WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Stepping Up in Minnesota 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.600 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:13.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.800 Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.960 the Star. Now. Your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:32.000 Newi Scrugs. Three Monday. Yes, it is a victory Monday 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:37.080 Sunday Night football. The Cowboys shock a whole lot of 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.760 people with a twenty to sixteen win at Minnesota's US 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.159 Bank Stadium, one of the great NFL atmospheres out there. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.800 You're in the players Notchboty by hotels dot com. He 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.440 is Barry Church, former Dallas Cowboys safety number forty two, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.200 the Thereso Rocket. Yes, indeed, our other co hosts former 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.200 Dallas Cowboys. He's Danny McCray. Danny McCray unfortunately got hard 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.400 up like so many Americans have this weekend with flight delayed. Yeah, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:09.200 so sucks. Sucks. So d MAC can't get in from 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.800 from Lay. There are a bunch of people who trying 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.800 to who are trying to get up from DFW two 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.040 Minnesota had to be rerouted or their flights were just canceled. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.600 P you hate to see it. I know that my photographer, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.560 Noah Buller, was supposed to leave it one he got 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.839 his flight got canceled. He didn't get on a plane 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.199 until seven. Clarence Hill didn't get on a plane until seven. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.840 Some other people had got delayed. I ended up being 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.479 on a nine o'clock flight with Christie Scales and so ours. 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.400 The nine o'clock didn't lead to till ten forty five. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.640 So it was yeah, I got in Minnesota one thirteen 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.680 in the morning. Are you talking about Oh I thought 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.280 you were talking about like you left at ten forty 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.520 five in a day, No mine. Mine had a nine 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.000 pm yeah, yeah, so it was yeah. So there were 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:56.880 people a lot more delayed than what we were so 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.360 in other Cowboy fans in general, So it was a 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.600 lot for Cowboy fans to get on up there in Minnesota. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.200 But more importantly, Cooper Rush was there. Yeah, he was 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.359 in there. He was in attendance for sure, and Cooper 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:13.000 Rush with an outstanding memory and as an undrafted guy, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.880 sure you can relate to the man. There's just some 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.000 moments that you probably have to be on the field 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.679 and say look at me, and he's a fellow Matt guy. Yeah, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.519 Central Michigan's own nation, right, and to see that happened, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.480 I thought it was a really cool moment for him. Yeah, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.680 it was definitely a cool moment for him going out there, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.160 and he shocked a lot of people, including myself because 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.200 I know I picked the Cowboys the wind going into 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.880 the week, but that was with Dak Prescott behind the helms. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.520 We had Cooper rushing here, and I'm thinking to myself, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.240 here we go, it's gonna be another Danucci moment out there. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.320 What the moment will seemed too big for him, The 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.480 lights will be too bright for him out there. But 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.800 I was extremely impressed on how he handled himself on 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.919 the field against a Minnesota defense. Out there. He looked cool, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.240 calm and collected. And I'm not sure if that has 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.440 to do with Kelly Moore's play calling, knowing his strengths 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.400 and weaknesses out there, but the guy executed well. He 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.200 put the ball where it needed to be. He had 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.480 one interception out there on a bad It was a 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:06.959 bad pass, it was a bad read out there, he 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.360 threw it in between two safeties. But I love the 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.640 resilience that he showed coming back into that game, not 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.360 afraid to put it up in the air anymore, not 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.680 afraid to go deep anymore. He went right back at him, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.480 and that's what you love about a quarterback. And he, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.880 to me, solidified his role as that backup here in Dallas, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.720 because if he would have went out there and let's 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.600 just say he stunk up the joint, we would have 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.160 been looking somewhere for trades. You know today, we'd have 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.840 been like, oh man, we gotta find somewhere, whether it's 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.720 you know, the guy in Chicago, somebody's got to come 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.400 down here. But Cooper Rush, he came to play and 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.240 showed that he belongs in this league. And you know, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.000 I got give him a round of applause because I 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.280 was definitely one of the hardest critics of Cooper Rush 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.240 talking about Double G, this Double G Dad, so hey, 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.880 he definitely maybe swallow my words. He went out there 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.560 and performed well. I saw a picture of Garrett Gilbert 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.360 on Twitter. I saw that one. So that was me 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.080 because the first half I was like, man, Double G 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.080 wouldn't have been out there like that. Double G wouldn't 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.680 have did that. But the resilience, it's like Cooper West 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.400 to coo out there and battle and just go forward. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.680 And I mean he was putting that second half. He 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.240 put on a display out there, and he was definitely 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.760 one of the main reasons they brought home a w 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.480 I was talking to somebody in the press box at halftime, like, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.840 all right, man, gotta make a trade. Gotta make a trade, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:19.159 I said, And I said, I said, no said, first off, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.159 who are you going to trade for that knows your offense? 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.640 Just like that Barry. You've played the league and you 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.840 understand everybody's schemes not different because everybody schemes out the same. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.720 There's a lot of differences. So that was my first thought. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.839 You're trying to talk about trading for somebody who you know, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.560 they don't know your scheme. The second thing, and I 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.960 told the person to media box, can we be fair. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.599 This is a guy who threw three NFL passes whole career. Okay, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.920 I said, there is an adjustment period. This is still 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.400 the NFL. I said, give the guy some time. That's 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.480 all I'm saying, Just give him some time. David Helmet 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.960 Dallas Cowboys dot com. He tweeted in the first half, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.480 sorry folks, this is over. Helmet was like, this is 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:04.760 he not gonna happen? At all, and where you give 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:10.960 Mike McCarthy, Kellen Moore and the team credit. They made 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.760 the adjustments at halftime and people were still right there 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.040 with him. You come out in the second half and boom, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.000 there's that seventy four yard touchdown to Cedric Wilson, and 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.880 now you're back in the football game. You're right there, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.720 it's tied, and you're feeling good. What Cooper Rush did 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.360 three hundred and twenty five yards in the air on 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.880 forty attempts for two touchdowns. They put it up that much. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.920 They had faith in him. Two minutes, fifty one seconds 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.400 to go down sixteen thirteen, he takes Dallas down the field. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:46.479 They win the game. This was some serious stones man, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.640 and and I look at that for him and I 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.040 just say, good for you, Idu. I got to meet 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.760 his godfather before before the game. He had to rush 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.599 Jersey on. Yeah. I saw that. I took a picture 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.960 and tweeted out there. He tried not to give it away. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.120 He did. He was proud, but when you're a reporter, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:05.440 you know where, you know where to go with it, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.320 and sometimes the lack of answers and he's like, I'm 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.799 not trying to say anything like okay, so you knew 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.120 that he was going to to start. I was just 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.680 really happy for Russ. What he looked like to me, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:23.039 Barry was that rookie year in his preseason when you saw, hey, man, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.680 this guy's got something here. He got That's what I saw. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.680 And I talked to him at training camp about hey, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.640 how do you get back into being that guy? And 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.320 I don't know whether it was because he had nothing 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.000 to lose or he just I don't know, but he 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.040 looked like that guy. He did he did out there, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.880 and what was crazy to me was going into the 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.800 week or not going into this game. So probably like 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.520 Saturday or Sun of AB a little earlier on Sunday, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.760 Mike McCarthy was talking about how there's no drawback when 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.760 it comes to the playbook, like when Cooper Russia is 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.719 out there, the whole playbook is wide open, and I 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.800 thought to myself, how you gotta be talking crazy? Just 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.960 this guy ain't got what it takes to be able 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.320 to have full command of this offense. But he was 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.720 able to go out there and do exactly what Dak 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.480 Prescott would have done out there at a little bit 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.840 lesser level. But he was very efficient out there. I mean, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.880 he had the one interception, but besides that, he was 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.640 putting the ball where it needed to be. I mean, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.760 outside of that that interception and that CD Lamb dropped past, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.440 the guy was super efficient and he had a hell 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:19.960 of a day from from Cooper out there. I mean, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:21.560 because there was a couple of times where it could 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.080 have been intercepted, but the ball just seemed to bounce 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.000 our way out there, and those are the type of 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.560 bounces and the lucky draws that you gotta have when 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.400 you're trying to make this long run. I mean, not 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.680 everything is going to be perfect, but the way he 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.720 was up was able to go out there deal the 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.600 football around. Amari Cooper having a hell of a day 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.200 out there. This is the first time I've seen him 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.280 show up in an away game since he's been here 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.120 in Dallas, and he went out there and he did 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.280 what he had to do. They took advantage of that 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.960 thin secondary with no Patrick Peterson. Harrison Smith's still the beast, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.080 but they kind they kind of shot away from him 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.240 a little bit, and they could do that because the 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.320 two corners they had on the edge they just weren't 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.080 it and they knew that they could take advantage of that. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.280 Kudos to Kelly Moore as well. This guy seem to 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.360 be in his bag all year, no matter what the 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.080 situation is. He's attacking these defensive weaknesses Tampa Bay. We 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.360 saw the secondary. The next go around, we go against 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.240 the charges, we go to the run game. I mean, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.040 this guy is in his bag. He knew what he 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.280 had coming into the game because Cooper Rush had took 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.920 the majority of the first team reps doing practice throughout 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.480 the week, so he knew what he had going into 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.600 this game, and he called a masterful game. How do 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.520 you you put Lia Collins at fullback next to McGovern 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.440 and then you got the wishbone back there. I mean, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.560 some of the stuff he's drawing up, the creativity he 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.000 has right now is on another level. And I would 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.079 not be surprised if somebody comes and poaches him next 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.600 year going into the offseason, because this guy right now, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.840 he's coaching at another level, he's playing at another level. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.840 I would definitely say at this point in time, Cowboy 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.120 fans be prepared to have a new offensive coordinator. Yeah, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.960 without a doubt, man, And I wouldn't be surprised if 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:56.120 he's not on the shortlist for Minnesota because leaving Minnesota, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.640 the amount of people who wanted Mike zimmer On as 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.960 head coach, Kubiak the offensive coordinator gone, and Kirk Cousins 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.280 gone were just high. It was just so high. And 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.400 I was disappointed in Kirk. I was disappointed in Kirt. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.440 I mean, I wanted the Cowboys to win. But but 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.080 why I fire you. You know, he's been playing some 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.640 of the best ball of his career so far this season. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.080 I mean, thirteen tubs, only two interception. She's taking care 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.240 of the football. But he just went out there and 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.800 became a checkdown Charlie. And I don't understand. I mean, 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.319 maybe it was what dan Quinn's defense is doing to people. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.640 I'm not sure. But he went to check down Charlie 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.559 because there was a couple of examples on those boots. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.280 They loved to run boots with Kirk Cousins, and they 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.560 ran a lot of them yesterday. But he had the 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.680 deeper over option available, whether it was feedling, whatever, whether 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.160 it was justin Jefferson, he had those options open, but 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.520 he decided to go to the checkdown to the fullback 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.319 or to the running back who surrounded by defensive players. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.400 So I don't know if it was just the rush 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.280 that Randy Gregory and those boys were providing, or just 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.040 Kirk Cousins just just reverting back to Washington. Kirk Cousins, 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.440 but he did not look good yesterday. And I'll tell 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.560 you what this did a great job of doing. Hold 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.240 hold on, all right, go ahead, the defense the next 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.840 sege all right. They deserved their own, their old slights 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.719 of the five for what they did. Kirk Cousins is 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.120 now eight and seventeen in primetime games in his career 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.080 age of seventeen. The lights are too big. Cooper Rush 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.680 is one and the oh. He turned out to five 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.040 or three pass attempts into a one and oh three 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.960 hundred yard performance out there and lowest primetime win percentage 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.280 since two thousand. Kirk Cousins is number one and three twenty, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:38.040 followed by Eli Manning, Carson Palmer, and Jay Cutler minimum 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.280 twenty five stars. It's gotta be something, you know, in 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.000 the brand. There got to be something up top of that. 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.720 Because he was performing well in all his other games, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.320 daytime games, it doesn't matter. He was performing, but when 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.880 you get to those primetime and those lights, it's got 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.559 to be something he's seeing all the reporters on the 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.439 edge or something he's seeing, you know, but she to 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.360 Foy and au him over there. It's got to be 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.079 something that he knows everybody's watching it, and he kind 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.280 of shells up. I don't get it, man, I don't know. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.200 He was playing great ball so far this season, so 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.959 I didn't know that. The Minnesota they called him, they 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:11.360 called PTK. PTK was Primetime Kurt because they just he's 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.760 gonna just melt down. So they knew going into this 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.680 it was going to be one of them games. He's 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.120 the second highest paid quarterback the National Football League, making 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.800 thirty one million dollars this year. So many, so much 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:25.319 guarantee too, yeah, eighty all of it is Gary. Oh, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.840 there's no some all eighty four meals Garing. He made 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.240 a hell of a deal. He is taking a bag 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.720 and to see a guy making nine hundred and twenty 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.560 thousand dollars, sixtieth highest paid quarterback in the game bouncing 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:45.640 before that, take the chances to go down the field 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.199 where Kirk Cousins didn't want at all. I'm telling you 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.720 the fans where were hot. A guy was doing his 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.360 podcast in the media box after the game, and he 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.520 was killing Kirk Cousins. He was just and you know, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.640 people are typing their stories. You hear and you just 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.160 hear him killing him, and you could not sit up 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.040 here and say, well, that's unfair. It was legitimate. It's 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.360 legit because he look at these weapons he has on 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.720 the outside. He got one of the best duos in 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.040 the National Football League, Feeling and Jefferson and I know 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.280 we got you know, days on one side, Brown who 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.920 played well. But you can't tell me there was no 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:20.960 options to take deep with those guys. I mean, he 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.200 had plenty of opportunities to stretch the football field and 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.160 he chose to either check it down or throw it 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.200 out of bounds. Well, I mean in an intentional ground 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.959 call that killed the whole team. That probably that probably 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.959 switched the whole on minute. It killed him on that one. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.439 You just I mean, come on, Kurt, what are you 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.160 doing out there? I go back into where they went 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.880 to the NFC Championship game and lost and felt that 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.280 if they could upgrade from case Keenom and they paid 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.800 all that money for Kirk Cousins, that has been the 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:54.440 biggest sunken costs I've seen in the NFL in the 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.600 last three and a half four years. I would agree 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.160 with you, because I mean, they had the one playoff 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:59.599 run they be I think they beat the Saints in 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.480 a while card or something like that. But other than that, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:07.000 I mean, he's just been that Minneapolis. Yeah, and then 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:08.920 it was then they ended up losing the NCY Championship. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.599 But they their their premise was, Okay, we're just a 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.559 quarterback away. They thought they were the Rams. Like they 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:15.880 thought they were you know what I mean, we were 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:20.880 golf and staffing. You ain't bringing in staff, and this 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.040 thing has been it's just been a big letdown. And 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.319 now you've got Mike Zimmer, former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.920 He's on year eight there. This is not a playoff team. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.280 They're three and four football team. It's not. It's not. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:38.120 And I don't think you can sell that fan base 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:43.160 on another year of Zimmer and Kirk much the same 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:47.000 way you couldn't sell Cowboy fans on year ten eleven 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.760 of Jason Garrett. They they had their field, they had enough, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.480 and then if you look at this defense isn't the 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.120 same either. You know, Minnesota has been the past couple 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.440 of years, they've been relying on a very stingy defense 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.640 out there. Those guys are getting long in the tooth now. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.720 I mean Kendricks, I think he's on year eight, maybe 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.400 Bars up there, Harrison Smith's already in his tenth year, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.960 So they're getting older there. They can't rely on that 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.000 defense as much. Is I think that windows right there. Yeah, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.440 and Green Bay's now running away with the division. So 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.360 now you're sitting here trying to find yourself in a 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.520 wildcard spot. Just start looking around the league and you 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.400 just say, Okay, it's gonna be hard to get these 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.040 spots because there's going to be a spot given to 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.080 the second place team in the NFC when exactly rams 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.160 A Cardinals are gonna get that. One of those teams 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.080 is getting it right there. So so it's just gonna 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.440 be hard. I mean, you're hard to get in. You're 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.480 just gonna have a tough time trying to figure out 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.080 how you can get in there. Now, the Saints are 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.920 definitely now in a different situation because Sean Payton has 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.040 confirmed that Jameis Winston has a torn acl Yeah, simmey 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.640 and ain't it man, I think that's one of those 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.480 guys like it was a spot duty deal where he 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.080 came in play performed well. But I just don't think 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.520 he can do that over to week week week basis. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.160 Defenses are going to figure out how they can pick 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.440 apart Trevor Trevor Simmons. So that but but still Sean's 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.920 gonna be creative enough. Let's take some hill. Was he 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.200 just not? Is he injured or he just wasn't? Oh? 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.400 They just man, that's something man, I wish I was 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.160 getting his jacket seven million to be chilling. Ain't that? 