WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Option 1) Stop the Run 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.120 The following he is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.080 Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:10.399 Cowboys. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:17.160 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:22.680 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.000 Hecma Harrison, and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:34.040 Yo. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.480 Here we are Dallas Cowboys Players Lounge coming to you 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.879 from the SWBC podcast studio, the site of the Dallas 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.400 Cowboys International Headquarters here in Frisco, Texas. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.519 Heck Ma Harrison is here in the building. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.480 Barry Church, Sir, mister Internationals Toledo Rocket Hall of Fas. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:54.920 City, Toledo. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.560 You see what we did to the SEC. I'ma pay 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.960 you know, I'm gonna pay them forty two dollars. Man 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.840 stopped four that two dollars. I got you, I got 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.920 you a new instruction. I want I want you to 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:05.480 understand it. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.440 These are the lies we tell ourselves right here for 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.800 Bury Church talking about paying a. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.440 Booster dudes hated dude. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.520 I've been around, I've been around and put this man 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.640 in the Hall of Fame and not a dollar has 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.119 gone to the school an il you know, church fund 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.360 going on as much bag ashd Con game they hooked 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:26.640 me up. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:26.960 He did. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.679 There should be a bury Church endowed scholarship. That sounds good, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.520 you know, a safety something, you know, a great player 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.000 Toledo every year should be getting me Buryed Church endowed scholarship. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.680 But they talk about it too, but they can't even 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.480 get the forty two dollars for the Booster Club for 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:45.000 my man. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.720 I'm gonna hook him up, man, I'm telling, and then 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.680 you get up and you tease the people like that, I'm. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.360 Gonna hook him up. Past dues and everything. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.600 The Rockets did beat up on Mississippi. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:57.440 Steven tapped it so so so there you go, Cowboy fans, 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.600 Ravens coming to town with the number one offense offense 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.720 in the league and the number seven rushing attack in 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:03.240 the league. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.720 And the news got worse to day. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.480 Sweet Jesus, why give us the bad news. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:12.600 Mozzie Smith. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.400 Mozzie Smith left the field walking with trainer Jim Mauer. 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.079 We don't know exactly what happened and why we don't 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:20.520 We don't know. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.320 That's all we know is Mozzie walking off the field. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.560 Cowboy beat writers out there tweeting about it will dive 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.800 into a more media mash of coming up at three o'clock. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.280 So that's the issue. The other issue is Jordan Phillips 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.480 wrist is going to go. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:38.040 On I R. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.720 That's at least four right at the very least. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:48.720 So yeah, man, yeah, here comes Lamar Jackson r POS. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.360 Here comes King Henry roll Tide coming in here. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.680 Yeah that's ugly. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.799 Now, yeah, that's ugly because you're talking about the spine 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.080 and defense, the middle of your defense, which for the 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.120 past couple of years has been the weak spot of 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.280 this Dallas Cowboys defense. And look, it's not like, you know, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.239 those guys on the inside were world beaters. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.120 I mean, we all understand that. But man, you're talking 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:14.760 about depth. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.639 If Mozie is not able to go, you already got 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.040 you know, Phillips on ir who you're gonna slide in there? 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.200 What beef do you have Pauls that is gonna be 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.760 able to withstand what King Henry and this Baltimore team 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.560 is going to be able to do on the inside. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:36.920 You know what we got at well today, y'ah in trouble. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:37.640 You're in trouble. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.960 If we got if I gotta call Joe, we did 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.360 sign Collins Watkins today. Colins Watkinson in the building. He's 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.560 added to the fifty three, not the practice squad, however, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.320 that maneuvers around. But you do bring in a guy 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.320 knowing that you are losing Jordan Phillips to I R. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:53.119 It's concerning. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.400 It's concerning not only the way that you looked in 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.760 the Saints game, but then as new he just stated, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.960 you have the number one offense with oh, by the way, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.800 one of the best beasts of running backs that is 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.640 going to be on the field with you on Sunday. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:08.520 I mean, it's concerning. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.920 And the thing about the performance that you had against 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.800 the Saints, you gave up one hundred and ninety yards 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.480 on the ground. You know that a team like Baltimore 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.720 is going to get on track by running the ball. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.120 They're gonna They're not gonna set their attention towards throwing 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.440 to flowers or doing any of that. They're gonna feed 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.640 their running back and try and get their running back 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.880 get their running game back on the tracks as well. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.040 You look at a coach in Harball who has been 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.600 fundamentally believed the defense in the running game, and that's 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.360 something that they've always been able to bring to every 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.920 city that they go to. And as we know, defenses 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.159 and running games do travel, and so I think that 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.080 our defense, if it has never been a get right 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:54.039 game for a defense, this one is it. Because you 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.520 gotta find a way to generate stops. And oh, by 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.480 the way, as we're talking about Derrick Henry, they got 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.440 a guy over there in Lamar Jackson that is a 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.160 change agent in football and one of those guys that 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.880 you gotta scheme up for to try and stop. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.920 And I will say this when it comes to the 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.719 Baltimore in Dallas' defense. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.040 When you look at Dallas's. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.040 Defense, the backs that they kind of usually struggle against 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.680 are those quick, hit the whole like a you know, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.239 like a lightning bolt type of backs. One thing about 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.720 Derrick Henry is he's not that hit the hole with 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.440 the you know, like a lightning boat. He's kind of 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.800 those labor through here. But once he gets going, now 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.200 it's kind of hard to stop him. He's like the juggernaut. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.120 But if you can get to him at that line 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.400 of scrimmage, if you can stop his momentum before he 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.080 gets going, he's a back that you can kind of 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.680 corral a little bit. And I've seen the Dallas Cowboys 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.480 defense have success against those bigger, physical laboring type backs. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.880 So that's one thing I will say. But if you 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.640 don't got the guys on the inside to at least 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.120 make those holes money, and you're giving him holes that 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.440 we saw Kamar run through. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.680 I mean he kissed the baby. It might be curtains, so. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:02.160 Heck refreshment memory. Carlos Watkins, we've seen him before. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.000 Yes, we have not fantastic twenty one to twenty two, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.599 those are not fantastic years to talk about. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:09.919 I mean, I like how you do it set it up. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:12.880 We've seen Carlos before. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.320 And where was Carlos located last before the Cowboys just 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:22.160 recently got him commanders? Was he on a on a 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:23.480 practice squad? 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.520 I mean, at this point, I don't think you can 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.080 get Jones in a trade from Kansas City. You're not 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.080 gonna get Aaron Donalds. So when I say that, I 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.479 wasn't trying to wow you with the fact that we 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:35.520 have Carlos Watkins. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:37.839 You're bringing the facts. Yeah, this is not a slam 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.000 on you at all. You're bringing the facts. I'm just 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:41.640 trying to make sure that you know, we remember the 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.440 last time we saw Carlos it was. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.800 Oh hey, yeah, we're good. They we're good. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.560 This is I mean, look, hey, it was concerning. It 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.240 was concerning before you had Carlos Watkins. And I think 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.280 again for this defense, no matter what they're thinking, koz 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.240 Zimmer has been through the ringer of these last couple 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.279 of days because everybody's questioning him, his tenure in the NFL, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:02.960 his defense. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.080 What is he dated? Is he out did all all 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:07.479 that stuff. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.040 And I think once you start those those whispers about 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.280 a coach that's been in this game, that's had some success, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.200 that's got a dig on his skin a little bit, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.680 and his guys are responsible for that. He fell on 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.560 his sword. He said it was you know, it was 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.800 what I was calling. It wasn't on the guy's effort. 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.800 The guys were saying, hell no, it was our effort. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.440 So look, we will see on Sunday, because you know, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.080 you have a team in front of you that has 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.640 one of the best. And I'm not talking about Henry 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.040 I'm talking about Lamar Jackson. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:32.680 That's a weapon. That's a weapon. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.000 So Carlos Watkins, by the way, wearing number ninety two 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:43.720 by Jersey, Yeah. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:49.000 Playing this week, playing this week, righties, young man? 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:49.880 Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.680 So I mean remember those ten snaps I was talking 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:59.720 about for lyn Vald Joseph. Remember remember those Joseph snaps 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:06.960 I was telling you about third times as well Shot Phillips. Yeah, Joseph, 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.520 And you're doing wat I mean who else is? 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.640 I mean really nowhere else where you can go right now? 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.200 Hey, teams are not giving up their good D the 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.600 their D twos, their D three is. They're not giving 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.760 up their tackles, They're not giving up their centers. They're 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:25.040 not giving up any of those guys. The enforcer, he's 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:25.800 the enforcer. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:34.880 Gator Roll. We shouldn't know who you're talking about. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:35.640 That. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:36.839 We noticed that. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.559 Who Gator Roll, he's doing this thing. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:52.360 Just man, look that some hard times right back, hard 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:53.240 times here on. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.920 This D line and Gator Road. I mean, here we are. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.160 It's week three, guys, yes, sir, something we are the 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.319 Players Lounge Podcast, brought you by Aristocrat Gaming. We have 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.720 been speaking about this since the season ended. Okay, you've 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:12.240 got issues stopping the run and we didn't see it 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.760 in the draft. You didn't see it in free agency. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.200 They tried to make a couple moves here at at 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.719 the end of camp, bringing in some bodies, but as 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:22.760 you talked about Church. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.880 You guys are old on the street for a reason. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.839 And after the Saints ate you up for one hundred 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:34.000 and ninety yards, we see more issues. This is a 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.199 team in Baltimore. It's gonna come here and punch you 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:36.680 in the mouth. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:37.400 They have to. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.040 They are zero and too. They're going to punch you 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.040 in the mouth. And right now my concern for this 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.560 football team HECMA is we watched them at home their 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.160 last two games at home get punched in the mouth, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.160 and they've laid down and they've taken it. Yea, At 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.120 what point in time do these guys stand up here 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.400 and fight back. This is an embarrassing moment. Is one 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.360 where this is where the old players got to come 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.960 back here? Man, You know, and I know Charles Haley 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:05.839 wear people. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:13.600 Out, We've seen it before, but somebody's got to sit 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.920 up here in this is some embarrassing stuff here. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.280 Man. You know, you know, you know the old guys 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.199 and your uncle Joe Green, you and the old guys 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.439 come back, man. You know, they bring their families and everything. Man, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.120 they don't want to come back here and come get embarrassed. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.480 Come out here and watch this. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:28.719 If I got to spend all my time and you know, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.000 because you know, going to a game, man the hours 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.920 and taken all the coting, can come out here and 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.600 just get a beat up and the game is over 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.079 by that before halftime. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:38.319 I don't want to see that. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.440 This isn't they need to show Vegas already has the 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.000 braven favorite in this game. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:45.800 Cowboys need to respond. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.439 As they should. And those are the things that that 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.839 locker room can't. They gotta they gotta block all of 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.640 that out because this is this is a gut check time. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.199 You know, for lack of better words, this is must 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.120 win whatever, it's a gut check game. And put it 0:10:59.160 --> 0:10:59.880 on the put it on the. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:00.800 As well man. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.760 Put it on coach Mike McCarthy, because I think what 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.480 people have really had a gripe with him is his 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.920 team's being ready in those moments. You didn't feel like 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.000 they were ready last year doing the playoffs, some of 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.840 the biggest games where they were coming up against some high, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.440 you know, heightened opponents, and they didn't show up. I mean, yeah, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.480 we can show up versus the five hundred, the little 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.080 below five hundreds, and we could flex our muscles, but 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.120 in order to get to that next step get over 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.480 the hump. As people say, you're going to have to 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.360 beat some of these upper echelon teams. Now the tape 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.880 is out. Yeah, the tape is out. And I don't 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.079 care what neighborhood you grew up in. If you're with 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.160 a guy that's always getting picked on, the bully, do on. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.440 They didn't even have to know you to come and 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.000 pick on you, right, And so every team that comes 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.040 to at and T Stadium think that they can do 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.079 the same thing that the Saints did, that the forty 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.800 nine ers did, that Green Bay did, because it's an 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.600 equation that works each and every time. And so to 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.200 speak to what you're saying, it's on the coaching staff. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.200 You guys got to be ready. I don't care what 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:56.719 bus you got to get on to get out here. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.920 Once you got to get on the first bus, the 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.560 second bus, but you better be ready when. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:01.320 You get to the stadium. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.800 I'll give you some of that, But I'm still the 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.960 same guy that gave McCarthy credit because they went against 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.360 went out there against Cleveland and they ended up getting 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.000 it done. But you know, if we could jump and 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.520 do podcasts and we can sign new contracts, and we 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:18.640 can do all these things. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.800 This is the play. This is still player's lead. This 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:22.559 is about dudes. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:23.840 And Barry, you speak to him. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.520 You know, Coach can sit up here and give you 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.520 the plan all day long. You gotta go out here 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.840 and execute it. But most of Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.360 they're not standing there on that field getting beating them 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:34.280 out and taking it. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:34.960 Yep. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.000 And he can't walk out there and do it for you. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.640 I mean, this is some time, and Michael, they're running 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.200 at you. Bruh, what you're gonna do? 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:43.680 Running that? You getting blocked up? 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.800 And Camargo still the pin. He goes slide the ball 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.400 across the bot. I mean, you guys gonna take that. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.720 I remember one time, and this is baseball, but got 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.400 picked the home run, and but show Walts was the 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.960 manager and he just looked down the bitch. He just 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.640 looked at him, looked back and he said, you know 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.640 he ain't seen oracks. Oh you okay with this? He 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.840 just leaned back, look at his players. Real simple, you 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.440 guys are okay with this dude hitting a home run, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.120 having a party out here. I'm just gonna sit back 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.920 and see what you guys do. Yeah, And to me 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.440 while yes coaching, getting your guys ready. At some point 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.599 in time, these dudes have to stand up here, just 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.280 like you talk about getting bullied and picked on. You 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:20.960 can tell you mom and daddy all day long, but 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.040 you're the one that got to go to school. When 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.199 do you stand up and say, hey, man, no, I 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.319 remember Jimmy Johnson when he was here, you're too young 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:29.560 for this. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:31.520 Jimmy Johnson talked. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.120 About sit this for that, and Jimmy Johnson talked about 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.800 them having to take on uh, taking on Washington. You know, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.720 when you're facing a big bully, what do you do. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.360 You gotta really gotta hit him with everything and the 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.480 out go ahead and beat these dudes up. Jimmy got 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:45.920 him ready, but they had to go out there and 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.720 they had to go execute it. And that was that 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.080 ninety two season. They ended up winning Super Bowl. Some 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.560 point time, you got a man up. You have to 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.240 be an active participant in your own rescue. Mike McCarthy 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.160 can't save you. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:57.640 You in the. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.440 Water, drowning, Grab a stick, swim to this show. Do 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.720 what you can tell somebody else in the room. You 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.760 coming with me. We're getting this done. But right now 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:11.520 we're watching do do something, bebout boombox, do something, find 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.360 out the boom bottle. But like you said, I'm a 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.920 flaw since I go across the end zone. They're taking it, man, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.200 and here come the Ravens at zero and two. And 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.160 you know what they you know what they're gonna do. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.200 You know what they're gonna do. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.760 So let me ask you this, and I agree with 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.160 you that the sense of I call it a gut 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.960 check situation. For the players, Micha McCarthy is on. I 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.520 don't know the hours, minutes, and seconds that he's gonna 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.600 be here, but he can't stand to have another embarrassment 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.400 like this at home. And that's that's what I'm speaking to. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.480 Michael's gonna be here, Okay, Michael's gonna be here. Trayvon 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.760 Diggs is gonna be here these that's happening to these guys. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.720 I'm talking about the coaches that are on month. They 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.680 got a couple of months in this deal. So you 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.240 have got to get this thing under control. You can't 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.720 have guy show up to the stadium and think they're 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.480 just gonna roll their helmets out there and gods are 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.120 gonna lay down. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:14:59.960 That's not gonna happen. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.240 And that's why I put the onus there on the 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.760 coaches as well, because if you don't get these guys 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.600 ready and they lose something that somebody else scored another 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:08.480 forty burger at home. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.720 I bear raight, mi raight, But it goes exactly what 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.560 you said. You gotta go out there and you gotta 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.600 punch the bully in the mouth. Sometimes we saw example 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.680 after example of this defense going out there, even. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.120 In offenses as well. If you look at that offensive. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.160 Line, it's the one on one opportunities. That's all that 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.240 football comes down to. In my opinion. I mean, you 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.560 just scheme everything up. You can get your players with 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.840 opportunities to go out there and make big plays. You 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.800 can scheme you know, Michael Parson's being able to loop 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.480 around and get to the quarterback back the end of 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.320 the day, he's got to win some type. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.360 Of one on one out there to make that scheme 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:41.920 come alive. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.840 When you looked out there on that defensive side of 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.920 the football, and that's because I played that sass, that's 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:47.760 the side I'm gonna talk. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.800 To, there was no wins. People were veil. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.360 Crow to the offensive lineman out there, not getting off 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.800 of blocks. There was a stat out there that said 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.640 Alvin Kamara had one hundred and thirty eight yards total. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.320 Before he even got touch. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.600 Like if you add up everything before he reached contact, 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.480 it was one hundred and thirty eight yards like that. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.400 That that to me is embarrassing. And like you said, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.120 he gets into the in so he's leaning up against 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.680 the railer. This is easy to me. That's what it 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.840 made it look like to me. And now it's embarrassing. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.200 And you you heard the players. They talked about it. Man, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.840 we can't let this happen. It's a punch in mouth. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.040 We gotta retaliate, we gotta respond. But there's only so 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.360 much you can scheme. You gotta go out there and 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.120 you gotta get the job done. As players, somebody got 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.680 to step up and they gotta get the job done. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.520 And so far this year they were able to do 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.440 it against a lackluster Cleveland team that you pointed out 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.200 without those two tackles. I mean compromise. It was a compromise, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:40.960 you know we did. We kind of glossed over there, 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.000 but that was compromising. Now the Saints team that nobody 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.680 had respect for, I know I didn't going into this 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.800 game and going into the season, and they came and 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.720 embarrassed you at your own front and your own home place. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.360 And that's the second one in the row. You're talking 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:54.120 about home games. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.680 Because Green Bay came into the same thing. And it's 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.120 not like it's just one phase of the football game. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.360 We were able to run and throw the football with ease. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.600 You gotta be able to go out there and win 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.840 your one on one opportunities. It comes down to the 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.199 player scheme. Everything you want to but at the end 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.199 of the day, those one on one opportunities you got 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:13.000 to take advantage of. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.480 That's what's scary about this game. That's what's scary about 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.600 it because if you get embarrassed the same way again, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.919 if you get embarrassed the same way, if King Henry is, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.320 if Derrick Henry is leaning up against the you know 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.520 got it. If Lamar Jackson does has those big eighty 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.760 yard crazy runs that you know Lamar Jackson is able 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.960 to have, it's look, it's going to be demoralizing and 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.080 not only is a fan base, but as a team 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.520 to see that continuously happen and you not be able 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.400 to do anything about it, and nobody has any backbone 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.879 to stop it. Nobody stands up and says, look, got 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.919 this on us. We got to go do something about it. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:47.520 Did you see that on the sideline? 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:48.080 I didn't. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.879 Y'all was looking for it. I didn't see it. I 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.880 didn't see that one guy that was saying, look. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:52.960 Radley, the truth. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.919 Something was here in twenty ten. Look uncle Wade, who's out? 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.920 I messed with Uncle Wade heavy. That was my guy 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.919 players coach. But there was all these so many embarrassing 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.040 games you can take. You. I don't know if you 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.160 was there, but you was covered the squad. We went 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.920 up to Green Bay that that Monday. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.000 There was a Monday night game, so no, it was 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:14.840 Sunday night games, Sunday the National everybody saw you TV. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.520 I mean, there was just so many butt kickings you 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:19.960 can take to where at the end of the day 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.640 it was like we got to make a change. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.119 Quit team, quit team, quit on it. I was playing 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.320 at half time after the rookie playing that it was bad. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.040 There was only so many times you could take those 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.160 punches in the mouth before something's gotta happen. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.159 All right, let's get our break in here. 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The Cowboys are twelve and two the week 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.840 following a loss that is a eight fifty seven winning 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.000 percentage in the weeks following a loss that is tied 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.640 with the Buffalo Bills for the best in the NFL 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.640 over the last three plus seasons. So Mike McCarthy has 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.040 a bounce back factor very well. This is going to 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.280 be a challenge because here's a team coming in here 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.800 that's zero and two that a lot of people like 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.760 myself thought we'll go to win the division. I actually 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.040 had this team in the Super Bowl. They lost at 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:07.800 home to the Raiders and Gardner Minshew. That was embarrassing. 