WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Offensive Identity 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:15.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.880 Loune broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:27.440 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Anthony dor Said, Demontree More 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.400 and new Eat Scrugs. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.519 This is the Players Lounges, brought to you each and 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:42.520 every day by Aristocrat Gaming. Welcome in, Welcome in, where 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.960 we're gonna tell the truth and shame those lies. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.560 Demontre Moore. Anthony Dorce said, step Poppy. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:56.600 Is here. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.040 Yeah, boys. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.559 Wilding out here, sitting in for Newie Scrugs all week 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.600 while he's gallivanting around. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.479 I don't even know what the HELLI on. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.360 The west outside yea outside be outside. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:26.959 Last night, the Green Bay Packers were defeated by the Philadelphia. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.120 Eagles ten seven, ten seven. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.440 As as bad as the Eagles have been playing in 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.400 some of these games, they just keep. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.360 The winds Man pedigree. When they need twenty, they'll get. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.200 You know, twenty they need to. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:44.520 They gonna get. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.039 And so that takes me, that takes me to my 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:53.200 first point of about building an identity and the culture 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:59.160 of winning. Wow said a Live right Because you said it, Barry. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.640 If they need ten, they get ten, they get If 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.120 they need twenty, they get twenty. If they need to 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.280 go and pass for three hundred yards, they'll pass for 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.800 three hundred yards. If they need to go and and 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.120 handed thing get off, they'll hand it off thirty times. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.880 If they need to stop, they get a stop. And 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.400 these are the teams, one within our division, the other 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.799 within our conference that you know, Green Bay's in our conference. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.120 That were chasing right, so to speak. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:31.320 And we have to get to and surpassed in order 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.040 to get to the ultimate gold. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.560 Of being world champions. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:41.480 Where is the Cowboys, this new coaching staff, we're halfway 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:42.160 through the season. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.680 Where are they at as far. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:51.679 As the identity, the culture, the the what can they 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:52.600 hang their hat on? 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.120 Can they give you ten when it's time to get ten? 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:57.240 Can they give you. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.359 Thirty when it's time to get thirty? Can they get 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.040 a stop when it's time to get a stop. Are 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:08.000 the Cowboys, Barry Church closer to building an identity that 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.160 they can hang their hat on from what you've seen 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.960 so far? And this is for the group to start with, Barry, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.880 And how far all that away from having it? 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.600 When you talk about what their identity is. I'm gonna 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.040 say it's an offensive identity. I think that's where you know, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.639 the majority of their horsepower lies is on the offensive 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.720 side of the ball. The thing that you know, kind 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.160 of has me like, man, I thought they was gonna 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.440 get ten wins, but I don't know about it right now. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.320 Is when you talk about finding ways doing that tune 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:43.920 and change from yesterday, but finding ways to win no 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.120 matter what it takes. And we've seen from the Dallas 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.040 Cowboys so far this season they're not there yet. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.400 They're just not there yet. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.280 They can, you know, score with the best of them, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.720 but when it comes down to it, maybe it's a 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.960 defensive struggle. Then you'll see, you know, Dak Prescott in 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:00.640 that offense kind kind of struggle kind of wane a 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.760 little bit. And to me, they don't have a secure 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.440 identity offensively. Yes, they can put up crazy points, but 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.080 we all know that Dak works best when he has 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.960 that balance, when he has that that threat of the run. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.240 And early in the season, you know, they were feeding 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.440 my man, they were feeding Javonte Williams out there. But 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.240 in these past couple losses, you've seen ten carries, you know, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.479 thirteen carries and the game hasn't really gotten out of 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.200 hands where you got to abandon the run. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:26.360 So to me, I. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.080 Got to put that part, you know, on the coaching 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.240 staff and play call him because it's starting to kind 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.800 of reminisce what we saw from McCarthy while he was 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.159 here was a guy that lived and died by the past. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.520 And when we look at you know, dak Pres gotta 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.560 forget what the stat is, but thirty five and over 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.760 past attempts or whatever the case may be, his record 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.560 is not great. It's not great. So we know that 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.159 balance is where they need to be. Offensively, they're just 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.000 not there yet. And defensively, when you look at this 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.360 this defense overall. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.000 I don't know where they are. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.640 And you know, a lot of that has to deal 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.000 with the injuries they've had on the back end and 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.680 talent not producing to what they thought it would. You know, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.039 I think that's a problem here with the Cowboys as well, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.160 is they think they have more talent than they actually do, 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.640 and they rely on guys that would be with no disrespect, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.840 would be you know, rotational pieces. Elsewhere they're like, oh, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.279 we got to put this guy to start lineup. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:15.920 He can hold it. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.880 Down, and it might, you know, hold it down for 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.120 a couple of games here and there, but you'll start 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.039 to see as the season progresses that that level of 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:23.880 player go down. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.480 And that's where I see them right now. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.479 So identity, I think they have to lean on that 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.480 offensive side because that's what a horsepower is. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.120 But they got to make sure they have. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.560 A secure identity offensively, not just oh, one day we're 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:36.080 gonna pass the ball forty times. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.080 The next day. May maybe we'll share the rock with 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.640 Javonte a little bit here and there. 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.040 They've got to get a more I guess stable situation 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.520 when you talk about it offensively. 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.080 And they got to cut these penalties out. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.760 I mean that that to me, I mean that was 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.240 just all these pre snap penalties and drive killers. The 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.920 team is not good enough to overcome those. So it's 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:54.640 a roller coaster from me. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.279 Speaking of penalty the Cowboys are the number two team 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.960 in the in the National Football and penalties behind the 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.400 Never Broncos. Never Broncos have a winning record. But you know, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.159 that's what it is, you know, Demontree keeping on the 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.240 same lines of you know, because when you look at 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.760 it and most of the time when you start talking 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.640 about identity. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.800 You just got that good material. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:26.600 That good sheep. Hell, we ain't had money bags. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.320 It's cold outside. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:37.400 But the identity part of this thing is when you 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.720 have an identity, it doesn't matter who's in there or 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.320 who's not in there. You pick up where the last 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:45.280 person left off. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:46.240 Right, Like. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.400 I had the conversation with my guys are hanging with 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.039 the Boys, and I said, it's I've been around this 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.920 organization since two thousand and nine, and one thing that's 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.600 been constant, both covering in the media and as a 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:06.920 player on the field. The Cowboys seems as if they 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.720 always have to have everything in perfect order in order 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.240 to be perfectly successful. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:13.240 Right. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.360 We were a part of teams that if Sean Lee 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:21.240 went out like one player and the entire defense couldn't function, 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.840 Tyron Smith would go down with a back situation, and 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.920 all of a sudden, we did not know how to 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:27.600 play offense. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.720 And I watch teams week. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.840 In and week out, and if there's an identity box, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.360 they just plug a new player in that box and 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.200 they begin to just pick up. Now, you know, Sam Frank, Right, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.080 you say, what, no one's gonna be able to replace 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.800 Fred Warner right, he's an elite level talent. But they 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.520 just go back to the physicality or the or the 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.040 mental smarts are there or whatever it is. Maybe that 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.440 doesn't go And so the Montree, when I look at 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:05.000 what the Cowboys have done this season, it's this level 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:11.000 of inconsistency, right, It's you know, we can do thirty games, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:12.720 I mean thirty points a game, and all of a 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.080 sudden when we need thirty thirty don't show up, you know. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.680 And defense is a whole another ball of potatoes. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.440 But my question to you, a part of that is 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:27.200 how much of it is player? How much of it 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.040 is coach. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:31.480 Man. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.920 I'm gonna say, honestly, a lot of that has to 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.720 deal with coaching. I think about my tenure playing at 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:39.280 Sant Franz. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:40.840 When we went to the Super Bowl that year. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.240 You had guys like myself, Ronnie Blair that came off 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.000 the bench, Solomon Thomas that was a part of there, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.400 the Forest Buckner, Eric Arnstein that were starters. But when 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.760 our starters went out, you had, like I said, guys 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.000 like me and Ronnie still coming off the bench giving 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.000 you sacks, making those big plays. You think about your coaching, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.000 what Robert Salad was able to be. Kyle Shanahan was 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.720 able to build. And that is the difference that when 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.120 you talk about dating all the way back to two 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.280 thousand and nine, when you said Sean Lee went out, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.120 Tyren Smith went out, Well think about it. How many 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.680 coaches have they had here since then? And then the 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.559 coaches that were here for a long tenure, did they 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.199 really let them build a culture or were you living 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.640 off past coaches where you living off of those Super 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.320 Bowl rings that everybody's parading around and still showing. And 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:30.040 so what I see is is not an identity as 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.520 what the team is built, but it's more so what 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.920 the player has built right now. The identity when you ask, oh, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.920 is it the defense or the offense? You know, the 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.800 identity of this team is in Dac. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:41.400 We trust. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.679 If Dak is doing really good, then guess what Dak 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:44.720 POWs you up out of there? 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:45.080 Now. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.280 They as much as I want to be so harsh 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.920 and critical on them, you have to think about it. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.440 They got Dak one extra weapon and now this offense 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.360 isn't losing slack. So with this defense bringing in Kenny 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:02.600 Clark bringing in another trade with them Williams Quinn, Yeah, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.000 thank you appreciate that. With Quintin Williams, you wonder, are 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.800 these the two big superstars with Quinton Williams be and 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.800 Sean Lee, and then you can have your Batman and 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.880 robbing with them and build around them. So they might 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.680 be building, they might be one build away. So right 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.760 now it needs to the identity needs to shift from 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.720 being one player to a scheme thing, which I think 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.240 you will have that with the comfortability moving forward with Shoty, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.520 he's already been here, he's learned from those states and 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.640 this is just his first year, so give him a 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:32.160 little time. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.439 But right now, identity is that we trust a d 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:42.439 Can the Cowboys with the remaining schedule left, can they 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.400 build an identity? 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:44.199 Can can? 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.199 Because let's be honest, the playoffs are a long shot. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.640 You'd have to go seven and one, six and two 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.280 in the in the last eight games, right and even 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.080 then it's you got to hope a bunch of other 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.040 people just with the bed right like and that and 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:06.800 that's uh, it's not out of the rubber possibilities. The 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.120 the realm is just far, far, far far away. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:16.720 Right to answer that question, how well, first and foremost, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.440 like with the with the I guess I'm gonna say this, 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.959 like we know that the identity, like Barry said, it 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.640 has been on offense, and like Tray said, has been 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.199 through Dak all right. And typically when you're thinking of identities, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.760 we're thinking about the defense, a run game of passing 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.240 game scheme, like you said. Now, what they have a 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.840 chance to do, of course, with the new additions to 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.400 the team, is to bring in some new energy here. