Did you know I was coming in from the left? Oh god, yeah, Pat scouting report, it's change up. It's change up, but only a change up. M heavy blitz something you typically didn't always do. But was it it's just game related? Yeah, you know, if the game is different. Honestly, it didn't matter what I was calling in that game. You know, the guys were playing at a different tempo. Um. You know, they were um, you know, it's a prideful bunch.
They wanted to put the performance from Washington behind them. I think they did, and it was easy to call the game because you know, they were execute and just about everything well, and they were doing it with with a lot of toughness and a lot of effort and a lot of spirit. Was different or was it really game day that you could tell if they were at a different level. Yeah, you know, you always wait until
the game. I mean, but but I think you you go with we have some veteran players, and we have a prideful bunch, and you know, it's sixteen game season. You're not always at your best. But I think everybody felt the responsibility, from coaches down to players that we could perform better. And I think everybody everybody played their part in finding a way during the week to make sure that it happened on Sunday. Well, you know, I mean anytime you have a player, you know, go out,
it juggles your line up a little bit. And Ron had also been playing some outside corner for us too. Um, you know, a lot of the other guys have been playing. I mean, hopefully we can keep Leotis back on the field. That'll go a long way to alleviating some of that, because we've been playing without him for a month. Um, a lot of different ways to handle the slot. You know, we'll probably have you know, maybe three or four different ways to be able to do it, um, depending on
the package. You know, it's it's probably a work in progress right now. What you want, Oh, well, I mean we have a lot of different personnel packages that we use that are all contingent on matchups and down in distance and offensive personnel. So I think that'll continue. Happy Malcolm in that role, Um, yeah, stepped in and did a nice job on on Sunday to finish that game. You know, after we went down. He's a good blitzer, he's a good run player. Um, you know, he's got
some multidimensional skills. He's physical in there. You know, not every matchup is is going to be ideal, but he plays to his strengths. And you came here first, first started watching film with Jordan Hicks. Uh. You know, obviously he did it in a little bit in college. But what made you think that he'd be a good middle linebacker for for you in the scheme? Um, I don't know. He's he's a smart player who knows his way to the ballo and execute the scheme. Um, Jordan played one
of the best games I've seen all year. I mean, he played at a different level in this game was um, you know, covering, tackling in the open field. His tackle for a loss on that one toss play was a big, big play in the game. You know, he was all over the place and he was putting us in the right calls too. There's a lot on the middle linebacker and there's nothing that we've thrown at him that he hasn't been able to handle. Over the last couple of years.
You're number eleven. Colt Beasley has created so many problems. What do they do to get him so open? Well, he's quick as can be, you know, Meryl. He's not much taller than you. Um, you might even be able to look down on him, but he might outquick. You M. He's he's he's got a lot of respect from you know, not just our team, but from teams around the NFL. UM. He's their leading receiver, he's their leading third down receiver.
He finds a way to get open. He's he's he's slippery in there, he's very very quick, and you know, they do a good job scheming to get him open. I mean, he's good run after the catch. Also, he's not just a novelty player. He's not just a you know, I don't will say a specialty player for them. He's a major part of their success. And we're going to have to do a great job, particularly on third downs,
to keep the change from moving. Does Whitten's presence on the field effect you're thinking about how you're going to do your your sub packages. I mean, he's he's a different kind of guy. Yeah, he's a Hall of famer. Um that's been doing it for a long time. And you know, talked a little bit about Beasley running those option routes. I don't know, there might not be a better option runner in the history of of tight ends,
tight ends have been different. Tony Gonzalez was a down the field guy, and you know Sharp and you know, those guys were sort of wide receiver type guys. But Witten is a great blocker, and he is really a tough matchup when it comes to option routes. He's very strong, he's incredibly durable. Yeah, it's not just Beasley. They can spread you a lot of different ways. And oh, by the way, number eighty eights back too, and oh, by the way, they're leading the NFL and rushing um with
the NFL's leading rusher. So you know, after a little while, it's um, you know, it's it's hard to cover all those guys. It's hard to scheme all those guys out. We're gonna have to win some individual matchups. But he's got great size, he's got great instincts. He knows how to get open. He's been doing it for a long time. There's nothing you're going to throw out him coverage wise that he hasn't seen, you know, a dozen times in his career, more than a dozen. And he's a big
played player for him. Um, he's a guy that they throw to even if he's covered. He's very very strong, um, you know, and I think that that ability to make a big play is something that you know, we talked about guys that move to chains. Um, he can move to chains, but he can also make you pay for a touchdown because there offen un obviously you guys had different really spends Washington. I would imagine that Dallas is probably just as good. Yeah, you know, they've given the
quarterback a ton of time. You know, Prescott has has done a good job of um, you know, leading them to their record. And you know, quarterback the most important status wins and he's done that. They've given him a lot of time, um, you know, and they've helped him run the ball, and that's pretty good formula for any quarterback, much less a rookie quarterback. You know, a lot has been made of you know, the few amount of turnovers.
A lot of that can be attributed to the offensive line because he hasn't had to throw a ball before he wanted to or you know, got hit when he was thrown actually the one the one he has as he was hit when he was thrown. But it's been very rare that he's been hit. He's had some clean pockets. He's been able to buy time, he's been able to run when he m you know, when he needs to, and they've been able to run the ball and take them out of some tough conversion situations. Also, so their
offensive line has triggered a lot of that. Um, I feel strong about our defense. It's going to be a great match up on Sunday. Become such as league usual to see a team like Dallas that really wants to establish a run first and run a thirty five forty times game. Yeah, I mean, I think everybody's different. I mean, I think it plays to it plays did their strengths with a couple of years ago when they were a
playoff team, they did the same thing. It was different running back, but same scheme and a lot of the same offensive players other than the running back, same offensive coordinator, um, you know, same head coach, you know. And I think that philosophy means an awful lot. I think it matches well with the players that they have. And I think that's probably the you know, the most important thing when you consider schemes and you know, managing games and everything else.
