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I don't think it was really that close either. Dominant performance, Rob Phillips, Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Bill Jones will be back tomorrow. But we have so much to talk about over this next forty five minutes. Not a bad way to start the season. Huh. Took the words right out of my mouth. Yes, absolutely, you know, And I think, as I when my column gets up, I wrote, they

answered a lot of questions. I think that we're kind of swirling around the team as they went into this first game, and almost every one of the answers came out awfully positive. In a game like that, when you dominate an opponent. You should have dominated and go out there and do what you're supposed to do. I didn't see thirty five points coming, but I thought that they were just so efficient and I just don't think you

could criticize much of anything they did offensively. Yeah, it looks like to me a team that actually got preseason snaps that were able to get a series or two and then kind of parlay that into thirty practices that we saw. Some of the things. Some of the questions, It's like Mickey talked about, were what kind of game was Kellen Morgan a call? And you know, Kellen Moore, to his credit, saw a defense that he felt like that he could attack, and he attacked it with play action.

He attacked it with clearly better skill players than what the Giants had. We talked about it all week. It's why you should listen to the show is we talked about the Giants lacked of pass rush and even when they tried to blitz, they got the pickups. They used old Wally and pickups, they used Zeke and pickups. They even used Tony Pollard in some pickups. So you know,

when the Giants tried to answer with some things. The Cowboys had their own answers, and you know, give Dak Press got a lot of credit clean pocket in front of him. Receivers went in on the outside tight ends, winning when they had to. So overall, offensively, I think it was really a very well played game, even to the aspect that, like I say, we learned a little bit about the player coming out in multiple formations, even sometimes getting in twelve personnel and then still throwing the football.

You know, that's something in the past we've kind of seen. Twelve personnel was a Zeke handoff, and you know, but

here he is. I counted one time where he had a play and I wrote about this last night, that he had a play where he had four players moving pre snap, yeah, you know, one after the other, and then brought the first player, which was Randall Cobb, all the way across the formation and then brought him back on the fake on the jet sweep and through the screen to Ezekiel Elliott going the other way out the

back door. So he's trying to show creativity. He's trying to show that he can find ways to attack defenses when they're just not good enough to handle you. And I think that's a very very positive sign coming out of that, you know. And one of the things that I think was probably with all the things that happened, maybe was underscored, was the fact that he went a lot of hurry up offense. We didn't see that in preseason, and I don't know that we saw it in training camp.

They would have a session maybe for hurry up, but it wasn't like in the concept of just they drive down the field. And what I liked the most was when they hit him with a big play. There was no celebrating. It was get your butt to the line of scrimmage and let's go. We're we're we're not going to let them regroup. We know we're we're gonna snap the ball. And then the other thing, and maybe not so much in the running game, but the offensive line

keeping Dak clean. No sacks. This is a guy that was sacked fifty six times last year and he only got hit twice. Right, And the other thing is he didn't save any sacks by having to run out of the pocket. His only two runs were called quarterback runs and then to kneel down, So to me, the pocket was clean. He had time to kind of survey the field, come off his first bread, go to the second one, sometimes the third. That was the time that he had

in the pocket. Uh. And you got to credit that offensive line that really hadn't played together much at all during the preseason. Maybe one time. I'm trying to remember that second game, but I don't know that because Zach Martin probably didn't play in that. He did not when they played the starters exactly exactly. Do you want to retract that this is a sky Wars offense? It is one way you said that back in camp. Don't expect,

you know, Mike Leach offense necessarily for this team. And I get your point because Dak said it after the game was over. We're not running necessarily a bunch of new plays like you said, Brian. They're presenting things a little bit differently pre snap, making the defense guess and dialing some things up at the right time. That's you know, you know it's it's dialed up right when a couple of these touchdowns, I mean, there's nobody within ten yards

of these guys. Blake jarr went on the opening touchdown from twenty eight yards out, etc. Yeah, they caught. They did a nice job when you have a lot of weapons like they have, or players that can make plays. You know, guys like Randall Cobb in the slot. We saw what he's capable of doing. But when you have guys that that demand coverage on the outside and guys

