WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Handle Business 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:06.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:10.120 Cowboys. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.959 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:22.440 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.720 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison, and Newi Scrugs. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.360 Bay Tip of the Players loundes right here on Dallas 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:34.680 Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.720 You know the players, Danny McCrae, Barry Church. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.720 We've got Heck Maharrison here in da house sporting the Cowboys, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:43.080 GEARI and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.760 We are brought to you by Tostitos. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:52.280 Cowboys are entering into a pivotal game on Sunday at Landover, Maryland, 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.000 in the worst stadium in the National Football. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:01:05.039 League, Dallas terrible. You have to go going still, start 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:05.720 balling down. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.319 I'm sitting the press box and it's raining, and it's raining. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.840 All my papers on, no, no, and then they so. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.240 Then Tony Wiley, who started off here as a PR intern, 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.440 eventually worked up there full time. He was the main 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.959 PR guy. Tony was in charge of the food and 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.760 when Tony left they gave the media the finger with 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.000 the food. I was like that, that hot dog is 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.280 not that doesn't look right. I started bringing my own 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.679 food to the game, like, not doing it, not touching it. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.280 No, no, no, I'm glad you only have to go 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.760 to l A in Vegas and Miami. I'm glad you 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:38.640 only get the best place fining things. Tough job to court, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:39.120 George W. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.560 Bush. I'm the decided. I look at the schedule. Yes, yes, me. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.679 When I saw Buffalo in December, yeah, I won't be 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:46.360 doing that. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.240 That's not the one I don't. I don't go to 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:49.960 Philly anymore. And I don't go to I don't go 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:50.240 to DC. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.960 That stadium was bad in twenty ten when we went, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.120 yeah there, when you saw. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.840 The thing almost fell on Jen Hurts that time. No, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.120 they truly do not. Dan Snyder did not care. So no, no, 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.080 I won't be there for that one now. Cowboys thirteen 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.720 point favorite. Heck with your thoughts on Ron Rivera stating 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.600 that Sam Howe will be. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:11.880 The starting quarterback this week. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.080 You called it, man, you called it, yeah and something. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.359 He got a call upstairs. He went upstairs right quick, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.360 and he said, look, run, this is what we're gonna do. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.840 We gonna pay. Yeah, you want this is what you're 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.359 gonna have to do. There's a lot of. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.200 Guys I'm sure that are playing for in sentence, and 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.800 around the NFL you've been seeing guys get bitched that 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.160 are getting closer there in sentences. So hey, we're not 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.440 gonna incentivize playing on Sunday. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.080 Well, we're gonna do. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.960 We're gonna try and get out of here so we 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.639 could get this number two pick. Obviously, ownership is hell 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.760 been on getting it and not gonna using run rivera 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.120 as the mouth piece to go out there. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.240 Who do we think they best shot at beating us? 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.440 Is that quarterback? To me? I think they can run 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.560 a little? You think how Yeah, I don't turn I 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.959 think it is. I don't know. I don't have I 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.520 don't have nothing to love go. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.120 Out here that you know what, I'm just tossing up 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.160 like I remember, you know, the beginning of the game 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.000 and the like I remember that, I remember that the 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.200 people who have the potential, Like I'm not saying he's 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.200 gonna do it, but you're gonna get a guy who's 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.040 gonna go out there and play play reckless and just 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.920 may had that chance to throw up something that I 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.520 don't know he makes me a little bit not set, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.760 and it's for set for all the reasons that we 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.320 got got in Arizona. I mean, not that he's as 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.680 mobile as that guy, but still, I mean he's he 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.960 has the arm, he still has the i Q. I 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.320 just don't see that from Sam Howe. I remember that again. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.440 I remember the beginning of the season. We were watching 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.880 Sam Howell and everybody was like, I don't know, man, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.760 Washington might be Okay, he's still the same guy. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.320 It could be really ugly or it could be really nice. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.160 That's the difference. He's not the same guy. The beating 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.800 he's taking this year, it has warned him down. They've 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.560 talked about it a whole lot within that the media 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.000 just that hey man, this this guy seeing stuff now. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.760 They haven't protected him well. And it was a reason 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.480 why Rivera went to Brissett and was going to start him, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.720 but then Brissette got hurt, so we keep coulting. But 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.920 he benched him, and it just all the talk of 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.080 what you thought he was and the way the season's 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.640 gone and the man seeing stuff. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:20.720 He just wasn't the same. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.080 So the samehow we saw last year that beat the 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.800 Cowboys and had some promise to start that's gone. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.520 They didn't beat that out there man. Twenty touchdowns, nineteen interceptions. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:38.400 Bring me samhow he used to beat that dog when 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:39.760 the mail man walked. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.200 Baby was in the yard chase now saying how they 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.640 beat down? So he looking at the mail man to 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:49.159 lay that now they have they've not protected. It's bad. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.799 I mean, it's they you know, God blessed Eric beenemy, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.880 but they've thrown it way too much. That kids taking 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.880 a beating. So and I let's go back to this. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.520 But they didn't win a game. They've not won a game. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.200 Week nine, and it's not I mean, I think at 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.120 the beginning of the season, especially where they're being to 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.039 me going over, you didn't think that the season would 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.760 go like this for the Commanders. And it's unfortunate, especially 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.320 for him as a coach, because you thought this was 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:19.240 a side step to then elevate and it's not working 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.520 out that way. So if he doesn't get his opportunity 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.280 after they I'm sure they're going to fire everybody. If 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.560 he doesn't get his opportunity now win, when does that 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.040 happen for him? And I think for as much as 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.800 we dog, a lot of these teams in the nfcas 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.800 because of the competition factor and it's the rivalry of it. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.480 The Commanders have been like a quarterback away from being 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.880 a dominating team for years because we looked at their 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.200 defense and the guys had up front, and then you 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.920 bring in the Terry McLaurin and that wide receiver group 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.240 and you're like, man, this is a good team. They 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.159 just don't have nobody that can get their guys the 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.200 ball and they just hadn't been able to figure that 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.200 piece out yet. And now they're going to have to 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.360 go through this whole cycle all over again. So I mean, hey, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:05.240 continue confusion to your commanders. Let's keep it rolling. I 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.239 love it. Don't feel bad. Listen, RG three was there, Okay, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.440 r G three was there. They also they also they 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.880 had a shot with Alex too, and then you know 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.760 that that end up that ended up not going in 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.800 their favor. So yeah, they've been searching. They've been searching. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.200 I know they said the beginning of the season they 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.520 thought they may have had something, not not a not 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.680 a not a game changing type of guy, but a 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.120 guy who may have been serviceable. You know, hopefully he 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.680 doesn't return to to what he was at the beginning 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.880 of the season. But we do know Jacobe Brisaid can't 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.120 play can't play ball, so hopefully we don't have to 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.840 see him. But it's just it's just like I'm trying 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.640 not to be heck in this situation where he was 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.080 talking about and all that, I'm trying not to be that. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.640 But I just know, like usually when it's this, Like 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.440 when it's this, that's when it gets tougher. It's tougher 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.719 for you mentally when you start to see like, hey, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.680 all that is in front of me, all I have 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.000 to do is do this, and then that's when stuff 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:56.800 can start kind. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.160 Of falling apart for you as players with the Cowboys, 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.080 they can't go and to this mindset and I'm sure 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.440 the coaches will see this throughout the week in practice, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.200 but you can't go into it like it's a preseason game, 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.520 like you know how cass Just the mindset is different 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:09.200 going into it. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.160 Just you don't warm up as much. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.000 You know, you're going out there usually doing all your 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.600 defensive back drills getting ready, you might skip a few 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:15.880 of those. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.960 If it's preseason mode. You can't get into that. Versus 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.600 the Commanders right here, we all understand. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.280 You know, they're mailing it, and they've been mailing it 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.240 since they traded half of their defensive way, so we 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.040 understand what their player's mindset is. But as a guy 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.000 going out there, you just can't have that mindset to 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.360 where we're going wrong on cakewalk these dudes, because even 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.560 if you might, if you go out their halfstep and 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.600 you may get hurt. So you got to go out 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.680 there for Tilton and the coaches will have a good. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.840 Barometer or where the players are doing that that would 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.920 tick me off if I saw, I mean for anybody, 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.800 and I think who would that be an indictment on 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.040 You have to be leadership because if you don't know 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.200 what you're playing for, if you're gonna come out there 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.720 and just roll your helping out there, oh we're gonna 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.640 get this dub, and then you end up losing, that's 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:56.200 the wrong way. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.280 I mean, we talk about the narratives throughout the season. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.680 If that's the case, if that's what we're talking about Monday, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.000 Cowboys lose in DC, and now that instead of having 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.880 the two games at home or potentially having two games 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.400 at home, you're now on the road playing. I mean, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.120 come on, man, that's see what happens. Yes, we have 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.160 seen it, but for home field advantage. It's for the 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.840 number two spot over being. I mean, come on now, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.800 that's that's crazy that happens. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.560 I just came from the locker room. Pose that question 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.920 to Stephan Gilmore. Do you need to say anything as 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.720 a veteran, guys already know that we understand, we know, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.480 so talk to him. I talked to Jake Ferguson, and 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.439 I talked to Osa diggiye Zua, talk to Jaron Curse. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.240 They understand Tony Polarch. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.320 They get it. They know what's in front of them. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.360 And just in some ways the sure ability to just 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.280 see it through that you were chasing Philadelphia. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.560 Now here you are with the ability to get it done. Respect. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.079 And I asked JK about these the receiving courts, like, look, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:57.839 this is a good receiving court. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.439 We think these three guys are you know. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.560 That they're there's something to you know, don't play around 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:02.760 with it. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:03.480 But they get it. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.480 So in my conversations right now, just coming out of 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.160 the locker room before the show, they understood it. 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.400 So I did have that. That was my whole kind 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.760 of focus for my story. Five o'clock is you know, guys, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.160 get it? Does anything need to be said? 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.800 Jake Ferguson talked about people locking up and leaders, you know, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:22.439 being focused this week. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.520 By the way, here's a stat for you. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:31.080 No Washington quarterback has thrown thirty touchdown passes since Sonny 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.640 Jurgensen in nineteen sixty seven. Guys, this is a bad 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.480 franchise out He talk about searching for a quarterback, but 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.600 he ain't. They ain't seen one in a minute here 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.120 thirty Think about it. I thought RG three might have 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.720 had thirty. O Kirk Cousins one of them years. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.600 But had thrown thirty. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.040 And I think they said Cousins got closed like twenty seven. 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.800 If Jordan Love ass thirty this year for Green Bay, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:53.199 that is bad. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.160 Bet, that's bad. Man. This is a cursed franchise. I've 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:04.840 seen it, thinking like Doug Williams man, Yes that is horrible. Yes, yes, because. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.280 This is they still search so good luck. So yeah, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:08.920 you do need to get this number two picture. You 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.400 need to get somebody who can find a way to 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.439 throw you in this league. I mean, now you got 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:14.800 to think about you got an extra. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:19.160 Game nineteen sixty seven or twelve games twelve fourteen games, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.640 except nobody could go anywhere. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.880 Man, I'm trying not to be you righty, No, no, man, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.559 I want to be relaxed and you know, cool and 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.400 happy and like we're goun to go beat the beat 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.440 the heck out the commanders, Like, I want to be 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:34.880 that way. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:44.600 But the spirit, yeah, that half the getting all that. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:44.839 Man. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.480 Now the other thing heard the locker room sa, hey, look, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.920 they're going to be physical, they're going to play us. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:51.679 So there was there was. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.680 Not that air of hey man, just you know Vandardbilt 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.640 were about to come out here and the LSU come 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.720 to play. It's not a they they understand that they're 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.000 going to go come out here and play too. But 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.480 they also know and realize the opportunity that they have 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.920 and to get the home games and to play at 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.040 at and T Stadium. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.959 So I just I just. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.120 Believe that at the end of sixty minutes, the Cowboys 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.920 will leave landover Maryland with a win. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.240 And we also know it's going to be a home 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.520 game of I met the last time. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.839 Last time I was up there, ubers kept kept pulling 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.760 up folks bumping out with blue jerseys, blue and white jersey. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.000 You know, Philadelphia. You just don't roll out there in 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.080 the Blue Jersey. It's it's not a smart thing to do. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.760 You come in something neutral. You know I did and 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.960 didn't pull it out at. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:56.360 The ride, But not in DC. Man, they don't even get. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.679 So when you walk through, when you walk through the 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.160 parking lot and you see the tale, you see you see. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.040 Washington fans partying with Cowboy fans. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.200 But it's it's a whole different body's like there's there's 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.360 just no there's no respect anymore for the Burgundy and 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:13.040 gold like it. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.040 Used to be. It's it's sad when we grew up. Man, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.720 this is right now. They just THEYD They just understand. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.840 They will beat them to submission. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.960 What are you talking about. It's over. They're trying to 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.680 find their way back. What are you talking about? 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:25.320 Fans? 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.679 It is just like, okay, we know it's no look, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.920 no sense of breathing no air into them this weekend. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.000 So it's it's over it. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.200 Let's go ahead and get your hurt, hey, go ahead 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:39.880 and get your Bahamas reservations ready. Yeah, they ready, already've 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.319 been ready for a few weeks. You said they ain't 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.920 want against his win. Get that getting ready to get it. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.439 When the Cowboys lost that Philly that was the last time. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:55.280 They want booked already first class. 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Even though he was in 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.720 I thought he was hunting somewhere. Eon McVeigh got him man. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.920 Right, So so it's green like, who is it? Green 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.720 Bay fighting for spot? Buffalo fighting for US. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.080 Spot Buffalo Miami this weekend. Yeah, Tampa to. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:13.280 Tampa, Pittsburgh fighting for spot. Yeah Tampa, your super Bowl 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:20.040 winning team fighting this weekend. Everybody playing back up the 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.520 AFC South Jacksonville is nine and seven, Indianapolis is nine 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.400 and seven, and Houston is not and seventh. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.840 Crazy, it's the winner of the Houston and Coast game, right, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:30.560 that gets it? 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:31.400 Man? 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.120 It's uh, it's it's folks battling this week man. So 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.840 it's wild because everybody just assumed that the AFC was 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.440 going to be this way better conference because they have 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.120 better quarterbacks and that's not been the case this week. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.440 But yes, you've got the l A Rams taking on 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.680 the forty nine ers. That game is in uh Levy Stadium. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.640 Run CMCs out this week, so they're arresting him at 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:01.680 foot in foot think it was put so we'll see 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:02.640 if Sam Donald goes. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.600 I mean, do you really want to put rock Party 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:09.200 out there at risk of this? So none of them, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:14.120 do you? Out of them? Seattle is taking on Arizona. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.040 Seattle can get into right there. They got a chance to. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.280 So yeah, so right now, green Bay is the seventh seed. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.480 With green Bay, the Rams are the sixth seed. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.480 So some kind of way, Chris Bean was explaining to 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.200 me earlier that we may end up if we were 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:36.280 in the NFC's uh, that that first wild card game 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.320 could be against the Los Angeles Rams instead of I 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.160 would love it instead of Green Bay. Look, look, look, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.119 I would love it. That's why he don't want the 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.560 two seeds. As he said, we rather play on the 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:51.040 road against sacer Mayfield whoever wins the NFC South, versus 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.520 playing at home against the l A Rams. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.480 Yeah, I'd rather. I don't feel that I'd rather play whoever. 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:58.760 We understand. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:11.160 Yeah, run game Tony Paula spoke and it was a 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.359 good question from Todd Archer of ESPN, where he said, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:18.040 is there anything you can change or do differently in 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.639 the run game here week eighteen or is it just 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.480 what it is? And Tony's like, ain't nothing can change, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.040 just is what it is. And Tony admitted that the 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.440 season hasn't gone the way he thought. So he spent 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.920 a lot of time in prayer and talk to the family, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.840 and so it's not been the year that he wished 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.200 he had been when they franchised and gave ten million 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.840 dollars price tag and said go be the number one. 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:41.520 Guy to kneal. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.159 Did the injury have something to do with it? Or 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.160 is it just like is a Skip peek? 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:51.600 I think it's one hundred what Skip said everything Skip 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:56.399 said about the situation that Tony needs to be an 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.480 a in a share time share situation terms of what 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.399 he and Zeke had and they don't have that nothing 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.119 against ric o'dowdell, but ric o'dalla is not the hammer 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:08.720 that Zeke was. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.720 Well, how do we explain no explosives though, you know, 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.320 like even if you are in a shared situation. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.160 I think part of it is the injury what you said, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.720 because he spoke about not you know, and it's one 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.760 thing he covered up. I mean, say anything and gallup 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.520 kind of the same way. Yeah, I wasn't really what 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.920 I wasn't where I thought I would be, So took 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:26.960 him a while to get there. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.200 Is he still there now? I don't know. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.560 I think that's still something we won't totally get the 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.440 truth until after season or you come out and say, yeah, 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.480 here long I wasn't, that wasn't what it was, which 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.720 to me would explain why we haven't seen the explosiveness. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:42.760 And that was another question was asked. You know, you're 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.480 down to four yards and average last year at five anything. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.119 He played good soldier. He didn't want to come up 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.520 and make excuses. But we have seen Tony Pollard for 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:55.360 five years now. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.520 That's flash play. King. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.080 This is not the guy who as he left the 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.399 forty nine ers game and you're saying, man, what it 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.320 could have been if he had not gone out. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.000 He's not that guy. Hasn't been that guy. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.080 So the only good thing about his season for the 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.600 Cowboys in their favors, is they could get him back 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.359 at a very discounted price. 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.480 I would love to see like a breakdown of how 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.480 they were using them as far as running, because you know, 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.439 I don't know for certain, but just looking at the 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.800 games that he's played in, it seemed like they've been 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.639 using them a lot as that that hammer, which to me, 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:32.240 you know, doesn't make a lot of sense because we 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.840 understand what he possesses as far as speed on the outside. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:36.840 So if we go back it was a break I 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.560 wish there was a breakdown of it. But if you 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:40.440 look at last year, I mean he was catching real 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.399 watch on the outside screenplays were versus I think they 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.880 were using his speed. Now, granted you did have Elliott 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.080 in there, you know, going in there using that hammer 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.440 on defenses and wearing them down to where Poler could 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.879 get loose in there. But I mean, even this year, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:54.520 I feel like every time we look at the game 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.080 is in between the tackles, in between the tackles, here 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.159 goes a little maybe a stretch play here and there. 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.480 Maybe they'll dump it that to him, but nothing really 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.840 designed to use his explosiveness. And to me, that's I mean, 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.280 that's what you're gonna get when you when you see 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.240 him in the role he is now that in between 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:09.760 the tackles, which is just not his game. 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:11.639 It's just not you know, his guy. He's it's not 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:12.400 that thunder No. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.919 I what I've seen in Tony Pollard which is different 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.120 this year is the fact that he's not being used 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.360 as a change of pace back and when you get 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.680 an opportunity to hide behind, not high behind another guy, 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.560 you let him take some of the brunt of those 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.639 in between the tackle plays and then you come in 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:28.560 at a whole nother pace than him. 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.520 Even the running style was completely different. 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.400 Between him and Zeke, Tony Poler still is sixty five 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.159 yards away from being a thousand yard running back, all right. 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.480 For whatever that's worth. It's not whatever that's worth, all right, 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:44.280 positive heck, trying to sprinkle in that. But it didn't work, 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:44.960 did it. Dah? 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:51.040 Okay, So it's been but it's been bad. And that's 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:52.840 the only thing that you could point to going into 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.960 the playoffs that you are not really confident in and 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.840 running game. How do you compensate for it? And I've 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.400 been saying all along, this is a passing team. They 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.840 compensate for it by a short yard pass. Okay, that's 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.200 what makes up for it. By getting CD in the backfield, 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.320 getting other guys involved to run some of those outside 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.200 zone runs that you would used to see Tony Pollard running. 