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week all across the Great Southwest. How are you doing? Guys? I feel a little egotistical now since you kind of all the out on my picture. I might change it now. Tomorrow you might see something else. Just just can't help noticing it over your shoulder there. I still say it looks a lot like Larry Brown. But you say, did not deal. These are the old uh Road Blue jerseys, The old Road blue jerseys. Larry Brown knows nothing about those are those the ones that had that's the one

that had the jinks on them. But we did win that game, all right. I didn't believe in that well, judging by the New Road Blue Jerseys on Sunday night. It looks like the Jinks is back. Maybe maybe and get back in the whole whites at noon Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons. What do you say, Nikki? Or maybe put them in the whites without names and numbers so that the opponent doesn't know who's out there. Right Well, uh, cowboys on the practice field, back to work today. We

heard Mike McCarthy this morning. That's where we'll kick things off. I've been studying the Atlanta Falcons this morning. In fact, just got off the elliptical about an hour ago and watch the entire game, the condensed version and not the three hour version against the Seahawks. I got some thoughts on that and how in the NFL the little things matter so much, which might be once again what the coaches talking to his team about this morning when they reconvened.

But Mickey, what's your take on how things are going out there at the start to day. Well, there seems to be a lot of roster juggling going on, a lot of movement to the injured reserve, to the practice squad, to the fifty three man roster, to talk into guys that could be on the fifty three man roster. So yeah, a lot of moving parts out here after the rash of injuries and maybe the you know, we knew about Layton Vandersch probably out eight weeks, had surgery to repair

the fractured collar bone. You know, we knew Lell Collins was on injured reserve already, and you know, I would imagine the hope is he only has to miss the mandatory three games with his hip injury. We knew that Blake Jarwin was going on injured reserve, we'll have surgery to repair a torn acl. He's basically done for the season. But what we didn't know and found out today was that Sean Lee, the reason he's on injured reserve not

trying to rehab a sports hernia. But last week he had surgery to repair the sports hernia and he's likely out going to miss six weeks, so five more after this weeks or after the first week of the season. So so that's somewhat concerning because you were hoping that Shawn Lee would be back, you know, kind of grit your teeth two more games and then he'd be back

on the field. But not so much so I think the Cowboys understand, and also with cam Irving sprained mcl initially we were here in two to four, but now Mike McCarthy said four to six, so the Cowboys and he's so they basically put him on injured reserve to create another roster spot. And now they're searching for offensive tackles to help with the depth on this team since they had to start an undrafted rookie free agent at nothing against undrafted rookie free agents. But I just don't

want that guy at right tackled too long. So we'll see where this goes here in the next couple of days. What the hell's were with it? I know when I was getting ready, I knew I was kind of stepping on it right now. That's a that's a great point. Everson. Well, you know when you talk about how you were talking still correct? Are we talking still? Terence still? Yes? Tern

still yeah. You know, when you look at how he played, uh, he did give up a very untimely sack that kind of led to out themyes for more than one drive. But when you when you think about the you know, the job that he did overall, I thought it was it was as good as anyone else on that offensive line. Let's be real, guys. The second half of that game. First of all, Da, Dak and Zeke were just bawling. I mean, the whole offense was just clicking on on on all cylinders. And then in the second half the

Rams turned it up. And when they turned it up, I would call several times in the second half, especially on key third downs, I couldn't even see Dak in the pocket. He was totally surrounded by Rams and he had no way to step into any of his throws. That was not just still, that was that entire Rams

defensive line coming to play. I don't know what adjustments they made, whether it was an attitude adjustment or whether it was something on paper, but they were a different defensive line in the second half of that game, you know everything. I'm glad you pointed that out because there's some people out there that we're putting this loss on Dak because he can't win close games. It's like, did you watch the game? Did you really watch what was

going on in the pocket? On how many times he was getting hit and had to move and couldn't step up in the pocket. I don't understand folks sometimes, And it was I mean, if you watched, it was fairly obvious what was happening, especially in the second half when they only kicked the field goal, you know, and the Rams didn't light it up the second half either. They scored one touchdown. Will that happened to be enough because

