WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Bad Money Spent? 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:16.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:22.240 label broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.880 Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCray, and Newe Scrugs. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.600 Here we are on a victory Monday. Everybody, Welcome to 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.880 the players oswokey by Hotels dot Com. I'm new he scrugs, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.800 a long time Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:43.320 Cowboys safeties, Danny McCray and Bury Church. Gentlemen, Cowboys get 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:47.599 it done thirty to seven over Cincinnati. So are you 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.920 happy with the win? Or do you fall in line 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.560 with the old Adam Jones line? And you guys weren't 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.440 playing for the Cowboys one year when the Saint Louis 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.200 Rams were really really bad and the Cowboys if you're 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.760 getting ready to play m pat Man. Jones dismissed the 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.679 Rams by saying to the media, Hey, it's the Rams, dude. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.360 Cowboys probably with the Saint Louis lost of the Rams. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.320 So is it just the Bengals dude? Or are you 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.920 happy and you feel like the thirty to seven win 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.760 was a good thing? Church Look, look, i'm gonna say this. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.360 I mean, I'm happy they got the dub. You know what, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.160 I'm saying that they needed it. It was a long 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.080 long way to do for them to get a dub. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.120 But you know, I'm happy. I'm happy for my boy 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.880 the Red Pistol to go up back up to Cincinnati 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:31.920 and do his little pier and pier on up there 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.720 and get a dub. Man. I'm happy for him and 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.120 the defense. The defense played a little bit better. I'm 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:37.960 sure we'll break all of this down because there's some 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.520 things that concern me about this defense. I mean, there's 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.240 a lot of things that can scern me about this defense, 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.479 but I mean it's something that hasn't been fixed. So overall, Look, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.800 i'm gonna say I'm happy for him. You know, it 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.120 was against the Bengals, so it ain't too crazy, so 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.680 so you're taking both, so you're happy. But it was 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.640 just the Bengals, right, because that's that's why i'm at. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:56.880 I want to make sure me and you're on the 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.080 same page with us. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.040 was just the Bengals. Yeah, it was it was just 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.720 the Bengals. And as we watched the game, I was 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.200 sitting there and I was like, I'm waiting to figure 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.720 out when I'm a text church and when I'm a 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:14.519 text Newy, because I was like, man, we are going 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.560 to shoot ourselves in the foot eventually in the game. 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.560 I thought that was us, but it turned out that 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.440 the Bengals were that team who just could not get 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.840 out of their own way, and they gave us a 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.040 dove and I will take it a wins and win. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.280 It don't matter what record you have. If you could 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.799 pull off a win, everybody's happy in that locker room afterwards. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.760 Now moving forward, yes, it was just the Bengals, all right. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.520 We still got the same problems that we had the 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.440 week before. Our defense can't stop the run, we give 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.000 up big players in the passing game. We weren't able 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.720 to run the ball this week, and we still haven't 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.840 found a way to continue to feed the Mark Cooper 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.679 in the passing game, although he did have the five 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.520 catches in the touchdown. So we still have the same issues. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.520 But you know, we were playing the Bengal, so it 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.880 wasn't that big of a deal to me. It's almost 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.040 reminiscent when you play to the LSU Danny, when you 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.160 played those non conference games against those FBS teams like Toledo. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.440 You're supposed to be Toledo if you beat Toledo. But 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.280 it's what you're supposed to do, right shout shots early 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.200 in the sex. I know you're not. I know you're 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.160 not in the rendezous, so you can't see my outfit 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.880 that I got on. But I'm draped in purple and 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.000 goal because there was a team who came out and 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.360 got a big and got a big win this week 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.120 thirty seven to thirty four, and that was the LSU 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.919 Fighting Tigers against those Florida Gators. So I'm happy. I'm ecstatic. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.960 Both of my teams got the doub but LSU got 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.040 the bigger dub this week. So yes, you are right. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.440 We are supposed to beat those nonconfor teams. But every 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.200 once in a while, knew it. You know, Appalachia State 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.000 can sneak up on you and get you a win 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:45.720 up in the big House of the Michigan So you 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.360 just you just never know. Apati State wasn't the only 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.120 one to get a dub in the Big House, because 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.120 Toledo got one as well, and I was there. I 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.920 was witness to that. I thirteen to ten. We shut 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.280 them down and shut them out. I think that was 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.000 one of the last games for the coach at before 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.800 Hallbag got there. I forget his name, but we sent 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:08.360 him packing man, So don't sleep on Toledo. By the way, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:14.720 LSU the LSU quarterback with a Dallas Cowboys connection. That's 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:20.280 Bratt Johnson's son leading LSU at quarterback for the victory, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.279 and it was nice to see him getting to hug 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.800 after the game. Brad Johnson finished his career with the 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.320 Dallas Cowboys, So I thought that was a great moment. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.599 And I got to give a lot of credit to 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.680 coach ed Ogeron for having his team ready to go. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.520 And I also look at Dan Mullin. I just really 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.000 would love to ask him, what was your man thinking 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:47.200 throwing the shoot after? I mean, you know, and I guys, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.279 that dude needed to go into the locker room after 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.320 the game. I mean I would if I were him, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.239 I wouldn't even shower. Just go ahead, put your clothes 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.000 on and head on out, man, Just get on out 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.440 in the building. Because that was one of the dumbest 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.280 plays I've ever seen in a college football game, in 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.440 which the Florida Gators had hopes of playing for the 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.040 college football Playoffs trying to get in. You know that 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.560 they could win this game and go beat Alabama. Then 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.600 you got a heck of a case. You just eliminated 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.200 that because Hopeboy wanted to throw a shoot. Wow. I 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.160 just don't I don't understand the thought process behind that, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.880 Like why would you grab why would you grab another 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.000 man shoe and throw it down? Like, Oh, I'm hard 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.880 for doing this. I'm gonna get props for this. You 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.600 just cost your team a chance at the college football playoffs. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.360 If he was in the pros, I mean, they couldn't 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.400 cut them fast enough. I mean just the thought process 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.600 of these kids. Man, it's it's outrageous. Now Church and 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.760 knew Church and knew it. Y'all got to keep it real. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:47.080 Florida has no chance going to no SEC championship and 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.800 being the Alabama Crimson Tide. All right, So let's get 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.320 that out of He didn't cost him a chance at 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.680 the college football playoffs, but he did, you know, the 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.840 suspense of it, He did take that away from him. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.120 But they not. They not sniffing Alabama in the SEC Championship. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.719 I agree with you. I don't know, but but I'll 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.640 just say this, you just made sure that there was 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.000 no chance. Okay, your chance was slimming none. It was 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.159 slimming none. You just took all that away because you 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.880 wanted to throw someone shoot. I mean, good luck and 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.919 you guys playing college football. I would just you know, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.120 I would love to know how does he face his 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.279 teammates after doing something that dumb because it allowed LSU 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.920 to keep the football and go ahead and win football game. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.839 Not saying that they would have won it, but you 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.520 made sure you were going to lose it. And that 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.359 was at home, no less, But that was just that 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.240 was just dumb. All right, Let's dive back here into 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.839 the Cowboys and something bigger than the Cowboys getting their 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.159 fourth victory of the year. It's been a topic of 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.159 discussion amongst some people. Not a big topic here on 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.560 the players lines with us, but Mike McCarthy's job status. Okay, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.599 the Cowboys are not going to win the NFC East. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.359 It's been a bad year, been issues. I've had issues 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.440 in times of what I've heard from Mike McCarthy. But 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.800 this is what Steven Jones, the Cowboys CEO, the owner 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.720 Jerry Jones Son had to say out his weekly radio 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.680 hit on one oh five three the Fan on the 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.280 k and see masterpiece about Mike McCarthy in twenty twenty 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:20.560 one taken listen, No help, Absolutely no change with coach McCarthy. 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.440 And I am surprised, h you know that someone would 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:29.160 question Mike these unprecedented situation that everybody's been in. And 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.360 on top of that, you know, no one's making excuses, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.280 but we have had some real challenges telling the injury 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.520 category and uh, you know, if you look at his 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.320 track record in his pedigree, you know, he's consistently one 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.600 year in and year out, and we have the utmost 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.120 confidence that this ship is going to be righted quickly. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.840 And uh, you know, Mike's going to be the leader, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.880 leader of this group. And uh, he's certainly a great 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.120 head coach, and I think you know we're gonna see that, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.840 you know, from going forward. You know, he's a great 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.480 head coach in this league. He's accomplished a lot and 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.880 he's gonna accomplish a lot more before it's all said 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:14.240 and done. Okay, that is Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones on 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.840 what don't five three the Fan with the KNC masterpiece 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.480 saying that the job status of by McCarthy. Don't even 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.560 talk about it. McCarthy is coming back, Danny mccraye. Your 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.920 reaction to what's just her? Listen, I think his job 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.360 status is going to change. I'm sure he's coming back, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:31.840 but I think he's gonna have to take over the 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.000 play calling duty and he's going to have to be 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.920 more of a voice in the defensive room and the 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.400 special team's room, because right now it seems like we 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.880 have three different coaches running three different things. So his 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.480 status will change and become more of a leader in 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.480 the play caller, I believe. But yeah, I have no 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.000 doubt that he's coming back. Now, you know his coordinators, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.800 I'm not so sure about those guys. Yeah, I mean, look, guys, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.840 I mean it should be no surprise to anybody up 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.240 here that that Big Mike's gonna come back. I mean, look, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.200 he just had has too many built in excuses. Not 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.120 saying they're right or they're wrong, but I'm just saying 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.720 he has too many built in excuses. I mean, no OTAs, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.320 no mini camp, no training camp, no preseason, and he 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.960 has to implement a new scheme. No, I understand there's 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.400 other coaches that did the same thing, but to him, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.960 he just has too many built in excuses. They gotta 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.360 give him another run back. They gotta give him another shot. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.679 With the injuries that have happened in this team, losing 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.760 QB one, losing your all pro tackles, and losing your 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.360 Hall of Fame guard. I mean that's a little bit 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.320 of an impact. And look, I know he hasn't performed 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.800 or made the decisions that we would like him to 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.800 make during this during this season, but overall, I think 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.040 the Cowboys gotta let him run it back one more 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.360 year just to see what they have in him. But 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.839 like Danny said, with his coordinators, I'm not so sure. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.280 If it was up to me, both of them boys 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.360 will be gone and we get some new OC and 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.920 a new DC in here. But hey, they don't pay 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.640 me the type of bucks to make those decisions, So 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.600 we'll see what Big Mike has in store next year. 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.280 You are onto something, Church. I do believe that it's okay. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.600 Since Mike MC he's coming back, which all of us 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.560 have expected on this show, there's going to be a scapegoat. