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Thursday Thursday. It's thirsty Thursday, Nate. Nate used to take back at twelve pack on the way home from the practice field. That's a live look at the Tostitos Championship plows outside of front the four Center. What's the degrees today today? Is I should looked up before we started this showing yes, currently eighty five degrees high or somewhere around there. Um. I'm kind of I kind of want a little bit more nipped to the weather, like a

little bit. No no, no, no, but like just enough where when I get back in the car, I don't have to put the AC on the cool down. Yeah, just you know what I'm saying, That good ride, that good windows down. Put some metallica on AC No, I'm not putting. I'm not putting. No, no, I'm not putting. Maybe some baby face. They have a little baby face. What's up, fellas, I'm doing great man, I'm doing I'm doing great man. He is Nate Newton. That is Kurt Daniels.

I am Zaddy Holly. Together, we are hanging with the boys, the sports talk equivalent of Breill. People feel us when we speak. This secondent is brought to you by wingstyle where flavor gets its wings. You got your wish yesterday, I gave you computer. You're happy? No, I quest we got Zeke into happy. Big Daddy happy today, Big Daddy happy today. I'm right you, Kurt. Take it to him, Kurt, medium Daddy. I got big Daddy, Medium Daddy. Is any

request I can give to you medium Daddy today? You're doing, great man. All right, long for the ride here? All right, there we go. Let's get his under dog right. No, I love that quot. All right, let's go. Let's thank you Kurt, Thank you, Kurt. We're not going to bury the lead. Mike McCarthy had this press conference today. One of the reporters, I think it was, was John Macholda. I'm not sure. I don't know who it was. I'm sorry, I don't know who you were that gave this question

to coach McCarthy. But it was John. It was John. Okay, it was John Machilda. He gave the path if you want it, yeah, sure. Well, if you got a man do your thing, man, you should said, hey, come on, let's go play HIV team home on half. Yeah, no, you know, I have what is it this week? We're we're underdog. I'm good, all right, just from my Saturday night speech, I'm good. No, no, I'll never used it,

but I'll just say this, where nobody's underdog? So if you need a quote, m the first part of that was John macholda acting coach McCarthy, do you ever use the point spread as a motivating factor for your team? The Cowboys are five and a half point underdogs this weekend against the Los Angeles Rams, and coach came on and said, where nobody's underdog? I love that. I love that you want to talk about something that you know

you are. Your team's a reflection of its leadership. When oh body's underdog, and that just shows you the confidence that is permeating throughout this locker room, and it's starting with your head coach. And now that energy when they say keep the same energy, that is the energy that needs to be kept throughout the building where no one's underdog. Yes we respect our opponent. Yes we understand that they're the defending world champions. Yes we understand what they can

do schematically, offensively, defensively. Yes we understand that they have really good players on their football team. But damn it, we are nobody's underdog because they put their pants on the same way we do, one leg at a time. Do you remember time you're coach doing that? I played for Jason Garrett. He never did that. No, I'm playing no, no, no, no, no. You know, for what it's worth, Jason Garrett always had

like Jason Garrett is a good storyteller. I don't mean a liar, I mean I mean a storyteller like he like he can he understands tempo and tone of how to tell the story. So he always would have these really good stories and need really good analogies. But uh, and then a way after that way he didn't really

say much. You know, it was like hey listen, kind of Hey, we pay you guys a lot of money, go do what you remember one time Jason telling the media a story that he normally tells the players, and he was just kind of it was the one about guy on the cliff and he's got the yeah, and he was telling the men and the man is laughing as a real joker, like how this kind of silly? And then I got to hear a tape of him telling the players, Yeah, I was ready to jump through

the wall. The best ones, if anybody ever tell you the best kind of not really speeches, it's the special team meetings when you go on there and they pay that your your pregame clip. It's always like, especially coaches always want you to be an attack mode. So then they'll pull up all of the animals attack right, They'll they'll show a lion or something like going after a will to beast or something like that. And it's a

relentless pursuit every single time you go to attack. And so those are all it's fun special one that you want to us want to look out for. So all right, as we get into this Cowboys defense Los Angeles Rams offense, Nate, I'm not even gonna set you up. I'm just gonna let you do what it is that you want to do with this What did you see? We'll start with the Rams offense. What do you like about this Rams offense? This is me setting you up. I thought I wasn't

