WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Got it Done 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:06.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.640 Cowboys. 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:17.040 This is the Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:22.560 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:27.200 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and newly Scrugs. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.760 Here we are playings lounges on a victory Friday. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:36.400 Yes, yes, yes, you know. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:41.879 The crew Danny Cray, heckm Harrison, Barry Church, Scrugs. The 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.120 Cowboys nine and a half point favorites, and this game 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.480 was a forty one thirty five Cowboys win. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:51.919 It was a. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.880 Close game with the Cowboys down in the fourth quarter 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.400 coming back. So they were down twenty eight twenty seven 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.800 at three in the fourth quarter, Seattle score to make 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.200 it thirty five to twenty seven, Dak Prescott and the 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.240 crew with fourteen points to close this show. All right, gentlemen, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.039 and I'll start with you, Danny. We create run around 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.400 the table. Give me your first impressions of this victory. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.120 This is this is one of the victories that we 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.360 had been talking about. We needed where we're behind, right 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.120 and the past rush is not that big of a thing. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.520 And Dak in our offense has to find a way 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.240 when the defense isn't as good as they have been 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.400 to make something happen. And then we had a chance 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.040 to see it. Like you just said, they were down, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.000 they had to come back. Dak took it on the 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.679 shoulders made it happen. They also showed up as a 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.520 physical team. I'm looking at Ferguson, I'm looking at Dak 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:41.400 with the flex on. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:43.600 I see TP. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.000 So for me, this is this is one of those 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.560 games where I was like, hey, you know what right 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.000 now we look like and for next team and when 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.040 we play against physical teams, we haven't been able to 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.600 be as physical. This right here showed that we do 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.920 have the potential to be physical as any other team 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:57.400 in the league. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.040 Pak Man Harrison one side of the ball. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:01.360 On one side of the while. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.080 Yeah, we messed intensity everything you just said. And I 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.960 agree with the fact that we needed that test. We 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.160 need to have somebody come in here and tests. I met, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.160 especially our offensive line. I think they did a I 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.760 wouldn't say phenomenal job, but a good enough job against 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.400 a defensive front that gave them all sorts of pressure 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.440 and problems and internally Talaviadish was one of those names 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.280 that I came away with saying, hey, man, we got 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.839 to be better at that position, especially if we want 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.480 to get to the next level. But offensively, man, it 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.160 was Dak for me, it was Dak was It was 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.639 all the people that said that he had to have 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.240 one of these types of wins. He had to play 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.720 against an opponent that tested him. And I think Brandon Cooks, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:46.000 to me, is that guy in this offense that can 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.639 really open up everything for everybody. Because no matter how 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.160 you play the Cowboys couple for whatever it is, or 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.400 double just straight up double team ceedee lamb, Brandon Cook's 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.720 gonna have his opportunity to expose you. And man, I've 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.160 been talking about my tight end for a long time 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.320 and I've been waiting on him and I've been waiting 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.280 on him to have one of these kinds of games. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.880 But I think Jake Ferguson also showed you that, man, 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.440 he can be one of those dudes that can hog 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.440 the middle of the field and if you put him 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.959 one on one with a safety Jamal Adams, my man. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.200 Yo, you burnt to date and I loved it. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.240 I loved it, man, I loved everything about the victim. Now, 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.960 when I look at this man, to me, it boil 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.000 down to two things. One, Dak Prescott once again put 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.760 it on his shoulders and had possibly his best performance 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.280 as a cowboy to date. Man, if you look at 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.040 what he was able to do out there, fighting guys 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.640 off on, scrambled for extra yards, finding the open receiver, 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.160 I mean he did it all. He did it all 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.800 out there. And another thing that came to mind is 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.240 that I gotta give credit where credit is do. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:44.520 Man. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.760 Mike McCarthy's a hell of a play caller. I'll give 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:48.920 it to him right now. He's a hell of a 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.240 play caller when you look at it, man, because I 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.720 got hey, Like I always said, Man, when I see 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.600 you on tape, I see what I see, and I 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.240 say what I see? That man right there put on 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.320 a clinic. When you talk about creativity and getting your 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.600 number one guy involved with your CD land, whether it's 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.280 reversus lining them up in the slide short intermediate, I 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.680 mean he was able to dial it all up. And 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.640 Dak has been able to go out there and execute 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.520 the game plan almost flawlessly out there. So those are 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:15.840 the two things that stood out to me. I'm sure 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.960 we'll talk about this defense because we But when you 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.800 talk about the offensive performance out there, Dak stood on 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.720 everything and McCarthy drew it all up. And hey, what 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.960 can I say? They had almost a virtuoso Reverend Barry 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.000 Church singing. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.800 He did is he good for the season? Now good? 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.680 Michael Cardin, it's this day. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.800 He didn't we gotta let it play out, got play 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.560 We gotta let him play out, But he did. I 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.040 said that, I got laughed at let it play out. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:56.040 But he did his thing. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:01.280 Man, I think he's the la it is obviously he's 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:01.760 been in there. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.080 So shout out the big money. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.600 No, all right, this is players last brought to you 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:06.119 by Toasty. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.280 Does you keep that pain? Take them? 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:14.440 Know how McCarthy's been going this game to me, I'm 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:15.480 just going to echo with you, guys. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.280 This was about Dak Prescott having to carry everybody because 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.480 the defense was getting They were getting business. Okay, Seattle 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.360 came to it. They were laying the business and you 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.919 needed to scool, and you had to keep on scoring, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.400 and you had to keep on going. I go in 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.280 the fourth quarter, you're down at this point thirty five 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.159 seventeen Cowboys get the ball back, they go six place 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.960 fifty six yards. They get the field goal, and then 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.880 after that there was the fourth and one that the 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.480 Seahawks did not get. So Cowboys get the ball. You 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.160 gotta go and do some business here, and Dak Prescott 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.840 takes him down the field. That's when Jay Ferg went 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.440 ahead and caught that right over Jamal Adams after they 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.080 being noise talking that. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.800 Both of them. I love to see it. Yeah, I 0:05:58.880 --> 0:05:59.160 love you. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.560 He ain't back down, ain't back now. So so you 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.960 get the touchdown and then you get the two point 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:04.919 conversion of Cooks. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.080 Is what you needed right there. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.120 And then Seattle gets the ball one more time here 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.000 looking at looking at the fourth quarter stat sheet once 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.920 again stopped on a fourth down, fourth and three from 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.800 the Seattle fourteen. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.279 I mean, uh they where were they? 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.960 Seattle went fourth and fourth and that was the Geno 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.320 Smith incomplete pass to Jackson Smith and jig with the 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.960 kid from DFW. So Cowboys get the ball, they go 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.960 down the field. They get themselves on a fourth and three, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.640 a Brandon Aubry field goal. Then Seattle's got the ball 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.039 back here or one forty three to go. They can't 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:34.520 get it done. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:35.080 Cowboys. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.200 Cowboys lose. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.800 For the critics out there were like, Dad, can't be 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.200 dag the Cowboys that being a team with a with 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.240 a winning record. Here's a winning record. Here's a good 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.480 football team we saw. I mean, regardless of what happened, 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.240 that is a good football. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:53.240 Okay, ain't going to Super Bowl. But like I said, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:54.080 but hey. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:57.160 Own that. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:58.400 I'll own that. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:05.039 You whispered that though, I yeah, I did. I didn't. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.840 Ain't no doubt. I wish both teams. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:11.840 Balls alive. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.080 Man, But but that was that was a quality win. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.440 And I like, I don't know which you feil saw 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:18.840 what you had? 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.520 How'd you feel about macarthy affres saying we needed this 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.040 kind of football game? 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.720 Now, I think as a coach, he has a he 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.920 has his hand on the pulse of his team. He 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.320 knows that they needed to be tested, especially when you 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.480 come up against three games twelve and twelve days. Some 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.080 of those oppositions that you came up against was not quality, 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.320 I'm add admitting, especially commanders. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:38.120 So you got a lot. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.000 You got an opportunity to test some of the things 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.480 that you have been scouting in your playbook to see 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.720 if it worked, and you got a chance to go 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.040 out there and test that versus teams like this, But 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:47.840 you wanted to see what they did when they got 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.120 hit in the mouth, and they got hit in the 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:49.840 mouth in this game. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:51.720 You look at the end of the first half going 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:52.840 into the second half. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.240 Seattle took that split, they came out a halftime, they 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.800 scored on you, okay that at that point it made 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.960 it look like, man, we might be in a little 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.640 bit of trouble here at home. And then the defense 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.080 and the offense had to get The defense had to 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.120 get a stop, the offense had to respond, and like 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.960 I said, I just feel like for this whole season, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.880 Mike McCarthy has had his hand on the post of 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.320 this team. He's made all the right decisions with these 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.560 guys as far as you know, giving them the rest 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.560 that they've needed. Tyron Smith the decision to say, hey man, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.320 you don't need the practice during the week. All we 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:27.880 need you to do is come out and play. And 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.320 what has he done. He's come out and he's responded, 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.839 and he's made the moves like he looks like old 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.400 school seventy seven to me, right and you Tony Pollard, 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.640 a guy that we've been talking about finishing runs, being 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.480 able to be a guy that's a possession like he's 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.280 moving the chains. You see him doing that all right, 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.040 finishing runs. And also the way that they've been using 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.880 Rico dawdle Man. I have no doubt that this team, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.319 if they continue with the play calling that Mike McCarthy 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.480 has implemented right now him and Dak they on the 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:57.520 road real quick. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.439 Two things we talk about Rico situation, they're using them well. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.760 But to me, why is it Tony Poler getting those 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:06.960 outside runs that Ricos is get every time he gets 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.839 in the game. When Tony Paul starts it off, what 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.760 was his first three runs right up in the commimit 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.280 of tackles as soon as Riko and let's get them 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.160 ata sweep on the outside. I think those are the 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.360 runs that that TP needs. But I will say this 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:18.800 real quickly and then you can get back to it. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.880 I don't think I agree disagree with McCarthy on this one. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.320 That defense didn't need this game all right, Like we're 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.480 talking about, you know, we need this game to whatever 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.160 confidence that defense did not need this game. That happen 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.560 to them like that because we were said the team, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.400 the team, the defensive part of that team. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.079 I think you're specifically talking about the offense like you 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.920 ain't talking about talking about the offense, and then you 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.120 having the defense in the stands of Okay, we're not 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.079 playing well, but we need to just come up with 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.800 one one stop like that that is the moment because 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:47.120 they haven't. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:47.640 How does that help? 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.200 I'm just say, how does that help the defense? 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.760 Though? Like, well, I confidence anything because. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.959 You've been in these games against these other winning teams 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.280 to where when you needed a big time stop you 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.760 haven't been beginning. And now you said, okay, all right, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.160 when we're playing again, it's a quality team and things 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.040 aren't going right boom, are we able to respond at 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.199 some point to make sure that we can get the 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.400 ball back to our offense and then get that momentum 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:09.120 going on our side? 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:09.880 And I think they did. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.439 Because it was going it wasn't good at all. It 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.120 wasn't good, and they did come up with a stop. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.600 And that's the same things teams like Philly and San Francisco. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.839 Philly don't the whole team's under ten points all the time. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.440 Some time they give up thirty five, but then they 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.160 find a way to get a stop when they need one, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.800 and then Jayleen Hurst goes in and that's what Dak 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.079 Prescott did last night. And I just wanted to ask you, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.079 as far as Rico Dalla is concerned, you being a 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.080 defensive guy, your expectation of Rico Dalla when he gets 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.199 in the game is he's running in between the tackles. So, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.000 I mean, I wouldn't say it's like I'm trying to 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.760 out think you our scheme, you'll be smarter than the 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.400 other guy. But your expectation of Rico Dalla is he's 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:44.520 going to be a guy that's going to run in 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.120 between the tackles. And you definitely don't expect for TP 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:49.559 to be that guy to run in But you know 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.240 the way that they're using and the way that they're 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:52.040 mixing these guys up. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.000 I don't have a problem with it. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.880 My thing is just so what the guy cooked is 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.080 my only thing. Man, this whole you know, two series 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.000 on one off. If he's tired, we've seen them tap 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.880 out a couple of times. You bring it, you bringing Rico, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.080 But if the man is ready to roll, man, let that. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.120 Do I agree to the sense that, yes, I do 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.720 want to see TP get some more of those outside runs. However, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.000 you have to mix it up, and you got to 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.440 bring Rico in on second down sometimes so you can 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.240 get there. But I think Tony Poler is that at 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.000 his best when he's able to try to try to 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:21.400 capture it. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.400 So Church go back here, just looking at the drive chart, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.040 this is what Seattle did their first five possessions, touchdown, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.840 missed field goal, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.360 So at this point in time, you're like, man, you 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.080 need something. Then Bland comes up. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.720 So the next five drives, Bland comes up with the interception, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:39.320 then it's a touchdown. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.360 Then it's downs, downs and downs. So your first five, man, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:45.920 they're taking it to you. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.599 The last five they did what they needed to do, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.760 so old saying, you always have to play great, but 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.280 you got to play great when you have to. When 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.720 they had to have it, the defense came and they 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.319 gave it to you. One't perfect, sure, dan Quinn will 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.960 go in the lab and these guys will have things 0:11:59.000 --> 0:11:59.719 they need to work on. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:11:59.839 You. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.840 You two have both played in the league and said 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.240 sometimes they ain't pretty, but you came out of there 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.480 win and its old. My man Okaway once said, I 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.360 ain't gonna apologize for win it, win it. But what 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.000 I just see right here because I was like, man, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.840 they got to force a punt. You know, no, by 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.120 the way, no punts, no punts in this game. And 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.520 it set of force the punt blaand got the interception. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.960 So when I look at it from a defensive standpoint, yeah, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.079 you can moan and grown, but you know what, dog on, 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.000 they got it done last week Philadelphia. Okay, they had 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:32.040 they needed overtime against against the Bills. Defense wasn't great necessarily, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.079 but when they needed to come up with something, that 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.240 came up with something. And that, for me is the 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.480 interesting thing of how Eagle fans and people praise the 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.040 Eagles for getting it done and then the Cowboys get 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:44.319 it done. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.320 It's like, well they got it done. I'll give them 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.520 that they got it done. You can never apologize for wins, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.719 like you said, But for me, it's like this was 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.240 supposed to be the strength, Like this was supposed to 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.520 be your backbone or your team. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.959 Okay, And like I still I do think it still is. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.959 I do think some of it is a case of 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.439 the Thursday night football game game. So I think some 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.000 of it's case of that. I don't think you are 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.800 as good as you were that you thought you were 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.800 going to be when you came into the season. I 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.640 still think this is the top five defense? 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:18.440 Is it still? 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.439 And dan Quinn, we trust Barry. We are we getting 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:30.679 away from that Barry. Do we think that Cleveland is 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.880 a good defense? Yeah, the Cleveland brown They went out 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.880 there and beat the Cleveland Browns with twenty four points 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.640 on them. All right, this is not this is not 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.839 a bad offense. They had a bad stretch of games 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.160 to where they lost three out of four. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.400 Past five games, they've only averaged fifteen. Ye. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.320 Yeah, so what I'm saying they had a bad stretch. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.160 But that's a stretch. But but but you said it. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.400 This week they got dk mecam, they got taller, like 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.520 they have weapons, and they came in with them weapons 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:54.839 and they said, hey man, this is a do or 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:55.600 do You were. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.959 Worried about the secondary or that pass rush because that 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.800 offensive line for the Sea Seattle Seahawks, they regardage. They 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.720 were leaking it in entire like these past five SIS 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.520 games they've been leaking, giving up at least like three 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.559 sacks a game. Now when you look at it, Gino Smith, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.120 I don't even know if he was really touching stuff 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.439 for that last possession when Parsons came through and he 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.800 had time in the world to to find these three receivers. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.439 So you're more worried about the secondary getting torsed like 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.760 that or is it the d line not being able 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.640 to get pressure on a weak offensive line? 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.920 Man, Listen Bland had he had a bad game. I'm like, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.360 I can't sit here and say that Gilly had a 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.120 bad game. Like I think Stephan Gilmore played a good 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.400 football game. I think Bland had a he had it 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.720 was different and I always go back to this Bland 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.920 as a second year player. Okay, we saw a little 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.840 bit of it last week against Washington when we was like, hey, man, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.400 may maybe a little off. So they have some time 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.600 now to go figure out what's going on. But I 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.120 would be more worried about that game. I'm like, where 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.880 is the pass rush? Because we've been talking about the 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.320 defunted pass rush for a long time and they and 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.200 and deserve it. So but when we needed it in 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.840 that game yesterday, when the secondary wasn't able to hold 0:14:59.920 --> 0:15:02.400 up as much, I expecting Michael Parsons and those guys 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.440 to have three four sacks on the Gino Smith. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.000 And it didn't. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.440 It didn't happen, and Gino Smith a couple of times 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.480 came close to a ground and called getting rid of 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.080 the ball as the sack was coming. But you know, look, 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.480 I think when you start doing the comparison between the 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.200 way that Philadelphia won and the way that Dallas won 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.480 and last week's game versus a Bill to your point, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.080 knewly the Bills had five hundred and five yards and 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:24.880 let's just even go. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.800 To the Washington Washington Commander's game. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.640 Washington Commander's game, they gave four hundred and fifty yards 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.000 and I'm guessing if I know it was over four 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.400 hundred yards that they gave up to the commanders, you're 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.120 gonna have a game. And to me, I just felt 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.960 like they didn't hang their head. And I think that's 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.200 the al Hairs effect on the secondary. It's been times 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.160 where you've seen the camera paying to the sideliner you 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.280 see us. It was when we had Cheetah Bell or 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.120 Woozy A and guys like that. It'll paying to the 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.680 side of everybody's heads down. These guys were not suckling, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.160 they weren't down. And even deron Bland as a second 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.400 year pro getting baked the way that y'all y'all saw it. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.880 It was having a bad game, but you never saw 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.960 him hold his head down. You've never seen him seeing 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.040 him look like he was just couraged. He came out 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.520 there and he actually as they were picking on him, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.360 he got a pick. That adjustment, sorry, that adjustment that 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.360 was made too, because they did switch sides in the 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.880 second half. That's the credit to dan Quinn, right, because 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.760 you trust your players, right, and you and you don't 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:20.720 want to be in that situation, But then you also 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.320 have to have the nerve to be like, hey, you 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.920 know what, enough is enough and we're going to figure 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.440 out how to get this done. And Gilly went out 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:27.680 there and did he I think he did what he's 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.400 supposed to do. But we said this last week. He's 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.160 the better covered guy at this point in his career, 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.840 and durn Bland is the better turnover guy. And and 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.000 I'm sure you guys can can echo this, like a 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.800 lot of people not saying that how impactful he is, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.200 but how impactful is that to have a guy I mean, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.000 d ron Blanz is getting all the credit because of 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.000 the pick six pick six is but Gilly went out 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.600 the second half. We're talking about a guy that was 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:56.600 having a historic first half in the second half, you know. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.000 And that's the effect of having a guy like Stephan 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.720