WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Confidence Meter? 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:08.920 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:18.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.200 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:33.840 Star in Preschool and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:40.360 My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. It's a Tuesday 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:46.760 edition of Talking Cowboys here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:51.000 presented by Tostito's the official or excuse me helping fans 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.120 get in on the game and the favorite chip and 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.000 the favorite dip of Talking Cowboys. Welcome in, everybody, Glad 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.880 you're with us. Rob Phillips, isaiahs Dan Back, check my Harrison, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.720 Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeoman's. We're already in a good 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.680 mood this morning. You know why why are we in 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.200 a good mood? Ten to four because we get to 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.560 talk to Cowboys Nation today. Give us a call. Eighty 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.479 eight five five two two nine eight eight eight five 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.040 five two two nine seven. How's everybody doing today? Peach peache? Good? 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.640 Except who's deaf on our team that sits here all 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.280 the way up? Yeah? Yes, I know? Yeah? Hearing aid 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:33.160 for Christmas? So every since Monday last year. Yeah, seriously, 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.360 who's the last show Monday on? Or Chris? Do we 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.640 know Kreamer last night? That would be Shannon gross makes sense? 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.440 Well he is like sixty five yeah at least right, Yeah, yeah, 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.840 that's fair. He's getting up there. The Cowboys hour was 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.520 virtual last night. Oh okay, so they did it in here. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.040 That makes a lot of sense. Well, good, So Shannon 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.320 needs hearing aids. We now know that as a part 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.840 of talking Cowboys to start things off. But everybody else 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.840 is good. Isaiah, I'm fan Tabby looso thing one thing too. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.480 You like that worst worst thing too. She's at the house. Okay, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.519 that's good, the house. That's fine. Take here to meeting. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.480 The meetings are home from you know, I don't know. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.160 Heck Man knows that. Yeah, you know that too. Yeah, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.880 the meetings are home, so you gotta find what to 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.120 do with them all day long. Just clean up grandma 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:25.040 twenty minutes later, clean up cartoons. Huh, cartoons, cartoons, going 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.440 to gym, workout train, grandma, go back upstairs, clean up 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.960 do U by the way, isn't it though? It's every 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.919 everything right? Dude? It's like, no, you don't understand, Kyle, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.959 I don't understand, and you're right crazy, man, I'm not 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:45.600 looking forward to that. Yes you are, Yes, you are great. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.480 Don't don't get I don't want you yet. I'm good 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.760 right now. Hold yet, I'm all right. Right now, I'm 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:55.600 having fun. The oldest twenty three year old. I know 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:02.120 twenty I'm twenty five. I'm twenty five. Make sure you 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:07.040 get it right. Well, he was struggling, was all. I 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.639 was twenty three when we met that. Yeah, because that 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.679 was when I was. I can eat at the bar. Sometimes. 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.720 You rent a car barely. I still haven't done that yet. Yeah, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.079 I can barely rent a car. Everybody got their Christmas 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:27.360 shopping done or no? No, not yet, no, Isaiah almost 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.720 there almost almost Yeah, Okay, that's good. I got my 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.800 done yesterday, and I just was mad at the world. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.720 Everybody was cutting you off in traffic. Everybody's just crazy 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.000 right now. But you gotta you gotta go out with 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.960 your mind already right when you it's gonna it's gonna 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.880 be chaotic. You're in, You're in the crowd. So come on, man, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.000 you get positive, face up, a game plan. You can't 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.200 just go out just browsing. You have to know exactly 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.200 what you're going to grab. And I had my game plan, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.280 but then my game plan got up ended because the 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.000 game plan didn't have what I needed in certain stores 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.480 did have a plan and I didn't have a plan. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.880 That was my problem. I see I couldn't get these 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.040 off of Amazon. Amazon, you can't get these off Amazon? 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.360 I know it was what are you kidding? I don't know? 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.080 Is it an elephant? But raf, actually you could get 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.920 that kid? You prime in elephant telling you he got 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:24.520 the Harrison family a new puppy. Oh whoa Chris? What 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.919 are you doing? You just giving that out on Christmas? Right? Chris? Wow? 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.440 Can you guys have as listening to the show, I'm 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.320 super excited. Do you guys have dogs? Yes? We got 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.800 one one dollar? Yeah, we got we gotta what you 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.600 got dog? Dog? One? Yeah? Huh, let's go. You got 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.359 a cat? Right? No? I don't have anything right now? 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.719 She got a fish. I don't even have a fish 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:55.120 like cat. Somebody had a cat I was thinking about getting. No, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.880 Beamer doesn't have it. He has one cat and he 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.560 has another cat that no one's ever seen. It's a 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.240 mystery cat. It's a mystery. It's a mystery, mystery met 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.880 He always says, bo I got another cat. I'm like, no, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.200 you don't. I've been I've never seen this cat. The 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.280 cat's name is Scouts, like a Scout sniper. You never 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.720 exactly where some way did the kids want a new dog? 