WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Dak vs Russ By the Numbers 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:17.919 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lunge, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.720 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:28.360 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey Scrugs. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.320 All right, we are rolling with you here. Hump Day, Wednesday. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.360 It is week number three of the NFL season of 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.000 Newis Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by former Dallas Cowboys 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.720 safety Barry Church. Our other partner, Danny McCray, former Cowboys safety, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.360 is at home with a brand new daughter, the first 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:58.120 child Danny and his wife. Welcome to the girl Club, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:03.040 the Girl Dad Club. Danny McCray. Yeah, it was so heartwarming, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.039 you know, I just just as I say, I got chills, 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.800 just as I said, it was so heartwarming to get 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.639 that picture from Danny, to see him holding his daughter. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.320 Because one it's it's life, and you know, just so 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.039 precious your first child. You never forget it. And the 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.440 baby's healthy and that his and that his wife is okay. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.000 So I'm just warned by that, and I just get chills, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.440 eyes watered up when I just looked at the picture 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.840 because it's a miracle, man, and I'm really happy for 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.279 Danny McCrae. Yeah, I mean, shouts goes out to Danny 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.039 and Kiki. I mean that. I mean, that's just a 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.600 beautiful blessing. And then just to have your firstborn child 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.640 in your hands, I mean it just it just gives 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.240 you a whole new perspective on life. And he and 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.400 he's welcome into the girl club. I mean, that's just 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:50.040 like when I had my first girl was just unbelievable experienced. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.480 So shout out to Danny and Kekey for bringing a 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.280 beautiful blessing like this into our world. And man, we're 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.000 gonna hold it down and tell you get back. Man. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.400 But man, that's like you said, that's an extreme blessing 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.280 right there. Yeah, so you get the holder she wants 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.440 to be near. It was cool. My oldest will be 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.040 sixteen and about three days, and you know, I got 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.639 a better shot of communicating with her on TikTok or 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.240 getting any contact with my daughter. You know, man, she hey, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.160 you know how you know how it is with the 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:24.720 teen social media has taken over everything. Man. I'm looking 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.320 hopefully they take their time with that. Man, enjoy it 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.000 while you can enjoy it while you can. So yeah, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.000 my kids are older now, they talk back to you. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.600 You know, they got their own minds and their own 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.720 things they want to go do. And I mean I 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.280 ended up buying a car from my oldest couple of 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.600 weeks back. So when I tell you things, that just 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.400 change it. Man. And and I see Danny's little baby, 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.000 I just look at like I remember those days because 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.200 because the days he's in the girl club, baby in 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.280 the in the girl dad club, and that's it is. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.079 That is a good place to be, all right, A 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:05.919 place you don't want to be right now. If you're 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.239 Mike McCarthy, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, is 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.480 dealing with, you're ever changing secondary No Cheeto Alousier. This 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.440 week for the Cowboys is a face Seattle, and Cheeto's 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.880 gonna be down a few weeks. According to the coach, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.639 he's been dealing with a hamstring injury. So an addition 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.520 that they made two weeks ago, give Will McClay and 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.680 the Cowboys a whole lot of credit, because how fortunate 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.280 are they to have Brandon car on this football team 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.960 right now? Because they need Brandon Car You've got Jordan Lewis, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.560 who came back in Week no. Last week Week two 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.480 for his first game of the year, looked okay, but 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.640 you got Anthony Brown on the IR. I mean, Church, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.040 this is this is some tough times here for this 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.360 football team. When he comes to the injury standpoint, Yeah, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.040 I feel like you know, the Dallas Cowboys have been 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.880 hit with a serious injury bug right now. I mean, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.920 like you mentioned Anthony Brown's out. George Lewis, he came 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.320 back last week, but he was out the majority of 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.080 training camp with an injury. So he's he's just now 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.160 starting to try to get his rhythm with this new defense. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.000 So and you saw it last week he struggled a 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.400 little bit. So he's just now getting back. And now 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.880 we got a woozy over here who's dealing with a 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.719 hamstring injury. And I mean, look, if you ask Miles Austin, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.960 who knows when those you know, hamstring injuries are going 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.839 to come back. So we got a lot of shots 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.880 to our depth right here, and especially in the secondary. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.479 I mean, with this injury, the cheeto, I don't I 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.280 don't see it as a as a big of an 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.479 injury as an lvee or a Sean Lee or a 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.080 you know, Tyrn Smith or Lyle Collins. But it does 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:39.800 take a shot at our depth. I mean, we were 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.440 already reeling a little bit in the secondary, but now 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.840 with our starting cornerback out and who knows when he's 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.880 gonna come back, this is a huge shot to our depth. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.520 But huge, huge props. So, like you said to Will 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.320 McClay for bringing a guy like Brandon carr in, who's 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.920 you know, he's never missed a snap throughout his whole career. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.520 He's versatile, he can play nickel safety and he can 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.600 play corn owner as well, which is, in my opinion, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.279 his natural position. So huge shout out to the Cowboys 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.520 from bringing him in. Let's just hope, you know, the 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.960 rest of this team can stay healthy because I mean, 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.080 I don't know if they can afford another injury bug 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.480 like this, because their depth is definitely being questions right now. Okay, 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.720 So Seattle is got two receivers that are really good 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.279 and Tyler Locketkay Metcalf here and I was just looking 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.560 at Tyler Lockett already he's got sixteen catches for one 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.080 hundred and fifty nine yards and two touchdowns, and dk 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:34.159 Metcalf has been sensational for Seattle, And I was looking 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.400 at some notes here dk Metcalf has run twenty three 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.080 percent of his route in the slot. So Church, tell me, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.200 if you're the Cowboys and you see that that that 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.120 big wide receiver line up in the slot here, how 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.360 do you attack it? And it's and it's Julio Jones. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.159 Last week they held up fine, Julio dropped an easy 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.920 touchdown pass. He also had hamstring injury in the game. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.039 Right now, you just go from one top player to 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.880 another set of top players, because you had Julio Jones 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.320 and Calvin Riddley, even Russell Gage. But but now you've 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.200 got two other guys here and a better running game, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.920 which I think makes these two receivers of Metcalf and 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.400 Locket more dangerous than what we saw last week. Yeah, 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.599 it makes them a lot more dangerous because now you 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.000 can implement if they get that run game going with 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.080 Carson and I forget oh Hide, it's gonna be tough 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.880 with that play action. I mean, you got, you know, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.520 your third string linebacker in there, who he did perform 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.440 pretty well last week, Joe Thomas in that second half. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.120 But if that run game gets going, that play action 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.440 can can suck up the best of them, So he's 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.359 really gonna have to be on their toes. This linebacking 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.080 corp is really gonna have to be on their toes. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.520 But if I'm the Dallas Cowboys, believe it or not, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.680 I'm hoping DK Metcalf lines up in the slot position 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.279 that way. Being a defender, it's easier to double team. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.360 Now you can go with your with your nickel back 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.480 on the outside. You can bracken him with a linebacker, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.560 or you can bracken him with a safety. And if 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.799 he's in that slot, it's easy to disguise that bracket 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.200 as well. When he's way out on the outside outside 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.440 the numbers, and you have a corner out there, and 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.640 you're usually gonna let your safety hover overtop the quarterback 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.560 sees that pre snap easily that their safeties he's well 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.080 outside his numbers, he's going over there to double So 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.960 that opens up the rest of this team and it's 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.760 and it's Russell Wilson out there, he's gonna be able 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.680 to just pick that apart. So for me, I'm hoping 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.320 he lines up in a slot that way. You can 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.840 double teaming with all different types of players give him 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.360 different looks and kind of frustrate him. But to me, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.440 I think they have to focus a lot of their 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.360 attention not only on DK, but Lockett as well. I mean, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.920 we talked about him a little bit yesterday, but Lockett, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.400 he's such he has such great rapport with Wilson that 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.680 when stuff breaks down, when stuff looks like, oh man, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.000 this is going to be a bust at play. Somehow, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.440 some way, those two are on the same wave length 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.680 and they're able to create these these amazing, big explosive plays. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.080 So to me, I think they have to focus their 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.440 attention on DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, and to me, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.480 hopefully hopefully one of them is manning the slot on 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.800 any acc Asian, because I think it's easier to double 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.960 team in the slot. But the Cowboys are gonna have 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.760 their their hands full and we need, we need, with 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.480 everything in our heart, we need this defensive line to 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.040 step it up because they have to find a way, somehow, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.880 some way to contain Russell Wilson. They're not gonna stop him, 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.960 but if they can slow him down, that'll prove huge 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.480 dividends for this Cowboys defense. Players Lounge brought to you 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.520 by hotels dot com. I'm new restructs. He is buried church. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.880 Danny McCrae is off because his wife gave birth to 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.880 a beautiful baby girl. So I'm hoping we don't see 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.520 Danny the rest of the week here and make all 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.200 the adjustments. Just just be at home, be a dad, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.559 enjoy that process. Here we can talk for forty five minutes. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.480 We love him, but uh, you know, the football this 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:49.000 is bigger than question than the podcast. Also today, in 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:50.800 case you didn't know, Tank Lawrence is going to miss 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.360 practice with the Dallas Cowboys, being reported by several Cowboys 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.880 media beat reporters that his wife is going to have 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.199 a baby and cheese and labor. So that's always a 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.480 goose not to be at practice. So so there could 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.480 be a new addition to the Lawrence family. So that's 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.240 why we'll congrats to uh well, congrats to the laws Well. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.640 I mean I had no idea he was expecting another child, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.000 but I mean congrats to him as well. There must 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.800 be something in the water down there in uh in 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.160 Frisco and play though, because a lot of your cats 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.199 down there having kids. Man, So I'm gonna make sure 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.800 my wife stays far away from Frisco because the boys 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:29.160 don't have little ones. Man, Now, okay, let let me ask, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:34.280 Let me ask this question. It's missus Church done. Oh 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.360 if it was up to her, we'd probably had about 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.760 seven by now. But your boy is out of there, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.280 all right. There may be a star in the east 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.600 real soon for you, Church, because you know, who wants something, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.559 when mama wants something, just gonna let you know, it's usually. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.520 I thought I was done too, Okay, I thought I 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.839 was done to five years without you know, five years 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:02.199 about any kids. Um, my wife was forty three when 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.199 the last one came. Yeah, when the last one came 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.760 forty three, I thought I was done. You know, I'm done. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.319 You know, had two daughters. I was good. You know, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.839 it didn't really feel like add to the payroll. Um, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.120 so I was fine. You know, you guys live near Frisco. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.880 No we don't, No, we don't. But so so here's 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.960 here's what happened. Church. So. Um it was the two 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.839 thousand and ten World Series. It was the Rangers and 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.680 the Giants. So my wife's from San Francisco, and we 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.520 talked about me going to work out in the Bay Area, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.920 like you know, hey, I wouldn't mind working out back, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.720 going back to California and work. So acquired about a 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.120 couple of jobs. But I told her, I said, hey, look, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.880 it costs a whole lot more. I remember it costs 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.040 a whole lot more to live in California. And I said, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.280 I said, you're gonna need to get a job. You're 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.640 gonna need to get a job. I want to move 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.080 out to California. Fine, I'll go work, but you need 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.640 to get a job too. And she said, as well, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.280 what about what about the girls, because the youngest, you know, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.559 was still at home. And I said, well, she goes 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.079 to school this year, so you can go get a job. Just, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.360 you know, make sure you I can go pick up 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.920 the kids. And I lie, you not church she was pregnant. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:22.120 About five weeks later, Oh, value FURTI mentioned, job got real. Further, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.679 all you had to do was mention that magic word. Man, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.400 you're gonna have to go back to this workforce. You're 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.400 gonna have to go back to the job. And and 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.720 like you said, five weeks later, oh, I guess I 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:41.520 can't do it no more news. So yes, pregnant, and 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:46.800 and and had ended up having our having our last 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.199 child about two weeks after the uh, the Mavericks won 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:56.760 the twenty eleven NBA NBA Championship. So so my, my 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.800 whole point of this story is you can say you're done, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.200 I need to know when missus Church is done because 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.160 that's when you truly be done. And this is true. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.120 And and when when she when my wife finally said, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.360 you know, I'm done, this is it, and she said 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:19.120 we can't do this anymore. And and then the doctor 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.520 went ahead and tied them tubes and I watched tubes. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.560 I was in go ahead. I was going out of 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.880 business baby. It was the going out of business baby. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.199 So I'm just like, you know, so you can have 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.040 you can have these plans, but you let me know 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.760 when when missus Church says that she's done and then 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.400 and then she's out of business. Okay, So that's that's 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.360 that's when you that's when you know for sure, because 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.440 just because you're thinking it doesn't mean that that's what 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.840 she's wanting to do. So just you know, these are 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.960 the abc of of of being married, the fun, the 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.600 fun parts of it as well. Hey, let's get to 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.920 our first break here. When we come back. I've got 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.440 couple numbers that I want to dive into with Dak 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.000 Prescott and Russell Wilson, the two exciting quarterbacks in this game, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.719 and something happened with the Chargers that I believe is 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.480 really going to test this franchise, and how the players 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.480 deal with the team doctors. Let's get into that. On 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.000 the flip side. 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It was different, but look, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.640 you got to bring your mask and just operate under 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.960 the new COVID policies. From what I could tell, there 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.160 were no incidents and everybody seemed to follow them. And 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.640 the only folks who have had issues trying to follow 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.800 these NFL protocol rules have been the coaches. And I 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.920 think there's all changing this week after they that slapped 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.520 one hundred one hundred thousand dollars fines two coaches who 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.520 weren't wearing the mask and two hundred and fifty thousand 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.520 dollars to the team. So you start snatching that cash 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.960 all of a sudden, people start respecting the rules. So 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.800 I expect Pete Carroll, one of the coaches who got 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.440 fined that hundred grand for not wearing a mask. I 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.200 expect Pete have a big, old nice mask this week 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:42.160 when the cow yeah are taking on the Seahogs. A 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.400 hundred grand. I don't care how many millions you make. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.920 Hundred grands are tough. That's a tough note to take 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.200 out your wallet. Man. Oh, that's a tough pill to swallow. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.040 And then when you get to your office, I mean, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.200 I'm sure they you know, they got their office over there. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.440 For us players, it was a locker room. But when 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.720 they get to that office and they see that FedEx 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.200 envelope sitting there, that white FedEx envelope with that orange 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.120 and purple logo, Oh, you already know what's inside of that. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.280 That's not that's not fan mail. You already know. It's 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.520 super thin, and it's it's super it's like a piece 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.840 of paper almost, and you know what's coming in there. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.840 That's some type of fine. Every player and coach hates 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.159 to get one of those FedEx things plopped right on 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.560 their right on their desk or in their locker room. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.359 But knew it real quick. I want to ask you, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:22.720 I didn't know you were at the at the game 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.919 the other day. How I know we had twenty some 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.560 thousand fans there, But how was the crowd noise? Was it? 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.200 You think it had a little bit to play in 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.800 the momentum change or crowd? You know, twenty thousands just 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.920 not that big of an impact. Look, you could hear 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.920 the fans, okay, and you could hear the fans, and 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.920 once the Cowboys got going, they got excited. I heard 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.760 a lot of Atlanta. I heard there was a couple 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.200 of Atlanta fans near me, so I could clearly hear 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.760 the cheering from them throughout the game. The press box, okay, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.720 we're high for the press box, but for some reason, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.000 some Atlanta fans got tickets and they got close to 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.800 the press box, so we could hear them cheering throughout 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.560 the contest. But it was definitely audible when the Cowboys 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.760 had the football and they were going in the second half, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.479 and of course we all saw the role that they 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.879 were on here and so you could you could hear it. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:11.919 You could hear the groans with the funk when they 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.760 were fooling the ball and turn it it over so 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.000 you could hear the groans there. So, um, look it's 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.520 it's not Here's why you know it makes a difference 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.640 because we see the games where there are no people 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.040 at all, like that Ram game. Yeah, so it definitely 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.240 it definitely helps and the guys, you know, certain guys 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:29.960 are going to feed off a crowd and they need it. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.320 So I thought the people who were there and Dak 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.840 Prescott had had had given them a shout out. The 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.920 players were thankful for those fans that showed up here. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.399 So if you're if you're going to go to a 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.399 Cowboy game, I said, you can be prepared to do 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.639 all the cheering and everything that you've done before. A 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.680 little bit different, but at the same time, so much 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.160 has changed that I don't think it's that different because 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.880 our whole lot, nothing well nothing we're doing in our 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.760 lives right now is different. Um. In the press box, 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.200 for instance, we sho have those little long buffet tables 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.080 and you know, you just go you serve yourself. Well, 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.480 now they come in, they come in to lunch an 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.119 individual packet, so you just tell them, yes, I'd like 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:07.920 I'd like the breakfast meal, and so they give you 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.840 the breakfast meal, the oh yes, I'd like the lunch meal. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.959 They give you that. So a lot of it's individually 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.880 done things. And so now if you want to buy concessions, 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.000 you just know, okay, it's cashless transactions, so you can 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.000 still you know, do things just a little bit different. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.199 Your space differently. Um, you're with a seat target, they 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.480 got spaces there. But I can't emphasize enough that this 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.000 is our new normal. And I think once you just 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:32.680 get used, Okay, this is my seat, this is where 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.320 I'm at, then you're gonna go and you're gonna cheer, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.040 and you're gonna have all the fun that you had before. 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.119 And for me, I'll tell you this, you got space. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.919 Now have to worry aboudy some leg room, all right, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.800 all right, right, you got some space. You have your 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:52.119 personal space space around you. So um, I've got I 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.560 tipped my cap to all of the teams in the 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.560 National Football League who are doing what they can to 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.119 try and still give fans the experience if their state 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.639 governments are allowing them to do it. Los Angeles right 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:05.280 now out there, you know, think they're not having fans 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.240 at the game, But in Texas they can have fans 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.480 at the game. Kansas City, they had fans at the game. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.600 So if you're able to have them and you're going 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:15.880 out there, you can help give your team an advantage. Seattle, 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.560 by the way, no fans. So there's no fans out there. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:23.600 There's no twelfth man. No, no, it's not. And so 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:28.440 this is a break for the Cowboys. Seattle still favored 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.920 by four. The Cowboys do bring in the NFC Offensive 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.240 Player of the Week in Dak Prescott, who threw for 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.560 four hundred and fifty yards, completed seventy two point three 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.680 percent of his passes against the Falcons, had four total 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.399 touchdowns with a one hundred and point four rating in 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.640 the football game. So Dak Prescott and two football games 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.600 is doing his part. Russell Wilson right now, he's been 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.160 sincere so he's throwing an NFL high four touchdowns, burry 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.000 over twenty yards. He's averaging twelve point one yards per 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:04.560 pass play, and the Cowboys have allowed ten completions of 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.080 twenty yards or more. That's tied for the most of 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:13.320 the NFL with Miami and Atlanta. So we're seeing two 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.280 defenses that are going to have some issues. Let me 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.240 throw this number out here too. For for Seattle, that 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.159 defense has allowed four hundred and fifty yards of passing. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.400 They did allowed that in Game one to Atlanta. Then 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.560 they allowed three hundred and ninety seven yards of passing 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:30.000 to Cam Newton and the Patriots on NBC Sunday and 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:33.879 Night Football. So we see that both teams are having 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.920 an issue when it comes to their secondary and they're 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.720 clearly not putting the kind of pressure you need to 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:44.240 on the quarterback. So the Cowboys obviously right now are 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.040 in worse shape when you look at their secondary, having 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.080 lost a Cheeta a Woozier for a number of weeks. 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.480 Anthony Brown's on IR So this could be a high 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:56.239 scoring game. I think it may be indicative of what 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:59.800 we saw last week when both teams were with thirty 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.400 nine and forty points. I think that so we get 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.560 I can see each team scoring in the thirties in 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.440 this one. Because if you can't defend and you're dealing 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.400 with injuries and you're not getting to the quarterback, good luck, 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.320 good good luck tank Lawrence Tank. Lawrence m was if 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.119 we talked about miss practice because his wife's in labor, 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:20.919 but he's also dealing with a knee injury, So we 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.560 don't know his status in terms of Sunday, and even 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.760 if he can go Sunday church, how good. Canny be 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.840 Bate Law from BA Cowboys radio broadcaster said Tank was 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.080 basically playing on one leg last week. It should have 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.439 got pulled earlier. Yeah, and that and that's what to me, 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.439 that's what it comes down to with this Dallas Cowboys defense. 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.560 It's how can we get after the quarterback. We know 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.080 going into this season we were gonna have a younger 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:50.399 secondary experienced. I mean, they played a little bit in 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:51.840 their first year and their second year, but we were 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.359 gonna have an overall a young secondary. And we thought 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.639 going into this season that that front seven, especially that 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:00.320 defensive line, with the additions of Everson Griffin, you know, 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.480 Alden Smith coming in here, you know you still got Tank, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:05.800 you still got Crawford in there. We thought at the 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:07.520 beginning of the season, this was going to be the strength. 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.000 This was going to be that unit that pushes this 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.600 defense over the edge and gets them that pressure that 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.440 they need, gets after the quarterback and gets the ball 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:17.879 back to their offense. But for these first two games, 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:20.120 I'm not sure if it's the lack of training camps, 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:22.679 the lack of mini camps, or the lack of OTAs, 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.359 but and having this new system brought in with Mike Nolan, 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.439 but we just haven't seen that pressure generated, whether it 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.080 be four man rush, whether it be them bringing guys 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.080 from the secondary, whether it be them bringing gays from 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.639 the linebacking corps. We just haven't seen that pressure. And 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.560 I think with this defense needs is they need to 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.280 get after this quarterback. Their secondary they can hold up 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:42.720 as much as they can, but if they if the 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.920 quarterback's back there, especially if Matt Ryan or Russell Wilson, 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:48.760 if they have time back there, they're gonna pick apart 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.240 any defense there is out there. I mean, they just 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:53.800 they've just seen it too much. In Russell Wilson right now, 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.320 he's playing at an all time level, at an MVP 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:59.520 type level. So with us, I feel like the key 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.080 is to get after this quarterback. We gotta figure out 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:04.400 a way to generate a pass rush. And since it's 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:06.720 not coming from our twenty one million dollar man, who 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.879 now he has a neat issue, we gotta find it somewhere. 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:12.840 Whether it be Aldon Smith, whether it be you know, 0:24:12.920 --> 0:24:15.520 Crawford in the middle of Everson Griffin. Somebody has to 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:17.959 find a way to generate this pressure because if not, 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:21.439 Russell Wilson is gonna tear this defense apart. And you 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:23.800 talk about, you know, our injuries to our corners. Right now, 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:27.840 we got a Woozier out, Brown's out. What are we 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:29.680 gonna do. We're gonna bring car down there, or we're 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:32.760 gonna put Robinson move him back from safety to the corner. 