WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: It’s A Coin Toss 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:10.119 Cowboys. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:17.000 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.480 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.160 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison and New He scrugs. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:38.480 Here we are players loud. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.839 Let's ry he go, he kept it, He kept the 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:47.040 last ride. Man, shout out the rust man. Man he 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.880 did get bade big if he got a thirty seventies, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.280 he wiping his face with all hundreds. Let me go 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.240 ahead and cry with these man, you know the crew. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.200 Danny McCrae, Heck Maharrison, Barry Church, he scruggs. So Russell 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.480 Wilson being mentioned in Denver on the second day at QUANTSA, Well, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.680 you know, I don't get they ain't that song. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.240 He's due, I said, I think it's the fifth day 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.839 of the league year. He's doe thirty seven million guaranteed. 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.720 So if you he gets hurt in these last two games, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.760 well then he's getting straight back. So you know what 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.039 they did like they did there car Hey, Hey, young fellers. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.800 Hey, it's a thirty whatever. On top of what he 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.000 was already gonna get right. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.280 It's gonna be get so. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.880 Now if they want to make a move, you know. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.480 It's a dirty game. They're too young to man what 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:35.440 Nino said. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.280 What it's never business, it's never person it's never persons. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.920 Always. He's having a good season, so he gets all. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.480 Does he get the guaranteed he signed for when he 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:45.560 first signed up for the for the. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.680 So mostly what they'll do quartering right? 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.440 And it was an article by two days ago that 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.520 Florio had put it out there Pro Football Talk got 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.240 com basically thirty seven mili guaranteed by the league year 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.000 fifth and he had posted like do you sent him? 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.400 Because what they did with carlast and it's got Florido 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.000 is a real piece of work. Man, are you gonna 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.880 put that in the universe like that? That's crazy. That's 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.440 a real piece Seriously. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.480 So this is something that every I mean, if you, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.720 if you are a team, you got to ask you 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.560 do we want to pay him? And it's clear by 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.000 the things that Sean Payton has been saying, he's not 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.480 sold on Russell. So instead of paying him to thirty 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.079 seven mili, you get ready to make up a post 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.560 June cut and you start slicing. 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.400 So the question is are they gonna now going to 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.359 be paying him to go away because of the part 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.519 of his contract that it's still guaranteed. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.200 They're basically going to get so because the thirty seven 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.280 mil would have been guaranteed on June fifth, I mean 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.800 March fifth, you cut him. Now you will designate him 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.880 to be a post June one cut. He's not gonna 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.800 get that money, and so now you're gonna have to 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.040 eat that that that. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.760 But you're right less than what is it? Less than 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:50.760 what it would have been had. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.240 He Basically it's almost kind of gonna kind of even 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.200 out there. But bottom line is Sean doesn't want Yeah, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.760 and if you're Sean Payton, you go to you just say, guys, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.400 look you saw where we were. This is not good enough. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.280 You're seven and eighteen right now, is what it is. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:07.560 They eliminated. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.760 They eliminated because O wait, holda chiefs leading it right, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.359 they're nine and six in that division with Tumo left, which. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.360 Is crazy and I don't believe have they even clinched. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.360 Right now to the third seed? So Baltimore is your 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.000 one seed. So this is the way we're looking in 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.120 the first rounds of Baltimore gets a buy in AFC, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.520 then it would be Miami is a two seed against Indianapolis. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.600 But obviously we know Miami Baltimore played this week. But 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.560 right now, currently Miami getst Indy and because Indy's the 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.600 seventy three seeds Kansas City, they would face Buffalo to. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.520 Six seed, and then it would be a game duvall 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.240 the fourth seed against Cleveland the fifth seed. That's what 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:45.800 that's the current playoff. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.320 So Buffalo is what they once gave over five hundred, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:50.440 right ninety six. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:52.680 Well, they're projected to be ninety six right now, but 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.960 right now Buffalo is, yeah, ninety six right now, ninety 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.760 six right now, and Buffalo, Buffalo's got New England at home, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.720 and then they're on the road in the season of 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.640 the road at Miami, So that's where that's where they're 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.119 out there. Then over here on the NFC side, you've 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:12.880 got San Francisco is your one seed, then your seventh 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.680 seventh seed is Seattle and they would go to Philadelphia 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.960 the two seeds to the Lord's Work. The sixth seed 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.560 would be the Rams at the third seed of Detroit 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.000 Lions and the five seed Cowboys right now would be 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.400 at the four seed Tampa Bay. So that's the current 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.680 playoffs you wish. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.080 I'm telling you you're gonna eat those words. Sometime. You're 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:45.000 gonna come say that. Put it going, even if it's 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.960 not in the first round. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.880 I'm saying, if you if you end up not getting 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.640 the two seed and you have to go on the 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.680 road for the entirety of the playoffs, you you were 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.599 eating those works of like. We have not performed well 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.000 on the road, which is thank goodness. We were at home. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.480 This week is Detroit early, but thank goodness went home Campbell. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.680 Cowboys can still win this thing. They still get the 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.159 two seeds. That's what I want. Play out, go, let play. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.360 What do you still want the five seed? 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:13.120 Is that? 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.960 Is that still your your stance? I wouldn't do it. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:22.560 I go either way. No, see got here. He was 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:23.360 all off the fence. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.520 You was you was want Look, look, you know Bakers 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.960 played well, but I can see what the matchups. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.800 So you're talking about why the five seed would be attractive. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.360 Now I say this, You say two seed now Seattle 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.040 versus I just want the Rams. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.240 So this two seeds Seattle, Yeah, shut me up. I 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.280 take the Rams. At home five, take Tampa on the road. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.080 So my whole premise was not wanting any parts of you. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.960 So now Seattle sitting here at seven Rams, are sitting 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.920 here six Rams Detroit first round. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:56.160 Boo. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.280 That that's good TV right there, Sign me up to 0:05:59.279 --> 0:05:59.840 watch that one. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.960 I mean that forty nine ers in Rams game at 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.440 the end of the season is gonna be a that's 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:04.200 gonna be a duce. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.240 Yes, sir, yes, sir. So look, forty nine ers. We'll 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.800 go here looking at the forty nine ers schedule at 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:13.760 Washington this week. 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.320 Again, that's the payback. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.680 Y'all feel no kind of way about jacobet start, Well, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.200 you might be missing, might be missing William. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.080 Yeah, let's get tried. So you might be missing. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:34.440 In Washing so they gotta make that flight. Yeah, got 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.600 a growing injury. Yeah, so you know I can see 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.680 that he was. I imagine he won't be playing this 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.479 week because you want to getting ready for the playoffs. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.400 That's your only hope over for both. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.040 Well, NBC guys is out there when Washington went to 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.520 go play out there at the Rams, and he tweets 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.680 a picture of a sofi seems like you never know 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:54.599 anything happened. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.360 I was like, no, you know, that's right, it's not 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.640 going to get that. Poor Terry McLaurin. They're wasting his 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.880 life and career. And Jonathan Allen and I don't know, man, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.200 I don't know if he wanted that bad. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:09.520 So so you got that. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.840 Talking about these Cowboys they are a six point favorite 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:14.880 at home against Detroit. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:20.800 Huh, yes, like that. They smoking on it. They trying 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:27.720 to set you up. Come on, they stay rich for. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.480 By the way, breaking news here, Cowboys release linebacker Rashaan 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.160 Evans after marijuana rest. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.120 Just came up on the thing there. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.000 So I hate to see it. But at least he 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:46.480 got Christmas in. He's not ext Christmas. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.200 How do you, as a player who was brought in 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.160 mid season, knowing that you have to do everything you 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.160 possibly can to stay on this roster, slip up like that. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.880 I just don't like. I don't understand. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:00.760 It's something that you're gonna look back on five years 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.800 from now and be like, man, this team go to 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.600 the playoffs and all a sudden make a run, and 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.600 then that is the reason why you weren't a part 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.680 of that. That that that roster with all the work 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.120 that you put in, and that's the news out there 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.400 tonight and the next person who's thinking about picking. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.480 You up as the word like, that's just I just don't. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.360 I never understand that it's a bad situation, but it 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:26.200 still doesn't help us, it don't. I mean, the linebacker 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.080 room is thin, and we're already in the position right 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.960 now where your main concern and word is stopping to run. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:32.880 I don't that's it. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.520 We gotta stop the run and we need linebackers to 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.200 do it, and we can't have enough of them. It's 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.960 it's a team that going into training camp you thought 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.640 you were pretty solid at the linebacker position and then 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:48.120 one a cl injury to Overshawn later that's real, next day, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.640 next thing, you know, that's the thinnest room on defense. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.480 So I don't know how we especially coming up this 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.160 week against Detroit, because you're gonna need your linebackers to. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.880 Play till you're gonna need your linebackers. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.160 And is there any word on on Hankins, any word 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.400 on Hanks being able to play. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.040 We're gonna need somebody and it does. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:10.120 Sound like they sounds like now listen after the negative yesterday, Okay, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.560 I do want to I do want to speak positively about. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.160 My man dan Quinn. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.719 Somebody's phone is on. Let's see be in the back. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.400 I want to speak positively about dan Quinn. Okay, for 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.160 just because of what you said. You go into the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.520 season knowing that you have an overshun an lve. You're 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.520 looking at DeMont Clark, You're looking at your linebacker room 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.800 and about Janell Cox, and then and then the injury 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:38.520 start to strike. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.120 Okay, and whatever he's been able to. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.079 Do with all those injuries, and then putting in a 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.559 guy like Marku's Bell and saying, hey, I think you 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.439 can be successful. Not as successful as one of like 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.880 a natural linebacker, but serviceable enough for us to make 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.199 it through this point in the season. That takes some 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.839 work and some trust in what you can see and 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.920 get out of a player. So I want to give 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.880 some props on that. And I'm still staying the tall 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.400 on this. Maami. Listen, twenty two points. You got to 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.720 get the dub twenty two dollars, you got to get 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.960 the done. This team put up seventy on the Denver Bronco. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.480 I watched them at Denver has a good defense. I 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.040 just you know, in the playoffs, I e aspective. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.560 You know, if they win this game and they're six 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.839 point favorite here surprising, how would you feel because you 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.320 you would be beating a division winner who can run 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.079 the football, which has been your achilles here, and you 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.199 would complete a perfect home record and getting ready to 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.080 face a Washington team that has been giving up right now, 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.360 and they are four and eleven right now, they get 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.120 they get San Francisco's this week. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.880 So I'm about to say they four to twelve. Yeah, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.360 you're right about that. I feel good? Would you feel good? 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:45.520 Then? 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:46.839 I would feel good if they were able to go 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.959 out there and beat this Detroit team. Because when you 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.080 look at it, we all understand what's going to happen 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.239 in this game. It's going to be a playoff atmosphere. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.680 You got, you know, two teams competing for seeding as 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.679 far as the playoffs are concerned. So you know you're 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.000 gonna get the most out of each and every team. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.000 You look at that Quinn, what he's able to bring 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.840 to Detroit, you know you're gonna get a sixty minute battle. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.120 I mean that's what it's gonna be on both sides 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.720 of the football, offensively, in defensive. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:08.800 Camp Yeah, with the camera. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.120 So then with that Detroit team. Offensively, you know what 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.520 their best thing is, that's their offensive line. So it's 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.439 gonna go against all defensive line versus their offensive line. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.440 To me, is gonna be the matchup that's gonna solve 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.880 this game because if you're able to slow down that run, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.319 which is it's a doozy because they got two big 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:25.840 time backs. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.600 You talk about Montgomery, you talk about Gibbs. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.280 It's kind of like Pollard and Elliott last year when 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.600 you got that thunder lightning combo. So if you're able 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.480 to slow that down and force it into Jared Goff's hands. 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.760 We all know that man is a statue in the backfield. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.640 He's a statue. If you give him time, he could 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.839 pick you apart. But if you go into it similar 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.240 to what you did in the Rams game when you 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.480 had a statue at quarterback like Matt Stafford, if you're 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.120 able to harass this man, it could be a blowout. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.079 Now that's a lot of ifs because we understand what 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.599 they bring us as far as that run game. But 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.760 to me, that's the matchup that's that's gonna be. The 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.680 big time thing is that offsive line in the trenches. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.079 So hackn Harrison. They win this game, then how you 0:11:59.160 --> 0:11:59.840 feeling now? Man? 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.079 First of all, it's an if, is a big old 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.880 if right now, and I feel good if they win 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.000 it because I feel like this is your tough your 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:13.360 toughest opponent that you face at home, on offense and 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.560 on defense. I think that Detroit is a tough team 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.080 that a lot of people may be not looking at 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.679 or undervaluing what they can do in the playoffs. But 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.360 I think this is a dangerous team that's starting to 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.760 catch fire at the right time. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.000 And it's funny how. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.240 When you look at this Gibbs kid from Detroit, how 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.880 similar he looks to James Cook, just his ability in 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:40.400 open field, but also as a receiver, does something out. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.680 Of the backfield, catches the ball, and he's really good. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.760 I think the one area for me is and I'm 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.360 with you, I've always wanted that number two seed because 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.479 I felt like we're so much better at home. Offensively, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.360 we're so much better at home, and in that game 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.920 versus Miami, Like you're saying they get twenty two points, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.559 you need to score thirty points. Yes, that's all it 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.880 is to it, right, But I feel like we place 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.400 so much better at home defensively, we got to figure 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.679 out a way to get our mojo back. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.920 However, we gotta do it. We got to sell out 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.640 to do it. Whatever we have, we've got to get 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:12.560 it right at home. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.280 Versus a Detroit Lions team that their offensive line is 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.880 if we thought we had a challenge against the Bills, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.959 if we thought we had a challenge against some of 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.599 these other teams that's brought to physicality. This is a 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.319 Bills team, I mean, this is a Lions squad that 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.480 is also very physical at the line of scrimmage. And man, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.839 they're playing for Dan Kimbell. I mean, I know he's 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.960 a guy that you've been talking about for a while now, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.400 and just what he represents in the way that those 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.200 guys are playing for him. And you can just get 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.360 a feeling from that team that they'll run through a 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.880 brick wall for Dan Campbell right now. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.360 Gibbs, you guys like Gibbs gives them. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:51.800 Montgomery, I think if we win this game, it depends 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.040 on how the game plays out, because for me, I 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.760 want to see us be able to consistently stop the run. Okay, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.280 and then we ran up against Buffalo didn't do so well, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.280 all right, I am. I feel better about our run 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.760 defense based off how we played against Miami. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.200 So real quick, would that be a good run stopping 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:07.439 for you? 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:08.800 If we go against De Troy and held them to 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.199 the amount in Miami, Yes, if you held him to 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.720 a team like that, you're going to beat that team. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.840 Because Jared Goff, as good as he's been playing, if 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.280 you put the game in his hands, he's probably going 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.920 to turn the ball over multiple times. But if you 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.200 let them get into this position where they can run 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.840 the ball, then they got play action and then La 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:25.800 Porter can get rolling. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.480 Now you have an issue. But if you stop them 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:28.760 like you. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.080 Stopped Miami Montgomery and Gibbs, then I feel like you 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.040 have a very good chance of winning this game. Not 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.240 only this game, but then that gives you the confidence 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.920 to say, Okay, this is one of the better running 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.200 teams in the league. Yes, when we go up and 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.800 face another team that specializes in running the football, you 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.280 know for a fact that you can get it done 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.560 because you've done it against Miami, who was a top 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.960 five and now you're doing it against Detroit. And that's 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.280 what we've been waiting to see the entire year because 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.000 that's been our Achilles Hills in the playoffs. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.120 Can we stop the run? Where's Gibbs from? 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:00.680 Y'all? 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:04.920 Man? 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.080 Right away, he's still talking about my my man just 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.520 won the hous this year, just got the Heisman Trophy, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.640 and he over talking about Gibbs in my in Alabama. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.200 I know why he didn't go. I know he didn't go. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:27.000 He didn't go to your school. If we could get 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.800 Tony Paula to play like Gibbs, yeah, but. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.600 Does he have the opportunities gives is getting Is he 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:37.920 getting the opportunity of Gibbs? 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:38.840 I don't know. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:40.080 I don't know. 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.680 If somebody what is Gibs stats this year? 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.440 First, you don't even got to pull up the stats, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.080 like eight hundred, you don't have to pull up the stats. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.720 It just looked different, Like it looks different. It looked different. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.440 And at this point he said that throughout the season, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.120 if Tony Paula got twenty carries, I do not believe 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.880 that you will see anything drastically different, Like I like, 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:02.200 I don't know how at this point, like we're like, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.600 how tell me the ideal way you would use Tony 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.120 Pollard specifically, because you've been watching the season, you see 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:10.840 how many times the man want to come out of 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:11.160 the game. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.160 But is that is that him saying that I've seen them. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.480 I've seen it maybe two times the whole season where 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.400 he goes like this, I don't know, I've seen it. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.400 I've seen I've seen him like this. You have to 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:22.200 go off the field. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.480 So ideally, in a perfect world, what do you get 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:27.400 from Tony Pollard? 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.960 What like how many opportunities runs? Passes? 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.080 Twenty five touches, total touches. Here's the thing I'm gonna say, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.840 Tony Poler has more yards and gifts. All right, But 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.120 like you said, eyeball tests two different types of players. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.360 I'm only talking about from the receiving aspect when our 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.000 short passing. And that's one of the questions I brought 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.440 up about what do we have to do when the 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:51.440 running game is because. 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:52.520 Right now we don't have a running game. 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.920 Let's keep it real, we don't have one, And so 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.720 how do you go into the playoffs saying I don't 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.440 have a running game. That's going to have to be 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.720 an extension of the passing game, the show passing game 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.160 that extends to the running game. For this offense to 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.440 even be a threat in the postseason, because if we 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.680 cannot test teams at the line of scrimmage, we're dead 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.000 in the water, because then we become one dimensional and 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.960 that's my only thing. We are searching desperately for another weapon. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.960 Teams already know we're gonna go to Ferguson. Teams already 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.159 know we're gonna go to Cede Lamb, and they're already 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.879 checking the fact that with Brandon Cooks, he trying to 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.680 hit us on something deep with Cooks, which is like, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.720 and I understand the twenty five touches thing. I'm still 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.000 on the like, Okay, we're not a running team, We're 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.439 a passing team. You need to still find a way 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.560 to get your top passing weapons involved. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.240 We have not consistently done that. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.000 Brandon Cooks last week two catches, two catches, two targets, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.200 one for a touchdown. We've been talking about this all season. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.680 What happens when you take away CD Lamb. Do we 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.600 have an opportunity to get somebody else involved? Then we 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.560 started seeing it's tober, it's gallup, it's turping. When you 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.480 got a guy like Brandon Cooks out there, Now, I 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.560 could just not be watching enough film and maybe he's 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.960 getting cut and then I would admit that I was wrong, right, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:04.880 But until I get to watch all lift, I'm gonna 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.040 say this. I've seen the guy and every time you 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.879 throw him the ball, he has an opportunity to make 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.159 a big time play, and he's done it with touchdowns 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:11.960 or first downs. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.040 Looking at numbers here, just Tony Pollard two hundred nineteen 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:20.400 carries for eight hundred eighty six yards, five touchdowns, Gibbs 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.119 one hundred and fifty four carries for eight hundred and 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.040 seventy two yards, nine touchdowns. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.080 Yards poort timp yards per timp tip me what that is. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.000 I had to go back, okay, because it seems much. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.639 Higher than on Montgomery one hundred ninety five carries for 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.040 nine hundred and ten yards at eleven touchdowns. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.600 So those two are combined for twenty touchdowns. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:47.240 Man, so dangerous, do it? Geez? So it's different. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.480 But I would also come back into this, and I 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.520 go back to what Skip Pete said when he was 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:52.080 a running back. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.800 Oach here, man, you got to get these guys. It 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:57.520 needs to be two dudes. 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.080 Detroit's going with two dudes and with Pollard, That's what 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.320 he felt the best way to use Tony so you 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.240 want to go back to yards per average, and Montgomery 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.359 is four point seven yards. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:13.800 Carrie Gibbs fight point seven. So if I were to say, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.280 how could you make Tony Pollard a better player? Go 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.359 get another running back to pair with him, It's what. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.080 I would say it. But it's hard to strike like that. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.200 In the draft, when you get a guy like Gibbs 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.240 and then you could bring the Montgomery, it's hard to be. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:26.840 Able to do that. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.320 I mean, but living in the now, living in the 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.840 now of our situation, ric o'dalla, we asked that question 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.920 a couple of weeks ago, how many carriashit ric o'dad'll 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.240 getting that one to five? You know what we're seeing 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.080 His production hasn't. It's not trending up in any way. 