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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey Scrugs.
Speaker 1: All right, we are rolling with you here. Hump Day, Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It is week number three of the NFL season of
Speaker 1: Newis Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by former Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: safety Barry Church. Our other partner, Danny McCray, former Cowboys safety,
Speaker 1: is at home with a brand new daughter, the first
Speaker 1: child Danny and his wife. Welcome to the girl Club,
Speaker 1: the Girl Dad Club. Danny McCray. Yeah, it was so heartwarming,
Speaker 1: you know, I just just as I say, I got chills,
Speaker 1: just as I said, it was so heartwarming to get
Speaker 1: that picture from Danny, to see him holding his daughter.
Speaker 1: Because one it's it's life, and you know, just so
Speaker 1: precious your first child. You never forget it. And the
Speaker 1: baby's healthy and that his and that his wife is okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm just warned by that, and I just get chills,
Speaker 1: eyes watered up when I just looked at the picture
Speaker 1: because it's a miracle, man, and I'm really happy for
Speaker 1: Danny McCrae. Yeah, I mean, shouts goes out to Danny
Speaker 1: and Kiki. I mean that. I mean, that's just a
Speaker 1: beautiful blessing. And then just to have your firstborn child
Speaker 1: in your hands, I mean it just it just gives
Speaker 1: you a whole new perspective on life. And he and
Speaker 1: he's welcome into the girl club. I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: like when I had my first girl was just unbelievable experienced.
Speaker 1: So shout out to Danny and Kekey for bringing a
Speaker 1: beautiful blessing like this into our world. And man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hold it down and tell you get back. Man.
Speaker 1: But man, that's like you said, that's an extreme blessing
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, so you get the holder she wants
Speaker 1: to be near. It was cool. My oldest will be
Speaker 1: sixteen and about three days, and you know, I got
Speaker 1: a better shot of communicating with her on TikTok or
Speaker 1: getting any contact with my daughter. You know, man, she hey,
Speaker 1: you know how you know how it is with the
Speaker 1: teen social media has taken over everything. Man. I'm looking
Speaker 1: hopefully they take their time with that. Man, enjoy it
Speaker 1: while you can enjoy it while you can. So yeah,
Speaker 1: my kids are older now, they talk back to you.
Speaker 1: You know, they got their own minds and their own
Speaker 1: things they want to go do. And I mean I
Speaker 1: ended up buying a car from my oldest couple of
Speaker 1: weeks back. So when I tell you things, that just
Speaker 1: change it. Man. And and I see Danny's little baby,
Speaker 1: I just look at like I remember those days because
Speaker 1: because the days he's in the girl club, baby in
Speaker 1: the in the girl dad club, and that's it is.
Speaker 1: That is a good place to be, all right, A
Speaker 1: place you don't want to be right now. If you're
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, is
Speaker 1: dealing with, you're ever changing secondary No Cheeto Alousier. This
Speaker 1: week for the Cowboys is a face Seattle, and Cheeto's
Speaker 1: gonna be down a few weeks. According to the coach,
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with a hamstring injury. So an addition
Speaker 1: that they made two weeks ago, give Will McClay and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a whole lot of credit, because how fortunate
Speaker 1: are they to have Brandon car on this football team
Speaker 1: right now? Because they need Brandon Car You've got Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: who came back in Week no. Last week Week two
Speaker 1: for his first game of the year, looked okay, but
Speaker 1: you got Anthony Brown on the IR. I mean, Church,
Speaker 1: this is this is some tough times here for this
Speaker 1: football team. When he comes to the injury standpoint, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like you know, the Dallas Cowboys have been
Speaker 1: hit with a serious injury bug right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned Anthony Brown's out. George Lewis, he came
Speaker 1: back last week, but he was out the majority of
Speaker 1: training camp with an injury. So he's he's just now
Speaker 1: starting to try to get his rhythm with this new defense.
Speaker 1: So and you saw it last week he struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit. So he's just now getting back. And now
Speaker 1: we got a woozy over here who's dealing with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. And I mean, look, if you ask Miles Austin,
Speaker 1: who knows when those you know, hamstring injuries are going
Speaker 1: to come back. So we got a lot of shots
Speaker 1: to our depth right here, and especially in the secondary.
Speaker 1: I mean, with this injury, the cheeto, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't see it as a as a big of an
Speaker 1: injury as an lvee or a Sean Lee or a
Speaker 1: you know, Tyrn Smith or Lyle Collins. But it does
Speaker 1: take a shot at our depth. I mean, we were
Speaker 1: already reeling a little bit in the secondary, but now
Speaker 1: with our starting cornerback out and who knows when he's
Speaker 1: gonna come back, this is a huge shot to our depth.
Speaker 1: But huge, huge props. So, like you said to Will
Speaker 1: McClay for bringing a guy like Brandon carr in, who's
Speaker 1: you know, he's never missed a snap throughout his whole career.
Speaker 1: He's versatile, he can play nickel safety and he can
Speaker 1: play corn owner as well, which is, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: his natural position. So huge shout out to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: from bringing him in. Let's just hope, you know, the
Speaker 1: rest of this team can stay healthy because I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can afford another injury bug
Speaker 1: like this, because their depth is definitely being questions right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Seattle is got two receivers that are really good
Speaker 1: and Tyler Locketkay Metcalf here and I was just looking
Speaker 1: at Tyler Lockett already he's got sixteen catches for one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine yards and two touchdowns, and dk
Speaker 1: Metcalf has been sensational for Seattle, And I was looking
Speaker 1: at some notes here dk Metcalf has run twenty three
Speaker 1: percent of his route in the slot. So Church, tell me,
Speaker 1: if you're the Cowboys and you see that that that
Speaker 1: big wide receiver line up in the slot here, how
Speaker 1: do you attack it? And it's and it's Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: Last week they held up fine, Julio dropped an easy
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. He also had hamstring injury in the game.