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.440 And that's not hard to do as long as it's 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:45.720 being done in a proper way. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.480 So you got two dudes coming. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.640 In, Quinny Williams being one of the most aggressive d 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.200 linemen in the NFL. All right, that translates, and I 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.160 hope that people are able to feed off of that. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.600 Then going to that second level with the new linebacker 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.280 coming in, what was the last thing? Always so Logan Wilson. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.480 And he's a regardless if he lost his starting position 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:04.199 in Cincinnati. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.600 If you watch the video on the dude, he's a baller, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:07.200 all right. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.680 He's got good run redes, he knows where he's supposed 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.319 to fit into the defense, and everything else like that. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.280 So to be able to build an identity, even if. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.640 It's only at the end of the season to go 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.400 into next year, all right, So like we can't cancel 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.560 out the fact that, Okay, so if they don't make 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.360 it to the playoffs, if they still get on the 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.840 right track, all right, and they're able to get going 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.240 in the right direction to see what they're able to 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.480 do build around these new pieces and these new players, 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.040 so heck, yeah, they can definitely start doing it. Now, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.360 will it come to fruition and take them further than 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:38.240 what we think they can. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.240 Actually go this year? That's a whole different thing. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.240 But yes, they can establish an identity and get it going. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:44.720 Perfect but perfect. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.680 Example of what Adie's talking about here is you go 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.559 back to Detroit maybe what two three years ago when 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.920 Dan Campbell first was in that joint started out terrible, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.000 just god awful. I think the last one something like that, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.680 it was bad. Has what eight games nine games of 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.520 that season. I think they ended up going seven to 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.840 one or something like that, seven and two, and they 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.920 didn't make the playoffs. But you know, they you saw 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.640 that momentum coming, you saw that trend, You saw the physicality, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.720 the defense, the buying of the players. Fast forward to 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.920 you know that after that Gibbs and I forget who 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.160 else they got in that draft, A couple other pieces. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:26.280 They got, yet Brown, like they got some more peaks 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.839 and then now they look they've been a powerhouse for 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.280 the NFC the past couple of years. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.720 And that's what yeah, and that's what Dallas has a 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.920 chance to do. I mean, you got some draft kick picks, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.760 you know, available for next year. You got some amo 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.160 coming through the rest of the season. I mean, you 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.240 got to build that momentum. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:41.960 But don't you think that. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.400 I'm sorry, I up in there, but like Dan Campbell 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:51.680 himself helped create that culture and in his first press conference, we're. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.440 Doing whatever we got to do. But he was just 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.680 letting us know that's like we're willing. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.360 I'm gonna create a culture around here that we're going 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.520 to be willing to do whatever text for us to 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.880 be successful and winning games. And that right there, I 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.160 don't care if people laughed and everything else, but that 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.360 fed right into that locker room. That fed right into 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.839 every player in there, and those guys bought into that. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.040 And just like you said, those last however, many games, 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:16.160 that trend started to. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.280 Change and it is still continued to go right now. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.080 I hate playing for I would have hated it. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.880 You would have hated no. I love it. I love 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.520 playing for Dan Campbell. I got him when he got. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:35.120 Practices, and Dan played dirty against him. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.560 But what you gotta remember is Dan Campbell is a 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.400 player coach. Like as much as like he talks in 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.360 the media of doing this, he's one of those guys 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.600 that when we're going, we're going, but when we're off, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.480 we're off. Like he realized when we were playing in 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.120 his first interim head job, he said, guys, ain't no 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.080 point of me beating y'all off. We didn't already did 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:59.360 train Cam? Why get out of here, dollar reaching That 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.760 was a direct that was a direct quote, and stop 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.720 taking stuff out of it anyway, Like I'm not about 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.000 to beat y'all into the ground, Like I'm just not 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.440 about to keep sitting there and banging the drum. And 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.280 so with that being said, like he pulled the reins off, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.000 he said, the horses come out the stable. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:16.720 It's time to work. Y'all got to grow up and 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.600 stop being childish. This is what's wrong. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.960 Anyway, it's got that's crazy. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:28.960 But you'll mind. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:36.000 Whoa boy, You're the gift that keeps on give it 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:36.520 on this show. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.600 Baby, I love it, man, I love it. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:45.080 Let's take our first break. Let's take our first break 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:46.440 when we come back. 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.840 That's crazy. 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Yeah, man, This is the 0:18:53.800 --> 0:19:01.119 players and how brought to you by we have Anthony 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:05.080 Dos said Demontray Moore, Barrier Church, Jesse Holly. And you 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.400 know the one thing, this is the players Lounge, right 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.200 and normally normal Nuwi sits in this seat and while 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.200 he is around players, he's never been in the locker room, right, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.080 he's never had to put the helmet on and put 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.199 the pads on and go out there and really be 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:20.679 a part of this thing. And the one thing that 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.399 we all understand and know that there's a level of 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.240 sacrifice that goes into this thing. But on every team 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.439 and every unit on the side of the ball, in 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:34.879 your specific meeting rooms, there's a leader. There's some dude 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.399 in there that when he speaks, we listen, right, and 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.000 you would you would hope to have that. And then 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.560 definitely on either side of the ball, offensively or defensively, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.640 there there is an overarching voice that when they speak, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.040 you know that it's coming from a place of authenticity, 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:58.200 of sincerity, of just true to what they say. Right, 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:01.000 They're not just they're not because the camera on people 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.400 or around you know that this dude is a guy 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.720 who what he say here is what he would say 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.800 to you if y'all were sitting there, one on one. 