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.679 And you saw in the first quarter Mike McCarthy come 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.560 into the game and say, look on an Olypke, you 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.760 know we need one yard. We're gonna give to forty 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.400 a couple of times. We're gonna do this. I don't 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.040 think that that was the plan. That's the plan going 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.720 forward through the rest of the season and in the playoffs. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.720 But we've got to find a way because if teams 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.360 are not threatened at all by us our inability to run, 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.400 or just thinking that hey, third and one, they're gonna 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.880 turn around hand this off third and two. We're doing 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:11.800 tight end crossing routes man and that and that to 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.720 me is that's the scary part. When you're in fourth 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.200 and two and you passed the ball and you have 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.199 no confidence whatsoever you run. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:20.800 But can we can we honestly. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.160 Say that Pollard has give got the opportunity this year 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.200 to be that bell cow back? Can we honestly say 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.960 that that he's gott an opportunity to get the touches 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.399 that are number one running back should get. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.359 He got more than them, but based off he got 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:33.919 two nineteen. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:35.560 But based off of what you're saying, you want him 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:37.560 to be a twenty to twenty five a carry. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.080 Why not let him prove us wrong. Let him prove 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:41.800 that he can't be that guy. What else do we 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:43.440 have to lose when we had the running game is 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.399 where it is right now. I mean you, there's no 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.600 other option. You might as well give him little opportunities 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.439 to be that And if he proves you wrong and says, hey, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.480 he can't do it, like like he can't be that 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:52.240 number one guy. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.960 Then we start to push by pushing Pool with different 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:55.480 running backs. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.320 But until that point, why not give him the opportunity 0:20:58.440 --> 0:20:59.520 to go out there and prove himself. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:00.840 I mean you give to everybody else. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:04.479 Let's get break Rake, gotta get a break in here 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:09.320 on a We'll see Cowboys activated, somebody off the injury 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.040 preserve list today. Let's talk about that next with Barry Church, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.639 Huck Maharrison, Danny mCrab New we Strokes. 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Let's go activated off the injured reserve after 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.640 dealing with his shoulder injury that he suffered in training camp. 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:21.400 So well, let's go back in there. So you need him, 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.200 sure me dovera did it boy tell you to shim 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:27.800 will be chilling all week. I'm just gonna go ahead practice, 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:31.640 get these one reps and then let terror to tyre takeover. 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:33.040 In the game. And then he finally had to go 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:37.000 out there. It takes the live reps. They said. You 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.239 know when the coach up top said get met, well, 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.399 let's go get him right. We get met right. 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:46.560 We got something back at the house that could do 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:51.640 better than look out, look out, I look out. Eight 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.520 Hutches are coming to town. Hut He's gonna find him 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:59.280 a matchup. He gonna be around you find him a 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:04.879 mansa unbelievable ready something back this week so whatever they 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:06.080 injected him with the pills. 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.159 What we're taking. Man, it works. Make sure when you 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.280 go to the locker room you get that interview for us. Man. Serious, 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.920 I'm not joking. I'm serious. We never do anything just 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:19.360 it just doesn't. They just friends. They talk about back. 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:19.960 Now what I do. 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:22.520 I'm talking to him pregame do the brother head No, 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:24.520 just no, we walk up to we talked. 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:26.439 We have a pregame, we talked, talked pre game. That's 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:28.920 why I get like, yeah, he can keep keep guessing 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:33.040 he forgot the neck roll on. You know it's ready 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:35.040 to That's not true. That's what we've seen the bad 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:36.480 one on this week this year, and. 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:40.480 Making jokes all you was the last week you needed. 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:42.600 Yes, yes, we. 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:45.840 Always need Tyring Smith to be healthy like that. That's 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:48.680 not the argument here, dude, don't even that. We always 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:51.639 need him healthy because when he's healthy, he is one 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:53.880 of the top tackles in the league. I also seen 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:56.400 Trip Williams go down and they was on three without 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.399 Trip Williams and then they lost that game, uh the 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:02.440 other night. Now you appreciate it is very important to 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.200 have your best player because when they're in the game, 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:09.160 the difference when the backup get in. It's so visible 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:11.359 when you have such a great player in left tackle, 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.560 and that is our problem, and that's also San Francisco's problem. 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:17.160 Somebody is so great playing left tackle that no matter 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:20.639 who gets in as a replacement besides Tyler Smith, you 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:22.240 just see a huge difference. 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:26.040 That's every team. How many teams out there can lose 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:28.359 a left tackle and they got somebody. Oh here, here 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:33.679 he is. It's different, though, I don't know, look, but. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:36.880 It's a different It's so different because these are two 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:38.040 all decades and. 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:39.840 Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. They're so great, so 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:42.639 we always need them. We always need them. And we 0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:45.360 see Kansas City go to the super Bowl without any 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:48.960 offensive lineman. I mean, look, you need your left tackle. 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:52.399 But lord knows, we didn't want to look that funny 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:56.760 in the light out of tyr Like we look funny 0:26:56.800 --> 0:26:59.920 in the light without tyrant Man almost every time. 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:02.040 So at some point in time, and I think we 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:04.919 saw on that last drive there, this is this becomes 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:07.960 with Mike McCarthy. You see chum out here getting getting 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:14.200 getting done, guessing wrong. Help him, help him somebody there. 