that demand coverage inside, you can't. You know, it's like the old you know, put your finger in the in the damn there to keep the water from coming out. There's just more holes. And I think the Giants got caught in a situation yesterday where there were so many trying to put their fingers and holes to stop the leaking that it just the flood hit them. And you know, that's that's that's the idea of how you build your football team. You put as many weapons out there as

you can. You have a quarterback that, like Mickey said, the quarterback had a command of what was going on as far as they're able to play with pace. You know, he's like making a play and he's like, let's go, let's go, let's go. And you know, that's that's kind of where we that the game is evolving to. When it is about playing with pace, it's about making big plays, it's about chunk plays and the Cowboys had their share of those big chunk plays that really affected the way

that the Giants were. The Giants didn't have an answer for them in the secondary. The kid DeAndre Baker will be a great player for them one day, He's just not right now. Janoris Jenkins, they feel like that they got better at safety. I don't think they got better at safety. I really don't. I was talking yea yeah, Brill Peppers and that they are not good. I mean,

Jabrill Peppers, I think is an okay player. But but they you know, for them to think that they can line up Antoine but they against against Mary Cooper and the slot and play at one on one with no safety help in the middle of the field. Is that's that's just that's not having an answer right there. Anna Mari's touchdown in the game was with DeAndre Baker, their first round draft pick, lining up on just a great throw. Just a great throw, yeah, absolutely great throw and a

great and a great pickup inside. Matter of fact, it was Connor Williams. They run a blitz off the left side, and Connor Williams not only helps Travis Frederick with his guy, but here the young man having some awareness to bump outside pick up the bootsk Tyren Smith had to go get the blitzer and then here's Connor Williams sliding over to pick up the guy and now the balls out

of your hands. So maybe Connor Williams last year would not have been aware and then all of a sudden, Dak would have been hit and much like Manny got hit on you know with Lords, and the ball would have been fluttering down the field. But that wasn't the case. They had to get a great job of managing the twist stunts that they had up front. They managed to pick up the blitzes and then press Scott made them pay for their lack of coverage on the back end.

You know. I was talking to Kellen Moore afterwards and asked him if Dak had checked to that play and he said no, he goes that was the play that was called and if we got the coverage we were looking for, that's where we were going right it. And he looked because he could see the blitz was coming and he saw and I saw it from the press box. I said, oh, he's in single coverage. Yeah, the safety's way in the middle of the field. Yeah, go for it. Dad did a great job of holding Peppers in the

middle of the field. He never he never looked. He never looked to his left until Connor, until the blitz got picked up. And when that blitz got picked up, then he looked as he looked to the left, and then that that kept Peppers right in the middle of the field, like Mickey said, deep in a way. And that was just a whole shot right there, the one I wanted him to hit. I wanted him to hit the older Walley one. How many times have we seen that one? And wheel route, the wheel route. Yeah, I

was always afraid to talk about it to practice. You know, it's one of those things like, oh, they tried to run olda Wally on the wheel where you know, I was thinking, Okay, that's one of those secretive type plays you really don't want to talk about. You know. The coaches would walk up tea and go, hey, Brian, please don't be talking about stuff. You're watching it practice that way. But yeah, the older Walley route, that's that's one of those plays that you know, they got what they wanted to.

They had an outside linebacker who was really a rush defensive end that was in coverage and if they could have got the ball a little bit further down the field, I think older Walley would have made that play, but it was It's It's a play that they'd been working on a couple different times in practice, and they actually hit it a couple of times because they got some of the they got the linebackers and coverage on that for the Cowboys and we're able to hit it. So

looking play. Kellen Moore, I've said it before when we first talked to him back in OTAs, oh While he was one of the first guys he mentioned in terms of a versatile guy that did a lot of stuff in Oakland, and people might chuckle at it because he's the fullback, but he is versatile. And you know, Dad completed passes to seven different receivers that very well could have been eight. It's just an example of using all the guys that he's got and a lot of talented guys.