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.240 You're right, and so you respect that. And the Cowboys 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.040 are in a place right now, not only because of 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.640 what they had to deal with with the untimely situation 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.680 last week of the passing of Marshaw Kneeland, but also 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:22.120 you're three. 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.320 Five and one. 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.360 You're three five and one, and now you're coming off 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:31.280 of by And we sit here and now with the media, 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.200 we don't gotta believe whether or not they make the 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:34.800 playoffs and not or they can make a run. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:35.120 Right. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:37.640 I could sit here and be objective as I want 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.159 to be, because I don't gotta play on Monday night. 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:42.359 Right, But we've all. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.359 Been in that spot where it's us against the world's 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.360 block out the outside noise, forget what they say, and 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.439 it's us all this kind of all of the lingo 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:53.680 that we use in the locker. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.000 Room and during these times. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.600 But who let's take dak aside, because we we already 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.920 know that he is the voice. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.080 Of the locker room. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.280 But who are some other guys on this football team 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.720 that these players will be able to look to and 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.399 really get the motivation that we have an opportunity to 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.680 make a run. Ad I'll start with you. And how 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:20.720 important is that you know? 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:22.560 One of the things that I've noticed around here is 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:26.240 that leadership comes to contracts a lot of times around here, Okay, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:29.480 and that doesn't always guarantee you maturity or true leadership 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.600 when it comes down to it, you know, And so 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.199 the teams that I've always been a part of that 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.920 have been more you know, more successful teams have been 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.000 the guys who are typically a little bit older on 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:40.400 the team. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:41.960 You got your vets, you know what I mean. 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.119 And so you look at guys and as I'm just 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.160 looking at guys that are in the building, I'm looking 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.439 at a perennial all pro due like Kenny Clark, Like 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.520 at the end of the day, if if he doesn't 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.359 verbalize a whole lot, his play speaks for itself, you 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:55.760 know what I mean. 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:57.040 And so you have guys like that. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.439 And I've played with guys, whether it be a Marcus 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.399 Robertson as a safety or Blame Bishop or you know, 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:04.720 say Javon Kurs or whoever. 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.000 But typically those guys who are in those. 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.159 Leadership positions or in those positions that are going to 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:11.880 be doing the talking are going to be the dudes 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.480 that are actually out there making those plays too as well, 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.280 you know. And so as you look around hear and 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:21.679 like remove that from this situation, okay, on offense, the 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:23.960 next person that you think might be that guy that 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.600 would have that type of influence would be CD, you know, 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:30.080 because all pro dude out there, getting the yards, making 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.040 the plays and everything else like that. And then but 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.000 there's really not anybody that you see or you know, 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:37.399 we're not on the field, we're not in the locker 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:38.560 room of time, we're not in. 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:39.360 Any of these meetings. 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.720 So we actually don't know if the body is actually 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.680 even manned up to take that position and take that role. 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:46.720 You know, you got I'm sorry, you got. 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:47.480 Clowny in here. Now. 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.080 Who's what how many years has he been in the league? 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.400 Okay, I believe it's eleven, right, And. 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.400 So you look for leadership to come from those from 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:02.320 those guys, multiple teams, different systems, you know, been on 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:03.920 winning teams and something that has lost. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:04.720 He's seen it all. 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.720 So you would hope that some of that that leadership 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:09.880 and some of that identity or whatever we're talking about 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.520 here as far as bringing the guys together, would be 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.960 coming from those guys. But you know, outside of Dak, 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:18.520 who's going to be that guy that's going to speak up? 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.679 You know? And like I said in the beginning, the money. 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:24.320 Situation here a lot of times dictates where the leadership 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:24.800 is coming from. 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:29.639 Unfortunately, Dawn Trey quinnin Williams, let me check my watch. 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:32.040 He's been here. 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:38.600 A week tomorrow, right, seven days from last week? 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.280 Has he been? Has he done enough in this league? Hell? 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:45.760 Has he been here long enough that when. 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:47.840 He gets on the practice field this week? Can he 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:49.360 be the one that all of a sudden now comes 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.120 in and start calling the shots? Can he be like, nah, 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:53.280 we're doing this, so now we're doing that? And are 0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:56.920 guys going to gravitate to him? Are the Sam Williams 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:00.000 of the world, Are the Shamar James of the world. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.960 Are these guys going to follow his lead? 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:05.280 Has he been? Has he done enough? 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.120 Has he been here long enough and truly step in 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.960 and and and take the man to love? You know 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:14.080 what was the movie when he you know, I am 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:15.280 the captain? 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:19.560 I mean, yeah, I'm gonna disagree with Barry on that 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:24.360 one when I say because one, we got to look 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.159 at all the factors that are playing part in this. 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:30.840 You're talking about Matt Eberflu's defense and another guy that 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.159 I'm gonna bring in the curveball. But I'm answering your 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.639 question first, Does William Williams have that ability? You darn 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:38.359 right he does. He is one of the meanest and 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.399 ferocious guys in this league. Your play alone is gonna 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:45.680 have you having that credibility. And for a defense that's 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:49.399 been playing pis poor, that is dead last, if not 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:51.679 second or last. You said they're tied right there with 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:55.360 Denver and penalties and stuff like that. That's the difference 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:58.680 between a good team and a team that doesn't have leadership. 