It's you know, playing to your strengths. And I think they've done a very good job of that. We're going to have to find a way to take them off of that formula, you know, and go ahead. I don't have much else to say, so I was just I was just philibustering right there. And percentage went down a little bit for Barwin last week, up a little bit for Curry. Do you think you'll be able to maintain that against a team that runs the ball as well as Della's. Yeah, you know, a lot of those things.
Vinny rushes inside and some of that snap count was up because of that. You know, every game is going to be a little bit different. I don't know if i'd I don't think one game, you know, a little bit like question before about how he handled Nickel. So much of it as personnel based and matchup based and what the offense is in and down in distance and things like that. Every game is going to be a little bit different. We played an awful lot of reps in that game, you know, and early in the season
we weren't playing very much. The last couple of weeks we played a lot, maybe the week before on our own fault, but last week we had to play a lot of reps and you know, I was proud of the guys. They came out early and you know we're getting stops. I think we only give up one first down in five series. You know, that helped us to be able to get to a point where we could get that game because there were some fires to put
out early in that game. We had a penalty on them on the first punt, you know, after three and out, and then turnovers and things like that. But the guys didn't bad an eye. We had good rotations. We were able to keep them fresh late in the game. You know, that's when you saw guys like Stephen Means get in there. You know, he gave us a little boost late in the game. It was it's hard to rush all those times, and um, you know he was able to give it
something to break of Dallas. Run game isn't necessarily going to affect your selection there, well yeah, I mean it's it's going to just as as the game develops. It's it's it's it's more just how it develops. Leodis and Jalon. Was that more because you're trying to ease uh Leodis back in or do you like, do you want to see more or more of Jean Jalen's earned playing time, but it was probably more to try to manage Leotis
in that game. You know, it was his first time back and um, you know try and well wasn't his first time back, but he's had some setbacks and we just wanted to make sure that fatigue wasn't an issue. And you know a lot of times you can get you can you can aggravate injuries because of fatigue. And I thought that you know, he was available when you know when, Um, it helped to make him available. A guy like Elliott present you that can run over you but run around you if he needs to. Yeah, Um,
he's he can run outside, he can run inside. He's a one cut runner. Um. He fits their offense really well. Um, and I just you know, there's some guys that you say, okay, we take their inside away and they can't go outside. Other guys you say, hey, if you make them run inside the darkness, they're not going to be as effective. Um. You know, their scheme gives him the ability to make the cut as he sees it. So it turns into um, you know, it's it's not just a single man. Everybody
on defense has to do the job. If one guy's out of place or one guy misses a tackle, he can make a big play. You know, it is. I mean Callahan obviously was at UM at Dallas a few years ago, and there's some similarities in that game, and we did some things that rad a character in that game and some things that we did better. Minnesota tried a few of those things and we were able to play some of them better. But every game is different
and different personnel, different situation. UM. You know, UM, you know, hope, hopefully we've hopefully we learned some lessons from it and that will carry us forward. Brandon Graham being a guy that kind of sets the help sets the tempo on defense. Um. What are some of the things specifically that he does that you know the other players feed off of. Um. He's a playmaker, you know, tackles for losses, sack strips, hustle,
plays down the field, all those things combined. He plays with a lot of energy, he plays with a lot of toughness. He's a reliable player. Previous two home games or road games, rather, the defense has got off a pretty slow start. Twenty one first in points. Is there anything you can do as a coordinator to to change that, to get them out to play clicker or what was that you same name? Yeah, I don't know. I mean I think sometimes you can you can overdo that, you know.
I mean sometimes if you try to be too aggressive, you try to play out a character that can you know, that can change things also, I mean that can that can work against you also. I think the thing we did last week is we went back to I will say back to basics, but we went back to being us and some of the things that we're designed to do.
And um, we didn't do those well against Washington. Um, we weren't necessarily doing them poorly against against Dallas, but there were some things at a character, particularly in the first half, that we did in that game too. I think that you know, more than anything, you just have to play. You have to play within yourself. And if you do a good job of that, you play with energy, you play with emotion, um, you play team defense. I think you'll see good results in those games. We didn't
we did, we didn't. We didn't do enough of those things. Yeah, the guy from the very beginning that you know, nothing has been too big for him. If he's called upon Um, you know, we're confident in him going out and getting a job done. Looking at like carsoning Dad Prescott, how much do you think like the situation looking quarterbacks coming too, you know, to their success is reduced. Well, I'll just speak on Prescott. Um, you know he does. He has a team that's leading the NFL and rushing. Now he
has something to do with that. He's made some plays with his feet, He's given him some read option capabilities. Um, he's extended plays on third down. Um. You know, he's run the bootleg very effectively. Um, so all that helps him. I mean, his bootleg probably isn't as effective if he doesn't have Elliott, and he doesn't have you know, the number one rushing attack in the NFL. And he has other good players around him, Wit and Beasley inside receivers,
and he's a big play receiver. So I think it certainly has a lot to do with the success he has. But I'll just keep my comments to Prescott on that. Jim H.