WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: The Dan Quinn Effect 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.240 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:13.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:18.400 Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:23.599 the Star No. Your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:31.440 Nui Scrugs. Good people, good people, good people. There's twelve 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.199 thirty Central time here in Texas. We're in the SWBC 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.560 studios and you are listening to the Players Lounge. I'm 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.720 here with the Ultimate Survivor. Danny mccraig got his first immunity, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.360 you know, his first immunity idol last week on Survivor. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.440 So he's feeling good. It's just me. I'm just your 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.240 average box safety over here. So that a Burberry shirt. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:59.440 I don't know nothing average about you. Go out a game. Word, 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.840 I had a rough week. I wouldn't bought me some burdens. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.679 You gotta do that hash. You gotta splurge on yourself. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.360 It's about making yourself happy. Sometimes it's speaking of being happy. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.640 It is a victory Friday. We were able to watch 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.040 the game last night, and look, I'm just gonna dive 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.160 straight into it. Let's get let's dive straight into the 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.600 defensive side of the footballers. To me, that was the 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.240 most impressive part about this game. This defense showed up 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.280 and showed out. So, d Matt, I'm gonna give the 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.400 floor to you. You you were the man that said 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.640 it from the beginning, hired dan Quinny's gonna turn this 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.360 defense around top ten. I'm not so sure about the 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.039 top ten, but you were ahead of the mark about 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.959 hiring dan Quinn. So I'll let you go ahead. I'll 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.160 give you the floor. What did you think about listen 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.280 for them? Okay, listen, listen. Let me ask you this 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.520 before we get into it. Okay, top ten defense. This 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.280 is what This is what I say we should at 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:53.240 least do it to like half a meal. Listen, listen, listen. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.720 This is why I say that. This is why I 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.320 say that, not with people, not a meal, a meal, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.840 half a meal and half half a meal. Okay, this 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.400 what I'm saying. You you were watching, you were watching 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.080 this defensive play, all right? Yeah, outside of like total yards, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.440 Outside of total yards, would you agree that this defense 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.600 outside of one to two games this season has looked 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.400 like a top ten defense. If you don't know how 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.520 many yards they were giving us some of them were 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.440 under certain circumstances. Even last night. You see this last touchdown, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.079 they hold them like three or five or whatever, three 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:29.520 fifty and all of a sudden there are four or 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.480 five right empty game. Um so I think, I think 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.160 because of that is gonna be hard for us to 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.280 get to like top ten because of just the yards 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.920 giving up, but the way this the team is playing, turnovers, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.200 stops on third down, not giving up scores like we 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:45.720 give up a big play every once in a while, 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.200 and that just started happening in these in these recent games. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.320 But when I talk about when you see our defense 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.079 plays better based off our offense plays. Now, offense didn't 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.520 have a great game less like, but our defense played 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.760 from ahead and we are able to do that. Our 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.960 pass rush and the way that we're able to get 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.200 our eyes on the ball and read the quarterback and 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.360 make those plays. We're almost unstoppable. Which is the issue, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.639 right because you see you have a Michael Parsons what 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.359 he has tax he got ten sacks. Now you see 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.000 you see guy Tank came back and for his first 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:24.520 game back games man looked good. Dbes look Anthony Brown 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.720 bounce back game came back, played, played a good game. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:34.440 Trail un did should have had three picks? Um curse? 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.560 Can we talk about curse? Yeah? We could go ahead. Man, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.960 Like when you talk about somebody maximizing the opportunity because 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.840 he came in as a guy where you're like, it's 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.760 a one year deal. We're not really sure we'll see 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.240 hype plays. This dude is looking like a bona fide 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.800 star in the league. Like dan Quinn is putting them 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.480 in a position around the line of scrimmage to make 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.480 those plays. You see him rushing every once in a while, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.760 he's holding the edge, he's making tackles in the backfield, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.280 he's bawling all overall. Dan Quinn has the post on 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.000 this defense, and the post is we are rolling. They 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.640 are Neville Gallimar coming back, Randy Gregory coming back one 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.640 more time for the people in the Galimar, coming back, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.440 Randy Gregory coming back. If you get a chance to 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.080 get this offense back to rolling how they were before 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.080 and we're playing ahead just by a touchdown, just by 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.840 ten points, I think that we will be unstoppable on defense. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:26.880 It's that it's that leakage that we get in the 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.400 ring game, which we got to try to find him 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.000 way to fix it. I think, I think Neville and 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.640 Randy will will help us when we get to that point. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.040 But outside of that, you clean up a couple of 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.120 big plays and this defense is stout. So I'm like, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.600 really really happy and impressed with what dan Quinn has 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.760 been able to do, and also the players buying in 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.400 and being able to up their games since dan Quinn 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.000 has been here as well. Yeah, I'm gonnagree with you 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.680 one hundred percent on that one, all right. I mean, look, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.159 dan Quinn has come in here and he's definitely shifted 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.799 to molder. He gave him this, this winning mentality, whatever 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.200 the case may be, He's got this defense flying on 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.080 all cylinders. You just mentioned Curse, who was supposed to 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.160 come in here, and I thought, like a majority of 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.240 the people, you know, he's gonna come in here, contribute 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.960 on special teams. He might play a little bit in 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.880 a dime package or something like that, but his overall career, 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.760 you're looking at it like, Okay, this guy, he can't 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.240 be the guy, but he has come in here and 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.120 it's started from training camp. This guy started in training camp. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.640 He became that leader, that vocal leader. As we see, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.200 he has the green dot on his helmet. So he's 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.760 the guy out there making all the calls, getting everybody adjusted. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.479 And if you look at it, that pregame huddle, if 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.120 you look at it when they're all getting done stretching 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.680 and everybody's coming to hypeing everything up, who's in the 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.400 middle of that circle, it's this guy is in there 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.640 or jay Ron I'm sorry, jay Ron curse. He's in 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.560 there hyping these guys up. So not only is he 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.159 a lead by example guy, but he's a vocal leader 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.800 as well, and that's what this defense needs. And overall, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.080 getting back to the Saints game, this defense was extremely 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.160 impressive to me. I mean, just to be able to 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.880 get after the quarterback, like you mentioned, DeMarcus Lawrence coming 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.480 back from a ten game injury prone or injury injury, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.440 was out for ten games for the injury. He came back, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.120 he look like he didn't miss a step. The guy 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.080 him a sack if the edge rolling. Of course, Parsons 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.080 was bawling. We're gonna talk about him a little bit later. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.000 But this defense bottled up this Saint's attack. Now, granted, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.400 you know the Saints was hurting a little bit. You know, 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.320 their team is hurting. You know, they got Taysom Hilling 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.000 in that quarterback, and I fought for from the beginning. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.920 I thought, you know, going into this game, that Cowboys 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.720 defense will be able to take advantage of Taysom Hill. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.360 I mean, this is a guy who's only throwing eight 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.840 passes so far this season, so I thought we'd be 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.760 able to take advantage of him. I knew he was 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.800 gonna be you know, good running because this guy's a load. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.760 I mean about two forty five wild cat. He's back 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.640 there like basically a running back, and they got speed. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.280 The guy has some juice, so he ran over for 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.440 over a hundred. So that's one thing the Cowboys have 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.640 got to get better is that run defense. In my opinion, 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.880 because when you go against teams once you get to 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.080 the playoffs that can run the ball well as well 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.160 as have a good quarterback, it might cause a little 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.040 bit dilemma. But last week or last night, they did 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.800 a great job on Taysom Hill. As far as throwing 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.320 the football. They intercepted them four times, and to me, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.920 the most important part about that interceptions they were able 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.440 to turn those interceptions into points, whether it's them taking 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.640 the ball back or getting the offense in great position. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.560 So I mean to me that this defense played lights 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.520 out and you can't say enough about Dan Quinn and 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.320 what he's been able to do for this defense. And 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.880 then substituting the form Mark McCarthy, who had COVID, he 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.880 came in there, oversaw the entire the scheme of everything. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.720 He didn't let the moment get too big for him, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.320 and he went out there and they did what they 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.600 were supposed to do. Defensively, they dominated a team that 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.840 they knew they had the upper hand on. They had 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.600 the better talent, they had the better individuals, and they 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.720 did what they had to do. Now, offensively, we'll get 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.800 into it a little bit, but we gotta make sure 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.440 we get this thing rolling a little bit because we 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.080 right now the defense is not the reason this Cowboys 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.000 team is lackluster in games. They should be blowing people out. Yeah, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.800 And the truth is the defensive has had more good 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.240 games than the offense has. I would agree with that. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.560 I would agree at the beginning of the season you 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.480 would have came in here and said, hey, man, if 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.520 the defense is gonna hold of offensive majority of the time, right, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.880 you'll be like, oh man, Yeah, y'all crazy. Yeah, that's 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.040 but at this point, you're looking at the defense to 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.440 have to play a certain way in order for our 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.680 offense to get back on track, because, like you said, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.480 we're dealing with injuries. We're trying to figure out the 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.880 offensive line. We're dealing with an injury from Zeke, So 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.240 they're looking at the defensive. Dan Quinn has these guys 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.280 ready saying, hey man, that's why you hear it's a 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.840 guy like Curse. Come out and say against Kansas City, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.200 what we hold them to eight, then we win? Right? 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.480 You know what type of belief in your coach and 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.920 your system and your players you have to have to say, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.320 hey man, I do want to hear none about the offense. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.680 All right, If we hold these dudes to eight points, 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.880 they score less than we do, then we win the game. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.120 And I believe we can go out there and do 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.640 that against anybody. That is the ultimate confidence in what 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.640 you're doing over there. And they got the right to 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.360 believe so because go out last night and get four picks. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.120 Trayvill Didz gets eight. He's trying to keep up with 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.280 Michael Parker and everybody's like, now you got one, I 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.280 need one. Give me the right. They did exactly what 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.880 they're supposed to do against a guy who is not 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.320 a proven passer. And what you're supposed to do is 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.880 go out there handle your business. If you play how 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.080 you know you can play, that's how the game should 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.320 end up for you. Trash yards. Yeah, I just wish 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.480 we could fix it. And that's that's my own selfish 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.680 thing because I'm just like, I want us to be 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.040 top ten in yards. They deserve to be in the 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.040 top ten, But nobody can look at this defense and say, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.839 hey man, they're not playing like a top ten that 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.640 like one of the top tier defenses. That's why you 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.480 see when the pro football whatever comes out there, they're 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.240 number five, they might be number six because they're watching. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.160 They're watching the game and they're able to see exactly 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.520 what's going on. Just like last night, you said, all right, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.040 yeah that was actually random ball. Okay, the head hundred 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.079 forty six yards. We didn't know one run from from 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.960 from which I'm thankful I got you in fantasy. But 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.040 he take away that one run. It was twenty two 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.280 carries for fifty seven yards, and that's just that's just 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.560 not gonna work offensively. But back on the defensive side, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.480 does it worry you a little bit that if we 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.880 don't get takeaways that we'll have what it takes to 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.880 beat a playoff team. Like, I'm not worried about these 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:49.880 next five games. We got the Division for four of them, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.280 and then we got Arizona, which will be a tough contest, 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.839 but I'm not worried about that. But once we get 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.680 to the playoffs, do you just does it make you 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.600 nervous a little bit that we have to take the 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.720 ball away four times in order to get this victory 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.000 or do you think this offense will continue to get 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.040 into shape and eventually round into the offense that we 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.600 thought they would be. Yeah, listen, if the offense doesn't 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:07.880 pick it up, I don't think we have a shot. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.000 You can go back to Week one against Tampa. We 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.360 get four, we get four takeaways, we lose the game. 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:17.040 I think Aaron Rodgers has only thrown four you know 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.120 that season. Kylin Worry is also taking care of the ball. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.839 I think the only way you can turn him over 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.600 is if he's running it. And then also you get 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.880 a sack force fumble. So you got quarterbacks who you're 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.040 gonna face, who are able to take care of the ball. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.760 So the offense needs to get on track so we 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.679 have those opportunities, because what we also saw was against Denver, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.800 if we're playing from behind, those opportunities to take the 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.080 ball away, they aren't gone running that right. So you 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.800 have to be able to play compromentary football, and so 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.959 far we haven't been able to since the buy week. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.280 I don't know what's going on with the offense, but 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.720 hopefully we get that back on track so the defense 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.880 can play how how we expect them to play. Pin 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.400 your ears back, earned to write the rush on third down, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.400 and you got a guy with ten sex, then you 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.880 got Randy Gregor, who get pressure on the passer. You know, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.800 you gotta take Lawrence we know can get person on 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.040 the passer. Then you also rusting a guy like Kurty, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.000 rusting a guy like Jordan Lewis, Like, you have ways 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.920 to manufacture this stuff, but if you're if you're not 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.760 able to stop the run or play from a head, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.920 then all that is knowling void. Yeah, without a doubt, 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.560 And yeah, I'll just got me thinking a little bit 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.640 of you know, once we get everybody healthy, you know, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.800 the Randy Gregory's come back. Neville Gallimore. Just think of 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.680 the package defensively we could put out there on third down, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.400 like just a NASCAR package we got. You can put 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.880 Parsons on one edge, Randy Gregory on the other, you 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.320 can kick d Law on the inside, and put the 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.240 Daurn's armstrong in their calling, some type of a NASCAR 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.440 package or whatever it may be. But we got an 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.880 opportunity defensively to do some damage once we get to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.560 these playoffs. Now, our matchup, if everything stays the same, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.840 everything stays the same. You know, Tampa wins their division, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.839 we win ours. You know, Green Bay wins theirs, and 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.839 let's just say, you know, Arizona wins the West. Our 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.680 matchup in that first round could possibly be the La Rams. 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.600 It could possibly be the La Rams. And we know 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.080 what they have over there as far as firepower offensively, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:59.719 So that could be a game that if we don't 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.040 get you know, this offense going in the right direction, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.280 it could get a little sticky for me. And you know, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.320 I don't want to say one it done, but we're 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.640 kind of nervous about that. Listen, and you know, because 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.880 I got to step before our defense. Okay, if we're 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.160 moving on to possibly playing in la if we do 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.720 everything shakes out. They having the same issues that we 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.040 have offensively. Oh yeah, yeah, they have no idea where 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.520 to go would a turn. They have not looked like 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.920 the same offensive team. Matthew Stafford has been turning the 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.839 ball over. Yeah, I've seen. He's my starting quarterback and 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.640 fantasy so I'll pay a little bit extra attention to him. Okay, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.040 they're not they haven't found it yet. They lost it. Uh, 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.640 they're realizing that that that that loss of Robert Woods, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.240 just like like we've realizing that loss of Amark Hoopers. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.040 It's bigger than we thought it was. It's not that 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.600 the next guy just step in and get the thing rolling. Um, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.240 So their defensive is feeling the same. They're not able 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.240 to get that pass rush. You got behind Miller, you 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.719 got Aaron Domino. But those guys aren't able to pin 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.760 their ears back and rush the pastors because they haven't 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.400 been able to get anything rolling on offense. But the 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.480 defense of the other offense to have to score those 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.680 points and move the ball like that. So we're going 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.359 through this same thing. So right now, as of today, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.280 I think it would be okay. I think we'll be 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.080 okay two struggling offenses against two good defenses. That would 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.000 be one of that, like like the game we played 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.240 last time. Yeah, it'll be definitely be a toss up 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.120 on that one. And real quick, I know we're about 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:15.800 to get into our break here in a little bit, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.880 but I gotta discuss this guy before we get off 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.360 of this subject. Well, we'll talk about Michael in a 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.440 little bit in the next segment. But d Law this guy, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.920 you know, he came back ten game hiatus, ten game hiatus. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.680 He comes back, first game in a long time against 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.760 the New Orleans team. How did you think he performed 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.920 out there? Listen, As you know, I expected d Law 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.440 to come out and play well. Um, I said, if 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.640 he's healthy and and he's able to move how he 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.800 normally moves when he's actually one healthy, which we don't 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.800 we haven't seen often, and I think he's gonna have 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.800 a huge impact on the game. Um this is his 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.560 first game back. We saw him move really well. He 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.720 looked healthy. He brought a different intensity to that left 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.000 side of the defensive line. All right, he was wrestling, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.400 he was coming off the ball. You see him line 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.760 up over the three technique. You see him I meaning 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.640 over the guard. You see him line up outside, I 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.920 think they were getting them back into the game. And 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.720 he made some plays out there, right. He made me nervous. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.440 One he come across the field, he makes the tack 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.280 on the guy, he catches a knee to the hem 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.360 and I'm like, oh no, come on. And he gets 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.560 back in the game. I'm like, yes, he's rolling. So 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.840 I was really impressed with what he was able to 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.760 do with coming back after such a long time off. Yeah, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.560 I'm with you on that. I mean ten games off. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.560 I thought for sure the guy was gonna be gas. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:31.960 I'm like, he's gonna go out there and have a 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.000 couple of good plays and then be like I'm tapping out. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:35.800 But you can see out there, it was like they 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.520 had to hold him from coming back in the game. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.480 I mean, the guy was like, look, I don't snap 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.160 count all that pitch count. I don't want to hear 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.240 nothing about that. I haven't been a part of this 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.480 team in ten games and I'm looking to put my 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:47.720 impact on this game. And I think he did a 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.560 good job of that. You know, I don't think anybody 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.360 along that defensive line plays the run as well as 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.440 d Law did. And you saw that last night. He 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.520 was able to get in there from his defensive imposition 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.560 and shut things down. When they're talking about the running 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.440 back now, Tasom Hill, that's that's another story. But d Law, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:02.960 I think he did a good job. Came in there. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.960 He almost, like you said, he almost forced to fumble 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.320 out there. It came through His pass rusher is getting better. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.200 And this is a guy that's missed ten games. This 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.360 is his first game back. To me, it didn't even 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.800 look like he missed a step. So I'm excited for 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.840 what I've seen with d Law. This defense right now, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.640 the sky can be the limit. If they continue to 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.880 take the football away like this. That's a that's a 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.920 winning formula right there. If you can get the ball 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.920 back to your offense and let's just say, our offense 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:26.640 gets back in the shape and what they've been doing 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.680 and what they're best at is scoring points. If you 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.160 can take the ball away and get it back to 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.680 them on a regular basis, I think this guy's limit 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.640 for this team. I think the one thing that's scary 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.000 about d Law is this. Okay, give him the same 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.960 time that everybody is else. Everybody else's had with Dan 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.640 Quinn to elevate his game, all right. He had one 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:45.760 game he came out forced fumble that he's been out. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.880 Give him the same opportunity to trade Munds, Jordan Lewis 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.200 and Curse and all those guys have had to elevate 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.800 their game, like uh, playing under Dan Quinn get d 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.200 Law that time, and I think you're gonna see something special. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.000 You forgot one persona. Sorry, but well he didn't elevate 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.560 his game, all right, I'll give you that, you know. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.960 Speaking of Michael Parsons, we're going to dive into this 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.360 guy and how explosive he has been so far in 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.680 this rookie season when we get back from break. This 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.520 is the Players Lounge where in a s WBC Studios, 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.480 brought to you by Hotels dot Com. 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