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:01.320 With Quinn coming in, and I think about my time 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:04.200 in personal experience going down there to Miami seeing the 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:07.119 Dominica Sue. He went from being over there at the 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:10.200 Lions to going to the Dolphins to making them his team. 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:12.640 But you still had a great leader in cam Wait 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.720 that was over there, a young up and coming Olivier Vernon, 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:19.800 But Sue demanded the respect because he was smart enough. 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:21.119 To do that. His play did all that. 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:24.360 And from what I heard about Quinn Williams, he has 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:27.119 that capability and in the four to three defense ibra 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:29.399 flus where it's just line up and go straight ahead. 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:31.400 If he comes in and work hard, of course people 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:33.119 are going to listen to him because what do you 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:34.920 want to do. You want to be like the bag. 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:38.720 So in certain places, yes, the bag has gotten you 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:41.399 the leadership, but that's one of those guys that aren't 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:43.879 that leadership and for a defense that's not really that 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.200 good right now, who are you gonna say, Like you said. 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:47.400 It's going to be Kenny Pickens. 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:51.399 But in my opinion, the leader on this team that's proven, 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:54.160 that's already been on this roster, his CD Lamb. He's 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:56.320 going out there doing it with his play and he's 0:25:56.359 --> 0:25:58.640 talking to the media. We're seeing a whole new CD 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.840 Lamb where we said a new environment can change it 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:03.960 to where he becomes the leader. And this is where 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:07.159 my curve ball comes in Logan Logan that we just 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:09.960 traded for. He's coming into a defense that he's already 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.360 familiar with. Lou runs the same type of defense as 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.800 Matt Eberflus. He was a leader over there before the 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:17.159 young guy got the playmaker, and he needs a new 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:19.439 environment for a defense it's not that good, and we 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:21.879 all know that when your middle linebacker is doing what 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:24.760 he's doing. With Overshawan not playing right now, he has 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:27.600 the chance to be that unsung hero to go in there. 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:29.600 So I'm actually looking at him a lot more than 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:32.120 Quentin because the back end got to help the front, 0:26:32.119 --> 0:26:33.920 but he's the middle ground to talk to the back 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.320 end and to get Quintin and those Kenny Clark and 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:37.480 the rest of those guys running. 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:41.280 I'm sure you know Dominican sue the potential of stopping 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:44.119 the mud hole, and you didn't hurt. It didn't hurt 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.400 when a domice you knew he'd probably grind you by 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.240 your throat if you and it w welcome. 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:50.400 Too much you can do about it physically. 0:26:50.560 --> 0:26:53.720 He literally told a coach, he said, they had a 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:56.040 meeting where he came in there and said, okay, this 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:58.080 is what we're running. Okay, I like this. I like 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:00.399 this this right here, don't like that. 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:00.919 Check that out. 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:03.160 That's not gonna do good because of my skill set. 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:06.240 And I'm gonna be here so help me make you better. 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:08.800 And for him to do that, but he not only 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:10.679 just did it in a dominant way, he did it 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:11.879 because he studied the film. 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:12.720 He knew what was. 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:14.800 Going there and how it worked. And I could see 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:17.040 Quinn Williams doing that right now. I think it has 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:17.560 the potential. 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:19.760 I think with quinnin coming here, like you said, nah, 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:21.440 he ain't done enough. I mean he might not done 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:23.359 nothing in this building yet, he only been here a week. 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:27.879 But what he's done in his young football career. He's 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.560 he showed that he's that guy, all right, So he's 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:33.760 him at his position. Okay, Now, when a guy comes 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:36.000 like and when a dude of that level or that 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:38.680 stature comes in here and he can raise the bar, 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:42.560 and he's expecting you to come with him, like, this 0:27:42.600 --> 0:27:44.800 shouldn't really be a whole lot of argument. You know, 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:46.920 Let's try to raise the level. Let's try to raise 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:49.520 our bar. Let's get better. You bring guys into the 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:52.359 locker room that are perennial pros and everything else like 0:27:52.480 --> 0:27:54.600 that for that team to feed off of, and you 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:56.000 hope that everybody. 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:56.920 Rises to the occasion. 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.159 So that being said, like I got to disagree with 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:01.160 that to a little bit of church. 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:03.879 I hope that they see that and feed off of that. 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:07.240 So what y'all want to comes to. What y'all want 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:08.920 to comes to a couple of weeks down the road. 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.480 We three four weeks and we've seen this dude balling 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:14.000 at an extreme level. He gets the defense, he can 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:16.800 line guys. I can see all that. But we're talking 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:20.240 week one coming in here, you know from from the Jets, 0:28:20.280 --> 0:28:20.800 and I get it. 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:21.919 This dude was just all pro. 0:28:22.000 --> 0:28:25.199 He's a beast but you ain't done nothing here, so 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:27.200 you expect me to just follow. 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:30.440 Your Leady's see to me what I don't understand that's 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:32.199 been going on here for so long, and like I 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.600 don't know where the demise or the drop started as 0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.400 far as when it comes to coaching, and then like 0:28:38.480 --> 0:28:40.960 when I hear y'all talk about sometimes like coaches just 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:43.400 send y'all home, and practice was like this and everything, 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:47.320 and and it was like that, that whole downward spin 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:50.400 or whatever was going on. But like if you're waiting 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:53.160 for something like that's like him coming in here saying, Okay, 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:56.600 I see y'all ain't got nobody all pro on defense, 0:28:56.880 --> 0:28:58.800 like get rid of everybody. Then that's like him coming 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:01.200 here calling shots and really being like, hey, well I 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:02.960 want to hear nothing you got to say, you know 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:04.760 what I'm saying, because you ain't did nothing like I 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:08.280 did in the league. But the game ain't built like that. Fortunately, 0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:10.000 it's not built like that, you know what I mean. 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:13.000 And so as as a team builds, you know, like 0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:16.720 it doesn't, I'm not if he understands the defense, and 0:29:16.760 --> 0:29:17.960 he could come in here and like I don't know 0:29:18.040 --> 0:29:20.840 how familiar he is with EU but what is he 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:21.960 gonna be doing lining the people up. 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:23.480 He's gonna put his hand down and turn around and 0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:24.600 start that't That ain't. 0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:24.920 What's gonna have. 