Speaker 1: Right now, you just go from one top player to
Speaker 1: another set of top players, because you had Julio Jones
Speaker 1: and Calvin Riddley, even Russell Gage. But but now you've
Speaker 1: got two other guys here and a better running game,
Speaker 1: which I think makes these two receivers of Metcalf and
Speaker 1: Locket more dangerous than what we saw last week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes them a lot more dangerous because now you
Speaker 1: can implement if they get that run game going with
Speaker 1: Carson and I forget oh Hide, it's gonna be tough
Speaker 1: with that play action. I mean, you got, you know,
Speaker 1: your third string linebacker in there, who he did perform
Speaker 1: pretty well last week, Joe Thomas in that second half.
Speaker 1: But if that run game gets going, that play action
Speaker 1: can can suck up the best of them, So he's
Speaker 1: really gonna have to be on their toes. This linebacking
Speaker 1: corp is really gonna have to be on their toes.
Speaker 1: But if I'm the Dallas Cowboys, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping DK Metcalf lines up in the slot position
Speaker 1: that way. Being a defender, it's easier to double team.
Speaker 1: Now you can go with your with your nickel back
Speaker 1: on the outside. You can bracken him with a linebacker,
Speaker 1: or you can bracken him with a safety. And if
Speaker 1: he's in that slot, it's easy to disguise that bracket
Speaker 1: as well. When he's way out on the outside outside
Speaker 1: the numbers, and you have a corner out there, and
Speaker 1: you're usually gonna let your safety hover overtop the quarterback
Speaker 1: sees that pre snap easily that their safeties he's well
Speaker 1: outside his numbers, he's going over there to double So
Speaker 1: that opens up the rest of this team and it's
Speaker 1: and it's Russell Wilson out there, he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to just pick that apart. So for me, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: he lines up in a slot that way. You can
Speaker 1: double teaming with all different types of players give him
Speaker 1: different looks and kind of frustrate him. But to me,
Speaker 1: I think they have to focus a lot of their
Speaker 1: attention not only on DK, but Lockett as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked about him a little bit yesterday, but Lockett,
Speaker 1: he's such he has such great rapport with Wilson that
Speaker 1: when stuff breaks down, when stuff looks like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a bust at play. Somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, those two are on the same wave length
Speaker 1: and they're able to create these these amazing, big explosive plays.
Speaker 1: So to me, I think they have to focus their
Speaker 1: attention on DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, and to me,
Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully one of them is manning the slot on
Speaker 1: any acc Asian, because I think it's easier to double
Speaker 1: team in the slot. But the Cowboys are gonna have
Speaker 1: their their hands full and we need, we need, with
Speaker 1: everything in our heart, we need this defensive line to
Speaker 1: step it up because they have to find a way, somehow,
Speaker 1: some way to contain Russell Wilson. They're not gonna stop him,
Speaker 1: but if they can slow him down, that'll prove huge
Speaker 1: dividends for this Cowboys defense. Players Lounge brought to you
Speaker 1: by hotels dot com. I'm new restructs. He is buried church.
Speaker 1: Danny McCrae is off because his wife gave birth to
Speaker 1: a beautiful baby girl. So I'm hoping we don't see
Speaker 1: Danny the rest of the week here and make all
Speaker 1: the adjustments. Just just be at home, be a dad,
Speaker 1: enjoy that process. Here we can talk for forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: We love him, but uh, you know, the football this
Speaker 1: is bigger than question than the podcast. Also today, in
Speaker 1: case you didn't know, Tank Lawrence is going to miss
Speaker 1: practice with the Dallas Cowboys, being reported by several Cowboys
Speaker 1: media beat reporters that his wife is going to have
Speaker 1: a baby and cheese and labor. So that's always a
Speaker 1: goose not to be at practice. So so there could
Speaker 1: be a new addition to the Lawrence family. So that's
Speaker 1: why we'll congrats to uh well, congrats to the laws Well.
Speaker 1: I mean I had no idea he was expecting another child,
Speaker 1: but I mean congrats to him as well. There must
Speaker 1: be something in the water down there in uh in
Speaker 1: Frisco and play though, because a lot of your cats
Speaker 1: down there having kids. Man, So I'm gonna make sure
Speaker 1: my wife stays far away from Frisco because the boys
Speaker 1: don't have little ones. Man, Now, okay, let let me ask,
Speaker 1: Let me ask this question. It's missus Church done. Oh
Speaker 1: if it was up to her, we'd probably had about
Speaker 1: seven by now. But your boy is out of there,
Speaker 1: all right. There may be a star in the east
Speaker 1: real soon for you, Church, because you know, who wants something,
Speaker 1: when mama wants something, just gonna let you know, it's usually.
Speaker 1: I thought I was done too, Okay, I thought I
Speaker 1: was done to five years without you know, five years
Speaker 1: about any kids. Um, my wife was forty three when
Speaker 1: the last one came. Yeah, when the last one came
Speaker 1: forty three, I thought I was done. You know, I'm done.
Speaker 1: You know, had two daughters. I was good. You know,
Speaker 1: it didn't really feel like add to the payroll. Um,
Speaker 1: so I was fine. You know, you guys live near Frisco.
Speaker 1: No we don't, No, we don't. But so so here's
Speaker 1: here's what happened. Church. So. Um it was the two
Speaker 1: thousand and ten World Series. It was the Rangers and
Speaker 1: the Giants. So my wife's from San Francisco, and we
Speaker 1: talked about me going to work out in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: like you know, hey, I wouldn't mind working out back,
Speaker 1: going back to California and work. So acquired about a
Speaker 1: couple of jobs. But I told her, I said, hey, look,
Speaker 1: it costs a whole lot more. I remember it costs
Speaker 1: a whole lot more to live in California. And I said,
Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna need to get a job. You're
Speaker 1: gonna need to get a job. I want to move
Speaker 1: out to California. Fine, I'll go work, but you need
Speaker 1: to get a job too. And she said, as well,
Speaker 1: what about what about the girls, because the youngest, you know,
Speaker 1: was still at home. And I said, well, she goes
Speaker 1: to school this year, so you can go get a job. Just,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure you I can go pick up
Speaker 1: the kids. And I lie, you not church she was pregnant.