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:16.640 You draft the schoolmaker guy came from Michigan to block 0:27:16.680 --> 0:27:20.320 block help him. We can't sit around here and ask 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:22.560 you to be tired because he's not tired. We keep 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:23.560 on doing that around here. 0:27:23.920 --> 0:27:24.400 Chas Green. 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:27.800 Look, I know Chas was terrible against Atlanta, but my goodness, 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:29.440 gracious Scotland, hen help him. 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:33.760 I think with Chilmy Douga, one of the legitimate gripes 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:36.560 that I have, it's just the communication. You got one 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.000 guy coming inside and a guy coming outside, and you 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:42.040 take the inside guy. That's a that's a misread. That's 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:44.920 a communication breakdown. I never played offensive line, so I 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:47.600 don't know the responsibility of that, but I know you're 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:50.359 not supposed to let your up come free like that. 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:52.600 Can't that can't be the plan, especially when you guys 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:54.720 you have a guy sitting inside. 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:58.120 So again, I know it's a preparation in all week 0:27:58.160 --> 0:27:58.880 and all week. 0:27:58.960 --> 0:28:02.320 These guys going to it expecting to see everything, especially 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:06.040 blis packages, but they just didn't handle it well. 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:08.800 And that was a problem with the execution of the offense. 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:12.760 It's like the NBA, somebody getting hot. We better go. 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:14.840 We got to figure out something. We got start doubling. 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:16.960 We have to do something, and it was pretty clear 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:18.160 Chubb was getting. 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:20.879 Hot on Tumor. Help them. 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:24.440 It must be really difficult to do because, like you said, 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:26.119 we've been talking about this A is lennon hand. Now 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:28.840 we got Mike McCarthy and you know, they know right, 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:30.760 but like I wonder what it is that holds them 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:33.200 back in certain issues, in certain instances them to say, 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:35.159 all right, we don't have a play for that, and like, 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:36.680 right now is the guy to have it? I don't 0:28:36.720 --> 0:28:39.640 have a guy to have it. Play with us bringing 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:41.520 holding the tight end end to come in and help 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:43.520 Tumor do Like I don't. I don't know what it is, 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:46.600 but it's consistent and it's consistent across the league too, because, 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:49.720 like you said, when other teams had these left tackle problems, 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:50.480 you say the same thing. 0:28:50.560 --> 0:28:52.880 Help them. You can't be the top of the boys. 0:28:53.320 --> 0:28:55.720 You couldn't help both sides because if you look at it, 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.920 yes it's number two for Miami, Chubb was going crazy, 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:02.320 but if you look at it number forty three Van Winkle, 0:29:02.440 --> 0:29:04.720 then he was getting tears still. 0:29:04.640 --> 0:29:06.720 All he wanted on that right side. So it's like, 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:08.360 but where you gonna help? 0:29:09.480 --> 0:29:11.560 But play callers are so much in there, all right, 0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:13.520 we gotta get it four ride receiver set. 0:29:13.560 --> 0:29:16.120 Well, guess what, man, send three? How about that? Listen, 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.880 we're gonna send three and find eighty eight. How about that? 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:22.200 I got something. We'll only send three out because you're 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:23.400 tossing it the one right. 0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:26.840 We're gonna school school when you stay in, we send 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:28.600 down three, go find eighty eight. 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:29.400 There you go. 0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:31.239 You know he getting double, So send them on out 0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:33.280 there with the double team and throw up the tober 0:29:33.360 --> 0:29:35.000 of whoever else you cooks. 0:29:34.800 --> 0:29:39.480 Run fast, clearing out, clear out, clearing out, man clearing. 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:43.360 What's the name of the play? Cooks run fast? 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:45.360 You run fast? 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:49.640 Fine eighty eight? You staying on three? Here we go. 0:29:52.360 --> 0:29:54.800 Man didn't run fast, and it was it was a 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:57.400 little it was a bad ball. That would have been 0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:00.320 the big time he did. His part would have been 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:03.200 a big time play. I was excited to see them 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:03.520 open the. 0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:04.080 Game that way. 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:07.200 Was open the game that way, and it was you know, 0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:08.200 there's a game answers. 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:11.520 Game answers to get myself hot, Like I know that's 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:12.560 how you be screaming at the TV. 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:22.400 Hu. No, that's like you're trying to get home. I'm 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:24.960 too old for that. Back in the day, when I 0:30:25.120 --> 0:30:25.840 cared that much. 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:28.280 Now I don't care. But you know I'm watching that 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:29.680 just you know, I watch it, but I'm not. 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:33.600 Invested like that. By the way, speaking of invested, JayR. 0:30:33.680 --> 0:30:37.200 Alexander was not named a captain on Sunday by the 0:30:37.240 --> 0:30:39.880 Green Bay Packers, but he went out for the coin 0:30:40.000 --> 0:30:41.080 toss anyway. 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:41.560 And made the. 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:45.280 Quote quote on quote. 0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:46.800 Everybody was laughing. 0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:50.080 I was like, what y'all laughing at the Packers that 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:52.960 suspended him for one game for conduct detriment. 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:54.160 To the team. What's going on here? 0:30:54.320 --> 0:30:54.520 Man? 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:57.400 So, my man, he must be from Charlotte or something, 0:30:57.560 --> 0:31:00.080 or because they played in Carolina, so he must I 0:31:00.520 --> 0:31:01.040 ain't gonna have. 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:04.720 I'm at my whole town. That's fake news. He went 0:31:04.760 --> 0:31:07.200 out there, took over the coin toss. He suspended from 0:31:07.200 --> 0:31:12.320 what game? Goodness yead this revised me. 0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:12.560 Bro. 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:14.920 Do you remember was it the Super It was some 0:31:15.120 --> 0:31:16.040 game in the playoffs. 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:18.160 My man was on the sideline with flip flops on 0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:20.040 and ran out there on the field and got a penalty. 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:24.520 Not him, He was somebody else to celebrate. He ran 0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:26.640 on the field with him flip. 0:31:27.240 --> 0:31:28.040 What is wrong with. 0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:31.400 I'm doing the coin toss? 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:34.560 You tell me because he knew he wasn't the captain 0:31:34.600 --> 0:31:37.120 before the coin to so he knew he was going out. 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:38.880 That's why I hate these games. 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:42.680 He got he got sunglasses on afterwards in locker room, 0:31:42.720 --> 0:31:46.040 and and the interviewed it and he said, quote, the 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:47.200 guys backed me up. 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:53.320 That game map the floor. Boy, that's that's say you 0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:56.520 tell your hair comes out of respect you. By the way, 0:31:56.560 --> 0:31:59.000 he is the NFL High Speed Corner. So that game 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:02.320 one game gonna cost some coin a little. 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:04.200 Well, it depends on how how you know did they 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:06.200 did they roll up a bunch of money and you know, 0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:07.560 depending on and you. 0:32:07.600 --> 0:32:10.520 Know now it's Green Bay. Green Bay is not a locked. 0:32:10.560 --> 0:32:13.200 They're still fighting. Yeah, they one of them in the 0:32:13.280 --> 0:32:15.360 hunt squad. Yeah, they're they're they're there. 