WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Week 1 Roundup 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.480 Cowboys. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.800 This He's Talking Cowboys training live. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.079 From the Dallas Cowboys World Tours at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:24.640 Doty. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:32.560 Touchdown and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.360 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.120 It's a marvelous Monday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.400 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.640 Texas in the s WBC studios. Welcome in, everybody. We've 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.560 got Patrick, No, we don't. Oh, I'm used to seeing 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:52.000 him here. 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:52.440 Oh. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:54.840 Josh Roderiguez Hi. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.000 Does not have a shirt that has creased to the 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.920 tea right now. Nah, he's a T shirt guy. Yeah, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.000 he's a T shirt He's a T shirt guy. Stand back, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:03.680 what's up? 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:04.959 Hello? I'm Kyle. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.720 Yes, you know what I saw our buddies at Black 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:09.600 Rifle this weekend? 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:10.240 Did Yeah? 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.120 There was a Black Rifle. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:13.759 Absolutely. I stopped in and got me a little cup 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:14.679 of joe. Uh. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.560 There they were a mint at Shields this weekend, and 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:18.880 I went and they had a bunch of tents and 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.200 barbecue and stuff and they had Black Rifle. They're not 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.440 a sponsor, by the way, that's okay, that's Black Rifle. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.600 Was Black Rifle was there, and that's where I start. Generic 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.800 Sports Store. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:28.320 They were there. 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.759 They were there, and I stopped by our friends at 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.720 Black Rifle and I got me a nice little cup 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.280 and my son got some stickers. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.440 To add to his water bottles. And it was good 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:38.280 to see our folks. Man. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.120 They got good stickers. They got a good coffee, really 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:42.959 good coffee, and you can buy it basically in any 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.640 store in the Metroplexician and it's really good. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:46.640 It is good. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.960 It's just the most American looking coffee. You see. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.600 I felt some type of way. Yeah, we haven't had 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.400 any rt ds in a while. Yeah, yeah, just saying 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.160 I saw. I was talking to them about it, but 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.800 like they were like from out of town. They weren't 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:00.280 like the local. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.880 They're like serve. We're just here to serve coffee at 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.120 an event. We got the Generics store. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.480 Is it still in there, the RTD in there. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.480 Things got to be expired by now. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.919 It's been a minute, but yeah, we need to get 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.400 some some product in here. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.200 Some Black Rifle. We've got it right here. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.280 But I'm right here, baby. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.000 That's all we got, all right. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.560 Week one is in the books in the NFL, lots 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.760 to talk about around the league, goodness so much. We're 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.640 gonna get into what we saw out of the NFC 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.920 and what we saw out of the AFC here in 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.000 a little bit. I want to start with the Cowboys though, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.080 as we went into the weekend. Of course, the Cowboys 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.919 fall in Week one, twenty four to twenty the final 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.200 score against the Philadelphia Eagles. But I think as we've 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.800 gone on and as we've kind of looked at things, Isaiah, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.800 the more you watch the film, the more you see 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.760 positives to take out of a loss. And I'm not 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.640 trying to be mister positivity here. It's a loss, you're 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.880 oh to one, don't you bring that moral? That's what 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:56.320 I'm saying. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:56.560 It's not. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.000 I'm not trying to do any of that. But there 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.560 are positives from this game. We talked about it briefly 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.240 on Friday, having a hodgepodge of topics, But as you 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.560 rewatch the film and go back through it, what's kind 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.240 of the number one thing that stands out to you? 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:10.520 Ha? 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:10.800 Do you know? 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.240 I watched more film this morning. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.480 Because I know you. I know what your routine is. Early. 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.120 We've done another jobs that requires you to know a 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.240 little bit more about the rest of the league. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:22.600 That's very true. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.119 No, I can hear about an hour before the show, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.959 and I watched film are there are a lot of positives. 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:30.400 There are a lot of positives. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.200 One of the things that I feel good about is 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:38.200 Dallas's ability to generate pressure. No, it was a big 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.200 concern scheme pressure, scheme pressure in the first half. It 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.600 was not scheme pressures in the first half. It was 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.240 more or let's keep let's try to keep Jalen Hurts 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.880 bottled up, and we would rather die on the sword 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.400 of Jalen Hurts running around versus being killed by a 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.400 J Brown, Davonte Smith and Sikue bar Cliar, right, so 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.240 that you to pick your poison. I said it on 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:03.880 one of our other shows. It's like, if you had 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.680 the three portions of the game as a defensive unit, 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.280 you got to stop the two receivers all right, and 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.280 got her. Then you had to stop Saquon Barkley, and 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:13.960 then you gotta stop Jalen Hurts. If you can only 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.279 pick two of those, which is you can't cover all three. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:17.640 You can't. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.680 You cannot just it's not physically possible. So you have 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:21.360 to pick two of them. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:22.400 Try and limit the three. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:27.640 So you limited sequon Barkie substantially, you limit it, limited 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.919 the receiving core substantially. Jalen hurts, hurts you on some 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.400 on some pass, on some on some broken play. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.240 If you're talking, pick your poison. It's between cyanide and 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.919 killer mustard gas. For sure, it's all bad, it's all deadly. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:41.200 But in the second half. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.120 Here I am trying to be mister positivity and then 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:44.200 Josh is bringing. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.120 Out well, I mean, I could be positive. A win, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.280 a loss is a win in a way. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.200 But as you watched the film in the second half, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.120 I was encouraged because you saw eber Flu's make adjustments, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.000 and the adjustments that were made were a ton of 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.520 stunts on the defensive line. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:00.679 They and stunts. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.800 Good lord, they ran tt stunts, they ran te stunts, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.760 they ran all kinds of different forms of pressures with 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.560 the four guys up front. In addition to bringing Don 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.839 Bland Trayvon Diggs on numerous occasions, there was I think there's. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.920 Two plays where Deron Bland was a blitzer. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.560 One time he missed, Drehalen Hurts got out and another 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.120 time he got upfield. Really caused havoc in terms of 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.880 the blocking scheme and what they did up front. They 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.920 actually ran a te stunt or ET stunt at the 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.200 same time as bringing to Ron Bland. It really threw 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.080 off the protection of the offensive line and we ended 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.599 up getting a sack because of it. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.120 For the layman, what is an ET that's so? 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:42.440 Right? 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.200 So tackles and ends when they start swapping out positions, right, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.279 So instead of just rushing, if you're a defensive end, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.040 instead of just rushing upfield to your tackle, you go 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.480 upfield for a half a step or two, You get 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.400 that tackle to commit to you, and then you go 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.200 around to the guard. The tackle does the same thing. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.440 He engages the guard and then he goes and takes 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.240 the tackle. What you're trying to do is you're trying 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.480 to get one guy on the defensive line to consume 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.880 two guys in a blocking scheme, right, so that you 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.120 can free up one of your guys. So, whether you're 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.880 freeing up your tackle or whether you're freeing up your 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.400 defensive end, that's what you're trying to do. So there's 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.840 different variations of that. There's times where the tackle will 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.040 go up and then loop around. There's times where the 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:19.800 d N will go up and loop around. Either way, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.440 that's what the TV or the ET stands for. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.440 Let me ask you this, what does that look like 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.679 in a defense where you don't have a Kenny Clark 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.440 and you're relying on a Mazzie Smith. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.520 Let's say, I don't think Mazzi has the mobility to 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.640 do it, but I think with the guys that they 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.640 were rotating through on a defensive front the other day, 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.120 you did, right, you add. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.120 I just want to give the listeners sort of an 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.640 idea of what he's bringing now that you ordinarily wouldn't 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.680 be seeing at this point, even if your defensive ends 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:47.960 were a little better for sure. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:52.039 I mean, well, Eberflus, let's talk about Eberflus. Eberflus clearly 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.520 has a great understanding of what the responsibilities of the 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.360 offensive line are and his ability to run those types 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.800 of stunts, understanding where most likely these guys are going 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.760 to be trying to block you right and then being 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.760 able to find the free runner to go get the quarterback. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.920 Now the guys have to make the plays once they 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.000 get there, and that's where we that's where Dallas Cowboys 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.400 failed this past weekend. But seeing him dial those things 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:21.840 up was awesome. That was very encouraging to me. There 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.480 were some things offensively that were not necessarily the most 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.280 encouraging in terms of some of the route running, the 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.840 efforts that were exerted in that some of the. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.320 Ball back with your chest, what are you what are 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.400 you talking about? Not going to go crazy this week? 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.360 It's not Friday, But there there, there are, there are 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.280 individuals that need to exert more effort so that they 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.640 could be a more dependable resource for Dak Because as 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.800 a quarterback, if there are times where you want to 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.480 get the ball to one of your receivers and you 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.440 don't feel that there is a sense of urgency or 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.600 a sense of effort, I'm probably not going back that direction. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.000 So if people have questions as to why certain people 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.200 weren't getting the ball, that might be playing a part 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.320 into it. That's not to say that they're not able 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.760 to get open, but you need to see that level 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.080 of consistency in effort every single time guys run route 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.040 so that you can feel confident as a quarterback that 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.920 when I make my read and I turn my head 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.080 to you and that split second I know that you're 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:15.800 going to be there. 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.080 Well, we talked about it a little bit last week, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.000 and I guess it kind of resurfaced over the weekend. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.640 You know, people are looking at all twenty two now 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.160 George Pickens in terms of run blocking, and there were 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.240 a lot of plays where there was just not a 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.040 lot going on when he wasn't involved in the play. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.880 He really wasn't doing much. Does that concern you guys 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:32.319 at all? 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.400 I think that you have to understand the personalities that 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.880 you have. And I don't know him any It's. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.760 One thing if it's George Pickens, and it's another thing 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:42.640 when it's a guy like a Jalen Tolbert, who, yeah, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.840 so like relying on to be a good run block. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.360 So I mean call a spade a space. So Jalen Tolbert, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.040 let's talk about run blocking ceed Lamb. Please let's start 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.240 at the top. So for Ceedee Lamb made some efforts 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.440 in the blocking game, and in the run blocking he 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.280 did make some efforts. Now, Ceedee Lamb's not the most 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.960 physical blocker in a row, okay, so understanding what his 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.079 capabilities are frame too exactly right, Like like when I 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.920 played receiver in the league, Like I wasn't the biggest 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.160 reception receiver, but one thing I did do was I 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.360 blocked right. So there are certain situations that I was 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.200 placed in in responsibilities I had as a blocking receiver 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.800 that other guys wouldn't have. They're not putting Randy Moss 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.320 in there to go block certain guys, right, So understand 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.920 what your what your person what your personnel is Ceedee. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.880 Lamb did, however, make some relatively good efforts in a 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.640 blocking game, so that was encouraging. Uh jaln Tobert's not 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.760 a blocker. He's a big frame, but he's not a blocker. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.520 He doesn't want to really get in there. And you 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.280 could tell right, It's just that his intent when he 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.719 goes in there is not to demolish anybody. It's like, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.840 I want to catch you more than anything. Yeah, George 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.120 Pickens didn't want anything to do with it. I felt 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.520 the sense that he was kind of getting frustrated. And 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.480 Kyle can kind of attest to this during the game. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.120 I said, you have to get the ball to him. Yeah, 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.120 you wanted him to be fed pretty early on. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.320 You wanted him engaged him to be engaged in that 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:59.080 first quarter, second quarter and then build from there. Doesn't 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.040 have to be the big it doesn't have to be 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.240 scheme it up to get him there. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.160 You just got to get him in the ball consistent 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:05.600 with the ball. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.160 It's kind of like what they used to do with 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.040 Ceedee Lamb early in his career. Get him the football, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:11.559 just get him in space a little bit. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.000 You want to have the they didn't do. You want 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.480 to have the threat of both of those guys. And 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.040 there was a I mean early on he got the 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.559 ball right, he got the ball early on. I think 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.880 he had three catches for thirty. He had probably four 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.840 targets on the day. One was the big p I call. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.240 So he was a big reason why Dallas was able 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.880 to get down there on that drive. But there were 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.880 times where I felt like could have looked his way. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.760 But again, understanding the quarterback's mindset, I think there are 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.720 some other factors that might have been at play in 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.360 terms of why Dak may have looked Ceed's way on 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.559 certain down and distances versus George Pickens way. What factors 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.120 the effort, effort, just straight effort. So I think that 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.920 again that's me just watching the film. I don't know, 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.320 I haven't talked to these guys, but I would assume 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.280 that probably plays a small part of it, and I'm 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.280 sure that that will be addressed collectively as a quarterback 0:10:58.320 --> 0:10:59.080 and receiver room. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.800 I'm going forward Pickens just according to Pro Football Focus, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.080 and since it is the first time I'm mentioning PFF 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.800 this year, Remember this is just for context. Don't use 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.760 PFF as the bible when it comes to grading players. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.280 The all end all, Kyle, it's not the highest pass 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.120 blocking or excuse me, highest run blocking grade for a 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.320 wide receiver against the Eagles was Jalen Tolbert at sixty one. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.040 He got a sixty one, and everybody else below that. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.280 Pickens was at a sixty. Even his overall grade was 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.480 a fifty eight, which is not super high. Highest offensive 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.880 grade for the Cowboys in Week one was Dak Prescott. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.000 He had a ninety. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.760 Those are actually the two highest players was Dak Prescott 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.520 and Jalen Hurts. Both of those guys were the highest 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.319 graded players according to PFF in that matchup. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.440 Yeah, so we've heard through training camp, through OTAs in 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.240 training camp that they want to be a running team. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.480 We've also heard from the receiver group individually that they 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.520 want to be physical in their run blocking and I 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.360 didn't see it. I didn't see it. And the reason 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.200 why that's important. And people are like, oh, well, there's 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:05.760 was to be receivers. They supposed to catch the ball. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.400 That's facts. That's that's that is their primary role. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.600 However, the reason why you only saw one splash run 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.360 is because there wasn't enough blocking happening at the second level. Right, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.920 So if you want big plays from your running back room, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.280 the linemen are only responsible for those front seven guys. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.719 Now your lineman, you're tight end, and your fullback at 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.920 times that those guys are responsible for what we call 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.920 the box. Those are the six to seven guys most 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.920 of the time that are in that box right playing 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.800 five yards or closer to the line of scrimmage. Beyond that, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.040 the corners in the safeties. That is the responsibility of 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.880 the receivers. And if you want the big splash plays 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.800 like you had with Miles Sanders, you have to dig 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.760 out at what we call receiver, dig out those those safeties. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.200 You have to go in there and be willing to 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.640 go crack on those safeties and then you leave the 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.520 cornerback for the receiver, for the running backs, right. A 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.880 lot of times, like a running back is perfectly fine saying, hey, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.199 you leave the cornerback for me. I'll handle him right 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.000 like I'll run him over, I'll make him miss whatever 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.640 it might be. But you don't want to allow safety. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.959 Safeties are kind of paid to go hit and make tackles. Right, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.040 that's not the guy that you want responsible. You much 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.560 rather leave the corner. But either way, you have to 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.440 get those guys blocked on the edges and at the 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.640 secondary level in order to get those bigger plays. So 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.120 there are, when I say encouraging things that you see 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.400 on film, there are plays that are left out there 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.520 that could have been bigger if there were more effort 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.560 exuded towards those assignments. It's not to say that guys 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.400 don't want to do their jobs or don't intend to 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.520 do their jobs, but it's like maybe they were retired, 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.200 maybe they're gased, maybe they didn't feel like, maybe they're frustrated, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:36.480 maybe they were thinking, Like there's a whole lot of 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.120 factors that can go into I can say maybe all 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:40.520 day long, but at the end of the day, there 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:41.960 were plays that were left out there that could have 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:42.640 been bigger. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:43.480 Effects drive results. 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.000 For sure, it was week one. So having this conversation 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.319 in week one, is that a problem? If it can 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.280 I mean, if it continues, it's definitely going to be 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:52.760 a problem. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.160 But is it a problem right now? 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.600 Well, one thing, you know, especially about the coordinators and 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.480 how prepared they were going into week one, and we 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.080 talked about it. We were please with how prepared the 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.280 coordinators were. They've already talked about this. They know, they 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.920 saw the tape, they watched film, and they know that 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.640 their receivers and the run blocking in general needs to 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.640 be better. So they have to go in with the 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.280 idea that in week two we're going to pound the rock. 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.679 And it can be one thing to just say it constantly, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.080 but like I just said, affects drive results. If they're 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.120 not willing to run block, if they're not willing to 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.240 put forth the effort, you're not going to get the 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.200 result of a better run game and wins. You see 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.560 what happens now, if you're not engaged in run blocking, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.840 that's a loss when it could have been a win. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.960 You typically most teams, so I'll say this, most teams 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.720 that are successful in the running game. Right, you can 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.960 look at last night. It's amazing game. Oh man, freaking out. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.120 The receivers are the ones that allow for those big 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.040 plays like Derrick Henry's long runs to happen. Right, The 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.360 blocking upfront handles of their business. The front seven takes 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.480 care of business, but those in order for it have 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.480 to turn in from a five to ten yard run 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.800 to the forty fifty yard run. Somebody downfield got blocked. Yeah, right, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.560 Either they got caught up in the wash right by 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:03.960 getting to the line of screamers, and they got kind 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.440 of got caught up in it in the mumble jumble. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.400 But either way they're gonna get caught because then then 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.000 they have a headstart trying to catch up, right whoever. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.960 But you you see that usually there's one guy in 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.880 every receiver room for successful running teams that is responsible 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.320 for being that enforcer. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.240 Who's that guy here? 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:21.920 I don't think that you have one? 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.040 There, you go, that's that's the concern. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.760 That's where the problem is right now, because I agree 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.040 with you when you look outside, and it's part of 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.080 it is the wide receivers that you have in the room. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.120 Skill set wise. See, he's not going to be asked 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.120 to block like that. George Pickens, he's a bigger receiver, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.200 but he's not gonna be Turps. Turpin's not gonna be 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.120 asked like that. Tolbert might be asked to, but he's 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.440 not going to he's And that's just part of how 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:48.120 how it goes. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:49.720 And those are the guys that's where you need. 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.360 The Ryan Flanoy's on the roster or the Jalen Brooks 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.360 is on the That's why Noel Brown was so lo 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.760 Noeh Brown, That's a great example of somebody that's willing to. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.720 Go and do that. Are they gonna catch a hundred passes? 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.880 Probably not, yeah, exactly. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.920 But you need somebody like that to just give you 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:05.880 that versatility. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.000 I would say. No Brown's also a kind of a 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.000 receiving threat now too. Yes, a little bit, you know, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.040 a little play. He's still in the league for a 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.280 reason exactly. He's been around for a little bit doing 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:16.040 more than just blocking. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:16.400 For sure. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.840 You mentioned that game forty one forty oh last night, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.880 the Buffalo Bills come back to beat the Baltimore Ravens. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.560 I want to talk through that game here in just 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.320 a little bit. But when we come back. 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