Speaker 1: About five weeks later, Oh, value FURTI mentioned, job got real. Further,
Speaker 1: all you had to do was mention that magic word. Man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go back to this workforce. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go back to the job. And and
Speaker 1: like you said, five weeks later, oh, I guess I
Speaker 1: can't do it no more news. So yes, pregnant, and
Speaker 1: and and had ended up having our having our last
Speaker 1: child about two weeks after the uh, the Mavericks won
Speaker 1: the twenty eleven NBA NBA Championship. So so my, my
Speaker 1: whole point of this story is you can say you're done,
Speaker 1: I need to know when missus Church is done because
Speaker 1: that's when you truly be done. And this is true.
Speaker 1: And and when when she when my wife finally said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm done, this is it, and she said
Speaker 1: we can't do this anymore. And and then the doctor
Speaker 1: went ahead and tied them tubes and I watched tubes.
Speaker 1: I was in go ahead. I was going out of
Speaker 1: business baby. It was the going out of business baby.
Speaker 1: So I'm just like, you know, so you can have
Speaker 1: you can have these plans, but you let me know
Speaker 1: when when missus Church says that she's done and then
Speaker 1: and then she's out of business. Okay, So that's that's
Speaker 1: that's when you that's when you know for sure, because
Speaker 1: just because you're thinking it doesn't mean that that's what
Speaker 1: she's wanting to do. So just you know, these are
Speaker 1: the abc of of of being married, the fun, the
Speaker 1: fun parts of it as well. Hey, let's get to
Speaker 1: our first break here. When we come back. I've got
Speaker 1: couple numbers that I want to dive into with Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and Russell Wilson, the two exciting quarterbacks in this game,
Speaker 1: and something happened with the Chargers that I believe is
Speaker 1: really going to test this franchise, and how the players
Speaker 1: deal with the team doctors. Let's get into that. On
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Speaker 1: or coming to the Cowboys game next week, and make
Speaker 1: sure you know before you go, wear a mask, keep distance,
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Speaker 1: all the safe stadium policies of the safety and policies
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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com slash safe Stadium for details. I was
Speaker 1: there for that Cowboys Atlanta game. It was different, but look,
Speaker 1: you got to bring your mask and just operate under
Speaker 1: the new COVID policies. From what I could tell, there
Speaker 1: were no incidents and everybody seemed to follow them. And
Speaker 1: the only folks who have had issues trying to follow
Speaker 1: these NFL protocol rules have been the coaches. And I
Speaker 1: think there's all changing this week after they that slapped
Speaker 1: one hundred one hundred thousand dollars fines two coaches who
Speaker 1: weren't wearing the mask and two hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to the team. So you start snatching that cash
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, people start respecting the rules. So
Speaker 1: I expect Pete Carroll, one of the coaches who got
Speaker 1: fined that hundred grand for not wearing a mask. I
Speaker 1: expect Pete have a big, old nice mask this week
Speaker 1: when the cow yeah are taking on the Seahogs. A
Speaker 1: hundred grand. I don't care how many millions you make.
Speaker 1: Hundred grands are tough. That's a tough note to take
Speaker 1: out your wallet. Man. Oh, that's a tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 1: And then when you get to your office, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they you know, they got their office over there.
Speaker 1: For us players, it was a locker room. But when
Speaker 1: they get to that office and they see that FedEx
Speaker 1: envelope sitting there, that white FedEx envelope with that orange
Speaker 1: and purple logo, Oh, you already know what's inside of that.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not fan mail. You already know. It's
Speaker 1: super thin, and it's it's super it's like a piece
Speaker 1: of paper almost, and you know what's coming in there.
Speaker 1: That's some type of fine. Every player and coach hates
Speaker 1: to get one of those FedEx things plopped right on
Speaker 1: their right on their desk or in their locker room.
Speaker 1: But knew it real quick. I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were at the at the game
Speaker 1: the other day. How I know we had twenty some
Speaker 1: thousand fans there, But how was the crowd noise? Was it?
Speaker 1: You think it had a little bit to play in
Speaker 1: the momentum change or crowd? You know, twenty thousands just
Speaker 1: not that big of an impact. Look, you could hear
Speaker 1: the fans, okay, and you could hear the fans, and
Speaker 1: once the Cowboys got going, they got excited. I heard
Speaker 1: a lot of Atlanta. I heard there was a couple
Speaker 1: of Atlanta fans near me, so I could clearly hear
Speaker 1: the cheering from them throughout the game. The press box, okay,
Speaker 1: we're high for the press box, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: some Atlanta fans got tickets and they got close to
Speaker 1: the press box, so we could hear them cheering throughout
Speaker 1: the contest. But it was definitely audible when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had the football and they were going in the second half,
Speaker 1: and of course we all saw the role that they
Speaker 1: were on here and so you could you could hear it.
Speaker 1: You could hear the groans with the funk when they
Speaker 1: were fooling the ball and turn it it over so
Speaker 1: you could hear the groans there. So, um, look it's
Speaker 1: it's not Here's why you know it makes a difference
Speaker 1: because we see the games where there are no people
Speaker 1: at all, like that Ram game. Yeah, so it definitely
Speaker 1: it definitely helps and the guys, you know, certain guys
Speaker 1: are going to feed off a crowd and they need it.
Speaker 1: So I thought the people who were there and Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott had had had given them a shout out. The
Speaker 1: players were thankful for those fans that showed up here.
Speaker 1: So if you're if you're going to go to a
Speaker 1: Cowboy game, I said, you can be prepared to do
Speaker 1: all the cheering and everything that you've done before. A
Speaker 1: little bit different, but at the same time, so much
Speaker 1: has changed that I don't think it's that different because
Speaker 1: our whole lot, nothing well nothing we're doing in our
Speaker 1: lives right now is different. Um. In the press box,
Speaker 1: for instance, we sho have those little long buffet tables
Speaker 1: and you know, you just go you serve yourself. Well,
Speaker 1: now they come in, they come in to lunch an
Speaker 1: individual packet, so you just tell them, yes, I'd like
Speaker 1: I'd like the breakfast meal, and so they give you
Speaker 1: the breakfast meal, the oh yes, I'd like the lunch meal.
Speaker 1: They give you that. So a lot of it's individually
Speaker 1: done things. And so now if you want to buy concessions,
Speaker 1: you just know, okay, it's cashless transactions, so you can
Speaker 1: still you know, do things just a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Your space differently. Um, you're with a seat target, they
Speaker 1: got spaces there. But I can't emphasize enough that this
Speaker 1: is our new normal. And I think once you just
Speaker 1: get used, Okay, this is my seat, this is where
Speaker 1: I'm at, then you're gonna go and you're gonna cheer,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have all the fun that you had before.