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.800 I mean, you guys have been around long en up 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.360 as players and you've seen how this works. Okay, after 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.360 a bad year like that, there are people who are 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:16.200 going to get got Mike Nolan, defensive coordinator. I've said 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.480 it for weeks now, and last you guys kind of 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.760 thought pushed back against me last week. Mike Nolan is gone. Okay, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.080 Mike Nolan is not coming back. You even just talked 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:27.920 about it with the Cincinnati game. I mean, they were 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.679 sitting up at getting yards. They were shooting themselves in 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.120 the foot, but they were getting yards. Mike Nolan cannot 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.440 come back at all. And let me start with something 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.440 that I already said he can't come back, but just 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.080 really made me shake my head. And I was talking 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.199 to somebody at the start about do you know Tank 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.040 Lawrence didn't start yesterday? He did not start the game 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.000 against Cincinnati, and he was asked about it. This is 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.559 what tanks him. They called base defense. I wasn't in 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.040 on base, so I had to run off. Dorance Armstrong 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.960 was in on base. Come on, man, come on, man, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.599 come on man, what kind of defense you run? But 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.760 dude making twenty million dollars ain't in base? What defense? 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.920 Could you imagine Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells having the 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.160 base defense and Lawrence Taylor, what did it you know? 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.640 Could you imagine us? You know, the forty the bags, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.280 forty six defense. Hey man, we got base deepen my sickle, 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:20.840 tear you out. You're not in on this, I mean, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.760 come on, come on, come on, I don't understand. I 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.280 don't understand this. Listen, and I'm gonna I'm gonna piggyback 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.800 on the back to the offense. But come on, man, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.160 one hundredion dollars not starting don't make no sense. You're 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:37.400 talking about a waste of funds. Makes it absolutely no sense. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.600 You know what knew? He knew he in church. That 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.280 would be very similar to like looking out there on 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.439 offense and base package or let a person they're not 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.240 seeing the Mark Coop out there, it would look very 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.440 similar to that all looking out there on fourth and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.560 instance and not seeing z. It would be the same. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.800 But for some reason, on this squad that's acceptable. But 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.160 you talking about one hundred and ninety million dollars, you know, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.800 not not not getting the playtime that they need. And 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.040 and this is the league, you don't this is something 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.760 you should not have to worry about. Marcus Lawyer should 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.760 be starting in every package. No matter. If you're running 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.880 all dbs on the field, he should to be one 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:15.560 of the dbs. I mean, I'll tell you what, go 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.079 go ahead and go ahead. Literally, this is a firable offense. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.080 I mean, come on, man, we've hired you, we're paying 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.040 this dude one hundred million dollars, and you're not gonna 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.960 put him out here. I mean this is firable, man, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.520 I mean, this is this is you know, this is 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.760 Houston running a game, ending playing telling James Harden down. Man, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.920 you're on the bench, we're running base. You ain't on 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.920 this from James. I mean, this is the guy. This 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.000 is the guy. How does how does Mike Nolan go 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.679 into Jerry Jones and explaining, hey, man, you know we 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.120 got this baby. He just doesn't fit. Hey, we just 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.760 gotta add it to the list. Man. Because Mike Mike Nolan, 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.520 I mean, he's made a list of just head scratching decisions. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.640 And now it all makes sense to me. It all 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.440 makes sense why the Marcus Lawrence came out there with 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.280 so much juice, and why that defensive line came out 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.640 there with so much juice. The guy wasn't even starting. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.400 It seemed like the first play he came in. He 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.679 went out there and forced to fumble, just strictly out 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.480 of anger of not being out there and starting. I mean, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.920 it all makes sense now. There was an infused juice 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.040 out there. Maybe that's what Nolan was doing. Maybe he 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.600 had This was all part of his master plan. Let 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.760 me get the Marcus Lawrence upsetting mad and get the 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.640 best out of him on the field by benching him. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.840 I mean, it was probably one of the dumbest decisions 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.120 made by coach, but hey, it might have worked out 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.760 the long haul. But a man like you said doing 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.240 that might work, Mike gotta go. That didn't work. That 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.959 didn't work, That didn't work. Don't don't. Don't you give 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:43.000 Mike Nolan no credit for that church But now, man, no, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.360 so read there's listen, there's a guy who's writing a 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.160 one hundred million dollars check that should be looking down 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.680 at that field, like what is going on. I need 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.679 to figure this out. Me and Mike Nolan need to 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.520 sit up in the room together and figure out. I 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.240 need to hear the reasoning behind this. Make make me 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.280 understand what's going on, make me please make me this thing, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.680 because I'm not accepting it. I'm not except it's week twelve, 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.200 week thirteen fourteen. You're sitting out here and you don't 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.000 put out your bett's you know what the markets longs 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.880 for coming out and responding a way that you should 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.160 have responded when when something like that happened. But you 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.360 should have never been on the bench. And so this happens. 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.040 And this is where I kind of this is where 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.720 for me, I go back to the head coach. I mean, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.920 this is this is your buddy. Okay, you hired this guy. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.760 I would be on him real quick. Hey man, you 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.480 trying to get me got I mean, this can't happen. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.080 You can't do this, okay. I mean there's certain things 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.680 that can't happen. You don't start a game with Tank 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.600 on the bench and he's healthy. You don't start a 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.400 game with Zeke on the bench and he's healthy. You 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:45.960 don't start a game with a Marty Cooper on the 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.800 busy game. We're paying too much money, you know, that's 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.000 the church. You're correct. You don't write these kind of 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.080 checks and then say we don't need these guys. No, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.400 you can't do that. You simply can't do that. It's 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.960 just bad. It's just bad. I just don't I don't 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.120 understand how this got pasted. Mike McCarthy though, like the 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.720 whole week leading up to this, I'm sure they had 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.160 base on one of those days, McCray. You notice on 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.840 Wednesdays and some of the Thursdays it's all first and 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.280 second down, and I'm short, there's based packages out there. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.840 So how to just get past McCarthy that d Law, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.680 your best defensive player, the highest paid defensive player in 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.360 Cowboys history, was not on the field during this. And 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.160 then when we got to the game and Sunday, somebody 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.760 okay it, somebody, okay, that's a hey, you know what, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.280 Dawn sch Armstrong. We've seen him in coverage. We've seen 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.480 him have that versatility. Maybe he's a little bit better 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.200 than d Law. Let's start him today. Somebody okay, did? 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.160 And I gotta go with Big Mike on this one. Man. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.520 If you okay, did, Big Mike, that's a mistake. That's 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.040 a mistake. You know what. In church, as I'm thinking 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:46.800 about it and and I'm talking listen, I remember we used 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.400 to be out there on the field and Jerry would 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.760 be out there, Stephen would be out there, Will mcclear 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.000 would be out there watching all the practice, all right. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.520 So it's no way, as I think about it, you 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.120 can tell me that DeMarcus Lawrence was told that he 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.800 was not starting this game for some strange reason. One 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.160 that he didn't go talk to somebody and say, nah, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.720 that ain't happening too. That the owner, general manager, CEO, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.560 and director of scout had no idea that the Marcus 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.760 Lawrence was not starting. I don't think that was a 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.280 surprise when they all got out there. So something else 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.440 is going on. But you know, from my experience of 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.120 being out there at practice and knowing how involved the 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.680 owner and general manager is, I just I can't believe 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.640 that he had no idea that his top guy on 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.000 defense was not starting this game. All right, So Mike 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.040 McCarthy is coming back. I am steadfast in my opinion 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.480 that defensive coordinator Mike Nolan is coaching his last days. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.560 We've seen a whole plethora of defensive coordinators get got, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.920 Paul gun through, Oh the Raiders got got yesterday. And 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:52.640 Rod Marinelli. Rod Marnelly is taking his big rod out 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.720 there in Vegas. Rod Marnelli let go by the Cowboys, 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.200 and BOYD, I sure miss Rod Marinelli right now, and 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.600 he raised my head. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was wrong. Okay, 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.439 I was wrong. I drank that kool aid. I was wrong. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.040 I believe Mike McCarthy and the staff. I think you're 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.760 getting no worse. It's gotten worse. It is just horrible. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.360 And the person that's gotten to pay for starts with 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.600 Mike Nolan. 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Now I enjoy 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.040 listening to all our podcasts here on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.960 Com Radio, and this morning I was listening to Kyle 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:26.879 Yeoman's one of my favorites, Tires and Kyle was, you know, 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.520 in a conversation with Rob Phillips Isaiah stand back in 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.840 our boy HECKM Harrison, and he started talking about Ezekiel 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.960 Elliott and questioning if Zeke was living up to the 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:42.760 ninety million dollar contract. And I'm like, whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey, look. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.359 I understand Zeke is not having a good season and 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.040 the fumbles that he's put on the ground no unacceptable, 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.160 but let me make sure we all remember and all 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.560 understand it is about opportunities when you are running back 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.520 in this league. And when I look at Ezekiel Elliott 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.560 when he came here and what then the usage rate 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.879 that he's getting now to the man simply does not 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.440 touch the football enough. And that's something we've talked about 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:09.119 here on the players now. So I wanted to go 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.800 back and check out just first off the season, and 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.600 then I went into yesterday. So Derrick Henry right now 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.440 is leading the league in rushing with fifteen hundred thirty 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.160 two yards fourteen touchdowns at thirteen games. So I wanted 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:22.280 to go look at the attempts that Derrick Henry head. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.080 He's had two hundred and ninety seven rushing attempts that's 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.920 eighty six more than Ezekiel Elliott, which breaks down at 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:34.159 six point six more carries per game, where the Titans 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.920 are saying, hey, Derek told the Rod. Then I went 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.720 over and looked at Dalvin Cook in the Minnesota Vikings. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.520 In twelve games, he's had two hundred and seventy three 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.200 attempts rushing to football. That's sixty two more than Ezekiel Elliott. 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.400 And he's got one thousand, three hundred and fifty two 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.560 yards and fourteen touchdowns. See's got two hundred eleven yards 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.200 this year for eight hundred and thirty two yards five touchdowns. 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.600 And of course we all understand what's happened to that 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.240 cowboy's offensive line and at the quarterback position. So then 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.720 yesterday I wanted to go also just looking, Okay, let's 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:05.639 just see what guys did yesterday. Just some of the 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.640 top backs. Alvin Kamara, one of my favorites, Alvin Kamara third, 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:13.320 had eleven rushes for the Saints and they're loss to Philadelphia. 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.480 Was targeted eight times, caught seven passes, so twenty one 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.560 touches for Alvin Kamara in the Saints game. Derrick Henry 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:24.480 and I win twenty six Rushes and was two receptions 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.679 on two targets, so twenty eight touches for Derrick Henry 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:32.040 Dalvin Cook. In a loss to Tampa twenty two, Rushes 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.399 had four targets, caught two passes, so twenty four total 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:39.399 touches for him. Ezekiel Elliot yesterday twelve rushes, two catches 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:45.200 on three targets, fifteen fifteen total touches for him. Come on, man, 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:48.199 I mean, once again, I go back to what we 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.359 were talking about. What tanking, Lawrence, You are we using 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:55.600 the guys you're paying fellas. Do you believe Ezekiel Elliott 0:22:55.680 --> 0:23:01.879 is being used properly? Absolutely not. But you know, you 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.040 know when when McCarthy first got in here and they 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:08.000 started talking about Zeke working on running more routes, we 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.240 knew this was gonna be a problem. And once they 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:13.320 drafted cdee Lamb, we everybody's figuring out, trying to figure 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:14.960 out how many persons, how many people are going to 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:16.919 catch how many balls this year? I'm having three one 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.000 thousand yard receivers and we're like, man, they don't have 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.720 enough to go around, and uh and it's and it's 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.280 showing and you can't and the thing is you can't 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:26.560 use that excusive. We have too many weapons, because if 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.040 you look at Minnesota, they have Feeling, they have Jefferson, 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:32.720 and they have cooked all right, and all of them 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:35.879 get get a fair share of balls thrown to them. 