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.840 But there's one more team if Tampa gets the you know, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.720 I'm assuming Tampa's gonna win that division. They'll win until 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.720 the Saints are gonna be right there fighting to get 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.000 I would agree to get to. That's why I say 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.200 for your Minnesota, you're quickly finding yourself in a tough 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:24.960 spot in terms of trying to get one of these 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.560 wild cards. So the division race is pretty much done. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.480 You're trying to get a wild card spot. And I 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.280 haven't looked at their schedule to see who they're playing 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.400 and how you know who they may be up against it. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.440 So that's why I ultimately come back to Mike Zimmer's 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.120 in trouble. Yes, he's big. Like you said, if they don't, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.440 if they don't come away with a record that's at 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.960 least over or five hundred, I can't see if them 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.800 bringing them back. I mean, this is just too much mediocrity, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.640 and they put too much stock into this quarterback. I mean, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.240 they thought this combo would get them at least, you know, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.560 playoff caliber every single year. And after the first year 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.440 or two, I mean, it's been mediocrity and they don't don't. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:15:59.760 Like you said, I don't think the fans are gonna 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.280 stand for Look the offense, alright, thirty five million dollars, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.840 I mean thirty one million dollars. Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.160 twenty three or thirty five, one hundred and eighty four 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.960 yards and a touchdown. Okay, that's not that's not gonna 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.400 cut it. Contrast that to Cooper Rush twenty four or 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:21.000 forty three, twenty five, two touchdowns and one interception. So 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.600 and by the way, Minnesota won the turnover battle. You 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.960 won the turnover battle two to nothing, and you simply 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.920 couldn't go anywhere because you were terrible on third down. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.840 They were one for thirteen, one of thirteen by man 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.479 on thirty. You can't win that way. It's just it's impossible. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.720 You go out you win the turnover battle, which is 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:43.880 a big statistic on how you know who wins the 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.160 game or not. But if you're out there one for 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.120 thirteen on third down, you're not winning the money down, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.920 you're not extending these drives, and you're just giving the 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.280 Cowboys more and more opportunities to win this game. If 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:56.560 that would have been this, it would have been a 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.480 blowout by halftime, two minutes and fifty one seconds to go, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.000 you're one of thirteen on third downs and you have 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:08.840 a lead sixteen thirteen. So so while the Cowboys win 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.560 the game and go to six and one, if you're 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.080 if you're a Vikings player, you're really trying to ask you, so, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.680 how did we go lose that football game? And that 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.560 is Those are the kinds of losses where you lose 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.080 the fans. And that's a good fan base that I 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.440 tell everybody, Man, if you're gonna go to an opposing game, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.639 go up there. Yeah. I like playing in Minnesota. It 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.520 was like the world was against you, like it was. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.800 It was definitely a good atmosphere of playing. They do 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.760 a good job. They care about that team. You got 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.320 the skull chat. Oh oh, I mean it's it's it's 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.879 definitely a live place. Yes, I mean it's different, man, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.200 it's it's a whole different. And to see to see 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.160 that display and the way the fans were was interesting. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.760 If you look at it, like what were they doing offensively? 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.520 Like if you look at the Cowboys, what was the 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.000 play exactly like we got we can spread things out 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.560 with getting thank you all these different we're getting our 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.760 playmakers the ball in space, whether it's bubble screens, quick slants, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.200 anything like that. Minnesota, they're lining up in twelve personnel 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:08.760 play action, Let's see if we get hit him deep. 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.400 Play action. Let's see if we get him deep. When 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.800 the running game wasn't doing that much. The play actions 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.840 not gonna draw people up, so you're not gonna have 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.879 these big holes in the in the defense where you 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.160 can try to pick apart. It was just a bad 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.160 overall game plan and I don't I don't know where 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.760 they were thinking with that. You gotta be able to 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.320 get your playmakers the ball in space. You got two 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.800 of the best dealing and Jefferson they got a good 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:29.800 slot receiver. I forget his name right now, but they're 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.720 get a good slot receiver. They got Dalvin Cook out there. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:34.760 Let him do some work one on one, get him 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.199 in space. I just I just didn't understand the game 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.240 playing at all from Minnesota. So you sound exactly like 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.800 a Minnesota Vikings saying yeah, because that's what they were 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.680 saying last night. They were ticked, they were upset. There's 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.280 talent here that's not being used. When why, I simply say, 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.160 I don't know if if Mike Zimmer's going to get 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.040 an opportunity to come back. Let's take a break here 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.399 and dive more into this Cowboys. We talked about them 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.520 being one of thirteen in terms of holding up the Vikings. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.480 There was several guys out there on the field, in 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.119 my opinion, who you just looked at you had to 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:15.680 tip your cap. Obviously, Cooper Rush gets the spotlight because 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.320 he's the quarterback in the NFL's the quarterback league. 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Let 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.840 me tell you this right now, if you are a 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.840 Cowboy fan here, they are six and one in November 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:11.200 and you're thinking about putting some Cowboy items underneath the 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.920 Christmas tree, you better do it now, okay, because when 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:18.480 the Cowboys are hot, the merchandise flies off the rack. 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.359 This is true. I go back to doing a story 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.960 when Bill Priacas was here with the Cowboys and it 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:30.200 was Dak and Zeke's rookie year. They were they sold 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.440 out of the twenty ones in fours they sold out. 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:36.520 Then they were doing the two one four hurts. They 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:41.760 were gone and they just couldn't keep Cowboys gear in stock. 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:44.440 And the thing I also try to tell people, remember 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.000 this is an international team. Yeah, it ain't local, without 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.159 a doubt, it ain't just you know, it's the highest one. 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:55.320 It's high sports franchise, and in this valuable sports franchise 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.240 in the world. So yesterday, by the way, the players 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:01.800 not by whose dot com he is buried, Churches Cows, 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:04.280 Cowboys Safety, I'm new we scrugs a long time Cowboys broadcast. 