Speaker 1: And for me, I'll tell you this, you got space.
Speaker 1: Now have to worry aboudy some leg room, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, right, you got some space. You have your
Speaker 1: personal space space around you. So um, I've got I
Speaker 1: tipped my cap to all of the teams in the
Speaker 1: National Football League who are doing what they can to
Speaker 1: try and still give fans the experience if their state
Speaker 1: governments are allowing them to do it. Los Angeles right
Speaker 1: now out there, you know, think they're not having fans
Speaker 1: at the game, But in Texas they can have fans
Speaker 1: at the game. Kansas City, they had fans at the game.
Speaker 1: So if you're able to have them and you're going
Speaker 1: out there, you can help give your team an advantage. Seattle,
Speaker 1: by the way, no fans. So there's no fans out there.
Speaker 1: There's no twelfth man. No, no, it's not. And so
Speaker 1: this is a break for the Cowboys. Seattle still favored
Speaker 1: by four. The Cowboys do bring in the NFC Offensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Week in Dak Prescott, who threw for
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty yards, completed seventy two point three
Speaker 1: percent of his passes against the Falcons, had four total
Speaker 1: touchdowns with a one hundred and point four rating in
Speaker 1: the football game. So Dak Prescott and two football games
Speaker 1: is doing his part. Russell Wilson right now, he's been
Speaker 1: sincere so he's throwing an NFL high four touchdowns, burry
Speaker 1: over twenty yards. He's averaging twelve point one yards per
Speaker 1: pass play, and the Cowboys have allowed ten completions of
Speaker 1: twenty yards or more. That's tied for the most of
Speaker 1: the NFL with Miami and Atlanta. So we're seeing two
Speaker 1: defenses that are going to have some issues. Let me
Speaker 1: throw this number out here too. For for Seattle, that
Speaker 1: defense has allowed four hundred and fifty yards of passing.
Speaker 1: They did allowed that in Game one to Atlanta. Then
Speaker 1: they allowed three hundred and ninety seven yards of passing
Speaker 1: to Cam Newton and the Patriots on NBC Sunday and
Speaker 1: Night Football. So we see that both teams are having
Speaker 1: an issue when it comes to their secondary and they're
Speaker 1: clearly not putting the kind of pressure you need to
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. So the Cowboys obviously right now are
Speaker 1: in worse shape when you look at their secondary, having
Speaker 1: lost a Cheeta a Woozier for a number of weeks.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown's on IR So this could be a high
Speaker 1: scoring game. I think it may be indicative of what
Speaker 1: we saw last week when both teams were with thirty
Speaker 1: nine and forty points. I think that so we get
Speaker 1: I can see each team scoring in the thirties in
Speaker 1: this one. Because if you can't defend and you're dealing
Speaker 1: with injuries and you're not getting to the quarterback, good luck,
Speaker 1: good good luck tank Lawrence Tank. Lawrence m was if
Speaker 1: we talked about miss practice because his wife's in labor,
Speaker 1: but he's also dealing with a knee injury, So we
Speaker 1: don't know his status in terms of Sunday, and even
Speaker 1: if he can go Sunday church, how good. Canny be
Speaker 1: Bate Law from BA Cowboys radio broadcaster said Tank was
Speaker 1: basically playing on one leg last week. It should have
Speaker 1: got pulled earlier. Yeah, and that and that's what to me,
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to with this Dallas Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: It's how can we get after the quarterback. We know
Speaker 1: going into this season we were gonna have a younger
Speaker 1: secondary experienced. I mean, they played a little bit in
Speaker 1: their first year and their second year, but we were
Speaker 1: gonna have an overall a young secondary. And we thought
Speaker 1: going into this season that that front seven, especially that
Speaker 1: defensive line, with the additions of Everson Griffin, you know,
Speaker 1: Alden Smith coming in here, you know you still got Tank,
Speaker 1: you still got Crawford in there. We thought at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, this was going to be the strength.
Speaker 1: This was going to be that unit that pushes this
Speaker 1: defense over the edge and gets them that pressure that
Speaker 1: they need, gets after the quarterback and gets the ball
Speaker 1: back to their offense. But for these first two games,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's the lack of training camps,
Speaker 1: the lack of mini camps, or the lack of OTAs,
Speaker 1: but and having this new system brought in with Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: but we just haven't seen that pressure generated, whether it
Speaker 1: be four man rush, whether it be them bringing guys
Speaker 1: from the secondary, whether it be them bringing gays from
Speaker 1: the linebacking corps. We just haven't seen that pressure. And
Speaker 1: I think with this defense needs is they need to
Speaker 1: get after this quarterback. Their secondary they can hold up
Speaker 1: as much as they can, but if they if the
Speaker 1: quarterback's back there, especially if Matt Ryan or Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: if they have time back there, they're gonna pick apart
Speaker 1: any defense there is out there. I mean, they just
Speaker 1: they've just seen it too much. In Russell Wilson right now,
Speaker 1: he's playing at an all time level, at an MVP
Speaker 1: type level. So with us, I feel like the key
Speaker 1: is to get after this quarterback. We gotta figure out
Speaker 1: a way to generate a pass rush. And since it's
Speaker 1: not coming from our twenty one million dollar man, who
Speaker 1: now he has a neat issue, we gotta find it somewhere.
Speaker 1: Whether it be Aldon Smith, whether it be you know,
Speaker 1: Crawford in the middle of Everson Griffin. Somebody has to
Speaker 1: find a way to generate this pressure because if not,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is gonna tear this defense apart. And you
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, our injuries to our corners. Right now,
Speaker 1: we got a Woozier out, Brown's out. What are we
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna bring car down there, or we're
Speaker 1: gonna put Robinson move him back from safety to the corner.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple of things that we can do,
Speaker 1: but overall, I think this defense has to rely on
Speaker 1: that defensive line in that front seven to not only
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, but they got to stop the run.