And I think they sent a message to the next opponent in the rest of the league that this isn't a one man receiving corps. And I think you're picked the click Michael Gallup, Yeah, it worked out that you stole from me. I worked out. Okay, we usually give you first choice. I know, and I let him go because I knew where he was going. Well, he was seven catches for one hundred and fifty eight yards and and boy was he good and not It wasn't just nine nine routes. He was running those slants. He was

catching the ball in traffic, guys on him. H that was a heck of a game. And I think that's what we were expecting. That's what we've been seeing. We have the benefit of getting the privilege of watching all these practices going back to late July, and he has been dominant at times in practice. And he looked at Cooper in practice, he was he was there all the time. You gonna talk about this defense? Yeah, you do it. After the break, Uh, we got a couple more minutes. Quick.

Everything wasn't perfect now exactly. We'll get to that when we come back, but real quick on Dac, just to recap his day, twenty five or thirty two, four oh five, four touchdowns and the Cowboys had touchdowns on five straight drives. I believe time since two thousand they had done that. Yeah, wow, perfect quarterback rating, Mick. That's the first time second the first with more than twenty attempts, and one of four players in NFL history to get four hundred passing yards

four touchdowns in a perfect rating. Yeah, I mean it was unbelievable. Yeah, I mean it was could have drawn it up any better. I mean, he was on spot, he was seeing the receivers, he was given time. His four hundred and five yards. When I looked it up, it's eleventh most in club history. He was two yards short of being ninth because there was a tie for

ninth at four oh six uh. And I kidded with Kellen Moore afterwards, I said, so did you quit callin passes that fourth quarter to preserve your seventh spot with four hundred and thirty five yards passing? And he laughed and he goes, yeah, I probably should have thought of that. Also, it was the most yards UH in a season opener

by a Cowboy quarterback in history. J. Troy Aikman owned the record at three sixty two, but he needed overtime in ninety nine against the Redskins, and those came on the winning touchdown fast first day the back with the with the Cowboys with ye rocket ishmael uh and they they had named the play a rocket red glare. Yeah, it was a nine route and rocket ishmail just burned

him down the field. And it was the same pass they had thrown to him earlier in the game and he had dropped dropped it, and this time it was an eighty yard touchdown pass to win it. But yeah, if you think about all the games they've played, all the great quarterbacks, and this was the best season opener by a Cowboys quarterback. We mentioned Cooper and Gallup, they're the first receiving duo on this team since twenty fifteen to get both one hundred yard receiving games. And we

talked about you mentioned chunk plays. Brian five completions of over twenty five yards and there you go, and you know a lot of games playing that way. Yeah, you're two for two in the red zone, which is a encouraging dating from dating back to last season. But you also didn't have to put yourself in that situation with

all the chunk plays they had offensively. And then let's not forget Randall Cobb, who made a couple third down catches to get first downs, and none more so than the one on third down when they were at the sixteen yard line. I think they needed eight yards or so, and he not only caught the ball on and out, but he broke the tackle, got the first down, and got it to the five yard line, had set up

Witten's touchdown. So Randall, Cobb and Brian we've been talking about this, his ability to run with the ball after the catch and he turns into a running back. And he did it. He did it a couple times, so I didn't lose anything having him playing in the slot. No, no, No, disrespect to Cole Beasley, and that's gonna be the last time I say that, because you know, we all we all respect Cole. But this is a different cat. This is a guy that's the guy that's been there. He's

a bad ball catcher. You know. He's a guy that can adjust. He can make the plays when he's contested. You saw what he can do. He's he stopped four yards short of the sticks and Hamilton tries to get him on a low tackle and he just says, no, you're not gonna get me. He put his hand in the middle of his chest and stopped his momentum and then just him to his side and then put his shoulder down to get through bethet to get the first So, yeah, this is a different cat with the ball in his hands.

He's a big time player. He's always been a big time player. And you know, is the pro department. You go out, you try and find those guys. You should go out and try and find a guy that maybe for one season he plays out of his mind and then all of a sudden, now you've done a good job of helping your football team win games because you got guys like him on that team and it only cost him five million dollars. Talk about that heck of a signing, probably probably one of the best in the

entire league this past spring. All right, let's take our first break. We come back, Like Brian said, we'll shift to the defense and how their performance looked against the Giants. Week one, Cowboys thirty five, Giants seventeen. That's next on talking Cowboys. Your new apartment's big, such a great deal. Yeah it's okay, just okay. What's not right about the subway? Well, I bet you don't even notice it after that's my neighbor.