0:32:16.320 --> 0:32:19.480 We don't count on baby, okay, green Baby. 0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:22.160 Making the tree locked it up, right, they locked already, 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:24.760 So you're still counting on the new ball. 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:27.600 You have a little hope for new ball. And you 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:31.320 off that terror terror. 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:34.240 You know, you got a TM mom out there on 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:38.720 social media talk about the whole line and okay, all 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:39.800 going down here. 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:45.480 You mad at them because you picked him. Why even. 0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:54.720 Past that, the bigger issue is the Fantasy production. Okay 0:32:54.920 --> 0:32:58.400 it always boils down. Okay, bad about that Super Bowl pick. 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:01.000 No this fancy but hate he went straight down. 0:33:02.240 --> 0:33:06.040 Bench had to bench Trevor week two with and they 0:33:06.120 --> 0:33:08.800 had to go get Joe Flaco because this guy is trashed. 0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:11.280 Joe Fla and ballad. 0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.200 But you know Aten had getting this thing is mama 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:15.440 I through social media plead for people blocked for him 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:15.840 is bad. 0:33:15.920 --> 0:33:16.960 So no, I'm not counting on. 0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:23.080 Alexander actually is from North Carolina. He went to Rocky. 0:33:24.640 --> 0:33:31.920 He was from, Yeah, I'm gonna be this captain. Captain, 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:35.800 I'm here, but the walk out that makes more sense. 0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:37.360 He told him he was gonna be captain and then 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:39.320 found out he was. It was too late for him 0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:41.760 to be like my mom and grandma and all them here. 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:43.240 They got to see me be able to do this 0:33:43.320 --> 0:33:45.480 coin talk because I told him I was gonna call tails. 0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:50.680 For my granddady was somebody background. 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:53.560 I gotta make it make sense because I don't understand. 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:56.080 I understand why you were doing it in the first place, 0:33:56.120 --> 0:33:57.400 but it had to be something like that. 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:01.640 Straight I'm going out, had six pieces of boat jangle 0:34:01.720 --> 0:34:05.480 on the sideline to what you're gonna do Matt Lafleur that. 0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:16.360 Man, that's disrespectful. But that was Greg Hardy yspect that. 0:34:18.120 --> 0:34:21.120 Was the top ten right there he did when heid Yeah, 0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:23.759 New York, right on the sideline right what was that? 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:26.839 Yeah? I was writing in my head. I was saying, 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:29.600 could y'all let him act like this any other time? 0:34:29.920 --> 0:34:31.200 And that's why you come out here and do it 0:34:31.239 --> 0:34:35.640 on the field with Pajamason in the walk through, just 0:34:35.760 --> 0:34:38.600 disrespecting everybody. Then they looking at us like we're supposed 0:34:38.600 --> 0:34:41.120 to do so I was like, go ahead, why you 0:34:41.120 --> 0:34:43.560 help me? When he when he choked his backyard man, 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:46.000 I said, y'all been letting run him up for the 0:34:46.080 --> 0:34:48.879 whole season. You're talking about two years? 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:57.080 No, yeah, Friday, when you went over there, like, why 0:34:57.080 --> 0:34:57.759 did y'all help me with? 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:04.040 That's how she was of that. Daddy wows just got rich. 0:35:05.920 --> 0:35:07.400 We had just got hit for a touch down, by 0:35:07.440 --> 0:35:11.920 the way, Harrison still on our feelings when he came 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:16.640 up here with that, with that foolish he slapped, Hey, Joe, 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:18.160 did ask you about that? When I went up there? 0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:21.399 He said, you would help me if I was. I said, 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:23.080 but I know you wouldn't have been treating nobody like that. 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:24.640 He wouldn't even have the boss come over there and 0:35:24.719 --> 0:35:26.839 do that. Was and that it's not on Rich, that's 0:35:26.880 --> 0:35:30.120 on that's on some you know folks. That's some other folks. 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:33.160 But some people need the head check. That's pretty bad. 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:35.080 I don't know, No, it was. 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:38.600 It was the defensive coaches because they couldnt because him 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:39.200 man mcclaim. 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:42.560 So he just off the field. I forget how he 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:44.000 just walked over to the sideline. 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:47.640 So they so Dwayne Harris runs the kick off back, 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:51.680 so now we up for kickoff return. This man must 0:35:51.719 --> 0:35:53.719 have been on the bench somewhere. It was just, man, 0:35:53.840 --> 0:35:57.040 come on, stop it. They don't have seven before they 0:35:57.080 --> 0:36:01.120 got more than seven. Greg, Look, he's scoring on y'all too. 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:04.759 Sit down somewhere. That I was wild, yeah yeah, but 0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:07.480 not in you know, twenty It was a wild year. 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:09.640 That's a wild year. That's a whole year. He took 0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:15.600 that fight shirt to own left. Was a character. But 0:36:15.880 --> 0:36:17.640 I thought he'd be beating up people over the USC 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:24.640 got me on the table. He knew what I'm on 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:27.760 the side of the coln. He knew what his column 0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:29.719 was for sure. Besides you gonna tap out. 0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:33.520 He ain't want none of that you man, you talking 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.320 about Alexander. Just get beat up on the sideline on 0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:37.960 National TV Prime time. 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:40.399 You know them, camera's gonna be over. Whoa whoa whoa. 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:49.520 You at least peaced them. Scratch it. 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That was a 0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:45.960 turn with Memory Lane, Greg Hardy now UFC Fighter. So yeah, 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:50.040 I know you're calling, hey, hey, understand your gifts. Understand 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:53.839 your gifts. On the way over here, I was at 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:59.240 a at a different company and Hm and the lady 0:39:59.320 --> 0:40:00.640 was upset about the Cowboys. 0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:02.120 She's mad by the last two weeks. 0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:03.640 And it just remind me of we look here, it's like, 0:40:03.680 --> 0:40:05.120 you know, it's a ten and five team, but people 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:08.040 act like it's five and ten. Like you start thinking 0:40:08.040 --> 0:40:10.880 about this team here. You only have one team in 0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:15.439 the league it's got twelve wins, and then you've got one, two, three, four, 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:17.520 four of the teams to have eleven wins. 0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:19.720 So the Cowboys are right behinded. 0:40:19.840 --> 0:40:23.000 This is a good football team with two games to go. 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:25.680 Why is it might so gloomy and dooony? 0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:25.960 Man? 0:40:26.920 --> 0:40:27.760 Are you really asking? 0:40:28.600 --> 0:40:31.319 I'm asking, man, because because I literally she was. I said, 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:33.920 do you know they got Detroit this week? They're six 0:40:34.000 --> 0:40:36.759 point favorite. Then in the year against Washington, you could 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:38.120 end up with twelve wins. 0:40:38.040 --> 0:40:40.440 And a five seed, playing on the road where you came, 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:41.920 where you don't know how to play, which is what 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:45.440 people are seeing. They're seeing the last two years of 0:40:45.560 --> 0:40:48.200 San Francisco. They're seeing that. They say, you know what, 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:50.800 I know, we're gonna have a successful regular season. We 0:40:50.880 --> 0:40:54.840 talked about the regular season. We expect to have a 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:57.120 good regular season and make it to the playoffs. Your 0:40:57.200 --> 0:41:01.799 performance in the playoffs then dictates how your season really 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:05.279 went so far on the road, which is five seed 0:41:05.400 --> 0:41:06.040 going on the road. 