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:27.240 But we all understand if you balling out there and 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:28.640 people are gonna follow you, so. 0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:33.560 Then then what is the case He's only here because 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:34.360 he's been balling. 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:36.640 Okay, we can say that, but we look at that 0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:38.120 just defense Droughut this year. 0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:41.080 It ain't like he was just this dominant force. 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:42.800 We look at that just team. 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:46.200 Okay, they didn't have an offense or anything like Dak Prescott. 0:29:46.360 --> 0:29:50.480 They didn't have any complimentary pieces. But we're talking about it, 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:55.840 but we're talking about a team too as well. If 0:29:55.840 --> 0:29:57.720 the defense was just the only people out there playing 0:29:58.040 --> 0:30:00.280 all game, that would be one thing. But this this 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:03.680 is a team, okay, and so those pieces that they 0:30:03.760 --> 0:30:06.760 need on offense are already there. They're trying to get 0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:09.719 this defense right, and so they're bringing in these guys. 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:11.800 And so with that being said. 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:13.640 I know that they're not going out there making these 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.479 trades mid season, giving their first round draft picks without 0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:19.800 expecting people to come in here with some leadership, expecting 0:30:19.840 --> 0:30:22.000 people to come in here try to help create a 0:30:22.000 --> 0:30:24.200 new identity or whatever it is to get this thing 0:30:24.240 --> 0:30:25.120 back on the right track. 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.400 I still disagree with you as saying he can't come 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:33.280 in early within the week and be a leader, But 0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:35.440 I get what you're trying to say and saying, hey, 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:38.760 if he comes in here barking orders within this first week, yeah, 0:30:38.840 --> 0:30:40.600 as a player, I'm going to buck the system to 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:43.080 be like, bro, you just got here to learning. But 0:30:43.120 --> 0:30:47.360 because it's a pride thing, it's a thing, and that's 0:30:47.440 --> 0:30:51.360 just And then on top of that, for me, in 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:53.520 a system that I don't trust myself, I don't trust 0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:55.200 people that's already been in the system. 0:30:55.200 --> 0:30:56.280 How do I trust somebody? 0:30:56.440 --> 0:30:59.560 Because, like I said, it's different with the linebacker that 0:30:59.560 --> 0:31:02.360 I mentioned, he's coming from a four to three wide 0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:04.840 system going into that. Quinn Williams is coming from a 0:31:04.840 --> 0:31:07.360 three to four multiple over there where they switched. Yeah, 0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:09.360 they go to the four man front. But he got 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:13.320 outside stand up in outside linebackers. Michael Parson is talent 0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:16.040 standing up rushing. So this is a different schematics why. 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:18.240 But where I say that he can be a leader 0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:20.760 is just going out there and work like if he's 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:22.680 over here and saying, hey, I ain't did this, but 0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:24.680 he's the first one in the building, the last one 0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:28.040 in and he's studying. He's up there with the defensive coordinator. Hey, coach, 0:31:28.080 --> 0:31:29.720 I want to know this so I can be ready 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:32.160 for this week as a young guy or another leader 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:34.360 on the team. I'm gonna say that guy has been 0:31:34.400 --> 0:31:36.240 a pro bowler and he's doing what it takes to 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:38.720 get there, and so he can lead by his actions 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:41.000 within the first week to make somebody fall. 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:45.960 But he's football players, real football players that are Now. 0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:48.120 I don't mean to cut good, but you talk about 0:31:48.400 --> 0:31:49.720 just get dirt, you put your hand in the dirt 0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:50.160 and let's go. 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:53.400 He seemed like he got that traite som coming. 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:57.600 See him making quotable. He hasn't been statistically or historically 0:31:57.600 --> 0:31:59.440 in the past one of those guys that's been in 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:02.280 the media talking doing all the hip hop. He did 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:04.800 it with his playing. So that's why I think he 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:05.680 can come in and be a leader. 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:07.400 That's what I'm saying is just by example. 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:09.840 There's no reason to come in here and barking orders 0:32:09.840 --> 0:32:11.520 of this guy, barking orders to that got it. 0:32:11.880 --> 0:32:14.560 There's no reasons a y'all. Y'all talking about barking we 0:32:14.600 --> 0:32:16.520 ain't talking about. It doesn't have to be a bark 0:32:17.000 --> 0:32:21.200 lead by example, But a person asking for you to 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:23.600 make a play doesn't have to bark at you, and 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:26.040 it doesn't have to be personal. It ain't got nothing 0:32:26.040 --> 0:32:28.360 to do with the ego or none of that personal stuff. 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:29.960 If I asked for you to make a play on 0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:31.880 the field, I ain't asking you to make it because 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:33.600 I need you to make it. We need you to 0:32:33.600 --> 0:32:36.760 make it. It's the accountability amongst all of us. And so, 0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:40.560 like that being said, if Michael Jordan comes into the 0:32:40.600 --> 0:32:43.520 locker room on your team, you've seen how great he 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:45.360 didn't been, and he started coming in and asking stuff, 0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:46.120 you're gonna be like. 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:48.160 Man, listen, Mike, he ain't did nothing. He ain't did 0:32:48.280 --> 0:32:49.800 enough here yet, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:52.960 Like he ain't did nothing for the Cowboys yet, Like nah, 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:55.800 like you have respect for that player off of what 0:32:55.880 --> 0:32:56.720 he's built. 0:32:56.520 --> 0:32:57.640 Before he get in the door. 0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:01.400 Yeah, I get it like that from And I just 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:03.400 don't want it to seem like somebody got to bark 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:05.400 at you or yell at you to get you to 0:33:05.440 --> 0:33:07.479 be you know, like to get you to lineup right 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:09.680 or anything like that. I played with Steve McNair. I 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:11.960 never heard the dude yell at nobody, but he had 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:13.600 the respect of everybody. 0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:15.280 That's fine. I mean we get it. 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:16.640 We get like if you go out there and, like 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:18.680 I said, you leading by example and you balling out, 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:19.640 then then that's one thing. 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:20.320 I get it. 0:33:20.400 --> 0:33:22.520 I get it, and not everybody is is a vocal 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:24.880 leader out there. You know, I understand that thing. That 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:25.720 regard for it. 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:27.720 My only thing is just go out there and earn 0:33:27.760 --> 0:33:29.840 it first. He hasn't proved himself before he got here 0:33:29.840 --> 0:33:31.760 for you yet to do. 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:33.200 What like, That's what I'm saying, Like, if he's going 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:35.560 out there in balling, he hasn't believed himself as a 0:33:35.600 --> 0:33:37.960 football player to you yet he's proved himself as a 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:40.800 football player. But let me let me switch the narrative 0:33:40.800 --> 0:33:42.400 and ask this, because I think we're all saying the 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:45.240 same thing. But let me ask you this, Barry, have 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:47.640 you ever been I know I can say I have 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:49.520 because I've been a part of nine teams throughout my 0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:52.120 team year, playing the multiple teams, and you have to 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:55.280 have you ever just been into a room or situation 0:33:55.320 --> 0:33:57.600 where you brought it and you two Jesse speak on it. 0:33:57.800 --> 0:34:00.720 Have you seen a free agent signing that. It was like, man, 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:02.840 as soon as he got here day one, Oh he's 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:04.959 going to be a leader. All he's that guy. Like 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:05.840 he's showing it. 0:34:05.880 --> 0:34:08.920 Like I feel like George Pickens gave you that energy 0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:11.000 when he got there. He didn't say nothing to the media, 0:34:11.080 --> 0:34:13.200 but within his first week, the way that he was 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:15.160 approaching the game with deck and stuff like that, it 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:16.880 was like, he's going to be one of our leader and 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:19.080 now is showing later down the line. 0:34:19.080 --> 0:34:20.640 But oh yeah, Mark Cooper. 