WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: State of the Star 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.160 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:13.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he is 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.240 Talking Cowboys, springing live from the Dallas Cowboys World Tours 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:19.560 at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:27.160 Streams, got tisis Any Continent Touchdowns. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:32.680 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:37.640 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.640 It's a Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.839 Rifle Coffee Company, the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.920 As we have a brand new crew on side inside 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:56.080 the SWBC Mortgage Studios. It's a podcast mix up week 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.120 here on the bye week for the Dallas Cowboys. It's 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.920 always been a tradition for Derek Eagleton and company to 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.399 throw a wrench into things and completely mix and match. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.960 So we have four different podcasts represented now here on 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.080 Talking Cowboys. Of course we've got the return to Talking 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.240 Cowboys for Brian brought us who's on Cowboys Break, What's Up? 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:16.839 Double Beat? Doing well? Boys? 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.240 Thanks for allowing me to get in early today. I 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.480 don't have the tea time like church over there. We 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.560 got a lot going on in the city that I'm 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.800 a part of. So excited to be with you guys 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:28.240 this morning. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.800 Kurt and are Barry don't understand it yet, but this 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.520 is really just going to be a draft show. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.440 If that's the case, Kurt's going to have us ride 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:41.360 a magazine here. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.520 While throw it together and get it done early. We 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.400 have Kurt Daniels from hanging with the boys. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:48.400 What's going on, Kurt. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:49.480 I'm glad to see you guys. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.440 Always fun to hang out with some new company around here. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.280 Yeah, that's good. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.320 It's a little bit different than Nate Shannon and Jesse right. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.120 Well, you know that one's we're always just steps away 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.400 from driving into the ditch. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.960 So at least they got somebody that put their hands 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.960 on the wheel. You can lean over and like maybe 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.240 touch the brake over there. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:10.400 Sometimes try. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:10.920 I try. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.280 Then you've got Nate like slapping the hand down and 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:15.320 say no. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.360 Let's keep this thing wrong. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.280 Let me tell you something. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.560 Yeah, my favorite Nate story was I was doing a 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.040 pregame with him one time, or actually a postgam sorry, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.760 and and I was just going off as one of 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.160 those bad cowboy losses. And I was just going off 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.959 on it and and and we went to commercial. Lindsay 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.040 Draper through at the break and Nate. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:34.280 Looks at me. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.600 He goes, you're trying to get fired, aren't you. And 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:39.680 I'm like, I'm like Nate, he goes, I know I 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.560 feel the same way, man, I just can't say it 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.560 the way you say it. That's the fun thing about 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.520 working with Nate. He always he's always going to give 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.000 you his opinion on the. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.320 Will toe the line. He does a great job of it. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.280 Speaking up, We've got Barry Church, yes sir, from the 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.359 players Loud Yes sir, and many other Dallas Cowboys dot 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.520 com programs. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:00.360 Have my fingerprints all over it. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:00.560 Man. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.880 But I'm glad i'm here early. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:02.320 Yeah. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.720 Usually I got the two PM the middle of the day, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.040 you know, I can't get that swing in. But today, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.080 today is a different story. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.040 It's a little bit different. We got the coat and 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:15.239 tie guys here today with us as well. Yeah, true, true. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.640 It was funny because when Derek first released the nine Am, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.680 we saw it at the same time that Cowboys fans 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.040 saw it. We didn't get any heads up, no email 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.880 where they was like, hey, can you make it? Like No, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.760 Derek just threw it out there and said here it is. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.720 And my first thought was, man, that's early for BC. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.120 But he gets on the golf course too. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.320 Gotta wake up a little bit earlier. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.480 But now you get to go swing the golf clubs 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.080 a little bit here in. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:42.840 A couple of moments. But glad to have you guys 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:43.400 on the show. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.200 Of course, if if you're a normal listener to talking Cowboys, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.320 be sure to check out Cowboys Break, Hang with the Boys, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.200 Players Lounge. All these guys do great jobs with their 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.800 respective crews along the Dallas Cowboys dot com network. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.360 But we do have some some cowboys to talk about. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.160 And I really wanted to use today and Monday as 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.600 a state of the organization, kind of a bye week 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.640 checkup self, say yeah, self, scout, kind of look in words, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.200 see what this team is. Did we over anticipate? Did 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.080 we put too much expectations, too many expectations on this 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.040 team going into the season. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:20.960 Or was it just right? 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.240 Do you still believe that this team can get where 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.719 they need to get in order to push for an 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.400 NFC championship game, in order to push for a Super Bowl. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.080 I'll start with you, Brian, whenever you look at the 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.479 expectations that you had specifically for this team going into 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:40.040 twenty twenty three. Have they wavered to this point in 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:40.520 the season. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.799 Yeah. I think there was going to be a loss 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.560 or two along the way that you didn't expect. We 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.760 got that one early in Arizona. I thought they were 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.359 going to steal a game somewhere that you didn't expect. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.359 We really haven't seen that one yet. You know, maybe 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.520 that San Francisco. Everybody had San Francisco, you know, sign 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.800 either above or right where the Cowboys were to be 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.400 foreign two at this point, you know, I'm a little 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.200 bit I shouldn't say I'm not surprised, because I was 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.320 one of those guys when you make. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:10.679 June predictions on the radio. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.160 It was, Okay, they're gonna be three and three, and 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.800 McCarthy's gonna hand over the play calling to Brian Schottenheimmer. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.359 I just thought there was just so much turnover on 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.520 the offensive staff. I was thinking, it's gonna take some 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.279 games for some continuity here. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.239 So I believe that right where I thought. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.000 Maybe defensively I'm a little bit more concerned than I 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.680 was going coming out of training camp, But offensively I 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.200 kind of felt this is maybe where they were gonna 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.320 be the first six games. Defensively, it's there's been some 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:43.680 challenges for them. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.520 What do you think, Kurt, Yeah, I kind of agree 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.240 that record wise, Yeah, fourign two, this is probably where 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.120 you expect them to be with a lot of hope 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.760 always coming into the season, but then you had it's 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.440 the way the wins and losses came. Yeah, when you 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.520 blew out Giants, blew out Patriots, all going to the 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.200 Super Bowl, and then you just get dismantled by the 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.280 forty nine ers. So some reason the four and two 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.320 seems worse than maybe it is. So yeah, I agree 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.120 with Brian. There's some concerns both offensively and defensively, a 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.279 lot of self scouting. I hope it gets done this week, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.640 but at least record wise, you know they're in a 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:19.080 good spot. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.360 I think, yeah, I'm gonna make it a three for three 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:21.880 on this one. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.440 When you talk about record wise, I feel like this 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.159 team is kind of right where we thought they would be. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.680 I didn't think they would drop that Arizona game, so 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.240 I had them coming around five and one, losing only 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.680 the San Francisco out there. But when you talk about offensively, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.159 I think this is where I kind of figured they 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.840 would be at because you talked Mike McCarthy was talking 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.320 in the offseason it was all about controlling the clock, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:44.880 ground and pound, and we're gonna. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:45.919 Play to the strength of our defense. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.480 And I think that's what you've seen so far from 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.960 this Texas Coast whatever West Coast offense, whatever you want 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:51.560 to call it. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.800 I think they've played to the strength, which is the defense. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.080 What's concerning for me, and I'm gonna go ahead and 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:57.800 piggyback on what Brian was saying. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.279 Is defensively, it just hasn't been consistent. When you're going 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.560 against that wouldn't even say powerhouses like Arizona. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.560 You're going against an athletic quarterback who gave your defense 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.760 fits and the run game that gave your defense fits. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.160 And we saw that all last year. You know, with 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.960 the drafting of Mazi Smith, Hankins coming in there, you know, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.920 Diggi Zua rowing in his in his defensive line problems. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.840 We thought, okay, maybe we can get this situation under control. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.160 But then Arizona hit you off with two hundred. We 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:25.920 seen what the forty nine ers were able to do. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:27.800 So to me, you know the strength of this team 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.200 is still defensively, but it's a little bit concerning just 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.680 a little bit concerning of the gases that the defense 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.200 has been given up, because we look at that game 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.160 last week, Herbert, who I think he's one of the 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:38.960 better quarterbacks in. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.960 The league, he missed a lot of wide open throws 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:41.240 out there. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.239 There was a lot of coverages where cats were wide 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.320 open out there. So you know, the self doubting what 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.240 happened during the bye week, and hopefully we can get 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.120 this thing kind of put together. But defensively, I do 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:50.920 have some concerns. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:51.600 I think it's. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.000 Interesting when you talk about the defense because going back 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.440 to what Kurt said initially, with the way that the 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.240 wins and losses came, the defense looked historic. I mean, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.800 that was what we were talking about, right and he 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.280 was saying turnovers, takeaways, yards per game, it didn't matter. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.960 This defense was gonna get it done. And now you're 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:10.720 starting to see some of the cracks in the armor. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.000 Maybe it's from injuries. Maybe Trayvon Diggs was a bigger 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.520 loss than anticipating. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.920 Maybe Layton vander Esh was a bigger loss. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.880 Than anticipate, even though you won the game without Layton 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.080 vander Esh in the fold. But I think the expectations 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.640 have shifted more from my perspective on the defensive. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.000 Side of things than it has on the offensive side. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.720 Kind of going along with what Brian said earlier, change 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.599 of staff, change of scheme, change of system, it was 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.920 gonna look a little bit different offensively. I don't know 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.840 if I had an utmost confidence in what this team 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.360 was gonna do. I thought maybe they would maybe utilize 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.720 the weapons a little bit more, the guys on the outside, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.200 little Ceede Lamb, little Brandon Cooks more so. But I 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.720 didn't necessarily have the sky high expectations Offensively. We haven't 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.520 seen it from the defense though. That historic look that 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:57.760 we had through the first. 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.960 Two games, well, there's people, I know, the national media, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.800 and really you know, if you focus on that, they'll 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.960 tell you, well, Dallas, you know, was on their way 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.520 to you know, we always compare the eighty five Bears 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.400 or the Ravens, whatever, great defense, the Boom, the Legion boom, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.040 the doomsday defenses. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.480 Here in Dallas that they've had in the seventies. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.800 But you know, you're you're kind of like those were 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.439 the comparisons, and then you start to kind of you know, 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.760 the digs injury I think is huge, just because to me, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.560 they were so much better off digs. And we're seeing 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.000 some stuff with Gilmore that I know, maybe we'll get 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.960 into about him. There's some slippage going on with Gilmour there, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.760 and it's not that the mental slippage or the desire 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.079 and all that, it's some physical stuff with him. He 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:49.120 doesn't run as well, he doesn't have his quickness, but 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.760 he's smart and he's willing, he's tough. He'll do what 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.400 he has to do to He's going to have to 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.040 play the seasons on a lot of guts and just 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.920 instinct because he does doesn't have that ability to chase 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.520 people like he once did and stayed with people like 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.720 he once did. So that's something Another thing for this defense. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.839 I thought the safety play was going to be a 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.400 lot better. I'm sorry, Buried. No offense to the great 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.360 safeties that have played the but my favorite player ever 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.560 in football is a safety for Darren Woodson. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.240 Ur yeah, Arry Church. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.959 But but the thing about it is, though the safety 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.200 play hasn't been as great, you know, and that's and 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.360 that's been an issue for this for this team too. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:29.559 They create a lot of pressure. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.400 The turnovers, all those things were kind of you know, 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.120 like you're thinking, like, you know, eighty five Bears, level pressures, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.760 all those things, eighty five Bears. But then the Arizona 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.000 game and then people started kind of figuring out a 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.160 little bit. San Francisco exposed some things that Arizona did 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.720 to you. You know, the Chargers tried to do some 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.760 things to you. Bearers, absolutely right. They missed some huge plays, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.520 but probably because some of that pressure affected the way 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.680 that the quarterback you know, was navigating that game. So 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.440 it's it's it's gonna be interesting going for you always 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.640 say it's going to be interesting. I just wonder how 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.360 they're going to be able to mask some of the 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.920 things that some of the deficiencies they have. It was 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.360 nice to see Deimoon Clark have. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.160 A really good game. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.880 He was really good against the Patriots, but before that 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.839 he really hadn't been very good. He played very well 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.559 in this past game. But are teams going to figure 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.160 out having Bell down in the box no more? Until 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.120 Van der Esh gets back and we'll see how they 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:22.760 adjust to that. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.480 I'm a little surprised to hear all of you talk 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.400 about the concerns with the defense, because there are concerns, 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.080 but they're still top five defense or so they're going 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.920 to win you some games. But to me, it's the offense. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.240 Maybe I bought into the hope of the Texas Coast, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.599 but I just wonder if this offense is going to 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.400 be on to well, I think the offense offense is 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:45.160 are they a chance? 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.040 So I think I. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.760 Think that we were all cheerleading for this, these five 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.360 guys to play together, you know, and then we you know, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.559 you didn't see that at all in training camp and McCarthy, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.959 you know, by people could say, well, they didn't play 0:11:58.000 --> 0:11:59.760 together in training camp and all that, and you throw 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:00.280 that out there. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:01.040 But you know what they did. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.520 They developed some backups to the point where I'm like, oh, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.160 this is you know this guy has to play. Okay, fine, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.559 you know, you know whoever has to play. I'm comfortable 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.040 with those guys going in the game now. It's not 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.080 an unknown. The worry for me from the Cowboy offense 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.800 is the five guys that are playing right now. Because 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.920 you go back and you watch y'all twenty two, which 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.600 we all do. You know you're going to just go 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.680 through And I did it for my radio show yesterday 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.319 one O five to three the Fan. It broke down 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.120 every single run that they had. And there's a common 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.320 thread about this, and you could talk about continuity and 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.600 all that, but they were never going to get continuity. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.640 Zach Martin held out majority training camp. You know, they 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.080 chose not to play Tyron Smith, you know, even practice 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.240 him in times. You know, there was a lot of 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.360 things that they felt like that maybe they were Okay, 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.440 we're going to get these five guys back and we're 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.160 going to be okay about it, but they as a 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.080 unit have not played. So I know that Zach Martin 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.559 played on one leg last game. I mean, he's got 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.040 the thigh problem that he was really playing on one leg. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.680 I thought Beadish was hurt. Beadish is not hurt. He's 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.040 just had some rough goes at it. This offensive line 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.000 has not been as good as we all thought it 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:12.720 was going to be. And that's to your point if 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.400 you asked me an offensive question problem. And they don't 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.160 block very well with the tight ends a point of 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.280 attack right now, that's something else that's been You look 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.800 at the running game and you could throw it on 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.679 Pollard and no Zeke and all that, but you watch 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.480 what happens up front. They're trying to scheme. Some things 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.680 they just physically don't win enough one on one battles 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.760 or combo blocks, or when they pull they can't get 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.920 the second guy up into the second level. There's a 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.000 lot of things going on with this offensive line. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.719 Yeah, and when you talk about that offensive line, we 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.040 saw the biggest plays out of that out of that 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.280 Chargers game. Whereas when Dak was off schedule, when it 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.160 wasn't let me sit back, I got protection, let me 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.120 go ahead and rifle his ball in there. It was 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.680 things were breaking down all around, and protection broken down. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.040 The biggest play of the game with Pollard, everything was 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.760 going around. He should have should have been said he 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.559 got out of that thing. He threw it across body 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.920 and made a huge play. So I'm definitely concerned about 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.760 the offensive line going forward. But I also got to 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.160 throw something at these receivers as well. I mean, look, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.280 Ceede Lamb. He had a good game, but also he's 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.760 going against the worst passing secondary in the National Football League, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.240 So I expect the guy like that have to go off. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.240 But the rest of these guys we're talking about Gallup Cooks. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.280 He was four for four, four targets, four receptions in 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.120 a TD but Gallup, you had ten ten targets out there. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:22.600 I think. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.120 Our secondary three catches I think for twenty four yards. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:28.720 That's not going to cut it. Because when you go 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.280 against these upper echelon defenses like we went against the 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.920 forty nine ers, they're going to figure out a way 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.800 to slow down Ceede Lamb's production out there. We're gonna 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.160 have to have these rest of these guys win these 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.440 one on one battles, and that's something that we haven't 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.000 seen so far from this year from this wide receiver corps. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.160 When you talk about separation and being able to get 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.040 the ball and win these one on one battles, we. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.080 Just haven't seen that yet. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.800 So that's another concern with the offense as far as 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.160 production and how they're going to move this football well. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:52.720 Real quick too. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.160 If you're one of those people out there that says 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.960 Dak has to have everything, has to have, the line 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.120 have to have, the receiver, has to have, the running 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.720 game and all that, he won you the game without 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.480 any of that last go yeah, I mean and that 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.120 you know, So if you're if you're one of those 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.520 guys or galas, it's like, well, Dak's got to have 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.320 it it's got to be perfect, it's gonna out. No, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.680 he proved us all wrong the other day, the way 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.360 you were talking about moving around finding you know, keeping 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.640 his eyes down the field. Pollard did a hell of 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.520 a job and the Blitz pick up stuff. But they 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.120 they've got to have more. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:24.000 I don't know. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.320 People say, well, should Tolbert get more opportunity? I don't 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.440 know if they will that. I don't know if they're 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.480 going to give Tolbert more of an opportunity over Gallop. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.600 I think they're going to just keep playing because but 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.280 the problem is when and we all know it's about 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.760 Michael Gallup. Yeah, when there's when there's we all know 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.040 about Michael Gallup. There's two really good games in three 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:43.760 games where. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.360 He does nothing. It's been his history. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.200 You know, but you but they just keep rolling with him. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.040 And I don't know if we're going to see more 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.240 of Tolbert, really, I don't. I think they're going to 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.520 try and find Hey, let's get cooks, let's with Lamb. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.240 You could have thrown him twenty balls the other day 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.920 and he'd caught all twenty. That's just the way that 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.720 game was going to go. Yeah, But I just I don't. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:04.040 S don't know. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.200 Everybody wants to throw Tolbart and there get all those 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.720 gallop reps. I don't know if they're going to do that. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:09.480 I really don't. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.560 Kurt, you were talking about the concern on the offensive 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.880 side of the ball wood getting just weapons involved in general, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.840 whether it's Cooks or Lamb or Tolbert. If you wanted 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.720 to throw Tolbert into the mix there too, gallop. Just 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.760 getting those guys involved baseline improvement coming out of the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:28.200 bye week. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.920 Would that help you in terms of your offensive concern 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:31.520 I think so. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.560 The Ringer had a story last week. I thought it 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.080 was pretty interesting that this isn't a Dak problem, it's 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.520 a play calling problem. And you know, Dak is among 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.960 the leader league leaders in complete some percentage and some 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.520 other categories that you know, he's twenty sixth and yards 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:52.000 per catch or whatever it's that, and they're currently raked 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.240 last and use some motion percentage. I mean, I just 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.800 think that there's some things that need to come out 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.680 of this break offensively, that maybe you have the weapons. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.520 You got to get the bar in Lamb's hands. Yeah, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.480 Ferguson is here hitting this. The other receivers Finally, we 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.840 saw cooks. I think they need to find ways. They 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.440 have some players maybe they're just not using them quite 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:11.920 like they should. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.440 So we've talked about the quarterback a little bit. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.240 We've talked about the offensive line, we talked about the weapons, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.240 and now we kind of turned to the coaching staff 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:19.680 on the offense. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.159