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:07.359 We just have not played well. 0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:09.200 So people who are looking at us being the five 0:41:09.239 --> 0:41:11.080 seed saying okay, we're probably gonna have to go on 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:13.640 the road in the playoffs multiple times to make it 0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:15.320 to where we want to be. It makes you a 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:17.680 little nervous. It makes you a little nervous. And people 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:19.840 don't really forget that Buffalo stump out. Okay, it was 0:41:19.920 --> 0:41:24.480 a stump out. It wasn't you know? It was ugly. 0:41:25.040 --> 0:41:27.359 San Francisco just took a stomp I mean people taking 0:41:27.400 --> 0:41:29.360 stomp outs to out the game. I mean it happens. 0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:33.760 Miami took a stomp out when they played Buffalo. 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:36.680 How many how many stumpbulls they took? I don't know, 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:39.720 because we took a stump out against San Francisco earlier 0:41:39.800 --> 0:41:42.320 this season. We took a stump out against Buffalo to 0:41:42.719 --> 0:41:45.560 this season and we got beat by the Arizona Cardinals 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:48.640 with Josh Dobbson's they quarterback. It makes you nervous when 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:50.400 you say, I gotta go out here and play these 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:54.279 playoff teams, possibly on the road, and I see what's 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:56.960 happened to us in the regular season. It makes me nervous. 0:41:57.000 --> 0:41:59.520 I mean maybe not you because you want us to 0:41:59.560 --> 0:42:00.920 be the five to go on the road, but it 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:01.319 makes me. 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:04.759 Nervous as hell. I'm nervous. I want a home game. 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:07.520 I want a home game. Play what we comfortable at 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:08.239 what you think? 0:42:08.600 --> 0:42:10.239 No, I mean seven to zero at home? You want 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:12.400 to play a playoff game at home? But I think 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:14.960 people are freaking out because you've seen the twelve, Like 0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:16.840 you just said, you've seen the twelve and five the 0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:19.920 regular season. It don't mean nothing, especially when you remember 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:22.080 how you got eliminated from the playoffs. And that's verse 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:24.600 the San Francisco forty nine ers and the last time 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:26.279 you saw them, they beat you forty two to ten, 0:42:26.360 --> 0:42:27.960 and it seemed like you didn't learn nothing from that 0:42:28.080 --> 0:42:31.400 last stump out. So and you want this team to 0:42:31.560 --> 0:42:35.319 have some level of toughness to it to where they 0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:37.680 don't get exposed in the running game like that to 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:39.759 the tune of two hundred and somemi yards on the 0:42:39.800 --> 0:42:43.920 ground and look against Miami, and I've come along with 0:42:44.120 --> 0:42:46.360 what you were saying yesterday as far as the defense 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:48.640 and how they held them and you would have wanted 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:50.239 to get a stop there at the end, just to 0:42:50.320 --> 0:42:53.959 signify that, Look, that's Dak's moment, and as our team, 0:42:54.160 --> 0:42:55.840 we're going to make sure that we back our quarterback 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.400 up that got us that lead. But there's something about 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:00.920 this team that you feel like, I'll see along. That's 0:43:01.000 --> 0:43:03.239 a miss I haven't been able to put my finger 0:43:03.280 --> 0:43:05.160 on right now. All I can point to is a 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:07.120 running game. I can only say the running game, this is, 0:43:07.440 --> 0:43:09.799 this is what's ailing us. But at ten and five, 0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:12.560 Newly you're looking at a team where if you were 0:43:12.640 --> 0:43:14.800 the same team in Tennessee, you'd be like, man, we 0:43:14.880 --> 0:43:17.000 got a good damn team and we're looking forward at 0:43:17.000 --> 0:43:18.919 the fifth spoder and whoever we got to play, we played. 0:43:18.960 --> 0:43:22.160 But somehow there's a cast of a dark cloud over 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:24.960 this organization that's saying, oh, now we can't go and 0:43:25.000 --> 0:43:25.560 play on the road. 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:28.359 And I also think it's winning the season. Things are 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:29.960 starting to go a ride a little bit. I mean, 0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:32.280 when you look at it, we all know this December football. 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:33.960 That's when you want to be playing your best football 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.600 as a team, as an organization, meeting up into the playoffs, 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:38.640 you want to be trending in the right direction, not 0:43:38.920 --> 0:43:41.600 on some of somewhat of a roller coaster ride. When 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:43.440 you look at it, you know Buffalo, you know that 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:46.200 meeting happened in December. Then you got this this game 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:48.760 against Miami where that you know, the defense and the offense. 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:50.719 You know, they both made enough plays to win. But 0:43:50.840 --> 0:43:52.680 like you said, there was just something missing, just one 0:43:52.760 --> 0:43:55.640 thing missing. So in December, like I said, you want 0:43:55.680 --> 0:43:57.200 to be going in the right direction, not on a 0:43:57.280 --> 0:43:59.520 roller coaster ride. And they have an opportunity to fix 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:01.640 this out. You know, these last two games going into 0:44:01.640 --> 0:44:03.120 the playoffs with a little bit of momentum, with a 0:44:03.160 --> 0:44:06.239 streak against a really good Detroit game or really good 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:08.640 Detroit team, and then Washington at the end of the season. 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:10.239 So you got a chance to write it out. But 0:44:10.680 --> 0:44:12.640 to me overall, yeah, I mean, you don't want to 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:14.319 be on a roller coaster ride in December. So you say, 0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:16.800 really good Detroit team. So I'm looking at just Detroit losses. 0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:19.359 They had Seattle with a lead at home and then 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:21.200 they ended up losing that second game of the year 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:24.160 thirty seven thirty one. Look at the next loss, they 0:44:24.239 --> 0:44:25.520 went to Baltimore and got. 0:44:25.400 --> 0:44:27.040 Stopped out thirty eight to six. 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:29.600 Then remember now they had the game, they had the 0:44:29.640 --> 0:44:32.640 Thanksgiving their game right before the Cowboys played, and Packers 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:35.120 beat them up. They ended up losing that game. Then 0:44:35.160 --> 0:44:37.879 they went to Chicago Justin Fields put on a show 0:44:37.960 --> 0:44:40.560 on him and they lost twenty eight to twenty eight thirteen. 0:44:40.880 --> 0:44:43.960 So they got steamroll there. Those are the losts, crazy 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:45.800 loss for them. What losses? 0:44:45.880 --> 0:44:48.480 You like? What what are So you start looking across 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:52.879 this leap. It's going to happen. People look at their 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:55.800 own team and just like it's in college football. 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:58.799 Man, it's happening. It's not a straight line. That's why 0:44:58.800 --> 0:44:59.720 we got a letther playoffs. 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:05.439 Whatever you say, do, whatever you say, whatever you show, 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:07.080 that's the show. 0:45:07.480 --> 0:45:10.719 Three straight losses you want, you want. 0:45:10.680 --> 0:45:14.239 That whole that whole thing about not having back to back, 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:16.160 all that is gone. Like this, this is what we 0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:18.279 still for a long time. It's going I start over 0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:22.279 at one hopefully hopefully we get it. Then go back 0:45:22.320 --> 0:45:24.400 to how many points do we score in our losses? 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:25.360 Do we have? 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:25.680 We have? 0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:28.920 We had a high scoring loss, you know that was 0:45:28.920 --> 0:45:30.319 the only one. Philly was the only one. 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:32.840 It would be great for you to bring up tomorrow 0:45:32.920 --> 0:45:37.839 with all those statistics Danny, thank you so much. Garry Church, 0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:42.960 We're done, thank you, Chris Beam Jazz everybody Players Lounge 0:45:43.080 --> 0:45:45.400 is over up next Top of the Hours meeting. 0:45:45.239 --> 0:45:47.040 Match with me and friends later. 0:45:47.920 --> 0:45:50.880 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:52.920 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.