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.640 They call same thing. In Tennessee they got I saw 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.680 a j. Brown making crazy catches just today, and nobody's 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:44.959 been living behind because Derrick Henry is getting thirty thirty touches. 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.680 So you can still you can still get these running 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.280 backs involved in the game without taking away from some 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.240 of your other weapons. We for some reason just just 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:54.960 not have not found a way to get that done. 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.520 And it's unfortunately because you would think if Zeke's not 0:23:57.520 --> 0:23:59.280 getting a lot of touches, then it would have to 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:01.640 be going all Mark Cooper. But we haven't been able 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:04.440 to get either one of them enough touches. So it's 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:06.920 confused to me. And that's something that Kella Moe would 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:08.720 have to figure out as he goes into next season 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:13.440 if he's still here. Look, is it fair to say that, 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:15.320 you know, he's not lived up to his contract. I 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:17.119 don't think it's fair because I mean, look look at 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.199 the look at the offensive line he's running behind right 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:21.800 now it's decimated. And yes, they're doing a better job 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:24.560 as a season is going along and pass protecting, but 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:28.080 their run blocking has taking a hit, and it's taking 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:30.959 a hit to ezekiellex production. Now, I will say this, 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:34.800 with the carries that we have given him, is he 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:37.560 doing much with the rock? I don't think he's doing 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:39.960 as much as if Derrick Henry were to get those 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.239 ten totes or if Dalvin Cook were to get those 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:44.720 ten totes. It just doesn't seem to me like he's 0:24:44.760 --> 0:24:47.760 as explosive and he's as a dynamic runner as those 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.359 other two. Now will it change when we get that 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:53.000 offensive line back and we get that reconstructed. It could 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.280 be he could bounce back to his old self, But 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:57.560 right now, it just doesn't seem like he's that guy. 0:24:57.600 --> 0:24:59.919 He's running sluggish, he's running in sand, and he's not 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.920 making anyone miss. So to me, is it fair to 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:05.200 judge his ninety million dollars deal? No, it's not fair 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:07.160 to judge. I at least let him get his offensive 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:08.960 line back in front of him before we start making 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:11.720 that judgment. But when the guy has getting the ability, 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.000 when the guy has gotten his attempts, he's gotten his toes. 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:16.720 He just hasn't done much. He's more of a three 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:18.720 or four yards and a cloud of dust running back 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:21.199 right now. And that's just what the Cowboys have in 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.120 front of him. So to me, I think we need 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:24.760 to give him at least another year to get that 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:26.680 offensive line in front of him. Then we can start 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:28.879 questioning whether or not that ninety meal was worth it 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:31.399 or not. Now a lot of people had issues with 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:33.280 the ninety mills, saying, you don't pay running back that, 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:36.040 and do we do? You guys have to remember who 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:38.840 blew past that deal that who got paid more than 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:41.879 his ze broke the record? Yes? How many games does 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:47.360 he played? Yes? How many games has he played in? Now? Three? Three? Three? 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.520 Played in three games? And he's making sixteen million dollars 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:53.680 when he's signed that four year, sixty four million dollar 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:58.640 contract extension and Loup look at him backup out there, 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.639 balling making it look like anybody can do it up. 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.440 Mike Davis twenty six Fantasy points yesterday. So yes, so, 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:10.840 so you know, and I just and for me, here's 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:15.000 what's frustrating for me. Okay, I see Ezekiel Elliot getting 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:17.400 beat up by the fan base and here's a guy 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:20.720 that clearly it's an opportunity problem. I have an issue 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:22.520 with the way they have been using it. They don't 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:24.000 use him the way they used to use it. You 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:25.800 paid ninety million dollars for a guy you don't really 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:27.359 want to get in the ball. I mean, at least 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:29.880 Tennessee had the right idea, Okay, we're gonna pay Derreck 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:32.360 Henry and we're gonna keep feeding Derreck Henry. They don't 0:26:32.400 --> 0:26:34.240 want to do that here. So this is where I 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:36.280 got to come to it. Mike McCarthy why I asked 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.320 him at the initial press conference, how do you plan 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:43.919 to use Ezekiel Elliott and running the football? This is 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:46.639 not what Mike did in Green Bay. They threw the 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:48.720 ball a lot. You didn't see them out here trying to, 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:50.840 you know, go after it with the power run. It's 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:53.360 not what they did. So you may have a new 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:56.200 head coach and this scheme. Maybe this scheme doesn't fit them, 0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:58.399 but Mike told us it was gonna be scheme. I 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:00.840 mean players over scheme, and right now I don't feel 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:03.000 that's the case. So that's why I say beating up 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:05.520 on Ezekiel Elliott. I mean people going out to Ezekiel 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:08.040 Elliott like he Carson went stealing money. I mean, Carson 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:10.680 Wentz is dealing money right now. Okay, this is a 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:13.600 dude getting paid thirty two million dollars and he can't 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:16.720 do nothing for you, nothing for you. I mean, that's 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:18.760 that's my problem. It's like I feel like he's getting 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:20.440 that kind of treatment like Nina. I ain't like the 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:24.000 Phillies got a quarterback problem. Okay, they won yesterday with 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:29.880 Jayale Hursts. We got thirty two million dollars dude sitting 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:31.320 on the bench and we don't know where we gon 0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:34.639 unleash him. We may have to put this dude on mothballs. 