gonna set you up. What do you like about the Rams offense? And where is something that you think that we can exploit on the Rams offense? You know the Rams when you look at them our own tape, brother Jesson and Kurt, they're just playing. You know, they flash here and there. They forced the ball the Cooper cup,

they forced it to the tight end. They got two nice running backs and Henderson and Acres and the smartest this coach is you know, people can say what they want about the offensive line, but you can have our average offensive line as long as the other parts are kind of elite. And they do have kind of elite other parts. Now it is the willingness. Is the coach gonna take the time and try to figure out how to help this offensive mind block versus the run. And

that's what they're not doing. It's like, okay, they ain't working, let's just throw the ball. And so I'm just waiting for this coach to click in his mind because he is the offensive coordinator. Let's you know, coach McVeigh, let's get it going. Because he is one of the top offensive minds. You can say what you want, he is. He is that. So I'm just waiting for him to click. Man,

I just hope it won't be this week. Yeah, he hinted, and I guess press Commons yesterday that like they're getting killed just by four man rushes and so everybody else back, and he's like, because their offensive lines all banged up, I think they've got another center coming in this thing. Maybe. So he talked about trying a different strategy of some sort. But how do you I mean, is that something that how do the Cowboys prepare for that? And what could

he do differently? Given the people he's got, They're they're they're gonna see, like just said the other day, they are this copercat league. These people seeing that man right outside of them tackles doom. Cowboys a real question of them. They're a real question because their weakness is the middle of their offense. So we got the horses right there. As long as they keep their mindset, it ain't gonna happen in the middle. Now, how do you attack the edges.

You know, they have receivers that actually block, they have tight ends that get on you will Are they willing to do all of that? Are they willing to be patient? Because their quarterback is not playing well, he is not seeing it and I'm gonna just turn it over the Jets. So let me say this this, this Rams team had a similar rut last year, and I went back and

I found the numbers. Um, this RAM team had a three game losing streak last year that won a couple of games, and they went on this this three game losing streak, and here was Matthew Stafford's numbers during that time. They played the Titans and Matthew Stafford was thirty one forty eight for two ninety four a touchdown, two interceptions, five sacks. They turned around in the next week and played the Niners, who, believe it or not, just flat out has their number. That's just what it is, like,

say whatever you want, the Niners have their number. The Niners whooped up on them. Stafford's numbers twenty six to forty one, two forty three a touchdown, two picks, two sacks, followed by Green Bay Stafford's numbers with twenty eight twenty one of thirty eight for three or two, three touchdowns, one interception, two sacks. Then they ran off five straight to only lose to Who in the last game in

the regular season, the forty Niners. After that loss, they didn't ran the table and went on and won the Super Bowl. So to your point, Nate is this team is a team that plays um. They just play ball. They just go out and they play ball, and they

have these ruts throughout the season. I think what has made Sean McVay one of the best, if not the best head coaches, slash offensive coordinators, and and Kurt you hit on this as well, is the ability to self evaluate, the ability to then now come up with another scheme. This has been the This word scheme has been like the the the word of the day. The last two years in the National Football League, we've heard a lot of scheme this scheme that, you know, scheme here, scheme there.

That has been the word. And no one does it better than a guy like Sean mcvaigh. And when you look at this, everyone's saying, Sean McVay, well, they're forcing the ball in the Cooper Cup. They're forcing the ball in the Cooper Cup, and this team is literate with really good offensive players. Now they don't. They don't, they don't have um. The offensive line is struggling. Absolutely, they don't have Odell Beckham, who had really we talk about Cooper Cup and all the stuff that he did last

year and when in the Triple Crown. But Odell Beckham was one of those solid pieces in that offensive unit that gave you all of those things, you know, the intermediate routes to slants, the hitches and all that kind of stuff with the ability to go home always in the back of ye always in the back of the

minds of the defenders. But Kurt to you with with this offense, when the Cowboys look at this and they have this, they've I saw something today where we're talking about dan Quip was talking about getting his defenders more opportunities, guys like Tristan Hill, guys like Ghost and guys those

interior guys. Has the Cowboys found themselves defensively almost a little bit too married to this idea that Michael Parsons needs to be the guy that's in the interior defensive line because the reason why you're not getting the other guy's reps is because you're playing Michael Parsons exclusively now at defensive end, so that rotation doesn't get the other guys in there. Because you're going with Michael Parsons. Have they become a little bit too married to that? Possibly?

