WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: It's All Coming Together 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:27.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lounge, 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.240 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:37.880 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and Newey Scrugs. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:53.400 Victory Monday right here? Yes, what is going on? Victory Monday? Babe? 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.720 What are you saying doing Victory Monday? I mean you 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.920 go ahead, a non sponsored group. I put it down today, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.600 loved to make sure I forgot about he was staying 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.080 in the studio for fifth fIF teammates. You go ahead 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.560 and get your herd to get that last dropt. We're good, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:11.200 We're good to go, baby, Let's go. Do I really 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.039 need to reset? Go ahead? Replay the intro? Go ahead, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.720 Let's start again. Cut cutting like James Brown, Like James Brown, Jake, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:26.280 I'm fine, Hey, maybe start James Brown would like, oh whoa, whoa? 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:32.000 I got no, Yeah, I didn't get an extra one. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.560 We can't get up. You can't have to, okays dot com. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.080 It pay too much money to share that space. The 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.360 Players Lounge brought to you by Hotels dot Com. He's buried, cherished, sir, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.760 doing his own thing. But uh, welcome to the show. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.360 Be Uh Danny mccraig, the ultimate survivor. I'm new, he scrugs, Okay, 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.880 we've got a whole lot to chop up here, all 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.040 of us on the victory Monday, came through going back 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.920 looking get the predictions. Uh, Danny, you had a third 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.840 four to twenty win by the Cowboys. They win thirty 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.520 six twenty eight. Barry, you had in a close game. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.880 You thought Dallas by three seventeen fourteen, and I had 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.440 a thirty one twenty four. So all of us are winners. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.320 Cowboys cover point five Cowboys in a battle against a 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.320 first place team? Do I get the closest? I knew 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.840 he got the closest, all right? Eight? Um, okay, so 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:31.160 churches in last with us? How many? How many points? 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.320 He say it was gonna score? Well, I said it 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.040 was gonna be seventeen four. We're gonna win by three. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:36.760 I'm saying you said we were only gonna go seventeen. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:37.920 Ye I thought it was gonna be a tight one 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.720 because you thought the defense was what they thought it 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:40.960 was gonna be. I thought it was gonna be what 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:42.840 it was, but it wasn't what y'all got to stop. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.760 But we did this against Tampa. Now we did this 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.760 against Carolina. Y'all got to stop with this. I think 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.600 that this defense is good. Tempa tement Bay is supposed 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.160 to be good based off what they did last year. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.760 Carolina supposed to be good because they you know what 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.480 they did thirty for thirty jamis what they did. You 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.000 know it don't make no sense. Okay, nobody's holding us 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.359 seventeen points. Hey, you might be right about that. You 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.120 might be right about that, but we were We were 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.840 all right, right though, we were all right all right, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.840 but I wasn't in last all. Yeah you had three points, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.280 you had fourteen, Yeah, he was. Anyway, they'll get back 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:21.760 to it. Bottom line. Um, at the end of the day, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.359 they won. That's it. And for me, the thing for me, 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.720 let's get everybody's just initial takeaway from the games. This 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:36.440 defense is doing this without tank. Lawrence Nodren's armstrong yesterday. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:42.880 Uh no, Kean O'Neil, Yeah, no, Donovan Wilson, This to 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.000 me is just really impressive because we haven't seen this 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.760 defense do this. And let's go back here over the 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.640 last ten years, when you had a key member like 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.840 a Sean Leego down, then everything would just fall down. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.840 And if you lost a key piece, then just everything 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.480 would fall down. And it's a testament one to the 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.360 players because is they're ready to go, and you guys 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.280 are former players, and so people use that old adage 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.640 all the time. Next man up to watch guys actually 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.640 go step up doing their jobs. That's impressive. And then 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.680 I come back to coaching, Danny. You've been preaching dan 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.600 Quinn from the beginning, dan Quinn, and I go back 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.160 to just everybody from George Jetwards the linebacker coach. You're 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.920 over there with the dbs, and yep, they ate up front. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.320 I mean the d line, I mean what they're all doing. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.480 I mean the coaching job that is going on here 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.640 for the Dallas Cowboys, to me is very impressive because 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.960 you went up against a three and old football team 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.880 that came out there punching. Okay, it was a fight, man, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:42.280 Carolina came out there fighting, striking. I would say this. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.880 They were hitting hard, all right, but they was hitting 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.560 hard after thirteen fourteen yard games, all right. So yeah, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.440 they came out to try to punish you and make 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.040 a statement as far as we're gonna be physical with you. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.880 But from the beginning of the game, first snap when 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.080 Ezekiel Ellie grabbed the bar and ran through the face 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.279 mask of the defensive tackle, ran through the face man's 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.440 good a linebacker, we knew exactly what type of game 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.359 it was gonna be. All right, we gained yards pretty 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.960 much on every snap of the game. Ezekiel Elliott came 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.440 out offensive line dominated this dude was with seven eight 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.760 yards of carry. Tony Paula come in get the same thing. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.760 We dominated these guys. And this was the number one 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.680 defense overall in the NFL passing and rushing, and we 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.000 came out there and pretty much did whatever we wanted 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.280 to these guys. Yeah, and the defensive side of the 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.600 ball for us, I mean talk about depth. I mean 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.480 we got so much depth out there. Knew what you 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.120 just talked about it and missing pieces along the defensive line, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.800 missing pieces in the secondary, and these guys still played 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.800 at an extremely high level. Like look at osa Odgi Zoo. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.400 I think his name is. I don't want to butcher it, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.280 but I think it's old Diggi Zoa. He was in 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.120 there getting pressure consistently. And there's no Nevill Gallimore, no 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.120 Tristan Helling there and then you go on the edges, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.000 look at the edges, go ahead, what you want to say, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.760 just piggybacking on what you said. I remember when Nevill 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.880 Gallimore got hurt that preseason game, like what are we 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.520 gonna do? Who? Who? Who? Did? I said, I was 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:58.840 what we're going because I'm not even gonna speak to 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.320 high good the defensive playing, that's what straight the offense 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.719 because I already know no. I literally looked at said 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.400 here's a problem. And he was playing so well at 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.400 camp when I was out there, you could see. You 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.119 could definitely see when we talked before about the second 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.880 year guys, the Trevon Diggs making an improvement, CD Land 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.960 making improvement, Sean McEwan out there to tight end making improvement. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:25.600 So you saw guys, and Gallimore was probably right up 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.880 there with CD. And in terms of you know where 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.159 you saw them just growing, you know, he was probably 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.360 right there just in Diggs where you just said, man 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.880 really making a difference. And we've seen what CD and 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.280 Diggs had been able to do, and I'm telling you 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.120 right now Gallimore was on that track of what he 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.120 was doing. So when he gets back man That's that's 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.719 kind of the interesting thing about how how Dan Quinn 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:54.160 incorporates these guys. What could they be in November December. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.400 I mean, you know, you guys could speak to this 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.320 in terms of where teams are. And we've talked before 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.760 about that eleven game stretch. They're gonna go through loving 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.400 games in a row and then just in seventeen game schedule, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.680 this Cowboys defense can improve. And look at him when 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.520 we go back to the depth part about it, look 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.680 at the secondary the free agency that we brought in here, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.760 I'm thinking, Okay, Kazy, he'll be a solid contributor out there. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.560 Jay Ron Curse. This is a guy who I'm thinking, Okay, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.800 we picked him up for the low whatever they got 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.200 him for for in free agency, and I'm thinking this guy, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.120 you know, and Detroity was a special teams player, that's 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.120 all pretty much. He was maybe plug in here and there. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.280 I thought he was gonna have that same value here. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.960 I thought he was gonna be a core special teamer. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.120 If somebody went down, he might get you know, kind 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.880 of like similar to U twenty three was his safety 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.400 we had here, twenty three what was his name? Anyways, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:41.840 I thought he was gonna be similar to that being 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.520 a core special teamer. This guy has come out and 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.520 he's proven that he belongs in the starting conversation. I mean, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.360 he's going out there locking tight ends up and he's 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.040 playing great in the run game consistently. This guy has 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.440 not giving up any big plays out there. Jay Ron 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.240 Curse and this whole, this whole defense whatever whatever dan 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.320 Quinn got going on with this defense, those guys are 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.120 flying around the football. We got death pieces all over 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.040 the place. And look, if we're continue to do that, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.920 we're gonna get healthy as the season progresses. So right now, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.360 I mean, dan Quinn, Danny, you were right about it. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.320 I gotta give you your kudos. You was right about it. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.080 And to speak to Curse, I think that's also a 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.520 testament to the coaches because you see him being put 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.920 in in positions to make plays, right. I think if 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.040 you see him playing probably deep middle for the entire game, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.640 then you will see some stuff where you're like, I 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.000 don't think that this is the guy that should be 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.720 back there. But every time you see him, he's in 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.960 a position to do what he does on special teams 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.040 for the most part, fill a gap, make a tackle 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.440 or just line up on your man and cover him. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.839 And he's out there making those plays consistently. And I 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.839 think across the board you see people being put in 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.400 position to make plays. Michael Parsons, when you see third 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.360 and long, he's going down the rust of the passers 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:53.199 getting after him. So as we dive more than this 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.199 year on the players, Lige Bote by hotels dot com, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:01.199 who do you give the credit for wreck ignicing? Not 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.280 only what Mike Nolan did last year was just not 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.920 a just not a bad job, but didn't put people 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.800 the right positions, but getting it right with dan Quinn. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.800 And we've spoken before here on the show. Okay, if 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.559 you bring in dan Quinn, that's one thing, bringing the 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.640 people that he knows the right help him. So who 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.599 do you give that credit to? Is that? Is that 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.640 Jerry and Stephen? Is that McCarthy? I mean, where do 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.679 you go when you start to dive up and look 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.600 into the credit for that? It sound like I'm bashing 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.079 the guy, But I just I can't give it to 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.400 mccarthur because he's the one who brought in Nolan, and 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.080 I think that if he had the option, he probably 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.120 would have gave the guy another shot. All right, So 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.160 I think that somebody went over his head a little bit, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.600 maybe Jerry, maybe Stephen, maybe a little bit of Will 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.280 as well, and say, hey, I think that what works 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.480 the best for the players that we have is to 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.040 find somebody that runs a four to three. That's what 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.679 they started at. And then they were looking at Atlanta 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.760 and saying, this guy's probably going to be available because 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.240 Atlanta was having a horrible season. Well let's wait and 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.400 see if this is the guy that we can get. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.080 And thankful he did become available. I'm not even sure 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.760 who the second option would have been, so I would 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.480 I had no playing b So I'm gonna say that 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.800 it was Jerry, Stephen with some with some Will in 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.319 there as well. Yeah. I gotta give a lot of 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.920 credit to those three, especially Will, you know, bringing those 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.880 guys in, because if we look at it, you know, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.160 the Cowboys have always gotten bash for for bargain hunting 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.520 at the safety position. We always figured out, man, they 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.360 don't never want to spend no money at the safety position. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.480 We're never gonna get a playmaker back there um to 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.120 fill that role with the with the least amount of 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.079 money we're spending there, And what does he do. He 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.800 brings in a Keyan O'Neil. They bringing the Kazy, they 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.160 bringing a Jaron curse out there. And these guys are 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.720 all kind of coming in for a bargain. I mean, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.199 Kiano Nil went for a little bit more, but the 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.920 rest of these guys are bargains and it's proven dividends 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.600 for this team. They went out there and they're flying 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.120 around right now. This is when you go to the 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:46.679 outlet store and you find those Jordans Row He just 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.240 came up. The truck truck, the Thursday truck just came 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.000 they unloaded it. You happen to be there at the 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.760 right time. And they didn't put some Georgans out there 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.200 at ross. I'll take them. I'll take those. And they 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.040 did go bargain, but they ended up getting some quality 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.000 deals after so many years of missing. Last year was 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.319 nothing but missus by them. From a defensive standpoint, and 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.959 even from an offensive standpoint, watching watching cam Irvan, we 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.719 all knew what I was gonna have come on into that. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.400 Credit to the defense for getting the five sacks. But literally, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.439 the thing that I just keep saying to myself and 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.200 David Tepper is the owner of the Carolina Panthers. Matt 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.959 Rule is the head coach, and he's really the GM two. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.800 All right, If I'm David Tepper, I'm like, got guys, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.280 what was he doing on the roster? Why am I 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.120 writing him in check? Because if it's one thing we've seen, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.240 the highlight of his career was the day he was 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.880 drafted in the first round. It ain't been no highlight since. Man, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.199 he has been a disappointment from the time he was 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.040 in Cleveland. Everywhere he goes, he's a disappointment. So the 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.160 Cowboys have told you, you know what, thanks, no thanks, 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.040 we don't want you. Okay. I remember they lost the 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.160 left and right tackles out here. So cam Irvan was 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.480 here in LA nine. We could and you not only 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.280 pick him up, he's out here started starting tackle. I mean, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.760 you know when you when you three, when you're three 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.400 and old, right, see, you hid some stuff like that 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.199 right up to you sweep some of that stuff under 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.319 the road. You say, listen, he's serviceable, and we're winning. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.280 But then you go up against some guys who have 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.320 a pass rush. Like I said, they hadn't really been 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.680 playing teams right. Saints came in with the COVID stuff 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.440 going on. Other than that, they didn't play winning team. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.679 And then they came in and now now they got 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.760 some reorganizers do right. They got to say, hey, look 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.640 we need to look at who's going to be getting 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.640 attack moving forward, and you can guarantee there's gonna be 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.480 camera and we're seeing a great example of how rush 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.800 and cover worked together. I mean these guys not all 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.720 the time where these guys just beating them. They're one 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.679 on one battles getting back to the quarterback. A lot 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.199 of those times Sam Thoral had to hold onto the football. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.880 He was back there patting it a lot, checking to 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.240 see if this guy. He had to go through three 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.120 progressions before our defensive line got there. So that's kudos 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.319 to the to the secondary working good. Kudos to the 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:52.920 d line as well, because a lot of those times 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.280 he might have had somebody open. Here comes Randy Gregory, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.160 here comes Olsa coming through with a quick sack. So 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.680 these guys are working great together, and dan Quinn has 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.720 these guys moving great because he was camouflaging a lot 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.000 of that. A lot of the time he thought it 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.640 was zero coverage that first picked by Traymon days. They 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.480 thought it was zero coverage. He ended up floating into 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.839 a zone and Sam don'tdn't know what to do with it, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.360 through right through it right to Traymon Dick. So kudos 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.360 are Dan Queen, Kudos are those guys are flying around 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.160 speaking of though goodness? We got to find a way 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.840 rushing cover, but rushing in your lanes. Because Sam Darnold head, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.120 I was like, who is this? I have to watch 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.400 bow Knicks the night before go against LS. You're looking 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.040 like Johnny Munzel two point oh. And then I come 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.160 in on Sunday morning getting ready for the game, and 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.520 all of a sudden, we got this dude, Sam Darnold 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.400 lead the league and rushing TVs and got two against us. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.320 I'm like, come on, guys, like, come on, let's figure 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.480 out the way to handle this, because if we don't, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.199 this is going to be something we continue to see 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.560 throughout the rest of the season. Who's the quarterback coming 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.040 in here next week? Danny Doms and he can run 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.720 have some wheels now, I was sleeping on dimes as wheels. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.240 He can run a little bit, So you know, like, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.440 you know, if we're being nit picky, I think that's 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.920 something that we need to get get fixed, and we 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.720 also need to find a way to stop letting our 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.559 foot off the gas, right, because one, you're killing me 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.880 on my top ten, Like if we're gonna have we're 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.439 gonna play from twenty, like twenty points ahead, then I 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.600 got no shot, right, because we're gonna continue, We're gonna 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.200 continue to pull people out of the game because they 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.200 got back tightness and stay that they can still get 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.920 in and play if they really needed to. They needed to, right, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.520 because it became too close at the end of the game, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.080 and we're not gonna be able to get away with 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.640 that against some of these better teams that we played 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.800 down the road. Also shout out to Gholston. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.440 absolutely the I and I'm I'm sorry, just full of 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.480 affusive praise for this defense because I just after last 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.280 year's debacle. Um, I wasn't sure if they could how 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.320 how you know, because because we get we get sold 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.200 so much stuff. Hey, this is gonna fine, It's gonna 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.160 be fine. And I'm at that point in time, haven't 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:53.520 covered the team for so long, and I won't care. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.800 I'm waiting to see what Will McClay has done with 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.840 this draft. I don't think people understand how good. He 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.320 is at his job. When you think about Michael Parsons, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.720 there's no dog on the way in the world. Michael 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.840 Parson should have been the twelfth picking the draft. Let 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.840 me think about the Cowboys were sitting at ten and 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.400 they trade it down in the division. Okay, two teams 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.520 in the division, Okay, they passed all Michel Parsons. Do 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.680 you get him at twelve? And right now he is 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.640 the odds on favor to be the rookie of the 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.440 year right now, right now, So you get him. Um, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.640 you look at a diggy boozer and what he's been 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.680 able to contribute to this football team right now. Taking 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.800 him in the third round. You see Gholston out there, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.160 who they had, They had high thoughts in the OTAs 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.160 and and and in uh rookie minicamp, gets hurt of 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.280 training camp and this guy gets out on the gets active, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.680 it gets on, he's making plays. Just looking at these 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:49.440 young players, and that's where I was. You go and 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.640 you look at the year draft before, where you you've 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.680 got Ceedee Lamb in round one, you get Diggs in 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.040 round two, and they got Nebel Gallimore round three, and 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.840 you're just seeing production from these guys. And when you 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.800 start to consider the big contracts that you have of 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.880 a Dak Prescott, of Ezekiel Elliott, of Tyrn Smith, the 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.840 lell Calls and all the people who've been paid Jack Martin, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:13.600 you needed to have young players contribute and contribute at 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.920 low costs. Yeah, and what is and what has this 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.960 young influx and talent been able to do for the 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:19.560 rest of the team. I mean it's it's like iron 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.200 sharpers iron. Everybody else picked their game up. Now you know, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.200 Wolf Hunter and Jalen Smith, they didn't have the greatest 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.040 of games yesterday, but before that they were playing pretty well. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.400 And then look at Anthony Brown out there. Trayvon Diggs 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.080 is bawling. Here comes Anthony Brown. He's stepping his game up. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.080 He's not getting beat. He's batting balls down as well. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.880 He gotta make that pick you gotta get out of. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.840 He's not giving up great play or big plays out there, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.640 so he's stepping his game up as well. So this 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.600 young influx of talent has definitely made this defense better 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.640 and the older veterans around them better as well. And 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.640 as we go to break, I'm just gonna say it again, 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.320 what could they be when they get the pieces back. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:55.920 Maybe they don't get all the pieces back together, because 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.960 you guys playing the league, you know you rarely ever 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.600 get the team you think you're gonna get, Like they 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.400 have some pieces coming that could definitely have a dramatic 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.040 effect on the defense, when in terms of an Armstrong, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.000 in terms of a Wilson, in terms of of a 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.040 tank once. I mean they're gonna get some guys back here, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.720 Neville Gallim. Maybe one day your man Gator Roll appears, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.280 not the Gator I maybe I think just wrestling folks 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.119 down here. We don't need we don't need no penalties. 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