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:34.960 I mean, there's a couple of things that we can do, 0:24:35.040 --> 0:24:37.800 but overall, I think this defense has to rely on 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:39.840 that defensive line in that front seven to not only 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.080 get after the quarterback, but they got to stop the run. 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:44.399 If not, it's gonna be a field day in Seattle. 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:46.159 Is gonna be like just picking their poison. Do we 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:48.359 want to run and gash you with Carson and hide 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:50.080 or do we want to put you over top with 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:52.719 you know, DK Metcalf and lock it. So for me, 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:56.520 it all predicates on getting after the quarterback, and it's 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:58.960 a must, especially this game in Seattle, that we get 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:02.879 after Russell Wilson. Let's let's start with the run, because 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:04.719 I just went back and looked at numbers here. So 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.840 the Cowboys allowed one hundred and fifty nine yards of 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:10.520 rushing to the Rams on thirty three carries. They allowed 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:14.359 one hundred nine yards of rushing to Atlanta on thirty 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:17.840 three carries. So we're seeing teams who are running of 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:21.320 football and the other teams are winning the time of possessions. 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:23.680 The Cowboys these last two games have lost the time 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:26.360 of possession. The other folks are out here deciding we're 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:28.879 going to try to run the football, and if the 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:32.280 Seattle Seahawks can run the football and win first down, 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:35.320 then that's at a disadvantage for the Cowboys. So right 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:38.440 out of the gate, to me, the defensive line has 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:41.359 got to be gap sound and stop the run and 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:44.600 make sure that Carlos High and Chris Carson they're starting 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:47.560 running back, that these guys are not out here put 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:49.840 in Seattle in the situation where they're looking at a 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:53.000 second and seven, I mean a second and three gaining 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:56.200 seven yards or a second and four because they're gaining 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:58.239 six yards on a run. They've got to do that. 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:01.680 So that's where I'm looking at. Terry Pole, Tristan Hill, 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:04.920 Antoine Woods. You need these guys to be upfront holding 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.679 their blocks. The Seattle offensive line is not there's no, 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.120 Zach Martin's over there. Okay, there's you know, they don't 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.359 have any great offensive line, they're good enough. They know 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:15.480 how to win, and Russ makes up for a whole 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.239 lot of issues and mistakes and guys that I think 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:20.679 are just average. But the Cowboys who were just average 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:22.159 as well, I had to figure out a way to 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:24.399 be better than they've been. They've got to improve, in 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:27.880 your hope, and that's all that's that's always a scary words. 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:30.000 We're talking about football. Yeah, what your hope is that 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:32.560 they're getting used to this system a little bit and 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:35.640 they can't And one other point, they can't be bad 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:38.320 on third downs. I mean, that's the money down. That's 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:40.400 how you get off the field. That's how you get 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:42.960 the ball back in your offensive's hand, back in Dak 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.240 Prescott's hand, and being able to win the game. And 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:47.760 when we saw that last game, the first half, they 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:50.560 were horrendous on third down. I believe they were maybe 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:52.560 you know, I think the Falcons were maybe over sixty 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:54.959 percent and third down. But in the second half they 0:26:54.960 --> 0:26:57.240 were able to get those fortunate stops. Now they did 0:26:57.280 --> 0:26:59.240 have a couple drops by Atlanta, but they were able 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:00.920 to get those stops and able to get the ball 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:03.080 back in Dak Prescott's hand, and we saw the rest 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:05.239 is history. So the first two games, I think they 0:27:05.280 --> 0:27:07.320 were a little bit shaky on third down. If they're 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:09.720 able to you know, get their percentages up and get 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:11.680 the ball back to this offense, like you said in 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:14.800 the past, I mean, the offense, in my opinion, is 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:18.000 the best defense to stop Russell Wilson. If they're staying 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:20.480 on this field as Dak Prescott and Zekiel Elliott, those 0:27:20.480 --> 0:27:23.640 boys are on the field for twenty five thirty five 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:27.280 plus minutes. I think that that basically limits the amount 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.000 of time that Russell Wilson has back there to basically 0:27:30.000 --> 0:27:32.000 pick apart your defense. And I think going into this 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:34.280 game that can be your best defense instead of just 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:36.800 relying on our you know, four to three or our 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:38.760 front seven and shut down Russell Wilson, I think this 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:42.240 offense has to maintain the possession of the ball throughout 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:45.520 the whole game. Okay, here's something else. Okay, and you 0:27:45.560 --> 0:27:48.520 get this one. Haven't been a safety buried Church. We 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:52.239 saw Matt Ryan running for first downs last week, and 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:57.080 that's You've got Russell Wilson here now with that ability 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:00.240 that if the Cowboys are covering guys to go ahead 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:02.639 and pick up some first downs. And Russ is not 0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:05.879 a guy who takes hits either, He's not so. And 0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:10.760 from a defensive standpoint, how do you how do they 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:15.560 cover or account for Russell Wilson on a third and six, 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:18.960 a third and seven? How do you do that? Well, 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:22.399 let me tell you first, it's demoralizing. It's like a 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:25.680 dagger in the heart when, especially as a secondary, when 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:27.400 I feel like you're holding up your own You got 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:30.399 your man locked up, everybody's locked up around the board. 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:32.240 He has to throw the ball away. There's no way 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:34.679 he's gonna get the ball off. And this guy, somehow, 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:37.879 some way escapes the pocket and picks up six, and 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:40.160 before you're able to stop him, before you're able to 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:43.560 let your frustrations out on him, he slides. He slides 0:28:43.640 --> 0:28:45.440 right before you, and you gotta go over top of you. 0:28:45.760 --> 0:28:49.560 It's probably one of the most demoralizing things an offense 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:51.400 can do to a defense, because you first you get 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:53.840 another set of downs when you're probably tired from already 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:55.920 doing those first three downs, and then you can't even 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.320 let out your frustration on a guy like that. It's extremely, 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:03.000 extremely heartening. But to me, what this defensive line has 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:06.040 to do is they have to have an ability to 0:29:06.280 --> 0:29:09.000 contain this guy. If they line up in their gaps, 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:10.760 they can't have a hero ball or what I call 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:12.400 it hero ball. You can't have a guy out there 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:15.120 who's rushing the passer and thinks, oh, let me take 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:17.400 this easy path. Let me take this easy path inside 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:18.840 to him because I can go ahead and get them. 