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.600 So that's how they've affected the running game. You're gonna 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:19.320 have to find ways to milk the clock. And I 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.439 was a little critical of Mike McCarty at the end 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.679 of the game, but that tripping penalty really was the 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.920 reason why Detroit was even in the position to win 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:29.440 the game at the end of the game, because other 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.520 than that, you milk the clock and you're done. But 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.679 you're gonna come up against some teams like the Rams, 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.440 You're gonna come up against a Philly again, you may 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.760 have to take that trip back up to Levi Stadium 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.040 and play the forty nine ers. That's gonna have to 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.280 be a component of your running game that defenses have 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.879 to respect. Because even as you talk about him running 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:48.520 in between the tackles, if he was just a one 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:50.840 trick pony that just lists the defense know where he's 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.240 going and what he's doing. So Mike McCarthy had to 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:58.040 scheme up to use him. Yeah, I'm listening twelve to 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.000 fifteen character where you gotta get them, but Sweter fifteen Carris, 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:02.679 I think they need to be a little You have 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:04.679 to find a way to get creative because, like I say, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.359 if you have to travel in the playoffs, your running 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:09.280 game and your defense has like you have to have 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:11.920 those to be able to travel. Now, Dak Prescott has 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:14.120 been able, you know, to cover that up a little 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:16.359 bit specifically at home, but once you get on the road, 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:18.200 you see, once you don't have like, if you don't 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:20.159 have a running game, you you essentially don't have a 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:23.919 shot to really if you get ahead to hold the 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:26.159 league or to find a way to crawl yourself back 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:28.320 in the game if your passing game isn't working. So 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.440 I think it's something that you really need to try 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.840 to focus on. Albeit, like we're playing the Commanders, we 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:35.680 all expect to win, but then you have things that 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:37.840 you can work on going into the playoffs. I know 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:39.760 it's the end of the season, but you still get 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:42.959 that one more real game flying bullets as you you know, 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:44.680 to figure out how you can get this running game 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:46.200 going before you get into the playoffs. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.920 Sco around the table here. Obviously it's going to be 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:53.440 a reduced price. Tony Park will not be making ten 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:56.400 million dollars. Next, would you bring Tony Pollard back then? 0:23:57.359 --> 0:23:59.399 I mean I have to see the landscape of like 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:07.520 half the price mm hmm, half the price of five mil. Yeah, 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.760 who else on the rosters? Just Rico? Now I'm not 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:15.120 doing this again. I'm not doing a Tony h Yeah. Yeah, 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:16.920 you got to forget Rico. I'm just talking about Tony. 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:18.760 You can go you go draft and go bring in 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:28.320 some do whatever. I'm just saying Tony about Tony. 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.440 Yes, and I'm in the market for a running back. Correct. No, 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.240 I'm not bringing them back no, five mil, nah. 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:39.880 Man, maybe two and a half two, especially if we're 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:41.760 seeing you know, this is what's going to be the future. 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:43.520 As far as him being a player like he needs 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:45.920 to be a specialized player. Now, I'm not bringing him 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:48.879 back for five. I would use that money elsewhere, you know, 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:50.880 maybe in the linebacker room, maybe something like that. 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:52.560 But yea, I'm not bringing them back. 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:58.119 Under sixty for how many games sixty or something sixty 0:24:58.200 --> 0:24:59.399 yards we're talking about. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.199 I have five million dollars. I can't do it. 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:04.720 They upset over there about Dalvin Cook or the money 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:05.560 he made for it's two. 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.960 So I asked the question because this is going to 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:18.080 be a very big off season in terms of there's 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:19.760 a lot of you know, you got Dak, you gotta 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:21.960 take care of Ceedee Lamb, you gotta take care of 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:24.520 You're gonna have to sit around here, get read about 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:27.200 Michael Parsons. You got your starting center, who's up? Now 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:29.159 You're starting running back is up. And so that's why 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:32.640 I asked that question, what do you do there? And 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:36.800 I look at Detroit who totally revamped their run game. 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.840 They traded Swift to Philadelphia. They use their first round 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:42.919 pick on Gibbs out of Alabama. Then they brought in 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:48.320 David Montgomery. So you can go out and start over 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:50.680 if you want to. But I think you got somewhere 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:52.680 along the way ask Okay, what is it we want 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:54.439 to do? And then how do you see Tony Pollard? 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:56.760 Do you think Tony Pollard if you're combining him with 0:25:56.800 --> 0:25:57.960 someone else, maybe. 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:01.879 You draft that's free agent? Why that's what could you do? 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:02.160 That? 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:03.960 Is this a Ronald Jones thing? 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:07.240 Like? Because I'm assuming they expected Ronald Jones to be 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:09.399 the hammer, the type of guy, and then Tony Pollard 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.840 kind of be what he was last year, but we 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:14.720 never really got a chance to see that. So I 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:17.840 think they had the right kind of game plan in mind, 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:19.639 but I don't think they were able to bring it 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:23.000 to Fruition because we had the issue with Ronald wasn't 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.080 able to get there. So in my mind, maybe they 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:27.240 are seeing the Hey, we get a guy who we 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:30.040 expected Ronald Jones to be, then maybe we bring Tony 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:32.000 Poller back so he can get back into his old rold. 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:33.919 So I see there's a possibility, But you have to 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:35.840 have a guy who's going to be able to really 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:39.600 specialize with running up in between the tackles, past blocking, 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.200 being physical, being that tone center. So then you can 0:26:42.240 --> 0:26:44.040 have Tony Paula get in there and have those splash 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:45.280 runs like he had last season. 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:46.880 A lot of good college backs out there right now. 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:49.600 There's I mean, so if they want to go into 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:52.600 the draft, there's an ability to go out and find 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:57.120 yourself some serious, serious help. But at the same time, 0:26:57.280 --> 0:26:59.320 you gonna need a veteran guy. I think Austin Eckler 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:00.320 is going to be free as well. 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:07.720 Out there, your boy, your boy sat Kaan Barkers. There's 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:10.040 going to be there's going to do. That's one. There's 0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:10.640 going to be. 