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:22.640 When they traded for Mark Cooper, he switched up the 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:25.680 whole offense and they galvanized and went to the playoffs 0:34:25.680 --> 0:34:26.239 and did all that. 0:34:27.400 --> 0:34:30.120 I think is one thing. It's great to be. 0:34:30.239 --> 0:34:33.640 But not all all pros, not all ballers are leaders. 0:34:34.120 --> 0:34:35.880 I mean, I mean we all do that. There's plenty 0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:37.640 of examples out there. I played with a guy and 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:40.520 Daniz Bryant, who was one of the best raid receivers 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:41.600 in the whole game. 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:42.960 Was he a leader? 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:43.400 Hell no? 0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:44.480 You know what I mean. 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:47.000 Like, all I'm saying is you could ball out and 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:49.120 do your thing, man, And when it comes to football, 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:50.560 we all stand between the white lines. 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:52.680 Do you do diligence, do everything great. 0:34:53.239 --> 0:34:57.320 But just because you an unbelievable baller doesn't automatically guarantee 0:34:57.360 --> 0:35:00.640 you to be the leader on a specific team, your market. 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:03.000 Whether you're barking out the orders or you're showing it 0:35:03.120 --> 0:35:06.279 on the field. Either way, the Cowboys are gonna need 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:09.799 some of that, uh to finish out the rest of year. 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:13.839 Right need town, They're gonna need, They're gonna need all 0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:13.960 of it. 0:35:14.080 --> 0:35:15.839 Why not try to follow somebody else. 0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:17.719 We didn't seen what they didn't did following whoever, they 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:18.720 didn't follow us so far. 0:35:18.680 --> 0:35:19.759 They're gonna need it. 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:20.680 So uh. 0:35:20.719 --> 0:35:22.719 With that, we'll take our last break of the show. 0:35:22.760 --> 0:35:25.840 When we come back. We've all talked about the Cowboys. 0:35:25.360 --> 0:35:26.160 Need to make a run. 0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:26.640 Uh. 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:29.239 We're gonna go down the schedule of the last eight 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.520 games of the season. 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They're a 0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:07.000 long way aways from what happened. 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:09.720 And they start with him with your question. 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:15.200 Oh okay, uh today as they sit, if the playoffs 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:16.840 started today, they will be out of the playoffs. 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:18.000 You know that. 0:39:19.120 --> 0:39:27.320 But there's still time and they are not mathematicallytically today 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:32.560 three five to one, they are still still not mathematically eliminated. 0:39:35.040 --> 0:39:35.839 I'm sorry. 0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:40.160 And so the Cowboys coming off this by two, three, four, five, six, seven, 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:43.240 eight games left, I want to go through the schedule 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:48.759 game by game and give you an opportunity be as 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:51.759 optimistic as you want, as real as you want, be 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:52.880 as honest as. 0:39:52.760 --> 0:39:54.399 You want, get seven more Church. 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:55.959 They come about this now. 0:39:57.680 --> 0:40:02.200 Most most people are saying right now, if things continue 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:03.680 to go to the same that the Cowboys need to 0:40:03.719 --> 0:40:07.560 get the ten wins. Ten wins kind of put you 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:09.560 seriously in consideration of making. 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:11.520 Them, make them playoffs. That's that's the best. 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:13.880 Ten wins kind of puts you in the playoffs. 0:40:13.880 --> 0:40:17.359 So right now, sitting at five three, five and one, 0:40:18.080 --> 0:40:21.320 you gotta find a way to get seven out of the. 0:40:21.120 --> 0:40:24.600 Next eight, you know, And that one I've been asking 0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:26.359 so like that, I've been trying to figure out how 0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:28.000 that one and it's going to that that tie is 0:40:28.000 --> 0:40:30.319 going to materialize itself, is going to play out. And 0:40:30.400 --> 0:40:34.160 now that green Bay I think has beaten the team 0:40:34.200 --> 0:40:36.480 that that that they both played. The Cowboys and Green 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:38.440 Bay have played the same team. Green Bay has that 0:40:38.520 --> 0:40:39.279 win over them. 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:42.799 Like, so what ends up happening is if it comes 0:40:42.840 --> 0:40:45.560 down to it, and I did the simulation on my 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:49.520 other show, but if it comes down to it and 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:52.480 the Cowboys and the green Bay Packers both finished with 0:40:52.520 --> 0:40:56.120 the same record. Because of that tie, another team would 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:59.240 jump them, so Green Bay would be out and the Cowboys. 0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:04.080 Yoh wow. It worked like that, so I. 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:06.000 Forgot what the team was I do. 0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:10.600 So let's just go through this and the Cowboys coming 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:13.600 off the boy there on the road this Monday night 0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:17.759 playing against the Vegas Raiders, Barry Church, start with you 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:19.000 because everyone said start with you. 0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:22.320 Barry. 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:24.520 The Cowboys. Can the Cowboys go up to Vegas to 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:24.759 get that? 0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:25.040 Dumb? 0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:27.680 Can that cannot be the first win that they get? 0:41:29.239 --> 0:41:30.960 It better be man. But I said the same thing 0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:34.520 about Arizona, you know what I mean? So it's like, man, 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:38.200 can they yes about anything about Chicago? 0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:41.120 Same thing about Carolina Carolina? 0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:44.240 Like it's like, you got the talent to beat these dudes, 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:48.839 it's just that winning, that winning atmosphere or knowing how 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:50.920 to close the book. We've yet to see that from 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:54.360 the Cowboys so far this season. So my confidence in 0:41:54.400 --> 0:41:56.640 that Vegas win. I mean, you got Geno Smith at 0:41:56.680 --> 0:42:00.160 the quarterback. I mean, you talent, got a trump this, 0:42:00.320 --> 0:42:02.600 Like you gotta be able to go out there and 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:04.520 get this dub Like just you. 0:42:04.600 --> 0:42:05.799 Gotta be able to do that. 0:42:05.920 --> 0:42:06.120 Man. 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:09.399 So yes, I'm saying yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:16.280 Talent wise, you say Cowboys, but I'm going to say, no. 0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:17.680 They lose to Vegas. 0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:21.000 Vegas is biting it for them to get out of 0:42:21.000 --> 0:42:21.960 the Vegas. 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:23.040 They're desperate right now. 0:42:23.440 --> 0:42:24.560 They lose, the Vegas is done. 0:42:24.680 --> 0:42:29.239 Yes, I think I just see them being This is 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:31.840 that one game we always give everybody those games. 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:34.279 I hope it's not ad. I don't have any faith 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:36.160 in the Cowboys. I don't. I don't. 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:38.200 I don't have any faith in the Cowboys winning another 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:39.319 game this season. 0:42:40.400 --> 0:42:40.919 Another game. 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:43.440 This host going to say, let's let's let's look at it, 0:42:43.480 --> 0:42:46.440 because because I've been part of the bandwagon for a 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:48.280 little bit, you know what I'm saying. I was always 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:50.360 impartial to the Cowboys, but I got up in the 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:53.040 building and I got a little bit more like favorite 0:42:53.040 --> 0:42:56.279 towards them. And and I'm not just looking at it 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.760 from from from the right scope. I like to say, 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:04.120 all right, so there's there's no trust in it, all right, Chicago. 0:43:04.200 --> 0:43:07.040 Like we said already, the teams that we've said that 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.399 they should be, they don't go out and beat all right. 