WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Unlikely Praise for Dak 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:19.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:24.840 loud broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.520 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, Rit Johnson, and 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:38.320 NEWI scrugs, yes, sir, is that time all ladies and gentlemen, 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.239 boys and girls, children of all ages. The Dallas Cowboys 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:46.600 probably present to units tag Team Champions World, the Toledo Rocket, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:55.560 the LSU Tiger, the Survivor himself, Danny mccrag Hey, somebody 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.680 reminds Church that The Survivor comes on on Wednesdays at seven. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.400 I'm rocking the team, Danny one. It was today. I 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.839 thought I was too hype for it. You know TV 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.280 that first episode had me too hype. So I'm lass today. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.280 I got something to watch. I had football yesterday, Now 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.480 I got Survivor today. I was so geek. I put 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.160 the shirt on thing and I was matching hell and 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.840 watches the golf channel. This is true, CB. You know 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.720 I stay on my golf. Now did y'all watch the 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.880 Rider Cup? I assume I did not. We got the 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.920 dub Dog hurt, the biggest gap difference. I read in 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.120 the History of it man script that's all you mad 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.080 y'all missing out on some script on some immaculate shots. 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.200 All right, there were some immaculate shots out there. But 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.280 season forty one tomorrow, I thought it was today, not bad. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:49.520 That's my bad. Watching this is the players like forty 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.600 five minutes of Cowboys content here on a Tuesday where 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.800 the Dallas Cowboys put up forty one points on the 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.920 Philadelphia Eagles in a twenty point win, and I dare 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.040 say they left fort team to seventeen points out there 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:07.840 Jerry World last night. And for me watching this football 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.320 team come in here under you know they were shorthanded, 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.280 and I don't think I don't think we talked about 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.720 it enough because they want so dominantly to be shorthanded 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.360 once again, having to make moves during the week, and 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:23.240 the coaching staff from Mike McCarthy to Dan Quinn to 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.960 Kellen Moore to Joe went to Joe Philbin, everybody on 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.959 this staff to have these guys ready to play. Can't 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.680 forget Adam Henry other wide receivers go. I mean, this 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.320 team was ready to play and they beat them up. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.440 They beat them up, They didn't want no parts of it. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.320 If you want to, if you want to get in. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.680 Like a clear example of the whooping that they were 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.160 taking last night, you watched Ezekiel Elliot run that touchdown 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.840 and put his face mask and he's running through their 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.080 face mask. Nobody can stop him. And by the middle 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.600 of the second quarter, nobody wanted to tackle this. Anybody 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.080 want to part? And I know we're about to break 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.200 this game down offensively and defensively, but deep Mac, you notice, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.919 those are the type of games if you're if you're 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.440 a safety or you're on the defensive side of the football, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.799 and you go in half them, you come out, it's 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.359 twenty to seven and all this day they get to 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.480 pick six. You know, either back in out, all they're 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.480 gonna do is run the ball from now on. I 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.320 gotta go out there and tackle this dude at least 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.320 five six times out there because they're gashing us. Those 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.400 are the games you hate as a defender, knowing you 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.840 gotta tackle this truck for the remainder. So so we 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.920 talked about it later, but right, so, are you worried 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.440 about polar in that situation or you worried who would 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.800 you rather see in that situation. Give me poler every day. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.400 I'd rather be shook or burnt to the edge than 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.480 continuously getting pounded like that gelled all day. The body shots, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.920 you felt it was bro It was so like you 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.360 could see it and you gotta know your person there. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.520 Anthony Harrison wall on the goal, you got it. If 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.760 that's polar Yeah, you hit him up top ze coming 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.120 in there like that. You went up top on that man. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.040 I know his jaw, his chest, everything, doctor to his knees. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.480 I said, oh yeah, this is this ain't good person now. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.320 And I got worried because then we got away from 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.120 the run. I'm like, why these dudes are begging you 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.800 to throw the ball at this point though? Touchdowns owners Police, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.880 They do not want none of Zeke in that in 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.200 that situation, none of them. So the Cowboys and for me, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.960 halftime was that was that was really special on the 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:30.000 JumboTron when because that's how I saw the video um 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.000 where Drew Pearson, Jimmy Johnson and Cliff Hairs got their 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.640 rings from David Baker, and Jimmy just sent the crowd 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.160 next level when he just said how about them cowboys? 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.040 And you're already whooping up the Eagles that did. Here's Jimmy, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.640 you know, the last guy to to she said, last 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.440 guy by Barry Switzer won a Super Bowl. But the 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.720 guy that really was was that that that architect in 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.880 terms of building that nineties team, and just to see 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.120 him finally, you know, get that, get the honor. He's 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:03.159 still and all right, Chris our man, Chris Beans, producer extraordinaire. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.120 He's got Jimmy for me. And I was I was 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.040 sitting in our newsroom over Channel five, and when Jimmy 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.159 said this man, old newsroom was like, yeah, so go 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.320 ahead play Jimmy please. The only thing other than that 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:21.560 I've got to say, how about that Cowboys ninety three 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.040 thousand just going nuts right there? I mean, you knew, 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.640 you knew what type of game it was gonna be. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.840 I mean, and I liked leading up to the game, 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.800 the Cowboys responses to all that beat diasts or this 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.440 guy wearing shirts that say beat that, all the responses 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:35.919 are you know, all were good. We focused on what 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.360 we got and damn right they was focused. I didn't. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.080 I didn't make it to the game last night, but 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.200 from what I've heard and what I saw on TV, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.680 the atmosphere was electric. What what what you want as 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.680 a player when you walk into to the stadium and 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.440 you run through that tunnel, and when you're making a 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.320 big play on third down or you scoring an offensive touchdown, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.960 to hear it go crazy like that and to see 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.360 the camera rumbling a little bit, that is what you 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.880 want to see. And that's that's I think that's what 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.240 Jerry imagined when he built the stadium, for it to 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.599 be feeled like that, to be rowdy like that, for 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.719 the Cowboys fans to come out in full effect. And 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.880 last night was great and hopefully we continue to do 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.560 that throughout the rest of the season. The first time 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.440 they can fill up the house since COVID because the 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.200 crowds last year were at fifty percent. And for those 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:26.160 um My age who who I got to cover Jimmy's 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:31.240 last years with the Cowboys, But it felt like the 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.920 old days when Jimmy was out there and the crowd 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.560 was there and you're whooping up on it. It just 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.000 it was just that that little glimpse, man, and and 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.400 it's it's a moment in time and and and you know, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.960 people like a Mickey Spagnola who's covered the team and 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.640 the Bill Jones, you know the other guys I'm part 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.599 of our Dallas Cowboys podcast. They could feel that too. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.800 Of just man, it was cool. It was electric. Yes, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.880 And as you see there's there's Troy Been on the 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.400 field and then there's Michael Irv and the everything just 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.760 it is for me, the gold Jacks are special. Man. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.680 I just look at these guys for so you know, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.719 so many of them that I've got to a cover 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.919 or watch, um as I just grew up as a 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.000 Cowboy fan. Was it was just cool. Man. It's just 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.080 cool to see people get recognized because it's such a 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.120 small number of people who are ever to wear that 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.320 jacket and then along and I love how David Baker 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.720 breaks it down how many guys just even just get 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.520 to play in this league. I mean it's it's hard. 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.080 I mean, so what you guys have done is undrafted 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.480 free agencies even more remarkable because the odds of you 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.160 getting there and having a career which you're able to 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.440 qualify for the pension. I mean that's it's that man. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:42.360 Then it is that for me. My unsung hero last 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.960 night was Terence Steele as back to backs because we're 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.560 not talking about him and the run game looked good. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.360 And I look at the third down numbers. The Cowboys 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.760 were six of twelve on third down. And you look 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.800 at rushing one hundred and sixty yards forty one attempts. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.640 That is you were going in here, we are hitting here, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.840 we are whipping that trick you just and when just 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.960 v interior it was and they painted out doubles by 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.600 you know, the center and the guard, and they would 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.440 just work their way up and if once they see 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.320 a linebacker, they get off that double get to the 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.040 second level, and they couldn't do nothing about it. Zeke 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.320 or Pollard. They weren't getting touched for the first five 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.800 six yards after they got the first carry. So when 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.040 when love Collins is suspended for five games, we're sitting 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.760 here on the players line. We're right, We've got legitimate concerns. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.920 And and the only thing I could kind of go 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.160 back to is, hey, he was getting better at camp. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.400 He was getting better at camp. And here you are 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.840 two games. You've won these two football games, and you've 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.400 been able to run the ball in these two games. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.360 I don't say this, Um, I'm gonna miss his name up. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:52.000 They put the offensive guard and to play fullback McGovern 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.640 and to play fullback, and I'm like, oh yeah, we've 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.800 been practicing on getting ready to run this all right. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.160 And we came in for the last two weeks and said, hey, 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.320 this is what we're what we're gonna do. I think 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.439 this is the recipe for us continuing to play this 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.000 way throughout the season. We controlled the clock throughout the 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.280 entire game. They played from behind, and what do you see, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.040 we got picks right, And this is what I said, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.320 how y'all played, And I believe it was you see 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.480 that you run the ball, you punish these guys when 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.280 you get When they get back out there, they're down 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.240 to the three scores they got, they got no choice 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.640 but to throw it. So you got Michael Parsons lined 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.760 up in there in the him and Jaylon Smith are 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.240 in the a game rushing right. The only way that 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.000 you can do that is if you're playing with the 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.720 lead and you know these guys have to pass the ball, right. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.400 So I think the way we played last night was outstanding. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.360 We came in and said we are going to punish 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.760 these dudes up front, and we did it. And this 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.760 is the type of game where you watching you say 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.319 this is why we played Zeke ninety mile because he 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.679 changed the tempo of the game. But their defense did 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.160 not want to be out there. Dps didn't want to 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.800 tackle him. He was running through defensive tackles. That is 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.600 why you pay a guy like that ninety million dollars. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.199 Shout out to Tony Paula. He did his thing when 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.199 he got out there. But there's something that Zeke can 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.000 bring that Tony Pollack ain't bringing. That's that type of punch. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.000 Can you tell you boy, Booker mcfol the neck because 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.440 last week he get your boys out here talking about 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.240 Tony Poll's guy and you're just like Booker and the 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.000 thing from me. First of all, I like him. He 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.240 does a good job. Booker does a good job. But 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.319 I was saying, Booker, you you're old, you played, You're 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.320 a D line guy. You know what it's like to 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.520 take a body blow from a guy like and I 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:29.480 think Tony Polls we've all but fans get crazy when 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:34.040 they start the sample sizes are not full sized. No no, no, no, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.199 you know him doing this sixteen games being elite, that's 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.920 a whole different deal. And you guys have been on 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.240 football teams where where you get somebody signed someone as 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.480 a free agent and they bring him here thinking oh, well, 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.600 if we give them more, they'll be and you find 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.280 out now the role they were in was the role 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.800 they needed to be. Well, you look at you have 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.240 to look at Zeke's runs as well. Right, when you 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.240 look at Zeke's runs, you say, he's fighting for stuff 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.040 that Tony poul it's a fight for when he get 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.679 out there, right, you see it, do two yards in 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.360 the backfield. He's having a fight for just those two yards. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.600 You know what I'm saying, running through people a lot different. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.319 Tony Paula is doing this thing. When he gets in 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.280 the hole he got, He's explosive, he's hitting eighty nine yards, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.040 he's making his plays. There are two different guys, But 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.680 when you playing the type of game that we played 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.560 last night, Zeke is the guy that you want to 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.280 be out there, especially playing with the league. And they 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.800 and they're a good combination of two. They feed off 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.319 of each other. I mean, look, I mean I was 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.000 kind of down on it earlier. I'm thinking, now we 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.000 gotta feed Zez he gotta be the lead dug. But 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.319 I'm starting to realize that this is they're feeding off 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:31.920 of each other. When you got a guy like Zeke 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.719 who can pound and it may be you know, two 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.520 or three yards in a cloud of dust, but what 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.840 he's affecting that defense, they're not gonna want to tackle. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.199 You see, towards the end of that game, every hit 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:41.959 that he had, he fell forward for at least two 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.400 or three more yards. Those are hitting yards. After a while, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.560 cats ain't gonna want to hear that. I was just 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.040 trying to strip for the football. I was just trying 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.520 to strip for the football. So these guys compliment each 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.520 other extremely well. I like this this two the tandem 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.280 back then going forward. But can we talk about the 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.640 job that Kellen Moore has been doing. I mean, this guy, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.800 he's in this bad as as the kids say, man, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.040 he is in his bag nowadays. I mean he's attacking 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.720 these defenses. We're they're weak, and he's exploiting that. And 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.160 not only that, we're going against a Eagles team and 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.320 we're saying, okay, let's let's keep him off balance. And 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.640 we had a great balance from past to running. The 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.680 Eagles didn't know what to do with any parts of that. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.000 Keller Moore, I mean, look, tacks all off to the 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.679 guy that started this season. He is calling some great 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.800 games right now, and he's putting this offense in the 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.240 best position they need to be to be productive. He's 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.800 playing this play like many of the rookies and the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.679 second year players, and you see him going to the 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.600 third year and the fourth you say, man, this dude 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:40.079 is getting a lot better at his job. Kelly Moore, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.160 it's that guy right Like we've been on here a 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.040 few for a few years now saying, man, he should 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.560 have did this in a situation we understand by and 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.640 talk about somebody who actually went in the lab, you 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.040 know what I'm saying, and actually and studied it in 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.040 and say, hey, how can I be better here? How 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.880 can I how can I like confuse these defenses in 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.680 weekend and week out and every week we've seen it happen. Yeah, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.520 don't come out and run in the first game, just 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.720 throw it all over the place. And I'm in here, like, man, 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.280 run zeke what we're doing, Like, I'll show you. I'll 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.040 show you next week. Come out, we run the ball, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.160 were punishing the charge this week, we come out, were 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.400 punishing him in the air, we punished him on the ground. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.480 And so he's he's doing great. He's doing great. Kellen 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.640 reminds me of a musical artist who they put out 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.400 one two albums and they're okay, and then all of 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.679 a sudden they find it like boom, we're right here. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.040 I remember when Bobby Brown. Bobby Brown's hit album was 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.880 that this was like the one like, hey man, your 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.360 contract by run out and he went to the lab 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.680 and he came out busted out, don't be cruel, tend 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.839 to run, had all that great stuff there, and it 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.200 takes some people a minute to just find Bruce Springsteen. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.160 You know, the first one is not there. The next thing, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.240 and you can do the second and third one and 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.760 it's like boom, now now you have found your creative 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.599 juice and genius. And it seems that if the Cowboys 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.760 continue to play like this offensively, we won't see Kellen 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:08.840 Moore like, how do you as a defense at gonna 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.000 go down that road? I know, and I only say 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.840 that because you know, I was watching some sports shows 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.280 this morning and then they did remind me of a situation. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:23.920 Uh so when we were here similar to so, you 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.160 know whatever, Mike's Mike's doing a good job. Because the 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.280 different between that is they're winning all right, so you know, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.040 you know, if Kellen Morkey is doing this and we 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.160 win and we go to playoffs and we contended super 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.640 Bowl contenders, Mike ain't going up, how do you, as 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.400 a defense, how do you plan against this this offense? 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.280 I mean, look, you you say, all right, they can 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.280 run the ball, well, they can pass the ball well. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.280 Our main receiver, Amari Cooper, he didn't really do know, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:46.880 he had to. He had to crack ribs and we 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.800 still were able to find all these solutions on the outside. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.960 Nor Brown got involved, said, Wilson got involved. Sholtz was 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.600 getting involved. I mean, how do you game plan for 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.080 a team with so many weapons like that in their 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.040 balance run and pass. I mean it's tough. I'm your 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.520 defensive coordinator. Sorry, and I'm still saying, if you don't 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.200 stop the run, you ain't got no shot. Again, you 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.600 ain't got no shot. You ain't got no shots. So 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.800 I'm selling out. Hey, man, I'm a man. We're gonna 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.160 have to figure out a way to play one on 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.520 one with these guys, right, but we're gonna put people 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.120 in the box because what we've seen is if you 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.120 can do both, we're unstoppable. That's what Tampa tried to do, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.360 and then we went on and we went crazy on them. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:32.440 It's and the other Tampa secondaries real questionable. So based 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.520 on what you said, and I agree one hundred percent. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.760 So when Carolina comes here, so Matt Rule, They're gonna 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.960 try and stop the run. But the other thing you 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:40.600 need to do is you need to try and play 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.440 with the lead. If you're the other team, get the 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:47.080 lead and try to force the Cowboys to just go 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.760 and throw the try to make them, try to make 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.800 them one dimensional so then you don't have to run. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.360 So that's to me if I'm if I'm Matt Rule 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.880 next week and I'm coming in here, that's my thought process. Defensively, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.200 let's stop the run, and then on offense, say on 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.160 what kind of league can you give us? Oh, by 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.040 the way, without run, CMC got CMC. I'm even gonna 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.000 be a little tighter though, because they got some guys 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.800 I can cover in Carolina. I know they're they're down 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:10.520 jac Horn and all that, but they still got a 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.600 j Boyer who I played within Jacksonville legit corner. And 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.960 then they also got on the other side, I was 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.760 the cat. Oh, they just traded for him. UMJ, it's 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.800 gonna be interesting next week. Well, I don't take that. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.840 I don't think so. I think I think that that 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.440 the formula that we just saw and the punishment that 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.520 we just saw, thinking whatever, because we'll be down gallup, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:34.960 we're not sure how Mark Coop is gonna be playing. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.880 So I think we're gonna use the same formula that 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.200 we use this past week. And I think if you 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.720 play that way, don't matter how many people can cover, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.080 you have to step up on your defensive line, in 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.120 your front seven to show that you can stop the 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.560 run before we have to go full out pass. Let's 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:58.040 we can get But I'll just simply say Carolina's first game, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.320 he got the Jets. We see what they You beat 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.680 up the Saints, but here's a team that came in 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.639 there with with six players and coaches on COVID, and 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.200 there's a traveling road show that and so you got them. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.040 And then you got to go to Houston on a 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.560 Thursday night with a rookie quarterback. Let's see how they 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.080 measure up against the Cowboys having to get on the road, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:25.119 go to Texas and they're not gonna have Christian McCaffrey. Hey, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.119 don't forget this, because I feel like y'all trying to 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.600 slide right past it. Can we get on those picks 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.800 that we made? Yeah, it was all right. Let's do that. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.320 It was all right. Let's do that next right here 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.119 on the Players Lounge on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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