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:16.679 I yeah, we got one, I mean, and so so 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:19.840 and then his what's his price? He's been hurt a 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.560 lot too, So this is going to be a really 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:27.200 interesting situation of what they decide to do here. And oh, 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:29.040 by the way, I go back to what you've been 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:31.360 talking about for a number of years now, getting more 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:32.560 help on the offensive line. 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:35.720 This offensive line right now has definitely had. 0:27:35.680 --> 0:27:38.800 Issues on the road. They've they've got some issues and 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:44.040 tyroing over left tackle. I don't think you can come 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:47.000 back and try and do this one more time. Your center, 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:49.920 Tyler biattish. How about you really willing to pay him? 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:52.399 Yeah, and you've and you've been dealing with a lot 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:54.240 of ton of injuries over the last couple of years 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:56.240 up front your offensive line, and I think that's what 0:27:56.400 --> 0:28:00.000 plagued the running game before. But look, going into the playoff, 0:28:00.200 --> 0:28:02.560 I want to see more Hunter Lifke as a lead blocker. 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:05.040 I'm not saying that he's a devastating blocker by a 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:07.280 long shot, but I think that does help your play 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.239 action when you do set him up as as your 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:11.639 fullback as your lead blocker. 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:13.280 Teams have to respect that. 0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:16.679 And so I'm just looking for ways to get Tony 0:28:16.760 --> 0:28:18.840 going through the playoffs. You know what we do in 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:20.600 the future is cool. We're gonna have to draft the guy. 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:22.440 You know, They're gonna bring a guy in, whether it's 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:25.239 a bridge player or a veteran, whatever it is, they have 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:28.080 to address the running game. Tony Poler. We're not giving 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:30.040 him any grace at all with the injury. 0:28:30.160 --> 0:28:32.280 We're not. I's just say that, we're not. We're just 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:34.119 saying you need all season. 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:35.440 He ain't. 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:41.320 He a. 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:46.920 But it's true. It's true. They're gonna address it. 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Now, he technically didn't say that. 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:33.040 What he did say is that he would not they 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:36.400 would not have ten tipped interceptions. 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:39.120 Okay, okay, I like the other one sound better because 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:39.760 he only got eight. 0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:46.160 But the national media got a hold of it. And 0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:48.360 so there was two things that the national media really 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:50.960 took and ran with like crazy in the offseason, which 0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:53.520 we're taking out of context. One that one when he 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:56.440 said ten tipped because they talked about really just the 0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:57.400 Noah Brown stuff in. 0:31:57.360 --> 0:32:11.240 The world got him, and then that guy man your 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:11.720 man who. 0:32:14.560 --> 0:32:18.240 And then when Mike McCarthy was talking about Kellen Moore 0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:22.520 and talking about running the ball more and that was 0:32:22.560 --> 0:32:25.600 blown out of proportion because what he was talking about 0:32:25.600 --> 0:32:28.640 and running the ball more was after their first year together. 0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:31.400 He didn't mean it that last year they were together. 0:32:31.560 --> 0:32:33.800 And then that got blown out of proportion and people 0:32:33.840 --> 0:32:37.320 started throwing all these darts at Mike. So we in 0:32:37.360 --> 0:32:39.440 the media have we do a real good job of 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:44.640 misrepresenting things that people say, not telling the exact truth there. 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:48.560 But Dak Prescott right now leads the league with thirty 0:32:48.600 --> 0:32:51.440 two touchdown passes. Brock parties behind him with thirty one 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:54.680 and number three Jordan Love Green Bay. 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:58.840 Packers, which is awesome. So he turned around. Yeah, so 0:32:59.160 --> 0:32:59.600 there you go. 0:32:59.640 --> 0:33:03.240 But it would be something and this would be the 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:08.120 first time since Starbach that a cowboy quarterback has led 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:09.680 the league in touchdown passes. 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:14.560 Really on the music, man, you know, it wasn't going 0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:18.080 for fifty. 0:33:18.640 --> 0:33:22.400 Yeah, those numbers were astronomical. Only one of them left 0:33:22.560 --> 0:33:25.160 Aron He. 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:28.680 But that's so for this to happen. And before the 0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:31.600 year I predicted Dak to go thirty three and nine, 0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:35.400 And there was a beat writer here who was giving. 0:33:35.160 --> 0:33:38.880 Me the business. Are you there, cut the bug? What 0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:41.880 are you talking about? Friend of yours? Yeah, good friend, 0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:43.800 our brother. 0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:59.360 Point that it was either. 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.520 Way, although he pays to throw for thirty, Like what's 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:04.200 the difference difference between thirty three and thirty it's. 0:34:03.960 --> 0:34:05.600 Really right there in the same range. 0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:08.719 But he has that opportunity and that would be that 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:10.479 would be pretty cool for him. 0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:11.960 And I think it's. 0:34:11.800 --> 0:34:15.719 Pretty safe to say Dak Prescott will finish in the 0:34:15.760 --> 0:34:17.120 top five and the MVP. 0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:19.239 Voting, Oh yeah, top five. Yeah. 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:21.800 He played, He's played his butt off man this season. 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.520 With all the doubt coming into this season on Dak 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:27.640 and the interceptions, he turned it around big time. And 0:34:27.719 --> 0:34:30.279 I think Mike McCarthy and him came up with a 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:33.839 game plan that worked perfectly. Mid season, we were all 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:36.520 asking the questions, do we trust the ball in deck's here? 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:40.880 Are we throwing it too much? And by necessity you've 0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:42.960 seen that it's worked. The short passing game, the West 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:46.399 Coast offense works to a t for Dak because he's 0:34:46.640 --> 0:34:50.520 able to read, diagnose easily, and he has the wide 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:53.760 receivers now to understand and I think him and CDs 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.480 are mergings together because I think we've seen something from 0:34:56.480 --> 0:34:59.399 CD that we hadn't seen in years past either. I mean, 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:03.040 so him being able to lead the league in touchdowns 0:35:03.040 --> 0:35:06.600 and potentially CD because I believe he's like sixty yards 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:09.680 away from Tarik Hill, which I mean he could end 0:35:09.800 --> 0:35:12.880 up being the lead leader in receptions as well, which 0:35:13.320 --> 0:35:16.839 I think together, man, that would be quite an accomplishment 0:35:17.040 --> 0:35:18.280 for them and this offense. 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:20.080 At the end of the year, Mitchie Sherman won't think 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:21.200 so about CD. Well. 0:35:21.320 --> 0:35:23.400 I mean, I think everybody came into the season with 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:25.799 that doubt about CD because you've never seen him play. 