WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Has It Got Worse? 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:16.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:21.720 Label broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:27.360 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccrag and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.159 It is Monday Moaning time, moaning and groaning about the 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:40.040 Cowboys taking a thirty eight to ten loss to Arizona 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.640 on Monday Night Football. I'm knw we scrugs, long time 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:49.400 Cowboys reporter, joined by Danny mccry berry Church. Every Monday 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.880 through Friday two thirty. We call it the Players Labs 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.720 about you by Hotels dot Com. All right, Barry Church, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:01.880 how in the world do you explain this beating like this? 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:11.319 How do you explain it? Very man? Well, cr CBR producer. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.119 I'm getting a little echo in the ear right here, 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.720 real quick, all right, So now everything situated, Everything's back 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.240 to normal. Man. This was a tough one, man. This 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.679 was a tough one for no stradomins out here, man. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.200 Because I put my heart out on the sleeve. I 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.880 put my emotions, I put my heart out on the sleeve. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.640 I sided with the boys. I thought Andy Dalton, I 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.320 thought this defense would come alive. I just thought they 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.400 would do they would do better by me, man and 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.920 and and that's what I get. That's what I get 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.480 for bet with my heart and uh and that's what 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.240 I get for talking stuff because I was I was 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.160 texting you and Danny early in the game when the 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.240 defense was showing up a little bit, and I thought, Hey, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.800 this is falling right into my hands. Little did I 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.640 know that I was doing fools gold right there. And 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.360 Kyler Murray, he exposed that whole defense, and he exposed 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.720 everything he talked about in the players lounge earlier that week, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.320 about spying on him, about having Jalen Smith kind of 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.800 be that spy, and how he embarrassed him in the 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.000 open field. He embarrassed pretty much anybody that tried to 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.800 spy on him or tried to tackle him in the 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.799 open field. The guy was just too electric. I mean 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.080 he was He was a danger with his arms, and 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.200 he was a danger with his legs. He was pretty 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.400 much able to do whatever he want on that field. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.600 And you could tell early in the game that the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.600 jitters were getting a little bit too much for him. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.240 And you know, he was very excited to be back 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.640 home you know Texas Texas product out there back at 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.240 Jerry Rolls, back at his stadium where he's been undefeated at. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.000 You can tell was getting a little bit to him 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.919 because a lot of those early throws were arid. And 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.280 that's what I thought our defense, Hey, we might have 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.520 a chance in this game. We might actually be able 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.880 to do something. But boy, was out wrong. I was 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.239 completely wrong. I thought Andy Dalton was going to be 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.800 able to come in here, we were gonna get back 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.120 to that ground and pound formula, and he was gonna 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.160 be able to throw off a play action and I 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.440 actually thought he was gonna be able to flourish in 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:06.000 this system. But through one game, I was completely wrong. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.760 He was not able to He didn't look on point 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.959 at all. His throws were aired. He should have had 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.760 a couple interceptions that that one early in the I 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.120 think it was in the first quarter where he was 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.320 wrapped up in the backfield and decided to just throw 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.920 the ball in the middle of the field. That one 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.560 should have been picked off and probably should have been 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.239 a pick six if the linebacker had any hands, but 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.320 you know it wasn't. And that was pretty much the 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:31.720 story all night. Just miscommunication everywhere along the board. Offensively, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.760 receivers couldn't really get open. I didn't know Arizona's past 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.200 defense was that sticky, because I mean, we got three 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.160 of the best receivers in my opinion, in the game 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.560 right now, and those guys were extremely sticky. There wasn't 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.320 a lot of plays where those guys were just wide 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.080 open catching the ball. So you got to give kudos 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.160 to Arizona's defense out there, especially their past defense, and 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.280 they were able to heat up Andy Dalton without their 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.080 main guy, Chandler Jones. They were able to heat up 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.760 Andy Dalton out there. Buddha Baker, who who I thought 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.200 was overpaid, and I was like, man, this guy doesn't 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.840 even have a career interception. How's he getting as much money? 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.839 But man, he went out there and proved me wrong 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.200 as well. That guy was all over the field. I 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.960 mean he was blitzing from everywhere. He was all in 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.880 Andy Dalton's face all night long, making plays in the 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.560 past coverage, making plays against the run, stripping cats. I mean, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.839 he showed you what an NFL players should look like 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.120 when you give one hundred percent on each and every snap. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.280 Because there was plays when I'll break it down this 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.320 one when they when Ezekiel Elliott's first fumble, he was 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.400 hemmed up. He was in the line of scrimmage, hemmed 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.919 up by Brandon Knight. He had nowhere to go, but 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.440 he didn't give up on the play. Once Ezekiel Elliott 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.240 caught that pass, he got off a Brandon Knight hustled down, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.800 stripped the ball. Made one of the huge plays in 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.239 the game. So kudos the Buddha Baker and that Arizona defense. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.800 They stifled. I mean, they stifled this offense and they 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.720 proved no Shodama is wrong. Man, what else can I say? 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.760 I just got to bury myself in my shame right now, dude, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.040 he got down So Tuesday singing it different too. But 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.440 Chris Spreen, can you play to the South from Barry 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.520 on Friday? Jep it Barry on Friday? Can you play 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.240 that back for me? You kind of cut here? Oh man, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.080 diamonds overhead? Pick it? Man, I hope it don't work, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.479 you say now, listen, I can't I can't wait for 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.760 the group message on Monday. I cannot wait. I'm gonna 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.120 be blowing you up during the during the pregame show. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.359 So so try not to look, you might want to 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.640 put me on solid mode. I'm gonna call them boys 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.400 out for the pre game too. I'm like, hey, y'all 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.480 gotta step it up, and you know what, it's gonna 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.960 come to fruition just because Nore Diamonds says. So now, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.640 when we come back in here on what Tuesday and 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.719 the score is twenty four twenty one, like I predicted, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.480 you know, I'm gonna need my gratification all that. I'm 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.159 gonna need it all from every one of y'all, every 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.840 one of y'all. Look, look, man, if you're if you're right, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.320 you know, we'll start the show right there. If you 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.680 write I know what you know. But you know what's 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.640 gonna happen. If you're not, okay, we're gonna make I'm preparing. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.480 I'm prepared for that because I don't think it's gonna happen. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:15.360 I'm prepared for that. Oh oh buddy, buddy, buddy. Yeah. Now, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.240 now see you were on the right track, okay, initially 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:26.720 because McCray had it thirty five twenty four Arizona. I 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.520 had thirty six thirty three Arizona and you had it 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:35.599 twenty eight twenty one Arizona. Then you flipped somewhere along 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.800 the way. You flipped and you said Cowboys twenty four 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.680 twenty one. So so you went from being pragmatic like 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.560 we were. Okay, you went from being that because because 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.160 I said, look, until I see this team beat a 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.760 club with a winning record, I can't pick them. Yeah, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.400 Parcels always used to say, all I can go by 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.200 is what I see. And what we've seen for the 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.840 Cowboys is they could not play with a team that 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.760 has a winning record or a team that can compete, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.080 especially somebody that can get after them all those offensive 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.400 and defensive lines, and what don't we see from the 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.080 old line Yesterday? We saw the old line get decimated 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.880 when you saw Zack Martin go out there. So now 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.320 you're based out that throwing out four rookies trying to 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.760 survive and compete. And one of the things that we've 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.480 spoken about all week was how you can't continue to 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.600 turn the football and who was turning the football over? 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.480 The very guy that the Cowboys were trying to put 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.920 the offensive game plan in his hands, Ezekiel Elliott. There's 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.000 a nothing, nothing game in the first quarter, then Zeke 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.600 puts it on the ground. Arizona converts it into a touchdown. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.240 Next series, Zeke catches the pass, puts it out there 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.800 and bam they go ahead and score again. And it's 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.880 a fourteen nothing ball game. Chris, You've got a little 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.680 montage of some of these Ezekiel Elliot miscues from yesterday. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:08:12.520 Can you play that? Soer? Okay? So my thing, Barry 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.320 is twenty one. When he signed his contract last year, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.800 highest paid running back in the game, and several times 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.760 on social media and during this offseason people ranking running 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.520 back and he didn't like where he was ranked. He 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.160 felt like he was not getting his respect. Barry, you 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.840 can't get paid this much money, you can't talk about respect, 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.080 and then when your team needs you the most, be 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.080 the person who lost the football game because it was 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.800 his two turnovers that changed the whole football game. Man, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.079 I mean, you're down fourteen to nothing. This is something 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.520 that simply cannot happen from twenty one. I mean, it 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:54.240 just can't happen. He single handedly took the competitive football 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.000 phase of the game and gave it to Arizona. Man, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:01.400 this was awful by him. It was It was extremely awful. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.960 And you know what, I can't even defend him. I 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.000 can't even defend my boy today because, like you said, man, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.800 he was the catalyst they were they were trying to 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.199 put the game plan. They were trying to put everything 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:18.000 in his hands, their leader, their franchise quarterback, everything, their offense. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.719 Basically with Dak Prescott was gone when he left, so 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.680 when he got injured, so everything was pretty much boiled 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.280 down to Ezekiel Elliott. We're gonna ground and pound, We're 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.080 gonna run with him. We're gonna let Andy Dalton play 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.120 action or throw what needed, but the offense is gonna 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.280 run through Zeke. I mean that's what we all thought 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.520 going into this game. But I mean the way he 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.680 went out there, and you're right, his fumbles were so 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.280 costly because they were right in the middle of drives. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.200 They were right in the middle where you could see 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:44.959 the offense was starting to click a little bit, it 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.840 was starting to get some momentimum, starting to get the 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.719 ball rolling, and boom, the fumbles just happened. And when 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.880 you're a guy that's getting you know, he's got ninety 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.600 million and you're supposed to be, you know, a top 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.280 three back in the NFL, you just cannot you cannot 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.560 give the ball way like that once, okay, but twice 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.160 in a game. Those are momentum changing events that are 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:10.240 happening out there. You're giving this Arizona team who's already out, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.600 who's already outmatching you. You're giving him the ball on 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.080 a short field. You're giving Kyla Murray the ball on 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.480 a short field to gug against this defense that's already shorthanded. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.040 I mean, they were doing a good job up until 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.040 you know, I think, well maybe the second quarter when 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.160 they got their first score. But we just can't continually 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.640 put this bad defense out there in even worse positions. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.679 I mean, there were so many times out there where 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.080 either it was special teams or it was Zeke fumbling 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.760 the ball where Arizona would have a short field and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.760 you can't give a guy like Kyla Murray that a 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.439 short field like that and expect to hold him out 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.280 of the end zone. It was just a matter of 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.160 time before the ball got rolling, and we saw once 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.000 Arizona started clicking, it was a rat. It was a 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.240 done dotta, it was over. I mean, I mean, we'll 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.320 get into the coaching and we'll get into the specific 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:57.920 plays and a little bit, but for me, I mean 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.280 I was shocked. I was shocked at how poorly all 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.240 three phases of the Dallas Cowboys football team played on 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.520 last night. I mean it was bad. It was a 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.880 bad display. Yeah, I'm sitting here and I go back 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.680 to the place shee because I'm sitting there at the game, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.080 and you know I charted the game here and go 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.240 back to my chart. So the Cowboys are on this 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.520 drive here, it's second and nine from the forty nine. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.160 Zeke catches the ball, he fumbles it in Arizona gets 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.360 the ball and so now it's a first and ten 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.320 at the forty six, and they run a whole bunch 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.079 of players take it down to a second and goal 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.800 from the six yard line, and Kyler Murgys has a 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.480 little jet sweet pass over to Christian Kirky seven. Oh, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.199 so the Cowboys getting the ball back. So it is 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.360 first and ten at at the twenty five. Noah Brown 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.599 makes a catch for one yard. That it's second and 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.640 twenty second and nine from the twenty six. Ezekiel Elliott 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:52.680 fumbles the football and so now Kyler Murray next possession 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.600 with one, two, three, four. Five plays later, Kenyan Drake 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.120 runs it in from the one and it's fourteen to nothing, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.160 and you're just you're now you're you're in a hole. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:08.400 So then Dallas gets the ball back church they end up, uh, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:13.920 they end up having to they do anything with it. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.240 And so Arizona got the ball back first and ten 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.559 at the twenty and then it goes up top Christian 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.360 kirk Adard touchdown and that was up one time twenty 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.440 one and nothing. At that point in time, the game 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.280 was rapp um. Joe Martine had gone out of the game. Yeah, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:30.760 Zach Martin had gone out of the game, so he 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.800 had more offensive line issues. And give give their defensive 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.840 Cordina Intervatvans Joseph enough credit. He kept mixing it up 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.840 and made it tough for for the Cowboys. And so 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.040 turnovers right there, it's killed the Cowboys all year. Uh, 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.040 they're negative twelfth, they're worse than the league. Arizona scored 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.880 twenty four of their thirty eight points off Dallas Cowboys turnovers. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.800 So you already have any defensive struggling, and so your 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.080 offense and the you know, at the time highest paid 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.040 running back in the game, he's been been surpassed by 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.400 Christian McCaffrey. But you know, you had you had a 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.360 guy who demand held out and demanded his money, and 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.960 you're trying to put the game plan in his hands 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.160 and Ezekiel Elliot just let you down. Afterwards, he took 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.040 the loss, he said, put it on me, and you know, yeah, 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.480 you're right. They should put a big bulk of it 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.959 on Ezekiel Ellie. This is just awful because you simply 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.920 cannot take your team out of a football game. And 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.880 Mike McCarthy afterwards, he's exasperated, he wasn't happy. Spoke about 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.280 the turnovers, and he mentioned one thing Church which made 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.560 me kind of saying, m He said, well, maybe guys 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.240 are trying too hard and maybe we over coached him. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.680 I'm just sitting there saying, no, that's not the case. Again, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.240 that's not the case in my opinion. Yeah, that that's 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.280 that's not the case at all in my opinion either. Look, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.080 I mean, to me, when it comes down to it, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.720 these are turnovers that you can't coach. It's not like 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.360 you're saying, oh, you gotta keep it, you know, hind 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.160 tight or anything like that. Demand he fumbled the ball, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.600 it was on the players. That's I mean, that's what 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.040 it is, you know, And We'll talk about this a 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.360 little bit when we get into the show, but to me, 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.880 it was, you know, the only varias one has remained 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.199 the same in these past two Cowboys teams with these 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.280 coaching eras is the players. A lot of these players 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.640 from Garrett is Garrett's era is still here in the 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.000 McCarthy era. I mean, and when Garrett was here, it was, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.080 you know, he can't he can't motivate these guys. He's 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.080 coach eight and eight. All he does is clap on 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.840 the sidelines. And then when when went to Marionelli, Marinelli's 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.680 defense is just too vanilla. Everybody's picking up on it. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.600 But that became the game is Yeah, but they were 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.200 performing better than the than they are right now. And 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.040 true as well, that's true as well. But he was true, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.840 both things can be true. This is true. Yeah, both 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.040 things can't be true, and but basically, the only variable 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.840 that remained the same was these players. And to me, 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.320 I can't put the majority of the blame on the 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.640 coaches because look, the coaches, these are professional athletes. I mean, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.320 Darryl Worley is an NFL veteran. It's not like he's 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.920 a rookie or anything like that. And so when you 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.240 got a guy like Christian Kirk, who you know is 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.440 fast and is running at you full speed, his head 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.240 is down, he is charging, you should know this is 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.640 that's little league ball, that's high school ball. You should 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.640 know you gotta open up and run. I mean, if 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.480 he comes back on a comeback, you can live with 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.960 giving up comebacks, but you can't live with giving up 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.040 ader bombs. And this is something that a professional corner 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.400 in the National Football League has got to know. There's 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.800 there's no you shouldn't have been coached up on that 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.240 back in high school. When somebody is running up on you, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.520 open up so you can run with them. And he 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.080 did nothing. He just sat there and let the guy 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.640 run right by him. So for me, you know, I 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.520 hear all these reports about you know, the coaches aren't 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.960 doing this, coaches aren't doing that. What are the players doing? 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.880 What are we getting out of these players that we 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.760 paid so much money too? Where was the pressure on 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.640 Kyla Murray? He was able to escape the pocket and 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.560 do pretty much whatever he wanted. Are we gonna blame 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.600 the coaches on that one? I mean, it's just where 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.040 these fumbles. Are we gonna blame the blame skip for 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.560 Zeke being being able to fumble all these times. I mean, 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.280 this is ridiculous, and I think the players they have 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.440 to take accountability for this one which Zeke was able 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:14.880 to do. Church. You you had said Friday that don 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.320 Terry Poe was gonna get off the milk cartons backing 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.960 off the milk carton. I don't know if he threw 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.200 Tike in there, but but you know, you talked about 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.640 guys would get ready to show some stuff that I 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.600 remembered that. I remembered you talking about that. And all 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.200 I kept seeing was I just kept seeing Poe get 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:36.200 turned to the left, turned to the right, and wherever 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.040 they wanted him to go, he went, and they just 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.120 ran right past him. Um, Tyrone Crawford, how about Tyrone 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.560 Crawford getting a taunting penalty As Kyler Murray scrambles to 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:51.280 the one yard line. I heard the rapper, I say what, um? 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.200 And then with Tank Lawrence, you didn't hear from him ever. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:17:00.360 See Griffin several times let Kyler Murray get outside the 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.560 pocket and Gil outside break contained and it was it 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.919 was a problem, man, It was just a problem. And 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.480 they it was deflating. Church. But but the guys you 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.479 thought would get off the Milk Carton certainly did not 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.200 do it all Monday Night football, not at all. I mean, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.120 they remained on the All Milk Carton team. They're still 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.320 an APB, They're still a missing person's alert for pretty 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.320 much everybody on that defense. I mean, we talked, Jayleen, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.159 talked to Jaylen Smith, talked all week about effort and 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.679 how they're going to pick up their game, and it 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.600 just didn't look good. I mean we saw there was 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.920 I mean they pointed it out all on social media, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.240 all on everywhere. There was a play where I believe 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.960 it was DeAndre Hawkins who caught a shallow, shallow rout. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.560 Maybe he caught the ball maybe three yards from the 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.639 line of scrimmage and he was able to turn that up. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.560 And DeAndre Hawkins is nowhere near the fastest man on earth. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.119 He is probably a four six four six five guy, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.359 and he just made our whole defense look extremely slow. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.920 And the captain of the defense, mister swipe his hands, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.760 mister clear, I've used. He was just he was jogging 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.080 to see it. He was jogging on the play. I mean, man, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.080 it's tough right now. Louis and I took one to 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.640 the chest because I had these guys. Hey, I thought 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.880 these guys were gonna show up for me. 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