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:21.040 And that's all that's gonna happen is Russell Wilson's gonna 0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.280 spin right up out of there. You're gonna lose contain. 0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:25.840 And that's where we've seen all their big plays happen 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:27.600 when Russell gets out of the pocket and he got 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:29.680 time to throw it, to lock it, throw it to Metcalf. 0:29:29.760 --> 0:29:32.280 So I think this defensive line they have to do 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:35.120 an amazing job of keeping him contained. If that's putting, 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:38.120 you know, a spy somewhere, if that's moving you know, 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:40.960 taint Lawrence or Alden Smith on the inside, just to 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:43.240 kind of hold a block of there in spy on them. 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:45.000 They have to figure out a way to do it 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:47.440 because if he goes there and picks up first downs 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:50.360 and extends the drive with his legs. I mean, you're 0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:52.880 asking for a lot from this defense. So they got 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:54.720 to be able to find a way to contain him 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:56.720 and hopefully not let him use his legs to pick 0:29:56.800 --> 0:30:00.680 up first downs, and hopefully on the other side, Dak 0:30:00.720 --> 0:30:04.720 Prescott can do the same thing and use his legs 0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:07.479 a little bit more to pick up first downs. 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Players 0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:05.600 Lounge brought to you by Hotels dot Com. We do 0:33:05.840 --> 0:33:10.720 this show weekdays, Monday through Friday, two thirty pm Central. 0:33:10.760 --> 0:33:13.120 All right, we got a message for you here. Cowboys 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:15.680 single game tickets against the Cleveland Browns. Get those tickets 0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:18.440 nat to see the Cowboys face Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:20.840 Junior the Browns when they returned to AT and T 0:33:21.040 --> 0:33:24.200 Stadium on Sunday, October fourth. A limited number of tickets 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:27.400 are on sale now. Get yours at Dallas Cowboys dot 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:31.600 com slash tickets all right, Church, So you're telling me 0:33:31.680 --> 0:33:34.680 that some news just happened here From John Machoda, the 0:33:34.680 --> 0:33:36.560 athletic who covers the Cowboys, it's a good job for 0:33:36.600 --> 0:33:41.160 the John's a friend of mine. Diggs the corner the 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:45.240 Trey Digs going on there. Yeah, from from the reports 0:33:45.240 --> 0:33:48.600 from Cowboys campus, seems that Trayvon Diggs, um, you're starting 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:52.200 cornerback and arguably your best corner Um, did not practice today. 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.520 He's listed as a shoulder injury. I'm sure we'll hear 0:33:55.600 --> 0:33:57.440 more about it later in the week, but that's just 0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:00.720 another injury and another big time part of this Instead, 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:03.640 it's just not practicing today. I don't know what's going 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:05.480 on over there in Cowboys Can what they're doing in 0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:08.440 practice or what, but this is just another injury for 0:34:08.480 --> 0:34:14.440 that secondary man. So a shoulder injury to Digs. Exusier 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:17.480 out with a hamstring. Jordan Lewis has just come back. 0:34:17.680 --> 0:34:22.879 They've signed Brandon car For those Cowboy fans who come 0:34:22.920 --> 0:34:28.319 on our feed and want Earl Thomas, Earl Thomas you're 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:32.319 concerned right now, you need some corners. You may want 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:34.640 to call Dion see if he can leave Jackson stay 0:34:34.719 --> 0:34:37.080 for a week or two just to come over here 0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:42.440 and defend somebody. I mean, it is right, It is 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:44.400 right by the way. You see Byron Jones left the 0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:48.319 Dolphins game on Sunday he had suffered an injury. I mean, 0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:52.960 the injury bug is all across the NFL and right now, man, 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:55.640 you just got to be hopeful that you can make 0:34:55.680 --> 0:34:58.359 it week to week. And also, who is on your 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:02.360 practice squad right now really matters. I mean, you gotta 0:35:02.440 --> 0:35:04.920 have some people that you're working with because this is 0:35:04.960 --> 0:35:07.560 not going to stop. We're going to keep seeing injuries 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:09.799 throughout this season. I think we'll see more guys on 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:12.279 IR than we've ever seen before. I haven't seen this 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:17.280 when the ACLA injuries in a long long time. So, yeah, 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:20.239 here's Diggs. Maybe Diggs has to take Maybe he has 0:35:20.280 --> 0:35:23.160 to take a shot in order to play against see 0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:28.160 I don't know. I don't know about taking shots anymore. Yeah, 0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:33.400 let's dive into that right now. So b Taylor, the 0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:37.279 Charger starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor is going to take an 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:42.040 injection before their game against Kansas City on Sunday, and 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:47.080 the team doctor punctured his lung. He didn't play. They 0:35:47.160 --> 0:35:50.320 ended up having to take him to the hospital during 0:35:50.360 --> 0:35:55.600 the football game, and Steve Wise of NFL Network talked 0:35:55.640 --> 0:35:59.520 about the things that could happen for the Chargers based 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:02.040 on this is number one, that they don't trust the 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:05.040 team doctors anymore. The guys you're like, yeah, I'm gonna 0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:07.799 go see somebody else before I just rely on the 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:11.480 word from your doctors. And then also, Barry, you will 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:14.960 get this one because you understand it very much. What 0:36:15.080 --> 0:36:19.560 if Tyrod Taylor ends up losing his position because of this? 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:23.719 Justin Herbert, the rookie, came in, played well, the Chargers 0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:26.560 held their own against Kansas City ended up losing to 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:29.840 the Chargers in overtime, So Herbert is supposed likely getting 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:32.680 the start this week. If Tyrod Taylor's no longer a 0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:37.040 starter because of the team doctor puncturing his lung, that's 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:39.840 just a bad look for the Chargers, not only within 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:42.160 this team, but when you're trying to recruit free agents 0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:46.200 as well. Oh yeah, it's a huge bad looking. And 0:36:46.200 --> 0:36:49.440 I'm gonna start with the team and the doctors to 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:52.960 begin with. What this look does is, how are you, 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.080 like you pointed out earlier, how are you as a player. 0:36:55.200 --> 0:36:56.799 If let's just say you get injured, you know, you 0:36:56.840 --> 0:36:59.040 tweak something or something like that, how are you supposed 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:00.600 to go to the doctor and say, you know, what 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:03.160 do you have that's best? What's what's your best advice? 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:05.239 So how do I fix this up real quick? If 0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:07.680 you can't trust them to get you healthy? Um, and 0:37:07.760 --> 0:37:11.319 that'll make a huge, huge divide amongst the team if 0:37:11.600 --> 0:37:14.320 if you can't trust the doctors. Now, you know, everybody 0:37:14.360 --> 0:37:17.120 makes mistakes, but that right there, I mean, that is 0:37:17.160 --> 0:37:20.560 a huge mistake to make. And they put you that doctor, 0:37:20.600 --> 0:37:22.320 that specific doctor, and not sure what his name is, 0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:24.120 but they put you in charge of that like you're 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:26.360 the head of all that. You can't make a mistake 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:29.319 like that. Now it brings me to Tyrod Taylor. I'm 0:37:29.360 --> 0:37:32.040 not sure you know, with the CBA and you know 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:33.759 if he if he was just like you know, yeah, 0:37:33.800 --> 0:37:36.359 I can accept this this help from this doctor. I'm 0:37:36.400 --> 0:37:39.239 not sure what he can do legally, but if it 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.480 was me, I would be looking at every single angle 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:45.600 of how I can sue the crap out of this team. 