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Mortgageio breaking down Cowboys and Giants. All right, you guys, thoughts on defensively how Dallas looked giving up seventeen points although one touchdown came late. What were your thoughts. Overall, well, thank goodness, they made some big plays holding them to ten points. Sure, because the overall performance from a yardage standpoint giving up four hundred and seventy yards, which is the most yards they've given up in the last twenty

two games. And what's troubling to me is if you look at what this defense had done over the last two games. Going back to the Rams playoff games, the Rams had four hundred and fifty nine yards against them. If you add that together, that's nine hundred and twenty nine yards they've given up in the last two games, a long and four hundred and twenty four of those are rushing yards, So one fifty one yesterday to the Giants.

And we don't need to keep tract of how many games they've played without giving up a one hundred yard rusher because they did it already with se Quon Barkley. So to me, when you've given up four hund and twenty four yards rushing in two games, that's kind of a troubling sign. And I know the games are nine months apart or whatever, but still you gotta do better than that. And I'm sure Rod and Marron Nelly's Barking

in there today, Well said Mickey. Well said on that, yeah, I think to me that the game playing clearly was to try and stop Barkley and to stop Evan Ingram, and you failed both in both. If you really want to look at it, you know, you can allow the others to make plays, but you know that part of it didn't kill you. They talk about they talk about they would rather they're okay with the yards as long

as they don't give up the points. The thing that was troubling to me was we talked about tack and it looked like at times it was really really poor. You know, so maybe that's something that will see to go, you know, as we get into the season, that will improve. But you know, yeah, you look at the if you look at the overall numbers of who had to make the tackles, Xavier Woods was your leading tackler with eleven. It's never good when your safety's having to make eleven plays,

it seemed like. And two, I think the Cowboy was very fortunate the game wasn't close, because they would have just steady dieted you. With se Quon Barkley, I don't think they had a real answer for him at all. I just don't. And we made the Barry Sanders comparison did too during the week. It's absolutely true about him.

And you know, if he would have I think Dallas took him out of the game as far as the score, took him out of a game because if that thing was close, I mean, they just kept handing the ball, handing the ball, and you're thinking, like, man, they have not really stopped him yet. Day. You know, Anthony Brown had a mistackle that could have been a minus play spun off goes down, you know, Yeah, the fifty nine yard was a hell of a play by a Woozier to run him down from the other side of the field.

Just a great effort because if a Woozier doesn't come flying, they still scoring the drive, but just the effort to get over there. But yeah, they were blocked badly on the play. There was nobody in the alley the ball when it went out of there. It was you know, it was on he was setting sales. So yeah, I think that you have to worry about I think you

have to worry about the pass rush. I don't think it was nearly now that we talked about the Giants had had improved some with their with their pass protection. It was clear that was something they wanted to do, but I just, you know, it just wasn't It seemed like the best pass rushes they had were when Eli Manning got outside the pocket. That's when they that's when

they were the most effective. When when Pat Shermer was making some ridiculous calls on third and four down, instead of handing the ball to that number twenty six, you know, he says, oh, let's get cute and try and do something near on the outside. So you got some help there. Smart played by Woods, by the way to tackle that guy on the goal line when the ball got outside. I thought that was a brilliant play on his part.

But yeah, overall, I think if you're the Cowboys, you have to be concerned that the two best players for the Giants you did not really control. And you know that that's you know they're I think they're gonna play better offenses. I think they're going to play teams with you know, with I don't know if they have a better running back, but just as good as tight ends and even better receivers down the line, and a better

quarterback for sure. Now a lot of a lot of Ingram's came in the fourth quarter and they were trying to keep everything underneath and they were just dumping, dumping, dumping to him. But the sequon Barkley part just really worried to me that the defensive tackles weren't holding down the fort in the middle. And then the linebackers, like on his big run, Vanderish got caught looking inside and he's chasing the ball instead of staying in his gap. And they knew that this guy will jump cut on