I mean we talked about yesterday and just the wear and tear of MICA's having and as Nate said, we've got some horses in there that can do the job. I guess it's just a matter of mix and matching, keeping them guessing and where Michael is. So maybe you

want him in there sum but I don't know. They've got a lot of good guys and they got a bad rams, got a bad interior line, so our guys should be able to handle what the This is the thing this is that you Michael Parsons is a big man six sixty three, sixty four, two fifty five to sixty whatever he is. He's a big man, but he's not a huge man. And what I mean by that

he's not two eighty, he's not three hundred. So every time he run into one of these big guys that weigh three hundred, you know, whether he knocking them down or not, that's a shot, he's taken, and you got Tristian Hill who finally realizes, man, if I can't playing this defense, but what all these with this rotation, I ain't got but twelve players? Let me if I can't give you twelve hard rushing, you know. And that's how they're looking at it, you know. Gallamore finally figured out

hold on man. They brought Bohanna in a six or seventh round pick and he's playing in front of me. The competition is so great right now. But coach don't want to leave anybody out because if I go to you, if I come to you, as Tristian Hill said, hey coach man, why well, you know coming out of training camp, this is what we felt. But Tristan Hill had a good, great training camp, one or the best. So you got to give him some You gotta give him the lead

way you gotta give him. But when you give it to him him and Tristan he'll say, when I give you d fifteen plays? Yeah, So when they put you know, Mica in the middle like this, and we talked about him yesterday too, but we talked about receivers scheming them open. Can they scheme Mica to get open because right you know, I hadn't had any sacks last two games. Statistically, his numbers are not what they were, you know, and that is because they've been putting him at one position, either

left for the right Devin's event. If they go back to when we started last year, this kid coming from the linebacker, coming from Will, coming from Mike, or it'll breakback open. His day is coming again, and it's gonna come in bunches. It just happened like that. Yes, you know that it's coming back. But what Michael got to do is take sit back and see what's really hurting. If it's hindering him. If he decided that it's not,

then you do your thing. But if you but you gotta be smart as a player sometimes, and I know those trainers over there are smart, you know, because it's times that you can play through injury, but that injury may not let you allow you to be who you are, but you still better than most. He's a freak, like you said, he's a Martian or alien or whatever. He's coming on with lights on the stoves or whatever. But I'm telling you that right here, I love what you said.

Don't marry him to no defensive end. You know, I try to tell anybody that's listening, Lawrence Taylor became, became and stayed more effective when you just didn't know. You knew his deal was the left outside linebacker for the Giants, But boy, when he went to moving around and you don't know where it's coming from. It's called longevity, and you don't know whether that atomic bomb is gonna drop next. And that's how I think we should keep Michael. I'm

with that great jazz great on that move. All right, So when we come back from this break, I want to get into the concept of Treyvon dis guarding Cooper Cup. We've known Trayvon to have really good success against the bigger, taller receivers. How do you limit because they're gonna get into the ball? How do you limit Cooper Cup and its productivity? Do you strictly go Trayvon digs on them all the time? Do you double them? How? How should

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would we would talk about this matchup. Cooper Cup is on pace right now. Kurt Chris both gave me this stat He's on pace to have a hundred and seventy nine receptions. What is the record? Yeah, So not only is he on pace, to break the record that is that's like almost three games receptions thirty thirty more receptions than you know what. That is insane And some will say, man, they are like they are like forced feeding him the ball. They're forced feeding him the ball. They're force feeding him

the ball. What about the other guys in that team. It's one thing, I tell you, who's not complaining. Cooper Cups not complaining. I can I can guarantee you that he is not complaining. And there's no secret coming into this game. They're going to try to find that matchup. But what most teams try to have is that one corner that you can go ahead and say, hey, you're the guy. You are the guy. Now. Cooper Cup may look small on TV, Cooper Cup is six foot two

and built. He ain't the fastest, but he is one of the most craftiest, and he has quickness and elusiveness. And sometimes this is not a racial thing, but sometimes kind of the whole white man can't jump. Like you think that the dude can't give you a little something, and the white dude give you a little like Cooper has lived off that like he's lived off that pace of it looked like I'm moving really fast, but I'm not,