the Cowboys only kicked the field goal. If the Cowboys pick up that, you know, if Ans and Butts right, if they pick up the first down, maybe they score a touchdown there instead of coming away with no points on that fourth and three. So yeah, that offensive line struggled, and that's one of the reasons why they ended up signing Alex light off the Arizona practice squad. He's a

guy that's been in the league three years. Started played thirteen games for Green Bay one hundred and fifty one snaps in twenty nineteen, so and had played three games as a rookie, so he's got a little bit of experience. He was how about this, So he had been on the Green Bay roster. They released him, signed him uh

to the practice squad, released him on September tenth. Arizona signs them to the practice squad on September fourteenth, and the Cowboys signed him to the fifty three on September fifteenth, So I hope he didn't move, you know, for one day. So he's got a least a little you know why the Cowboys signed him then, But you know why the Cowboys signed him then? Why is that? Because they've got

it's the track, because they've had him before. This coaching staffs had him before Green Bay, Yes, absolutely, and they're familiar with them twenty eighteen Joe Philibin the offensive line coach, and so yeah, so they're familiar with him and that that happened so often that and so they're they're taking a flyer on him. They've had him before, they've got some product knowledge there. But it's it's it's a great example of there's there's not much out there. I mean,

you gotta go with what you have. And you got to hope that Lyle Collins gets back pretty soon well.

And word is that they were also meeting today with Jared veld Here, a veteran offensive tackle ten years in the league, and he actually it played he started one hundred and thirteen of the one hundred and twenty games that he's played in the league, and mostly at right tackle, and he was last with the Packers in twenty nineteen, and here's his track record Oakland, Arizona, Denver, New England, and then Green Bay and at New England he ended up retiring and then he had second thoughts and towards

the end of the season he unretired after the Patriots released him and the Packers signed him off the retired list, and he played had two starts at the end of the season after Bulaga got hurt. So Mike would have seen him if I'm sure he was intimately watching the Packers games, and so he would have at least seen him play. So, as I said, a lot of moving parts. They also signed a linebacker with Shard Smith off the Bears practice squad and undrafted a rookie. They're just looking

for depth, you know. When we were sitting there watching the person of practice, we get to see it was a lonely situation over there at the linebacker spot. I think there was five of them, and one of them was on the practice squad, so didn't have a whole lot of depth at the linebacker spot. And oh, one more move and we probably figured this was coming. Sooner than later. They signed Brandon Card from the practice squad

onto the fifty three man roster. There you go. Well, I tell you what, guys, this is my take on it. As far as the offensive lineman a concerned You can sign who you want to sign. You have some amazing defensive lineman in this league that we are going to be going up against. There are times when you can see our quarterbacks sitting in the pocket, almost like he's a sitting duck. You can see as a coach when the momentum of the game is changing just a bit

and you need to adapt to that. To me, when you have a quarterback like Dak who's so mobile, there were times when he barely escaped with his life and made something extremely positive out of those plays when the pressure was all in his face, I just think we are missing the vote when we're not using all of his talents. We ran into the same thing last year. I think Dak Prescott is a very good quarterback in

the pocket and on the run. I have always believed that we become predictable by just sitting him back in the pocket and admiring how well he hits a cooper or how well he hits galloped, how well he is to tight end. I think we need to start moving the pocket for this guy. Man, you know what's wrong with bootlegs? What's wrong with using this stud that? We have this huge quarterback who when he was in college

ran over the entire University of Alabama football team? What is wrong with using him in a very diverse manner manners? You have Lamar Jackson's as he's just a player to himself, but you don't have to be Lamar Jackson to be able to do a rollout, ought to do a bootleg, ought to be accurate while moving the pocket. It's just

so many things I think we're missing album. When it comes to Dak, soever said, what other NFL quarterback would you most compare Dak skill set to muh, This is gonna sound extremely arrogant because he's not nearly as accurate as who I'm about to bring up. But in regards to his physical talent and the way he throws a ball. Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Robbers, I think that can throw any paths he wants to throw. That's funny. I was I