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:36.680 And then they're like, yeah, man, we gave this guy 0:27:36.720 --> 0:27:38.159 all this money. He wasn't even the guy who won 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:40.200 the Super Bowl. I mean, you talk about bad money spent, 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:43.600 Carson Wentz is bad money spent. That's how I feel 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:46.400 people treating Ezekiel Elliott around here, that this was bad 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:48.359 money spent. I don't think it was bad money spent. 0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:51.160 I think this is this is a bad use of 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.880 the player that that, to me, is truly the issue. 0:27:55.600 --> 0:27:57.480 I will agree with you on that point. I think 0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:00.320 it's definitely a bad use of the player. There's a 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:02.639 lot of circumstances going around with that, but I definitely 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:04.480 agree with you on that that's a bast dance. But 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:06.919 where I will defend McCarthy on on one thing is, 0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:08.199 you know, at the beginning of the year when you 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:11.000 did ask those questions, I don't think McCarthy thought that 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.280 his defense would be this terrible, and that the defense 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:15.400 and he would always be having to fight his way 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:17.800 back and claw his way back to get into games. 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:20.119 This defense is downright terrible, and I don't think he 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:22.120 thought that going into the game is or going into 0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:24.119 the season, especially with the pieces that he's had. I mean, 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:25.639 he had a vander Esche coming back, he had a 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:27.880 Jalen Smith coming off a Pro Bowl. So he thought 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:29.919 he had a defense that can hold it down and 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:32.080 we can just feed Zeke and keep it going. Little 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:33.919 did he know we would be getting blown out in 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:35.880 these games and Dak would have to throw us back 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:37.719 into it, or and he don't have to throw us 0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:41.720 back into it. I don't know. I don't know about 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:43.920 that one, because even when Dak was in there, we 0:28:43.920 --> 0:28:47.120 were still talking about Zeke not getting enough touches in 0:28:47.160 --> 0:28:49.680 the beginning of the season. So I think they were 0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:53.800 two and thirty. Okay, but let's go back to Atlanta, 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:57.920 were down twenty something something. Church. Stay with me on 0:28:57.960 --> 0:29:00.800 the Atlanta game because I remember Stut was very much 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:03.920 into this. In that Atlanta game, in the second half, 0:29:04.160 --> 0:29:06.440 they got back into it because they kept running the ball. 0:29:06.480 --> 0:29:08.680 He had ten carries in the second half. It was 0:29:08.720 --> 0:29:10.480 one of the few games where he had twenty rushes. 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:12.840 And that was a part of them getting back into it. 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:15.320 Was just keep They kept with the run and kept 0:29:15.320 --> 0:29:17.120 mixing it up. They just didn't go, Hey, we're gonna 0:29:17.120 --> 0:29:18.680 just step here and just throw the ball. They kept 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:21.120 mixing it up, kept Atlanta off bounce, and we're able 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:25.000 to get back into that football game. Look, I'm coming 0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:27.080 in the first place. Who put him in that? Look 0:29:27.320 --> 0:29:31.120 in the first place. Look, he was part of the problem. Okay, 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:33.520 he was the problem. But I'm just saying. I'm just 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:36.560 saying using the guy getting away from the run. You know, 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:39.320 when they decided not to they had some they had 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:41.440 some benefit. I'll tell you who can't use the heck 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:43.560 out of Ezekie. Ellie. You put that guy in San 0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:46.640 Francisco with Kyle Shanahan. Let Kyle Shanahan, let's show they 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:50.960 get ahold of running back. Everybody in San Francisco. Were 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:54.960 sending everybody in San Francisco, Shoot, you can get John 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:57.200 Ring this kind of running back. Man. There's coaches in 0:29:57.200 --> 0:29:59.200 the league that will use them far more than what 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:02.640 the Cowboys want. That's just just do the right thing, 0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:04.240 you listen, Just do the right thing. You paid to 0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:06.080 do ninety million dollars. Go back and look at the 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:09.640 film of things that that made him successful, Schemes that 0:30:09.720 --> 0:30:13.160 you ran when he was successful, powers, traps, counters, look 0:30:13.160 --> 0:30:15.560 at those things and then implement him into the office 0:30:15.600 --> 0:30:17.920 that you're running now. And I can almost guarantee you 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:20.080 that he will have more production than he currently has. 0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:21.520 I'm not saying he's gonna go out there and be 0:30:21.560 --> 0:30:23.760 the o Z this year with so many injuries and 0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:25.600 all that, but I think that he could be more 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:28.600 productive if you taylor the game to things that that 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:31.160 help that worked for him when he was having his 0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:33.000 most success. Now you got to go back and rosch 0:30:33.160 --> 0:30:35.680 Jason Garrett Field to get that done and some of that. 0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:38.040 But but you can implement that Kellen Moore was here 0:30:38.240 --> 0:30:40.680 when when JG. Was here and Zeke was having since success. 0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:44.560 So he knows what to do and what can help z. 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:48.760 He just needs to implement it. 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Everybody was slapping 0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:01.440 him up, like, hey, still got it. He got it, 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:04.160 He got off the milk cart, got the shot. We're thirteen. 0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:07.640 I don't care if it's the Bengals, Tyrone. Crawford got 0:34:07.680 --> 0:34:11.600 them two sacks. Baby got it up. Dell it up. Hey, 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:13.799 I gotta get my boy a little credit, man. I mean, 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.640 we dogg him on this show, and rightfully so. He 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:19.680 hasn't been doing much all year, but you right knew it. 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:21.520 He got off the milk carton a little bit. My 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:24.279 boy fell into two sacks, and like like you said, 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:26.640 the funniest part was when he got to the sidelines 0:34:27.000 --> 0:34:29.319 and all the veteran cowboy players is over there just 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:31.399 gassing him up. You still got it, man, you still 0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:34.960 got the juice. Come on, man, come on, church, Come 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:38.280 come on church, Church, and knew he Listen. I love Crawford. 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:40.920 I you know, we used to hang out back when 0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:42.840 I played and all that. I think. I think that 0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:45.359 he is an amazing guy. And I think that he's 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:47.479 just getting a little older, so he's starting to slow 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:49.319 down a little bit. So it's production is down, But 0:34:49.360 --> 0:34:52.160 I'm telling you this. There is no getting off the 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:55.520 milk carton against the Bengels, all right. There is like 0:34:55.840 --> 0:35:00.279 that that that that option is not available when you're 0:35:00.280 --> 0:35:03.840 playing the Cincinnati Bengals, especially with all that they're missing, 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:07.000 including their starting quarterback. Who was who was the rookie 0:35:07.040 --> 0:35:08.640 who would have gave us all we can have them 0:35:08.680 --> 0:35:10.719 if he would have been out there in the AJ 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:13.359 Green who can no longer do what he used to do. 0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:15.640 So no, ain't no getting off the milk carton against 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:18.520 the Bengals. He made some plays, congratulations from him, But 0:35:18.560 --> 0:35:21.520 the milk carton. Yeah, all those players they still on 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:24.879 there to get right game. It's to get right game. Okay, 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:27.760 to get right game. Tyron got right, baby got right finally. 