Speaker 1: If not, it's gonna be a field day in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Is gonna be like just picking their poison. Do we
Speaker 1: want to run and gash you with Carson and hide
Speaker 1: or do we want to put you over top with
Speaker 1: you know, DK Metcalf and lock it. So for me,
Speaker 1: it all predicates on getting after the quarterback, and it's
Speaker 1: a must, especially this game in Seattle, that we get
Speaker 1: after Russell Wilson. Let's let's start with the run, because
Speaker 1: I just went back and looked at numbers here. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys allowed one hundred and fifty nine yards of
Speaker 1: rushing to the Rams on thirty three carries. They allowed
Speaker 1: one hundred nine yards of rushing to Atlanta on thirty
Speaker 1: three carries. So we're seeing teams who are running of
Speaker 1: football and the other teams are winning the time of possessions.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys these last two games have lost the time
Speaker 1: of possession. The other folks are out here deciding we're
Speaker 1: going to try to run the football, and if the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks can run the football and win first down,
Speaker 1: then that's at a disadvantage for the Cowboys. So right
Speaker 1: out of the gate, to me, the defensive line has
Speaker 1: got to be gap sound and stop the run and
Speaker 1: make sure that Carlos High and Chris Carson they're starting
Speaker 1: running back, that these guys are not out here put
Speaker 1: in Seattle in the situation where they're looking at a
Speaker 1: second and seven, I mean a second and three gaining
Speaker 1: seven yards or a second and four because they're gaining
Speaker 1: six yards on a run. They've got to do that.
Speaker 1: So that's where I'm looking at. Terry Pole, Tristan Hill,
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods. You need these guys to be upfront holding
Speaker 1: their blocks. The Seattle offensive line is not there's no,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin's over there. Okay, there's you know, they don't
Speaker 1: have any great offensive line, they're good enough. They know
Speaker 1: how to win, and Russ makes up for a whole
Speaker 1: lot of issues and mistakes and guys that I think
Speaker 1: are just average. But the Cowboys who were just average
Speaker 1: as well, I had to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: be better than they've been. They've got to improve, in
Speaker 1: your hope, and that's all that's that's always a scary words.
Speaker 1: We're talking about football. Yeah, what your hope is that
Speaker 1: they're getting used to this system a little bit and
Speaker 1: they can't And one other point, they can't be bad
Speaker 1: on third downs. I mean, that's the money down. That's
Speaker 1: how you get off the field. That's how you get
Speaker 1: the ball back in your offensive's hand, back in Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's hand, and being able to win the game. And
Speaker 1: when we saw that last game, the first half, they
Speaker 1: were horrendous on third down. I believe they were maybe
Speaker 1: you know, I think the Falcons were maybe over sixty
Speaker 1: percent and third down. But in the second half they
Speaker 1: were able to get those fortunate stops. Now they did
Speaker 1: have a couple drops by Atlanta, but they were able
Speaker 1: to get those stops and able to get the ball
Speaker 1: back in Dak Prescott's hand, and we saw the rest
Speaker 1: is history. So the first two games, I think they
Speaker 1: were a little bit shaky on third down. If they're
Speaker 1: able to you know, get their percentages up and get
Speaker 1: the ball back to this offense, like you said in
Speaker 1: the past, I mean, the offense, in my opinion, is
Speaker 1: the best defense to stop Russell Wilson. If they're staying
Speaker 1: on this field as Dak Prescott and Zekiel Elliott, those
Speaker 1: boys are on the field for twenty five thirty five
Speaker 1: plus minutes. I think that that basically limits the amount
Speaker 1: of time that Russell Wilson has back there to basically
Speaker 1: pick apart your defense. And I think going into this
Speaker 1: game that can be your best defense instead of just
Speaker 1: relying on our you know, four to three or our
Speaker 1: front seven and shut down Russell Wilson, I think this
Speaker 1: offense has to maintain the possession of the ball throughout
Speaker 1: the whole game. Okay, here's something else. Okay, and you
Speaker 1: get this one. Haven't been a safety buried Church. We
Speaker 1: saw Matt Ryan running for first downs last week, and
Speaker 1: that's You've got Russell Wilson here now with that ability
Speaker 1: that if the Cowboys are covering guys to go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick up some first downs. And Russ is not
Speaker 1: a guy who takes hits either, He's not so. And
Speaker 1: from a defensive standpoint, how do you how do they
Speaker 1: cover or account for Russell Wilson on a third and six,
Speaker 1: a third and seven? How do you do that? Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you first, it's demoralizing. It's like a
Speaker 1: dagger in the heart when, especially as a secondary, when
Speaker 1: I feel like you're holding up your own You got
Speaker 1: your man locked up, everybody's locked up around the board.
Speaker 1: He has to throw the ball away. There's no way
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the ball off. And this guy, somehow,
Speaker 1: some way escapes the pocket and picks up six, and
Speaker 1: before you're able to stop him, before you're able to
Speaker 1: let your frustrations out on him, he slides. He slides
Speaker 1: right before you, and you gotta go over top of you.
Speaker 1: It's probably one of the most demoralizing things an offense
Speaker 1: can do to a defense, because you first you get
Speaker 1: another set of downs when you're probably tired from already
Speaker 1: doing those first three downs, and then you can't even
Speaker 1: let out your frustration on a guy like that. It's extremely,
Speaker 1: extremely heartening. But to me, what this defensive line has
Speaker 1: to do is they have to have an ability to
Speaker 1: contain this guy. If they line up in their gaps,
Speaker 1: they can't have a hero ball or what I call
Speaker 1: it hero ball. You can't have a guy out there
Speaker 1: who's rushing the passer and thinks, oh, let me take
Speaker 1: this easy path. Let me take this easy path inside
Speaker 1: to him because I can go ahead and get them.
Speaker 1: And that's all that's gonna happen is Russell Wilson's gonna
Speaker 1: spin right up out of there. You're gonna lose contain.
Speaker 1: And that's where we've seen all their big plays happen
Speaker 1: when Russell gets out of the pocket and he got
Speaker 1: time to throw it, to lock it, throw it to Metcalf.
Speaker 1: So I think this defensive line they have to do
Speaker 1: an amazing job of keeping him contained. If that's putting,
Speaker 1: you know, a spy somewhere, if that's moving you know,
Speaker 1: taint Lawrence or Alden Smith on the inside, just to
Speaker 1: kind of hold a block of there in spy on them.
