WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Two Big Concerns 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:18.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lounge, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:23.000 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.680 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray and Knew He scrugs. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.400 It is two thirty. Is that time for your boys? 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:37.760 Right here on the Players Lounge, brought to you by 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.800 a Hotels dot Com. I'm Knew He scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.640 joined by two former Dallas Cowboys safety's Danny McCray and 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.160 Barry Church. Gentlemen, how are we doing on a Thursday? 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.000 Doing good? Man, doing good? It's beautiful day outside. Um, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.840 you know you got a little work out in earlier, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.240 so you know, feeling good, feeling great. Man. Listen, I 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.480 found out. I found out yesterday and I got two 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.280 enemies on the show. So I'm gonna just be quiet. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.000 I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to make you know, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.720 without without without causing any issues, you know, because I 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.200 thought I thought, I thought I had two friends, man, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.040 But you know, they turned it back on me. Man, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.760 They turned it back on man. You know what I 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:26.240 always say, Man, you look and I knew it, and 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.400 I knew he won't even literally express my feelings. Bro 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.640 goodness great, I can't do nothing on the show man, 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.319 I'm telling you so could. I did appreciate you guys 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.640 running me down last night on Texas. Miami was getting 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:45.160 dragged and game that was ugly. Now that was ugly. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.000 You said Miami is six. Huh. He did say that. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.520 He did say that you stick it with that. Get 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.520 one Muther again, man, you get one Muther again. You're 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.400 sure you want you want to stick with that? Man? 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.920 Got got guys hurt. Now, I don't know. Man, ain't 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:06.800 got drop foot injson. Jimmy got hurt. It was ugly, man, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:15.640 and they made it. Would be just very interesting if 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.000 Dwight Howard ends up getting a championship ring after the 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.800 last few seasons where he has played. I mean, everyone 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.320 has dumped Dwight Howard. The Hornets dumped him, his hometown 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.360 Atlanta Hawks dumped him, the Washington Wizards dumped him. And 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.600 then this guy would jump on Lebron James and Anthony 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.920 Davis is back and get himself a ring. That would 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.640 be that would be that would be something. If Dwight 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.799 Howard ran out there with a ring from this NBA 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:45.680 Orlando bubble. But what you mean, game, woman, you talk 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.440 about I mean, this is a foregone conclusion. Man, it's 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:59.560 over with. It's talk about the Cowboys. About the Cowboys 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.600 they take on the Cleveland Browns. There was there was 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.639 a topic that we brought up in pre show yesterday 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.160 that we didn't get to the I want to dive 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.760 into that, and it is or the one in two 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.080 twenty twenty Cowboys better than the three and old twenty 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.440 nineteen Dallas Cowboys. Forget what twenty you guys have brought 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.120 that up. But Church, you go ahead and start on this. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.960 What's your opinion three games in of this season versus 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:31.120 last season? Man? You know what three games in? Man, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.520 I'm gonna go ahead and say this, This Cowboys team 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.920 this year is better, man, um yo, just just talent alone. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.800 I feel like they're a lot better than with that 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.520 group they had last year, especially offensively. I mean, if 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.800 you got your number four and five receivers Wilson and 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.560 um Noah Brown out there making plays, big time plays 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.760 and games like that, I mean, it just goes to 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.960 show you how much depth they have at that position. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:54.800 So I feel like it's hard for any team to 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.320 hang with the group of receivers we have. Now we 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.240 do have, you know, some problems on the defensive side. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.360 We got some injury reason all that, But overall, I 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.200 got the feeling that, you know, this this team that 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.760 we had right now, um, they show a lot of 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.640 fight and you know, they're one and two through the 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.480 first three games. Last year we were three and no. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.920 But um, the three and no team, they went against 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.120 a lot of scrugs and I meant it was Washington, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.440 New York and I think Miami were our first three 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.200 wins last year against the Against the teams we had 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.320 this year, I mean, we had Atlanta LA who's balling 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.320 out right now. Atlanta's O and three, but I think 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.360 they're the best oh and three team in the league. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.640 And then um, obviously we lost to the Seattle last week. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.320 So just the competition alone for the first three weeks, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.400 I feel like this team, um is better than what 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.720 we produced last year. And hopefully we just don't end 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.120 like we did last year and uh make it to 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:44.440 the playoffs this year. I'm total opposite of you. I 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.200 think I think last year we were better, Uh, I 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:48.960 mean talent wise, I mean, if you look at it, 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.159 we added um ceedee lamb. Other than that, we still 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.560 had the same offense. On defense, uh, I think we 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.080 were we played a lot better than than we've been 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.560 playing this year. So I think that that last year 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.680 we were in a better position, you know, to make 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.919 some plays, but we just we just didn't make those. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.840 This year we have. So we said we had bad 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.520 coaching last year. This year we have horrible coaching and 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.480 less talent as far as on the defense wise. So 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.320 I think that that so far this year, I would 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.240 have to say that we are behind the eight ball. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.480 Injuries have played a lot into this thing. And when 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.919 you talk about last season, just you know, one of 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.599 the things you do to the offensive line, Travis Frederick 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.359 was there last year. He's not there this year. And 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.279 in my opinion, one of the big things that hurt 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.560 the Cowboys with their old line was not having an 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.680 off season because there were two players I was very 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.040 interested to see if they could win jobs had they 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.359 had OTA's mini camps and a pool training camp. That 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.080 was Tyler, to be honest, the center they took out 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.280 of Wisconsin, and then Connor mcgoverned, the second year guard 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.040 who many people thought could challenge Connor Williams. I was 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.520 hearing that from people right there at the Stars. So 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.920 you know, not having these guys, um, I think from 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.280 an offensive line standpoint, then you see, you know, we 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.320 got LEL. Collins out and and Tyrn Smith is smiss 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.040 two games already, So right out of the gate, you 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.680 know your offensive line for twenty twenty is nowhere as 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.520 good as the offensive line you had is twenty nineteen. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.400 Then you look at lake Vanderesh Sean Lee not playing 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.320 for the Cowboys on defense in twenty twenty versus these 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.000 guys playing uh and helping this team in twenty nineteen. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.719 So it's it's it's I don't want to say two 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.160 different teams, but but there's a there's there's not there's 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:37.000 there's some differences here And go ahead, Dan, I got 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.600 a question, so listen. So, so for for the first 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.200 three games, but any of these games, would you say 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.640 that the old line and the injuries and the substitutions 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.800 that we had in the lineup has cost us to 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:53.080 lose the game versus play calling defense and in just uh, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.920 the offense in general has has the offensive line you 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.040 have You looked at him be like, man, if we 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.600 would have had an offensive line, we would have won 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.359 that game. I think that the Atlanta game, we definitely 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.120 saw in the first quarter when they kept turning the 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.840 ball over left and right. They did not know how 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.400 to handle the Falcons be tat McKinley. When once McKinley 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.520 got got had growing injury, went out of the game, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.720 life got a lot of got a lot easier. But 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.920 they were not handling Grady Jared up front. He was 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.120 running through guys and tat McKinley as well. I mean 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.440 that thing was tough. So I definitely feel like the 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.440 offensive line, but they caught up, but we won the game. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.480 Injuries won the game. But still there was that was 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.160 not a clean game offensive line at all. It just 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.480 was not. No, I'm just saying they're not the weakest. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.880 They're not the weakest on the on the team. Like 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.720 like if you have a level of of of like 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.679 phases of the game who aren't playing well, I wouldn't 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.360 put the old line up. There is number one for 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.040 something that needs to be fixed for us to win games. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.240 I think they're playing decent enough for us to win. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.240 They might be one, but but Danny, I'm going back 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.680 to the question was which is better one and two 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.720 twenty twenty Cowboys or three and old twenty nine team Cowboys. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.680 So I'm comparing the old lines looking at them just 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.640 based on the topic here, and for me, the offensive 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.760 line in twenty twenty with the issues and the combinations, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.800 that's one reason why I'm saying the twenty twenty team 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.920 is not as good as the twenty nineteen team because 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.160 you had a better offensive line and if you look 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.480 at what Dak Prescott and obviously it was bad teams, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.000 but you know, his first three games, this guy was 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.120 balling out like crazy, and Dak Prescott while he's put 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.280 up numbers, Dak Prescott's not played clean as he did 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.920 the year before. Now, part of it is better competition, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.040 but also just I just believe that they're offensively, they're 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.000 not where they need to be, So to me, they 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.000 would really go back to answer the question, I think 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.680 last year's three and old team after you know that, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.760 that's a better club than what we're seeing right now. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.559 So that's that's my my my retort to that. Okay, 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.880 I'm still going with twenty twenty, but I mean, hey, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.040 you guys, you guys had you guys had your your 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.920 points there. I mean, we are struggling a little bit offensively, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.320 but I still gotta go with this team. Just offer 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.480 the rep of the competition we're going against compared to 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:07.120 last year's competition. Yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool with the 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.960 old line. Uh, you know, I want them to be healthy. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.640 But I just think we have, you know, bigger issues 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.240 than them. I think that we can we can make 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.600 it through a few games, you know, and and have 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.760 the capability to win those games with the old line 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.920 that we have if we tidy up some stuff in 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.840 other phases of the game. Look, would you say that 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.920 the would you say that the offensive line is a 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.200 is a top three issue though? Or would you just 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.080 or you you think that you know, they're not really 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.160 that issue at all. No, no, no, it's it's an issue. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.200 You want to have your guys out there. But I 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:42.559 think that that defense is one to me coaching actually 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.000 coaching this one defense is too And then yeah, I 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.319 would put I would put play calling in offensive line somewhere. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.959 You know, three A and three B. All right, So 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.000 so stay there because that's another topic that we hit 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.439 in on the pre show meeting. You're your two biggest 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.440 issues for the Cowboys and what they faced so far 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:05.760 this year. So Danny, you're gonna coaching number one, yes, okay, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.600 And and and I say that because when you look 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.400 at the defense, a lot of the errors that they're making, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.280 like you can get out physical sometimes and you know, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.439 some guy, some teams just come in and and and 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.240 they have a scheme that's that's better than yours. Are 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.240 running back and stronger, and you see some guys get 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.400 ran over. That stuff happens, that's football. But when you see, 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.480 you know, the game in and game out guys with 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.040 their eyes in the backfield, that's blowing coverage, just playing 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.080 cover one and letting guys run free, and you know, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:39.800 uh doing stuff on special teams, dropping balls, and like 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.960 the list goes on for for for coaching errors, things 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.160 that coaching should be able to fix for us. And 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.360 I think if you subtract those, even half of those 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.560 from the first three games, don't I think the outcome 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.800 is totally different from from where we're sitting right now. Okay, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.720 So coaching's one. What's your second with Danny? The second 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.840 one for me just because and I say this because 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.240 I know that our defense is going to continue to 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.720 struggle because you know, injuries and what we have there 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.400 is play calling and us being able to call plays 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.040 and create the floor of the game that helps out 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.839 the defense so they don't so they're not stuck out 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.560 there on the field and having to play defense for 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.240 the entire game and us getting beat in time on possession. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.760 So I'm going coaching, and then you know, my one 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.240 part where I'm going to straight the offense is Kellen 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.679 Moore and Mike McCarthy figuring out how to help out 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.160 the rest of the team by calling offensive plays that 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.920 that suits us and helps us control the clock. All right, Church, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.800 your two from Yeah for me, you can kind of 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.080 put this in the coaching realm. But I'm gonna say communication. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.079 I mean, we've seen how these secondaries, you know. I 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.120 don't know if it's between the coaches and the players 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.240 or the players themselves, but something's not getting right through 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.200 there when it comes to communication. I don't know if 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.760 it's the safety's not communicating to the corners or the 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.480 or the front seven. I don't know who's messing up, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.040 but somebody's messing up there because you can't just I mean, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.320 just look at last week. You can't just have guys 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.640 running scott free, like you pointed out there, and you 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.240 can't have them running scott free through your secondary that way. Usually, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.240 if you're safe, you're the last line of defense. So 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.520 even if everything breaks down, you gotta be back there. 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.720 You can't let anything go over your head. And we've 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.960 seen too many instances of that this year where guys 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.800 are just blown coverages, guys are wide open. So I'm 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.800 not sure if it's the communication between the coaches and 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.080 the players or the players to other players relaying the call, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.400 but something has to work out there. So for me, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.960 it's kind of a coaching slash communication issue going on 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.520 there for one problem, and the other one is to me, 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.360 it's got to be injuries. We know it's it's a 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.520 part of the game. I mean people, it's a violent sport. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.600 People are gonna get hurt. But I mean when you 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.600 have the rash of injuries that we've had, I mean 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.520 it's gonna affect the team. I mean we got you know, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.240 Lyle Collins out, tying Smith, I mean Frederick who decided 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.280 to retire. We're down to our third linebacker in the middle. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.240 You know, we lost our two starting corners on the outside. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.880 So I mean, like like it is, it's a part 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.440 of the game being injured, but when you have injuries 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:12.280 of this magnitude, it's going to affect the team. For me, 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.240 I'm echoing a lot of what Danny said. It's the 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:22.000 coaching and the coaching from the standpoint of guys being 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.880 ready to play. Coaching from the standpoint of guys understanding assignments, 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.760 Coaching from the standpoint of guys buying into what's going 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.760 on here, because you've got some players right now that 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.160 aren't buying in to how they're doing defensively. And also 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.040 coaching from the standpoint of what you said, Danny is 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.240 they need to have complimentary play. They gotta play complimentary football. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.400 You just gonna be out calling plays. You gotta be 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.880 calling some plays instead up here. And also protect your defense. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.760 And I've been saying this from from Jump Street the 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.559 season starting. This Cowboys defense is not good enough to 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.160 be on the football field thirty minutes. The offense has 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.080 to find a way to protect it. So I'm putting 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.760 all that into coaching, right, all that right there into coaching. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:05.000 And my second one is turnovers. I mean, the Cowboys 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.800 are mine is four and you simply can't be you 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.920 can't you can't have you know, four negative turnovers and 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.960 trying to win football games. It's just hard. I go 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.160 back and look at what happened in Seattle. You throw 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.920 an interception right before the half and Russ Russ converts 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.480 it into a touchdown, and then you come out of 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:23.880 the half and you got a fumble and they go 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.280 out here and get more points out of it. And 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.560 you can't do that, especially when I started looking here 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.840 at Cleveland and right here on my notes for Cleveland, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:34.240 they are tied for second in the NFL and they've 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.120 scored thirty one points off turnovers. So that's an area 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.280 that they can keep talking about and telling you in 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.160 the locker room and go work on it. Mike mccarthur 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.600 can say, there's press conferences, but if you slip up 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.880 and give the football to Cleveland this week, you could 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.680 be looking at an l And I don't know if 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.120 fans realize this is not this is not your your 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.800 regular Browns that you've been used to the last ten years. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.240 Kevin Stefanski is coming here and at least figured out 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.000 what their identity is. They got a big offensive line 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.880 that they paid money for. They're trying to run the 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.240 football and limit Baker Mayfield. If Baker Mayfield is throwing 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.160 the ball under twenty twenty five times twenty five times 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.280 a game and under, they're able to win. When that 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.080 dude throws it more, they're going to lose. So that 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.800 those are my two for me, the coaching and the turnovers. Yeah, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.240 and let me follow up with the coaching things, just 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.840 so we can be clear on this, all right, we 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.440 try the hardest to lose. The Atlanta game, you think about. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.160 Your defense is struggling. You go two fake punts, right, 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.000 so you're you're putting the defense on short fields after 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.520 already having turnovers. You turn around the next game and coaching, 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.280 you have your your your your kick returner, you know, 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.960 trying to return every kick. And he makes a mistake 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.240 and he puts the defense on the short field as well. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.760 And then we go out there and we missed. We 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:51.080 missed two field goals, two extra points. They watch blocks 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.320 two extra points. You've missed two extra points. You're giving 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:55.880 the ball on the short field, like you said. Then 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.720 we go out there and fumble and give Russell short field. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.520 All these things they just they just go back to 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.880 coaching to me, like you said, and being ready, having 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.840 you guys ready to play. But some of these are 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.560 just decisions that you know they're head scratching, especially when 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.040 you know the makeup of a team. So fix that. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.720 And and we could possibly be twill and one. Look 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.120 they can't. But they got three games in a row 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.840 here at home. The Cowboys have got to make hay 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.680 and Mike McCarthy had mentioned that at his press conference 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.280 as well. Here, okay, a lot of get to here 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.920 Brandon Car. Where should Brandon Car play on Sunday? Let's 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.080 dive into that. We got to take our first break 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.440 right here on the Players launch brought to you by 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.840 Hotels dot Com on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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Noi Scruggs, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.640 a long time Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Dallas Cowboys, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.600 Safety's Buried Church and Danny McCrae. Dak Prescott spoke to 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.800 the media today. I listened to it. I did not 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.040 see the video, Chris Bean, Do you know it's Dak 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.760 Prescott wearing his Mississippi State shirt at all because they 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.600 kind of they had a nice little win over weekend, 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:31.040 so I didn't know. Okay, okay, yeah, just just check 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.280 on that form on the head Hail State shirt, you know, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.600 because Mike Leaks went into Death Valley and just ran up. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:43.679 Leave it, know it. You do know that the LSU 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.479 Fighting Tigers are still the defending national champions right, Okay, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.600 just just check it. Just checking. I just wanted you know, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.080 I just wanted you to know that I thought you forgotten. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.880 Oh so, so you're gonna be like the Eagles and 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.600 keep celebrating this chan sampionship for years and years. You're 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.240 gonna be like that. No, that's just the still celebrating. 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:10.280 So they are they are. They are no longer defending 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:14.000 national champions. We are still defending national champions So we're 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.080 just gonna ride it for the year like we're supposed to. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.320 The trophy stays with us until somebody takes it. So, yes, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.920 it's still ours, thank you. Okay. I mean, if you 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.880 all want to be like Nick Saban, you know who 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.080 won a championship with lash and Mini at Alaba, Nick Saban. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.560 You know he keeps it rolling, you know, last year's 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.080 last year. But if you guys still celebrating last years 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.160 last year, when Nick saban last years last year? Okay, 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:40.600 all right, could keep keep picking and choosing. Man, it's okay, man, 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:42.720 I know you like the fighting tigers. This cool. You 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.800 can get on the bad wagon. I just asked if 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.239 dad wore a hell State shirt. Man. Yeah, that's all 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.440 because that's all you was doing. That's all you was doing. 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.399 That's all you mean. Hey, I picked LSHO this week 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.200 is they get ready to face Vandy the one. I 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.560 don't want you to pick us. Don't pick her. You 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.200