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.480 Our other partner, Danny McCrae. He's its flight. Its flight 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.720 got delayed out there in Los Angeles, so he couldn't 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:14.120 get back in time. So we it was Claire Till 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:16.600 the Star Telegram, Caval Watson's DATS Morning News and I 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:20.359 we we went during the afternoon to the George Floyd 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:25.639 Square in Minnesota where George Floyd was was killed, and 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.879 there were a ton of cowboy fans there. And what 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.440 was interesting, most of the cowboy fans we met from 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:38.720 were from New Jersey taking over New York. They hated rivalry, 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:40.920 they taking over New York. Coming up, we met more 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:44.520 cowboy fans that were not from Texas there George Floyd World, 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.600 and there were it was a truckload of cowboy fans 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.280 at the George f travels. Would you say it travels 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:54.040 as good as the Stellers or Green Bay and on 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:56.840 that that fan base he's getting there. I put it 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:58.600 up there with the Yankees. Oh you get it up. 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.160 They were like that. Okay, it's a different it's it's 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:07.879 at the Yankees Lakers level. Where where national treasures internationally? No, yeah, okay, 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:09.359 you know if you go to Italy, you'll see somebody 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:11.520 wear the Yankees hat. You know, you'll see. That's where 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:14.520 the Cowboys are at. And that's what I'm just going 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:16.760 back to my original point. Come Christmas time, if you 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:18.280 if you don't get it early, you're gonna have a 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.160 tough time getting it. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:23.720 be tough. When the Cowboys get into this kind of role. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:26.639 It's hard to get tickets to the games. If people 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.119 want the gear, they want to wear their Cowboys stuff around. Oh, 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.719 those tickets are gonna sky rocket man. Wait till wait 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:35.200 till Arizona comes in town. I mean, a regular seat 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:40.760 might cast you seven. Crisis will be marked up one 0:24:41.480 --> 0:24:43.800 for sure. So Cowboys six and one. I got to 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:46.560 dive back into the Cowboys defense. One of thirteen they 0:24:46.680 --> 0:24:50.920 held Minnesota to on third downs. And we're talking about 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:58.480 a trio, okay, a triplet trio of of powerful guys 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:02.240 in terms of what Minnesota has. You know, Adam Feeling, Jefferson, 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:05.720 Jefferson Cook. That's a hack of a trio, right, Yeah, 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:10.520 they weren't getting off. Micah Parsons the rookie eleven total tackles, 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:15.240 ten solos, four tackles for loss. I looked over here 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:21.800 the first three, actually the first four leading tacklers for Minnesota, 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:26.719 Harrison Smith, Xavier Woods, dance yone was at a good game. 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:29.040 Where do they all play in the secondary? That's how 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:31.240 you knew it was getting back. That's how if your 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.440 safeties are out there totaling a lot of tackles out there, 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:36.800 something ain't going right in the front seven. But with 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:39.280 our front seven. Let me tell you about Marcat Parsons. Man, 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:42.320 that is a full grown man right there. I'm in 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:45.080 a Cowboys uniform. He is a full grown man. And 0:25:45.119 --> 0:25:47.359 when you go out there with the socks that he 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:49.800 had on. So those those type of socks not most 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.639 cats are wearing because they're just the superregular degulars. You know, 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:54.760 it's just the blue halfway up then you know by 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:57.040 the ankle it comes in. The White people don't wear those. 0:25:57.080 --> 0:25:59.480 They're either doing like the long blues or long whites. 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:01.359 When you come out there and don't care about your 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:03.439 swag like that and that type in uniform, you know 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:05.280 that guy means business. It's like back in the day 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:07.240 when guys used to come out there with the tape fingers. 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:09.119 That guy might not be the best cover guy, but 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:11.000 he's gonna come down and hit you. And that's what 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:13.480 Parsons brings to this defense. I mean, if you look 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:16.719 at it, he's overwhelming offensive lineman that even think they 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:18.560 get to the second level and might have a shot 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:20.439 on him, he's either oh laying him or he's just 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:22.880 flinging him to the side. And when you see him 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:25.000 hit people at the point of attack at that line 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.000 of scrimmage, they're not falling forward for extra leaky yardage. 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.240 Those guys are either getting stoned right there or they're 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:33.840 going backwards. This guy, I mean, he just stands out 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:36.840 and flashes. Each and every down you'll see an eleven 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.480 Jersey coming out of nowhere, whether it's chasing down a 0:26:39.560 --> 0:26:42.080 guy or being there at the point of attack. This 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:45.680 guy is making an extremely, extremely big time impact for 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.159 this defense. And it doesn't matter what position you play, 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:50.480 but I'm glad they put him at middle linebacker, because 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:52.360 we've seen these past couple of weeks. If you let 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.199 him marinate there and let him learn that position and 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:57.880 get that position down, pad, he's just gonna get better 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:01.320 and better and better. I mean, he's understanding his run fits. 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:04.159 He's diagnosing these run fits, and he's beating his blockers 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:06.160 to the point of attack. And it's not like he's 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:08.720 you know, hammering when he should be spilling the guard 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.280 or you know, spilling the guard when he should be hammering. 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:14.160 He's hitting everything right, getting it back to his help. 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:16.320 And it's just a full grown man out there, and 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:19.760 he's making plays as a rookie that you don't see. 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:21.919 I mean, even Sean Lee, who was great as a rookie, 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:24.560 this guy is just he's looking like a full grown 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:27.359 man out there. And it's just to me, it's extremely 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:30.360 impressive because as a safety, you get to see all 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:32.120 that in front of you go down and when your 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:33.879 safeties are in the back end, being able to just 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:36.560 worry about pass coverage if something leaks out maybe here 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:39.439 and there, that's when that safety job gets extremely easy. 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:40.879 So you got a guy in the middle at the 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.520 linebacker position that is holding things down and is acting 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:46.240 like a grown man out there, and he's playing. He's 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:49.240 playing great right now for the Dallas Cowboys, so very church. 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.280 I go back to the draft and when we were 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:55.440 talking about what the Cowboys should do with the first pick, 0:27:55.600 --> 0:27:58.560 you and I were both on board taking a corner 0:27:59.000 --> 0:28:01.400 and taking the kid from Alabama who's in Denver, who 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:08.119 will see this week? Patrick's certain the second and Parsons 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:13.200 ends up being taken and overwhelmingly, i'd say Cowboy Nation 0:28:13.320 --> 0:28:16.359 was lukewarm. Yeah, I would agree with that. And I 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:20.760 go back now and I think of where the problem was. 