WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Will The Cowboys Better in 2020? 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.480 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:17.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players Lounge, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.640 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:32.159 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and new He scrugs. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.080 All right, everybody here, we are the Players Lounge. We're back. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.680 All right, We're back when we're working from home in 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.680 our different locases, but we've got to bring the content 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.360 back to you year. Everybody over the Dallas Cowboys. You're 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.800 trying to make sure you get all your information. We 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.199 keep you connected here during this time, and I know 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.320 thanks you at home, you're trying to follow you. So 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.000 we're happier being a part of your day. Scrugs. Joined 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.120 by over Dallas Cowboys plays, Danny McCray and Barry Church. Fellas, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.720 how are we doing here? As who starts making voyage 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.520 of broadcasting from our home? From our home? This is 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.319 right now. I mean I got a little hetcho from 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.399 the house, but other than that, and I'm ready to go. Yeah, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.960 this is this is definitely weird. But uh, this is 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.920 definitely weird, but it'll be a little interesting. Uh, we'll 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.959 have a good time as usual. No no worries on 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:24.520 this end. Oh Danny mcrage lost mc crae here. Okay, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.280 well we'll try and hustle, hustle Danny back here. Free 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:33.160 agency is obviously the biggest thing going on right now, Craig. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.600 They they have us by trying. Free agency going here. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.880 So that's mainly what we're talking about in terms of 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.280 things going on other sports. Everything's kind of been shut 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.160 down here. Um for me in church, I'll ask you 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.920 this out of the gate. What was your in your 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:53.200 mind the biggest free agent loss for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.000 You and I are singing the same tune right there. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.840 I love what Quinn was able to do, and it 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.480 was smart signing by the Chicago Bears. And one thing 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.480 I truly believe people forgot is he missed the first 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.640 two games of the year because of the suspension. Who 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.320 knows how many more sacks that he could have gotten, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.280 especially when you think about those first couple of games. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.400 It was what the Giants game, and I can't remember 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.400 the second game they played. It was another easy appointed 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.000 opponent as the Cowboys. It was Washington. It was Washington, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:10.600 So you know, those those two games, getting when they 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.840 made that trade from Miami. But look, this is a 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.360 part of the game. The Cowboys are gonna have to 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.680 put that money toward the offense. And so Quinn was 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.919 the guy they couldn't lose. All respect of Byron Jones 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.240 and getting that big bat contract for the Miami Dolphins. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.400 I think he'll play well in that scheme. Yeah. I mean, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.040 at the time, the highest fade cornerback for about I 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.080 don't know, seven eight days until Slay was straighted the slave. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.840 Slay like, I need three dollars Yeah, Slay said, I 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.880 need three dollars more, you know, So he needs to 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.320 be the highest fade guy. So slave becomes the highest 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.840 play guy going to the Eagles, and so Jones I 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.080 think is gonna fit well down in Miami. Good luck 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.080 to him. But I do believe Robert Quinn was the 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.720 biggest free agent loss. I'll say this to me right now. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.560 The biggest loss for the Dallas Cowboys I believe they 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.880 suffered this offseason the loss of center Travis Frederick. You 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.160 guys know what traps, Yeah, you know what he meanted. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.839 He retired at twenty nine years old. He came back 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.560 last season after missing twenty eighteen because of the Guiabore syndrome. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.800 But everything Travis meant as far as being a leader 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.719 in the locker room, being a five time Pro Bowl 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.640 or being a guy who worked so well with the 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.600 quarterbacks from Tony Romo and Dak Prescott. It's hard to 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.160 lose someone like that. And so while Robert Quinn is 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.920 gonna be lost on defense, to me, the biggest loss 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.200 for the Cowboys that they've suffered this offseason is Travis Frederick. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:56.799 Your thoughts glue to the top of the the line. Point 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.880 now where they gotta go Henlover back of the old line. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.200 When you need the guy like that, you're definitely gonna lose. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.320 You're definitely gonna have a big, substantial fall backwards as 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.400 far as offensive line is considered. They may go in 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.680 the draft they make promote the mooning us, we'll see, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.919 but Chaffers special's approved and all star better shot here 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.039 and losing him is gonna be huge. And I mean 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:15.600 he was off us because he was one of the 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.760 festive leaders on the team. As soon as he came 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.760 in as a rookie. I mean, he was already getting 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.679 the praise from the veteran players how far he worked 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.920 out how he understood the game, how big of a 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.880 student of the game he was. And he just think 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.640 to me about him was he was able to improve 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.480 each and every year until the illness got him. But 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.600 each and every year he just got better and better. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:36.920 It was a Pro Bowl, and it was an All 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.080 Pro and it was Colo Bow All Pro together. I mean, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.080 good guys, one of the best off the linement I 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.040 that seek to it. And that's the game unbelievable. So 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.920 I'm gonna be a huge, huge lost for as Cowboys offense. Um, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.479 so I'm gonna have to go a bringing fools now, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:56.200 trafispresect is gonna be I'll say this. So he didn't 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:01.800 even cray back up WiFi. Man, I just I just 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.840 wanted to throw a little bit in Narrol Travis Fridgick. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.760 I just saw that he got voted for the Air 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.360 Black Courage Award going into retirement. So that just shows 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:15.400 you what what his teammates and Paris think of them. Yeah, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.200 but Craig, you faded out a little bit here. I'll 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:18.600 tell you what. Um, you know, I'm not gonna be 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.120 like coach Nick Saban and jump on you and make 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.440 you to get out of here. Okay, So so I'm 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.880 not gonna do that that that role time mentality, but 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.880 you know, we will continue to work with your hero 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:34.440 on um. I feel like the Cowboys do not have 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.720 to address the center position in the draft. I think 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.119 they've got any house candidates already. I talked to someone 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.200 about Joe Looney and he told me Joe Looney is 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.080 as good as fifty percent of the starting centers in 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.960 the National Football League right now. So they believe that 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.839 you go with Joe Looney, you're good. Joe Lanny's athletic guy. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.599 And then Cotter McGovern who started one year at center 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.240 at Penn State. And thing about mcgovernor, I was told 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.440 that he's a real strong guy and once he gets 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.560 a hold of you, it's hard to move here. So 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.400 you've got him, You've got Adam Redman, and then Carter 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.400 Williams has some center flexibility. So I believe the Cowboys, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.840 with the draft picks they have, I think we're going 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.400 to see them use them more on defense. If if 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.240 the Cowboys are going to draft the offensive line, I 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.760 don't think it would be a center. I think it 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.960 could be a swing tackle because you've lost Cam Fleming 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.560 here and a couple of years ago, they tried to 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.800 do it with Chads Green. Chaz Green didn't work out. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.560 They spent a third round pick on him. But with 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.720 what we've seen through the past couple of years of 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.920 tirings back and then we saw a little bit of 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.880 injury to Lyle Collins last year, I would think if 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.280 they use an offensive line pick, it would be on 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.680 a swing tackle. I agree with you on that one. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.280 I think they definitely need having a swing tack or 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.560 somebody who could be personal enough to play you know, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.800 interior to the line as well to outside because what 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.000 we've seen these a couple of years of injuries happen, 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.120 especially on the hamed the line. I mean, you're getting kid, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.160 everything will play. We had back problems, you had ankle problems, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.080 So we know bad for the offid line injuries and 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.080 so I think they should addressed it, maybe in a 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.560 later round. But I'll be able to get him, you know, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.600 a low costing creagent that will be able to become 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.320 a swing pack or versus officive lineman piece for them. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.200 But um, I think he's gonna alloyed for Frederick. I mean, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.560 he wasn't the strongest or wasn't the most physical guy, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.240 but he had a mean his mental aspect for the 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.240 game was just unremarkable. So I think that's who the 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.560 losing move it the most. Not as much as his 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.880 play play making ability and ability the block, but ability 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.520 to get to all the officive lineman and the rights 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.720 plays at the right time. I think that'll be hard 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.640 to to address it house. The interesting things and thing 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.040 is Cowboy fans. Cowboy fans look at this and they're like, 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.000 oh my gosh, oh my gosh, my god. But when 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.560 you start looking at other offensive lines the National Football 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.520 even with the loss of Travis Frederick, the Cowboys are 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.040 still one of the best offensive lines going in football. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.640 So if you got a plug in Joe Lanny Joe, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.080 or you're bringing kind of government miscover his rookie years, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.000 you're still gonna be better off than about sixty five 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.839 other teams in the National Football League when it comes 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.600 to how be good to happen, good line to play. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:04.439 So I think the Cowboys and the big question to 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.040 me is this new coaching staff, coaches, how they get 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.120 ahead and get in with these guys. And obviously, but 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.559 everything going on with COVID nineteen they're not gonna have 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.240 that a building right now to get things to be 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.439 gin here a give to what they want to do 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.120 if they want. But I just believe that's what I believe. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.120 That's what the Cowboys have, and I think they will 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.360 continue to have. Even twenty eighteen traps that was a 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.600 playoff team. So I don't want to minimize the loss 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.720 of tracks, but I do below you the Cowboys collective 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:35.079 elective as they used they still be strong, strong, I 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.679 can I agree with you on that one. What what 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.400 coach in my mind is, are they gonna be able 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.240 in my team without you know, Travis Pretick out there 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.040 calling the shot? Are they're gonna be able to run 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.640 the ball as efficiently as they had in the passo? 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.920 We've known that this team, you know, they drive off 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.000 the run and the pad can kind of be My 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.240 question to you would be, will they be able to 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.480 you know, run the ball and be that physical team 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.520 without their leader at the center if they're healthy. I 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.800 don't see why they can't. I mean to keep in mind, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.320 you got one of the best or the best running 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.199 back in the National Football League, So you give you know, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.120 you give Zeke just a little bit he's gonna be 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.120 able to take off and blue the rest. And I 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.920 just have this faith that Mike McCarthy's gonna come in 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.400 here that has an offensive play caller and a guy 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.040 who's who's so good and putting up points. I don't 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:27.200 worry about the Cowboys offense. I think the first three 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.319 to four games you're gonna have a little bit of 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.000 worry because especially depending on how much time they get 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.640 to think with this team, install what they want that. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.080 But I just believe, you know, over time, this offense 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.880 is gonna be good Berry Mike all right. That that 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.760 is a concern last year, and I know they're making 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.960 some changes. I love the fact they brought in Gerald McCory. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.839 They're trying to get bigger upfront, Don Terry Poe or 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.320 there's still those conversations that deal have been locked up 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.439 just yet to my knowledge, but I know he's a 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.120 guy they want to bring in here. So if you 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.200 bring in a pole, you bring in a Gerald McCoy, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.600 you're bigger upfront. One of my concerns is, and when 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.120 I talk to other people across the NFL, they said 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.880 the Cowboys just too small up front. Then Rod Marinelli 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.319 liked those quick guys. But if you could get your 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.439 hands on those quick guys, you could go ahead and 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.320 tear them up. And you just look at how they 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.319 got beat by the Rams in that playoff game in 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.320 Los Angeles, and I was out there. I mean Todd 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.160 Gurley had over one hundred yards. C J. Anderson had 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:23.720 over one hundred yards. Think it was like two hundred 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.520 and almost two hundred and seventy some yards on the ground. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.559 I mean, they absolutely just ran through the Cowboys. So 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.400 if the Cowboys were not able to stop the run 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.160 up front, they would get beating a lot of games. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.400 And I just like the fact that Mike McCarthy and 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.880 Mike no One already realized and hey, look we're gonna 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.079 get away from these little dudes who are quick. We're 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.160 gonna get some beef up front. If you stop the 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.120 run up front. I think you're gonna help out Jalen Smith, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.520 You're gonna help out Lake Vanderesh, You're gonna help out 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.319 Sean Lee. So get better up front right there in 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.640 the middle, and try and put some pass rush also 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.760 on the other team up front through the center and 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.440 guard position. So I love, I love what they can 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.120 do with those guys, especially, they can get Pole locked up. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:18.080 But I love McCoy coming to town pretty much run 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.439 freely to make plays like they did back in two 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.240 thousand and eight teams. But only concerned about having those 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.760 big guys in the middle is are they going to 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.000 be able to produce the pass rush? Are those guys 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.199 they're they're they're good enough to kind of get that 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.320 interior push, but they're gonna be able to push supporter 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.600 back to get that ball out of his hands quick Um. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.080 In the past, I think they would have. I mean, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:37.800 when they were younger, they were very studs in the 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.719 in the middle, getting back and everything. But these past 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.160 a couple of years, I haven't really seen a lot 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.719 of the numbers from a boy um little Pole. But 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:45.880 I'm concerned about if they're gonna be able to get 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.760 a significant pass rush or a consistent pass rush. So 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.960 that's what we missed last year with the defensive mind 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.839 seeing we had you know, spotty pass rushers here and there, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.920 you know, taken advantage the work with the rest of 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.120 the deeper the line. So I soon to see if 0:12:58.120 --> 0:12:59.920 these guys, you know, they're big or run stuff or 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.720 are they gonna be able to generate a pass rush. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.160 I believe they might be able to it. So that'll 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.280 take a lot of the pressure off of the secondary. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.160 And we know the secondary need a little bit of 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.480 upgrade as they lost keep, they locked Tyron Jones, so 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.520 they're gonna need a little bit of upgrade. But hopefully 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.280 the deep of the line can get that pass rush 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.000 in there. They kind of make their jobs eve here. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.640 But we shall see. So I'll stay with you on 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.240 that point there. So I'm thinking of, all right, we 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.240 take Lords at a defensive end and put Tyron Crawford 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.839 back on the defensive end. That Gerald McCoy get down, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.520 Terry Pole locked up right there. So if those are 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.040 four guys that you've got rolling right there right there, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.319 I feel like that's upgrade a little bit from what 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.920 we saw last year. And yes, that's say upgrade even 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.079 with Quinn going from the standpoint if you're better from 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.720 the tackles. I mean, look, I mean, look, Quinn coming 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.720 off the edgels. That help. But guys, if we could 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.040 just run through the middle, you know how much did 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.240 that really help me? Sometimes I just think that the 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.040 Cowboys overall, we're gonna have an opportunity to be better 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.360 under my older just by being thinker up. And then 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.480 we'll see what other editions they can make. A free 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:00.959 aid may see and see what they do with the 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.640 draft here. And I know a lot of Cowboy fans 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.200 right now like we're not better than what we were 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.040 last year. Okay, I've heard people say that, and I 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.679 come back and I'll say, yes, some good players were 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.000 from Robert Quinn, Byron Jones. But with all those great players, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.960 this team didn't go anybody because the team didn't make 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.400 the playoff. So so sometimes it's not so much who 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.040 are the players. I do believe coaching Matt One thing 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.560 I was watching on HBO that that's great documentary on 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:35.400 Belichick and saveing Belichicks says you cannot overcome back. And 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.760 there are times last year defensively you're watching this game 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.400 and very play wondered what were the Cowboys doing defensively? 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.320 What was the scheme, what was the playing? I just 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.520 believe that they've got better the coaches here overall, from 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.560 the head coach on down, and I think the Cowboys 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.720 have an opportunity if they can get some more the 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.080 pieces they wan't mind up to be better collectively collective. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.520 I agree with you. I think they can be better collectively. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.280 I think the problem they had last year was they 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.720 were especially in the secondaries. They think they were thinking 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.960 too much robotics. They were thinking too much hard. I 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.800 gotta be twenty yards deep, right on the hash. I 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.280 gotta to say right to the ball thrown. I can't. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.280 I can't think outside the box. That I can't. You know, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.880 if like we saw Tyron Matthew out there doing the playoffs, 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:19.840 you know, he would have a guy man and man coverage. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.680 If he seems them hoping, he let that guy go 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.760 and they'll make a play. But I mean that also 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.200 has to do with, you know, the coaches trusting the 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.000 players and that sort And I don't know if the 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.560 coaches fully trust the players last year because I feel 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.080 like a lot of the time they were just stuck 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.760 on exactly where they have to be, have to be 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.760 at this landmark. If I'm not here, you're gonna get 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.480 a minus. And they would let him play going by. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.040 So I think we have, you know, the Kaka Ditton there. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.880 He's a little bit more opportunist to keep a little 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.720 bit more let me go get this ball, and that's 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.240 what this defense needs, especially the secondary. They need turnover, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.320 they need takeaways. We just didn't get enough of that 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.560 last year. I think with the additions that we had 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.080 maybe a couple here during the draft or the Resci creator, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.720 so we might get a couple of ball ball hoops, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.120 but we need people to go get that ball, and 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.080 we need coaching. Repor did that as well. If they 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.280 if they say them, they say, you know, I don't come, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.520 I don't play it. Don't don't let up our coach 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.120 and bring you down. Don't out there and make play. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.720 You know, we tell you to be here at this point. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.600 But if you're want to make an indefensive somewhere real, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.280 I mean you're not gonna get at ninetus for that. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:13.560 So I think we just need a little bit more 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.920 that and hopefully just coaches, staff and the players that 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:17.840 we brought it and uh, you know, do that for us. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.440 Asking around about the Cowboys situation for defensively differ and 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.040 I was told by someone by someone that the problem 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.600 the problem of watching Marion Elli and Christie Shard and 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.960 try to work together. They were trying to marry true 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.720 different thoughts defensively. What Chris thought about defense and what 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.880 he wanted to run was different than RHY, so they 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.360 tried to marry it together and it didn't work. Ultimately, 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.840 it did not work that they needed to go with 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.880 either one, either go with Marion Ellie's philosophy or Chris's philosophy. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.320 But they tried to marry two the philosophies and it 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.840 just didn't work. Didn't work. Mike Nolan's going to be 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.680 able to do exactly what he wants to do. So 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.120 if he comes in with his message and he wants 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:58.720 to get it done to get I think that right. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.520 They are marry just to try to what you were 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.480 talking about. The guys might be able to play a 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.960 little bit more freely, especially on the defensive here to 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.800 just make him dog on plays Haha. Clinton Dixon, I 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.840 was happy to see him come in here. I for one, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.240 hated the loss of Jeff He. I feel that Jeff 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.280 he did a very good job considering what he was 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.200 asked to do. I think there are times where you 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.000 were fans needed to blame the organization more so than 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.320 to play. I mean, Jeff was a backup player where 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.520 they were asking to start. I think jeffs as a 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.920 backup player is going to help the Raiders out. I 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.640 don't think he's a guy that needs to be a starter, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:35.920 but he's a guy that could come in here and 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.000 help me out, especially all special teams. So I think, haha, 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.399 Clinton Dick's back there will help them out. I do 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.040 believe that they're going to address the position in the draft, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:45.680 and I don't know about a first round pick, but 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.000 I do believe safety will be addressed. And I just 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.560 at this point in time that they're probably gonna have 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.200 to go and get themselves a first round corner. And 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.520 I just think he's having one, you know, one philosophy 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.120 versus trying to marry to marry that alone should help 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.720 make the Cowboys out one quarter one twenty twur I 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.240 got I agree with you one hundred. I mean, I've 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.920 never had you, never had got to play you organization 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.240 where you had two basically different philosophy trying to marry 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.600 into one, like you know with Marion Ellie system and 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.080 when I played in and he was a type of 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.639 guy that had you know, you gotta be here, you 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.200 gotta be twenty yards deep here at the hash or 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.000 you gotta go to the top of your landmark when 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.080 you're here. And I've never got to play potisial Shard, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.919 but from what I hear, he's kind of more roofly, 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.680 you know, do the techniques that fit your scheme and 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.760 fits how you want to play and how you make plays. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.119 So those are two, you know, things that are condicted themselves. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:34.760 And when you're a player out there and you're thinking 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.840 about all, I gotta do it how marry Marion Ellie wants, 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.000 but I can make a play how fish for Shard wants. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.479 It just slows you down altogether when you're thinking too 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.640 much on the field. So hopefully, you know, when Michael 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.520 Nolan system comes in here, it's a little bit more 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.720 slim down and these guys can just go off there 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.480 and play fast and make plays and I don't have 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.479 to worry about thinking too much or thinking if I'm 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.560 on this landmarker, if I'm gonna get a minus here. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.640 And that's what you have when you have two defensive 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.400 coordinators on the same team trying to trying to marry 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.120 two different philosophies. They think it was a good fit, 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.320 and it ended up not working for the Capital last year. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.080 So Marinelli moved on to the Raiders stuff. He got 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.800 picked up John Grew and brought him in here. John 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:15.119 Gruden and Marionelli works together, and so Marionelli, Barnell and 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.359 right now cut shards. He's not working anywhere at all. Right, 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.000 got I'm surprised and nobody not in the NFL picked 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.080 up for Charda, for Sharon at all. Yeah, he surprised 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:25.560 out there too. I mean, I saw you had some 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.359 head coaching um interviews more in the off season. But 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.680 I'm surprised and mean, hen he was a successful coach 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.960 to Seattle. He came here and kind of brought that 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.520