0:35:28.960 --> 0:35:31.359 Quarterback man, you know it ran on in two him 0:35:31.400 --> 0:35:35.520 twice two times. No, I ain't no milk carts. Ain't no, 0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:38.240 ain't no getting off the milk carton. Man, it's the Bengals, 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:40.400 we said, it's the getting the show. It's the Bagels, 0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:43.759 all right. Max. So what you're saying is his name 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:46.120 is engraved in the in the milk carton. Is that 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:48.520 what you're saying? No, no, no, no, no, no no 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:51.600 no no no no Listen, he got he's he's going 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:54.800 to have a good chance to play against the Eagles, 0:35:55.360 --> 0:35:57.839 who has a new quarterback now, so it's a new 0:35:57.960 --> 0:36:00.520 dynamic added to the to their team, and so we'll 0:36:00.560 --> 0:36:02.520 be seeing something totally different. And he don't have a 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:06.080 chance to do that against the football team. So listen, 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:10.919 I'm already team's done. No, no, no, no, I'm sorry. 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:13.200 We got swept. I'm sorry, we got we got swept. 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:15.239 My bad bad the last time. This is the first 0:36:15.280 --> 0:36:17.120 time we got swept by them in a long time. Man, 0:36:17.360 --> 0:36:21.680 you got Danny Domes. Not bad. He got Danny Domes, 0:36:22.000 --> 0:36:24.640 So he'll have two real chances. I'm not even gonna 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:26.520 count this one against the forty knowledge because who's their 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:32.200 starting quarterbacks and mothers boys and bullets was bad, so 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:34.040 they may go the best that I don't know who. 0:36:34.080 --> 0:36:39.520 I don't know who they sot. Dude, you ain't getting 0:36:39.520 --> 0:36:41.560 off the mel card against the forty niners either, all right, 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:43.400 so you can count this one. That option is not 0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:47.879 available for this game, Danny. This is this dude's final. 0:36:48.040 --> 0:36:50.680 This is the guy's final three games in the cowboy uniform. Man, 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:52.879 it's gonna be it for him. Man, they're gonna let him. Yeah, 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.000 he got, he got, he got, he got two games, 0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:58.360 he got two games, he got, he got two division games. 0:36:58.440 --> 0:37:00.600 He has the Eagles and he had the Giants. He 0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:04.640 can get off the mil Carter. That's all right. Church, 0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:07.320 you wanted to He is a tough critic. Church you 0:37:07.360 --> 0:37:10.680 wanted to get into the Cowboys DBS and in the effort, 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:14.040 they gave him the thirty to seven wins. Yeah. Man, Hey, look, 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:17.120 I'm gonna say this man. Look, the secondary that we 0:37:17.239 --> 0:37:19.920 had out there yesterday was depleted. I mean there was 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:23.879 no Woozier, there was no table on days as he's 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:25.520 been he's been out for the past couple of weeks. 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:27.880 I mean, we had we had Lewis out there in 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:30.280 the slide, and then we had Sabian Smith that corner, 0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:33.319 and we had Robinson. Now both of those guys missed 0:37:33.360 --> 0:37:35.520 some time. So we're out there with guys that I 0:37:35.560 --> 0:37:37.400 don't even know their names. I just know their numbers. 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:39.160 I mean, there was a guy number thirty three out there, 0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:41.000 at number thirty one out there who I have never 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:43.279 seen in my life. And they were actually out there, 0:37:43.320 --> 0:37:45.480 and you know what, I gotta give props to the 0:37:45.480 --> 0:37:47.880 secondary because they didn't let anything over the top. I mean, 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:50.880 throughout this whole season, that's all we've seen guys getting 0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:54.840 burked in covered three busted coverages, guys wide open, there's nobody. 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:57.160 There's not a defender within ten yards of receivers most 0:37:57.200 --> 0:37:59.399 of the time. But this time those guys were They fought, 0:37:59.520 --> 0:38:02.120 they were rappy out there. Aj Green had a couple 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:04.040 of catches and he was routing those guys up a 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:06.040 little bit, but nothing was over the top. I feel 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:08.560 like they had to earn everything they got from this secondary, 0:38:08.880 --> 0:38:11.120 and like I said before, there was no busted coverage, 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:14.439 so the secondary was communicating as a whole. And look, 0:38:14.920 --> 0:38:16.919 as much as I dogged these boys each and every 0:38:17.000 --> 0:38:19.240 week for not performing to the best of their abilities 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:22.160 today or yesterday, I think they did that. They were scrappy, 0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:24.719 they were clawed, and they showed some juice out there 0:38:24.760 --> 0:38:29.520 and they got the w Yeah, listen, they felt hard 0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:32.480 and I had a vision of I think it was 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:35.279 Thompson came down and caused that phone ball. You talk 0:38:35.280 --> 0:38:37.960 about running the alley. The dude was playing hard man, 0:38:38.040 --> 0:38:39.799 and they and they and they did do a good 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:42.800 job yesterday against against the Bengels, but they did do 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:46.719 a good job. So you know, like I said, it's 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:49.879 it's difficult that, like everybody in the NFL gets paid. 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:52.279 All right, So no matter who's out there, lined up 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:54.239 like a kid and joked a lot of the I'm 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:56.360 a critic on them kind of hard. But nobody who's 0:38:56.400 --> 0:38:58.480 lined up out there. All those guys have talent and 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:00.640 all those guys can beat you on again in a day. 0:39:00.760 --> 0:39:02.960 So they went out there and they fought hard, and uh, 0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:05.880 you know, propsing them and hope they carry carrying on 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:08.440 for the rest of the season. All Right, We've got 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.799 Monday night football. It is a critical football game here. 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:15.680 You've got the Ravens at the Browns. The Ravens are 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:19.200 three point favorites in this game. D mac who you got? 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:23.880 Oh that's This is a tough one because the Ravens 0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:26.960 are really playing for everything. Cleveland is kind of rolling. 0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:29.840 But I think that desperate team is gonna get the 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:31.560 dumb I think the Ravens find a way to pull 0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:34.400 it out and they cover. I see him win them 0:39:34.440 --> 0:39:38.400 by six. Uh to me, you know, look, I got 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:40.640 Baltimore in this one. I got Baltimore in this one, 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:42.480 and it's because I feel like the Browns are just 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:45.680 like Baltimore's little brother. Like, no matter how good Cleveland is, 0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:48.760 Baltimore just has their number. It's similar to Ohio State Michigan. 