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:26.080 You just Michael Parson's linebacker, and he didn't play last 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:31.280 year either, So Michael Parson's linebacker, and what should have 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:36.080 been said, Michael Parsons. Pressure player. That's what it is, 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:41.640 a defensive weapon, pressure player. And we've spoken before on 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.880 the show and I brought up a junior. Say out, junior, say, 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:48.640 I brought pressure linebacker. But he just brought you a 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:52.160 lot of pressure that you had to know where I was. 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.800 And that's that's And I remember talking Will McClay and 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:59.320 we were trying to find a guy and I and 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:01.600 I brought up Pat Swilling and he said yes because 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:03.560 Pat Swilling number fifty six when he played with the 0:29:03.600 --> 0:29:06.720 New Orleans Saints was a monster. Ricky Jackson got to 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:08.280 the Hall of Fame and got a lot of credit, 0:29:08.320 --> 0:29:11.160 but Pat Swilling there was lt in a class by himself. 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:13.240 Then you started looking at that next group of dudes. 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.280 Pat Swilling was right in there in terms of the 0:29:15.360 --> 0:29:18.200 kind of pressure that he brought. Who had to be 0:29:18.240 --> 0:29:21.160 aware of Pat Swilling and Micah Parsons to me, is 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:24.320 fitting into that. He's not a lineback. That's just too 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:28.600 generic terms. Not many linebackers can bring this kind of pressure. 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:33.840 As much as Jalen Smith in Layton Banderesh have had 0:29:34.280 --> 0:29:38.360 first good first contracts with the Colbums, they weren't the 0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:42.080 kind of pressure player that Micah Parsons. They're just not many. 0:29:42.360 --> 0:29:45.160 There's not many gays periods. That's like that right now. 0:29:45.200 --> 0:29:47.320 I mean, the way this guy's jumping off the tape, 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:50.080 it's it's outstanding. And then you go back to last year, 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:53.120 we got exposed a lot at that second level when 0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:55.240 we're talking about running backs come out of the backfield, 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:58.480 covering running backs out of the backfield tight ends. This 0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:01.479 guy has come here and slowly erased that I mean 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:03.560 we go out there and look all those checkdowns, all 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:05.480 those guys that were in open space that would make 0:30:05.680 --> 0:30:08.240 my boy Jalen Smith or Lvee miss and get an 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:11.480 extra ten fifteen yards, that's getting erased by this guy. 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:14.720 He's one part. I mean, it doesn't matter who the 0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:17.200 running back he is out there, Dalvin Cook, the other guy, 0:30:17.200 --> 0:30:19.880 the had He is erasing all that and it's open 0:30:19.920 --> 0:30:25.240 field tackling is extremely extremely impressive. Nice game by l 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:29.080 Layton Banderash. Yeah, he's playing solid as well. J Ron Curse, 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:33.440 give that guy contract, get him here now, because not 0:30:33.520 --> 0:30:36.480 only is his play on the field outstanding, but he's 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:38.640 also a leader and you can see he's vocal on 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:41.440 that sideline getting those boys ready to play. So so Church, 0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:45.800 help me understand this one here from the standpoint you're 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:48.800 j Ron Curse, You're You're on a good defense right now, 0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:51.680 and this this is trending towards you're going to make 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:55.440 the playoffs and witness to be. So this means opportunities 0:30:55.440 --> 0:30:57.680 for you in the free agent market. Oh yeah, how 0:30:57.800 --> 0:31:02.000 much do you look at the bag versus the scheme, 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:05.120 because right now this is a scheme that they have 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:09.840 utilized Curs' skills highlighting which haven't really didn't happen for 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:13.640 him in Detroit, Minnesota, they're happening here. Yeah, So if 0:31:13.680 --> 0:31:16.840 I'm if I'm curse, definitely a bag is the forefront 0:31:16.840 --> 0:31:18.280 of my mind because if I mean, I could be 0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:19.960 wrong about this, but I don't think he's yet to 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.400 get a super like a super deal as far as 0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:25.080 contracts concerned. I mean, he's being basically working on like 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:27.560 one one year deals or bat minimum type deals. So 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:30.080 the money is definitely going to be at the forefront 0:31:30.120 --> 0:31:32.280 of your mind. But what I will say is is 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:34.720 not always greener on the other side. You may get 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.200 the bag, you may have that that money to be 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:39.120 able to help out your family and all that other stuff. 0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:42.280 But if you want to longevity and if you want 0:31:42.280 --> 0:31:44.800 to be able to you know, maybe springboard your career 0:31:44.880 --> 0:31:47.560 to something else, there's nothing better than the star. I'm 0:31:47.600 --> 0:31:49.840 telling you right now, there's nothing better than this organization 0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:52.520 in the NFL when you're talking about making money outside 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:56.040 of football, and they the scheme that you're in the 0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:58.880 defense is playing extremely well. Now, dan Quinn, he might 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:00.800 get you know, poached off his job and he might 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:04.080 get a head job opportunity somewhere else. But right now, 0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:07.840 his scheme and his system with Curse, it's working. It's 0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:10.280 working unbelievably because he's manning him up on tight ends. 0:32:10.320 --> 0:32:12.240 He has the length, he has the size and speed 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:15.120 to run with those guys. But he's also great at blitzing, 0:32:15.320 --> 0:32:17.200 playing in the box versus the run, and he could 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:19.800 play deep as well. And with this type of system, 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:22.000 they run kind of a three safety rotation, so he's 0:32:22.080 --> 0:32:24.800 not necessarily always going to be in the deep end 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:27.080 where he might get exposed, so he's always a round 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:29.200 the line of scrimmage. They have a big nickel package 0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:32.440 for him, so they're definitely highlighting his his qualities out there. 0:32:32.760 --> 0:32:34.600 But I'm assure you that the money is going to 0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:36.160 be at the front of his mind going into this 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:39.080 free agency. But like I said, the grass is not 0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:42.520 always greener. Make sure you make the right decision. The 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:47.360 young man is able to place down the box a 0:32:47.480 --> 0:32:50.160 little bit. He's a badd It was that big. It's 0:32:50.160 --> 0:32:52.880 like six four. It's a big dude. Man. He runs it. 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:56.640 He runs well. Daddy was big. Yeah, that's so he 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:59.680 comes from come from good style. I had no idea 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:04.560 that Pops yeah, the Freak. Yes, oh man, I wanted 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:08.240 those dudes athletic as all get out. Yes, yes, no, no, man, 0:33:08.360 --> 0:33:10.640 that's that's that's I had no idea that was his pop. 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:14.440 That's just how old we are. Now. Many guys we 0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:16.840 saw play their kids was playing with the Freak on 0:33:16.960 --> 0:33:20.720 Madden like that was that guy? Look, Patrick's certain, you know, yeah, 0:33:21.280 --> 0:33:26.280 the child's out here playing. So this is this is 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:30.600 as Now, this is crazy. This is where you're at here. 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:33.120 So I'll let me pull up here for Curse if 0:33:33.160 --> 0:33:40.680 I can. Where's Boom one year nine before taxes, that's 0:33:40.720 --> 0:33:45.160 before jay Ron curse man, So what a quality? Grab him? 0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:47.000 And I would I would, I would say all those 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:49.200 you know, one year guys that they brought in have 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:52.560 been such quality. You got Neo coming in here, Kaz 0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:56.360 Hookers is Compunica or it's out there contributing as well. 0:33:56.440 --> 0:33:58.440 So I think all these dealings that goes off to 0:33:58.520 --> 0:34:02.160 will McClay those boys for friends and so one point 0:34:02.280 --> 0:34:04.959 one million this year, well the signing motives of one 0:34:05.040 --> 0:34:09.040 hundred and thirty seven thousand Curse for Curse. He's unrestricted 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:12.080 next year. So he's twenty seven years old. He's still young. 