was thinking he that was the answer. Aaron Rodgers, because if you think about it, Green Bay rolls him out quite a bit or they get him to throw the ball on the run on purpose, by the way, And you know when we watched you know, Everson, when we watched training camp practices, you know a lot of the drills they did before practice with the quarterback was this this kind of drill where you had to the quarterback had to move, move, move in and out of the pylons,

and then throw on the run into the net and hit one of the three targets. And I said, okay, so they're kind of getting him used to throwing on the run. What it feels like to move around in the pocket and not be stationary. And I thought, you know, okay, here's what's gonna happen. You know, when they used a lot of boots last year, get him out of the

pocket and throw to the tight end. I don't know if losing Jarwin caused that to maybe not take place as much in the game against the Rams, but that had been a staple in this offense with Kellen Moore of bootlegs and if there's nothing there, just take off and run. So so be interesting to see what's going on because I think they got a taste of, you know, the possibility that this offensive line might not be what they think it is at this point in the season.

Oh and one other note, j Jordan Lewis, actually this was the first time he took part in drills in practice. The last week he was basically doing resistance chord kind of conditioning stype stuff, but this was the first time he actually was taking part in the drills that we were able to watch. And Randy Gregory must have passed all his COVID nineteen tests because he was out on the field doing conditioning work with the trainers. So you know,

he's still got five weeks to go. It was a a temporary reinstatement and he couldn't he had to miss six weeks, but he's allowed to do conditioning work, individual training drills along with sit in on team meetings. So it looks like his clocks starting on his way to being ready to go after those six week period. And he looked good too, by the way, didn't look like remember you know, he always looked like he needed to eat more. Right when he got here, he was, you know,

like two hundred and thirty five forty pounds. But he looks good so and judging from the tweet when he got conditionally reinstated a pretty happy camper and was thanking a whole bunch of people who helped him get back to this stage of the game. And if he can come back to do anything anything romotely close to what Alden Smith did, the Cowboys will hit another home run with this guy. All Right, we're just getting started on

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looks like a youth league flag football teams. They'll use the football field there and they'll conduct their practices there. You've got cheerleading, youth cheerleaders that are there on the practice field there. They serve it as a practice field basically right there by the hotel. And you couldn't tell we're in a pandemic if everyone is socially distanced. I

will say that it's not like they're violating anything. You're supposed to be if you're around people supposed to be outside and if you're not active, they've got mask on and stuff. But it feels good that there are people out and about around the Star. So, Bill, did you figure out what? So glad we're getting back to normal? Bill? Have you figured out twenty five percent of the Cowboys capacity will be that the be allowed in since Mike capacity,

is it not? It's like ninety ninety two somewhere in there. Yeah, Okay, give me that twenty five percent. Twenty five percent of eighty thousand is twenty thousand, yes, and twenty five percent of one hundred thousand is twenty twenty five thousand, so five, okay, very good, twenty two five. And I read that you're I read that the uh, the the attendance of people sitting in the suites won't won't count against that twenty five percent, Like that's a private club area. I assume

that the suites were closed. They are open, not the bunker suites now, but the ones on the you know, top of the field level, second level, third level, fourth level, whatever that they're they're good to go. So that does not count. That does not count as stadium attendance. That's what I read from one of those representatives that's kind of in charge of this whole deal out at the stadium. So that's like their private homes. It's y's their weekend

getaway home, and they don't have that they own. And I think if and assuming the windows are closed or whatever, and you're inside the suite, then uh, you know, social distancing is up to you. M okay. I think one of the interesting things is, okay, say they got twenty two thousan five hundred people in there, is where are

they going to be seated? Because I've been to high school games at AT and T Stadium where they don't even open the upper deck, whereas the lower bowl basically and people are pretty a lot, especially in the end zones, they'll be socially distanced. Even though that it wasn't socially distanced, wasn't the thing then, It's just that was the number of people that they had, and people just would like to have a elbow room whatever. You know, they were

just watching the games. I wonder how many you can fit in the lower bowl. Now that's not and be in pods. It's gonna be in pods. And you know what, when they sent out the notice that they were like they had completed the sales to the season ticket holders get they had first DIBs on as many as six tickets, but you had to keep your six person party in

a pod. Then they put on single game tickets and for this game, when I clicked on it, they were selling the four hundred level tickets for eighty nine dollars for a single game. So wow, I would imagine you've got to sit in the seats you buy. There's no just moving around and you know, sit where you want. So they had supposedly reading this article and by the way, if anybody is thinking of going to the game or they are going to the game, check out the Dallas