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.920 Is that where the jokes? Let's kill this whole conversation. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.640 I'm just curious. My wife just picked up X one. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.800 You want one of bars? I do not. I don't 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.559 have three dogs. Kid, kids, listen right now? Yes, Okay, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.480 let's job. Let's not Cowboys. Yeah, let's news and the 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:37.480 biggest dog we can find he lock in South African boorable? 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.200 How about that? Can you get one of those two 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:44.600 hundred and twenty five pounds master? Yeah? All right, News 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.520 and notes, Dallas Cowboys, let's talk about it. Let's go 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.320 what's going on with this team, the Dallas Cowboys. They 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:55.360 are relatively healthy coming out of the Giants game. No uh, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.080 no injuries that they've officially reported coming out of this game. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.800 Covids a different story, although no players, no new player 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:07.400 tests yesterday. Matt Daniels, the assistant Special team's coach assistant 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.040 to John Fossil, tested positive yesterday, so he's on the 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.400 reserve COVID list, and they are the league might be 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.560 moving to this anyway this week in light of more 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.960 and more cases yesterday throughout the league. But Cowboy's going 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.280 virtual all week in terms of meetings and then practice, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.800 trying to get ahead of this or just treadwater and 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.280 no more cases. Now. The HL National Hockey League went 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.320 on a pause as of last night. They concluded their 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.240 games last night and then they put a pause on 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.960 things to just try and get everyone right, because it's 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.560 not just the NFL going through this COVID spike right now. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.280 The NFL's going through it, NHL, NBA, pretty much every 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.280 professional sports league at the moment that is playing is 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.520 having some sort of issues with this. I don't I 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.080 think I know the answer to this question already. But 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.320 do you see the NFL ever even remotely entertaining that 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.200 possibility down the road? Doesn't sound like it. I mean, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.200 Jerry was asked about it today, and they're trying to 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:10.640 move forward with new protocols targeting, targeted testing not you know, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.440 and and they've they've even changed the you know, if 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.320 you're vaccinated then and you don't show symptoms, you're not 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.680 being tested is I think that's correct, right, and then uh, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.040 now you can get back sooner potentially if you're vaccinated 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.040 one negative test twenty four hours, well instead of two 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.120 twenty four hours apart one negative test, you can be 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.320 back on the field. So they're trying to move forward. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.760 What does that say? Isaiah has got a great look 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.200 on his face right now, what are you what are 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.000 you thinking? I having zero comment in regards to that, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.640 because that makes zero sense, but I'm gonna leave it 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.840 at that. Yeah, I think what I think one of 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.360 their rationale behind it is I saw a report that 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:57.120 Washington had like twenty five cases, twenty three showed no symptoms, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.240 and there's no evidence that this can be pas asked 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.960 on the field to each other during games. And that's 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.360 why they think, you know, it's it's it's endemic in 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.520 society now it's you know, and so trying to live 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.040 with it and trying to move forward, that's what they're 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.440 trying to do. So basically, it's a it's a step 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.960 forward away from the original line of thinking. That's why 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.960 it doesn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense, right 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.040 because it's it's not the way you've always thought about 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.760 COVID in sports. It's basically trying to move past that. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.800 It's it's a first step. I will see if other 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.000 leagues follow it, you know. Um, I'm sure they're in 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.960 communication with the NBA. NBA's having a ton of cases too. Yeah, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.120 so yeah, you could do one way. You could pause 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:37.480 it and try to make a stop, or you can 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.360 just kind of move forward. And that's what the NFL 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.559 is going to do. And then in terms of injuries, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.719 you said no big injuries out of that. Do you 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.200 think of anybody that can return? Akaa, Donovan Wilson, what's 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.920 his what's his situation like at the moment, sounds like 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.000 he's got a good chance to this week. Jerry was 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.720 not ready to say Tyrant Smith would be back this week. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.560 You know, if it's close, then I would think they 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.319 would try to give him another week. But he sounded optimists, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.000 very optimistic about his prospects the rest of the way 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.320 as they move into the postseason, most likely three games left. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.319 Do you think he makes it back this week or 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.959 do they save him for Week seventeen against Arizona. The 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.280 way they're talking, you know, Mike said, it's too early 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.719 to tell. It doesn't sound like they're super optimistic, but 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.720 they're gonna give it the week and see how he's feeling. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.760 That's good, Okay, So he could potentially get on the 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.679 practice field. Doesn't necessarily mean that he's gonna play though, right, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.760 not ruled out. Okay, Yeah, well there you go. So 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.200 there's a news and notes update from Rob Phillips and gentlemen. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.839 We talked a lot yesterday about the offense and the 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.360 look of zeke Im Pollard and Deak as a whole, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.400 but I want to before we start taking our fan 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.880 calls today, I want to talk about the offensive line. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.400 Because Connor Williams jumps in starts at left guard, you 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.240 have Tye Insecki rotating back and forth with Terren Steele 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.160 at the left tackle spot. Do you feel better about 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.240 the depth of this offensive line from what you saw 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.240 yesterday as opposed to what you it seemed the previous 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.800 four weeks? You know, I think it seems like it's 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.439 ever changing. And when you talk about Tyren Smith and 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.480 him coming back, obviously that's gonna be a bigger part 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.080 of seeing who's gonna start at left tackle until he's 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.880 back healthy, and I think they should take their time 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.760 with that decision simply because, as you talked about going 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.320 into the playoffs, how we're gonna need our full litany 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.400 of guys up front, and definitely need Tyren Smith for that. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.199 I felt better at left guard, honestly, and not that 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.199 you know, the Connor bros. Are looked at one as 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.240 the same, but I really felt like Connor Williams took 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.240 the lead last week, and let's just see how he 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.120 does versus Duran Payne. They've had their run ins with 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.440 one another over the last couple of years, so it's 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.960 gonna be interesting to see that matchup. I just felt 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.480 like an offensive line, you know, you saw them getting 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.760 after the defense pass protection. We still have some issues 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.240 and those are the things that have to be corrected 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.599 going back into the Washington football team week, but I 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.720 felt a lot. I feel a lot better about where 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.640 we are on the offensive line now. This previous game, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.120 I felt better. Obviously, Connor Williams came in and did 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.480 a much better job than what had been there previously, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.360 regardless of what Connor Brow was in there. I do 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.880 believe that this you know, is ready, this continuity, all right. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.480 I love it, this word that we keep using. I 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.319 don't know if they're kind of starting to shy away 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.079 from the traditional form of what they considered to be 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.640 continuity in terms of the same guys out there every week. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.240 I am starting to believe that these guys are approaching 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.640 it as a matchup. It's just a personnel thing. What 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.560 are we going to face this week? Who is better 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.439 suited for this particular team that we're facing, you know, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.720 playing against the Giants. Okay, you had you had one 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:40.280 guy that you really had to worry about, you know, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.160 on that left side. Now this week, who we got 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.120 three guys they're probably got to worry about on our 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.199 left side. So who's going to be best fit for 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.079 to handle pass blocking instead of run blocking? Right? What's 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.000 our game plan and what is the personnel that they 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.480 present that can create some mismatches for us? And that's 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.080 who we're gonna put out there. It give us ourselves 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.520 an advantage. Yeah, it was a true rotation at left 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.040 tackle in the last game. I want to say, thirty 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.160 something snaps for Terrence Steele, twenty something snaps for Tian Secky, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.320 and I think it came down to pass protection. They 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.199 felt like and Secki's experience could help in that area 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.600 in the game, so it's very possible that if there's 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.080 no Tyrn Smith, they go to both guys again, depending 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.480 on the situation, depending on the matchup. You know, if 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.520 they're more in pass mode, maybe you see more more 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.960 Tian Secky in this game. Yeah, I think Connor Williams 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.800 gave him some juice at left guard. I really do. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.120 There was more pulling, there was more movement in the 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.839 run game, and I think that's where he excels. And 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.360 the other thing is too that they really we didn't 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.240 talk about this, and I didn't think about this during 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.280 the week, but they felt like Connor McGovern has a 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.120 role as a fullback in this offense that they really like, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.439 and that was another reason why they went to that switch, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.319 because they like him in that two back offense. I 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.240 think it was a better fit for both of those 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.400 guys in their respective roles. I mean, Connor Williams has 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.640 been the left guard for quite some time. They gave 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.199 McGovern an opportunity to win that job out right. But 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.240 McGovern's been better than Connor Williams at the fullback spot 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.560 as well. So I completely agree with you. I think 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.760 it does completely even Aldan it makes a lot more 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.679 sense to have those guys in their roles. But we've 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.120 kind of mentioned this previously on the show about talking 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.360 it's a contract year for Connor Williams. Did he make 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.800 himself some money coming back and winning that job back 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.599 that quickly? I mean, he came back and it was 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.000 almost an immediate change. Is this making sure that he 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.320 one either sticks around next year or two is able 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.800 to at least ensure himself a starting job at some 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.360 place in the NFL's so that, I don't know, it's 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.280 a long way away. It's a long ways away. I 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.960 think it really. I don't know what the college prospects 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.920 are in terms of that position group right now, or 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.839 where we may be seated at in terms of the 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.839 draft and all that jazz. So there's a lot of 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.679 conversation that has to revolve around that. If there's a 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.520 guy that they can take at that position and that's 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.400 a dog, I'm pretty sure they would pull the trigger 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.840 on that. I'm gonna go TBD on that man, because 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.880 I think you still have so much the season left 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.120 and the way that the beginning of the season started 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.280 for him with the penalties, he still has some stuff 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.240 to prove um. I think you know when they went 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.320 away from McGovern and with Williams, I think you saw 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.320 immediately when when they went that counter trade. You see 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.720 his ability to move and maybe that's the difference between 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.240 the two how they operate out in space. But either 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.200 way it goes. I mean, I feel I don't want 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.160 to use the word confident. I just I feel better 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.360 with Connor Williams right now with after seeing the little 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.560 small sample size that we got of McGovern and McGovern 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.800 is so freaking good at the full back position, and 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.040 a touchdown is coming, It's coming. They all want They 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.320 drew that up. Kellen's you here, Kellen Moore yesterday, it's 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.320 he wanted it for McGovern. He wanted that touchdown to 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.960 go to him. But I mean, every game we're seeing, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.920 you know, whether it's with the jumbo package, the whole package, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.440 whatever it is, all of these offensive linemen are getting 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.640 in on the act. And so we talked about the 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.600 C word. I'm just gonna say that when you gotta 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.840 take another shot this morning. But everybody knows that all 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.400 of these guys, I think they fully anticipate being able 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.640 to play and listening to Jerry Jones this morning, he 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.480 talked about the flex position or being able to use 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.240 guys offensively the offensive line at multiple positions, and that's 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.280 the way that you see Tara Steel operate, McGovern operate 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.720 and also Connor Williams. And I think that's the value 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.040 that we have up front with certain guys. The C 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.080 word is continuity, by the way, just Coty just want 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.840 to throw that out there so that all of our 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:37.560 family friendly audience. Now with this being said, you're mentioned 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.000 the movement up front, you talk about the left guard 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.680 spot and pulling and allowing the athleticism of Connor Williams 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.160 to shine through. How much does that open up a 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.960 playbook for Kellen Moore? Does that allow you to do 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.040 different things? From a run game standpoint, we mentioned there 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.520 needs to be an uptake and pass blocking in that 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.440 past protection, but from a run game we saw that 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.600 there was some considerable steps forward. Is that just based 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.960 solely on the opening of the playbook with Connor Williams 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.080 up run? I think it definitely helps. Isaiah is shaking 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.880 his head, Yes, So I'm gonna go to Isaiah. But 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.520 I think I just from the layman's perspective, I feel 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.720 like everybody's been begging for them to attack the edges, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.120 you know all that. I think he's best suited to 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.920 help them do that, and I think we saw more 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.160 of that in the game. And it helps to have 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.360 Tony Pollard in the game because that's where he excels 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.240 the most. But I think that, yeah, I think that 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.200 that varies their attack a little bit. Yeah, he allows 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.320 for re to have movement. You know, I don't believe 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.320 that this is a downhill team anymore, at least not 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.680 where we're standing right now currently. So I think that, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.480 you know, the best, the most advantageous form of running 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.200 for us is obviously trying to get to the edges, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.560 and when you have running back like TP that can 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.080 come in and give me that change of pace he 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.440 gets out to the edges, when you have guards like 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.000 Connor Williams that can pull and get out there, and 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.120 now he can kick out those defensive ends and work 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.840 his way up inside to the next level of the 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.200 linebackers seal off guys. It allows for you to have 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.400 that movement that you may not have had without him 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.720 in the lineup. I love what you were talking about 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.200 the match up and probably using guys based off of 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.280 where you are guys on the outside or what have you. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.840 When we know we talked about that Washington football team 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.399 at length, and it was all about matching their tempo 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.000 and their aggressiveness at the line of scrimmage. And you're 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.320 finding that our guards are able to match that. There 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:16.959 are teams that we go up against it a lot 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.760 quicker on the outside, and so the Washington football team 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.280 is one of them, and they will put pressure on 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.200 you and not allow it. But with Zeke and what 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.160 we saw last week with him just looking healthier, if 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.000 we can play smash mouth football through the rest of 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.360 this sea, maybe that's something identity wise, we could kind 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.840 of take that mantle back up, and it's something that 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.520 we use in the playoffs because we're gonna need the 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.680 running game. No matter how you look at it, We're 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.719 gonna need the running game. It would be amazing if 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.240 we can line up and just go down here and 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.919 get four yards. How long has it been since teams 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:52.359 were afraid of you running the football? Probably years earlier 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.160 this season, But Isaiah's that's a good point, like those 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.280 early in Dak's career when you had Travis Frederick and 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.479 you had what I'm saying that will smash. That's why 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.720 I say a couple of years. Yeah, they you know, 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.040 they put eight nine guys in the box. It didn't matter. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:11.000 Zeke's got seventeen hundred ruction yards, you know. And that's again, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.760 this line is somewhat in transition. They're young at the center, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.199 spot Tyler Beaches think has played better as the year 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.320 has gone on, but they've had a change at left guard. 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.680 Like they're trying, you know, they're still trying something, still 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.639 trying to find the right mix. And they've had injuries too. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.480 It's kind of interesting. They've had one hundred and forty six, 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.879 one twenty two, one twenty five on the ground the 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.960 last three weeks. So I mean, as much as this 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.440 run game has been knocked down and torn down, it 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.000 still looks like they're able to produce a certain amount. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.720 Now a lot of that is garbage time and running 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.800 out the clock. And I think it goes back to 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.399 the reason why I say a couple of years is 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.000 because of how dominant that offensive line was a couple 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.080 of years ago. Yeah, when when Frederick and you had 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.760 Frederick and you had Martin Area, Yeah, you had all 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.119 those guys that were it was straight. We're coming at you. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.159 It doesn't matter who you have, it doesn't matter what 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.800 you do. We're gonna get four or five yards a 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.919 pop coming down here. You don't have to get out 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.800 to the edge now with this particular running scheme that 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.679 we have now and obviously the personnel that we have upfront, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.840 your your two yards hopefully three yards, and then you're 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.479 hoping for that change of pace, big play. Right now, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.399 you're hoping for that big play versus before, if it 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.320 was if it was third and three, you didn't have 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.000 third and four. Guess why we can run the ball 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:21.520 right We don't have to air this thing out. We 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:23.160 don't have to go in the gun five yards deep 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.119 just to go you know, three yards for us. And 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.600 now you're asking guys to go eight yards no lining 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.080 up and we're coming down hill. And I mean, I've 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.639 been saying running the ball, they got to do it. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.119 Running is great, but they got to get more explosive plays. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.240 They didn't have a single explosive pass play in the game. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.560 And so much of that for this offense comes off 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.800 a play action though, Yeah, so much of that true. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.119 Right now, I went back all the way to the 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.000 first games, all the big players I'm gonna say, oh, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.119 but a lot of the big plays came out of 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.840 play action. How many how many play action tries did 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.600 they have this game? Because I didn't feel like they 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.000 utilize play action a ton. I think they did it, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.320 they tried, They did it a little bit more than 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.399 they did in previous weeks, and I you know, I 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.159 think they figured out that getting Dak out in space 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.720 is better for him as far as the passing game. 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:09.560 But those explosive plays regardless, Guys, I just feel as 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.200 though if you can continue the death of a thousand 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.560