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:09.720 Now. 0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:12.480 The one thing that I do have that they can 0:43:12.520 --> 0:43:14.840 hang their hat on this week is new energy on 0:43:14.880 --> 0:43:18.600 defense from those two. And so with that being said, 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:21.400 I don't know what type of curve ball that's going 0:43:21.480 --> 0:43:24.240 to actually throw into you know, with what the Vegas 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:25.960 Raiders are doing, you know what I mean. But at 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:28.760 the same time, like it's it's one of those things 0:43:28.920 --> 0:43:32.560 whereas I'm not optimistic about them beating my former team, 0:43:32.719 --> 0:43:36.160 but I'm optimistic about the Cowboys and these trades actually 0:43:36.200 --> 0:43:37.520 leading to something positive. 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:41.279 Okay, we have we have a dub and two l's 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:42.040 all right. 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:47.160 Then following Sunday it is the at home the Philadelphia 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:48.000 Eagles come to town. 0:43:48.120 --> 0:43:52.640 Barry See, that's that's gonna be the the that's one. 0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:54.719 That's the one you if they that's the last L 0:43:54.760 --> 0:43:57.040 they can take before ten wins is out of the boat. 0:43:57.160 --> 0:44:01.719 So Philly in Dallas and you know division game, we 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:05.960 understand how that all works. Man, And uh, I gotta say, yeah, man. 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:08.520 So they win. I got to okay, I got so. 0:44:09.320 --> 0:44:10.439 I got the winning this one. 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:15.640 Dallas plays to their competition majority of the time, and 0:44:15.719 --> 0:44:17.960 I think with Eagles coming in, they know it's a 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:20.680 do or die situation. I see them getting that win 0:44:20.840 --> 0:44:22.960 and it's not going to be just the first week, 0:44:23.080 --> 0:44:25.040 but it'll be the second week of having your new 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.319 parts back, the young guys supposed to be coming in. 0:44:27.560 --> 0:44:29.799 We're gonna see if we get Overshawn back. So with 0:44:29.840 --> 0:44:32.480 all these defensive guys, I think that's going to be 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:34.719 the weekend where Cowboys fans they get they win and 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:36.719 they say, oh, we're back in and we beating the 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:38.000 number one team in our division. 0:44:38.040 --> 0:44:38.520 So it's a win. 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:41.439 Hey, let me real quick question to Chris in the back. 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:43.640 Is this counting towards our pick? So we're still going 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:44.120 to do our. 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:48.719 So here we go. I'm with him that on that 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:49.239 week two. 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:51.520 All right, they got week two of the new dudes 0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:53.560 being in here, seeing how they're gonna play on the defense, 0:44:53.560 --> 0:44:55.560 seeing actually what they'll be able to do. All Right, 0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:57.319 Philly has been banged up a little bit, ain't been 0:44:57.360 --> 0:45:00.279 able to get their offense together, and like we mentioned before. 0:45:00.440 --> 0:45:01.959 They'll do whatever it takes. 0:45:01.960 --> 0:45:03.480 If they got to beat you by half a point, 0:45:03.480 --> 0:45:05.000 they'll figure out a way to beat you by half 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:12.400 a point. Now, all that being said, yeah, you know, 0:45:13.600 --> 0:45:15.480 and and I'm a defensive player, so you know, I'm 0:45:15.520 --> 0:45:17.239 a ride with the defense all the time. And I 0:45:17.320 --> 0:45:20.279 just think that like hopefully by that week that there's 0:45:20.360 --> 0:45:22.879 something that's showing that the Cowboys are on the upward swing. 0:45:23.040 --> 0:45:25.000 But am I going to give them the w No? 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:28.920 Okay, that's the Philly one, right, that's the Philly. 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:30.960 We gotta we gotta breeze to these next couple of 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:31.920 up against it all right? 0:45:32.200 --> 0:45:32.359 Uh? 0:45:32.480 --> 0:45:36.920 Then Thanksgiving Turkey Day, gobble gobble gobble can City chiefs 0:45:36.920 --> 0:45:37.919 come to town. 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:40.600 That's that's the l that then they have to win 0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:42.200 the rest for me, But that's the day that's the one. 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:43.080 L Okay, that's the one. 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:49.560 That's the one for one of them Thanksgiving. Okay, No, no, no. 0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:51.120 This is the one right here for me. 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:55.480 I think is gonna be the This is gonna be 0:45:55.520 --> 0:45:55.759 the one. 0:45:55.800 --> 0:45:57.080 This is gonna be loss. 0:45:57.719 --> 0:46:01.360 December fourth, they go to Detroit to put the Lions. 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.200 That's gonna be. Yeah, that's last time the Troy was 0:46:04.239 --> 0:46:05.279 down here was it was ugly? 0:46:05.400 --> 0:46:06.000 It was ugly. 0:46:06.200 --> 0:46:08.239 That's it might be a little bitt so that boy, 0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:09.640 that's a bat session. 0:46:09.920 --> 0:46:10.880 I got the Lions. 0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:13.759 We seeing the lots put up stinker here in there. 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:14.560 You know what I'm saying. 0:46:14.560 --> 0:46:17.239 We've seen it happen, so I gotta believe it. I 0:46:17.280 --> 0:46:19.080 don't put that energy out there, you know what I'm saying. 0:46:19.120 --> 0:46:19.880 So I gotta believe. 0:46:20.880 --> 0:46:22.400 I gotta lost yourself. 0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:27.000 Oh man, Yeah, Minnesota, the Vikings. 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:29.640 Ain't nobody believing that JJ McCarthy. But it ain't nobody 0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:31.520 except for him. But other than that, it ain't nobody 0:46:31.600 --> 0:46:32.080 believing in. 0:46:33.760 --> 0:46:34.640 Here. 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:36.960 It's in Dallas, Arlington. 0:46:37.160 --> 0:46:42.200 I got, I got the Cowboys, Cowboys, dug, I got 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:43.200 hell Minnesota. 0:46:43.400 --> 0:46:46.080 Wow, Brian Flord's defense comes to town and works over 0:46:46.120 --> 0:46:47.000 the Cowboys offense. 0:46:47.239 --> 0:46:51.319 All right, Los Angeles and Chargers, my boy here here 0:46:51.560 --> 0:46:52.360 here in Dallas. 0:46:52.480 --> 0:46:54.560 My boy heard. But that's a that's a dud for 0:46:54.600 --> 0:46:58.160 the boys, my boy. But I mean that's that's for 0:46:58.200 --> 0:46:58.640 the boys. 0:46:58.680 --> 0:46:58.799 Man. 0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:01.320 That's what I got to double with the Chargers. 0:47:02.360 --> 0:47:09.399 Chargers, you got, he said, I'm out all this one 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:12.640 is uh Santana Day. 0:47:13.920 --> 0:47:18.279 Jules and Carlos gonna be Oh you know that, baby, Chris, 0:47:18.320 --> 0:47:19.160 what means. 0:47:18.960 --> 0:47:24.720 Santana's coming to town. The Washington commanders at Washington. 0:47:25.920 --> 0:47:31.080 They ain't going to get buried. Come on, man, going 0:47:31.080 --> 0:47:33.160 to get Marrioda man, I think Dan split. 0:47:33.520 --> 0:47:35.399 I got the commanders on that one, all. 0:47:35.320 --> 0:47:41.000 Right, that's a toss up without it without a Jayden 0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:48.040 out there, and I'm I'm gonna say. 0:47:47.480 --> 0:47:53.280 Yes, you know, command out there punching after. 0:47:52.880 --> 0:47:57.239 The Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell is calling. Boys. Got to 0:47:57.239 --> 0:48:00.640 prove it to me before I feel that's a fact. 0:48:01.400 --> 0:48:03.320 And then the the end of the season started the 0:48:03.320 --> 0:48:05.759 New Year twenty twenty six New York Football. 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:11.000 Giants by calf got at the coach those scatter boo, Yeah, 0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:18.040 that's it started the cusso yeah, yeah, that's. 0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:26.600 Honestly, I got the Giants. We got the Giants that 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:31.160 momentum and that new head coach minimum and they got defense. 0:48:32.040 --> 0:48:33.839 I'm gonna get the Cowboys that one. 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:38.200 Okay, I'm just gonna say that most of the part 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:40.440 that they needed to just lose one game, you had 0:48:40.440 --> 0:48:42.279 to lose in two games so they would get all 0:48:42.320 --> 0:48:44.040 the way to the end of the year and be. 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:45.040 Six and two. 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:47.919 Hold on, hold on, yeah. 0:48:48.400 --> 0:48:50.719 It was the will be, it will be nine, there 0:48:50.719 --> 0:48:55.279 will be there will be nine, six, nine, eight and one. 0:48:55.520 --> 0:48:57.400 So I got well hold on even when. 0:48:59.080 --> 0:49:01.759 Seven not only had moving, no, you had to move 0:49:02.000 --> 0:49:04.400 case and you had to lose into the Chargers. 0:49:06.360 --> 0:49:09.240 Okay, okay, that's my boy. Heard but that's for the boys. 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:12.799 All right, all right, all right, well we'll see my mathematics. 0:49:13.640 --> 0:49:14.800 We'll see we'll. 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:16.120 See what today's mathematics. 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:17.160 We'll see what happens. 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:17.880 Mills. 0:49:19.719 --> 0:49:20.600 I'll be back tomorrow. 0:49:20.680 --> 0:49:21.600 I ain't talking about. 0:49:23.600 --> 0:49:27.240 So I'll be back tomorrow. They'll be back tomorrow, back tomorrow. 0:49:27.520 --> 0:49:29.600 I hope that you're back tomorrow to join us as 0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:32.839 well for the Players Lounge, for Barry Church, for demonte More, 0:49:33.280 --> 0:49:36.440 for Anthony Dorset. I am Jesse Holly. This is the 0:49:36.440 --> 0:49:37.880 Players Longe. See you guys tomorrow. 0:49:39.200 --> 0:49:42.200 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:49:42.360 --> 0:49:44.200 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.