Morning News. It was a pretty extensive description of what game day would look like. And uh, you know, the entrances, how many entrances they'll they'll be able to use to keep the crowd from lining up, and the fact that if they you know, if you want to buy food, it's going to be in prepackaged containers, and there's going to be actually people walking security walking through the stadium.

And make sure this isn't like NASCAR when they had the race in Fort Worth and people had to wear a mask and they wore it to get in, and then then they were in, they took them off, and they're going to be reminders that you've got to keep your mask on while you're watching the game. Well not just that, you know, when you're dealing with the cowboy legends, I'm one of them. Uh, that entire program was dismantled

for this season. So you're not siting autographs before the game. Uh. If I signed autographs before the game, it would be at some outdoor tailgate. But in regards to going around and visiting, uh, suits and things of that nature now that is off limits. That has been discontinued for this season. And I think I read where there wouldn't be any tailgating either. Yeah, well, thanks a lot. I said, I'm asking for a raise for today. Can I start? Can

I renegotiate my cot? As I told somebody on Twitter when they complained about something, I said, welcome to twenty twenty, baby, that's it. Well, it is going to be interesting to see what it looks like with fans in the stands. And take the Mike McCarthy show last night, and right off the bat, I said it. You know, it's gonna be kind of strange. You're actually gonna have fans in the stands on Sunday. Well, you know, he remarked about how strange it was in LA with no no fans.

He said, then there wasn't as much, uh the piped in noise, cheering fan stuff that he was anticipating, and was almost sounded like it was eerily quiet. And you know, and even um, I was told by some of the people in house that were there covering the game, uh, Nick Eatman, uh, and even the PR guys they weren't in the press box. They they they sequestered them in a suite. So the PR guys were in a suite and Nick was in a suite all by himself. Uh,

and it was quiet. He said, he couldn't hardly hear anything. It was the weirdest way to be able to cover a game because he didn't even have volume to listen to the TV broadcast. So, yeah, it's a different thing. So my question on that is is how much of the sound that we are hearing on the television broadcast is the actual sound that is in the stadium crowd noise or is the TV network piping in crowd noise as well for us listening and watching at home. Yeah,

I don't think they. We're hearing at home on television the same thing that's being heard inside the stadium, I think so. I think so, Bill, I don't think they. I don't think they have a different, a different crowdsource to to put on TV. Maybe they extentuate what they're picking up on their mics, right, because I'll tell you what, do you remember the field goal the Rams missed? It hit off the upright? That was that was the loudest.

That was the loudest bang I think I've ever heard on television in a football game, So I think they are accentuating a little disconcerting. It's got to be a little disconcerting to the field goal kicker because his failure

is amplified. Yes, yes, the fact that I mean, I will say this, I have been to a Ranger game, the first series that the Rangers played, and and all the crowd noise that you're hearing on the Rangers broadcast, that's what they're hearing in the ballpark on the home games and so and But I think there are some some TV networks are piping in crowd noise. I can't I can't recall which ones are doing that, but others

are not. I mean, if you think about if you think about watching the hockey games, the playoffs, you can hear the skates on the ice. So they've got Mike's all over the place trying to pick up sound. Yeah, in basketball sometimes the squeak of the tennis shoot yes, was mistaken for a whistle. But they do a lot better job I thought in Orlando of kind of putting the crowd noise in. They were very timely on how