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.119 They lost their first game on Thursday night to the 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:12.920 Kansas City Chiefs. You fall the oh to three, you 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.159 about to be in some trouble here. Cowboys do not 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:17.200 want to fall the O and two at home. You're 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:18.840 gonna be in some trouble if you can't win these 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.080 home games here. So this is going to become a 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.680 battle of wills and a battle of character here. Dak 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.400 Prescott has played against the Ravens. He was twenty seven 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:28.920 to thirty six four three hundred and one yards and 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:31.040 three touchdowns as a rookie. That's the last time he 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.679 played against Baltimore. I was twenty sixteen. He did not 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:36.960 play against the Ravens in twenty twenty. That was because 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.359 of the ankle injury that he suffered early in the season. 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.920 So this is Dak's second time facing these Ravens. All right, heck, 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:45.960 ma Harrison, I know you start to study just a 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:47.520 little bit here with some of the matchups. 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.160 Yeah, I have, and I think that the Baltimore Ravens 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.760 are still surprising that they're O and two Kansas City game. 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:55.919 As we all watched that one as a banner was 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:59.160 lifted in Kansas City. That was a close ball game. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.640 But I think you you started to see that the 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.240 Lamar Jackson still has a bunch of talent on his roster, 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:06.840 but they lost a lot. They lost fifteen players last 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.400 year to free agency and a lot of the big 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.200 part of that came from their offensive line. They're struggling 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:14.719 in that department with the losses that they have, but 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.199 you talk about who they do have and for me, 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:19.160 and there's something that you pointed out, and we've talked 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.359 a lot about safeties, and I'm kind of leading you 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:24.080 in to this. They have a guy by the name 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:28.920 of Isaiah likely from the coast of Carolina, and I'm 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.640 gonna tell you, like a fourth round draft pick. Then 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:36.359 it just amazes me how barry they miss on guys. 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.000 I mean, he's a guy that's taking the fourth round 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.880 that clearly should have been drafted higher. Just a very 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:45.000 talented dude. I mean, route runner has hands and for 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:49.960 our safeties, I think Dunban. Wilson's kryptonite is a a 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:52.439 is a guy that can rout him up and a 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:54.160 tight and a tight end that can route him up. 0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:56.520 Yes, and we saw We've. 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:57.920 Talked about this with Kittle and then some of those 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.000 other matchups, but that's just a longer line of scrimmage. 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.000 One of those guys in the box that could come downhill. 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.200 I love him in that capacity. What we've seen also 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:08.320 from our linebacker is that is they're a lot better 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.800 now with the way these guys run, but we haven't 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.680 seen them. We see them up against Joku. Joko got hurt, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:16.840 went out. But I think this is a bigger test 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.720 for them. And not only I mentioned in Isaiah likely 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:24.879 they also have the all everything Mark Andrews take and 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:28.159 they have paid him a grip. So Mark Andrews is 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:29.800 going to be a part of that as well. The 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:31.680 other thing that I want to say, and I wanted 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:35.680 to get your feedback on, is how you scheme as 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:40.040 a defense for Lamar Jackson, Because in my thought, Barry 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:44.360 is if you go man cover zero in any situation 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:49.400 versus Lamar, and you bliss en and you miss. So 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:53.679 so you know that I know that, So the for 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:56.120 the defense. I'm trying to come up with this with 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:58.520 a plan that says, look, this is how you stop 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:01.440 this team because number one is obviously stopped to run. 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:03.920 But I'm just telling you how they can also hurt 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:04.520 you in the passing. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:06.720 Yeah, the Cowboys, in my opinion, they're in a little 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:08.240 bit of a pickle right now, a little bit of 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:10.560 a pickle when you talk about these matchups, because to me, 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.240 Isaiah Likely is probably one of the hardest matchups as 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:16.800 far as a tight end in the National Football League. 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:19.320 You put a linebacker on hem gonna outrun him. You 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:21.160 put a safety on him, he's gonna he's gonna route 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.520 him up. And if you use your resources to put 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:25.240 a corner or nickel on them, let's just say they 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:28.320 put you know, Jordan Lewis, he's too small. He's too 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:30.879 small for a guy like Isaiah Likely. And that's one 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:33.600 of the guys that when everything breaks down, Lamar Jackson 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:36.520 starts scrambling around back there. That's who he's looking for 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:38.520 to add lib and make a play. So, to me, 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:42.280 Isaiah Likely is gonna be a tough, tough matchup for 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:45.879 this Dallas Cowboys defense. Now, when you talk about trying 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:48.600 to contain a guy like Lamar Jackson. 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:50.880 Yes, that's the that's the key. 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:53.439 Right there, and it is gonna be tough because you know, 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:55.000 we gotta get We've got a lot of guys out 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:57.960 there with natural ability, natural speed, but you gotta be 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:01.159 able to keep him in the bus. Now, I understand 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:03.240 that's a lot easier said than done, because this guy 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.000 makes the fools out of a lot of people in 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:06.960 the phone booth. All right, So I understand it's gonna 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:08.440 be a lot easier said than done. But this is 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:11.480 the type of game where, like Anthony Hitchin said, you 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:13.919 can't have hero ball. You can't have guys over there 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:15.480 and say I'm gonna go out here and make the play. 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:17.080 I'm gonna do this and that to make the play, 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:19.840 you gotta trust your teammates on the inside but on 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:21.840 the outside to be able to do their job. Like, 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.320 if it's your job to contain and you see Lamar 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:26.560 sitting there, don't try to go underneath and make a 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:27.760 play because he's gonna make. 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:30.480 You look foolish. You gotta trust that old DIGGI Zoo. 0:26:30.480 --> 0:26:31.840 You gotta trust that d law. 