but I'm really shifty. Do you think this is one of those games where Dan Quinn says, hey, number seven, you got him. You may hit Jordan Lewis may or may not play dealt with the hamstring. Right before the game last week, he said, feeling a little bit better throughout the week, didn't practice the other day. So is this a kind of game when you say, hey, Dix, you talked about it during the break and you should talk about it now too. But it sounds like they

move Cooper cup so much. How does Digs keep up with that? I would think it'd be hard for one guy to cover him. Well, I mean, if if you're in the star coverage, and what we call star coverage is wherever he goes, you go, And it's really basically playing ten on ten because wherever wherever he goes, I'm going. He goes get water. I'm gonna get water, he gonna get a hot dog, I'm gonna get go. He gonna drain the main vein. I'm draining the main vane right next to him, in the next in the tall next

to him. And that's just what it is. And I have other guys that may play a ten man type zone coverage because they're going this is what Sean mcvayh does pre snap, you can you can almost bet your bottom dollar and I'm I'm I'm willing to bet just about all the money that I have. Someone's moving pre snap. There will be some sort of motion, there will be some sort of shift. Now, granted that pre snap motion does one or two things. One helps the quarterback identify

what covered you're in. If when he emotions and that guy goes with him ding ding ding ding ding, it is man to man coverage if he emotions, and that thing just shifts over zone coverage, and now the quarterback knows, all right, zone covers, here are my reads and zone coverage. The second thing that it does is if I do pre snap motion and time it up with the snap once he crossed. So let me just pay a picture

for you. Whenever you see a guy start from one end of the formation, you don't change the strength of the formation until he passes the center. So when you marry the snap count with the motion, when he crosses the center, the strength now changes. So I want to catch linebackers and linemen shifting to the new strength on the snap count. What does that do from my offensive lineman? That gives me a half a step, half an inch. Whatever has to be on hooking the block, getting the block,

catching those guys in that rotation. So that's what that pre snap motion does. But Nate, is this an assignment? Four guy like Stefan Stefan, excuse me? His brother Trayvon Digs. Where you say, dude, does Diggs come to him and say, coach, nah, I want him? Na? No? No, is he that kind of corner? He's growing like that? But no, But this this is my thing, Jess, And this is what And I'm glad you explained a little bit of what. When you ask a dude to shadow like that, you're asking

your other four or five dbs. With linebackers, they have to make the ultimate adjustment to what type of zone we are going to play in and when that strength change, everybody, this is four or five guys got to change their thoughts like that, and it don't always work. I would let him go in motion. I would let him do his thing. If I'm not gonna belicheck him. We talked

about this off. If I'm not gonna put two guys up there when he comes to this side, I'm putting two guys up there on him, you know, expending a third down situation. You know what, if Alan Robinson can't beat us with that one man on him, we're gonna find out. We know the tight end. It's tough, but I'm gonna bump him coming off the line to get you know, I'm an I'm gonna make this dude. If you want this dude that bad, I'm gonna take him away.

Coaches people think that's crazy, but better check is done at a thousand times his first initial read. He gonna be taken away and he gonna have to continue to move, I mean none stop. So sometimes it calls for a radical movement. Yeah, you used to say that Dion would sometimes take the number two receivers. Yeah, I'm shutting him down by myself. The rest of you guys hand on the guys. I don't I don't know how they The

thing is, Sean McVay is so crafty. I wonder if his if his offense is too too tough to learn sometimes, you know, And what is keep my question to you, Jesse, what is keeping Alan Robinson from flourishing when we've seen receivers coming there and flourished man. Wood was flourished in there. What's the guy heard? You know from the giant They

flourished man. What is keeping him from flourishing? You know when Robert Woods he was so good because he had been in that offense for a long time, when he was one of the ones who kind of grew up in the offense. I think Odell Odell Beckham is just a unique talent. Um. We we we sometimes we missed the greatness of guys like TiO. We missed the greatness of guys like Odell Beckham des Bryant because it's overshadowed by their personality or their their antics, and so we

sometimes labeled them. But we missed a partner. You know what, Till's a smart football player. Ut Beckham could be a really smart football player. Um. You know, I was in a when we're in Minnesota with TiO and just listening and with he on the backseat of the car driving to to to Marry Street the rule and listening to him breakdown offenses and and talk about it. I'm like, damn, let's do this. All you know is you see the bicycle, you see the ads in the front yard. You're thinking, like,