Speaker 1: They have to figure out a way to do it
Speaker 1: because if he goes there and picks up first downs
Speaker 1: and extends the drive with his legs. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: asking for a lot from this defense. So they got
Speaker 1: to be able to find a way to contain him
Speaker 1: and hopefully not let him use his legs to pick
Speaker 1: up first downs, and hopefully on the other side, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott can do the same thing and use his legs
Speaker 1: a little bit more to pick up first downs. Because
Speaker 1: this offense has got to find a way to help
Speaker 1: to win the time of possession battle in this football game.
Speaker 1: I think they've got to win the time of possession battle.
Speaker 1: They've also got to win the turnover battle. Here, let's
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Speaker 1: that some news just happened here From John Machoda, the
Speaker 1: athletic who covers the Cowboys, it's a good job for
Speaker 1: the John's a friend of mine. Diggs the corner the
Speaker 1: Trey Digs going on there. Yeah, from from the reports
Speaker 1: from Cowboys campus, seems that Trayvon Diggs, um, you're starting
Speaker 1: cornerback and arguably your best corner Um, did not practice today.
Speaker 1: He's listed as a shoulder injury. I'm sure we'll hear
Speaker 1: more about it later in the week, but that's just
Speaker 1: another injury and another big time part of this Instead,
Speaker 1: it's just not practicing today. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on over there in Cowboys Can what they're doing in
Speaker 1: practice or what, but this is just another injury for
Speaker 1: that secondary man. So a shoulder injury to Digs. Exusier
Speaker 1: out with a hamstring. Jordan Lewis has just come back.
Speaker 1: They've signed Brandon car For those Cowboy fans who come
Speaker 1: on our feed and want Earl Thomas, Earl Thomas you're
Speaker 1: concerned right now, you need some corners. You may want
Speaker 1: to call Dion see if he can leave Jackson stay
Speaker 1: for a week or two just to come over here
Speaker 1: and defend somebody. I mean, it is right, It is
Speaker 1: right by the way. You see Byron Jones left the
Speaker 1: Dolphins game on Sunday he had suffered an injury. I mean,
Speaker 1: the injury bug is all across the NFL and right now, man,
Speaker 1: you just got to be hopeful that you can make
Speaker 1: it week to week. And also, who is on your
Speaker 1: practice squad right now really matters. I mean, you gotta
Speaker 1: have some people that you're working with because this is
Speaker 1: not going to stop. We're going to keep seeing injuries
Speaker 1: throughout this season. I think we'll see more guys on
Speaker 1: IR than we've ever seen before. I haven't seen this
Speaker 1: when the ACLA injuries in a long long time. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's Diggs. Maybe Diggs has to take Maybe he has
Speaker 1: to take a shot in order to play against see
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about taking shots anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's dive into that right now. So b Taylor, the
Speaker 1: Charger starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor is going to take an
Speaker 1: injection before their game against Kansas City on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: the team doctor punctured his lung. He didn't play. They
Speaker 1: ended up having to take him to the hospital during
Speaker 1: the football game, and Steve Wise of NFL Network talked
Speaker 1: about the things that could happen for the Chargers based
Speaker 1: on this is number one, that they don't trust the
Speaker 1: team doctors anymore. The guys you're like, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go see somebody else before I just rely on the
Speaker 1: word from your doctors. And then also, Barry, you will
Speaker 1: get this one because you understand it very much. What
Speaker 1: if Tyrod Taylor ends up losing his position because of this?
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, the rookie, came in, played well, the Chargers
Speaker 1: held their own against Kansas City ended up losing to
Speaker 1: the Chargers in overtime, So Herbert is supposed likely getting
Speaker 1: the start this week. If Tyrod Taylor's no longer a
Speaker 1: starter because of the team doctor puncturing his lung, that's
Speaker 1: just a bad look for the Chargers, not only within
Speaker 1: this team, but when you're trying to recruit free agents
Speaker 1: as well. Oh yeah, it's a huge bad looking. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the team and the doctors to
Speaker 1: begin with. What this look does is, how are you,
Speaker 1: like you pointed out earlier, how are you as a player.
Speaker 1: If let's just say you get injured, you know, you
Speaker 1: tweak something or something like that, how are you supposed
Speaker 1: to go to the doctor and say, you know, what
Speaker 1: do you have that's best? What's what's your best advice?