you and don't over pursue. That's what got him in trouble against the Rams. They started over pursuing angles. Gotta do better than that. And he was finding creases right up the middle. You know. It wasn't like he was speed to the outside. It was creases in the middle. So yeah, that's gotta that part's gotta improve. And as Brian said, you know you got one sack. That was it. Oh, Tank was not happy after the game talking, I mean said, it's not good enough. You could tell those guys were

not happy with the overall performance. Now they did get off the field, yes, two of eleven. I think the Giants were off third downs a couple takeaways. So there were some good things there. Got off on fourth down two, fourth down, big play by Tank there as well. Obviously the terrible call. Yeah, I just you know, I mean,

what are you thinking? I don't know. That's why that that to me the Giant that's where you know, you have a you have a you talk about Kellen Moore and the way he uses his weapons or way he used the weapons yesterday. You know, when you take the ball at Saquon Barkley's hands, that to me is a that's just a sign of stupidity right there for Patton, And if you're the Giants, you have to be sitting there going why do we do this? Why do we what? What? What are we doing here? Why are we trying to

do it? Happened twice right downplay when he when he was getting hit and Vanderish hit him and they called him for intentional grounding, right and then the fourth down play fourth and one, and you're going to roll him out. The best pressure they got, like I said, was when they when they got when they got manning outside in space, that's the best. But to get one set and I'll tell you what something is a little disappointing to me, just you know, because we've talked about the depth on

this roster, especially the depth on the defense. It was not you know, you watch guys like the carry Hiders, and you watch the Joe Jacksons, and you watch the

backup guys. You know, if you're counting on these guys to play, and it's late in the game, and I know, maybe it's the score is not what it needs to be, But if you're counting on Carry Hider and you're counting on Joe Jackson and all those guys and any all the other backups that were in that game or Armstrong, they did not affect that game or make a play that the Giants just went down the field to get

that set that last touchdown. And a lot of that was on guys that you're talking about being, hey, this is the depth and these are the rotational players, and this is you know, we And yeah, I'm guilty. I'm guilty of this because I'm sitting there telling you, well, Okay, Kerry Hider can do this, and Doorg's Armstrong could do this, and but those guys didn't show up like they needed to.

If they're going to rely on them to be rotational players, they have to play better than what they played in that in that second half or that fourth quarter in that in that game yesterday, it's not just shoot, everybody's talked about the depth on that line. Yeah, two high draft picks that were healthy scratches made an active in the game. Maybe maybe have to rethink that might be Taco dying. Yeah, exactly, because my Armstrong got one quarterback hit.

Otherwise he zeroed out, didn't even make a tackle. Yeah, So to me, if you're gonna play the guy thirty snaps, that's forty three percent of the plays and that's all you get. I just and they tried moving him around to the point finally they started a couple of times they moved Lawrence over to the right side. Yes, they weren't getting any plas over there. They weren't. That's where they tried to take advantage a little bit of Nate Solder and Nick Nick Mickey was right about that. Then,

you know, take advantage of that. But you know, the best player, the best player on the field with all that young group playing was was Tyren Crawford playing as

the under tackle. I mean, he was the one guy that was actually and you know, he's a starter, and there's a reason why he's a starter, but the guys around him were not showing up, and that that that part of it is disappointing, because they throw you out there for a reason, you know, and if you're if you're incapable of getting pressure or making tackles or making plays, then maybe the thought about, well, wait a minute, you got you guys mentioned, we got Hill here, we've got

Taco here, as time to say, okay, well let's let's see what's going on here. Let's really see what's going on. Because that was inexcusable the way that those guys played and allowed the Giants just to just to go down the field, the way they did score that touch. You know, when I'm looking at the tackles, you got to get to four the eighth guy in tackles antoine Woods with two and Covington with two, and that was it on the defensive line. So you got to do a better

job than that. Somebody's got to do something. Now, they tried to. They said they were going to rotate the guys and not give them that many snaps. So Lawrence ended up playing thirty two of the snaps, so thirty two of the sixty nine snaps and Crawford end up playing thirty of the sixty nine. But again, the idea was to get more versatile guys there. Well, they may have to rethink that and get a pure pass rusher in there on one of those sides opposite to Marcus Lawrence.