they put it in. And there were times when I was watching the game and you actually think that there are people at the game, and I'm talking about the bench because they can't be heard over the quiet. But for the most part they pipe in those cheers and the different types of cheers that they pipe in or what I liked about it. There was some jeering, not just clapping and cheering, but there were jeers, and I think they even put in a few booze and you know,

like a little look calamity was going on there. So they were very varied on what sounds and types of cheers they were using. I thought that's what the NFL would do. It would be great for the atmosphere. And I talked to Mark Huban about it prior to the NBA season starting, and they have an app and I never explored it after the after the season started, they at an app where people could actually go online and

or with an app and put in crowd noise. And whether they actually uh had any effect or not, I don't know. There's probably someone just doing it and not even paid attention to what people are in putting. But but anyway, all right, I'm not sure if I have time to get into the falcons. Uh. Well, we get

started and then we can continue, all right. When you saw and I don't know if you've been able to watch the Atlanta Seattle game at all, but but basically, when you saw the final score of that game, what did you think it was? Thirty eight twenty five Seattle. I thought it wasn't tracking me score that I looked at. I wasn't just to score it. I looked at spags. Uh, it was Russell Wilson's numbers. Uh, he only missed four passes. If I'm not thirty one, we're talking thirty five passes

and you only miss four. Uh, that doesn't bolde well for what I expect to see this this week for the Falcon's defense and especially the secondary. Uh, that is, that is the almost perfection. And let's face it, Russell Wilson is a hell of a player, but he's not that good. I mean, really, no one's that good to be playing like that. And if I'm not mistaken, of course, no crowd, no crowd was there. But that was an unfamiliar field, correct, was that not on the road? There

was at Atlanta in Atlanta? Yeah? Did you see what his quarterback rating was? One forty three point one and a lot of that has to do with four touchdowns, no interceptions, and throwing for three hundred and twenty two yards. Yeah, thirty one out of thirty five. Okay, in what they did a lot with him is what they do a lot with him all the time, is they rolled him out.

Did you talk about those bootlegs and so forth? First past attempt of the game, though, he got sacked by Tech Tech MC League for the Atlanta and it was a bootleg and he just so the defensive end, he just pinned his ears back and he saw it coming and he was immediate sack. But but they the first touchdown, they took advantage of that Seattle did. They ran basically the same play release they're running back and McKinley was in no man's land and it was the easiest touchdown

ever scored. Whatever some of the I think that the Cowboys, And when I asked you last segment about which quarterback in the league that Dak is most similar to the guy that for me, it's Russell Wilson. And I think that the Cowboys. You know, it's a Brian Schottenheimer offense at Seattle runs. You know McCarthy, he you know, he's

from that Schottenheimer Tree himself, Brian's dad, Marty Schottenheimer. But I think that that Dak can learn a lot about this Atlanta defense and Kellen Moore mccar how to attack this Atlanta defense by looking at what Seattle did against them, because there was a I mean, as evidenced by the stats, they just took advantage of an Atlanta defense that was very aggressive first couple of series. It was almost like what what the Rams did to the Cowboys with a

short passing game. Because the Cowboys were very aggressive and it took a while for the Cowboys to make an adjustment in that game. I think it took a while for Atlanta as well. So Seattle gets up fourteen to three to start that game, but then Atlanta comes back and it was a fourteen to twelve game at halftime. Okay, very similar to the Cowboys Rams game. Cowboys led fourteen

thirteen at the half against the Rams. Here's what happened at well, I'll tell you when we come back were up against the break, I'm going to tell you what happened different in that game as opposed to the Cowboys Rams game that Gabe Seattle the victory. When we come back here on mix shots and don't go anywhere. Hey they're Cowboys fans. With Ty Cleaners at Home pickup and delivery,

