00:00Jerry, in the offseason, you had talked about the run defense.
00:19We've all talked about that as a weak spot for the Cowboys.
00:25Does this make you worry that what you guys did to address it is not going to work with
00:30what Alvin Kamara and the Saints did run game-wise?
00:35What you saw was an addressing of the run game during the offseason.
00:41You saw the fact that we are doing some things differently in the run game, and you saw the
00:49results of it not being done well.
00:53So you've got to do what we change to do.
00:57You have to do that better than we did out there, to almost be trite to say that.
01:02But the point is that the players that we have can do it better, and each one of them
01:07cumulatively will make that defense better.
01:13It looks dramatic, but these are not dramatic things that can be corrected.
01:23That's what I'm talking about.
01:24And so you basically take, if you will, the group as a whole, and again remind what the
01:34principle of the defense is, and then you go out there and you just do it with a complete
01:40understanding of, if we don't do it, if we're not where we're supposed to be, if we're not
01:45there at the time we're supposed to be, if we let this guy get to us at a certain time,
01:51we could basically have the results we had Sunday.
01:55Jerry Jones here on 105.3 The Fan.
01:57Jerry, besides Coach Zimmer, what were some of those other things that you guys did to
02:02address the run D that you felt good about?
02:06Well, we got bigger in the middle, and we are bigger in the middle than we have been.
02:13And principally that's it, and we've got linebackers, I think, that have better skills at defending
02:21the run and are basically very capable of reading, if you will, reading what the guy
02:37in front of you is doing.
02:39We didn't look like that Sunday, but that's what we've done to address it.
02:44Jerry, do you feel that when your team gets, like you mentioned, they came in with a plan,
02:50they took it to you, do you feel like when your team gets punched in the mouth early
02:54in a game that they sometimes struggle to respond?
02:58Well, when you don't respond, you always feel like that.
03:03You always feel like that.
03:06Since I was in high school, if you have a team come out, they're playing well, they
03:11make some good plays, and they continue that doing all play long, you say, well, you didn't
03:15come to play.
03:16You didn't give effort.
03:19That's the game.
03:22That kind of, whether you're observing it or whether you're playing it, that's exactly
03:28what the game does.
03:29At the end of the day, when you have two halves of play like that, you'll feel like your team
03:39wasn't prepared, didn't respond.
03:42That's as old as the game itself.
03:45You always feel like that.
03:47Jerry, what
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