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what Jason said. He pointed out that, okay, we had this thing going and they weren't taking much time between plays the substitute, so they left him in there no worse for wear, and that thing I think physically look fine.

I think towards the end there that drive when he ended up scoring the touchdown, he looked like he was getting a little bit more in rhythm, that he was seeing the holes a little bit better, and he was I think he was really conscious of making sure he hung onto the football in a lot of those instances because he hadn't been hit right. So that's a great point. He got to be careful. It's one thing to be in shape, but that's one thing you're missing when you're

not here or just getting banged around. Why he would at least got you know, touched up in the training cas. Yeah, but I thought that that drive when he scored the touchdown on the ten yard run, he kind of showed I go, okay, that's Zeke, and the run before that, oh okay, I'm starting to zee Zeke. So they did a good job, but I'm not sure how well they did run blocking. I don't know if the run blocking

on the offensive line takes a little more coordination. You know, it's funny that, you know, there was so much success throwing the football, and it's amazing even not running the ball well, the threat or the potential of having a Zekiel Elliot and there affected the way the Giants played their linebackers. You know, they were so conscious of stepping up and trying to fill that. That's those slants and

stuff were coming off the back. I mean their play action, he fakes the inside handoff and you've got full flow going one way and the next you know, they got one on one on the back side with nobody in that hole. I wouldn't have I wouldn't have run the

ball either. I mean, if if they're gonna give you that, if they're gonna give you ten twelve yards every shot doing that, Now you know that what I saw was with the with the run blocking though is there was It's it's gonna be more about getting Zeke back to the flow of okay, when when we get the push here, making that cut here again? You know, I think he the timing of some of their runs wasn't as good as it needed to be, But that will come. That

will come with practice. He just needs to get back in the flow of okay when we when they pushed the front side here wears it on the back side, Where do I need to make that cut? I think I think Zeke was instead of trying to cut the ball back and make runs, he was more about let's just press the hole, get what we can and go forward. Just keep That's his mindset. Wasn't about try and make the huge. It was just trying to get what I can get there, get what I can't get there, you know.

But throwing the football. Hell, I wouldn't. I wouldn't have run the ball at all if I'd known I was gonna protect as well as I did and have receivers went on the outside like they did. You know that drill they do in training camp where Gary Brown basically the running backs coming at Gary Brown and they have those garbage cans set up and then he gives them

the number, the whole three to cut. Yeah, and I'm sure they didn't do that in Cabo right right, unless they lined up Margarita's and then it's like, okay, go this way, go that way. He said he did try to simulate plays, and I don't know exactly how he did it, but they probably didn't have the garbage can zee probably not. And you know, and that's one thing the running backs got to see. Kind of keep your head up and you got to look for where the

whole at the last minute. But bunts open. I mean, that's what Barkley was doing awfully well, by the way. So yeah, but other than that, you know, from a physical standpoint, they were right. He was in good enough shape. How many touches he ended up having thirteen runs in one catch? Is that right? Yes, and one drop. Yeah. Screen was pretty screen they set up. I talked about all the movement, the pre snap movement they had just to get to a screen. I mean that's you know,

and I think you'll see more. I think you'll see Ezekiel at once again feel more comfortable with making those cuts, the violent cuts we've seen in you know, the Giants they were committed to try and like I said, step up and try and make tackles. They were not going to let him dictate this game. The problem is, like I said, they they let the they let the receivers and tight ends just abuse him in this game. And you know, with no pass rush. I mean that that's

that's a that's inexcusable for them. They've got they've got a lot of issues on that that that defense for the Giants, they really really do. I mean, it was almost like they made this bet that, by golly, we're not letting Zeke beat us or Tony Pollard beat us. Dak and you beat us, well, you know what, you lost the bet. You lost the bet he did and after the game, you know, the contract talk was unavoidable. And what did you hear from that in the locker room?