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Cowboys Pro Shop and on shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com. All, right, final segment here, a mixed shots. We got about eleven minutes to go here. Let me continue with what we were talking about before the break, looking at that Seahawks Falcons game and how the Cowboys can learn some lessons from it. And there's just a little bit of irony in this as well. Of course, everyone talking about the fourth and three decision that Mike McCarthy made that did

not work against the Rams. Well, this was a little earlier in the game in fast In fact, it was the first possession of the third quarter. Seattle had a fourteen to twelve lead on Atlanta, and of course when McCarthy made his decision, the Cowboys were trailing by three. But it's interesting the Seattle faced a fourth and four at the Atlanta thirty eight yard line. Okay, they're ahead by two points, fourteen to twelve, and Seattle's you're kind

of in no man's land there. Whether you want to put them down and try to you know, Coffin corner it or whatever, or go for it. Okay, they're fourth and four at the thirty eight yard and they decided to go for it. So what do they do to a touchdown pass? Okay, they surprised them. They went deep touchdown. Okay, so now all of us so they're all right, let's say it's incomplete. Let's say they don't get the first down. Now you just gave Atlanta the football with good field

position and you're only ahead fourteen twelve. Okay, you weren't even trailing in the game, and they went for it and made it. Okay, but how much confidence is that instilled in your team, especially first game of the year. You make a decision like that, we go for it. It works. Now you're ahead in twenty one to twelve. Also, yeah, you got a nine point lead on Atlanta. Atlanta gets the ball back about the same spot on the field, about the thirty eight yard line. They face a fourth

and three, fourth and two something like that. They're in punt formation and Atlanta that runs a fake punt. Well, they execute at the up back. He gets the first down, but Marquis Blair for Seattle. He comes in, puts his

hat on that football, knocks it out. Seattle gets the turnover, Seattle gets the football at the forty yard line, and a few plays later they've got another touchdown in Seattle leaves that game twenty eight to twelve, and a matter of basically two plays, a matter of six plays there, whatever it was. Okay, they went from a fourteen to twelve lead to twenty eight to twelve and Matt Ryan is throwing fifty four passes the rest of the game instead of the balance offense that Atlanta wanted to have.

But I thought it was just a great example of a you know, when it works, you're a genius. And think about with McCarthy, had that play worked and the Cowboys got a touchdown on that possession. Here he is coaching his first game with the Cowboys, And I didn't agree with the decision at the time, But now that I look back at it, what if it had worked,

and what if the Cowboys take the lead? Well, the game plays out entirely differently the rest of the way because now the Rams are having to play from behind and their play calling. Their play selection is totally different, and the Cowboys have the upper hand the rest of the way. I think it's just it was great little contrast,

and it worked for Seattle. They get basically in the NFL what it amounts to a blowout win by thirteen points, and it doesn't work for the Cowboys, and Cowboys can't wait to play again and try to get back on the horse. Ye was a big difference. It wouldn't it have been? Well, you know, when you start talking about the difference between a successful play and unsuccessful play, it depends that that makes everything depend on where the dominoes fall. From there, you can look at the Cowboys game. I

bring it up all the time. Cowboys game last year. The Dolphins were about to score against US. I think it was gonna be before the half of it, before the end of the quarter, they're in scoring position. I think that we're inside the fifteen yard line. Here we are now. This game was a blowout for us. It was one of those easy games we had. We started off three and ooh, and all of a sudden the

wheels fall off and the true Cowboys emerged. Well, the true Cowboys were in that Dolphins game because we were about to give up a rushing touchdown and for some reason, the Dolphins running back pull the sanchads. I guess that's for lack of a better turn. He tried to extend as he was going down and the ball hit somebody's butt and the fumbles. Well from there, I believe we

go down and score and the route is on. So when you look at these routes, there are certain times in the ball game or these key moments made a difference in that route and allowed that route to happen. So the Cowboys had a few of those instances last year, and it always made me nervous because we showed in competence against the run even while we were routing people.