0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:14.719 So so this is what I look here and saying, 0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:16.360 this is a guy you got it, you've got to 0:34:16.440 --> 0:34:19.879 bring back. Oh, by the way, another guy that you've 0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:22.360 got to bring back is Randy Gregory. Oh my gosh. 0:34:22.880 --> 0:34:27.080 Talk about a destructive different force maker, difference make Jimmy 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:31.920 Johnson's called difference makers. And imagine when we get d 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:34.400 law back on the other side, how are you how 0:34:34.440 --> 0:34:36.480 are you going to block that offensively? You slide it 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:38.120 one way. The other guy got a one on one, 0:34:38.280 --> 0:34:39.880 you slide it to that way. He got a one 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:42.080 on one on that side. It's like pick your poison. 0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:45.399 We're talking about offensively picking your poison defensively if we're 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:47.239 able to and that's a big thing I think that 0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:50.279 we were able to do last night. We were only eight. 0:34:50.320 --> 0:34:52.920 We were able to just rush four defensive lineman and 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:55.279 get home and get pressure on Kirk Cousins. And that 0:34:55.360 --> 0:34:58.440 allowed our linebackers, our safeties to be out in courage 0:34:58.440 --> 0:35:00.560 and help out on need the dynamic duo they had 0:35:00.600 --> 0:35:02.880 on the outside. But it just goes to show you 0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:06.520 how much of a freak athlete, in a freak presence 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:08.800 Gregory can be out there off of that edge. I 0:35:08.880 --> 0:35:11.160 mean he was going through double teams like a hot 0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:13.759 night through butter. And when we get those guys back 0:35:13.880 --> 0:35:19.320 Neville Gallimore d law on that outside Brynt Urban, Brynton Urban. 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:22.480 I mean it's we're getting we're getting healthy at the 0:35:22.640 --> 0:35:24.920 right time to make a run here in neuis. These 0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:27.319 guys might have something special on them. 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I hope 0:38:24.400 --> 0:38:27.239 you're able to get get on home today. I was 0:38:27.320 --> 0:38:29.440 listening to some guy who was trying to fly fly 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:32.080 standby and he was trying to get home to Atlanta. 0:38:32.120 --> 0:38:34.080 Said he woudn't get home to Atlanta un till six pm. 0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:36.680 You hate to see it. I mean they are got. 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:39.520 I mean this airline thing, man, it's got folks flying 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:43.160 all over the country and some flights now I'm scared. Nah, 0:38:43.320 --> 0:38:45.319 I'll just say this. If you're gonna book something, try 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:47.759 to get on the first ones you can, because the 0:38:47.880 --> 0:38:50.040 later ones in the day got a chance to be 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:54.120 miss delayed or whatnot. So I got I got up 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:57.480 at four forty five. My man to give us up 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.359 at the before dawn. He was up before we're done. 0:39:00.400 --> 0:39:02.640 It was that cold. Minnesota's cold. I know he was 0:39:02.680 --> 0:39:05.520 cold that morning, but I needed to get on the plane. 0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:07.840 Wanted to get back here and do the show. Friday 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:11.040 man appreciated Cowboys win twenty to sixteen. They are six 0:39:11.160 --> 0:39:14.560 in one. They face the Denver Broncos on Sunday at 0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:18.120 Jerry World. Broncos traded Vaughan and Millard today. He's now 0:39:18.200 --> 0:39:21.160 a member of the Los Angeles Rams. Rams going all in, baby, 0:39:21.280 --> 0:39:23.759 they got they they're trying to win. I mean they 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:26.000 went and got Stafford. Now I got von Miller to 0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:28.319 go with. You know, Leonard Floyd and Aaron Donald out there, 0:39:28.440 --> 0:39:31.399 Jalen Ramsey in the back end. So they're doing all 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:34.279 they can to get this this this Super Bowl run accomplish. 0:39:34.360 --> 0:39:36.040 It'd be a disappointment if they didn't get too far. 0:39:36.320 --> 0:39:39.600 So more kind of things that do concern the Cowboys. 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:43.080 So Denver, that's that's coming up on Sunday, that's a 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:46.839 twelve o'clock game at Jerry World. Jameis Winston is out 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:49.760 for the season. That's what head coach Sean Payton announced today. 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:55.160 Acl Cowboys face New Orleans in a month. That's gonna 0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:59.200 be a Thursday night, December second game on NFL Network 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:02.239 at seven. Want to get the Superdome. So type of 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:04.759 things starting when you when you're making not Super Bowl run, 0:40:04.920 --> 0:40:06.520 you know, you get a dash of luck here, a 0:40:06.560 --> 0:40:09.600 couple of injuries here, a trade there. It's starting to 0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:11.960 work out. We're getting healthy at the right time. I 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:15.200 don't know. Movie So Denvers four and four they ended 0:40:15.280 --> 0:40:19.600 up winning. Yesterday they ended up pulling it out Bridgewater, Denver, Denver. 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:22.879 So the next two games or our home games, it's 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:26.240 Denver then Atlanta. I think I see those as two doubs, 0:40:27.120 --> 0:40:29.279 well even without you know, for if they want to 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:31.200 rest for a little bit more. So, yes, does does 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:34.960 Dak practice Scott played this weekend? We'll see does Tyrant 0:40:35.000 --> 0:40:38.520 Smith play this weekend against Denver? The second straight game 0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:41.080 where Tyrant went out. We spoke about it on the 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:47.319 show that while Collins is not starting, do not think 0:40:47.640 --> 0:40:51.359 that this is all just settled. So as Smith went 0:40:51.400 --> 0:40:54.520 out in the game, tying Seki, which surprised me, went 0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:57.680 to left tackle and there were issues. Yeah, there were 0:40:57.719 --> 0:40:59.959 definitely issues over there. They worked on him a little, 0:41:00.000 --> 0:41:02.160 but that's the same thing that happened two weeks ago 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:04.480 when he came in New England. When Tid Smith went 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:06.120 out a little bit, you know, they start to realize 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:07.759 who he is. That's the week spot they're gonna go 0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:10.920 at him. So I would not be surprised going forward 0:41:11.080 --> 0:41:13.440 if us just say next week Tyren Smith has to 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:15.480 take out a week you know, ankle injury didn't heal 0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:16.600 up as good as he thought it would be, so 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:18.680 he's gonna miss one more week. I would not be 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:22.200 surprised if they slid either Likeell Collins, who's a natural 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:24.040 left so that i'd be you know, easier for him 0:41:24.080 --> 0:41:26.279 on that left side, or Terrence Steel over there and 0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:29.319 put Collins on the right side. Either or I think 0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:32.080 they have a good matchup with those tackles on that outside, 0:41:32.120 --> 0:41:35.080 because if we know beforehand, if thy Smith would have 0:41:35.080 --> 0:41:37.680 went down, it would be just like losing Dak Prescott. 0:41:37.680 --> 0:41:39.799 But oh, here we go. I mean it's gonna happen next. 0:41:39.840 --> 0:41:42.040 We're just gonna get the floodgates are just gonna open. 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:45.000 But with a surprising play of Terren Steel out there, 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:47.680 and hopefully, you know, collins conditioning is good and he 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:49.640 can go back out there and get those quality reps 0:41:49.680 --> 0:41:52.320 this week. I might. I don't see this as that 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:54.839 big of an issue as it has been in years past, 0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:59.480 So depending on how they practice their reps this week, 0:41:59.480 --> 0:42:02.080 I would have imagine be Terrance still going to left 0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:08.319 tackle and Colin's it right to prepare if Tyrant Smith 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:11.279 doesn't play. When I was doing my broadcast after the 0:42:11.320 --> 0:42:14.800 game in Minnesota, I was watching guys come out. Smith 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:19.320 walked out without a boot, so he was limping, but 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:22.120 he walked out and didn't have it have a boot 0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:25.120 on or anything. Digs also was dealing with an ankle injury. 0:42:25.200 --> 0:42:27.239 He was fine, ended up saying that he was he 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:29.760 was cool after the game. So that's something to think about. 