Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy joined Shan & RJ ahead of the team's Week 2 matchup with the New Orleans Saints. They discussed how they were able to execute the game plan in Week 1 to near perfection, why the second game is almost more important for a football team than the first game, where TE Jake Ferguson is on his injury recovery timeline, and more!
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00:17Bill Belichick said he's more
00:21interested in kind of even
00:22seeing his team in week two
00:24versus week one and Dak
00:25yesterday was saying that he
00:27sees a lot of times the most
00:28improvement from week two week
00:29all team do you agree with that
00:31coach and why is that that big
00:33leap a lot of times from from
00:35week one to two.
00:36Yeah it's definitely a metric
00:38that supported that I think just
00:39like anything I think in today's
00:43you know era of training camp
00:45and how it's handled and truly
00:48not you know taking the field as
00:50a full team until week one so
00:52there's always that opportunity
00:53of okay hey we've taken our
00:55first step so now you know
00:58really know where we are and who
00:59we are and you definitely have a
01:01chance to build off of it
01:02because you know until you get
01:04out there and go a full four
01:06you know full four quarters in
01:08live action you know it's it's
01:11really not the same you try to
01:12simulate it in training camp and
01:13then obviously with the
01:14preseason games laid out the way
01:16they are you know it's it's
01:17definitely has a has a here we
01:19go moment to it is it the
01:22communication offensively that
01:24generally that you find is is
01:26the biggest jump or or or what
01:28is it?
01:30I think you can go all the way
01:31through I mean you can talk
01:32about your your communication
01:34your boundary communication your
01:35pace operation the on the field
01:37communication all those things
01:39the coaching headset interaction
01:41but you know you do have that
01:43throughout the preseason so I
01:44think the communication challenge
01:46so all the way through you have
01:47a chance to improve on because
01:48anytime you line up you have a
01:50chance to evaluate correct and
01:52apply and then the fundamentals
01:54I think I think you watch
01:56around the league you know just
01:58the fundamentals are are
02:00something that you're really
02:01really going to emphasize more
02:02than ever in September because
02:04you know it's you just the time
02:06that you have leading into it.