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.200 These interior players and the other guys on the outside 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:36.600 are gonna do their job and when it comes to you, 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:39.040 you gotta make it. But to me, if you go 0:26:39.119 --> 0:26:40.640 out there and you try to blitz this guy, because 0:26:40.680 --> 0:26:45.160 Kansas City had some success blitzing Lamar Jackson, but I'm 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:47.399 not so sure we have the guys on the second 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:49.960 level to be able to match up with that. If 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:52.000 he does get through that blitz, and we've seen it 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:54.040 time and time again, if you miss him on that. 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:55.760 Blitz, he's gonna make you pay. 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:56.040 Man. 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:58.320 So to me, this defense is in a bit of 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:01.000 a little pickle right here. But you do have that 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:03.560 one chess piece. You do have overshown out there, and 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:06.439 he's shown the ability to go sideline the sideline and 0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:08.040 be able to keep up with some of these guys 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:10.119 in the National Football League. Is that a tall task 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:12.520 for a guy coming in basically his first year. Of 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.040 course it is, because Lamar Jackson is that guy. But 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:17.159 you got a chess piece there that you can at 0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:19.560 least spy on him and make things difficult for him 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:21.520 to where if he just jumps out the jumps out 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:23.639 the window, he just can't get loose. He Man, you 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:25.520 got a guy and overshown that has the speed that's 0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:26.840 at least going to be able to make him go 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.600 sideline the sideline and not downfield and where he could 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:31.720 just run straight through your defense. So to me, you 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:34.320 gotta look use over shown last week he only had 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:36.560 what eighteen some snaps out there. This is the game 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:38.679 where he's got to play because I think he's your 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:41.600 chess piece, he's your speed piece on that second level 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:43.600 that can at least contend with a Lamar jacks Let 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:45.560 me just say this, Max Crosby had a hell of 0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:48.359 a game. He was at two sacks in that game. 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:51.360 He was just ruptive off the edge. He was a 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:55.159 big time matchup problem for them. Ronnie Staley is going 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.239 to have his hands full with Michael Parsons. And this 0:27:57.280 --> 0:27:59.440 is one of those games where all the whispers about 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.240 Micah's out, Uh he plays when he wants to, where's 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:04.199 he gonna You know, he has to show up And 0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:06.600 I mean you've seen there's there's a road map here 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:10.320 for the success that teams have had against Lamar Jackson, 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:12.600 and a guy like Max Crosby showed you last week 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:14.280 that man, if you if you stay aggressive out on 0:28:14.320 --> 0:28:17.560 the edge, Mac Trisby obviously from the fighting Chris Bean 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:20.680 Colinville Heritage High School here uh in in the state 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:21.280 of Texas. 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:23.199 But man, he was a beast out there and we 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:25.119 need that kind of effort to. 0:28:26.920 --> 0:28:27.560 Helping his team. 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:31.280 Harassed in the quarterback, Yeah yeah, yeah, And this is 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:31.800 a big. 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:34.800 Game and they did that to him at home and 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.400 so the one needs to me two sacks. 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:41.200 Eight Hutchinson four and a half sacks. Miles Garrett was said, 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:41.920 t J. 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:46.000 Yeah, there's a trend. There's a trend. Where's where's Waldo? 0:28:46.760 --> 0:28:49.200 But here's what you what you were just talking about 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:54.000 as far as Lamar Jackson stressing your defense because he's 0:28:54.000 --> 0:28:56.400 a perpetual scramble drill and. 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:58.800 That's the hardest thing in the second. 0:28:58.920 --> 0:29:01.280 You have to stay stuck your man for longer than 0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:03.600 you want to and even if you actually have the 0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:07.479 perfect defense, can't stop a guy like Lamar Jackson. And 0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:09.800 I mean, I love that you spoke to that, because 0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:11.920 I don't think that people even understand how hard that 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:14.720 is to stay at attention for four quarters like that 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:16.880 with a guy that you know that at any moment 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:18.440 he could change the dynamic of this game. 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:20.160 And when he starts getting back there, and he's doing 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:22.800 these scramble jills left and right. It's hard enough to 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:25.360 cover ride receiver concepts when they're. 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:26.680 Running the actual route. 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:29.600 Imagine if you give a guy extra three to four 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:31.520 seconds to just add lib out there. I mean we 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:33.960 see it all the time with Kansas City and Travis 0:29:34.000 --> 0:29:36.520 Kelce like, guys will have him locked up and then 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:38.920 here comes this boy Mahomes running around. Next thing you know, 0:29:39.280 --> 0:29:42.640 he's looking this way, turning that way. It's impossible to cover. 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:45.920 That's why Russian cover works so much well together. And 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:47.600 like your boy says all the time, you can't the 0:29:47.600 --> 0:29:50.240 secondary can't do nothing. If that defensive line ain't working 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:53.200 and they're not then after job, the back does not 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.160 work without the front. And if Lamar Jackson got all 0:29:56.240 --> 0:29:58.360 day back there and those guys start adding living in 0:29:58.360 --> 0:29:59.600 the secondary. 0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:01.240 I don't care who you have prime out there, I 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:01.640 don't care. 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:04.200 It's hard to cover people that long in the national 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:05.640 football these guys are just too good. 0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:08.800 You gotta make Lamar Jackson a pocket pasture. 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:10.920 You want him throwing the ball forty times in Kansas 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:12.360 City had him throwing it forty. 0:30:12.080 --> 0:30:14.560 Times, and the Ravens ran a great bunch in that game. 0:30:14.600 --> 0:30:19.960 And by the way, we make sure we don't forget 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:23.240 he came back in that game and it looked like 0:30:23.240 --> 0:30:25.600 Likely caught the touchdown pass that could have tied it up, 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:29.320 and then he had like like a thw thumb toe 0:30:29.840 --> 0:30:33.000 just right there, you're a Kirk toe. Didn't get it 0:30:33.040 --> 0:30:37.840 done that light between. If Likely and Andrews are both 0:30:37.960 --> 0:30:42.560 hitting and your d line is not able to help 0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:46.040 your line back, you can get up. King Henry right, 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:49.520 there's this is a challenge, man, this is a serious challenge. 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:52.440 And we're going and learn a lot about the Dallas. 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:54.760 Cowboys this weekend. Yeah, with at and T Stateium. Now 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:57.240 what do you made of Yeah? And that's what the 0:30:57.400 --> 0:31:00.560 challenge is is. Now we're in a league all of 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:03.200 a sudden now loves the running game, you know, and 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:05.880 what are teams presenting each and every week? 