WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Send Help! 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:10.920 COWS. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:17.959 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:23.440 World Headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.080 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison, and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:41.040 Players Lounge here on a Monday. Lots to talk about. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.200 I'm happy to be back. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.280 To say, how you been? Man? Where's this guy? Geez? 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.080 Been following a winner? 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.640 Just one early shot? 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:06.000 Showers, right, shoot down? They got to do. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.440 They got to do Astros in the house. You know, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.600 been going to Arizona and doing you. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.160 Know, Instro smacked them in their house too. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.880 Okay, somebody went home and somebody went hold with a championship. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.600 Were you at the paride? Yeah? How was that? Thanks 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:30.080 for watching? I tell you you, Negro, thanks for what? Yes, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.240 you and a half. I was on that but golfing. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.640 We was on the players line, on the players line, 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:45.480 I ain't hard to find you knew where was the 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.440 entire time. I didn't know where you was. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.000 Okay, I had to get some signals. You was in 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.080 the cage somewhere. You can't tell me. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.960 But I knew where I was was. That was crazy. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.720 It was a crazy, man, it was. It was good. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.400 They deserve, man, they deserved that. I was very happy 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.800 for the city and the players, and they came out 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:05.760 there deep man, it was. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.840 I got in there a little bit before nine o'clock. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.320 Man, you had folks already lined up in these streets 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.440 deep and those porter parties they didn't have enough. Man, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.120 I've never seen nothing like that. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.120 Man, it was it was. It was bad stuff. Were 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.560 you here for the for the nineties? You here? Okay? 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.600 I did not compared though we had the city on lock, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:31.120 the Mavericks, the math that was in the city was 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.480 locked up like they was gonna do it again. Huh. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:40.560 Who knew? Who knew? Thought we were selling right now? 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.440 I had a full headline to me too, Me. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:50.760 Too, mustang. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.440 I got photos different times, man, it was. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:01.359 It was different times. Yes, Church twenty four hour. I'm 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.240 so touchy right now listening to your boy. That's all 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:06.239 let's happen. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.720 Let's go rive marryacked my Harrison, Danny Cray. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.880 I knew I wasn't here for the picks on Friday, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:13.840 So how did it all go? 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.560 I switched my pick from Philly to Dallas. Why you 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.840 switch your pick? I let him make me feel guilty 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.240 about not picking the Cowboy. Why I let him do 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.560 that to me? He always I'm going to get his boys, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.359 his boys. I should have just picked the Eagles, like 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.400 I thought I was going Cowboys Philly. I think I 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.240 picked the correct score. No, No, twenty eight, twenty four? 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.440 You said, who was a score twenty three? 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.600 I just listen to yours, to your boy, you was 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:38.160 out there, just. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.200 Listen to your I was so fissed off about that, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.400 I said, And he gonna pick the damn didn't. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.440 He's gonna go through it all. But you talk about 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.360 for least SECONDARY told him they was gettable. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.120 That's legs. I said, Man, just let's go. Let's go. Man, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.960 I'm tired of being negro domas out there. Let me go. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:04:01.360 I took let me go shout out to Correculates. But 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.480 but I'm sticking with my mind that come on, man, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.720 come on, you said, I put. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.320 My case together to I'm leading the witness and all that. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.560 Man, your boys, your boys, your boys. I just felt 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:12.760 like I had to be you know, I had the 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.080 Cowboys back. But yeah, you know it ain't nothing that's okay, man, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:20.560 They almost swayed me though he was he was working, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.240 he was cooking. He was definitely cooking. One at a time, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.560 one at a time. You lost me. I'm done. I'm 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.599 not listening to you. I ain't done with the cowboy. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.599 In the pre pre preseason picks, okay, before he made 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.920 our just way back, he went ar Chives over there. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.560 He in trouble. Everybody had a loss. So what happened. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.640 Everybody has a loss as we did the pre pre picks. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.760 Everybody had that as a loss. Let me tell you 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.920 what happened to me. I started off this way. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:48.920 I thought that they was going to involve my man 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.440 Cooks in the game because he's been a difference maker 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.200 in the last two And I said, hey, man, if 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.640 they come out and they run the offense through Cooks, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.160 Seedy Lamb and Dak Prescott, we'll win the game. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:02.560 That's what I thought. I said. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.479 Davonte Smith was not gonna have it as good of 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.760 a game as Brandon Cooks, okay. And he went out 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.440 there and got two targets. Now DeVante went out there 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.800 and got a touch down. He didn't had too many catches, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:14.680 but too. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.360 Two two targets one catch seven yards too. He at 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.000 the bottom of the list on targets. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.760 Bottom. Wait, stop bottom. It don't make sense. It don't 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.880 make sense. So you know, I mean, if you want 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.480 to keep doing that, Dack had a good game, all 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.039 this sudden stuff. If you don't get your weapons involved 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.680 in the game, it's gonna be a lot harder for 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.640 you to make those players when they count. And you 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.920 found yourself, We'll get to you find yourself in some trouble. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:46.600 A pickle. That's a pickle, man. You know what I'm 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.119 more than anything, man, I'm just ticked. I'm just ticked 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.400 off about when you have your opportunities to win this game. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.000 When you come out, you're seventeen to fourteen lead, then 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.400 the third quarter you come out and it's like, what 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.960 did you think was gonna happen? Was that some news 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.120 that maybe you wasn't going to be going against jaylen 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:03.440 Hurst in the second half? 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.360 Did you did you let your guard down? Was this 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.560 something happening? Was that something happen? Because the third quarter 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.160 belonged to the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.360 After building up all that good will, after battling back 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.480 and forth to finally get the lead, that third quarter 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.320 I thought was defining. Everybody talks about those last couple drives, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.120 and I think they had something to do with it. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.560 I think the execution down the down the road from 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.200 a coaching schematic standpoint, had something to do with it. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.599 But the third quarter, to me, it dictated the whole 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.800 rest of the ball game because you let them just 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.480 have long drives that just consider this sealed. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.560 The deal to me, you know, and like I said, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:44.960 we'll die boo, No, I'm sure we'll die. But to me, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.839 the whole thing came down to the second half was adjustments. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.680 I mean, you look at it. What did we talk 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.159 about during the week leading up. We don't want a 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.599 Chas Green incident happening against that vaunted Eagles defensive line. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.760 We sat here and talked about it. If they're getting 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.040 beat up out there, get your man some help. And 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.760 what ended up happening towards that last driving. Pretty much 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.880 the entire second half, our boy Terrence still was getting 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:08.240 beat like. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:09.000 A drum out there. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.160 And I only saw maybe two occasions where they put 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.120 a back over there to chip or somebody over there 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:15.960 to help out. For the most part, man, he was 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.080 just getting beat down like a drum and I understand. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.160 You know, you gave that man money. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.560 You expect him to, you know, be one of those 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.240 upper echelon right tackles out there. But if you see 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.320 him getting beat like that consistently, you gotta get that 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.280 man some help. So that was one of the things 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:29.720 that just kind of stood out to me in the 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.960 second half offensively, defensively, what's going on? 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.800 They didn't have an answer. They didn't have an answer. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.760 They didn't make that Philadelphia Eagles team one dimensional at all. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.360 You know, either throw the ball or you're gonna run 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.320 the ball, but you can't do both. And we saw 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:43.840 what the Eagles were able to do. You know, they 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.360 were able to run that ball. Might not have been 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.120 huge numbers, but it kept that defense honest. You couldn't 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:49.560 just be like, oh man, we can't just leave for 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.120 in a box because they can still have the ability 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.960 to run. And then the passing game, say what you want, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.520 but that man hurts something. He was making some dimes 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.000 out there. He was dropping some serious dimes out there. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.120 So we'll get into a little bit more, but to me, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.239 it's just the adjustments on both sides of the ball 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.200 in the second half just weren't there. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:06.120 I'll tell you this. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.360 Turn on the tape, okay, and watch our D line. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.520 That's our Watch the D line. You want to figure 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.800 out what happened in the run game? You know who 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.920 if the D line and the linebacker's lap, so they 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.840 can't figure out what watch it. It's the same thing 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.160 that do you have a number? I'm not giving up. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.960 Look at both, no not, just look at both the 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.360 interior defensive line and on the player and see and 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.200 if you looking and seeing what gap they're supposed to 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.960 be in, are they getting reached or they getting pushed 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.040 back into the linebackers lap. You watch it and see 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.160 if it happens consistently, and I'll tell you yes, it does, Yes, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:34.400 it does. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.360 So when you talk about like hey man, hey, how 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.640 the linebacker's gonna play? Are they free? Can they shoot? 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.920 They guess they can't because they get pushed back in 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.520 they leapt. So just it's just a consistent thing to 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.520 just keep on happening. We've been talking about this for years, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.719 right Newly while we were talking about yeah, yeah, we 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.640 ain't wear about no no, no, no, no no, we 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.679 worried about it. Okay, were worried about it. We went 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.600 out there and got one in the first round, and 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.840 we're looking for a difference maker. We even talked about 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.480 when the trade deadline was coming, what position do we 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.320 think is the most important for you to get in it? 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:06.200 Across the bus deepest line. This ain't happened. This ain't happened. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:07.959 But I'm still I'm never gonna stop talking about the 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.960 Brandon Cookster. With all that, I don't care. All right, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.360 you still had a shot, and you got some big 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.760 time playmakers on your squad, and you cannot figure out 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.240 a way to get him involved in the game. Rather 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:24.480 give it to Jaylen Tobert Schoolmaker, rarely give it to 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.840 school Maker. You got a dude out here a thousand 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.520 yards with every team you're gonna I got so tired 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.520 of watching that dude run off the ball full speed, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.600 knowing that he knew he wasn't getting the ball. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:42.440 He's the dummy Rocks. Take the top off, because we 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:43.160 need this to be open. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.800 Underneath was his first target to what the fourth us 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.760 to the fourth of the third on the comeback, and 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.760 it float over his head because that was underpressure. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.760 Take the top off. See he come underneath back. I 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:56.120 just don't. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.480 I just I don't understand you got any respect for 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.040 your player like that, you go find a way to 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:01.880 give him the football. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.200 Yeah, So just Cooks needed to do what Seedee Lamb 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.120 did a couple weeks ago and say something. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:08.960 Man, I don't know if it'll do him any good 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:10.000 at this point. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.440 At this point, I think they just said they're not 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.480 even looking at him, Dak not even turning his way. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.480 And on the fourth and one that you're talking about, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.960 if you turn it and again, there's so much to 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.480 diagnose just from a pressure aspect, because Dak has pressure 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.920 coming right in his face right there. But you see 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.200 Brandon wide open. And that's the one thing about Brandon 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.840 Cooks that I mean, I've been on him. I've been 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.240 talking about from the beginning of the other season. Man, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.080 while we're not using Brandon Cooks, he's not doing what 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.000 we thought he was gonna do. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.720 Well, you can't. He's not gonna do what you thought 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:37.120 he was gonna do. 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.040 If you're not even looking his way, you ain't even 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.120 trying to get him the ball. And I'm sorry, Michael 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.120 gallab if look, if you're gonna drop the ball, if 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.160 you're gonna miss your opportunities, granted he came back and 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.640 caught some hell of the balls in double coverage tight, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.760 you know, but then when we need you to make 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.880 a play, it's not there. We're not our playmakers. I'm sorry. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.120 I look over it on the other side from Philadelphia, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.760 and I look at a guy like Kenneth game Well, 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.480 Ken game Kenned Gamewell. All of a sudden, we are 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.640 Kenneth Gainwell sighting. He's jumping into the end zone. The 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.280 running game is all these things are popping for guys 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.800 that you would think, Oh man, their careers are passing. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.360 Come on, now, come on now, all of a sudden, 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.400 Kenned Gatewell find ways to make plays. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.920 Man, I guys can't make plays. What's what's this grin 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.319 for you? Just like listening to you, Just like listen 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.280 to It's been so long. I just enjoyed it. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.160 No, no, okay, well let me keep going there because 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.560 let me ask because I don't I don't play I 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.360 don't play quarterback, Okay, so I don't want to get 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.080 out here and judge the quarterback. I'm just thinking of 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.920 my mindset, okay. On fourth down, gotta have it. Mojo moment, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:40.319 Mojoe moment. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.520 Gotta have it, gotta have it. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.040 I line up in my offense, lines up in two 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.280 by two to the left, I got a first year 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.800 guy tight end and the second year tight end to 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.000 the right, I got Brandon Cooks and CD Lamb. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.640 Which side am I looking at? You already know you 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.520 go to CD. What side am I looking as? I'm 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:02.280 not a quarterback. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.160 I'm just saying I got I got two veteran guys 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.040 out here running pick routes and two young guys out 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.120 here running pick routes. I'm looking at the veteran veteran 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.560 guys first. I'm just I'm just looking over there, and 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.000 if you do, if you do, you're gonna see a 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.880 dude wide opening it in zone with his hands up, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.760 the guy that got two targets in the game. Bigger 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.760 question is right there, guys, did y'all even consider that 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.679 on fourth and one, that that maybe you should have 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:26.439 kicked the field goal? 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.000 That that did that? Ever? Did that ever dawn on you? 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.440 In the football says you? Guys. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.280 Look, we talked ex's and o's all the time. Y'all 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.760 always talk about the message that the coaches sending to 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.000 the defense and to the offense. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.040 By what they do or they don't do. What did that? 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.000 What did that say to your defense? 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.040 Is that saying to your defense that, man, we better 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.600 get it now because we don't think we're gonna get 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.720 it back or we're in. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:47.880 A shootout right now? Is that? 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:48.600 What? Is that? What? 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.400 That's what? That's what the I'm asking. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.720 This is second time that's had. But I happened earlier 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.160 in the season when when we were talking, I forgot 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.600 what game it was. We're like, okay, we're not We're 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.200 gonna go for on fourth down and we're gonna pay 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.520 for it. At the beginning of the game, we decided 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.880 that it was going to be that type of game 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.360 where you where you look over at our sideline and 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.439 we go for it on fourth down multiple times, and 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.439 you say, well, we figured it's gonna be one of 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.280 them type of games, right your offen, your coaching staff 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.000 decides that we're going to start risking it. These are 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:18.719 big time moments. Were going for it on fourth down. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.040 They only can bleed into the second half, so I 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.920 didn't expect them to start kicking field goals. Then you 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.000 already put it in your mind and in your team's 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.240 mind that we're going foot on fourth down. So now 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.800 I'm expecting no field goal. Throw about the Brandon Cooks 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.200 throw it to him. I was. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.920 I sat in the office and said, all right, kick 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.280 the field goal, get your points, because at this point 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:43.800 time in the game, ten minutes in the fourth quarter, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.920 felt like I felt like at that point in time, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.360 you still had time to go down and you know 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.160 you had more opportunities. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.280 That was just my thought. But then our schoolmaker made 0:13:55.280 --> 0:14:00.120 the touchdown. Then you looked up, well, didn't make the touchdown. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.439 So yeah, that was my thought. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.800 Kick field goal. I'm that's my thought. But I'm normally 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.120 gonna be that guy. This is the league now, everybody's 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.840 been hanging out with your boy a like. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.080 Field goals are a bad thing. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.120 If your defense is what you think your defense is, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.640 and they played well enough, you're gonna get the ball 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:18.199 back again. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:19.440 That's me. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.120 But this is an epidemic through college and pro football 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.560 right now. We gotta go forward all day long. And 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.720 why the big criticism of schoolmaker didn't run it deep 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:29.000 en up. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.480 And then you have people pump it's a rookie. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.600 You've got two bets on opposite put it in his 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.840 hands to not run if you're gonna go fun on 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.760 fourth down and you're not gonna kick a field goal 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.600 mojo moment. You got guys on your team who you 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.440 know need to be trying to who have to touch 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.040 the ball, and this and this. It happened multiple times 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.400 this game, multiple times, and it happened previous games when 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.920 you had Michael Gallup lined up at the extraceiver, when 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.080 you got Cede Lamb and going forward and on fourth 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.160 in the big time mojo moments, and you're not getting it. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.760 So let me ask this question. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.200 Putting that on the quarterback, putting it on a play call, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.840 where does the blame. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.320 Lie for Danny mccrant for which one you talking about? 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.400 Schoolmaker ain't an lot to you. I'm putting that on 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:10.920 the quarterback. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.480 I know as a quarterback who I got out there 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.720 on the right, and I know that they are man. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.120 The man are pretty much zero coverage because you're on 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.760 the goal line. Yeah, I know we running pick or 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.840 I'm looking at the I'm looking at my star guy 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.640 CD almost got two hundred yards of the game. I'm 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:26.640 at least looking over there. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.080 At least you want some trust. Time proofing consists. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.200 Brandon Cooks, I know he know how to, I know 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:33.760 he knows what he's doing, but I ain't look at 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.360 them all games. So maybe that's why I'm gonna look 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.600 over at the tight end. But me as a quarterback, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.920 who do I have faith then to make this play? 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.840 I'm looking to the right at my at my at 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.320 least in CD lamb. But you know he didn't And 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.000 that's and and that's what it is. When he was 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.760 an inch away from scoring, and so you know it's 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.120 we splitting hairs there. But I'm still looking over there 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.360 at my two veteran guys. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:58.280 Gentlemen, man inches, we know it's just about time. It's 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.880 about time. Good run it. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:01.840 I want you to make it, Like do you have 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.560 any anything like for why it didn't go that way? 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.560 Like why that's on the quarterback? 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.760 That's on the quarterback hundred percent, man, Because as a coordinator, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.680 you're gonna put it in the hot hands. And at 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.000 that moment, Da Prescott was firing on all cylinders. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.440 He was rolling. So you, as a coordinator, you're gonna 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.600 be like, you know what, I'm gonna roll with him. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.360 I'm gonna roll with him and think that this guy 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.640 is gonna make the best decision for our team going forward, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.000 and what had happened, you know, like you just said, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.600 he looked to the side that wasn't ceedee lamb and 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.960 and course. And so to me, that's on him because 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:31.680 as a coordinator you can only put the call out 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.320 there that you can't You can't tell him where to 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.320 throw in all this, he's eight years, eight year in 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.080 the NFL. You can't tell him where to go with 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.280 the football. You gotta trust that that man is going 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:45.520 to make the best decision for the team. Can I argue. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.760 If Schoonmaker runs it deeper in the end zone, it's 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.720 a touchdown. I don't care if he scores this. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.400 This is what what you should be doing, not just 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.240 in this game, but throughout the season when you get 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:59.880 into those big time moments, is. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.960 Lean on your star players. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.760 If you lose the game by going to your star players, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.760 you lost the game by going to your star players. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.000 If you lose the game because you did it, then 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.120 that makes you. That means you made a mistake. But 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.840 the thing is, I mean, you're talking about the bottom 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.359 line of it, and I agree with you. You go 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.919 to your playmakers and the mojo moment the games on 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.640 the line. You want to make sure that you give 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.320 it to the guys that you know gonna make the players. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.159 There's no second guessing whether or not Ceedee Lamb or 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.000 Brandon Cooks can make the play. You question whether Schoolmaker 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.280 or Ferguson can make that play, but truthfully that he 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.399 made the right decision based off of where the pressure was. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.120 But pressure, I'll be damn, I'm with you. This man 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.800 is wide open right here. This is a it's a 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.400 wide open Brandon Cooks in the end zone. It don't 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.920 get no easy than that. If I'm going to school Maker, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.000 I'm thinking that he has the wherewithal dog? 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.640 You you got it answer, bro? 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:58.080 Just the thing is, that's just split like I'm not 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.359