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:28.239 So CD at the beginning of the season, CD was 0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:31.200 upset too because he was, hey, man, I know what 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:33.319 I can do. So the frustration that I'm showing you 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:35.160 is because I know what type of player I am. 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:38.279 And usually those type of players are right, you know. 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:41.000 You see Jamartez and Jefferson all those guys who get 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:46.319 frustrated like that and they say, okay, listen, I know 0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:48.200 what I can do, and then you see the next 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.640 week they come out and then CD has been able 0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:52.799 to go from whatever they talked about in the by 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:54.680 week or whatever they were able to catch up on 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:56.800 and fix because it was a new offense coming to 0:35:56.880 --> 0:36:00.800 the season. That the switches that they that they flipped, 0:36:01.200 --> 0:36:04.440 they both have been nothing short of amazing since that, 0:36:04.640 --> 0:36:06.960 you know, one game here or there. But Cede Lamb 0:36:06.960 --> 0:36:09.360 plus two hundred, they were talking about one hundred catches 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.560 in thirteen hundred yards. This man might go for seventeen 0:36:11.640 --> 0:36:14.160 or eighteen hundred yards. We're talking about Tyreek almost one 0:36:14.239 --> 0:36:16.399 for two thousand and ceed Lamb being hired than him. 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:19.640 Dak Prescott protecting the ball over thirty touchdowns, may lead 0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:22.839 the league in touchdowns in the MVP race, may win 0:36:22.920 --> 0:36:25.440 the NFC East, may have too. Like it's a lot 0:36:25.480 --> 0:36:28.160 of positives that come out of this season, especially based 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:30.520 on where we were at after we lost to Arizona. 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:34.040 So McCarthy addressed this a little bit probably two three 0:36:34.080 --> 0:36:36.799 weeks ago, maybe a little bit further than that, but 0:36:36.840 --> 0:36:39.800 he spoke about going into that because that was Week five. 0:36:40.800 --> 0:36:42.440 Go back to this forty nine er game. Yeah, we 0:36:42.520 --> 0:36:43.359 caught that. 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:48.279 They were still trying to in some ways understand how 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:49.959 they were gonna run us offen. So they were still 0:36:49.960 --> 0:36:52.560 working through some bumps and that hey, we figured this out. 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:55.719 And clearly Ceedee Lamb coming up and saying what he did, 0:36:55.960 --> 0:36:57.480 he made the changes. But if you go back and 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:01.200 you think about Mike as a play caller, DeVante Adams, 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:05.520 he had Jordan Nelson, he had Donald Drive, James Jones, 0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:10.040 Greg Jennings, this guy has usually had one of the 0:37:10.040 --> 0:37:12.479 receivers in the league who's been a top five wide 0:37:12.520 --> 0:37:15.959 receiver terms of production. And Ceedee Lamb is right there now. 0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:19.759 And I think it just in some ways letting it 0:37:19.800 --> 0:37:22.880 play out that Okay, if you just look at Mike's history, 0:37:24.200 --> 0:37:25.880 your quarterback is gonna be able to put up some 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:27.600 numbers and he's going to have a receiver get some 0:37:27.680 --> 0:37:31.120 numbers running back now so much, but Ceee Lamb is 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:34.719 that guy. And along with what he's doing there, which 0:37:34.880 --> 0:37:36.560 I kind of go back into the people right now 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:39.880 who are who were questioning Mike McCarthy in terms of 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:42.440 being a head coach. If you don't have Mike McCarthy 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:44.680 here next year, you have to get a new head coach. 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:46.920 You have to get yourself a new offensive coordinator. 0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:51.719 And with Dak Prescott coming off a year which he 0:37:51.800 --> 0:37:57.400 will probably finish two three, four five in terms of 0:37:57.440 --> 0:37:59.480 being MVP. I don't see Jerry Jones making that kind 0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:01.600 of call. I don't see him doing that because that's 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:04.760 a lot you'd have to change even if he flails 0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:08.520 out in the first round. No discussion. So I'm glad 0:38:08.560 --> 0:38:11.759 you said that because because my man Jason McIntyre Fox 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:15.240 Sports and I've been talking about this. What's Mike's records 0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:17.959 in the playoffs? The head coach, I have no idea 0:38:18.200 --> 0:38:22.160 one and two? Here here, here, one and two. First year, 0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:25.160 they lost to San Francisco at home by six, and 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:29.239 that those first two possessions offensive defense looked terrible, but 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:32.360 they lost. Then the next year on the road wild 0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:35.400 card against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers, a team that 0:38:35.520 --> 0:38:38.360 beat him two years in a row to start the season, 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:41.839 they beat them in the playoffs, handled them. Then they 0:38:41.920 --> 0:38:44.279 lost to San Francisco and a game the quarterback was 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:48.400 not good. They lost by seven. So the premise that 0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:51.160 some people have is this guy is some loser out 0:38:51.200 --> 0:38:55.360 here getting spanked and rolled in the playoffs. It hasn't 0:38:55.360 --> 0:38:57.480 been the case. They did not look good in either 0:38:57.560 --> 0:38:59.960 San Francisco. Those were not good games for the Cowboy 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:02.840 at all, but they didn't get It wasn't a forty 0:39:02.840 --> 0:39:05.400 four to six meeting. It wasn't it wasn't something that 0:39:05.520 --> 0:39:08.959 was drastically terrible where you would say, man, we got 0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:10.320 to get rid of this head coach. 0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:13.440 Well, I think I think the issue is when you 0:39:13.520 --> 0:39:16.239 go back and look at it, one in the game situations, 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:19.120 and then two things that you are supposed to be 0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:22.240 taking care of during the season, i e. Penalties become 0:39:22.360 --> 0:39:25.440 the thing of like, Okay, if you continue to make 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:27.640 it to the playoffs and then these same things keep 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.520 rearing their ugly head, that's when you say, okay, this 0:39:30.640 --> 0:39:31.960 probably ain't gonna get fixed. 0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:32.359 Right. 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:33.400 So if you go in there and all of a 0:39:33.400 --> 0:39:35.759 sudden you got fifteen penalties for two hundred yards, right, 0:39:35.800 --> 0:39:37.480 and you get knocked out in the first round, and 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:41.920 some stupid or crazy in the game situation where you 0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:43.719 slide and you got twelve seconds left, you can't get 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:45.960 it fit whatever that is. That type of stuff is 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:49.440 where you say is this going is it able to 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.560 be fixed or is it not? Because we don't want 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.319 to continue having the same issue once you get in 0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:56.319 those type of big time situations. So I think that's 0:39:56.360 --> 0:39:58.240 where that comes from. I don't think Mike macarty should 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:00.520 get fired, especially you got here and winning it. See'st 0:40:00.840 --> 0:40:03.160 uh Like, I don't. I don't think that is a thing. 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:06.840 Maybe the top leading receiver, maybe the top quarterback in 0:40:06.840 --> 0:40:07.280 the league. 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:09.239 Like I don't. I don't think that's a move that 0:40:09.280 --> 0:40:11.040 you make. But you do hope that you don't see. 0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:13.880 Those those same things year after year rid of his 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:16.040 because at some point you say, I don't like, is 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:16.920 it gonna get fixed or not? 0:40:17.680 --> 0:40:17.799 Yea? 0:40:18.200 --> 0:40:21.759 And for me, I think where you're talking about situational 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:24.720 awareness and a guy like Mike McCarthy that's been coaching 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:27.520 in this league so long, he has to understand that 0:40:27.600 --> 0:40:29.680 those are going to be the knocks on him. Even 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:33.200 the penalties they're gonna associate the Obviously coaches say we 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:36.279 don't coach penalties, but if it's happening to you repetitively 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:38.840 over and over again, and you're leading the league in penalties, 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:40.640 that's a knock on you. And that's why when you 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:42.839 talked about them coming into this next game, if they're 0:40:42.880 --> 0:40:45.680 not inspired to play, that's on the coach, you know. 