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Okay, the Rangers final game is Sunday. 0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:38.239 Get to your get there early if you go into 0:34:38.239 --> 0:34:41.680 the Cowboy game because you know, fan appreciation, getting last 0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:44.080 time you see the world champion Rangers, because it's their 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:46.640 last time as world champions playing this year because they 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:47.800 will not be making the playoffs. 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:49.600 Get their early baby. 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:51.120 It's feast of famine out there. 0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:53.319 Is their early parking is you know? 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:54.799 And if you how do you feel about that? 0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:57.560 I mean, they were riding the high as as a 0:34:57.600 --> 0:34:59.759 team winning the World Series and this year just did 0:34:59.840 --> 0:35:00.239 not go. 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:03.839 So the man I was there, I was there. 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:08.120 No no, no, I'm saying no, no, I'm saying. 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:09.040 And I say that I don't care. I don't care 0:35:09.040 --> 0:35:10.040 about twenty thirteen. Don't care. 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:12.080 I don't care if this is a bad season. Heck, 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:14.960 all I know is that ride and what they did 0:35:15.080 --> 0:35:15.640 last year. 0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:18.480 That stuff. There's a couple of things that you just remember. 0:35:18.560 --> 0:35:19.480 Coupling teams. 0:35:19.880 --> 0:35:22.279 I'll never forget that ride that they went on. I'll 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:24.600 never forget the twenty eleven rides that the Mavericks went 0:35:24.640 --> 0:35:27.839 on and watching it and seeing the whole thing the 0:35:27.880 --> 0:35:33.279 next year for both of them. But nah, I'm the organization. 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:37.279 Unlike the Mavericks, the Rangers organization, in my mind, did 0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:39.560 everything that they needed to do to try to repeat 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:41.440 and go out here and do it again just didn't happen. 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:44.360 It didn't happen. Guys were injured from the time they had. 0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:48.440 It was a mix of both. You know, Corey Seeger 0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:51.000 wasn't healthy. I mean, just you had Evan Carter, who 0:35:51.000 --> 0:35:53.040 played such a big role last year as a rookie, 0:35:53.120 --> 0:35:53.880 as an outfielder. 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:54.480 He was hurt. 0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:56.759 Just a lot of stuff didn't go their way, but 0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:58.920 management put the money into it. 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:01.280 It's not like the players when I loaf and everything. 0:36:01.320 --> 0:36:02.160 It just didn't go your way. 0:36:02.200 --> 0:36:05.440 It's so hard, and that's one thing that I have 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:08.000 such respect for for the teams that have repeated throughout 0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:10.120 sports history. It is hard just to do it once, 0:36:10.480 --> 0:36:12.400 but you do it again, you climb the mountain and 0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:15.799 everybody knows that's the standard. You're that team, and you 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:16.439 can do it again. 0:36:16.480 --> 0:36:16.919 It's hard. 0:36:17.120 --> 0:36:19.439 Bruce Wunch, he's never repeated, and he's won the World 0:36:19.480 --> 0:36:21.560 Series four times. I mean, he never even made the 0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:23.800 playoffs next year. I mean, his teams have a falloff. 0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:29.200 But having been there in twenty eleven when the Rangers 0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:32.320 were won out away from winning the World Series twice 0:36:32.440 --> 0:36:34.399 and then to watch them win it. It didn't matter. 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:36.719 They could have been the worst team in baseball. It 0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:37.439 had been all good. 0:36:38.000 --> 0:36:40.760 It had been all good because they raised the banner. 0:36:40.800 --> 0:36:43.319 And when you win a championship, man, it is it 0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:47.239 is outstanding. If the Cowboys ever won a Super Bowl 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:49.680 again under Jerry and they went and won three games 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:52.040 next year, you know what I say? Okay, fine, because 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:54.640 when you get to that mountain top like that hack, 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:59.680 especially for the fans, and then to watch some of 0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:03.080 the long suffering staffers, Man, that was a fun thing 0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:05.840 for me because I saw guys who were still with 0:37:05.960 --> 0:37:07.839 a team that were there at twenty eleven, just saw 0:37:07.880 --> 0:37:10.880 the letdown. I was really happy for them. I felt 0:37:10.880 --> 0:37:14.160 bad for Adrian Beltray, Ian Kinsler and Michael Young because 0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:17.680 they were on the field at Arizona and they stood 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:21.239 back just first of all, what great leaders. They're like, 0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:22.799 hey man, we weren't a part of this. This wasn't 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:24.640 our team. I'm going to stay back. When I tried 0:37:24.640 --> 0:37:27.439 to interview, I'm like, nope, no, you talk to them. 0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:29.800 I wasn't a part of this. Had my shot, didn't 0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:32.040 get it done. But they were happy for them. And 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.040 then you know, two of the guys worked for the organizations, 0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:36.919 so they were gonna get rings anyway. But no, man, 0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:39.480 they go out there Sunday, they don't get it done. 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:40.839 Fine, yeah, I'm good with it. 0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:43.719 And I think the emotional part of you is obviously like, 0:37:43.719 --> 0:37:45.800 hell yeah, they got it done. And you watched the parade, 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:47.960 you were a part of it. And then some teams 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:50.319 in the off season after they win a championship, they 0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:52.680 go through wholesale changes where they you know, you know, 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:54.640 get guys off of the roster. It seemed like to 0:37:54.640 --> 0:37:56.640 me that the Rangers were trying to get better, you know, 0:37:57.080 --> 0:37:59.200 the in the off season as well. And so look, 0:37:59.200 --> 0:38:00.960 that's why you look at the Kansas City Chiefs and 0:38:01.000 --> 0:38:03.920 what they're doing in their pursuit for a third and 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:06.919 how you know a team is building and with the 0:38:07.000 --> 0:38:09.279 in the salary era, to be able to continue to 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:12.440 play at a high level like that, it's it's really impressive, 0:38:12.480 --> 0:38:14.440 and I think it's a lot. It's a lot harder 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:18.279 than the casual fan gives it to reaching that to 0:38:18.440 --> 0:38:22.359 reaching that mountaintop, to be able to win that championship. 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:23.320 It is made. 0:38:23.040 --> 0:38:26.239 Against you in the NFL. It's not made for you 0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:28.400 to sustain it. They've made rules to try to hurt you. 0:38:28.480 --> 0:38:31.520 But this is you know, first off, when you have 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:35.360 generational talent like a Patrick Lomees, you can tell Tyree 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.200 Hill thanks and we can go win without you. I 0:38:38.239 --> 0:38:40.080 always tell people, look at the running backs. They've gone 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:41.760 through all these different teams that made. 0:38:41.600 --> 0:38:45.920 The Super Bowl. And Andy's an exceptional coach. You know, 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:46.799 he's going into the. 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:49.080 Pro Football Hall of Fame and you've got it outstanding 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:51.480 quarterback and they management is giving them what they need. 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:53.120 Chris Jones, Steve spa. 0:38:56.160 --> 0:38:59.000 You know, they they they don't put assistant coaches in 0:38:59.040 --> 0:39:01.120 the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is an area 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:02.960 I think they really need to correct. 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:05.280 Some guys are going to be head coaches. 0:39:05.280 --> 0:39:07.480 But you talk about what with Steve Spagnola has done 0:39:07.520 --> 0:39:11.080 as a defensive coordinator, and people forget when Bill Belichick's 0:39:11.120 --> 0:39:18.759 undefeated Giants team lost Spagnolo, that was Spagnolo getting that done. 