all this guy's he's he's a he's a cancer. He's gonna not be like nah, He's intelligent as hell. He understands football. He knows you don't. You don't get a green green jacket. You don't get a gold jacket without having the skill set and then being able to have the knowledge of the game. So it's sometimes you have to kind of find your rhythm in an offense and for for a guy like uh and this is also important, people sometimes feel the missed this. Last year you heard

guys like Cooper, Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford. They have this thing called the Breakfast Clubs where they meet every single morning at six am. And this is before anybody else. Yes, and they're watching now. I don't know Alan Robinson. I don't know if Ali Robinsons an't making these but what I do know is that Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford has had this routine for a very long time. And when things aren't going well at times, you tend to

lean back on the things that you're comfortable with. And that's the guy that I've been sitting up with every every day at six am. And the breakfast club, learning and watching film with so you have this tendency just to go to that guy a lot more. Now, all Robinson could be right there. He seemed like the kind of guy who would be there. But it's all about him finding his place in this offense his first year there, and he's had some good games, he's had some opportunities

to do some things for them. Uh. And this is the thing that we need to watch as well, because Sean McVay understands and knows that this league is a league where you're going to have to make adjustments. And Sean McVay also knows that Dan quinn is not gonna let you just have Cooper Cup all day, all every day. So Higbee, and and and and Alan Robinson, this might be the game you guys get off because some teams are gonna start taking Cooper up a cup away. True,

I don't see how they don't. I mean, like you said before, you can take a guy out of the game. I just I don't know anybody else. Somebody's done it yet. The thing is, you just gotta have the faith that your other guys gonna do the assignments when you when you started shattering guys. And you know, I got this from Larry Brown and guys that have played with Dion.

And when you started shattering guys, the other five of the seas guys that's left to play that zone or to play the other man, because you have to be on point, because that's when you see, oh, I must was a blown coverage guy. You finally got five yards down and feeling somebody just standing over there, you know, by themselves, because everybody's not on the same page. When when coach McVay figure it out, Robin Alison, them both together, Alan Robinson, excuse me, when they both figured out on

one another, It's gonna be an explosion. It's gonna be an explosive. What do you think about the athletic kind of article today about the Cowboys last year led in the league in like man coverage forty percent or something like that. This year they dropped it back to like twenty seven percent man covers. They're playing much more zone. And the theory and the article was that because the offense isn't as explosive, they're trying to slow the defensive down.

Defense the opponents offense down by keeping them in front of them in front of them, making them go work harder to get down the field. Is that do you think that's true? And is that something they should the defense should continue to do. I don't have an answer for that because I know that our offense is doing everything any candicate to try defense, So I don't know

I'm much that's true. I have to probably talk to some scouts, to a coach you too, because they may feel like their players, who they have is those type of guys. But then again, knowing Q as smart as he is, let's give them something to look at this first half of the season. Then we're gonna come back to our own the second half of the season, you know what I'm saying. So he could be playing the mind game. They're scouting themselves too. The good ones do,

the great ones do. And another thing is when you're getting that much pressure up front, yes you kind of you kind of want more guys. I want more guys with eyes on the football and zone coverage because that ball is gonna come out much quicker. So if I know that I'm creating that pressure four front, five guys, because if I'm when you when you when you're when you're a blitz, heavy team that puts a lot of guys in man to man and if those guys don't

make the play, it's a big play everything time. But if I'm getting pressure, if I'm creating pressure with just my front four, now I know that ball is coming out. And for the Cowboys, this this ball is coming out a snap faster with the way these guys are being have been been able to bring pressure. So what I want now was I want guys to see the ball being snapped. I want guys to see the pressure being happening, and I want God to be able to react off

the ball. When you go back and you watch what the legion of Boom was like, that was a lot of that was a lot of Cover three coverage, a lot of Cover three coverage that those guys, you know, Richard Sherman, he kept his eyes in the backfield. The safety Earl Thomas was a free rover back there. Uh. And that's how they created a lot of those things. They're like, listen, we want you to see the football. We want you to see that when the ball comes out,

you're going to make the play. If you go back and you look at the Trayvon Diggs interception last week um who lined up against him uh Jehan Dodson and they ran the go route, go back and watch it. Trayvon Diggs never looked at the receiver, never looked at

the receiver. He was about seven to eight yards off, and the entire time he said, I'm giving you anything you want in front of me, but I would keep my eye in the backfelt and when he goes to throw it, he just looked, look opened up, still looking back. Ball came. He said, okay, like he didn't I point it. He caught it like he was a passing ye. Even though that was and that they were one on one down the field. It started as a zone. That's three,

that's cover three. He was just sitting back there in the zone saying, anything underneath, my guy's gonna undercut it. I'll play, I'll tackle anything underneath. I just can't let them good by me. We had a free state in the middle of the field. He just watched it, watched it, watched it. She because man to man, man to man, I'm here with you. I'm right here, Boom. But when it's covered three, it's a zone, I just know I got all the way to an infinity back that way.

