.720 saw what he's capable of doing. But when you have 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:12.520 guys that that demand coverage on the outside and guys 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.800 that demand coverage inside, you can't. You know, it's like 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.839 the old you know, put your finger in the in 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.600 the damn there to keep the water from coming out. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.640 There's just more holes. And I think the Giants got 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.240 caught in a situation yesterday where there were so many 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.720 trying to put their fingers and holes to stop the 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.080 leaking that it just the flood hit them. And you know, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.240 that's that's that's the idea of how you build your 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.480 football team. You put as many weapons out there as 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.040 you can. You have a quarterback that, like Mickey said, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.200 the quarterback had a command of what was going on 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.760 as far as they're able to play with pace. You know, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.600 he's like making a play and he's like, let's go, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.279 let's go, let's go. And you know, that's that's kind 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.440 of where we that the game is evolving to. When 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.320 it is about playing with pace, it's about making big plays, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.440 it's about chunk plays and the Cowboys had their share 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.880 of those big chunk plays that really affected the way 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.920 that the Giants were. The Giants didn't have an answer 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.560 for them in the secondary. The kid DeAndre Baker will 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.640 be a great player for them one day, He's just 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.840 not right now. Janoris Jenkins, they feel like that they 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.880 got better at safety. I don't think they got better 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.480 at safety. I really don't. I was talking yea yeah, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.960 Brill Peppers and that they are not good. I mean, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.800 Jabrill Peppers, I think is an okay player. But but 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.840 they you know, for them to think that they can 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.000 line up Antoine but they against against Mary Cooper and 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.560 the slot and play at one on one with no 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.440 safety help in the middle of the field. Is that's 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.200 that's just that's not having an answer right there. Anna 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.080 Mari's touchdown in the game was with DeAndre Baker, their 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.680 first round draft pick, lining up on just a great throw. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.200 Just a great throw, yeah, absolutely great throw and a 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.360 great and a great pickup inside. Matter of fact, it 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.119 was Connor Williams. They run a blitz off the left side, 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.000 and Connor Williams not only helps Travis Frederick with his guy, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.000 but here the young man having some awareness to bump 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.240 outside pick up the bootsk Tyren Smith had to go 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.600 get the blitzer and then here's Connor Williams sliding over 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.760 to pick up the guy and now the balls out 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.600 of your hands. So maybe Connor Williams last year would 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.480 not have been aware and then all of a sudden, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.320 Dak would have been hit and much like Manny got 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.160 hit on you know with Lords, and the ball would 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.920 have been fluttering down the field. But that wasn't the case. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.360 They had to get a great job of managing the 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.440 twist stunts that they had up front. They managed to 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.440 pick up the blitzes and then press Scott made them 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.920 pay for their lack of coverage on the back end. 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.320 You know. I was talking to Kellen Moore afterwards and 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.480 asked him if Dak had checked to that play and 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.840 he said no, he goes that was the play that 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.439 was called and if we got the coverage we were 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.040 looking for, that's where we were going right it. And 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.559 he looked because he could see the blitz was coming 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.079 and he saw and I saw it from the press box. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.840 I said, oh, he's in single coverage. Yeah, the safety's 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.679 way in the middle of the field. Yeah, go for it. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.160 Dad did a great job of holding Peppers in the 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.600 middle of the field. He never he never looked. He 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.280 never looked to his left until Connor, until the blitz 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.240 got picked up. And when that blitz got picked up, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.440 then he looked as he looked to the left, and 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.439 then that that kept Peppers right in the middle of 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.160 the field, like Mickey said, deep in a way. And 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.280 that was just a whole shot right there, the one 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.240 I wanted him to hit. I wanted him to hit 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.600 the older Walley one. How many times have we seen 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.760 that one? And wheel route, the wheel route. Yeah, I 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.160 was always afraid to talk about it to practice. You know, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.719 it's one of those things like, oh, they tried to 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.200 run olda Wally on the wheel where you know, I 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.640 was thinking, Okay, that's one of those secretive type plays 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.440 you really don't want to talk about. You know. The 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.880 coaches would walk up tea and go, hey, Brian, please 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.360 don't be talking about stuff. You're watching it practice that way. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.000 But yeah, the older Walley route, that's that's one of 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.199 those plays that you know, they got what they wanted to. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.640 They had an outside linebacker who was really a rush 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.400 defensive end that was in coverage and if they could 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.199 have got the ball a little bit further down the field, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.080 I think older Walley would have made that play, but 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.600 it was It's It's a play that they'd been working 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.959 on a couple different times in practice, and they actually 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.680 hit it a couple of times because they got some 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.600 of the they got the linebackers and coverage on that 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.839 for the Cowboys and we're able to hit it. So 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.600 looking play. Kellen Moore, I've said it before when we 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.760 first talked to him back in OTAs, oh While he 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.560 was one of the first guys he mentioned in terms 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.400 of a versatile guy that did a lot of stuff 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.440 in Oakland, and people might chuckle at it because he's 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.600 the fullback, but he is versatile. And you know, Dad 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.320 completed passes to seven different receivers that very well could 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.400 have been eight. It's just an example of using all 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.040 the guys that he's got and a lot of talented guys. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.000 And I think they sent a message to the next 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.160 opponent in the rest of the league that this isn't 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.240 a one man receiving corps. And I think you're picked 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.000 the click Michael Gallup, Yeah, it worked out that you 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.120 stole from me. I worked out. Okay, we usually give 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.480 you first choice. I know, and I let him go 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.599 because I knew where he was going. Well, he was 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.160 seven catches for one hundred and fifty eight yards and 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.160 and boy was he good and not It wasn't just 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.760 nine nine routes. He was running those slants. He was 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.480 catching the ball in traffic, guys on him. H that 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.240 was a heck of a game. And I think that's 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.520 what we were expecting. That's what we've been seeing. We 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.640 have the benefit of getting the privilege of watching all 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.439 these practices going back to late July, and he has 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.040 been dominant at times in practice. And he looked at 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.760 Cooper in practice, he was he was there all the time. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.560 You gonna talk about this defense? Yeah, you do it. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.240 After the break, Uh, we got a couple more minutes. Quick. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.320 Everything wasn't perfect now exactly. We'll get to that when 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.679 we come back, but real quick on Dac, just to 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:33.120 recap his day, twenty five or thirty two, four oh five, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.360 four touchdowns and the Cowboys had touchdowns on five straight drives. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.240 I believe time since two thousand they had done that. Yeah, wow, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:47.440 perfect quarterback rating, Mick. That's the first time second the 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.160 first with more than twenty attempts, and one of four 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.520 players in NFL history to get four hundred passing yards 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.880 four touchdowns in a perfect rating. Yeah, I mean it 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.600 was unbelievable. Yeah, I mean it was could have drawn 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.640 it up any better. I mean, he was on spot, 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.120 he was seeing the receivers, he was given time. His 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.319 four hundred and five yards. When I looked it up, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:14.120 it's eleventh most in club history. He was two yards 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.160 short of being ninth because there was a tie for 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.080 ninth at four oh six uh. And I kidded with 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.520 Kellen Moore afterwards, I said, so did you quit callin 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.880 passes that fourth quarter to preserve your seventh spot with 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.600 four hundred and thirty five yards passing? And he laughed 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.840 and he goes, yeah, I probably should have thought of that. Also, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.480 it was the most yards UH in a season opener 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.920 by a Cowboy quarterback in history. J. Troy Aikman owned 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.080 the record at three sixty two, but he needed overtime 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.400 in ninety nine against the Redskins, and those came on 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.800 the winning touchdown fast first day the back with the 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.240 with the Cowboys with ye rocket ishmael uh and they 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:02.520 they had named the play a rocket red glare. Yeah, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.520 it was a nine route and rocket ishmail just burned 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.760 him down the field. And it was the same pass 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.679 they had thrown to him earlier in the game and 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.839 he had dropped dropped it, and this time it was 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.120 an eighty yard touchdown pass to win it. But yeah, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.520 if you think about all the games they've played, all 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.840 the great quarterbacks, and this was the best season opener 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.000 by a Cowboys quarterback. We mentioned Cooper and Gallup, they're 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.440 the first receiving duo on this team since twenty fifteen 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.320 to get both one hundred yard receiving games. And we 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.440 talked about you mentioned chunk plays. Brian five completions of 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.920 over twenty five yards and there you go, and you 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.679 know a lot of games playing that way. Yeah, you're 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.319 two for two in the red zone, which is a 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.080 encouraging dating from dating back to last season. But you 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.600 also didn't have to put yourself in that situation with 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.160 all the chunk plays they had offensively. And then let's 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.480 not forget Randall Cobb, who made a couple third down 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.480 catches to get first downs, and none more so than 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.920 the one on third down when they were at the 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.560 sixteen yard line. I think they needed eight yards or so, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.200 and he not only caught the ball on and out, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.800 but he broke the tackle, got the first down, and 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.240 got it to the five yard line, had set up 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.160 Witten's touchdown. So Randall, Cobb and Brian we've been talking 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.160 about this, his ability to run with the ball after 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:22.120 the catch and he turns into a running back. And 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.720 he did it. He did it a couple times, so 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.080 I didn't lose anything having him playing in the slot. No, no, No, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.520 disrespect to Cole Beasley, and that's gonna be the last 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.360 time I say that, because you know, we all we 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.560 all respect Cole. But this is a different cat. This 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.440 is a guy that's the guy that's been there. He's 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.120 a bad ball catcher. You know. He's a guy that 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.480 can adjust. He can make the plays when he's contested. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.120 You saw what he can do. He's he stopped four 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.760 yards short of the sticks and Hamilton tries to get 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.520 him on a low tackle and he just says, no, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.360 you're not gonna get me. He put his hand in 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.160 the middle of his chest and stopped his momentum and 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.440 then just him to his side and then put his 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.520 shoulder down to get through bethet to get the first So, yeah, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.320 this is a different cat with the ball in his hands. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.920 He's a big time player. He's always been a big 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.840 time player. And you know, is the pro department. You 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.640 go out, you try and find those guys. You should 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.760 go out and try and find a guy that maybe 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.040 for one season he plays out of his mind and 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.040 then all of a sudden, now you've done a good 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.480 job of helping your football team win games because you 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.560 got guys like him on that team and it only 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.960 cost him five million dollars. Talk about that heck of 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.920 a signing, probably probably one of the best in the 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.040 entire league this past spring. All right, let's take our 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.320 first break. We come back, Like Brian said, we'll shift 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.120 to the defense and how their performance looked against the Giants. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.840 Week one, Cowboys thirty five, Giants seventeen. 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All right, you guys, 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:21.119 thoughts on defensively how Dallas looked giving up seventeen points 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.720 although one touchdown came late. What were your thoughts. Overall, well, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.920 thank goodness, they made some big plays holding them to 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.440 ten points. Sure, because the overall performance from a yardage 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.119 standpoint giving up four hundred and seventy yards, which is 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.439 the most yards they've given up in the last twenty 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:46.760 two games. And what's troubling to me is if you 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.240 look at what this defense had done over the last 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.399 two games. Going back to the Rams playoff games, the 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.840 Rams had four hundred and fifty nine yards against them. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.240 If you add that together, that's nine hundred and twenty 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.040 nine yards they've given up in the last two games, 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.560 a long and four hundred and twenty four of those 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.720 are rushing yards, So one fifty one yesterday to the Giants. 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.119 And we don't need to keep tract of how many 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.080 games they've played without giving up a one hundred yard 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.960 rusher because they did it already with se Quon Barkley. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.000 So to me, when you've given up four hund and 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.399 twenty four yards rushing in two games, that's kind of 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.240 a troubling sign. And I know the games are nine 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.160 months apart or whatever, but still you gotta do better 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.560 than that. And I'm sure Rod and Marron Nelly's Barking 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.280 in there today, Well said Mickey. Well said on that, yeah, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.280 I think to me that the game playing clearly was 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.840 to try and stop Barkley and to stop Evan Ingram, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.760 and you failed both in both. If you really want 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:47.399 to look at it, you know, you can allow the 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.680 others to make plays, but you know that part of 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.720 it didn't kill you. They talk about they talk about 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.320 they would rather they're okay with the yards as long 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.480 as they don't give up the points. The thing that 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.439 was troubling to me was we talked about tack and 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.600 it looked like at times it was really really poor. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.760 You know, so maybe that's something that will see to go, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:08.920 you know, as we get into the season, that will improve. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.480 But you know, yeah, you look at the if you 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.560 look at the overall numbers of who had to make 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.600 the tackles, Xavier Woods was your leading tackler with eleven. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.800 It's never good when your safety's having to make eleven plays, 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.920 it seemed like. And two, I think the Cowboy was 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.040 very fortunate the game wasn't close, because they would have 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.200 just steady dieted you. With se Quon Barkley, I don't 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.080 think they had a real answer for him at all. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.520 I just don't. And we made the Barry Sanders comparison 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.160 did too during the week. It's absolutely true about him. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.560 And you know, if he would have I think Dallas 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.480 took him out of the game as far as the score, 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.360 took him out of a game because if that thing 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.640 was close, I mean, they just kept handing the ball, 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.520 handing the ball, and you're thinking, like, man, they have 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.680 not really stopped him yet. Day. You know, Anthony Brown 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:53.960