WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Here We Go Again 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:08.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.719 Cowboys. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:18.160 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.640 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.280 Danny McCrae, heckma Harrison, and new he Scrubs. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.040 End of days. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.680 Time for the Players Lounge as the season has come 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.320 to an end. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.800 Brought to you by Tostitos gets Chips. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.560 As we sit here and talk it out with Barry Church, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.480 Heck Maharrison, Danny McCrae. I knew he sports forty eight 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.360 for the Packers, thirty two for the Cowboys at home. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.720 The season is over. Green Bay moves on. They will 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:01.160 face Detroit. Tampa Bay defeated philadelp Tampa Bay goes to 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.080 San Francisco, and the Cowboys are now left to talk 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.919 about what was and what will be. We'll go around 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.760 the table, start here, Danny mc craig. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:13.559 Your thoughts. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.200 One, We're the only home team to lose this weekend, 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.240 which is which is absolutely It's unfathomable. I'm sitting there 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.160 and I'm watching the game, and I don't I don't 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.560 understand how one when they start panning in on CD 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.679 and DAK again. I'm like, of all days, today today 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.640 is when you gotta look like you got an issue 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.480 like today's starting off the game today like it just 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.600 the Packers came in as the hot team, looking like 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.720 the New York Giants when they were nine to seven 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.800 and they were getting hot and they're ready to go, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.720 and we just did not look we didn't look like 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.120 we were prepared to play like schematically, we didn't look 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.840 like we were there. I'm talking about man and the 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.520 man guys, letting guys run wide open to where nobody's 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.800 on them, mixing mad, they're not in the right gap, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.520 the same thing that's consistent through the week. And then 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:06.000 and then offensively, you know, we revert back to our turnovers. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.640 Tony Pouler was actually having a decent day and you're like, okay, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.480 we were ready for the for the run game to start. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.359 And then the run game gets started and you still 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.600 can't figure out a way to get Ceedee Lamb involved. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.600 You get an interception throwing at the Brandon Cooks, and 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.760 then who would have thought Michael Gallup would have been 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.919 the guy, right, the savior of like all right, somebody's 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.960 gonna ball today and Michael Gallup is the guy, so 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.440 six three listen, we got to be offensively, defensively, even 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.240 on special teams. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.040 I'm seeing Turping get hit at the fifteen. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.240 Sam Williams out there with the kick catching the fid 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.760 like it was a total team effort of losing that game. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.560 Coaching staff, players, all three phases. So very disappointing. But 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.200 you know, here we are again. That was Cowboys, Baby 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:51.720 were back one more time. And I know you guys 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.000 are gonna break down a lot of the game, the 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.320 play calling and how that went bad. But Gods, fundamentally, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.800 for me, there are things that I believe about football 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.079 that I just feel as though your head coach has 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.120 to have your guys ready. We talked about it all 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.000 week about guys need to be mentally strong, and when 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.560 they don't show up, you put that on the head coach. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.000 I couldn't believe what I was seeing out there. I 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.919 couldn't believe that these guys came out as flat as 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:17.200 they did. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.680 It's not it's not uncomfortable that. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.799 They wouldn't come out flat, but to that degree that 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.560 nobody turns up, nobody says, hey, guys, it's not a 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.200 game next week, So it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.959 to witness city. It was embarrassing for them to play 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.480 to get that opportunity and have two home games. I 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.360 didn't recognize what I was seeing out there. I just didn't. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.960 And it was the wrong time to change your identity. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.800 And that's something that you've been talking about since August, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.680 since two days, since training camp. What's this team's identity? 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.960 And when they got into the playoffs, they changed that 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.120 and I was embarrassed by what I saw. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.120 Yeah, you're right, I mean you hit the word that 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.600 needed to be said. I mean, I was an embarrassing 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.560 loss on all fronts. He's talking about all three phase 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.640 of the game. Offense, defense, special teams. Even Aubrey. I 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.280 think he missed a kickout there, and that's when I 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.240 knew it, you know, put the nail in the coffin. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.040 But it was they came out. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.560 Flat, and to me, that's something that you don't really 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.760 see from a McCarthy team. You know, all these seasons 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.000 he's been here, usually he has his team ready, his 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.039 record accounts for I mean, after a bye week, after 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.240 a loss, I mean, the numbers are there, you know, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.159 He's usually a coach that's gonna have and get the 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.760 best out of all of his players, and that's what 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.120 we all talked about last week is one of the 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.800 attributes that makes him a great coach. But they came 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.720 out flat, extremely flat. And I knew Green Bay had 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.440 a lot of confidence going into that game. We he 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.240 did the pregame on the sidelines, you could just feel 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:40.000 the energy from them. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:40.600 They felt like. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.440 They belonged in there, which was out of pocket because 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.000 this was pretty much their whole, entire team's first go 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.640 in the playoffs, and the Dallas Cowboys didn't make them 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.400 feel like they don't belong Like they knew from the 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.039 jump we belong here. We're gonna win the coin toss, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.320 take the ball, go against one of the strengths of 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.359 good team, which is the defense. We're gonna march it 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.840 all the way down the field. Very first drive eight minutes, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.080 score with a touchdown at it, or score touchdown at 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.240 the end of the drive. Like that right there set 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.640 the tone for the rest of the game. And as 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.400 we saw Dak Prescott, you know, kind of reverted back 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.320 to that Prescott we've seen in years past. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:14.320 I don't know what it is. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.200 But the playhoffs, it's just he gets back into that 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.880 mindset where I'm not looking. I'm just gonna throw the 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.760 ball where I think it needs to go. I mean, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.440 we'll break everything down with the interceptions and all that. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.080 But yeah, this this this was just out playing and 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.839 out coaching by the Dallas. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.640 Called was in the Green pay package. Gutless effort, gutless 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:34.520 you should appear. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.760 Look at the drive chart Green Bay drive chart, touchdown 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.159 and start the game punt, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, punt, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:44.000 punt in the game. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.280 Baby, that's not playoff football. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:52.440 Only because they when the competitive phase was again, okay, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.640 six of seven drives the first six to seven touchdown 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:56.039 for them. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.320 Let's look at four games for. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.200 The Cowboys and shit, and just the second core loone Arizona, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.280 they found themselves down twenty one to ten, San Francisco 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.159 second quarter, they found themselves down twenty one to seven. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.800 Buffalo second quarter, they found themselves down twenty one, two three, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.880 Green Bay. They were down twenty seven to nothing in 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.720 the second quarter. Then they scored touchdown before to a half. 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.240 There's a problem here, guys, there's a problem. These were 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.760 good football teams in Arizona. We could say they want 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.880 a good football team, but you look at their reck 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.720 They fought people this year, right, they fought them and 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:29.880 they shouldn't have put it to you. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:31.760 There is a problem. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.479 And when you talk about the mental toughness, that is 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.839 something that has to start to come into question with 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:44.200 this team to perform like this at four games, to 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.440 be outclassed, and then you get to the playoffs where 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:47.560 you know you're supposed to have it. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.200 When I said failure is not option, you just didn't fail. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.000 Laid down. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.200 So I get home from the game, I'm sitting in 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.159 my lazy boy ahead, still got the TV on channel five, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.159 and who comes on late night? 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:09.040 Nobody knew. Crug comes home and uh he. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.080 Was on fire, right, he was on fire about the loss, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.200 and he put it I mean sort of the same 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.760 thing that you're saying right now. It's hard to fathom 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.880 a team that will come into your home playoff situation 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.160 than they score on six of their first seven drives. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.000 Now you gotta watch a lot of football to see 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.840 that happen. I mean, this is SEC versus some pretty 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.920 inferior conferences. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.200 That you that you get. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:32.720 I'm not. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:38.200 What it is. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.160 I'm just saying, you gotta watch football for a very 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.080 long time. I know you guys watch a lot of 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.640 football to know is. As we were communicated with each 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.920 other during the game, like what the hell is going 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.760 on right now? At some point, at some point guys 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.040 that you you guys know as defensive players, you have 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.800 a base that you if this ain't working. We got 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.240 our base to go back to if all things fail, defense, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.120 go back to that. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:04.440 What's ours? 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.960 I mean, because you're in that dime, You're in a dime, nick, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.440 whatever you want to call it, and guys are running 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.720 open as I want to put it to words that 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.280 I asked you, but are you watching this because guys 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.960 are running wide open and they never adjusted to that. Well, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.400 this is the problem when you run a defense that 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.240 way and you have guys out there who are not 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.680 used to playing when you don't get pressure. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:27.680 Those two big dig. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.920 Routes were in zone coverage, no pressure, and it was 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.080 the same thing Calvin Johnson did this when he had 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.400 three hundred yards. You don't get any pressure, You allow 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.400 a receiver to get down there twenty yards and ben 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.320 then it's. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:39.720 Gonna be a catch every time. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.440 So it's like if they're running open, but it's because 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.240 you're not getting enough pressure to get back there. They 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.000 shouldn't even have that much time because this is a 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.480 staple of your defense to say, hey, man, if we 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.240 rush four and we play zone covers behind it, we 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.000 expect Michael Parsons, d Law whoever, to be able to 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.080 put some pressure on this young quarterback and not allow 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.320 him the time to make that pass. And they allowed 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.960 it to times and I watched it, and then the 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.079 next one you man to man. Right, So like I'm 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.440 not believing, I'm not absolving Dan Quinn of anything. All right, 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.480 you went and fought with bell in there and it 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.480 didn't work out for it is probably the worst game 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.480 that I seen him have. But if I'm calling man 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.000 the man as a defensive coordinator, I expect my guys 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.800 to be able to play man to man. This is 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.839 a veteran defense for the most part, especially in the secondary, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.080 and you can't find a way to cover your guys 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.440 man to man. All this was getting a tight bunch 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.959 for masons and then run crosses and we act like 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.360 we couldn't get through traffic or anything. This is like 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.160 day one stuff that we had been doing throughout the year, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.240 which is why I'm saying I don't understand what happened. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.800 It's like you went out there and you forgot how 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.800 to do the basics and it didn't work out for you. Listen, 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.679 bless Marky's bell, Okay, because he did go out there 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:54.080 and he tried his hardest, but run gap coverage and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.600 being sound and my man not even lining up in 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.720 the gap pre snap now right, he supposed to be 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.880 in the A gap he way over here and not 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:03.400 he and he's getting caught every time. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.960 And some of that is he hasn't played that position, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.240 so he doesn't really know how to do it. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:11.160 But we we ate nineteen wait nineteen, you know, so 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.000 you know at some point you got to be able 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.120 to figure stuff out. Uh, And Aaron Jones came out 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:17.840 and they said, we're gonna run the ball against this team, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.800 and that's what they did. And that's been our Achilles 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.199 Hill now for but three straight years, three straight years we. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.280 Have been we haven't I'm saying it for weeks now 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.640 that when you at this second level is with those 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.840 guys being undersized, you'll get away with it when you 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.920 go against these finess teams the Chargers of the world. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.319 You'll get away with it, and it'll look amazing when 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.120 you go out there, because oh man, he's able to 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.400 stop these running backs out of the backfield, catching the ball, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:43.280 covering tight ends. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:44.040 It will look amazing. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.080 But when you go against a team that's like, all right, 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.560 we're gonna hand this ball off and go between the tackles, 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.679 there's so much. There's only so much a two hundred 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.440 and fifteen pound, two hundred ten pound guy can do 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.080 against a three hundred line round line. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.840 Well, my mother, and that to that sense. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.440 My point is, hey man, if you two fifteen, you 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.680 gotta be gaps. He catching every like I'm talking about, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.560 he three four yards behind, like catching every block, and 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.080 then he's out of his gap, so he's easily getting hooked. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.839 And it's not just him. This is everybody got. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.720 But as you watch the film from from Sunday's game, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.040 you say, oh wait again, no, not again, like get 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.120 in Like you just see little stuff like that where 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.240 it's like, hey man, you lost before the ball was 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.439 even snapped, because you know, not just him, but not 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.240 just him, but also DeMont Clark as well. I think 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.680 the read and react portion of the defense like you said, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.920 they were catching a lot. And when you're already undersized 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.440 and you're trying to catch a three hundred and twenty 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.520 pound man, he's gonna he's gonna roll you and look 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:46.120 defensively obviously out of sorts. And I was wondering about 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.960 them playing zone because I'm saying to myself, Okay, they're 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.200 sprinkling in the zone because maybe they. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.000 Believe that Love is a mobile quarterback. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.360 Maybe they believe that, you know, they need all hats 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.560 to the ball, especially with at the running back. But 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.960 when I say our base, our bas is, man, when 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.040 we get back to and when that failed, when we 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.360 were getting baptized, and. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:09.760 Then I'm like, oh oh brother. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.320 And it wasn't just study stopping, and it wasn't just 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.880 like they was doing some craziness to get off of 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:15.160 this name. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.400 Man. It's like you said, coaching kind of went out 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:18.880 the window. Like we've seen. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.000 I was watching that would play with Dobbs. I believe 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.560 that's his last name. Eighty seven for the for the 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.600 yeah Romeo dots. He ran that sail route, all right, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.559 sale route for y'all. Don't know, it's over once you 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.920 get to that hash mark you put your foot in 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:31.600 the ground, you go back out towards that far apart 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:37.200 uh Billy the eyes. You're a man the man coverage. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:38.880 You gotta keep your eyes on your luggage. I know 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.320 it's a deep over route, and he tried to do 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.440 what Bland did earlier in the season by undercutting the 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.880 over route, and as soon as he looked up, Bland 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.760 put that dogs put that foot in the ground. With 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.840 Dobson direction, He's wide open, He's Scott free. It was 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.680 just things like that were from a veteran player and 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:53.920 from the defense overall, that. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.360 We didn't see all season long. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.000 We didn't see that all season long, and it was 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.960 just it was an embarrassing effect. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.520 Let me mention this as well, because I don't want 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.280 to put too much on the linebackers, them too interior 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.160 defensive line where they at. I'm talking about what Hankins 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.800 and my washed. They were getting washed out of the frame. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.840 So you're playing with guys who are light at the 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:21.040 linebacker spot, and then your defensive lineman can't hold a 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.160 double team and they getting washed out of the way 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.440 and you somebody else, right, So you asking d Law 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.200 and Michael Parsons to make every player there, but you can't. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.320 And we all said that, hey man, the reason why 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.160 the green Bay Packers didn't look the way they look 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.360 Sunday during the season is because Aaron Jones had been 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.400 hurt for most of the year, like he hadn't been healthy. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.719 Now he came back fresh legs, ready to go. And 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.640 that's what you're going to see from the Green Bay 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.040 Packers moving forward. But we already know that though. We 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.600 know that when teams come in here, they're going to 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.199 try to run the ball. And we said this, Detroit 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.320 let us off the hook because they start running them. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.720 The teams that we were like, oh man, why did 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.880 y'all stop running? Because we haven't stopped it yet for 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.800 some reason. And and and green Bay was not letting 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.920 us off. They didn't change it. They didn't change a thing. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:05.280 Hey j. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:12.560 Dylan didn't play No. Thirty one having a day. They're 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.200 gonna switch it up. Guys were taking turns on us, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.920 and it was it was And the thing about and 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.160 think about I'm watching Mazie. I got to the point 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.640 when watching Mozzie and you're getting blocks so bad, so 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.560 not only you turn sideways, you turn all the way around. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.000 And now you're throwing your hands up. What what do. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.480 You think all they gonna do is just shove you 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:33.960 completely out of the plane. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.080 How much? Wait did he lose? He no, it's no, Joe, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:37.680 he looked light. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.160 McCarthy would not tell us when he looks light. He 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.640 was asking, and he did. McCarthy didn't want to say 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.840 he looked. I'm just but he acknowledged that there was 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:47.560 a weight loss. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.160 Listen, he looked like and that's what's listening. And that's okay. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.640 But I mean across the board, we didn't play. We 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.880 needed Michael Parsons to show up and get more pressure 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:58.760 on Jordan. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.960 Look, we needed that. That's a needed. 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.800 That's another conversation that has to be saying that my 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.760 fear where we say last week, I feel like Jordan 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.360 Love can have that Geno Smith style game, and that's 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.880 exactly what he went out there and did. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.240 He went out there and used not to use his legs. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.280 As far as running down the football field, but the 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.560 by time for his weapons on the outside to get loose. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.360 I mean to make the first guys, it's exactly that first. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.800 Pressure was there, let me dip to the outside by time, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.000 and he has that cannon it's been an Achilles hill 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.520 for the Cowboys all season long. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.120 Big athletic quarterbacks down. I don't know how y'all. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.440 Feel about Green Bay in this next matchup, but my 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.680 feeling is is that green Bay is gonna go up 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.680 there and they gonna get put to him because San 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.960 Francisco's gonna stop the runfeats him, and then Jordan Love's 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.920 gonna have to really be an exquisite quarterback, like you're 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.000 gonna have to make those throws under a lot more 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.560 pressure to rest without your running game working. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.280 But I disagree, okay, and I'm. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.880 Not surprised, but I'm saying, Lafleur, if I wasn't, if 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.760 I wasn't sure of his game before, I am now 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.360 because that one play to the tight end on the 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.120 on the side, I swear to you, I thought he 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.400 just came off the sideline. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.560 I'm like, wait a minute, that's our side. O. You 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.720 know what, go back to the time he was over there. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.200 By hisself, middle of the field to the hash by 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.040 south and that's it. That's impossible, especially when it's not 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.880 a busted defense. Everybody has an assignment. You have to 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.760 account for that guy. How the hell did you not 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.000 account for him that. Listen, there's a couple of players 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.600 on there, and I know we just picking through it, 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.280 just you know, going all over the place. I'm watching 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.840 guys cover grass. We ain't cover two. They ran over 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.920 us all the way over there. We got a cornerback 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.400 fifteen yards d not like not covering anybody, and then 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.960 don't get the crosser. It looked like we didn't know 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:40.720 what the heck we was doing out there, which is 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.880 which is unfortunate because like I said, you have veteran 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.080 players out there. You have a defensive Player of the 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.680 Year out there. You got d run Bland out there. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.760 You got safeties who are veteran guys now all got 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.080 paid like. You have guys out there who should know 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.920 how to run this defense like you were in the 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.440 playoffs at this point. So to me, none of this 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.800 is Excuse me because it don't It doesn't really make sense. 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:05.399 But I'm saying this, Okay, Michael Parsons is supposed to 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:05.920 be our guy. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.040 Okay, he's a hell of a player. You gotta show 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.200 up when. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.520 When all when all else fails, it ain't nothing working, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.360 and you need to spark the person that we are 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.480 going to look to deservedly. So it's Michael Parsons to 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.879 be in there and say, you know what, I'm gonna 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.399 figure out a way pick six maybe, well, whatever they 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:24.679 try to. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.160 Cut me, I'm gonna jump up one of the TJ. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.320 White plays something like that, like you have to you 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.080 have to be able to make those type of plays. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.159 And I wan't hear nothing about holding or none of that, 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.120 because we had the whole league over here talking about 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.920 when is Michael Parsons gonna get a holding call. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:37.920 I don't want to hear that. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.560 We need to have guys who canna get out there 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.600 and make those plays when they when it calls for, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.480 especially in the playoff game, and we just we just 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.320 didn't see it. And that's across the board though. That's 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:52.159 DAK and that's CD, and that's Brandon Cooks and everybody, everybody, everybody. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:52.560 It was. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.640