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Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.960 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison and New. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:34.480 He shrugs, plays lounge here we are playoff week Wildcard 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.960 Super Wildcard coming your way this Sunday at at and 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.879 T Stadium as Dallas Cowboys take on the. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:40.919 Green Bay Packers. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.319 Players Lounge is Danny craig, Heckmarrison, Barry Church, I am New, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.000 he scrugs. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:47.640 Lots to get. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:52.200 To today here as the Cowboys are a seven point 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.920 fa going into this concept. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.880 Yes, mister Church, is that too much? 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.520 A little much? Not a little much? Even you studied 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.080 that's a little much. I don't know what y'all thinking 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.000 about that, but seven Look, I think we. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.400 Were right on board when you not not. They finished 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:13.039 nine and eight statistical categories. I think the quarterback kind 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.760 of he raised some of my brows with his numbers. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.759 Six weeks even bothering he has been hey, what's your 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.400 what's your word? Simple sample size take a simple size 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.200 of the career Yeah, he's been balling at me. He's 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.360 had an incredible last six games. But you know, look 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.520 out right now, I'm not even because you know that 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.600 that that could change between now and Saturday seven. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.959 I think, uh, in the playoffs, I think we win. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.840 I think we I think we win by more than something. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.360 Oh, to be honest, the only fear that you know, 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.000 it's every week is the running game. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.240 For me is always the running game. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.000 I've really got to think the ground game that's really 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.280 that's going to defense? 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.320 Do we have the same guy, that same running back 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.680 that they had last they changed? 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.200 Anybody still got Jones? And uh? 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.360 They But if we look at if we look at 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.160 the season this year, like we just look at it 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:09.600 absolutely what games outside of Buffalo and look Arizona really 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.640 really did the Cowboys get ran on to where it 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.320 was like, man, that's the reason they lost outside of 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:15.080 those two games. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.040 No, it's more of it's more of our offense. To 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.720 me now is is it's almost fifty to fifty right, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.760 And if you're not able to get off the field 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.760 on defense or get those turnovers in those situations where 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.000 teams are running the football on you. We talked about 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.679 Philadelphia where a lot of their turnovers. Those were in 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.679 positions where Jalen Hursts is getting twenty yard runs or 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.080 swift whoever it is. And that's the same thing that 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.640 happens in most other weeks. And we don't come here 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.760 and say, oh man, we did well stop in the run. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.160 We're like, you know what, we were opportunistic and we 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.880 got some big time turnovers. The time you face the 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.440 team and they don't give you those turnovers and they're 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.600 able to run the football, which I don't know what 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.280 Detroit was doing when they stopped running the football own us, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.079 But once you see a team that doesn't do that, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.240 then that's when you have an issue. So that's what 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.840 makes me a little nervous and my headphones are going crazy. Yeah, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.240 I don't that's the thing for me. I'm in the 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.680 same vein with what Danny said. It's just been times 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.520 over the season where you've seen him not be able 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.639 to get off the field and there's those third and 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.520 lungs and they give up a long run to get 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.519 a first down. So that's the only thing that concerns me. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.000 And I think I'm putting the importance for everybody where 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.400 it needs to be on the running game. I know 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.160 Aaron joneson have the numbers. He doesn't look anything like 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.639 the running back that we faced before. But Dad Quinn's defense, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.040 for all of its feelings and warts, the running game 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.280 has been a part of that. And look, if you 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.360 can mitigate this running game and not even make that 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.560 an option, you make a young quarterback like Love look 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.960 look average. And Aaron Jones was out. He was out 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.840 a few weeks this season so hadn't really been healthy. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.720 But we know what happens when the playoffs come around. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.560 It gets a little different than AJ and A Dylan. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:50.560 He's a bruiser. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.640 Nah, I don't want to overplay it, but yeah, end 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.760 of the season, the Packers, they look like a different team. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.280 Our Achilles Hill for the last few years in the 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.920 playoffs have been the run game. And thankfully we get 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.040 tested with a you know, they decent enough for us 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.760 to say, okay, we need to carry this into into 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.720 the next game and further into the playoffs, so we 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.160 can really have that type of confidence. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:12.600 But yeah, it's gonna be a test. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.320 So if it was up to y'all real quick, so 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.200 it was up to the y'all, would y'all would have it 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:17.520 if you get you know, one way or the other. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.320 Stopping to run is the up and forth like that's 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.599 that's it, Like we got to stop the run. You know, 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.479 they can have explosives in the passing game, but I'd 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.400 rather contain to run than contain the explosives. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.039 I would rather us be able to contain and run 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.760 and put put the entirety of the game in the Green. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:36.560 Bay Packers passing game. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.479 I don't think Jordan loves played that outstanding to where 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.560 our playoffs rush doesn't doesn't get to him. And then also, hey, 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.679 Gilly said he's gonna be okay, you know whateverdron Bland. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.440 You go to the honey hold too many times before 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:49.919 you know what, you got to pick six, Like, I 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.480 would rather play that game versus the six and seven yards. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:53.839 Of carry game. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.520 Make them one dimensional, That's that's it. Make them one dimensional. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.839 And we see what ails us and it's been it's 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.640 been the running game. But we know what they got 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.960 over there, Romeo Dodds, Christian they got some stuff. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.280 They got some stuff. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.440 I'm not I'm not saying that the running game is 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.240 the end all of be all, because there's a whole 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.040 other dimension of their offense. I'm sure we're going to 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.000 hold on. But Church that the things you're worried about 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.600 the secondary of the Cowboys. Yeah, about our secondary more 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.360 than more than the running game. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.479 Yeah, oh yeah, oh clear? Oh yeah, Like is it 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.960 because Gilly is or even with a healthy Gilly healthy Killy? 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.360 You know, I'm not It's not to me. It's not Gilmore, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.280 that's necessarily. I'm worried Abot because I feel like he's 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.240 a you know, technician, He'll get the job done. My 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.359 thing is, what's been kind of an Achilles hill for 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.160 this defense, if you say, outside of the run, has 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.680 been a quarterback back and by time you know, to 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.400 get you know, kind of step away from the rush, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.400 can kind of get outside the pocket while also looking 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.920 downfield to make these throws. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.200 I mean, we look at it. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:54.640 I'm not gonna put Josh Allen in there because he 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.600 only threw the ball, what fifteen times in that game, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:57.960 but you got Hurts. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:58.719 That first goal around. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.760 You had Josh Dobbs shoot Geno Smith, and that's who 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.640 kind of this guy reminds me a little bit of 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.159 a Gino Smith, where he's not gonna he's not gonna 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.000 just you know, bend the corner and outrun you like 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:09.520 a Dobbs. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.320 But he has enough athleticism to extend the play. And 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:12.920 we saw what. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.480 Those receivers were able to do when they got a 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.360 little bit of time back there. The rush wasn't getting 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.760 after Geno Smith. He was able to pick apart this 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.479 defense because he was using his athleticism to buy time 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.800 for those guys to extend the players and get deep. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.080 And that's what kind of worries me with this this 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.000 love matchup, Like if he's able to buy some times, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.840 they got the weapons on the outside that can it 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.080 can expose a secondary you know, nothing against you know, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.960 Gilmore Bland or nothing like that, but we all know 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.680 it's hard to cover in his league, you know, for 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.080 for a little for extra time. So if you got 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.799 a quarterback to bad time, it presents a problem. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:44.560 That's what I'm saying. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.520 I guess on the flip side of that, and you 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.200 put your worry in the right place. But I think 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.560 this defense as as far as our front, as far 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.400 as pursuing the quarterback, I put a lot of trust 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.080 in them now this point in the season, being able 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.440 to hunt the quarterback down. Jordan loves compared Harrison to 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.000 Dak Prescott and how he uses his legs to get 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.200 out of the pocket to find you know, the scrambling, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.640 scramble drill, things like that. I've seen them do a 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.680 lot of that over this last six games of him 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.360 just creating and adding to plays. But he he doesn't 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.560 give me like that Dobs like, man, he gonna see 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.400 the play, gonna burn or someone They give me that 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:25.840 Jalen hurts feeling like not the touch push, but you 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.440 know what I mean, he doesn't give me that same 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.400 word that I'm worried when we get down past fifty yards, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.400 Jalen Hurt's gonna take it to the household since we. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.160 All we all in couple one, you know. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.880 So I just want to be be clear that I 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.840 feel like when we stopped the run, we can then 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.080 play our game and then we could come in our 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:45.480 ears back and come out to quote. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.320 What is it, Danny, because I wanted to get. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.880 Newies taken on there because I'm like, like you listen, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.520 if we're gonna lose the game, I want to lose 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.640 it because hey man, our pass Russ didn't get there. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.840 Micaeh and d Ware, I mean d Lay and all 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.160 those guys versus you know, Damona Clark and Bill and them, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.160 couldn't fit the gaps and all that stuff like that. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.840 We come in here on Monday and we say pass 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.920 rush didn't show up. George Love called it through fifty 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.720 times and we couldn't figure out the way to stop him. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.120 I'm sitting there, I'm saying, you know what, that surprised 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.760 me because that, to me, that is the strength of 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.920 our defense being able to rest the pass. So that's 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.480 when they were talking about historically great. When we came 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.800 into the season, it was sacks here and sacks there 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.440 and they only got a half a second to throw 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.080 and all that. If we somehow get away from that 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.600 in the playoffs, then that is, to me, that's an anomaly, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.280 and I don't expect that to happen. But the ring game, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.320 that's somewhere every game, no matter who it is. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:39.040 I'm sitting there. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.440 Saying, hey, we got to get something figured out because 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.200 that team is going to do what the last team 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.160 did and they gonna try to run the football. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.560 I asked Dan Quinn about the running game and the 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.520 fact that they played them two years ago up there 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.480 in Lambo, and that was another game where you talked 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.560 about Josh Allen I throwing a whole lot there. Rogers 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.520 might have had fourteen passes before they went in over 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.079 time me they ran that ball. And he spoke about 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.760 what makes the offense good for Green Bays their ability 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.360 to play action pass, you know, use the run and 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.400 set up and throw the ball. That there's something to 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.960 be worried about here. So I think you're correct that 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.240 Matt Lafleur would be wise to look at the Arizona 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:15.080 tape to say how. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:15.760 Do we run the ball? 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.480 And then how do I tell my quarterback if you 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.920 see something, go get yourself six seven, eight right here 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.360 and keep the chains moving. So this is going to 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.880 be a game where Cowboys defense is going to have 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.040 to be good. And I'll say this for Dan Quinn 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.480 is a defensive coordinator. The Cowboys defense has been good 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.560 in the playoffs. It's been the offense that has not 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.280 been able to score the points and the losses. We 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.120 saw what they did last year at Tampa Bay to 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.200 Tom Brady, they couldn't run it and they got after him. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.679 And so the Cowboys offense was able to get points 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.280 early and the game got away from Tampa Bays, but 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.440 Green Bay rookie quarterback, if you're Matt lafleur, help your 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.720 quarterback by running the football and try to lessen the 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.400 moment as much as you can and tell them, hey, man, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.480 if it's third and seven and you see you see something, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.320 go go get don't be afraid to go get it. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.960 So this is this is what you. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.880 Thinking about the seven? The spread? You think that's that's 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:11.760 kind of on point. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.480 I think it's on point considering how well Dallas has 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.160 played at home and this team is dominated home. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.520 So I don't have an issue with the seven. It's 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:22.840 how do you get there? 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:23.360 You know? 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:24.760 Is this is this a game. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.840 Where you come out and the offense goes and you 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.120 make them play catch up for you shit around here 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.720 like like we saw last week. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.040 You're playing around and in the first. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.480 Quarter trying to give everybody trying to get me get told, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.080 but let me get galloped, let me get all the 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.480 guys up. And then then you finally switch back into 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.440 and give CD and Cooks and Fergus and you know 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:44.800 what they deserve, a man, give. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.040 It and it's gonna be the game right here. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.000 Set I said seventy five and thirty for Tony Poula, 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:49.840 this is around. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.040 It's gonna be it right here. That's the last that's 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:52.880 the last. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.800 Thing you know, this defense or this team wants to 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.880 do is make it a game in the fourth quarter. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.280 I mean, because you look at it. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.199 That's basically what the Packers have been able to do 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.040 these last six seven weeks, the riding on confidence. And 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.959 to me, if you're able to extinguish that confidence early 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.320 in the game, you got it, Like you said a 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.640 young quarterback his first time in the playoffs, I think 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.719 you'll be able to kind of collapse their their their 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.959 confidence as a team. But if this thing gets in 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.440 the fourth quarter and it's a tight one, you know, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.360 Jordan Loves I'm here, I've arrived. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.640 And oh, by the way, Churches Church has been saying 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.960 this for a while, if they need three, can't stop them, 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:27.800 they need seven. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:29.200 We definitely don't want that. 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.040 What we haven't been able to do that at the 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.679 end of the game, you know, in December, and that 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.559 just done Bowl well for a tight game. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.720 So hopefully that seven point spread is hopefully eight. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.880 What you need, though, what you need is for your 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.520 offense then to come out and ball. And it's the 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.280 last six games. This same packing squad that we're talking about. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.400 They lost to the Giants, they lost to Tampa Bay two. Right, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.840 they had a real close game with the Carolina Panthers. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.120 So I mean, when you do your evaluation on them, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.240 I'm not trying to minimize who they are. They to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.160 the playoffs, like you know, they captured the seventh seed. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.600 They are a dangerous team and we got to beware 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.400 of them. But at the same time, we just got 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.040 to play our game. There's no pressure. Look, there's really 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.000 no pressure on us. We're at home. Come out and 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.160 play your game. Don't you gotta play tense like you 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.880 did last week. You have to know that that team 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.640 was like we got it. Not only you clock watching, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.079 we got to get the second seed. But once they 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.000 fell into that game, dog, everything opened up and they 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:27.679 have to play like this, and I think that's what 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:28.760 gives them the advantage home. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.200 I think there's more pressure on Green Bay in his 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:31.800 game than there is. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:39.000 Dallas House money House, and I think and I think 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.199 people say that, but I mean knew he just called 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:43.760 Jordan Love a rookie quarterback. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:44.920 He's not a rookie. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:46.760 Yeah, he's been in the league for a while, But 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.480 the truth is he's never been in a situation like this. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.240 Let's let's give let's give that credit for the amount 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.200 of playoff wins that he has, the amount of times 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.400 he's been in the playoffs, and also the fact that 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.360 as far as leadership is concerned, Mike has been here. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.160 So I mean to me, if you come out of 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.160 your tense and you play tight, then that would take 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:07.240 me off more than anything. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.040 If they didn't come out and play they're at home. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.160 This is what you played to get the tech and 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.920 seed second seed four was to be able to come 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:15.240 home and put your foot on them. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.240 The Green Bay Packers were not expected to make the playoffs. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.200 When you thought I picked Detroit to win the division, 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.480 I think most people had Minnesota being the second best 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.719 team in that division, and then you know Green. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:31.959 Bay and Chicago fighting it out. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:32.360 From there. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.760 You moved on from Aaron Rodgers. We didn't know what 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.360 to expect from Jordan Love. The bar was was average, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:45.680 it best in expectations. This guy finished second, finished second 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.719 in the league and touchdown passes. If they lose this game, yeah, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.439 everybody's gonna say, hey, good job, good job. Cowboys lose 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:58.440 this game. Everybody's gonna say same old one like this. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.760 You're like, it's it's bad. So the pressure pressures on 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.640 the Cowboys because they're expected to win. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.439 And if you look at who loses. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.920 Who's gonna get all the black Cowboys gonna get all 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.840 the Packers lose, be no blame. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:15.920 Hey, nice job. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.920 The sky is gonna fall, so it's going down there. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.800 We might get we might be out of here. It's 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:30.840 been it's been pressure. It's been pressure every week. It's 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.560 been pressure every week on this team. It's been you 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.040 can't win on the road, you can't. You can't beat 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.360 the team with a with a playoff team, it's you. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.000 It's been a narrative each and every week. They finished 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.080 twelve and five. They got the NFC eason. Not that's 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.320 not the end all, the be all, but you play 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.520 to get yourself to home field. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:49.480 You got that. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.360 Now they come out and slap these folks. I mean, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.480 it's not what's where's the pressure in that? We understand 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.560 if you lose, the sky's falling, all of that, But 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.600 you're good enough to get here and beat the second seed. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.600 Play life it So what I'm saying. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.120 I hear you know, I mean it doesn't make for 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.560 a good show if you're confident, you know, let's worry. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:08.120 First quarter. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.120 We're not worried, but let's worry. We talked. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.600 We talked this last week and the commanders and they 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.000 came out here. People can say whatever they want to you. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.240 I was sitting there like, here we go. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:21.840 Here it is. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:22.960 it closer than it needs to be. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.000 And that's how the game started off on the road 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:26.880 where you say you can't win on the road, and no, 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.880 by the way, we did go in the row two 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.120 times in the row. We lost those games. So the 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.880 pressure in those situations it was on. It was like, hey, 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.680 well you're right, team say that. Everybody believes that we 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.640 cannot go on the road against a good team and win. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.840 We didn't do it. So now the pressure is not 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.200 just this year. It's coming from last year and the 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.840 year before where you went twelve and five both those 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.280 years and you still didn't find a way to get 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.040 it done in the playoffs. That's why this is why 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.480 Dak Prescott done not because he feels pressure, but this 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.920 is why he doesn't put on the NFC each championship 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.160 thing because he knows that the old is to get 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.600 further than you had gotten in the previous two years, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.600 because they're saying you can't get over the hump. So 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.560 it's not pressure, but it's like, hey, man, expect they 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.640 know what the expectation is. He knows and and I 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.080 think I think Dak is one of those people who 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.840 operates very well most of the times under pressure. So 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:19.920 I think he's embracing. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:20.600 It with that field goal. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:21.440 Guy blood. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:30.360 You know that Shannon sharp Jiffre. He's like, that's right, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:31.600 that's what I'm sitting. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:31.960 There looking at. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.080 Really, this is what your biggest game of the year, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.200 and we know how well Brandon Aubrey has been kicking. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.200 And he's like, I was more upset that that's how, 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.280 that's how, that's how I got messed up from him. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.360 And luckily, you know on. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.280 The radio broadcast, Bab's gonna be touchdown and lucky didn't happen. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.840 But really, this game of the year, this, this is 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:52.400 what we're doing. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.240 You're just running through there, you know. 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.200 But I was more upset about Greg Osen going on 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.880 a rant about now Brandon they's going to be in 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.640 his head about Yeah, come on, man, they always trying 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:04.600 to sell us some kind. 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:09.240 Of fear like and he drk the next one. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:10.960 Better hurry up and get him down there to kick 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.480 another one, because oh my god, there's a curse on 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:14.760 Brandon Aubrey. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:19.320 Come on, man, no, I think. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.720