Speaker 1: So how do I fix this up real quick? If
Speaker 1: you can't trust them to get you healthy? Um, and
Speaker 1: that'll make a huge, huge divide amongst the team if
Speaker 1: if you can't trust the doctors. Now, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: makes mistakes, but that right there, I mean, that is
Speaker 1: a huge mistake to make. And they put you that doctor,
Speaker 1: that specific doctor, and not sure what his name is,
Speaker 1: but they put you in charge of that like you're
Speaker 1: the head of all that. You can't make a mistake
Speaker 1: like that. Now it brings me to Tyrod Taylor. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure you know, with the CBA and you know
Speaker 1: if he if he was just like you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can accept this this help from this doctor. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what he can do legally, but if it
Speaker 1: was me, I would be looking at every single angle
Speaker 1: of how I can sue the crap out of this team.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no way that you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: a professional doctor injecting this for your ribs to try
Speaker 1: to get the pain down for your ribs and you
Speaker 1: go too deep and you puncture my lung, Like, I
Speaker 1: just don't understand how that can happen. And you're right,
Speaker 1: new if he if he goes out there, just say, Herbert,
Speaker 1: who looked phenomenal in his opening game the other week,
Speaker 1: if he goes out there, and let's just say Tyrod
Speaker 1: can't play this week and Herbert has another amazing performance
Speaker 1: and this time they get the W and Coach Lynn
Speaker 1: is over there like, hey, you know, I feel for
Speaker 1: my guy. I said, what, he's one hundred percent healthy,
Speaker 1: he'll be back in the starting lineup. But if Herbert's
Speaker 1: bawling like this, you just can't take that momentum away
Speaker 1: from a team. I mean, the team is greater than
Speaker 1: one player. We all know that. But if he's bawling
Speaker 1: like that, you cannot take that momentum away. So let's
Speaker 1: just say he loses his starting spot. I mean, then
Speaker 1: where does that put him? I mean if he if
Speaker 1: he becomes a free agent next week, you know, teams
Speaker 1: aren't gonna look at him like, oh, this could be
Speaker 1: our franchise starting quarterback. They're gonna look at him. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a backup type. He'll you know, he'll
Speaker 1: be like a Chase Daniel, you know, be around the
Speaker 1: league for a long time just backing people up. And
Speaker 1: I could take a huge hit on his money. So
Speaker 1: if I'm Tyrod Taylor, I'm telling you now, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at every different avenue to try to recoup as much
Speaker 1: financially as I can from this situation. But overall, it's
Speaker 1: just a it's just a bad look for this Charges
Speaker 1: organization because I don't think this is the first time
Speaker 1: they've had trouble with the team doctors. It's not the
Speaker 1: first time that the Charges have had issues with the
Speaker 1: team doctor that. That is definitely true. You can just
Speaker 1: go google that and you'll find stories there. The two
Speaker 1: things come out of this. I wonder does the doctor
Speaker 1: keep his job? Don't know, I don't know who the
Speaker 1: doctor is, like you, I don't know how long they've
Speaker 1: been there. But do you you know, is this one
Speaker 1: of those where you got to tell the doctor, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: you may we like you, but you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go ahead and take this hell because they have our players,
Speaker 1: our players and our player agents saying they don't want
Speaker 1: you touching them. Because if you're if you're a player
Speaker 1: on the charges this week, you got to get a shot.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna let him do it? I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: who else we got? I mean, you know, so that's
Speaker 1: an issue right there. One to replacing the doctor and
Speaker 1: two Verry. Does the Players Association get involved in something
Speaker 1: like this for a guy like Taylor? I think they
Speaker 1: would have to. I mean, you know, the NFLPA, you know,
Speaker 1: they're supposed to have our our best interest in heart
Speaker 1: and everything like that. So um, and there's already reports
Speaker 1: out there, you know, Tyrod talking to the NFLPA out there.
Speaker 1: But this is this is what you got a union
Speaker 1: for it. This is what you got, you know, this
Speaker 1: whole NFLPA. And I believe who's the head of a
Speaker 1: deep Dean is it still Deans Dean? It's d Smith.
Speaker 1: D Smith, Yeah, it's d Smith still head. This is
Speaker 1: why he's the head. I mean, this is the reason
Speaker 1: for that organization to help look out for the players
Speaker 1: and have their best interest in hearts. So hopefully, if
Speaker 1: I'm Tyrod Taylor. I'm contacting them, I'm contacting the legal team.
Speaker 1: I'm doing whatever I can to get this situation better
Speaker 1: in my favor because I mean, you see, how how
Speaker 1: how can you trust a team doctor after that? I mean,
Speaker 1: I've had toward all shots and I've had you know,
Speaker 1: pain killers in the past to get through games. Um,
Speaker 1: and if you can't trust the doctor to get you
Speaker 1: through that game pain wise, I mean, it causes a
Speaker 1: whole It's just a slippery slope, as I should put.
Speaker 1: It's a slippery slope. And to me, this is where
Speaker 1: the agent for Tyrod Taylor has to go to work.
Speaker 1: That's his job now. I mean, ty Rod's gotta do
Speaker 1: what he can and to get healthy and get into
Speaker 1: playbook and see whatever he you know, where his status is.
Speaker 1: He's got to worry about football. But this is where
Speaker 1: the agent has to get involved. So he's on the
Speaker 1: phone with a Spanos family about what happened. He's on
Speaker 1: the phone with the nfl PA, and he needs to
Speaker 1: take this all Tyrod's you know, he just needs to
Speaker 1: come from Tyrode with Okay, here's the latest details in
Speaker 1: the Tyrode cannot get involved in the minutia of what
Speaker 1: right now is I don't want to say mount practice,
Speaker 1: but obviously it's a medical issue here and a mistake
Speaker 1: that was made. Um, they got to he's got to
Speaker 1: do that for him. So the player can can do
Speaker 1: his job, but he altos. Let me ask a job.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, let me ask you a question real quick.
Speaker 1: So what what can the what can the that team do?
Speaker 1: Can they can they contact Tyrode and say hey, you know,
Speaker 1: like do they take their legal team to Tyrode and say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you know these are the options that you have. And
Speaker 1: you know, we had imagine you not to do this, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, what can they say to Tyrod right now?
Speaker 1: It's basically what I'm what I'm asking you. No, it's
Speaker 1: a good question. And to me, this is once again
Speaker 1: this is the agent. The agent now has to step
Speaker 1: in here and try to protect the player at all calls.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one where okay, you just go
Speaker 1: to you know, you just say, hey, talk to my people.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, Barry, let's talk to about you know what,
Speaker 1: talk to my people. I have to go worry about,
Speaker 1: you know, my job right now. Talk to my people.
Speaker 1: Almost like when you're selling your house, you got to
Speaker 1: go to the realtors or when you go into court
Speaker 1: and you say it tells him. I talk to my
Speaker 1: lawyer here that that's what needs to happen for Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: and he should be dealing with at all, with the
Speaker 1: medical staff or or the Chargers legal team at all.
Speaker 1: This is why you have representation. This is also why
Speaker 1: you have the NFLPA, because anything that they bring to you,
Speaker 1: if you're Tyrod, you're taking it to your agent, You're
Speaker 1: taking it to the NFLPA. You're not signing anything. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you want to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with anybody without your people around, just because this
Speaker 1: is this is serious. This is a serious I mean,
Speaker 1: like tyrode rehab, that's right, Where does he go to
Speaker 1: get better? Like, like, how how did that work? Is
Speaker 1: the team hand for that as well? Or does he
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't trust going back into the facility. He's
Speaker 1: talking about, I need this rehab for my lung after
Speaker 1: that happened. So do they pay for his you know,
Speaker 1: medical issues and medical rehab outside of the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just there's a lot of things going on with
Speaker 1: this right now. Steve, which of NFL Network had spoken
Speaker 1: about how he covered teams where where players had lost
Speaker 1: the confidence of the medical staff and how debilitating that
Speaker 1: could be. The person I feel bad for right now
Speaker 1: it's head coach Anthony Lynn, because he's now put in
Speaker 1: a situation that really, you know, it's unfair to him
Speaker 1: from the standpoint. Okay, if Herbert keeps playing well as
Speaker 1: you brought up and he was drafted to be the future,
Speaker 1: he's got to have the conversation now with the team
Speaker 1: and with the quarterback about how this aul went down. Barry,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this because you were you've been
Speaker 1: around two NFL teams now between the Cowboys and Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Is that old adage you don't lose your job to injury?