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:21.880 Always had great personnel, guys that can rush the passer, 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:25.160 and right now here Jones is probably I mean, it's 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:28.920 a delight if you like, you know, trench warfare, you 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:31.040 like that kind of football. When you see a guy 0:39:31.120 --> 0:39:33.759 that side doing what he's doing and moving around on 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:36.640 that defensive line, and people don't give that. Last year 0:39:36.680 --> 0:39:39.120 as Kansas City, the Chiefs team enough credit for having 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:41.680 the number one defense and having the kind of leaders 0:39:41.680 --> 0:39:43.880 that they had on that side of the ball. There 0:39:43.960 --> 0:39:46.200 was an ugly point in the season where they said, 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.680 this is the worst statistical year that they had offensively. 0:39:48.960 --> 0:39:51.839 It was because the defense carried him. And here we 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:55.759 are talking about defense and a defense potentially being able 0:39:55.760 --> 0:39:57.680 to carry you at certain points during the season. 0:39:57.800 --> 0:39:58.839 And I don't know about y'all. 0:39:58.880 --> 0:40:03.439 After last week, I don't have any hope have left 0:40:03.440 --> 0:40:05.880 in that department to think that that's the kind of 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:07.399 balance that we can have as a team. 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:12.680 So, speaking of hopium, I'll give you a sliver. What 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:14.040 if they could figure out how to run the ball? 0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:17.600 And we brought up the name Dalvin Cook. We don't 0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:19.960 know what they're going to do, but we saw what 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:21.200 they rolled out there last week. 0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:22.839 It was unsuccessful, that wasn't it. 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:27.080 So maybe trying Dalvin Cook against his former team because 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:29.640 he played for Baltimore last year, played in the playoff game, 0:40:29.880 --> 0:40:33.000 maybe that is something they've got to figure out something 0:40:33.040 --> 0:40:36.359 as a coaching staff, how do you get this run 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:42.839 game going, because if Baltimore is out here running and 0:40:42.880 --> 0:40:44.520 putting up numbers that they have had one hundred and 0:40:44.520 --> 0:40:46.720 fifty yards last week you had like a bucks seventy 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:49.359 or something plus against Kansas City, your defense is going 0:40:49.360 --> 0:40:51.520 to be worn out. You can't go out here with 0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:53.840 a three and out drive. You can't have a drive 0:40:53.880 --> 0:40:56.399 that last, you know, two seventeen. I mean, you're going 0:40:56.440 --> 0:40:58.160 to have to figure out how to run the ball, 0:40:58.600 --> 0:41:01.160 protect to protect. 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:04.440 Can't just take kickfield goals either, you know, you gotta 0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:05.640 go score for score with them. 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:08.279 And those are some of the things that changes it up. 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:11.759 I mean, look, you know this is what everybody knows 0:41:11.760 --> 0:41:13.600 that it's evaluated the tape on Baltimore. 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:14.520 They're gonna run the ball. 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.560 And if your defense cannot be steady enough to not 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:22.279 allow those long sustaining clock draining, it drives. And those 0:41:22.280 --> 0:41:24.160 are the things like when you look up, it's like, damn, 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:26.920 they've had the ball for eight minutes quarter, you know, 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:29.000 the whole quarter they take it up, and then not 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:31.560 only that, they've gone down and they've scored, and then 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:33.040 you get the ball back and it's a three and 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:36.040 out and it just it just starts all over again, 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:38.160 and that's why. Look, when you look at the numbers 0:41:38.200 --> 0:41:42.000 on Baltimore, they are great in so many areas, but 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.239 then they are really. 0:41:43.960 --> 0:41:45.560 Bad in other areas. 0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:49.439 So as we know they're gonna run on us, they 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.839 know we're gonna pass on them. And so that's that's 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:55.759 where I think the swing comes in this game. Where 0:41:55.760 --> 0:41:58.440 people can whether it's hopingum or not, you can you 0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:00.960 can feel like, look, we got seed. You saw what 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:05.000 Devontae Adams did last week versus versus the Ravens. So 0:42:05.440 --> 0:42:08.520 in steps our offense to to take advantage of that defense. 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:11.520 And when it comes to our offense, and y'all, I know, 0:42:11.560 --> 0:42:13.319 we love Ma McCarthy and he's the heck of a 0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:14.520 play caller on what he does. 0:42:14.640 --> 0:42:16.719 But there's things that they got to get better at. 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:18.600 You know, we talk about this running attack, they got 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:20.120 to get better at it. Do we have the juice 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.000 to be able to do that, I'm not so sure. 0:42:22.080 --> 0:42:24.000 Even with the Dialbin Cook, I'm not so sure. But 0:42:24.120 --> 0:42:26.920 one area that they've got to improve on if they 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:28.680 want to be able to beat these good teams is 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:30.480 the red zone. I mean, we looked at it the 0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:32.720 first two games one for four in the red zone. 0:42:32.760 --> 0:42:35.319 You're not gonna win these games. You'll beat Cleveland with 0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:38.000 no tackles off, You'll beat Cleveland, but you're not gonna 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:39.120 beat these good teams. 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:40.880 Going zero for three in the red zone. Kick the 0:42:40.920 --> 0:42:42.160 field goals with Brandon Aubrey. 0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:46.359 That Bd Aubrey, get me wrong, that's last year's that's 0:42:46.400 --> 0:42:46.719 the thing. 0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:49.400 You can't do it. You gotta cash it when you 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:51.719 get down there. That's a must. Where's hell Boogie when 0:42:51.760 --> 0:42:52.239 you need them? 0:42:52.680 --> 0:43:00.600 Bring out where pro Bo? Bring out Bookie out. We 0:43:00.680 --> 0:43:03.440 need to Pro Bowl, we need to pro bom. 0:43:03.680 --> 0:43:07.319 You bring him out something some gotta happ bring him out, 0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:08.560 bringing out what you're doing. 0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:11.920 So far it has not been has not. It has not, 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:13.239 It don't look like it will. 0:43:13.400 --> 0:43:16.399 Hey, we got a Pro Bowl on the line. I'm 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.560 which I hope you go out there and give yourself. 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:22.640 Just remember Cee Lamb's first four games last year. We're 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:24.320 not Pro Bowl games. It took him a minute to 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:27.439 get you did. So maybe that's what Mike needs. Maybe 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:29.439 Mike has to just kind of stumble into this thing. 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:31.880 And you don't have like the l Boogie package, Like 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:33.120 what is it? 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:38.600 Something gotta ain't nobody getting open. Outside of nobody's getting open, 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:41.880 you know it is you torpor Mad a hell of 0:43:41.880 --> 0:43:43.560 a catch, but he was, he was locked up. 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:43.960 He was. 0:43:44.000 --> 0:43:46.200 He made a hell of a catch though, But other 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:47.560 than that, who's getting open? 0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:49.680 And that's why you hope that Ferguson can come back 0:43:49.719 --> 0:43:52.120 and be healthy. And I mean, even with that knee 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:54.239 sprain and Bruce, how elusive is he going to be? 0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:55.440 How mobile is he going to be? 0:43:55.520 --> 0:43:57.840 I don't know, but I know that Dak was missing 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:00.200 a piece of that offense last week, and that was 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:02.680 something that was something that was off and if it 0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:05.480 was just that they didn't have Ferguson, Ferguson is a 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:07.000 big part of this offense. 0:44:07.719 --> 0:44:09.320 All right, guys, let's continue with tomorrow. 0:44:09.960 --> 0:44:11.920 All the players last brought to you by Aristocrat Gaming 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:14.680 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:44:14.719 --> 0:44:17.680 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:44:17.880 --> 0:44:20.800 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.