WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Alright at O-Line? 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.160 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:06.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:10.080 Cowboys. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:16.880 This is the Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:22.360 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Darry Church, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.040 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison, and Newie scrugs. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.080 Al Right, everybody here, it is at time that time, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.040 at times Players Lounge time right here on Dallas Cowboys 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.800 dot Com Radio brought bye to Stetos. Get to tell 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.440 Stito's ready for Saturday night as the Cowboys host the 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.320 Detroit Lions a T and T Stadium otherwise known as Jery. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.000 Lions have won the NFC North got eleven wins. Cowboys 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.640 have ten wins. The Cowboys have clutched their playoff spots, 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.560 still in contention to win the division. So gentlemen, yes, 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:13.320 Sir Harrison, Danny McCrae, I knew, he scrugs. Seeing is 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.680 Nate Newton decided to kind of get on one as 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.800 he was leaving the leaving the studio here for the 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.800 last show about Dan Quinn in. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:26.160 The defense I missed that cons when we. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.479 Trust, can this defense still lead the Cowboys to start? 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.560 Right there now? 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.399 I'm gonna let him the floor, one of y'all, because 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.800 he left the show yesterday talking about historically, So I'm 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.280 gonna go ahead. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:42.760 You know that. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.240 Was two days ago. You were right, You're right. He's 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.800 still hanging on ago. He said it's historical. Okay, Yes, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.760 I don't get I don't care what that was. I'm 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.680 gonna let him. I'm gonna let him saying historically, we 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.360 still nobody better than to be pushed over the edge 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.640 by one Danny mccrane. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:08.400 Yeah, I just want to set brother. This is awsome. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.000 Yeah, I think that this is This is a defense 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.639 that obviously has his feelings, and you could tell by 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.720 the way that it's constructed by some guys that are underweight. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.200 I think you when I look at Detroit, I look 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.720 at them as a team. You look at their four 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.560 to three scheme, that they have those guys out there 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.840 on the edge and just starting no further than eight 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.160 and hutcheson sixty seven two hundred and sixty eight pounds. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:29.560 How big those guys are. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.959 But then you look on our side with Tank and 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.880 Micah completely undersized for the position that they play. I 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.200 think this defense was constructed to play fast and when 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.040 dan Quinn's vision as he put this thing together was look, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.760 if I can hold these guys up in the middle 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.400 and keep them off my line back as I can 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.520 let the rest of these guys flow, and I'm gonna 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.440 rely on sacks and turnovers. If you look at the 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.680 numbers on this defense, they get alarming amount of turnovers. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.600 Their top five, top ten in the league and getting turnovers, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.080 and that's a super super Bow stat if you go 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:02.480 back and you look at the teams that make it, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.160 defenses that make it to the Super Bowl. That's one 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.120 of the stats that you can always look at Philadelphia 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.160 last year the sacks, that also the turnovers, and that 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.600 to me has been the thing that I keep faith 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.920 in when I talk about dan Quinn because he's able 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.840 to turn the ball over. That also can help you, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.680 especially in the Alen offense when you can't run the ball. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:23.119 Dak is at his best. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.079 When he's dealing with a short field when that energy 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.919 just I think the whole turnover from getting a turnover, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.440 it changes the momentum of a game. As you know, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.000 as you guys being defenders, and I think those things 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.240 are the catalysts for the victories that you see the 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.600 Cowboys get I believe that you can still be there. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.800 That's why I was begging for that number two seed 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.040 because I felt like being at home. You see the 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.119 way that our defense plays. But that's something that they're 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.160 going to have to put in a Duffel bag and 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:52.840 like play a circle Duffel bag. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.080 Boys, you gotta take that bag with you to wherever 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:56.320 you go. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.040 If you go to Tampa, you go to San fran 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.720 That's been the difference in wins in law when you 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.440 can turn the ball over. And dan Quinn has I mean, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.440 if you look at the Steelers in the seventies and 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.480 you look at all the great defenses that people always 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.360 talk about, the one thing that they've been able to. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.839 Do is turn the ball over. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.120 And since dan Quinn has been here, that's been like 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.040 his that feather in his cap that he can always 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:20.960 generate turnovers. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:22.800 I still. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.520 So yeah, And that's the thing, man, I just gave 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.600 you an explanation to my yes. You know, so's gonna 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.600 come with a stipulation, okay, because you know, at the 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.560 beginning of the season it was Hey, I was I 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.800 was with McCarthy of like, hey, we're a defensive team 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.640 and We're gonna play to our defense. We're gonna make 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.080 sure that whatever we do, we let our defense get arrested. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.760 We're gonna try to get those third downs, but we 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.880 know that we're a defensive team. We're gonna run the football, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.279 all that, all that good stuff, all right. Now I 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.640 believe is, hey, man, they work together. They work together. Okay, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.160 if your offense has to be clicking a little at 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.039 least for your defense to be able to do what 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.919 they do best. We are a pass rushing defense, all right. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.559 We want to get you in third and long pass 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.600 the situations, and that's where you see those turnovers and 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.640 those sacks come from. When it comes to us stopping 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.839 to run, we know that that is an issue. Not 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.000 just this year, this has been an issue for us 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.960 for multiple years. When we fall on defense is when 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.560 our offense is not able to go out there and 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.359 control the ball, make sure we get some type of 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.880 third down, score touchdowns in the red zone instead of 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.960 field goes. That's when you see our defense not be 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.040 able to do what they do best. Because listen, Michael 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.880 Parsons is a pass rusher, all right, that's what he specializes. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:43.720 Can he stop the run? 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.960 Do yeah, he can do. He's a pass rushing specialist, 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:46.360 all right. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.000 That's what when we talk about those d's who and 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.359 all those guys, we were talking about how our defensive 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.080 line gets off the ball and creates pressure on quarterbacks. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.919 We have not talked about them in the light of 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.479 hey man, these are great run defenders, all right. So 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.520 I think our offense has to put us in position 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.080 to be able to play to our strengths. And when 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.440 you got a team that's able to come in there 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.440 and run the ball and offense goes three and out 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.800 and we're not able to get going intol the second half, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.120 that that just doesn't both well for our defense. So 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.200 if they're clicking, then our defense get out there and 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.640 make those plays. If we if we playing a game 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.240 like Buffalo stuff like that, well, you know, I don't 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.560 think we have it. Yeah, I'm I'm still saying this 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.640 defense can can take you to where you need to 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.760 go with some help, but they can take you. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:29.440 Where you need to go. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.400 But my faith it's waveringe is a little bit it's 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.559 on the edge right now. You know, it's teeter titering 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.080 because when you look at it and who potentially this 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.760 team's gonna have to go against to get to that, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:40.320 to that. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:41.279 That's Bob, to the super Bowl. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.080 You're gonna have to maybe go against the Detroit, San Francisco, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.760 Philly teams that specialize in running the football. And you 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.680 can say, yeah, well we beat Philadelphia when they were 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.760 here in Dallas, but if you looked at that game, man, 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.560 Philly was able to run up and down the field 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.159 on the Dallas Cowboys def you know, it was those 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.159 three turnovers, those three fumbles that turned the game around. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.440 And all three of those fumbles happened deep in Dallas's territory. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.240 So to me, if you're going against that gauntlet, you 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.240 gotta be able to at least slow down the run. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.360 And did they perform better against Miami, Yes they did. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.520 They did a better job than allowing two hundred and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.160 some yards like they did against Buffalo. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.400 But to me, can you be that consistently? 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.600 And that's what we've got to see these next two 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.280 games because both of these teams coming up Detroit and Washington, 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.240 they can run the football. Washington is what it is, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.600 but they can run the football a little bit with 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.760 those two backs. Can you build upon that heading into 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.120 the playoffs? And I think it'll give your defense dividends, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.040 but overall, they just got to perform better. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.440 Against the run. Can't say this about Philly. You mentioned, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.960 you mentioned the turn on They turned the ball over 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.960 against Philly, and they cast three fumbles in Philadelphia. They 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.160 ain't get any of them. So in two games against them, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.960 they know how to get the they know how to 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:53.400 get the ball. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:53.880 That's true. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.400 So just giving you that. But no, this can't stop 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.320 the run. Can't win the Super Bowl, can't. No, No, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.960 this is a good football team, but I don't think 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.240 you can overcome these wards to do it. Because tell 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.920 me the last team that happens that's true. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.640 Yeah, I don't have a calculator or can look up 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.840 here and tell you, hey, this is their run defense 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.920 was this. I can just say this. Kansas City hadn't 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.560 always had the best defense in the league, but what 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.000 they have been able to do is get sacks and 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:27.400 also get turnovers. Now in the AFC, do you have 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.880 to worry about the run as much? Do you give 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.480 up your one hundred yard runner? 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:31.880 Yes? 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.280 I mean I think you talk about the Cowboys and 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.559 giving up those two hundred yards to Arizona and the 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.560 way that Buffalo victimized you. But that isn't the biggest 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.600 staple that you could say, Oh, put that on them 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.440 because they can't make it to the super Bowl because 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.520 they can't do this. They can turn the ball over 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.200 and just like Barry was just talking about getting turnovers, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.880 whether it be deep in your own territory, you're getting 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.880 the turnover so being don't break. But then your offense 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:57.920 is also able to generate points. So I don't think 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.480 that that's a caveat to disqualify them for the super Bowl. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.640 You bring up Kansas City, bring up the guy was 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.319 the MVP the league when they won two championships. So 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.400 that right there puts it at a whole nother level 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.280 where that guy puts you at a different advantage than 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.600 everybody in the league, where he puts so much pressure 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.280 on it helped your defense when we talk about the 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.600 Cowboys offense being able to put pressure, you know by 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.200 scoring and helping your defense. But I just think you 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.880 bring up Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes, that's a whole other 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.080 I mean that dude's got it right now, he's got 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:27.800 MVP wrestling. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.000 I mean, look at I mean that last year. I mean, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.560 look at last year's Super Bowl. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.600 Okay, two teams where we talked about the defenses is 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.440 top of the league. Okay, sacks, turnovers, whatever it is. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.760 And you get out there and if you get into 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.360 a game like that where your defense don't doesn't show up, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.080 your offense has to be able to, like you said, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.360 put pressure on the other team and score those points. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.240 We have not been able to do that in those 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:53.319 situations outside of Seattle. Outside of Seattle, to where a 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.679 man defense ain't playing that good offense, you got to 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.040 be able to pick us up when we get into 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.360 the playoffs. We have not seen a situation where, well, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.360 second round of the playoffs, when we play San Francisco, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:04.000 where it's like, all. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.360 Right, man, it's on, y'all, bro, it's on. We need thirty. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.160 We need thirty, right because right now the defense doing 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.000 all they can, they force the five field goals, they 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.880 do whatever they can. We need y'all to put up 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.840 thirty today. We ain't seen it. But those teams that 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.520 you names from last year, Philly in Kansas City, those 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.880 teams do that defense ain't show up. That's why we 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.760 got Mahomes. Defense don't show up. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:26.080 That's right. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.320 We got aj Brown and we got and we got 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.200 Jalen Hurst, and we got the slim Reaper right for us. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.680 It's not that you don't when you go read the 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.240 newspaper on Monday or whatever it is, you don't see 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.360 that in there. You just see men Calboy then look 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.520 good on offense or defense, could find a way to 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.320 get it done. But what do you point to when 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.160 you look at the Los Angeles game? What do you 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.160 point to when you look at the Chargers game? I mean, 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.640 you won those games twenty to seventeen, you won the 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.240 other one forty to forty three to twenty. You know 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.800 those are those are games won. Your defense may not 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.000 have played this great, but your offense was able to. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.920 I mean, you guys have played this game, so you 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.320 know that every game has its own narrative. But to 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.680 point to a whole season and say, oh, well that 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.200 team has Patrick Mahomes, well no, yeah, of course they do. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.439 Of course they have one of the best players. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:10.520 In the league. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.960 But he doesn't go out there and do it on 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.760 his own. I understand what you're saying. Like the narrative 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.400 every week when you open the paper is okay, the defense, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.000 we're not able to generate turnovers, but Dak didn't have 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.880 his best day. Well, a lot of guys are not 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.240 having their best day. Offensive line not having their best day. 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.640 I mean, all of these things work together. I didn't 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.000 mention I said the offense that's run as the entire officer. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.760 I don't want to be like I'm putting it on that. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.560 That's that's not That's not where I went. I'm talking 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.800 about our offense, play calling getting out, like our penalties, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.199 whatever it is. We just haven't played well in those situations. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:42.280 No. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.120 Two LA games for what they were. Matthew Stafford got 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.280 hurt and we see what the charges are. Not I 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:48.680 want to take it up and away from them, but 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.080 you know they're like, as you watch the season, you're like, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.600 you know what, let's see what. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:53.760 Wins would really work. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.839 Coaching staff got fired out there for the target for 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:58.600 the game. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.079 Patrick Mahomes and what we've seen through these playoff runs, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.839 especially the championship years, this guy is a true Hall 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.600 of Fame difference maker. This is up there when Tom 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:17.000 Brady fourteen points down to Seattle being able to move, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.800 I mean, you talk to me, I guess what use 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.199 Cam Newton's. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.200 Game changer game. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.160 It's a different category. Patrick Mahomes is a different category 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.079 right now. If this dude quit tomorrow, you could go 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.559 and argue his case to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.079 Put him in there right now, right now. So when 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.280 you talk about Kansas City and their defense on I 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.680 got Patrick Mahomes. If you're Andy Reid, that is something 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.120 that right now, nobody else can say now right that 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.280 today's Kansas City team got a whole bunch issues, a 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.760 whole bunch of issues. But what they've been able to 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.320 do throughout his career so far, I think he's a 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.280 difference maker, and that's just something that basically nobody else 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.959 has because he's that good. Lamar Jackson be interested to 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.120 see if Lamar can finally break through this year. But 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.360 there's just not that many dudes where you can say, 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:11.959 hey man, we're gonna put it on your back. It's 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.640 like having a great picture in baseball. Hey man, go ahead, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.960 go out there, for go seven innings and blank him 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.400 because you know, we don't know we're gonna be able 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.400 to give you. There ain't that many people who can do. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.520 I mean, think about the Baltimore game. You just watched 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.199 those guys out there. They get you in pass the 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.760 situations which that is advantageous to your defense to be 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.280 able to put you in this. Did they stop the run? No, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.199 they didn't stop to run, but they took the ball. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.720 They took the ball away, and they put you in 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.640 a situation where San Francisco became a team that had 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.120 to throw throw the football. All right, but but and 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.120 their offense was able to continue to put that person 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 on them by scoring points. Have we been able to 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.840 do that in a game of that magnitude? Been able 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:52.320 to do that? 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.079 Not consistent those kind of no trust. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.160 There, there's no trust there, not no time proof because 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:00.000 there's no trust. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.400 He go ahead? You want to fight us on to 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.200 go ahead? Go ahead? 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.319 You know, I think you make a valid point where 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.000 you're talking about a generational quarterback and what he's able 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:08.240 to do. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:09.720 But he didn't do it all by himself. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.960 He has to have a defense, and he's also going 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.320 out there with a cheetah in some of those champion 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.840 that championship and also an offensive scheme that caters to 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.240 exactly who he is. When you talk about a guy 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.280 like Lamar Jackson and the way that San Francisco played him, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.800 they were just trying to bottle contain this guy who 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:31.560 still made them pay. Okay, in our case, we're asking Dak, look, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.120 when the chips are down and we need a guy 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.320 to come back, can you be that guy to do it. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:37.800 He's had times. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.520 Throughout his career where he's done that when he has 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.200 the weaponry and we're saying CD are the running game 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.920 and all those things to stay in balance, He's been 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:46.680 able to do that. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.400 This year is completely different. Different. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:54.200 The Cowboys are throw first team by necessity because they 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.600 have to because they have nothing else to go to. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.440 So in those games where the defense is not dominating, 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.920 as especially on those road games where they're not able 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.920 to get the stops, they're not good on third down 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.360 on the road, they're not able to generate the same turnover. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:07.560 So it don't look the same. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.960 So if you could say, hey, every year that Patrick 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.560 Mahomes goes out on the field, he can. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.640 Be the MVP no DUG. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.400 But he don't do it with by hisself any damn sure, 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:16.680 don't do it without a good defense. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:17.720 Well don't. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.240 Last year he didn't have had a chase you know, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.680 I got you. I don't even want to, I think. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.200 Or last week against Miami I think that was the 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:28.280 perfect example to show why this defense can still get 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.080 you to the promise sand to the super Bowl, because 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.120 when you look at it, that defense to me, and 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.600 we talked about that when I first came in here, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.440 I'm like, man, they didn't look good against the run, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.600 but daddy, he was right. They had one of the 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.280 most explosive offenses in the game to what twenty two 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.800 point two point one of four. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:42.360 In the red zone? 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.320 All right, And then you look on the offensive side 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.360 of the football with Dak Prescott, we always talk about it, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.520 when you get a chance to make your mark on 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:50.840 the game, you go out there and you do it. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.480 He led a potential game winning driving getting this team 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.240 the league with two minutes to twenty seven second class. Now, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:58.880 when we talk about it as a whole, both sides 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.080 where they perfect. No, they weren't perfect, but they both 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.440 gave each other an opportunity to win out side of 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.960 those that penalty, that big time fifteen yard face mask 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.200 at the end of it on our last drive, I'm 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.080 sitting there looking like we may be talking about a different, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.440 you know, different situation right now. So that's why I 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.840 still want to lean towards this defense being able to 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.440 get you there and offensively they don't have to be 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.640 perfect at all. But Dak Prescott, if you give him 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.120 that opportunity like last week, and we've seen in years past, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:24.960 he can get the he can get the job done. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.000 So and I hesitant to say, like this is for show, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.120 this defense to get you. Yeah, but overall I still 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.160 believe that they have the strength. Are you confident in 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.120 this defense holding any team that may be in the 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.680 playoffs on under twenty points? I mean, they get it 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.280 to Miami in Miami, and that's one of the said 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.880 under twenty you need to score twenty points to win. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.960 Like your team, your offense has to score more, hours 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.480 has to score more than twenty points than. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.320 When we have to think they can do it against 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:51.120 Detroit a Philly. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.920 I don't know about saying fram I don't know, but 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.280 I feel like they can do it against Detroit and we. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.560 Don't figure this out. We will figure this out on Saturday. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.320 I like that. And you want to put it down 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:09.960 whatever you want to do. You there not that. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:18.800 We're talking about another Get me there, ain't doing that, Yeah, 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.280 talking about another They talking about that when. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.760 Fasted on the road against a good team and they 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.200 played it really good game. We all acknowledged it was 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.439 a good game plan. They played well. But you had 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.240 an opportunity to close the shell. You couldn't close the shell. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.119 So then how do we look at that? And so 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.480 for me, when I see here's the opportunity, couldn't close 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.240 the show, I can't give them that because I haven't 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:42.600 seen it. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.520 Score touchdown. I'm not on y'all. They need to go 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:46.240 score touchdown. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.800 I'm a stand on this right here, okay, And this 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.320