So all right, we'll take a break, we'll come back. We'll finish this thing up. Man, talk a little bit more schooling Jesse cowboys schooling Jesse schooling. This is teaching school. That's the old school school in Zaddy, old school. You say no, like, oh you schooling? Hi, Like it's an insult. Yeah, that's to day. No. No, no, this come learning, starting learning those sensitivities. No, I'm not sensitives. I'm just schooling. I got it. Yeah first I'm old too, big Daddy,

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of all your travel needs. Visit Cowboys Travel dot com. Back to Hanging with the Boys. Welcome back to Hanging with the Boys. In our final segment on this here, Thirsty Thursday, the Cowboys are preparing to take on the Loss Angelus. Keep going to say, Saint Louis Los Angelus ravs this Sunday? What time they played Kurt three twenty five y twenty five? Is it a home away game? I gotta you last year for not knowing what a game was that look at me not no man, and

I could have swore that game was here. I mean I could have swore it. Man. Wow, Can I ask a question that based on something, or you got a direction you want to go, you gotta you gotta be the em zaddy. We've talked about this a couple of times earlier. You mentioned that that McVeigh has been able to when strategizing and what he's gonna do with this officer to the line, he's self scouted himself. And then you just mentioned again with our guys self scouting what

the defense is doing. How we talk about all the time scouting the other team. But how important is it to be able to scout yourself and be good at it? That that's that is when you can see, when you can see what another coach see about you, that mean you just ahead of the game. As soon as they try to adjust you already you already making the move. You are and you don't have to change right away. As soon as they think they tweak you. You you boom, We already felt us we are let's go. And now

that throws the other team in disarray. And you we used to do this big time, and it was always talked about at the halfway point of the season before they started all these buys. You know, everybody at UH you know, the halfway point of the season they bringing their scouting department in everybody just diving. Who are we? What we've shown people the first seven to eight games, You know what, who are we? What can we do to change? And what can we tweet? You didn't do

no whole sale change. It's just just something. Here's something there to make give you a different look at different blitz, a different run pattern, a different route pattern here and there. It was nothing big, but just something that you can adjust during the season, you know, or something that like Cooper Cup. We keep saying this kid gonna get slowed down, but it's just somebody to do it. Yeah. And it's

also the ability to swallow your pride. Yeah, that's the biggest thing when it comes like like believe it or not, Kurt ny people family. We try to say that players, and I admit as a former receiver, we are the devas of all divas. But we try to say players are prideful people. Those dark coaches are some prideful stubborn s obs. They they they have a style, they have a way about going things, and they don't deviate from that.

The really good ones, the really, really really good ones, are the ones who can look at themselves in the mirror and go that's not working, or ask for help or say we need to change this. But a lot of times they just won't. They just they will keep banging their head against the door and they'll hit'll what they'll say. They'll say, well, we need to execute patter we heard about for ten years. Remember where that for

ten years? No no, no, no, no, no, no no. You have to be you have to be honest with self and go, this ain't working. I need to change what we do. And I'm not saying, like Nate said, my wholesale, but there needs to be a level of adjustment that is done to better put our players in a lot of time, it comes down to coaching and the really really really really really really really good ones, those who win consistently are able to self evaluate and say, hey,

it starts with me, I need to be better. And that leads me to a comment that Kelly Moore made the other day in the media and they asked him about, um, do you have to that does it when it comes to running the football? Like do you have to force yourself to run the football? And Kelly Moore came out and just basically said it goes everything in me wants to pass the ball. Ye really, And what he said, it's a that's who I am. Yeah, so he says, yeah, like to run the football like I am a quarterback

at heart. I'm paraphrasing the rest of it, but it was he basically said, I have to fight the urge to pass the football because everything in me wants to pass the football. And that's one that's okay, we understand that. But now that you know that, be willing to adjust and say, hey, maybe I shouldn't pass the ball. And I think you got a little bit pass happy last week. And when you look at this Rams offense, Matthew Stafford as a quarterback, he's going to sling the ball around