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:48.680 I mean, there's no way that you're supposed to be 0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.440 a professional doctor injecting this for your ribs to try 0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:53.120 to get the pain down for your ribs and you 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:55.200 go too deep and you puncture my lung, Like, I 0:37:55.680 --> 0:37:58.400 just don't understand how that can happen. And you're right, 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:00.720 new if he if he goes out there, just say, Herbert, 0:38:00.760 --> 0:38:05.200 who looked phenomenal in his opening game the other week, 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:07.480 if he goes out there, and let's just say Tyrod 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:10.360 can't play this week and Herbert has another amazing performance 0:38:10.360 --> 0:38:13.040 and this time they get the W and Coach Lynn 0:38:13.120 --> 0:38:14.719 is over there like, hey, you know, I feel for 0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:16.680 my guy. I said, what, he's one hundred percent healthy, 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:19.280 he'll be back in the starting lineup. But if Herbert's 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:22.080 bawling like this, you just can't take that momentum away 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:23.759 from a team. I mean, the team is greater than 0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:26.120 one player. We all know that. But if he's bawling 0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:28.799 like that, you cannot take that momentum away. So let's 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:31.600 just say he loses his starting spot. I mean, then 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:33.719 where does that put him? I mean if he if 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:35.600 he becomes a free agent next week, you know, teams 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:37.120 aren't gonna look at him like, oh, this could be 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:40.200 our franchise starting quarterback. They're gonna look at him. It's like, Okay, 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:42.560 he's a he's a backup type. He'll you know, he'll 0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:44.360 be like a Chase Daniel, you know, be around the 0:38:44.440 --> 0:38:46.520 league for a long time just backing people up. And 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:48.640 I could take a huge hit on his money. So 0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:51.160 if I'm Tyrod Taylor, I'm telling you now, I'm looking 0:38:51.200 --> 0:38:54.600 at every different avenue to try to recoup as much 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:57.960 financially as I can from this situation. But overall, it's 0:38:58.000 --> 0:39:00.560 just a it's just a bad look for this Charges 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:02.520 organization because I don't think this is the first time 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:06.080 they've had trouble with the team doctors. It's not the 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:08.400 first time that the Charges have had issues with the 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:10.640 team doctor that. That is definitely true. You can just 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:13.919 go google that and you'll find stories there. The two 0:39:14.000 --> 0:39:16.160 things come out of this. I wonder does the doctor 0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:17.960 keep his job? Don't know, I don't know who the 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:19.719 doctor is, like you, I don't know how long they've 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:21.640 been there. But do you you know, is this one 0:39:21.640 --> 0:39:23.759 of those where you got to tell the doctor, Hey, look, 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:26.200 you may we like you, but you're gonna have to 0:39:26.239 --> 0:39:30.880 go ahead and take this hell because they have our players, 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:34.200 our players and our player agents saying they don't want 0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:36.800 you touching them. Because if you're if you're a player 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:38.760 on the charges this week, you got to get a shot. 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:42.640 Are you gonna let him do it? I'm like, hey, 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:45.239 who else we got? I mean, you know, so that's 0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:47.920 an issue right there. One to replacing the doctor and 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:51.840 two Verry. Does the Players Association get involved in something 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:55.600 like this for a guy like Taylor? I think they 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:58.360 would have to. I mean, you know, the NFLPA, you know, 0:39:58.400 --> 0:40:00.480 they're supposed to have our our best interest in heart 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:03.560 and everything like that. So um, and there's already reports 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:06.200 out there, you know, Tyrod talking to the NFLPA out there. 0:40:06.560 --> 0:40:08.319 But this is this is what you got a union 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:10.080 for it. This is what you got, you know, this 0:40:10.160 --> 0:40:12.319 whole NFLPA. And I believe who's the head of a 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:15.360 deep Dean is it still Deans Dean? It's d Smith. 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:17.960 D Smith, Yeah, it's d Smith still head. This is 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:20.200 why he's the head. I mean, this is the reason 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:22.120 for that organization to help look out for the players 0:40:22.160 --> 0:40:25.160 and have their best interest in hearts. So hopefully, if 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:28.920 I'm Tyrod Taylor. I'm contacting them, I'm contacting the legal team. 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:31.720 I'm doing whatever I can to get this situation better 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:34.560 in my favor because I mean, you see, how how 0:40:34.640 --> 0:40:36.960 how can you trust a team doctor after that? I mean, 0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:39.279 I've had toward all shots and I've had you know, 0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:41.960 pain killers in the past to get through games. Um, 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:43.880 and if you can't trust the doctor to get you 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:47.840 through that game pain wise, I mean, it causes a 0:40:47.840 --> 0:40:49.880 whole It's just a slippery slope, as I should put. 0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:54.280 It's a slippery slope. And to me, this is where 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.959 the agent for Tyrod Taylor has to go to work. 0:40:57.000 --> 0:40:59.600 That's his job now. I mean, ty Rod's gotta do 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:01.680 what he can and to get healthy and get into 0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:04.560 playbook and see whatever he you know, where his status is. 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:06.520 He's got to worry about football. But this is where 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:08.480 the agent has to get involved. So he's on the 0:41:08.480 --> 0:41:11.360 phone with a Spanos family about what happened. He's on 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:13.560 the phone with the nfl PA, and he needs to 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:15.800 take this all Tyrod's you know, he just needs to 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:18.759 come from Tyrode with Okay, here's the latest details in 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:22.080 the Tyrode cannot get involved in the minutia of what 0:41:22.280 --> 0:41:26.240 right now is I don't want to say mount practice, 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:29.320 but obviously it's a medical issue here and a mistake 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:32.400 that was made. Um, they got to he's got to 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:34.239 do that for him. So the player can can do 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:36.399 his job, but he altos. Let me ask a job. 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:38.839 I'm sorry, Yeah, let me ask you a question real quick. 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:43.080 So what what can the what can the that team do? 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:46.000 Can they can they contact Tyrode and say hey, you know, 0:41:46.120 --> 0:41:48.879 like do they take their legal team to Tyrode and say, hey, man, 0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:50.920 you know these are the options that you have. And 0:41:51.040 --> 0:41:52.759 you know, we had imagine you not to do this, Like, 0:41:53.200 --> 0:41:55.560 you know, what can they say to Tyrod right now? 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:58.440 It's basically what I'm what I'm asking you. No, it's 0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:01.520 a good question. And to me, this is once again 0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:04.240 this is the agent. The agent now has to step 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:06.279 in here and try to protect the player at all calls. 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:07.560 I mean, this is one where okay, you just go 0:42:07.600 --> 0:42:09.919 to you know, you just say, hey, talk to my people. 0:42:10.360 --> 0:42:12.040 You know, hey, Barry, let's talk to about you know what, 0:42:12.560 --> 0:42:15.080 talk to my people. I have to go worry about, 0:42:15.120 --> 0:42:17.560 you know, my job right now. Talk to my people. 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:19.360 Almost like when you're selling your house, you got to 0:42:19.360 --> 0:42:20.640 go to the realtors or when you go into court 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:21.759 and you say it tells him. I talk to my 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:24.600 lawyer here that that's what needs to happen for Tyrod Taylor, 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:26.920 and he should be dealing with at all, with the 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:30.000 medical staff or or the Chargers legal team at all. 