WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Going For The Bye? 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.680 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:13.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.840 Players Loube broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:24.200 the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:30.840 Nui Scrugs. Here we are. It is the Players Lounge 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.280 on a Wednesday, and our man Danny McCray is not 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.560 here today, Dallas Cowboys safety. He's on a sign of 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.279 doing work. Thing going on, and look, I'm cool with it. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.320 That's why I didn't wear my team Danny gear. Danny 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.400 it off for Survivor last week. The finalist tonight, so 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.080 I guess check it out. Yeah, he's on the he's 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.160 on the jury, so he'll be you know, to see 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.640 how he feels about all this and how it worked out. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.120 So I'll definitely get to hear what he got to say. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:05.039 So so so anyway, yeah he is, uh, he's here. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.600 So Cowboys taking on the Giants. And one thing I 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.080 wanted to get because you gave me a bunch of 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.800 great topics. By the way, Players launched bought you by 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.720 Hotels dot Com. Batist Very Church, I'm new he scrugs 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.600 box safety. Here Man Church, former Dallas Cowboys free safety. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.160 I've covered the team since Jimmy's last season. The coach 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:31.240 all right, so um Tony Pollard m okay t pasy 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.000 so against the Saints, you know, suffered the planner fresh 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.320 yet and and look he's not right, did not play 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.560 last week. And so you've got that choice, this option. Now, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:46.880 if you're Mike McCarthy, what do you do? This right here? 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.080 To me is it's worrisome. It's worrisome because we can 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.280 both I think we can both agree that the running 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.080 game just hasn't been what it was earlier in this 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.120 season when we had two running backs in the top 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.040 ten of the National Fotball League talking about Ezekiel Elliott 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.480 and Tony Pollard. But these past couple of weeks, I 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.120 would even say the past four or five weeks, it's 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:12.280 been all TP as far as explosiveness, juice, momentum, getting 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.480 the most out of the run game. Pollard has been 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.799 able to squeeze the juice out of that. But with 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:20.800 him having this with plann or Fascia, Yeah, he turned 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.200 the left planner Fascioda on deceper second on that long 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.079 time in New Orleans. It gets the Saints, right. So, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.360 so he's supposed to practice for the first time since 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.320 tearing it according to McCarthy, but he said it's going 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:31.880 to be more of a walk through type practice for 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.160 Tony Pollard. So I'm just thinking to myself, right, you're 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.960 going to quas the Giants Vegas has your favorite by 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.760 ten and a point. Yeah, do you even do you 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.680 want him playing in this game? No? I feel like 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.799 this is a game we can win without without Pollard. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.720 I mean, Zeke is hampered. We should be able to 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.000 get squeeze out maybe forty fifty yards from Zeke and 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.120 there we can find other ways to beat this New 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.800 York Giants team. We got a Trillo receivers on the outside. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.679 I know Dak Prescott hasn't been the most efficient or 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.760 the most accurate quarterback as of late, but I feel 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.000 like we have enough talent to beat New York Giants 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.240 without Tony polar So I would rest him a little bit. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.240 Learn from your mistake that you made last time with 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.920 Zeke when Zeke had an opportunity to get seventeen days 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.080 off rest. I'm not saying it could have been you know, 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.680 he could have been night and day as far as 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.560 performance wise, But you could at least had a shot 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.920 to rest the guy and get him healthy. Learn from 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.600 that mistake. Don't rush Polar back. We have a commanding 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.120 lead in this division. I think we'll need Pollard further 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:24.880 on if we're trying to make this playoff run. I 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.960 think we'll need more of Pollard in that case than 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.560 we do against the New York Giants. So give me 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.760 a sense of how this injury affects guys. Well, you 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.240 can't push off. You can't push off. And I've never 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.440 had the planner or whateverever you fasciat it, however you 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.800 pronounce it. But I had a lot of teammates. I 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.840 had a lot of teammates that did. And when I 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.920 was in Jacksonville, a guy by the name of Mark Quisley. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.520 He was a receiver for us. He suffered the injury 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.119 and it took him about nine weeks, nine ten weeks 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.560 until he was able to rejoin our team and be 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 able to be some type of type of a product 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.040 to productivity out there. So this is not an injury 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.680 you want to take lightly. Now I understand you know 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.640 Pollard's in a contract year and he wants to get 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.040 back out there, and he's he's he's been juicing. He's 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.680 been he's been having a lot of juice this year 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.600 as far as being able to get this run game started. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.800 So I understand why he wants to get back out there. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.920 But to me, we need this guy in the long run. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.200 We don't need him against the Giants right here, right now, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.480 they don't even have their starting quarterback. They got there 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.880 down the Glenning right now, sae Quon Barkley is a 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.520 shell of himself, the receiving options out there, just having 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.440 been doing anything. So I feel as though we can 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.159 win this game without Pollard. Get this guy to rest, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.880 Get this guy to rest he needs So going down 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:43.160 this line and taking your thought, yes, okay, you can 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:48.800 beat the Giants without him. Yeah, Philly Washington face each 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.560 other on Sunday. Philly's favored in this football game. Philly 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.760 wins this game. You face Washington next. Could you rest 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:02.480 Pollard again? Why not wait till the Arizona game in January? 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.560 If he's needed by the end. But because I don't see, 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.279 I mean, we still have an outside shot of getting 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.320 that number one seed in the NFC. We still have 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.839 an outside shot at that. But to me, I'd rather 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.440 be that fourth or third in the in the NFC 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.320 overall with a healthy Tony Pollard than trying to scratch 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.280 and crawl and bring him back early to try to 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.360 get beat Arizona and try to get this number one 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.800 seed that you're not even guaranteed if you do win out. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.560 So to me, I just see there's more. There's more 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.440 to Tony Pollard, there's more to getting out of him 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.000 if we rest him for a little bit then try 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.479 to scratch and claw and try to get this number 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:40.279 one seed. Understand for all all Cowboy fans, he's not 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.719 going to be a hundred percentage. It's just not. You 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.039 can rest it, manage it, but it's gonna be a problem. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.000 So that's gonna be that same type of situation where 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:50.960 you hear from Zeke saying, hey, I'm not gonna make 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.400 it any worse than what it is that I don't know, 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.440 that's a great question, that's a great question. I don't know. Um, clearly, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:03.279 you you got the you got the inside with britt up. Hey, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.520 how do these types of injuries work for guys, especially 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.640 for someone who's an explosive guy? Who depends on cutting 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.039 back his speed, right, So so how does that go there? 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.159 So that to me, that's a that's a very very 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.479 very uh interesting proposition where you're talking about the offense 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.000 and you're talking about the run game. Here you asked 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.840 another question about the topics you wanted to get into, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.560 and you said, can the defense carried this team to 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.240 a Super Bowl? No? No, I mean I know if 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.280 we had d Knack here, he'd be on his high 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.080 horse talking about dan quinn Is dan Quinnett. And granted, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.960 they've done a phenomenal job. They've done way better than expectations, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.280 at least my expectations of the defense. They've surpassed it. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.400 So they've done an amazing job. But let's be honest, man, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.800 we're gonna be going against in this playoffs. When any 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.159 talking about the record, I think we've come to the 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.640 conclusion at the Cowboys they're gonna either win, they're gonna 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.080 win a division, they're gonna be in a playoffs and 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:54.840 mapping they're gonna be able. So any talking about the 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.720 regular season, no more so, you're not gonna go against 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.440 guys like Taylor Heineke, you know, Jay Jalen Hurts you know, 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.840 you're not going against guys like that. You're going against 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.599 the Tom Brady's of the world, the Aaron Rodgers of 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.320 the world, the Kyler Murray's of the world. Let's not 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.480 forget about Matt Stafford, who's balling. Knew we he's balling 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.920 out of control. You're not going against guys like that 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.520 who are just known to throw interceptions and give you 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.720 a chance. These guys can meticulously go down the field 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.800 and take what you give them. They're not guaranteed to 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.200 just launch the ball downfield. You want to give me five, here, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:26.840 I'll take it. You want to give me eight, here, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.120 I'll take it. And that type of game plan I 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.680 think can cause trouble for our defense because we're not 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.160 gonna walk away from those games with four or five takeaways. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.280 I just don't think it's gonna happen. So to me, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.280 Ken our defense stifle those offenses enough to where even 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.520 if we have a lackluster offensive performance from our from 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.800 Dak Prescott and these boys, that we can still get 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.400 to w I don't know, man, I don't know. I 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.440 don't think that's a recipe for success. This is for me, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.400 and when I do these national radio interviews. I keep 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.360 hearing the words super Bowl and I and I tell 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.640 people stopped. I just said, people stopped talking about the 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:08.040 Cowboys in super Bowl. It hasn't happened since nineteen ninety six. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.680 They haven't played for a conference championship in nineteen ninety six. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.520 Stopped looking at this end where the Cowboys have not 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.400 participated it. I mean, when you think about the last 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.160 time the Cowboys wait to the Super Bowl and won it. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.720 The Ravens weren't invented. Oh man, They've won two super Bowls. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.920 The Saints had never been to a super Bowl. They 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.040 have a super Bowl championship. The Seahawks had never been 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.120 to a super Bowl. They've been to three. Oh man, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.360 it's been a minute, man, it has been a minute, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.480 my friend, it has been a minute. The Carolina Panthers 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.360 weren't invented. They've been to two Super Bowls since the 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.040 Cowboys last win. Now I know you're a movie buff. Okay, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.680 So the Cowboys won their last Super Bowl in January 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:48.880 nineteen ninety six. Yeah, Um, have you seen Tin cup 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.840 te Golf movie? Have not seen it? You ever seen 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.080 A Time to Kill? Yes? I have seen the Time 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.959 Samuel L. Jackson. Okay, you've seen a Time to Kill. Yes, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.640 have you seen the movie instead of course? Okay, big um, 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:08.000 I know you've seen the Cable Guy with the Cable Guy. Yeah, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.120 I've seen it, Nutty professor. Oh yeah, not one of 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.520 Eddie Murphy's top five. But you know, but you've seen 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:14.840 what I've seen it. But you've seen it. I mean it. Girls, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.480 twenty five million dollars a mission impossible, we're talking them. Okay. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.319 These are all movies that were released Jerry McGuire, Jeffy Show, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.880 you like oh Me the Money. These are all movies 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.160 that were released in nineteen ninety six, after the Cowboys, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.200 but after they wont to Bowl thirty. Okay, you hate 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.400 to see it? Okay, I was, I was eight years old. Okay. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.480 So when people want to start talking about Cowboys Super Bowl, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.000 no no no, no, no, no no no no. I 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.960 do believe in this one thing that Jason Garrett said 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.920 that is so true. Stacked together wins. Okay, And that 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.280 goes back to a philosopher. You know, don't look at 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.960 the wall just you know what, Concentrate on laying that brick, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.760 lay this one brick, and then go put another brick there. Okay, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.439 that's so. So when people talk to me, hey, where 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.800 the cowboy was? What's your super Bowl? Or what's as 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.200 far as they got to go? You know, how about 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.079 you win the division? Okay, then when your playoff game, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.080 all right, well in that mind, and then they win 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:18.160 another playoff game. Because just from what you're telling me, okay, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.120 you may face a really good quarterback. There's a lot 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.720 odd the odds are in your favor that you're gonna 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.160 have to play a pretty good quarterback. You know, do 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:30.679 you have to face the Rams Brady Rogers? I mean, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.520 who are you going to have to play? So that's 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.080 why I'm just sitting here in myself. I'm not thinking 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.840 about super Bowls, even though I've already booked my super 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.880 Bowl ticket and my super Bowl hotel through Yes, yes, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.000 I got two six dollars. It is. You gotta get 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:49.840 it early. Back, I get it early. I had to 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.280 get her. But it's on NBC. So since I'm working there, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.120 we're going. So I'm gonna be there no matter what, 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.079 regardless of so it don't matter. You're good. I'm so fine. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.679 No matter what. We'll watching the super Bowl. Okay, I'm 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.720 gonna be there for that. But to start it starts 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.080 to haz Deefen is gonna put no, no, no, no. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.440 Can you win the division and then win your playoff game? 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.880 Because right now, man, the playoffs are you started looking 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.120 around here? He says, Okay, there's there's they're teams that 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.000 are they're good teams. And the NFC's loaded now like 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.559 the AFC, where it's like a hoshposit who knows, thank you? 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.960 NFC is top heavy. So so why take that energy 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.120 talking about other playoffs? No, no, let me ask you this. Then. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.800 Let me ask you this. The Cowboys, what what would 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.400 be considered a successful or a failure? Like if they 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.200 were to get I mean understand, get into Super Bowl, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.280 that's a success, But you know, does it have to 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.960 be a long playoff run? Do they have to win 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.520 at least one? I mean, like, where are we saying 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.360 the successes for this season with the Dallas cow Boys? 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.320 You know what, man, that's that's a great question. And 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.320 I think this is a great thing I learned from 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:07.000 doctor Weltman in business analytics class. It depends, it depends 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:08.840 you keep talking about Okay, you know we're trying to 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.400 do one of these these analytic theories is where he says, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.400 what's the answer. It depends. There's a lot of variables. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.000 Are we healthy? Are we not healthy? Okay? Back back 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.600 rolling all right. For instance, a couple of years ago, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.160 we all thought the Saints were gonna go to Super Bowl. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.760 They're in the NFC Championship game. All of a sudden, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.720 REPS decided not to call a clear passion it's called 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.800 that would have given the Saints would have won that. Okay, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.199 you look at their season, how do you look at it? 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.400 That's a failure. You didn't get there? But what really 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.120 you're you know, yeah, you get your game all the 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.559 way down today? It depends, right, last year, Packers make 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.160 a great run, but they lose it home to Tampa Bay. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.200 You know that ain't what you thought it was going 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:51.400 to be. I would say that woman have to be 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.760 a disappointment, right, that would be a disappointment. So so 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:58.520 many times it really depends how does it end. Where 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.520 were you did you get hot? Did you have all 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.920 your guys? I mean, tell me what the circumstances are, Okay, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.640 and then you can kind of make all right. Last year, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.000 to me, the Buffalo Bills, that was a successful year. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.839 They didn't make the Super Bowl, made it all the 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.000 way to the championship. Nobody thought they would get that far. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.240 Nobody lost to Kansas City. Okay, I mean I go 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.120 back and I look at your Jacksonville team that went 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.000 to the AFC Championship. To me, that was successful because 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.440 nobody thought we would get at all, especially with the 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.880 Boat at quarterback. I mean, nobody thought I'm talking about 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.679 Blake Boarders. Nobody thought we could go. No, we're near 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.319 as far as we did. And to get New England 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.120 down to three minutes, we had to league with three 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.320 minutes and twenty seconds left and we got Brady. But 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.600 that to me was a successful season. Now, this Cowboys team, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.000 if we go into this playoffs healthy, healthy er, Like 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.520 let's say we get Tige Smith back, our run game 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.160 is starting to pick up a little bit and we 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.760 get outsted in the first round by a Stafford team 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.320 in LA. To me, that's a disappointment. To me, that's yes, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.600 it gets our Defensively, we've had success and we've turned 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.400 things around, it looks like on the defensive side of 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.240 the football, so that's a positive. But this team, after 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.240 you know, the first that runaway that we had what 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.640 six straight victories. Everybody was counting, let's go, let's playoffs, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.120 super Bowl, We're getting this thing done. If we go 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.280 out there and take a first round exit with is 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.959 loaded as we've been, we've become, I've got to think 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.680 that as a disappointment. Okay, I got to So you 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.480 got your man that quarterback hunting what sixty mildstand if 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.080 they face if they face the Rams today, who do 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.440 you think's favorite that football game right now? Injuries and injuries, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.920 how they are? I gotta say the Rams are favorite 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.000 just because I know what they bring to the table defensively. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.200 So if you face the Rams at Jerry World and 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.600 you lose and their favorite Vegas favorites them, that's a disappointment. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.280 It's got to be. It's got to be because we 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.360 put so much stock on this team and Jerry's like, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.280 oh well, this is the best I've seen since who 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.920 knows when, and we got our quarterback. Our run game 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.600 is a little shaky, but that's the marketing. That's the 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.080 marketing of it. That's you say, hey, we got this blockbuster. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.800 You believe it though, okay I believe it. You believe 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.840 and the defense, the defense swung me I believe it, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:15.120 and once again, twenty five years I've been wanting to 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.720 believe and I look at it as simply this, until 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.600 you do it, you haven't done it. So why are 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.920 we talking about something that clearly has not been able 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.120 to have. You haven't been to a championship game. I 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.080 just I just don't see the excuses this year because 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.920 you know, two twenty sixteen, two rookies, you know, Dak 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.840 and Zeke their rookies. You know, they didn't even know 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.600 what the whole hype is about, what the playoff. They 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.960 didn't understand. All right, So okay, at three other you 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.000 got a playoff game. Guess what what what the quarterback 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.160 gets hurt, the quarterback gets knocked out? The variable that 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.200 can happen here that we're talking about something that I 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.800 just simply say, get to the finish line. Because they 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.440 haven't won the East yet, we believe they will. Oh yeah, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.360 but win it. Okay, win it. Let's see what you 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:02.040 can do. You got two division games Giants Washington, you 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.600 got those before you face a really good Arizona team. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.320 That game should tell you something. It should give you 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:12.000 some Arizona game. Yes, you know, if you supposially handle 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.920 your two business, handle your business. Get to eleven wins? Now, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.360 can you get win number twelve? Facing Kyler Murray who's 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.280 never lost it at and T Stadium and a really 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.600 good Cardinals team who's going to have to play at 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.000 a high level when you think about it, because they're 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.600 sitting here right now. They've gone from the one seed 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.240 to the three seed, and you've got the Rams one 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.600 game behind you that have they played the Rams twice already? Yeah? Okay, okay, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:43.560 so so so this whole premise of hey, facing the 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.800 Rams in the playoffs, if this thing flips, you may 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.600 be facing Arizona and you don't want that. But to 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.320 meet this team has got to get that three seed. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:54.720 We've got to get that three C because if we 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.920 go to four, we get the Rams. You may not 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.200 get the Rams. Okay, if the Rams go, If the 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.640 Rams go win this thing, then you got Arizona. Get Arizona. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.000 Gotta get you gotta get out of that Ram. You 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.760 got to get out of four in two weeks, you 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.520 know twice, you know, so you place Arizona ended against Philadelphia, 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.560 you can play Arizona again. I don't think we want 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.359 those problems. So so, but some of this may be 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.639 out of your control. It could be. That's why I 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.720 think you're talking a super Bowl. Okay, we're a ready 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.640 talk about the first round match up. 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