WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Will McClay Joins The Show! 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.880 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:13.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:19.040 Player's laud broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:24.240 the start. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:33.520 NEWI Scrugs. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a beautiful, beautiful 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.120 morning here in the DFW metro Plex. It's your boy, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.000 Barry Church. That's your average box safety overhead, joined as 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.960 usual by the ultimate survivor, the cook himself. I seen 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.559 you on Instagram cooking it up. It looks pretty good 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:52.800 over Danny mccraig in the house as well. Our other counterpart, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.560 NEWI Scrugs is on assignment big time. He's covering the 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.800 Super Bowl, so you know he's left us hanging there 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.160 over here in the sw EC studios. But once again, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.320 this is the Players Lounge, brought to you by Hotels 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.640 dot Com and Danny. I'm gonna just jump right into 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.319 it because it's been on my mind. It's been on 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.720 my mind this these past couple of hours, and it's 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.560 just for what do we see yesterday? And I'm talking 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.319 about the Pro Bowl here, like when we was growing up. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.000 You know, Sean Taylor was playing in their Schmack and punters. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.200 You had guys given effort, tackling, guys were really trying 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.760 to go out there and win the MVP of this 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.560 game and show what they really have and give the 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.240 fans what they want. But yesterday, I mean, I've seen 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.400 walkthroughs more intense than that. I mean, what's your thoughts 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.639 on this? Look? I didn't. Let me tell you something. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.400 Me turning on the Pro Bowl would have been something 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.959 that you should all be surprised about. One because one 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.320 because you already know you are you are a former player. Okay, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.000 let me tell you something. If you go out there 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.080 and you get hurt in the Pro Bowl and have 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.560 to miss an extended period of time, you're gonna look 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.640 like a straight up. But you don't be like, man, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.360 like what was I thinking? Like? What was I thinking? Like? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.080 Why did I go out there? Was it worth it 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.560 for me to go out there? You're not making your 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.920 full check, right? You out there really to have a 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.040 good time and celebrate the fact that you played well 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.600 enough and people respected your game well enough to get 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.600 you voted into there. I'm not going out there to 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.240 get hurt talking about old school and then I've seen 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.239 the old school dude. They man, you know back in 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.840 the day when yeah, that's old school dudes usually stuck 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.120 in old school. What they what they not? What they're not. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.600 What they're not seeing is these dudes know each other 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.320 more than those old school dudes knew each other, right, Like, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.960 dudes are working out together, they taking trips together, They 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.640 on Instagram, I'm back and forth. So a lot of 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.880 these dudes are more than just associalists. This ain't they 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.200 first time meeting each other. Like they know each other. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.720 So yeah, they're not gonna go out there and what 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.799 are we talking about? They got other stuff to do. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.560 So should we should should the least switch it up? 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.919 Should they switch it up to like a flag football 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.639 or like, you know, something like that. Feel like it'd 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.360 be a little bit more juice to it if that 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.600 was the case. But I mean, we're seeing guys out there. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.280 They was they was catching the ball in the flats, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.519 doing a little one two and then art let's tag 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.960 them off. Let's just I just I's the point of 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.360 playing the game. It's bro but the game is just 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.679 it is not a football game, all right, soot they said. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.360 They said, just they should find a different way to 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.720 market it. It's not a football game. Dudes ain't about 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.120 to go out there and get tackled. So you can 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.360 be mad that you actidentally hurt. You hurt your potting 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.240 and he supposed to be working out in March like, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.320 it's just it's just just standing there in the in 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.760 the moment that it happens, then somebody's gonna be like, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.720 oh man, that's crazy. Man. But he went out there 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.760 and played for the pro bo so so he said. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.240 It's similar to to college kids opting out of the 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.880 out of their ball games when they're not in the 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.400 in the college football playoffs. Absolutely listen, they better be 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.120 looking them to show it up. There's a lot of 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.880 dudes who were supposed to show up and they're like, nah, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.720 I'm good, bro. So would you rather them like do 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.240 that or would you rather them show up and still 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.440 get the fans a little something to watch or you 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:55.920 just be a just want everybody to be like a man, 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.480 I ain't doing it. I'm a Pro Bowl guy. I'm 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.280 staying at home. I'm not I'm not going out to 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.200 Vegas and do all that. All the crazy I'm with 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.840 you on now, because I understand you know, the the NFL, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.760 they you know, they want to market their brand out there, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.480 so they want to have the fans enjoy it. They 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:08.960 don't want the fans go home and say, man, what 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.160 did I waste my money on this? But you know, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.240 I get it from the player's perspective as well. Like 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.960 you said, you can't what if you go out there 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.040 and tearn ACL. I mean, it's so late in the season. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.119 It's after the season, so you wouldn't be ready again 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.080 until maybe midway through the next season. So I understand 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.320 why the players, you know, take it lax and don't 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.160 really show any effort out there. I understand that case. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.160 But to me, I'm just like, why why you even 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.599 have the game? You're just making like a flag football 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.200 tournament seven or seven or something like that, you know, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.360 and that at least have a little bit more excitement 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.799 than going out there and playing two head touch fully padded. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.680 So I think it's an NFL problem. But then you 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.480 also because I got to keep them blowing on because 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.560 I seen you all the old school dudes hate a 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.680 lot of hate. So this year, specifically, dudes that play 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.680 seventeen games all right, some of these dudes got eliminated. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.479 It didn't even make the playoffs. So they at home 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.080 on the couch chilling with you know what I'm saying, 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.320 and then you're like, all right, listen, hey, make sure 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.240 you stay in because you got that Pro Bowl game 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.040 coming up, where where the film don't matter, you know 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.599 what I'm saying, The actual winning and losing it don't matter. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.640 Only reason they don't they don't complain about that in 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.000 the NBA. Uh, it's because one is in the middle 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.320 of the season. These dudes still have they in shape, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.960 they still have to go out and play afterwards, and 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.800 then they only play hard in the full quarter, you 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.640 know what I'm saying. But all Star weekend it's set 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.880 up so differently to where it's like a true celebration 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.120 and pro Bo is just probably the season with like 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.320 think about the dudes who were done in decenting like 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.080 January Knights like bro so a month later I gotta 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.400 go outare and do what? So should they put some 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.520 incentive on the game, like you know, I know it's 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.320 after these seasons, so it's not like they can say, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.719 you know, whatever side wins. You know, the NFC gets 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.400 you know, home fill avantge or whatever. You can't really 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.160 do that because, um, you know, it's not in the 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.159 middle of the season. So should they put some type 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.560 of incentive like maybe money wise, maybe you know drafted. Well, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.200 I don't know. I don't know, because they gotta make 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.320 the game because right now there's no point in watch 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.920 it's done. But what you saw is what you're gonna get. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.160 Okay that the people who really get something out of 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.320 the Pro Bowl, or the people who actually went to Vegas, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.280 the fans who went out there and they were able 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.479 to watch the skills and drills and get the autographs 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.400 from the guys that they wanted, those are the people 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.040 who are really getting some out of it, all right. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.680 It's I don't think it's anything you can do about 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.560 imagine going like you you're a gambler, you're in Vegas, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.279 you gamble on the game. I think they go and 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.640 then you see the effort that they're putting out there. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.080 You're a bad gambler if that's what it was. And 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.880 you was going out there the bed on the Pro 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.360 Bow knowing like this ain't the first time them dudes 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.720 was out there playing like that, all right, Like the 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.559 like remembering what Sean Taylor did. If that stuff happened 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.000 to they dudes are being some serious trouble, bro. There'll 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.640 be some real beef going on if somebody went out 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.720 there and smacked the receiver coming across the miner. Bro, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.280 come on, this ain't it ain't. It ain't the same. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.600 It ain't the same, old school dudes, it ain't the same. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.000 Y'all was out there wild the young the young. We 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.560 work smarter, not harder. All right, all these dudes they 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.599 at home, they're healthy, they're healthy with their family. They're 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.159 not in the hospital walking around because they tore se 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.880 reps of achilles. Like going hard for a Pro Bowl game. Actually, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.400 in the grand scheme of things, the game doesn't mean 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.560 anything to that, Like they already made it. Get you 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.520 know what, you're good. And by the way, the winning 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:17.440 team gets eighty kachka and then the losing team gets forty. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.320 It's a little incentive. These are bro, these are Pro 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:28.320 Bowl players. Bro. Nothing, Yeah, they got fine a grand 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.000 you know, they played for your offseason adventures. You know 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.160 what I'm saying. Okay, how about this? How about that? 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.640 So now, so now you get a workout monus for 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.040 two hundred thousand. But now you can't even show up 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:45.000 the workout because you made eighty can't You can't show up, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.600 and now you might lose your spot because you see 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.720 boys getting that's the right, that's right people getting white. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.280 Don't let it be you. Exactly. The skills competition was 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.280 more compani exactly exactly CB. So before we dive into 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.840 you know, Dan Quinn and the comments Jerry May, let's 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.960 talk about this skills because that's what I watched. To 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.000 be honest, once I turned on the real Pro Bowl game, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.240 I was like, man, you know I ain't watching it. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.240 Ain't of them. So the skills challenge, we had two 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.320 of our guys competing. I think it was the fastest 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.200 man competition. I don't know if it was forty yards. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.120 I don't know what they were racing, but it was 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.160 a forty forty. So the two players we had in 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.960 there Michael Parsons, Trademond Diggs, and the other two were 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.440 the Cheetah Tyreek Hill and Nick Chub, the running back 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.239 out of Cleveland. Now, going into this, I know Michael 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.840 Parsons ran what he were like a four to three 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.560 something in at the combat, so I know he was 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.040 going to show out. We know the type of guy 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.360 he is. He's a competitor. Anytime there's some type of 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.679 competitive juices going on, he wants all a part of it. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:42.920 He's a young guy. He's young exactly. He's a young 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.839 guys that would have been my So going into that, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.840 you saw what the guy was able to do in 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.040 that forty yard dash. Does that further cement him as 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.920 being one of the most explosive players, especially being a 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.120 rookie International Football League? I mean he was. I know, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.280 Tyreek didn't really trial like that. He came out that 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.480 the box jog and he had his full suit on, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.599 so he really wasn't going like that. But thenz and 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.600 Chuck up. They were trying and that's a corner and 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.880 that's a running back going against a linebacker slash defensive end. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.120 Did it further solidify anything for you and that in 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.319 that regard, No, sir, I mean for three or fourty three, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 it don't matter what you play, all right. So once 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.680 once he see men of the fact that he was 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.640 running that fast, I wasn't surprised that he was there. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.480 While I also wasn't surprised that Tyree Hill didn't sprint 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.959 like I said, Tyrek Hills a vent in the game. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.600 He got nothing to prove. You could turn the film 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.000 on and see how fast is do this. All you 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.760 got to do is turn it on and see him 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.360 waving the dudes breaking ankles could touch. Even if let's 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.720 just take Tyrek tried like I'm really in these box, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.720 I'm really getting out. You think Parsons would have had 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.640 any chance to beat him? Now, I don't think it 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.400 would have been a blowout of a race. But now 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.040 Tyrey Hill, Tyrek Hill. The race I would like to 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.920 see is Tyree Hill and Jamar Chase just just game 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.839 film game speed. Those are two dudes. When you turn 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.080 the film on and you watch how they just defeat 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.280 angles of guys and and then them dudes ain't slow 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.160 corners at all. And then that's what it like you said, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.280 they're erasing angles out there like you see. I see. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.280 I watched on that. I think it was they played 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.199 Cincinnati the first time during the regular season. I think 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.040 it was week seventeen, and um, what's the no, no, no no, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.079 I'm sorry. It was the playoff game against the Bills 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.240 and Tyrek Hill caught that overtime pad or whatever my 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.400 man literally was piecing dudes out. They were five yards 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.360 ahead of him, so and he was piecing them out 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:30.920 five yards behind him. No one he was going to 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.480 be erased that angle. I mean, that's pure speed. And 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.600 then like you said, Jamar chased the way he's his 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.800 ability to just gang ground on people. It's remarkable. That 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.000 would have been a hell of a race to check 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.160 out and and listen. This is how you know dudes 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.200 is fast. Right if your coach does not yell at 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.720 you on the sideline when you're getting burnt out. Anytime 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.440 Tyrek Hill line up at number three in a closed 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.160 formation with a tight end and he runs that over route, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.800 you can automatically assume that he's going to be open 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.720 because nobody can run, you know, step for step with him. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.680 And then the coach is just like, dangn that go again. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.079 You can't. You can't. You can't even want to ground. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.360 You can't coach. You can't coach the dude the run faster. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.760 Right if the d lid don't get there, Tyrek Hill 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.040 is able to outrun anybody who's covering him. So that's 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.880 how you know dudes is fast. When the coach is like, man, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.520 I got nothing. You remember we used to be like 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:23.360 called hamstring buster. Who used to be the hamstring buster. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.200 I'm a can breaking Yeah, I mean your hammies are 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.959 gone if you try to chase that man. It was 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.240 Coach Baker used to be like, hey, man, y'all make 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:32.800 sure y'all stress for y'all get out there on that 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.240 field to day, because I'm telling you, dudes is coming. Okay, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.680 play play teen yards, I'll play twit. Yeah, whatever you 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.320 got to do to make sure this dude don't get 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.400 past you, because you know he's just that fast. There's 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.160 a hamstring buster. He's a hamstring buster all right now. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:47.760 But before we take our first break, you know, we 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.760 got a couple of minutes before that first one. Let's 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.280 dive into a little bit more Cowboys football. Let's get 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.000 a little bit more deeper into this now. You know, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.040 with all the reports going out there, Miami didn't have 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.760 their their head coach hired. I forget his same Mike McDaniels. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.920 I thought the multiratial Yeah, oh, why couldn't they just 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.800 say buying the ball time ranger. I ain't gonna lie 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.960 to you, I ain't gonna dive into it. But look 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.679 at the picture. Look at the picture. I said, wait, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.760 we look at the picture. You identified as whatever you 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.640 want to whatever. Everybody got that, right, I guess I 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.760 don't know what. Just look at the picture. That ain't 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.480 the problem. Okay, they talking about black coaches. I don't 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.319 care what they're talking about, specifically black coaches. And the 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.560 reason they talk about black coaches because most of the 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.040 league is black. That's what we're talking about, all right, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.880 But whatever. Yea, they hired him. They hired him, So 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.800 Miami got their guy. And I don't know if Kellen 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.520 has anything else lined up around the league as far 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.360 as interviewing process, not sure, but from all you know, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.200 from what it looks like, the guy might be coming 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.200 back to Dallas or he is coming back to Dallas. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:49.360 Do you feel like bringing him back as that offensive coordinator? 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.080 Do you feel like that makes this team that much better? 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.960 Better than who better? Just as overall just having him 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.280 back on this offensive scheme or whatever offense we've been 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.800 running these past couple couple of years. Do you think 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.559 that bringing him back is the right thing for the Cowboy? Yeah, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.079 it was the last few years, and they've been good, 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.400 Okay the last few Okay, the year before Dak got paid. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.640 This was the year when Dak was on my fantasy 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.160 team and he was getting enough but trash yards. We 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.640 came here every week. It was like trash yards. We know, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.400 if Dak had ten points in the first half, it 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.559 didn't matter because he was gonna get twenty five in 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.200 a second because they was gonna be a slow starting 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.640 team who had to come back, and they still didn't 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.719 have a good record all before he got hurt. That 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.959 next year, we were almost losing to Atlanta if the 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.840 watermelon kicks. We were turning the ball over like crazy. 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.400 We were not on pace to be a Super Bowl 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.920 winning team or one of those offenses to where they 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.040 are electric from start defense. It was like we gotta 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.199 clause up back in it. Same thing we saw this 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.160 year when you played against some good competition, or the 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.120 further that you got into the season when you had 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.720 to start switching stuff up, because though the defensive coordinators 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.319 are able to see what you're doing, we were not 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.480 able to be successful. So the only thing that can 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.400 make this being successful with Keller Moore coming back is 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.640 if he goes and this is no pun attend. If 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.160 he goes in the lab, we're gonna another coach going 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.040 into the lab. Bro. He got to go into the lab, Bro, 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.559 and he got to sit back and he got to 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:12.920 go in there. First, you need to look at the 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.280 mirror and say, listen, whatever I did or whatever I'm 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.959 doing with this specific quarterback is not working how it 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.120 should be working right with the weapons that we have. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.360 Then going the lab with dan Quinn and figure out 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.840 how you can scheme up some other stuff, how you 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.160 can get your guys in one on one position to 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.480 say that I'm better than this guy and I'm gonna 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:31.880 beat him on the slant, I'm gonna beat him on 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.960 the face some of those Dad's Brian plays some of 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.280 some of that, like mine is better than yours, and 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.160 when we're gonna we're gonna toss it up and see 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.480 who can get it. Going the lab, see if you 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.760 can get that done. Maximize the potential of your star players. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.200 And then I think I think the scuys the limit 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:48.520 for us. But if you continue to be able to 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.840 let defenses dictate what you're going to run based off 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.000 what they scheme and what they show and how they disguise, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.200 it's gonna be the same thing. Yea, you know the 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.000 same thing. I mean, I'm with you because because the 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.160 guy you know credited this guy, he did have the 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.080 number one offense, you know, throughout the regular season, but 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.080 that didn't correlate to more wins. You know, we got 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:06.840 into the dance and we weren't able to get over 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.320 the hump. Weren't able to go out there and get 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.080 to w against San Francisco forty nine ers. And a 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.120 lot of that's got to be on the offensive side 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.760 of the football because defense, you know, the forty nine 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.400 were able to run the football on us. They scored 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.200 on the first four possessions, but the defense of the 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.960 second half they held their own. They gave us an 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.760 opportunity to go out there and win the game. You know. Offensively, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.080 we just weren't able to get out of that slump. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.440 It just seems like we weren't able to get out 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.520 of our way, whether it's you know, penalties, the defense 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.720 just figuring us out, not enough creativity, whatever the case 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.480 may be. We weren't able to get over that hump offensively, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.720 and that was supposed to be a strength, especially coming 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.720 into this season, how lowded we are. We were supposed 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.680 to have the three thousand yard receivers. We got a 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.040 ninety million dollars back in the backfield and a great 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.400 compliment back to him, and Tony Pollard got the tight 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.800 end situation. Offensive line, it's not the best as it 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.160 was in the past, but it's definitely nowhere, you know, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.160 as bad as Cincinnati's offensive line is. So we had 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.080 no excuses out there. Yet through the beginning of the season, 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.280 it was all up, Oh man, that's throwing the ball 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.280 over the place. You know, this offense is clicking on 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.640 all cylinders. We had two running backs in the top 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.280 ten rushing for the National Football League. The receivers are happy, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.520 everything's going great, and then that calf injury happened and 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.080 he missed two games, and then after that that slump happened, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.040 and it just seemed like we weren't able to get 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:21.480 out of our own way. And like I said, I 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.720 don't know if that was creativity wise. You know, defense 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:25.960 is just kind of getting the tapeall kelling and figuring 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.400 out how to slow him down offensively or what in 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.320 case may be. But in your opinion, what does this 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.240 offense need to do next year to be able to 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:35.600 be I mean, I know they were the number one 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.480 offense this year, but to at least get that number 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.280 one offense and have wins to back it up as well. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.680 I think you should not be focusing on being a 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.680 number one offense. I think you should be focusing on 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.320 being a balanced offense with an identity. You need to 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.960 find a way to when you're building this team for 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.000 next year and you're putting it together, to say this 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.680 is what our identity is going to be. Right, I'm 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.440 gonna go back to when we had the offensive line. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.840 Nobody had a question what our identity was. When we 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.760 had Tyren Smith, and we had Travis Frederick and you 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.920 had Zach Mark. It was no question. Every defense that 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.440 we played knew exactly what they was gonna get. For 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.040 sixty minutes on Sunday, you was gonna have to see 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.360 them dudes. You had to see Zeke, had to see 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.639 de Marco, and then you was gonna have to uh 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:19.919 Davis was gonna be in a one on one, right, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.600 You knew exactly what was gonna happen and they couldn't 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.520 stop it. So the number one thing they need to 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.879 do you need to find a way to find some balance, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.760 get some identity so your team knows exactly who they are? 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.080 Why are they going through the season because nobody knew 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.200 what we were? Do you think like this? So, do 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.119 you think the offense is trying to feature a strength 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.960 that really isn't a strength? You know they're trying to 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.000 I know, I know Dak Prescott's a hell of a quarterback. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.640 He's a hell of a player. I wouldn't call him 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.000