WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: No Credit, Just Kool-Aid 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:12.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:18.160 Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters. At 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:24.760 the start. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccraig, Heckma Harrison, 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:32.800 and NEWI scrugs, well, it's Friday. It is Friday, forty 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:38.840 eight hours before it's game day, and asked, promise, we're 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.239 gonna show love. We're gonna send our boys off the 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:47.080 right way today. Trust and believe. I am going to 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.159 pick the brain of one Barry Church sitting across from me. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.240 But you are now rocking with the bestness is the 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.640 Players Lounge sponsored by Tostito's, the official Chip and Dip 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.880 of the Dallas Cowboys. And man, this is so good. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.720 I got him all to myself. I got a corner 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.399 because I know what he's gonna do. Well. My man 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.000 at the desk today, per normal as always. My man 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.720 Bury Church, former safety for the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.640 is in the building. Knew he had school today, well, 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.080 knew he had school today. And Danny mccraig is helping 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.240 somebody get hitched. So he has. He got his own work. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.640 He got it own work cut out for him today. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.920 But Barry, as we always start our show man, we 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.160 check in with each other as brothers, as men, just 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.000 to see, hey man, what's going on with us? So 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.200 Barry him started with you. You only one here? So 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.440 how are you? Man? Man? As always man, smile on 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.160 my face, extremely blessed. Right now. Life is good. Life 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.800 is good. I got to come in with my boys, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.840 talk cowboys all day. Family doing good families, healthy soul, 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.040 the mentals. The mentals are in a strong spot right now. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.200 The mentals are really good right now. So no complaint 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.240 from me. Man, how you doing? Man, I'm good Man, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.320 I'm the same thing. I'm the same thing. Man, just 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.560 abundantly blasts. I got a lot of good things going 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.360 on in my life. You know, obviously, if I can 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.560 get these kids to act right all together at one time, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.320 I would be doing even better. But I always seem 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.280 to have one that goes astraight. You know, that falls 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.680 asleeping class, that's not turning in assignments. You know, you know, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.840 and think you're a superstar and all that you know, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.240 and then the reality have to sit in and I 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.919 have to be the bad guy. But anyway, hey, enough 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.160 about me, Let's talk about where where were? That's why 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.639 we're here, that is why we hear. But other than that, man, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.519 life is fantastic. I'll tell you what I've been thinking 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.480 all day. I was telling myself, Man, I'm a walk 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.680 I said, you know, I've been trying all week to 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.160 turn Barry. And you know he went and played golf 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.320 on him one day. Yea, every boy had to have it, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.399 take his mental break. Yes, you ain't go play, I said, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.880 maybe that was the day that I could have swayed 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.200 him over to make his decision. Let me say this 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.720 to you, batter, I recognized, dog, that you have forgotten 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.720 more football than the average fan knows. Because of your 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.840 you're having to study playing the game as longer you don't. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.040 You don't go from an undrafted guy to a long 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:24.400 NFL career without studying football. So obviously, obviously you have 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.720 been watching the film on the Dallas Cowboys and the 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.200 San Francisco forty nine ers. And we don't know your pick, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.360 we don't know where we're gonna we're just guessing right now. Okay, 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.920 but there's something that you have seen in your preparation 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.480 that gives a leg up to the San Francisco forty nine. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.280 What has that been to me? What's giving them the ability, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.680 in my opinion, just to have a slight legop. I'm 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.720 not saying they, you know, leaps and bounds better than 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.360 the Cowboys, but to have a slight leg up. It's 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.400 the consistency. And that's just basically it, because if you 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.480 look at it talent for talent, I feel like the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.680 Cowboys are right there with the forty nine ers. I 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.440 mean they got as much talent defensively as the forty 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.880 nine ers have and offensively we all know, yeah they're 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.760 loaded with Debo and mac and all that good stuff, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.720 But we got the same thing over here. You got 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.320 Cde Lamb, you got Tony Pollard, you got guys that 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.080 are explosive in their own right. So it's not a 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.760 talent thing to me, it's the consistency in having an identity. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.520 When you look at the forty nine ers, these guys 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.640 have been consistent on what they want to do for 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.000 the past. What about eleven and oh or an eleven 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.679 six and oh since since Purdy took over, but eleven 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.400 straight And that's because they stick to their identity. They 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.279 know what they are. They are a physical, downhill running 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.720 football team that doesn't ask the quarterback to do much. Now, Purdy, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.240 he's come along great. Don't get me wrong. He's played great. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.960 He's put the ball in the playmaker's hands and they've 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.719 been able to do what they gotta do. He's making 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.320 great decisions with the rock. He's only had I think 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.240 four interceptions in the six games, but he has thirteen touchdowns. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.479 So the guy is doing great as far as decision 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.800 making isn term. But when you talk about the forty 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.919 nine ers, they know who they are. They live and 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.560 die by that formula and they're consistent with it. When 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.880 we look at the Dallas Cowboys, we had a great 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.760 formula going early on lean on the ground game, lean 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.480 on that solid defense. Then somewhere along the way we 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.360 kind of deviated from that track. We went to, you know, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.000 throwing the ball forty sometimes a game out there, relying 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.159 solely on Dak's arm. And he hasn't been the most 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.520 consistent quarterback this season now the past. This past game, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.960 he was unbelievable, remarkable against Tampa Bay. The guy had 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.640 put the ball anywhere he wanted to he wasn't phased 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.040 at all by Todd Bowls. But when you talk about 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.680 consistency over time, this Cowboys team this season, it's been 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.520 an up and down roller coaster. Maybe not as far 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.200 as wins or losses are concerned, but as far as identity, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.719 and one week the offense plays great, the next week 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.440 they struggle defensively. Same thing. I just love the consistency 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.080 that the forty nine ers have had. Cowboys up and 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.360 down roller coaster. It's hard for me to give them 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.760 the leg up with that thing going on there, you know, absolutely, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.440 And I think that's the way that the way that 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.080 you put that. I think that because of Kyle Shanahan 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.159 as their as their head coach, that gives them that 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.200 identity because he doesn't change his stripes. He's gonna run 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.120 that stretch run play. That's his play, no matter what 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.360 I think his defensive consistency. They're gonna play a prototypical 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.320 style of defense. Doesn't matter who they have SLA, it 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.159 doesn't matter who it is. They're gonna play a certain 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.719 brand of football. They haven't deviated from that. The one 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.160 thing that has been really shocking to me in watching 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.320 the San Francisco forty nine is are gearing up for 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.600 this matchup. Is the people that give you said, look, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.880 I don't give them that much of a leg up. 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.920 It's by a titch, not very much. But but then 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.000 when you when you listen around and you listen to 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.400 other people that have obviously the same experience as you. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.960 The former NFL players, gims, everybody else that talks about 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.880 this matchup, they talk about the forty nine ers roster 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.720 as though it is leaps and bounds better than the 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.480 Dallas Cowboys. Now, I will tell you this, when I 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.680 look at the playmakers on both sides, I can't lie 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.920 to you. I have to give. I look on the 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.880 other side and I say, if I go playmaker for playmaker, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.840 and I started Bosa Michael, you know, I go cdd 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:22.080 BO you know, McCaffrey, Zeke and Pollard, you know, and 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.520 I go through that. I side with San Francisco on 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.280 half of those just by the play style of those guys. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.440 The numbers don't sway me, because the numbers are way 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:38.280 too close in some instances. But when I get away 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.760 from that, and I start saying, Okay, Tray Von Diggs, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:50.400 Curse Wilson, Tank Lawrence, you know when I started. When 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.320 I look at our offensive line and I say Tyrant Smith, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:59.480 Sack Martin and and I mean even Dak Josh Burton, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:04.000 I'm like, wait a minute, now, either you're not giving 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.360 us credit for these other guys. You're not giving us 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.280 credit for the team that we have. Are You're being 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.680 willing willingly being blind about the talent that's on the 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.040 Dallas Cowboys versus what's on the San Francisco forty nine US. Right, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.840 it's right there, it's right there. When you say that 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.720 they've been consistent, I agree with you. When you win 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.880 eleven straight that hell, it don't get the more consistent 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.040 than now. But that's eleven straight versus teams that haven't 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.920 had the five hundred record. This is true as well. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.959 These are This is the criticism that the Cowboys get 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.800 all the time when we go through all you shouldn't 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.280 have lost that team, Oh you should have eate that team. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.760 Oh you should have eat them by a hundred. You know, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.640 the San Francisco forty nine is have done that. And 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.640 I think d MAC will argue, you beat the teams 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.080 you're supposed to beat. But what do you play down 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.120 or do you play up to guys that that that 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.440 you that you go up against. That's the biggest thing 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.959 for me when I look at that, But also when 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.360 I compare the playmakers, then I start going to the 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.640 keys to victory and the matchups that I'm looking for. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.720 That's what it comes down to, the matchups. You you 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.480 know that that's where I'm going. That's where I'm going. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.400 And for you, when you look at this on film 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.880 and you look at everything that we just summarized about 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.120 both of these teams, what do you say the biggest 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.240 matchups are going to be. Obviously we know the big names, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.120 we don't but what are you seeing on tape that 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.240 you're saying, Okay, I'm looking for this on Sunday. To me, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.880 you know forty nine ers wives offensively, I want to 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.280 see how this defense run by Dan Quinn can handle 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.280 twenty one personnel. And we talked about it, I believe yesterday, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.040 but that's what they major in. They don't really major 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.560 in eleven personnel. Now they got the ability to with Jennings, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:50.959 they can bring him in there as well and get 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.920 that eleven personnel going, but they major in that twenty one. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.559 One of the only teams in the league that has 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.280 that fullback in Kyle use check that uses their tight end, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.000 splits them out, splits the full back outs, blitz McCaffrey out. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.319 So they end up with five wide receiver options out 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:08.120 there going against a Dallas Cowboys defense that doesn't major 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.600 in base. You know, they're their base covers. Their main 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.760 stay is either a nickel or a big nickel, big nickel. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.920 They have mcquamo at that at the nickel spot, regular nickel, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.560 They're gonna have Bland at the nickel, and they're gonna 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.920 have another corner maybe Xavier Roads out there to go 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.640 along with treyvon Digg. So, to me, it's gonna be 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.920 real interesting. How are they compromised? Because when you look 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.920 at it, you haven't basically a three safety situation right 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.839 there in that with that twenty one personnel, all those 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.800 offensive linemens, tight end, fullback, can that big nickel or 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.360 nickel personnel handle that run? Because that's what's gonna happen. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:41.720 They're gonna come out there. They're gonna be like, ah, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.440 y'all can stay in that big nickel if you want to, 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.320 You might be able to cover us when it comes 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.280 to five wilde option if you deside to pass it. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.200 But can Israel mcquamo, can that third or that next 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.720 safety coming down? Can they live in the run game 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.679 situation the entire game, because that's the thing that's gonna 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.760 because when you talk about you know, mquamo and these 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.000 other safeties coming down in the that's one thing if 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.559 you do it once every you know, a couple of 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.480 plays here and there. But if you got to live 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.040 in that series after series and going against those big 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.640 offensive lineman Williams getting to the second level having to 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.480 fight him off, can you do that for four quarters? 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.080 Because if you look at it, Tampa Bay, they weren't 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.400 really interested in running the football. They tried to Dallas 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.559 shut them out because they were eleven personnel. So it's 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.280 wide receivers on dbs here. You're getting tight ends and 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.520 fullbacks against dbs out there. Now you got Vanderesh you 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.040 might have or you have Vanderesh will have ball or 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.640 Damon Clark and there as well. But when it comes 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.000 down to it, you know, Calhan, he's gonna look, all right, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:35.640 where's that walk down safety at Oh he's on his 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.800 left side. Hey all right, check. Hey, We're going over 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.120 here to him to see if he can handle that consistently. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.800 That's the only thing that really has me nervous because 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.120 if it gets into a passing game where the forty 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.520 nine ers I gotta drop back multiple times with that 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.240 young quarterback party, then I believe that falls into dan 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.400 Quinn's hands because he can at least that pass rus 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.200 showing you. But if they're not able to get it 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.959 into a passing game and it's just forty nine ers 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.480 downhill punching us in the throat like they did last year, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.439 then that concerns me slightly because we know it when's 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.120 the last time dan quinn has put out there a 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.280 three lineback, a four three or a three lineback or 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.400 something else. He has his safeties and he has a 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.160 lot of respect for his safeties, and rightly so, because 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.160 those guys have been balling out this year. But can 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.200 they handle that physical torture, that physical punishments that's gonna 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.880 come to him each and every down, not only with McCaffrey, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.440 but Elijah Mitchell back there as well, Deebo Samuel. They 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.080 got a lot of playmakers that can run the rock. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.480 That kind of concerns me a little bit. And that's 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.440 another reason why I slightly give the advantage to the 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.720 forty nine ers, And you know what, I love that. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.640 I think that that is the one thing that's their identity. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.320 Their identity, the physicality of their offensive line and the 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:44.000 way that they run. My answer to that is, Curse 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.719 has shown you all year that he plays with a 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.880 physical play style. Healthy. No, absolutely, that's the everybody at 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.480 this point. I believe it's slightly banged up and if 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.040 he can go, you'd almost have to cut his head 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.720 head off to not have He's gonna go, and he 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.480 understands the physicality of this game and him being the 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.320 heartbeat of this defense. Having him out there, I think 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.920 is another thing. Tank Lawrence is of our defensive lineman, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.360 the guy that sets the tone against the running game, 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.160 I would agree. I believe that having Layton vander esh 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.960 back that's another That's another thing. His ability to scrape 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.280 and get to the runner. I think that also sets 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.520 us up against that power game. They do a lot 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.520 of counters, they do a lot of stretch plays, all 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.520 of those things. You're gonna need guys like Donovan Wilson 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.480 to be exactly who they are. Downhill thumpers think had 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.080 to have him in there. That's the guy. That's the 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.280 guy that I think it can also make the difference. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.839 The other difference I think is what we're talking about 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.480 the line of scrimmage is the changes that they've made 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.360 going and I don't I don't know what the forty 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.240 eight is gonna be, but I know that they left 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.199 some guys off and they're coming with a bigger brand 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.600 that they're Chauncey Gholston really made a difference. He's bigger, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.040 he could play that four eye technique, he can move 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.760 out to the five. There's a lot of different things 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.800 that you could do with a guy like that that 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.920 basically you're going to have to test them at the 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.080 line of scrimmage if you're dan Quinn, if you can't 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.440 get that part of it done, I think they eat 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.040 off of everything else that they recognize that you can't 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.240 do that Deebo Samuels, And it's it's so hard to 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.360 take away all of the things that they have because 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:25.600 they got they got so many weapons, you know. So 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.240 for dan Quinn's it's like, you know, this man, we 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.480 want to make you one dimensional. How in the hell 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.640 do you make the forty nine is one dimensional? When 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.680 every one of their players can do multiple things. Chris 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.040 mccafrecking run the ball, but he also can catch Deboken 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.920 run the ball, but he also is a receiver. He's 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.720 better at being a receiver than actually run the ball, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.360 but he does both of them. Well. The sayings you know, Brandon, Brandon, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.320 I you wants to catch those short passes and he 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.320 wants to take a five yard pass to the house. 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.880 All right. So for me, the Dallas Cowboys defense has 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.440 to specialize in you're down where you catch the ball, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.200 that's it. Oh yac if you catch the five yard out, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.760 you sit right there. It can't because if you see, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.160 like when I look at Devo when I see him 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.400 up against Seattle, that's exactly what he did. Like he 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.400 catch a five yard pass, a ten yard pass, he 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.360 take it thirty more yards. And that's what's backbreaking about 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.560 San Francisco. When you don't tackle well, they take advantage 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.280 of you and then it just looks like they're physical 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.680 brand of football just takes over. And that's the part 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.360 to me about the Cowboys that in this matchup, dan 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.080 Quinn has to be tuned in into that. On the 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.400 other side, for me, my key when I'm looking at 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:40.080 is on the offensive side okay for the Cowboys. And look, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.000 I kind of half jokingly half serious yesterday were talking 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.200 about Demko Ryans and his defense and what toddo Bowls 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.120 tried to do with us last week. And honestly, Demko 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:52.920 is not gonna go with a seven man front. He's 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.920 not gonna do any of that because he believes supremely 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.400 in his front seven. When she should, he has every 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.960 reason to leave it in front seven. And I've always thought, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.360 as evaluating football that when you play zone on the 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.920 back end majority of the game, it's because you believe 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.120 that your front seven can maintain the line of scrimmage. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.160 That's the only reason why you can get home with 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.680 four people. That's that's always been my thought, right, And 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.360 so when I look at San Francisco, they believe that 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:25.000 they can get home with Bolsa, Armstead and company. But 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.840 to me, on the flip side of this, I'm saying, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.880 from seventy three to seventy seven, do you gotta be ironclad? 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.360 You gotta be Look when they were You go back 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.000 two weeks to Washington and they went against a vaunted 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.440 front seven that defensive line pain Chase Island. Them boys. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.520 They struggled immensely. Now I'm gonna you know, Tampa Bay, 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.600 they didn't have that that front seventh that maybe Washington 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.200 and the forty nine Ers has, so the Cowboys were 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.800 able to dominate them. Once they got going in them trenches, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.280 it was over it. It was a done deal that 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.720 was not touched the entire gain, cool, calm, and collected. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.160 And that's the one you want to see. Forty nine 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:00.880 Ers is gonna be another Hess because they got a 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.240 similar as far as talent wise along that front seven 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.840 like Washington had, and Washington always gives the Cowboys fits 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.560 as far as the running game and all that stuff. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.440 And we understand, in my opinion, at least Dad does 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.680 his best work when he has play action available. And 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.280 you know, we saw it last week when he was 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.040 when Zeke and Polot were able to get it gone, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.040 he was able to use that play action to a key, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.960 hitting Shoultz up the scenes, hitting you know, Polot in 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.560 the flight. All these things were happening for this team. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.479 If they can't control the trenches, because that's what it's 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.720 gonna come down to. If they can't control the trenches, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.760 this game it could get out of hand. But we've 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.879 seen it last week this office. When they play mistake 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.200 free football, they're extremely tough to beat. So we'll see 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.840 what happens this week. And this is and my point 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.440 about from seventy three to seventy seven being ironclad. And 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.600 this is something that I know even before it comes 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.879 out of my mouth, Cowboy Nation is gonna say, hell no, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.200 I'm cussing and I say this, You're gonna have to 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.800 run the ball. You're gonna have to run the ball. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.760 How do you run the ball versus team that hasn't 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.800 give up more than seventy five average and seventy five 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.280 yards a game. You gotta find a way. And the 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.400 thing is, they beat you into submission because they make 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.920 you one dimensional and you give up on the run. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.159 The Cowboys cannot give up on the run. If it's 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.000 sixty five players in this game, Cowboy Nation, we gotta 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.200 run thirty of them. You gotta because you gotta keep 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.399 the forty nine ers off balance. That's that's one. If 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.360 they understand, you know, all right, all them boys gonna 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.080 pin their ears back, are stead both of them? I mean, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.680 they're gone. But people don't want to hear that, right, 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.280 People don't want to hear that people don't want to 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.440 hear Calamara. You're running on first down. You may not 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.320 run on first down no more. You have to stay 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.840 balanced in this game because, like you said, if you 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.800 become one dimensional, they come after you. But the second 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.480 thing is, and this is probably the most important, time 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.119 of possession in this game is going to be important, 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.520 not just having the ball, but scoring when you have 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.520 the ball. But time of possession is going to be 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.040 important because the time of possession, what it does is 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.840 it eliminates, well, it keeps eighty five nineteen twenty three 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.239 and eleven on the sideline for San Francisco drinking kool aid. 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.119 That's all right, yeah, and that's healthy. Yes, that's healthy. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.680 They when they're sitting down and you don't have to 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.520 worry about them, and your offense is out there in command. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.000 That gives you the greatest opportunity to win. And that's 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.240 the balance that I'm looking for, and that's the key matchup. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.199 But hey, we have talked our heads off for the 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.639 first twenty minutes, as promised, You're gonna take some phone calls. 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.280 And the second segment and third segment just to here, 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.280 cowboy Nation, where y'all coming from? How y'all feeling We 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.400 already letting you know how we feel, so we want 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.600 to hear from you, So stay with us here on 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.119 the Players Lounge. We'll be right back. It's Smithie King's 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.080 original Angel Food and New Angel Food Slim without at 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.840 a sugar. You no longer have to choose between treating 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.439 yourself and hitting your goals this summer. 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