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:49.920 But when when the Cowboys first hired Mike McCarthy, my 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.000 feeling was, man, why are we hiring the guy that challenge? 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:56.600 There is catch you know, I felt about it, but. 0:40:58.120 --> 0:40:59.720 Personally it was personal. 0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:03.440 That's stung. But since he's been here and as a coach, 0:41:03.920 --> 0:41:06.240 I just go back to Nolan as a defensive coordinator. 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:08.200 He didn't stay the course. He's like, look, this ain't 0:41:08.200 --> 0:41:10.719 gonna work. Change it, all right. Any guy that he's 0:41:10.719 --> 0:41:13.680 balled onto his coaching staff that hadn't worked, he's changed it. 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:17.600 Any player that hasn't played to his potential or found 0:41:17.600 --> 0:41:19.600 a way to make these guys work out. 0:41:19.640 --> 0:41:21.239 And if a guy just didn't work out, he washed 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:23.399 his hands of it and kept going. That's the thing 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:26.160 that I love about Mike McCarthy now as our coach 0:41:26.320 --> 0:41:29.799 is the fact that he's so flexible at making sure 0:41:29.840 --> 0:41:33.240 that this team is always ready. And the record speaks 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:36.960 for herself. If it went on Sunday three twelve and 0:41:37.040 --> 0:41:40.439 five seasons like, that's big time. That's a big time 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:43.759 record for a coach that for all intents and purposes, man, 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:46.560 he was embarrassed by his firing in Green Bay, and 0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:51.640 he's I mean definitely restructured or revamped his career here 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:52.799 and that is real. 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:55.800 So the bunker. 0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:02.600 Let me ask this question. If he's not the head coach, 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:04.919 who would you hide? 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:09.200 I mean, yeah, that's a good one. I don't know 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:16.520 where you would go, Jim Harbaugh. I know he hasn't 0:42:16.520 --> 0:42:20.719 been proven to win the big one. Like, I don't know, 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:21.640 what are you doing? You got? 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:23.480 I mean, we got dan Quinn here, same guy who 0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:25.959 we've been talking about changed the help change the culture. 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:27.120 I don't want to take it none away from Mike. 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:30.600 Help change the culture of the squad. Defense became like 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:32.600 the star of the team for a while. Now you 0:42:32.600 --> 0:42:34.520 see it kind of going back to offense. But we 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:37.040 still got big time players on defense. People still believe 0:42:37.080 --> 0:42:38.600 in dan Quinn, and I'm sure that people are going 0:42:38.680 --> 0:42:41.719 to try to hire him again this year, to be 0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:44.560 as soon as the playoffs. So like, I know, you 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:46.319 want to kind of open it up to everybody, but 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:48.040 you look inside the building and you say, hey, man, 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:50.880 we got a guy who is highly sought after around 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:53.560 the league that could possibly be that. But I'm saying 0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:55.560 that I would not fire Mike McCarthy. 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:58.799 I thing I always asked people like, where would you go? 0:42:59.040 --> 0:42:59.760 So dan Quinn? 0:43:00.040 --> 0:43:02.880 In my next question, dan Quinn, if you hired him, 0:43:02.880 --> 0:43:06.319 who's your offensive coordinator. Where do you go because he's 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:09.399 a defensive guy and Atlanta he had a pretty good 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:14.239 one that he Kyle so so okay, so him Bill Belichick. 0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:21.200 That's the big that's the biggest question, like if you 0:43:21.280 --> 0:43:25.080 hired somebody like that. Mike McCarthy's ability to work in 0:43:25.120 --> 0:43:27.799 the hierarchy of the Dallas Cowboys, what really what makes 0:43:27.880 --> 0:43:30.640 him a guy that you can't replace because any other 0:43:30.719 --> 0:43:33.680 coach with a bigger ego couldn't fit, You wouldn't be 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:37.319 able to not the way things work here, Micha for 0:43:37.360 --> 0:43:40.200 only so long, four years, for only so long. 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:42.480 That's a long time, but for only so long, and 0:43:42.680 --> 0:43:47.000 it is. 0:43:45.600 --> 0:43:46.160 That's true. 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:50.080 But it's not like that didn't come you know, was 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:52.880 burning It both ends towards the end. I'm saying, Mike McCarty, 0:43:52.960 --> 0:43:55.399 what he's what he's able to do is just stay 0:43:55.440 --> 0:43:57.680 in his lane. And how many guys could actually take 0:43:57.680 --> 0:43:59.120 this job and do that? 0:43:59.200 --> 0:44:01.479 You're right, but I just but but this is more 0:44:01.640 --> 0:44:05.920 for the people out there who are well McCarty. If 0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:08.279 he doesn't do that, they're ready to replace Mike. That's 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.759 those are where I go with this, and I think 0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:14.399 you're right. It takes a special kind of It's it's 0:44:14.440 --> 0:44:16.319 a different kind of job and it's a different kind 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:18.960 of mindset when you're here and Parcels spoke about it. 0:44:19.040 --> 0:44:21.239 Mike's lived with it. So yes, I think that's a 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:24.799 part of working for the Joneses is definitely different. That's 0:44:24.840 --> 0:44:26.640 why I asked that question about. 0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:29.239 Who do you bring in? Because it's easy to say 0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:31.719 fire this guy. Tell me who you hire? 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:35.640 Yeah, this this is a guy, a guy like Belichick 0:44:35.680 --> 0:44:37.400 wouldn't be able to come in. It just wouldn't. It 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:40.600 wouldn't work. I mean, he shouldn't. Wouldn't be his friendly 0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:45.080 with the media, Change the defense, Yeah, for sure, you're 0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:45.920 gonna change all of that. 0:44:46.040 --> 0:44:49.600 So I just so that's why when people say these things. 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:53.879 And he's a general manager, right yeah, Okay, Mike about 0:44:53.880 --> 0:44:55.120 to get over the hunk. This ain't. 0:45:00.120 --> 0:45:02.600 To get over because it's gonna be it's gonna be 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:04.759 favorable matchups, Like I don't. 0:45:04.800 --> 0:45:06.719 I think it's gonna be the path of the least 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:10.359 resistance and it doesn't go to wag. 0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:13.160 You know what's gonna happen here? You know what? Everybody, 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:14.120 that's what you know what. 0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:17.920 Let's let's just just say just through thee I was 0:45:17.920 --> 0:45:20.759 thinking about. He wins the two playoff games, the wild 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:23.879 card game at home of the division game, and then 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:25.880 goes to face let's say they face the forty nine 0:45:26.360 --> 0:45:28.439 and they lose that, then you're talking about a three 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:32.799 and three playoff right now, he's good and and and 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:35.399 let's say it's another close game enough to touch down 0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:37.040 our last game against the forty nine ers. 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:38.560 You really want to get off. 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:43.640 That talking about the Packers come up here, molly whop 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:44.560 them in the first round. 0:45:44.560 --> 0:45:46.440 We all like and it does not go its way. 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:48.240 Colds or not. You want you go to the playoffs 0:45:48.239 --> 0:45:51.640 and it's the Packers. Man, that's tough man. They're gonna 0:45:51.640 --> 0:46:01.759 be looking like James at home. Jason, he plays that. 0:46:02.239 --> 0:46:03.439 I don't. I'm talking more. 0:46:04.320 --> 0:46:07.279 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:46:07.440 --> 0:46:10.400 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.