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:33.359 Michael Gallup may be ready to go against Denver this week. 0:42:33.880 --> 0:42:36.680 What role do you see him havn't because it's not like, 0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:39.640 like said Wilson, you know, it's not like he's just 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:41.520 a gadget guy, like he's just a guy that comes 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:43.800 in and does reverses and trick passes or nothing like 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:47.120 That's he's elevated his game to the point where he 0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:50.040 is a solid number three on this team. I mean, 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:51.800 we saw what he was able to do versus that 0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.120 cover two or that two man, split the gate, go 0:42:54.280 --> 0:42:56.840 up the gut. I love Gallup as a receiver, but 0:42:56.840 --> 0:42:58.239 I don't know if he has that gas to be 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:00.680 able to get into the end zone on that play. Now, 0:43:01.000 --> 0:43:02.719 it's gonna be interesting to see what they do with 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:05.920 this situation, because said Wilson, to me, has played some 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:08.040 of the best ball of his young career so far. 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:10.880 And it's just not a It hasn't just been gadgets, 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:13.000 all right. This guy's made some spectacular plays. We go 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.200 back two weeks ago that fourth and fourth he saved 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:18.319 the game against the Patriots with an unbelievable catch out there. 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:21.239 So this guy can do many things for this Dallas 0:43:21.280 --> 0:43:23.799 Cowboys offense. And to be honest, I feel like he's 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:26.880 a better run after the catch guy than Gallup is. 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:29.160 Gallup may have him on the deep ball situation, but 0:43:29.760 --> 0:43:31.920 other than that, I see these two is very similar, 0:43:32.080 --> 0:43:34.239 and said Wilson, just being a better run after the 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:37.359 catch type of guy. So to me, I don't, I don't. 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:39.880 I wouldn't just throw Gallop in there, like all right, 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:42.360 you're you're you're a bona fide guy, said Wilson. You 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:45.120 take a seat number four. I would slowly get him 0:43:45.160 --> 0:43:46.960 in there, like how they didn't know Ah Brown and 0:43:47.080 --> 0:43:48.440 how they had him in there, you know, on the 0:43:48.480 --> 0:43:50.920 couple interances. I would slowly get Gallop in there and 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:53.160 ingretiate himself and then you know, if he gets it going, 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:55.399 then he gets it going. But I wouldn't force things. 0:43:55.440 --> 0:43:57.800 I wouldn't force things like they did with the Lyle situation. 0:43:57.880 --> 0:44:00.319 They didn't force Lyo back in there because ter still 0:44:00.400 --> 0:44:03.040 was playing some great ball. Same thing with said Wilson. 0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:04.560 I wouldn't just force it in there to try to 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:07.000 throw off the functionary or nothing like that. Gallops a 0:44:07.040 --> 0:44:08.799 hell of a player. I'm sure he'll get his reps 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:11.360 and get his balls thrown to him during the season, 0:44:11.480 --> 0:44:13.800 But right now, I think you work come in slowly. 0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:22.239 Michael Gallop is a guy we all like. Yeah, both 0:44:22.320 --> 0:44:24.359 guys are going to be free agents, and I've heard 0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:27.200 some people say, well pay twelve pay Michael Gallop twelve 0:44:27.280 --> 0:44:31.200 million dollars and some people say, let Cooper go. I 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:34.120 definitely wouldn't go with the second one. But if you 0:44:34.200 --> 0:44:38.320 don't understand what Amari Cooper brings professionally in leadership, then 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:41.560 I'm sorry you don't truly understand how locker rooms were 0:44:41.640 --> 0:44:44.759 now not at all. There's a lot of substance to 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:49.680 what Amari Cooper brings, and you pay the twenty million 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:52.400 dollars next year, in my opinion, I would. I think 0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:55.720 he's definitely worth it. And if you're choosing between Wilson 0:44:55.760 --> 0:45:00.319 and Gallop, think on your surface, you said out it's 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:03.000 a better player. But this isn't so much about the 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:05.200 better players as much as you're talking about what fit 0:45:05.600 --> 0:45:07.759 and money you have. There's there's definitely there's a lot 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.279 of contexts that goes into that. There is. And if 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:13.880 Gallup is looking for a contract where he wants ten, twelve, thirteen, 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:16.520 fourteen million dollars, which is you know, that's fine. I 0:45:16.600 --> 0:45:18.960 think he'll get that too somewhere, then it's not going 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:21.680 to be with it when you can bring said Wilson 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:25.120 back for a substantially lower amount of money and the 0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:28.000 play wouldn't be that much of a drop I mean, 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:30.759 I'd say it's more of a you know, Gallup may 0:45:30.800 --> 0:45:32.719 have him by maybe a couple of points here. Let's 0:45:32.719 --> 0:45:34.960 just say Gallups of nine and which I'm not saying 0:45:35.000 --> 0:45:36.600 he's at nine out of ten receiver, but let's just 0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:39.239 say he's at nine, and then said Wilson might be 0:45:39.640 --> 0:45:41.360 you know, seven and a half eight. It's not that 0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:44.080 far over a drop off. A lot of times it's complimentary. 0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:46.160 How do you compliment the offense? And then at the 0:45:46.200 --> 0:45:48.120 same time, where you're talking about a salary cap where 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:51.239 issues are definitely there, you have to find a complimentary 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:54.000 salary to go with that. So ultimately it means you 0:45:54.080 --> 0:45:55.680 let good players go. Yeah, and they look, if you 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:57.840 save money on Gallup, you can put that towards a 0:45:57.920 --> 0:46:00.759 lot of the defensive guys or one year contracts right 0:46:00.800 --> 0:46:02.480 now and there and the book. A couple of those 0:46:02.520 --> 0:46:06.040 guys like we mentioned Curse Kaz Hooker, Neil they've been 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:09.640 playing well. Randy Gregory. Randy Gregory at the worst, he's 0:46:09.640 --> 0:46:14.440 gonna get franchise. So you've got so Michael Gallup almost 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:16.600 becomes a luxury that you may not be able to 0:46:16.760 --> 0:46:19.800 make fit long term. When you're talking about the money. 0:46:20.120 --> 0:46:21.840 And if you're Michael Gallup, you're not gonna try and 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.279 sit around here to take a hometown discut. You gotta 0:46:24.280 --> 0:46:26.120 go get the bag the first deal. You gotta. You 0:46:26.200 --> 0:46:28.200 gotta gill you can't. You gotta strike byle The iron's hot. 0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:31.480 He's played good, so he'll deserve a nice pay day. 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:34.439 We'll dive more into that. Said Wilson. Three catches eighty 0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:37.920 four yards in a touchdown. Congratulations to him. Fantastic job 0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:41.880 by Mike McCarthy, the head coach, because he continually talks 0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:45.839 about how you hey, he takes everybody. Yeah, he's right. 0:46:46.080 --> 0:46:49.279 And you just saw last night in Minnesota another where 0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:51.600 you see young guys playing. You see where people are 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:53.560 asked to come in here and fill some roles and 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:56.600 they did it. So, Michael, I love what Mike McCarthy's 0:46:56.600 --> 0:46:59.120 doing as far as letting his coaches do their job. 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:01.000 I mean, he doesn't seem like and I could be wrong, 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:03.920 but he doesn't seem like a coach that's overbearing saying, oh, 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:05.719 you know, this is not the way I want my 0:47:05.840 --> 0:47:08.320 offense run. It's my way or the highway. He seems 0:47:08.360 --> 0:47:10.560 to let Kelly Moore do his thing, let Dan Quinn 0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:12.319 do his thing, and he might not get a lot 0:47:12.400 --> 0:47:14.319 of credit, but if they keep winning the way they are, 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:16.400 it's gonna fall to him. Eventually at the end of 0:47:16.440 --> 0:47:19.000 the day, they'll say you're you know, you're the head 0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:20.920 coach and it's gonna be your team and you get 0:47:20.960 --> 0:47:23.200 the way, lass record and everything else. All right, Barry 0:47:23.320 --> 0:47:25.840 church Man, good stuff. We'll get back after tomorrow. A 0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:29.759 big shout out to Will and Alex helping make sure 0:47:29.840 --> 0:47:32.239 we get on the airs. People are trying to your 0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:35.399 Dallas Cowboys crews trying to get back who didn't fly 0:47:35.480 --> 0:47:37.920 on the charter, just finding on American trying to get 0:47:37.960 --> 0:47:40.839 back here. Good luck and we'll cha have everybody tomorrow. 0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:42.239 I'm knew we scrugs. Thank you so much for check 0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:44.240 out the players lives. 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