Speaker 1: Does that is still apply or are we dealing with
Speaker 1: different things now? You tell me no, that doesn't apply
Speaker 1: at all. I mean I've seen it happen left and right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't tell me, you know, or Tony
Speaker 1: Romo didn't lose his job because of injury. I mean
Speaker 1: if he never gets injured, who knows? If we ever
Speaker 1: hear about you know, Dak Prescott, but um and in
Speaker 1: my case, when when they brought in Brodny pool Um
Speaker 1: to be the starting safety back in twenty thirteen. Um,
Speaker 1: it was you know, I'm back in two thousand and twelve, Um,
Speaker 1: he got injured. He got injured early in camp and
Speaker 1: he just wasn't in shape you know, during OTAs and
Speaker 1: during camp to pretty much to take over that starting job.
Speaker 1: So I was able to supplant him. But if he
Speaker 1: doesn't get injured, and you know, he stays in shape,
Speaker 1: you know, I might still be on special teams or
Speaker 1: it might still be you know, vuying for a job
Speaker 1: somewhere else. So, UM, that whole that whole old adage
Speaker 1: of just you know, you know, if he's injured, he'll
Speaker 1: he'll he'll have his job when he get returns. I
Speaker 1: think that's a little crap. And yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: just how it isn't in today's NFL, and the quarterback
Speaker 1: situation is much different than any other position. And I
Speaker 1: go back to Dak Prescott and Tony Rowe. Dak had
Speaker 1: won so many games and he'd also won the confidence
Speaker 1: of the locker room that they were able to make
Speaker 1: that decision and everyone was okay with it. That that's
Speaker 1: something else that I think a lot of people haven't
Speaker 1: talked about enough. You could never find anybody who wasn't
Speaker 1: a Dak person. I mean even guys who were close
Speaker 1: to Romo were all saying, yet, Dak's the guy, this
Speaker 1: is the guy. So so he had that spinning his way.
Speaker 1: Is justin Herbert able to have that same thing where
Speaker 1: the locker room is all behind him, and that that's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting because all you know, all rooms
Speaker 1: are different, man, All rooms are different, all coaches are different.
Speaker 1: Here this is That's why I say I feel bad
Speaker 1: for the head coach, Anthony Lynn, because you're now put
Speaker 1: into a position that you have to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to try and you're not gonna make everybody happy,
Speaker 1: but you try to figure out how do you treat
Speaker 1: it in a in a classy fashion and you you
Speaker 1: can keep everybody in your room together even as something
Speaker 1: this may be and you're you're completely right. I mean
Speaker 1: I think when it comes down to it, I think
Speaker 1: only a couple if you can swing a few players
Speaker 1: like it's it's in an instant. With that Dak and
Speaker 1: Tony situation, Um, Dad can't have to get the whole
Speaker 1: locker room on his side. He just had to get
Speaker 1: a few players on his side, and once he got
Speaker 1: those few that basically swung the whole team. And um,
Speaker 1: I'll we get off air, I'll tell you about the story.
Speaker 1: And when when I tell you when I thought that
Speaker 1: Dak pretty much took over that job. But UM, to me,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if if Herbert has you know,
Speaker 1: the confidence of the Keelan Isllen and a you know
Speaker 1: one Hunter Henry or whoever else is the leaders of
Speaker 1: those teams, Um, I think it'll be pretty easily you know,
Speaker 1: to sway or to to pitch that to to team
Speaker 1: that Hey, Herbert's gonna take over from now one? Is
Speaker 1: it right? You know? I don't know, but I think
Speaker 1: it'll be pretty easy if he can get those guys
Speaker 1: to to buy in with him. Kansas City ended up
Speaker 1: beating the chart Argers in overtime. And if Herbert can
Speaker 1: go out the way Dak Prescott did, Yeah, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: rolled off with seven, eight, nine, ten wins. Yeah, something
Speaker 1: like that. And I go back to the Pittsburgh game
Speaker 1: where it looked like the Cowboys were going to lose
Speaker 1: as Ben Roethlisberger faked the spike and and it is
Speaker 1: just you know a little bit of time less than
Speaker 1: sixty some odd seconds left. Then the Cowboys go down
Speaker 1: the field and win the game. And then I remember
Speaker 1: that Green Bay game at lambeau Field was another game
Speaker 1: where you're kind of thinking, okay, rookie quarterback, let's see
Speaker 1: what he does. And Dak showed out, and Brett Farvee
Speaker 1: was in the booth with Troy Aikman and they were
Speaker 1: just saying, how you can't you can't go back to Romo.
Speaker 1: It's Dak's job. And so when you got two Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterbacks in here saying Dak's the guy, then
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson's back in the studio, that's when I thought
Speaker 1: Romo really lost. It's like, oh man, the national media
Speaker 1: is now telling the Cowboys what to do, and they're
Speaker 1: saying it over for Romo. And and then then of
Speaker 1: course you're covering the team and that you were there
Speaker 1: as well. But you could tell he won the locker room,
Speaker 1: so you won. You won the media perception, then you
Speaker 1: won the room, and it was really nowhere for Tony
Speaker 1: to go. If Justin Herbert is able to do that
Speaker 1: same type of thing, then it makes a job easier
Speaker 1: for Anthony Lynn in terms of having to deal with it.
Speaker 1: But if the charges are just a team that's under
Speaker 1: five hundred and he's starting to struggle because now guys
Speaker 1: have have schemed up against against him, then he gets
Speaker 1: a lot tougher. Whenever today it's healthy and wants to
Speaker 1: come back and play. So that's the tough thing about
Speaker 1: the National Football League. But I'll say this for Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: since since he ended up winning that job, he's done
Speaker 1: nothing but proved he is worthy of being the quarterback
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