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:33.480 This is why you have representation. This is also why 0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:36.759 you have the NFLPA, because anything that they bring to you, 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:39.120 if you're Tyrod, you're taking it to your agent, You're 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:41.840 taking it to the NFLPA. You're not signing anything. And 0:42:41.880 --> 0:42:43.000 I don't even know if you want to have a 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:47.120 conversation with anybody without your people around, just because this 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:50.560 is this is serious. This is a serious I mean, 0:42:51.080 --> 0:42:57.080 like tyrode rehab, that's right, Where does he go to 0:42:57.120 --> 0:42:59.560 get better? Like, like, how how did that work? Is 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:01.239 the team hand for that as well? Or does he 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:04.399 because I wouldn't trust going back into the facility. He's 0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:06.319 talking about, I need this rehab for my lung after 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:08.640 that happened. So do they pay for his you know, 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:11.839 medical issues and medical rehab outside of the team. I mean, 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:14.120 it's just there's a lot of things going on with 0:43:14.160 --> 0:43:17.920 this right now. Steve, which of NFL Network had spoken 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:21.240 about how he covered teams where where players had lost 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:25.080 the confidence of the medical staff and how debilitating that 0:43:25.200 --> 0:43:27.959 could be. The person I feel bad for right now 0:43:28.200 --> 0:43:31.000 it's head coach Anthony Lynn, because he's now put in 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:34.799 a situation that really, you know, it's unfair to him 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:37.319 from the standpoint. Okay, if Herbert keeps playing well as 0:43:37.320 --> 0:43:40.520 you brought up and he was drafted to be the future, 0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:44.240 he's got to have the conversation now with the team 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:48.880 and with the quarterback about how this aul went down. Barry, 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:51.160 let me ask you this because you were you've been 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:55.040 around two NFL teams now between the Cowboys and Jacksonville. 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:59.040 Is that old adage you don't lose your job to injury? 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.600 Does that is still apply or are we dealing with 0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:06.160 different things now? You tell me no, that doesn't apply 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:08.879 at all. I mean I've seen it happen left and right. 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:12.200 I mean, you can't tell me, you know, or Tony 0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:14.480 Romo didn't lose his job because of injury. I mean 0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:16.359 if he never gets injured, who knows? If we ever 0:44:16.440 --> 0:44:19.440 hear about you know, Dak Prescott, but um and in 0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:22.080 my case, when when they brought in Brodny pool Um 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:25.560 to be the starting safety back in twenty thirteen. Um, 0:44:25.600 --> 0:44:27.640 it was you know, I'm back in two thousand and twelve, Um, 0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:30.080 he got injured. He got injured early in camp and 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:32.480 he just wasn't in shape you know, during OTAs and 0:44:32.560 --> 0:44:35.440 during camp to pretty much to take over that starting job. 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:37.360 So I was able to supplant him. But if he 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:40.000 doesn't get injured, and you know, he stays in shape, 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:41.840 you know, I might still be on special teams or 0:44:41.840 --> 0:44:43.279 it might still be you know, vuying for a job 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:46.080 somewhere else. So, UM, that whole that whole old adage 0:44:46.080 --> 0:44:48.440 of just you know, you know, if he's injured, he'll 0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:50.880 he'll he'll have his job when he get returns. I 0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:53.680 think that's a little crap. And yeah, I mean that's 0:44:53.719 --> 0:44:58.040 just how it isn't in today's NFL, and the quarterback 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:02.200 situation is much different than any other position. And I 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:05.640 go back to Dak Prescott and Tony Rowe. Dak had 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:08.719 won so many games and he'd also won the confidence 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:11.919 of the locker room that they were able to make 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:16.319 that decision and everyone was okay with it. That that's 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:19.600 something else that I think a lot of people haven't 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:23.040 talked about enough. You could never find anybody who wasn't 0:45:23.280 --> 0:45:26.120 a Dak person. I mean even guys who were close 0:45:26.160 --> 0:45:29.080 to Romo were all saying, yet, Dak's the guy, this 0:45:29.200 --> 0:45:32.680 is the guy. So so he had that spinning his way. 0:45:33.960 --> 0:45:38.000 Is justin Herbert able to have that same thing where 0:45:38.040 --> 0:45:41.560 the locker room is all behind him, and that that's 0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:44.040 going to be interesting because all you know, all rooms 0:45:44.040 --> 0:45:47.760 are different, man, All rooms are different, all coaches are different. 0:45:47.800 --> 0:45:50.279 Here this is That's why I say I feel bad 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:52.600 for the head coach, Anthony Lynn, because you're now put 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:55.680 into a position that you have to figure out a 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:59.320 way to try and you're not gonna make everybody happy, 0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:01.280 but you try to figure out how do you treat 0:46:01.280 --> 0:46:04.000 it in a in a classy fashion and you you 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:07.879 can keep everybody in your room together even as something 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:11.600 this may be and you're you're completely right. I mean 0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:14.160 I think when it comes down to it, I think 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.600 only a couple if you can swing a few players 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:19.200 like it's it's in an instant. With that Dak and 0:46:19.239 --> 0:46:22.120 Tony situation, Um, Dad can't have to get the whole 0:46:22.120 --> 0:46:23.960 locker room on his side. He just had to get 0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:25.960 a few players on his side, and once he got 0:46:26.000 --> 0:46:29.000 those few that basically swung the whole team. And um, 0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:31.520 I'll we get off air, I'll tell you about the story. 0:46:31.560 --> 0:46:33.640 And when when I tell you when I thought that 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:36.719 Dak pretty much took over that job. But UM, to me, 0:46:36.800 --> 0:46:38.640 I think, you know, if if Herbert has you know, 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:41.040 the confidence of the Keelan Isllen and a you know 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:43.040 one Hunter Henry or whoever else is the leaders of 0:46:43.040 --> 0:46:45.480 those teams, Um, I think it'll be pretty easily you know, 0:46:45.520 --> 0:46:48.359 to sway or to to pitch that to to team 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:50.600 that Hey, Herbert's gonna take over from now one? Is 0:46:50.600 --> 0:46:53.000 it right? You know? I don't know, but I think 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:54.920 it'll be pretty easy if he can get those guys 0:46:54.920 --> 0:46:59.400 to to buy in with him. Kansas City ended up 0:46:59.400 --> 0:47:02.680 beating the chart Argers in overtime. And if Herbert can 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.200 go out the way Dak Prescott did, Yeah, Dak Prescott 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.600 rolled off with seven, eight, nine, ten wins. Yeah, something 0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:11.879 like that. And I go back to the Pittsburgh game 0:47:12.280 --> 0:47:15.200 where it looked like the Cowboys were going to lose 0:47:15.560 --> 0:47:18.680 as Ben Roethlisberger faked the spike and and it is 0:47:18.760 --> 0:47:20.799 just you know a little bit of time less than 0:47:20.880 --> 0:47:22.880 sixty some odd seconds left. Then the Cowboys go down 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:24.880 the field and win the game. And then I remember 0:47:24.880 --> 0:47:26.960 that Green Bay game at lambeau Field was another game 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:29.879 where you're kind of thinking, okay, rookie quarterback, let's see 0:47:29.880 --> 0:47:33.320 what he does. And Dak showed out, and Brett Farvee 0:47:33.440 --> 0:47:37.080 was in the booth with Troy Aikman and they were 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:40.240 just saying, how you can't you can't go back to Romo. 0:47:40.360 --> 0:47:42.399 It's Dak's job. And so when you got two Hall 0:47:42.440 --> 0:47:45.279 of Fame quarterbacks in here saying Dak's the guy, then 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:47.640 Jimmy Johnson's back in the studio, that's when I thought 0:47:47.719 --> 0:47:50.800 Romo really lost. It's like, oh man, the national media 0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:52.719 is now telling the Cowboys what to do, and they're 0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:55.600 saying it over for Romo. And and then then of 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:57.239 course you're covering the team and that you were there 0:47:57.239 --> 0:47:59.359 as well. But you could tell he won the locker room, 0:47:59.440 --> 0:48:02.360 so you won. You won the media perception, then you 0:48:02.400 --> 0:48:04.560 won the room, and it was really nowhere for Tony 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:06.920 to go. If Justin Herbert is able to do that 0:48:06.960 --> 0:48:09.360 same type of thing, then it makes a job easier 0:48:09.560 --> 0:48:11.719 for Anthony Lynn in terms of having to deal with it. 0:48:11.880 --> 0:48:14.239 But if the charges are just a team that's under 0:48:14.280 --> 0:48:16.959 five hundred and he's starting to struggle because now guys 0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:21.080 have have schemed up against against him, then he gets 0:48:21.080 --> 0:48:23.880 a lot tougher. Whenever today it's healthy and wants to 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:26.759 come back and play. So that's the tough thing about 0:48:26.760 --> 0:48:29.680 the National Football League. But I'll say this for Dak Prescott, 0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:32.759 since since he ended up winning that job, he's done 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:36.320 nothing but proved he is worthy of being the quarterback 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:38.640 of the Dallas Cowboys. Hey man, that's our show. 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