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:52.439 Michigan could be undefeated all year. Once ohiose Ohio State 0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:54.640 steps on the door, it's like everybody kind of cowards 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:57.080 and kind of it's Ohio State. They end up losing 0:39:57.120 --> 0:39:59.480 those games. So to me, I just think Baltimore has 0:39:59.520 --> 0:40:01.600 their number. They're a big brother. They're gonna take care 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:04.719 of business tonight on Monday Night football. Okay, Nostrada was 0:40:04.760 --> 0:40:11.239 on my side. Okay, all right, yeah, right today with 0:40:11.600 --> 0:40:15.640 the Steelers losing two games, if you're Baltimore right now, 0:40:15.920 --> 0:40:17.960 this is where you've got to go ahead and make 0:40:18.000 --> 0:40:20.239 your run. Finish up December strong. Here, give me the 0:40:20.360 --> 0:40:23.520 Ravens to win this one, twenty six, twenty one, even 0:40:23.719 --> 0:40:27.600 as they are in the dog pound. So, gentlemen, obviously 0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:32.520 my fantasy football trophy behind me, I'm going to happen. Yeah, 0:40:34.120 --> 0:40:36.600 how did you guys do yesterday? Since you're both in 0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:40.279 your own respective listen, I got the number two seats, 0:40:40.280 --> 0:40:42.320 so I had a bye week, so you just you 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:44.399 can speak to church about you can speak to church 0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:46.279 about those guys who had to play in the in 0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:49.600 the wild car around. Yeah. Man, I had to play 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:51.080 in the wild car. You know. I had to scrap 0:40:51.160 --> 0:40:53.200 and claude to getting my way into the playoffs. You know, 0:40:53.239 --> 0:40:55.000 everybody kind of counting me out at the beginning of 0:40:55.080 --> 0:40:57.520 the season started like one in five or something like that. 0:40:57.600 --> 0:40:59.800 I ain't accounted myself out. I almost gave up on 0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:03.799 the but then I realized, then I really hold on, dude, 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:07.520 did I realize? You know what? I So guess what? 0:41:07.640 --> 0:41:12.120 I put seventy five points this past week, the woe 0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:14.719 where I was playing against. I'm going into the next round. 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:16.200 You know what I'm going into. I think I got 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:18.560 Danny next. I knew it in fact, so hey, it's 0:41:18.600 --> 0:41:22.080 going down no one, No listen, listen. I think the 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:25.160 guy that you played next week. You know how many 0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:28.400 points he scored this week? He was whold two? All right? 0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:31.319 So you you so you would so you would have lost. 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:37.040 Listen who I'm in the next round? Yeah, you played 0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:38.680 you played the number one team next week because you 0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:40.279 had the six seed. All right, so good luck, good 0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:41.800 luck with that if you if you played me, it 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:47.960 won't be into the championship looking forward to it, and 0:41:49.440 --> 0:41:51.520 knew I knew it. I said, you still keep it, 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:54.240 counting your consolation breaking over there time about somebody putting 0:41:54.320 --> 0:42:00.920 up twenty six points. You're still playing you still, yeah, man, 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.480 I decided that I would not be that person to 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.279 to just you know, roll over and die and uh 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:14.640 yeah yeah and and still got beat still too. Oh man, 0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:18.680 you know I don't even feel you know, I don't 0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:21.600 feel right to pile law man because you know I've 0:42:21.600 --> 0:42:24.600 been in that, so I can't pile law My guy, man, 0:42:24.680 --> 0:42:27.879 he just took it at It's bad. It's a big guy. 0:42:28.120 --> 0:42:31.000 It was a close game. And then so we go 0:42:31.160 --> 0:42:33.279 into to the Sunday night game and this is basically it. 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:38.719 I had James Connor and Eric E. Broun, he had 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:45.080 step On Dicks. Oh yeah, that they decided to just 0:42:45.360 --> 0:42:47.680 step on. It's like Mike Nolan was calling the defense 0:42:47.760 --> 0:42:49.719 for the Steel They just dude running on running free. 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:52.200 It was like, wow, what was this? What was this? 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:55.960 Uh yeah, yeah, there we go. I want to make 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:59.840 sure we touch and give Andy Dalton his props go 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:02.439 back to Cincinnati two touchdowns to get to win team 0:43:02.520 --> 0:43:06.200 that drafted him in twenty eleven. He played there until 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:11.120 last season. What does it mean for guys to go 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:15.799 back to their former NFL homes and win? What does 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:19.200 that mean that these guys I mean to him? It 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:21.160 probably means the world. I mean, as you saw he 0:43:21.280 --> 0:43:22.799 was going up there, you know he gave his little 0:43:22.800 --> 0:43:24.880 salute to his wife. I mean, he just saw it 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:27.120 in his face and his demeanor. He was excited about 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:29.000 the game, he was ready, and he just didn't let 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:30.960 the emotions of going back to the place kind of 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:34.120 overwhelm him. See me, I'm the wrong person to ask 0:43:34.160 --> 0:43:36.120 about that because I know nothing about going back to 0:43:36.200 --> 0:43:38.640 your former place and winning. When I came back to Dallas, 0:43:38.880 --> 0:43:40.600 it's like they just picked on me, like they like 0:43:40.680 --> 0:43:42.680 they had the game playing, like, look, there's four two 0:43:42.760 --> 0:43:44.520 right there, we're gonna get after this dude. And they 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:46.799 ended up beating the brakes off of the jag off 0:43:46.840 --> 0:43:49.239 of us and the Jaguars that day. So, hey, hats 0:43:49.280 --> 0:43:50.880 goes off to Eddy Dalton. Man, he went up there 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:53.920 and showed out for the for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, 0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:56.240 that's a bad question, man. We should have talked about 0:43:56.239 --> 0:43:58.359 this before we before we came out of the break 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:01.480 because I got to say, feeling that Church had all right, 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:04.799 you know, I want to Chicago Dallas came on up there. 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:07.040 We was all heightened, and they ran the ball down 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:09.640 our throat. You know, we had Jay Cutlott thus starting. 0:44:09.719 --> 0:44:12.200 So you know how that went. So I'm not really 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:14.520 sure how it feels. But if you felt slighted when 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:16.399 you left that team and you felt like you still 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:19.319 had more to give and they kind of did you wrong, 0:44:19.920 --> 0:44:22.120 then I can imagine that you felt real good going 0:44:22.200 --> 0:44:28.440 up there and beating that team. You mean questions, Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:30.800 Cole Beaji went ham on or everybody, you know what 0:44:31.400 --> 0:44:33.759 speak speaking to Cole Beachley a couple of weeks ago. 0:44:33.760 --> 0:44:35.680 I wanted to bring this up. You talking about letting 0:44:35.680 --> 0:44:40.120 the guy go. That dude has been balling, talking about 0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:43.319 like a top slot receiver, and we let him get 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.400 up out here for what like seventeen meal. Goodness that 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:50.120 that dude is really become a big time player out 0:44:50.160 --> 0:44:53.080 there in Buffalo. He's making some serious plays as small 0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:54.600 as he is. You see him out there two touch 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:56.920 down one hundred and seven yards toil catches. He's out 0:44:56.960 --> 0:44:59.040 there rounding up everybody the same thing that we all 0:44:59.120 --> 0:45:01.279 saw when we you were here, so shout out to 0:45:01.320 --> 0:45:05.160 Cole Beasley. But that goes back to usage. Cole Beasley 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:08.040 spoke about how Jason Garrett Scott Lanahan's system did not 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:11.560 use him, and here we still are with a different 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:15.600 regime talking about players not being used correctly. I mean, so, 0:45:15.960 --> 0:45:17.840 you know so at some point in time, you know, 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:21.160 as so many people went after Cole Beasley, the Cowboy 0:45:21.239 --> 0:45:24.080 Nation went after him on Twitter. Cole Beasley told the truth. 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:26.000 You didn't like the truth, but he told the truth. 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:28.200 And for the people to think, hey man, you guys 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:30.320 on the players lives are too negative. We're telling you 0:45:30.360 --> 0:45:32.600 the twenty one and nineteen are not being used enough. 0:45:32.680 --> 0:45:34.480 We're not just sitting up here lying to you. We're 0:45:34.520 --> 0:45:37.640 telling you the truth. And I truly believe this. If 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:39.919 you let those two guys get away and they ended 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:42.319 up going in some systems and in some places where 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:44.200 they want to use them, you'd sit up here and 0:45:44.239 --> 0:45:47.080 be saying the same thing about about Zeke and Cooper 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:48.759 that we're talking about here with cold Bess, like, oh 0:45:48.840 --> 0:45:50.359 look at that guy. What we let him get away 0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:56.040 here for? Didn't use him right. Absolutely, Okay, that is 0:45:56.080 --> 0:45:58.800 our time for today. 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