Or outside the locker room with Jerry and Stephen. Yeah, the only thing that you know, it sounded like because when Jerry was asked about it right away, he kind of parried the question away and we're not talking about it, and I guess later he said, yeah, it's imminent, So we'll see what imminent the definition? What does that exactly? You mean like it's a it's it's right or way like maybe tomorrow, but we'll see, you know, everybody the question everybody keeps asking as well, Okay, how much did

that game cost to Cowboys? Because the price went up. But I'm thinking if you were that close to a contract, they're not going to sit here all of a sudden and rip everything up and accomplished and start again and say, oh wait a minute, now you know what, we got a perfect quarterback? Well I need ten more million dollars. It just maybe it helps you resolve a little bit. I think it speeds up the process. Maybe it helps the little things that you haven't agreed to yet. Yeah,

it helps you resolve a little bit more. Maybe it solidifies your thought. They're like, okay, we're handing this hand this young man a lot of money and we're going to make him the future of our team, a future for our franchise, and maybe that gives you a little bit more of a Okay, we saw some of those things. That's what we always talk about. Scouts and first front

office guys always want to see players perform well. And you know, clearly with him and Kellen Moore and the way that this, uh, this offense looked yesterday throwing the football. You know, that gives you some hope that all the things of working with John kitt and all the things they did this summer, all the extra work, everything about that was at least for one game, was very very positive. And the other thing I think it does is reinforce

your thoughts that, Okay, I'm gonna make this purchase. Think about when you've made a big purchase and then you sit there and do it and you go, God, what did I just do? And then you know, once you get whatever you had and it's what you thought it was, you're going, Okay, this was good. So maybe this gives them, you know, no buyer's remorse here when you seems like absolutely anything off periscope that's cooking. Brian. Before we get out of here, any guys want to touch on that

we haven't touched on. Now. They're just they're out, They're they're concerned about the the they were wondering what we thought about the linebacker play overall. I know, I think vander Esh was second on the list in tackles the nine. Yeah, and then you know with Jalen, you know, to me, I was I was expecting a bigger game from those guys. I know, because Layton Vanderus was like my guy, my

pick to click guy. Because because I didn't feel like well, I didn't feel like though that the Giants would be able to get to the linebackers. I thought all I mean, I thought all three linebackers were going to play really really well in that game. But you know, vander Esh other than Mickey, talked about the one time that he got got hooked pretty good. But yeah, I think that they as a group, they would probably watch that tape

and see they need to play a little bit. I think the front seven and as a whole probably feels like they need to play a little bit better. And then again, you know, people are also asking about Anthony Brown. They're saying, hey, when does Byron Jones get back into the into the mix, and I wrote last night this this could be the week that we could see Byron Jones back there. It is starting right cornerspack spot because now he's got some time to practice. He got some

work in the dime and the nickel and stuff like that. Yes, a matter of fact that the one he had some coverage on Evan Ingram was was incomplete. So it was good to see him back doing those kinds of things. But uh yeah, this could be the week that we see them flip that that out now and go back with Byron Jones after he made it through this game. What do you get, Mick, like twenty snaps twenty five? Who's at Yeah? Uh eight? Not bad? And you know what the one the one play the Brown if I'm

remembering correctly, the catch Foler made on the sideline. Yeah, I mean that was just a great effort. Oh no, no questioning you can do. But I thought it was it was on the left, Yeah it was, he was right. Yeah, so I thought it was Brown. Brown missed one tackle. He got blocked on that one run. But I mean it wasn't like that, you know, it didn't seem like

they were just a ripping them down the field. Ye, but yeah, I think Jones helps out and Brown goes back in the slot and Jordan Lewis got beat a couple of times in there. But a lot of the stuff they did, you know, a lot of it was just dump off stuff and they had to come up and rally to the ball. All right, Well that was a quick wrap up, huh. We rallied to the end of the show. A lot to talk about flew by quickly. We'll be back tomorrow to continue breaking down what you

saw in week one. Maybe look ahead to the Redskins. Skins, appreciate you guys joining Which half do you want to look forward to? I've watched both so far. Yeah, I was gonna say there's a lot first half. For the second half, there's a lot to unpack there as well. We'll see you guys on Tuesday. The break is next. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.