So you're right, Bill, those little gambles they can work for you or they cannot work for you, and it just might determine what the attitude is for your entire team for the rest of the season, because, like you said, if we make that first down, we're looking at this game possibly and an entirely different light. Our construction, constructive criticism for lack of a better term, that we put on this show would be a little bit more favorite and it will be a little bit more than the

Cowboys favorite when it's all said and done. So that's why I'm not going to panic too much about this first game. But there are things that continued from last season that still gives me pause. I thought Mickey was going to chime in there. No what I was gonna say is you mentioned the two touchdowns at Seattle scored. They end up scoring seventeen consecutive points. Now, I don't know if at that point that takes it Atlanta out

of what they would have liked to do. But Matt Ryan threw the ball fifty four times fifty Is that their offense? Because they only rushed for seventy two yards, So I'm thinking maybe they took them out of their game at that point. They definitely did. They definitely did. If you go back and look at the beginning of that game, what they do on the first three plays of the game. First three plays of the game, they

handed the ball off to Todd Gurley. Okay, they're new running and I think four out of the first six plays Gurley, we ran the ball and then he caught a pass. They obviously were intent on establishing Gurley. That was their big offseason move. That where they got Todd Gurley.

You know, I think the other thing that's interesting, And Mike McCarthy mentioned this a few weeks ago, talking about watching the TV copy when he scouting opponents, the TV copy and listening to the announcers as well as the

coach's film. And I think, as I think it's I would think any NFL team, whether the coaches do it or not, someone needs to listen to the TV broadcast of whoever your opponent is, because there's a lot of times where the analyst will give away secrets I have that I have, I agree with, you know, and if you listen, if you listen to the broadcast, and I don't even know who the announcers were, I didn't recognize the voices, but whoever the analyst was on that Atlanta

Seattle game, he kept talking about early in the game, Atlanta really wants to establish Todd Gurley here. And so there's a lot of times that coaches NFL coaches they think they're it's in confidence. They're just giving uh, you know, they're not expecting the analysts to go on the air and basically give away their you know, what their mindset is as they go into the season. But you can pick up on little things there, and sometimes it's more

subtle than others. But I think that's one thing that Atlanta, what the analysts was saying, was that's one of the that's one of the things that when they looked at themselves this offseason, they really wanted to because we didn't establish the run last year. We really wanted to get back to running the football and so uh And in fact, McCarthy at his press conference today said something about, well, they really want to throw the ball. I think I

think he may be bluffing there. I think he understands that Atlanta really wants to run the ball. They want to get more balanced in their offense. I want to be I want to be the TV I want to be the TV coach, the one that listens to everything and huts everything down. That's right. But when you think about it, though, you know, you got guys like Tony Romo or Troy Aikman. They talked to the coaches and the key players. That's Saturday before the game. You can

get all types of information from that. And I have always thought that Bill, it's so funny that you mentioned something like that. But you know, kind of coaches. They let the guard down. The coaches let the garden. But that's not the whole interview is for us. Then the network guys, they just act like they figured it out themselves, like Hey, I'm real smart what was going on here? And you kind of disguised almost like hey, Romo was like, hey,

they're gonna run this play right now. Well, Romo was just at the practice yesterday, so yeah, you just saw. But when you talk about that, going back to the Falcons game, and it just lends cretins to what I've always said about a team game. Uh, Russell Wilson had health early on in that game. And what health was the fact that that guy put his hat on the ball. You know, his defensive player or his special team's player

put that hat on the ball. You know, he didn't leave it up to Russell Wilson to come back out after the Falcons had driven all the way down and scored. They made the play themselves, and they put their offense in scoring position. In order for this team to be successful, guys, I've said it over and over again, they have to be mistake free. They have to be known for being mistake free, which we did not do that in the

RAMS game. They have to be known to have a defense that makes critical plays which we did not make, especially third downs, an indicator of that. Offensively, the same thing, we do not capitalize off of each other's big plays. As a matter of fact, we let the oppositions big plays determine how we play. So as a team, I don't care how many superstars you have. You can have Russell Wilson, you may have Dak Prescott, Aaron Rodgers, your defense and your special teams they have to come to

play as well. Hey, they gave you an interception, what else do you want one? By the way, we're out of time here, But that that Atlanta Special teams coach, you know, he called the perfect play the great fake punt. He didn't account for the fact that Marquis Blair was gonna put his head on Sharad Nisman in the football and it didn't work. So it's all about execution, all right. We will be executing again tomorrow here on the mix shots,

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