around the park. And he's one of those quarterbacks. One interception, two interceptions, three interceptions, three sacks, four sacks, doesn't matter. He is coming at you again. He is relentless in trying to get the big play. So you always have to safeguard against that because he's not gonna get gunshot. Like he's the point in time if his career. He's like, I got a super Bowl, I got a bunch of

yards accumulated. I'm just gonna slay this thing around the park and see if we can't go score thirty ball, See if we can't go score thirty points. And the cow the Cowboys defensively have to be ready for that. Yes, sir, I agree one hundred percent. Man. I just you know, the days of Marino was before his time. Marino was way because Marino would tell you, I mean he would Guys would come to Marino and say, hey, man, y'all

rush for one hundred yards. Y'all really look balanced? He said, yeah, you know, but we ain't winning les Marino slanging it so and he believed that. And this quarterbacks nowadays they believe that, and they want offensive coordinators who believe that. But the teams every year that make it to that big Dance, at some point sometime during that year they show the world that they can't run the ball. And

they'll even have a playoff game or two. And it may not be the running back running the ball, maybe the quarterback, but they're gonna have you believe in that. If you don't stay in your lanes as a defensive linement, somebody gonna take off on you. From this point of view, so, uh, you know, I know what running is about. Running is only two things. Keep you in the red zone, and to keep you honest, to keep you down there inside that fire, inside that five, to keep you honest, and

just to move the chains now. And that means you want to run the ball twenty to maybe twenty five times so the other fifty fifty five players can be successful. It's when you run that ball what counts more than just running it. You seem saying I got you, jests, I'm covering you before you when you got a team, thank you. When you got a team like this where their rushing attack isn't scary and and there their quarterbacks slings it around, is it better too? I mean, we're

taking care of the running game. We're gonna shut We are shutting down that running game and take you know, let Stafford beat us or do you back off and say, okay, we'll give them their yards running, but we're gonna make sure that we cover back from Stafford. Now, you, if they control a line of scrimmage, you control the game. Yes, No, I don't care what. I don't care what scheme you run. I try the team you are. If that defense controls the line of scrimmage, they control the game. Because tons.

To Nate's point, we haven't stopped the run. True, Like we give up a hundred yards at halftime last week against the Washington Football well, a beat up offensive line. Do you think they are not gonna check that again this week? You think they don't go back and saying, let's see if they self scotted themselves, let's see if they got this thing locked down. They're gonna try it.

They are definitely going to try it. But if you lose that line of scrimmage and they're able to to to to if you just willingly give them a line of scrimmage, that's bad for business. You you, I guess I'm agreeing with Nate. Now you have to you have to at least show them that you're willing to run and try to maintain the line of scrimmage, at least have it be a wash. But they control line. Any team that controls the line of scrimmage controls the game.

I'm gonna tell you something. Two plays, two plays that I know that coach McCarthy and Kellum can't get out of their mind is they saw their quarterback have to throw off of his back foot twice and it was disastrous and I promise you they are thinking about do you see that? Do you do you see that? I'm telling you they ain't forgetting that because you have grand gamers and the baddest man on the planet in football number ninety nine, mister all world coming at you, my

man Crush Monday. Yeah, yeah, you got him coming at you. And it don't matter who you put it left guard, it don't matter. He's got something for all of them. So understand that. How do you slow him down? Fake like you're gonna run. You're gonna to do some screens. I would screw anything. We might be the worst screen team in the National force. Yeah, and we won't even do it with But I have to try. I have to try. Well, we tried, We tried today. We tried today.

I think we did a good effort. But we're getting up out of here, and the crew is waiting to jump in here here earlier again and no earlier the day like we like, we don't get off. We're gonna do what we do regardless, man. But tomorrow we're taking phone calls. Yes, sir, fans were computer no no no, no, computer got his time to what's some new fans of calling on Friday, Freaky Friday. We're taking call tomorrow, so have your questions ready for our call. Time to marra.

We'll give our predictions, we'll break this thing down. We're gonna have some fun. That is Big Daddy, Nate Newton. This is medium Zaddy. Kurt Daniels. I am vie Zaddy looking to be a house husband. Jesse. Thank you with the boys. Thank you for joining us. See you guys tomorrow we out. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.