WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Play To Win The Game? 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.560 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:13.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:18.759 Player's Loud broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:23.919 the start. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:31.200 Newe Scrugs. Here we are Players louds on a Tuesday. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.239 Cowboys play Saturday night in Philadelphia. I'm new scrus. This 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.960 is the Players Lounge. It's the Players Show. The players 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.159 are Danny McCray and Barry Church to former Dallas Cowboys 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:45.000 safety's both undrafted here. So, gentlemen, Mike McCarthy says, they 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.280 are going to play to win the game in Philadelphia. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.120 Jerry Jones says they plan to play. They planned to win. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:58.800 Your thoughts on that, McCray, the better. They better go 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.080 out here and find a way to get some momentum 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.080 going into the playoffs. All right. You have to, especially 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.560 with the outings that we've had against these teams that 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:11.080 we believe are better competition than Taystom Hill with the Saints, 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.039 whoever was playing quarterback for the Washington football team. Like, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.199 you have to go into this knowing that the team 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.759 feels like they can play against anybody. It's one thing 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.880 to say it, like they continue to say, yeah, we 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.840 know that on our bench to day and as long 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.200 as we come to play, we can beat anyone. But 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.760 we have not shown that, right, So you need to 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.920 go out here against the Eagles, who are a playoff 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.920 team and show that you can beat them, all right. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.240 If you don't, then you're gonna go into the playoff 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.400 limping with like not knowing who you are on offense, 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.200 the defense probably filling the type of way about the 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.160 offense not being able to help them out. So this 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.840 is your week to fix that before before the tournament starts. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.720 you gotta go. You gotta play it. You guys to 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.040 have all your guys on deck, and you gotta play 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.000 this last game. I mean, you're not in position right 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.280 now to rest and be like, all right, we'll get 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.800 ready for the playoffs. Because right now, this offense, they 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.280 have no identity. The offense doesn't know what's going, whether 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.280 it's a run team, whether it's a past happy team. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.040 We just don't have an identity offensively. And what we've 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.040 seen so far this season is there's no evidence that 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:13.880 Dak in this offense can just say, all right, it's 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.840 time to go. It's playoffs, let's flick the switch and 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.480 we're hitting on all cylinders. There has been no evidence 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.640 of that. There's actually been evidence contrary to that. Like 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.280 we've seen this offense, you know, steadily go downhill. They 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.480 might have a blip here and there where the offenses 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.920 is balling and hitting on all cylinders. But once again, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.720 those happened against the New York Giants, you know what 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.200 saying that happened against the Washington football team, and we're 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.320 not going against those guys in the playoffs. So to me, offensively, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.400 we've got to play because we got to get some 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.760 type of momentum. You can't limp into the playoffs and 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.359 expect to just be flipping the switch and turning into 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.640 this miraculous ninety nine, you know, rams type of offense. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.320 You can't do that. We got to have some momentum 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.280 going into this playoffs. And defensively we need to play 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.120 as well. We need to play as well because we've 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.040 we've played great. Don't get me wrong, we played great. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:57.640 We beat up on the NFC East, we beat up 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.320 on a couple of guys here and there. But when 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.480 we get to the plays. Like you just mentioned, we're 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.399 gonna be playing against the Garoppolos of the world, the Bradies, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.120 the Rodgers if we get that far. So we gotta 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.840 make sure we're hitting on all cylinders going into this playoffs. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.520 And lastly, we still got some seeding you know, to 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.079 go about right now, Like like we got playoff Satday. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.560 Right now, we're in the four seed. We can't get 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.160 any worse than the four seed. But to me, you know, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:22.880 we're gonna need a lot of help, but we can 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.720 still get that two seed. We can still get that 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.040 three seeds. So it comes down to would you rather 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.120 go against? You know, if you're in that two or 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.480 three seed, you get to go against maybe a Jimmy 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.480 Garoppolo or a Jalen Hursts at the six or seven seed, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.600 rather than if you're at that four, you're more than 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.640 likely going against either Stafford or Cala Murray. And we've 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.880 seen what Cala Murray was able to do. So to me, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.320 get the momentum, play this game out, hopefully get a dub, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.000 and you go into the playoffs not limping, but with 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.240 some type of momentum. And I'll say this, I think 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.200 I think it'll be the worst situation that you can 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.720 have is if you go out here and lose on Saturday, 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.120 and then if all the chips falling your favorite for 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.320 you to be seed and you ain't and you didn't play. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.800 I think I think that is the worst possible scenario 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.120 for you. So I think it's probably a blessing and 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:09.920 the curse to have to play on Saturday. One, you 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.839 get a little extra rest in order to the first round, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.520 but two, it's like you need to go out here 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.760 and put all you like, all your chips on the table, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.000 because if everything falls in your favor, whatever happened last 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.680 week is irrelevant you It still bounce up to the 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.000 number two seed and find a different opponent. But the 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.480 fact that we are sitting here saying, man, we might 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.040 not want to you know, Arizona, That lets me know 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.479 that we have work to do as a team. Because 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.480 we should feel confident us as viewers, us as people 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.279 who are talking about the game. We should feel confident 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.520 enough to say we're good enough to play against anybody. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.600 And at some points in the season we felt that way. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.960 Yeah we did this week. I'm like, I'd rather play 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.480 those better teams after we get our get our footing 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.280 in the tournament. Now, now an Eagles day, you know 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.960 they got a lot of people in the protocols right now, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.200 you know a lot of casts. Now we know it's 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.800 a little bit different. You can do the five days 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.719 and they might be able to have them back. But 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:00.640 you know, if you're blowing the goes out. Let's just 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.839 say they're killing the Eagles second half, the up twenty one, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.080 twenty eight points, then I can see, you know, you're 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.160 resting some people. You know, obviously, if you got that 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.159 big of a league, you had something doing, something brewing offensively, 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.680 something brewing defensively. So in that case, I can see 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.000 us resting in the second half. But if it's a game, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.880 you gotta play your boys. You gotta play all of them, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.000 all hands on that. Yeah, Anthony Brown playing, Jordan Lewis playing, Yeah, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.680 Traylun Digs he should play, you know, at least the 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.200 first half, you know, depending on how the game is going. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.320 Like you're saying, only people I will be worried about. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.720 It is like a d law or something like that. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.520 People who've actually missed extended periods some time during the 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.960 season to where it's really a risk of that person 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.039 possibly not being being ready for the playoffs, maybe a 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.320 Tyren Smith get back and get your feet with in 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.680 the first half or whatever. But other than that, ninety 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.880 eight percent of this roster should be playing, including that 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.560 well Philly dealing with the COVID issues. Twelve guys several 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.200 starters on that COVID list, So it would be interesting 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.520 to see how did they approach this football game. Do 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.159 they just out, hey, look, you know what, We're just 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.200 gonna be where we are and we're not gonna put 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.080 anybody out here who can't give it, give it the 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.040 way that you know, can't go out here on a 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.039 hundred percent. So I'll be interested to see what they 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.200 do on there end. As far as Gimg when you 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.080 brought him up with the forty nine ers, Barry, he's 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:19.200 probably not playing trade. I'm playing last week and got 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.159 the wind. So the Cowboys have some some things that 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.120 they need to work on for themselves. But it's just 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.920 gonna be interesting to see what other folks end up 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.479 doing around them, because to me, Philadelphia has got an 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.560 excellent opportunity to say, you know, we're just not gonna play. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.480 You know, we're not going We're not going to take 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.800 the chance with guys on COVID to put them out 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.640 here and not have them be one hundred percent and 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.599 possibly get hurt, because what for them, what is it? 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.440 What are they playing for? It's a kind of interesting thing. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.400 We know why the Cowboys are playing. They don't look good. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.160 They need to try and get themselves um operating at 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.320 a higher level. But I would do wonder about Philadelphia. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.080 What's their incentive? I would I hope you know, they rest, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.719 you know, hope they rest their whole squad. You know, 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.800 they got they they're filling themselves a little bit right now. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.159 I think they won what four or five straight or 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.640 something like that, so I know they're feeling themselves. But 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.520 I hope they rest because we've seen when you got 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.640 all that momentum going and then y'all, let's take a 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.640 little break here and you try to get right back 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.320 into it, and it's it's you're not You're not exactly 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.360 right where you were when you left off. And hopefully 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:15.720 that's the case we go. If we go acats the 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.200 Eagles in that first round, the Boys rested and they ain't. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:20.680 They ain't. They ain't got the momentum on the side 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.520 no more. We could take them the house, listen and all. Honestly, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.440 the truth is, if we were the Eagles right now, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.200 we would be ready. We can talk all this stuff 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.760 about having to catch momentum and whatever. We're gonna all 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.600 the starters are gonna play. If we were in the 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.000 Eagles position right now, a lot of our starters would 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.960 be sitting on the sideline. Um. So if I was them, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.080 that that's that's what I would be doing. They actually, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.480 they absolutely have nothing to play for at this moment, 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.560 and it actually puts more pressure on the Cowboys to 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.720 go out there and perform better knowing that the Eagles 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.960 may sit their players, right, because what you don't want 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.560 to do is you don't want to have the Eagles 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.640 go out here and say, you know what we offered 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.920 us on and then we go out there and lose. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.520 If you remember that six and teen year we went 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.480 out there to the Eagles and we was like, you know, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.280 this should be good. You know they ain't really it 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:04.920 ain't really playing for them. I think they had one 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.320 of the one of them had Yeah, they had already 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.360 won it. And that was a tough game. That was 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.920 It came down to the wi y'all want some playing time. No, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.720 So yeah, man, it's like it's a lot going into 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.360 this this Saturday game, short week. We got players who 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.000 need to get in here and get their feet wet 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.800 before they get into the tournament. So this this would 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.760 be very interesting to see how this plays out. Will 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.120 let me ask y'all both this question. Do y'all think, um, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.080 the advantage could go to the Eagles if they rest 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.959 their players and they see what type of game playing 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.199 the Cowboys are trying to go against their defense or 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.760 against their offense. They could use that for film study 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.319 if we had to play them right again next week, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.760 you still like the advantages for the Eagles. And let 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.320 me tell you something. I was watching clips on Twitter 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.120 Twitter the other day and it was it was backing 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.240 up what I said about teams finding out what Kellen 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.960 is doing. Right when you see Buddha Baker get out 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.720 there and jump that that that jailbreak screen, they tried 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.960 to tea like like how many times are we gonna 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.720 do this? When you see Zeke lining up at fullback 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.320 on third and one, he's getting the ball, they're doing 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.679 like we do the same stuff all the time. So 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.600 I don't think they need any additional game game film. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.040 Specifically on the offense, we need to find a way 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.880 on the offense to be a little bit more creative 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.160 or actually a little bit more simple. Get the get 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.000 the big time players the ball, Get them the ball. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:20.600 That's what it comes down to. And we've seen it 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.720 all over the league. You know Green Bay with Devonte 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.480 Adams Cooper cut over there in LA he's leading the 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.000 league in all three categories. Alan it did like, if 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.800 you are that guy, and every team has a guy 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.320 that's considered that guy when it comes to the receiving room, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.079 you gotta find a way to give him the ball. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.760 Whether it's reverses, bubble screens, I don't care what it is. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.200 And he might not be successful the first couple attempts, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.160 Like you might throw the ball to Mark Cooper, he might, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.120 you know, catch one of the three, but at least 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.720 you're involving him early in the game, getting his confidence 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.960 up early in the game, and who expect that ball 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.840 tom to come to him? And we saw when you 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.560 get the ball to Cooper early in the game, it 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.320 opens things up for the rest of the offense, the 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.880 rest of the receivers. Hope league, we can get a 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.360 game listen, and I'm gonna keep listening. I'm gonna keep listening. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.960 I'm okay, Justin Herbert Keenan Allen, Okay, I'm gonna go 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.199 Alan Clan or Justin. I mean, you can literally go 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.240 down the list for quarterbacks who have guys who they 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.319 are going to to key on in those type of situations, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.520 and then ours is literally only talk. We only talk 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.360 about Amark Cooper in that situation. Outside of one game 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.880 when he made a little noise in the locker room 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.400 and said, hey, they're not focusing on me. I think 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.440 I can help us win these games. They came out 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.839 and they focused on them, and then they ran away 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.480 from it the next week. Same thing with Zeke. Actually, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.240 Zeke need to come out, Hey man, Hey look, if 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.760 y'all give me the ball and put put the ball 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.959 in my hands, then I can help you guys. Feed Z. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.120 I ain't seen the feed ze sign in weeks. He's 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.520 trying to be that. He's trying to be that good 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.440 team trying. I don't want to feathers. I don't want 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.560 anything to do. He must be vegan. He listen nine 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.480 carries my man, he loses a weight. They let us 0:10:55.480 --> 0:11:02.880 out there help help the guy out. But so, Danny, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.800 are you Are you saying you feel the offense is predictable. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.840 I know I'm not. I'm not saying I believe it's predictable, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.600 but I mean, I believe that when we get in 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.920 certain situations, we are running some predictable stuff, all right. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.160 When you see the lineman line up out there, we 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:18.520 saw at the beginning of the season, We're like, oh, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.679 that's great. You see what Keller Moore did and like 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.040 literally Bouda Baker said, I know what's coming and almost 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.760 picked that thing off for six. All right. In the 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.680 same thing we saw in this game where the ze 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.679 lines up at fullback offset and then you have a 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.840 running back lined up behind whoever there's line up behind 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.199 the quarterback and they turn around handed to Zeke. We've 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.560 actually gotten stopped on that play a couple of times 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.720 like these, like it's it's it's it's a few plays, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.640 but it's the situation that they're being running that that 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.959 sometimes becomes predictable, specifically for players who are in that 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.439 in that type of situation. Boode Baker is an All 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.360 Pro player, like he's going to see that, uh, And 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.959 I think that's kind of what's what's holding us back? 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.120 But specifically you have to you have to get the 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.520 ball to Mark Cooper. Oh, y'all forgot Chasing Burrow? Just 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.640 keep yeah, Chason Burrow, what's the third twenty seven? You 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.280 know where the ball is going? Going to number one? 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:11.959 All right? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:13.880 they're gonna get that man a shot. All right. He 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.840 ain't making twenty million dollars a year. Okay, So all right, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.080 So so based on what you guys are saying, how 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.560 much do you now put this on Dak Prescott because 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.000 Aaron Rodgers going he's going to Davante. I'm talking about 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.560 that's where he's going. You know he's gonna go there. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.920 Joe Burrows looking for Jamark Chase he out here. How 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.760 much do you put on Dak Prescott for not saying, okay, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.520 I'm going roller here to Mark Cooper. I'm putting them 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.800 I'm putting the majority on it. I'm gonna go ahead 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.319 and do it. Whether it's seventy thirty, sixty forty, I'm 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.880 putting the majority on Dak Prescott. And the reason I 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.760 believe that is he has the power, all right, when 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.680 he's at the line of scrimmage. We've seen he has 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.079 the power to either checking the run, checking the pass, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.400 switched the offensive line protection this way that way. He 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.000 is basically extension of the coaching staff on the football field. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.280 Like he's Him and Keller Moore are basically like this. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.120 I mean they teammates together, quarterback coach. Now he's an 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.080 offensive coordinator for him, they're like this. I believe that 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.360 Dak Prescott not only has you know, the power at 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.439 the line of scrimmas, but the cash to do so. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.240 If he's like, you know, we're gonna get this guy 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.800 to ball, who's gonna tell him no, Like, you know, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.240 you cannot throw the ball to Mark Cooper on this play. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.400 Nobody's gonna do that. So to me, I think he 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.440 has a cash and he's the guy that has to 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.760 feel like, you know what, I gotta get nineteen involved 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.960 earlier offen, Listen, I'm going sixty forty forty on Dec. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.200 Sixty one. And the reason that I'm doing that is, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.520 like you said, the quarterback is an extension of the 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.880 offensive coordinator, and I think one these guys already have 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.280 to go out there with a ton of tons of 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.240 things to think about like you said, protection, what formation? 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.040 What check? What this? What that? And now you want 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.319 to add an additional piece to to where he has 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:47.840 to kind of go out on his own and do it. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.880 I can guarantee you when he goes out there, he 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.640 already has to say, what are they lined up in here? 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.080 Because I got to check for this one? What are 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.480 they lined up on the right side? Because I gotta 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.400 check for this one? And then now as you're trying 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.880 to communicate all that, it's like, you know what, as 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.880 a matter of fact, let me line up all my 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.200 receivers over here and put a Mark Cooper over there 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.400 and get that communicated, and then get a Mark Cooper 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.600 the ball. So I'm saying that Kellen should put this 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.360 in the game plan. Hey, let me tell you something 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.000 that no matter what happens, Okay, no matter what happens, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.200 we're going to Coop. And the way you can do 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.760 that and say three we all know three bout one. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.720 If you put the running back to the three receiver 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.240 side and you leave a Mark Cooper on the back side, 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.920 that is literally going to be one on one ninety 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.120 percent of the time unless they're running two man like. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.520 Other than that, that's a one on one call. We 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.600 know Mary Cooper's rout running his slants. He can run digs, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.320 he can run gost, he can run all that. So 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.280 he can literally get out there and work that other 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.760 cornerback and we just not have We've not seen that consistently. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.520 I don't actually think we've seen that at all. I 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.400 would love to see, like what his win percentage is 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.600 like when he's going out there and he's getting these routes, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.560 if he's open or not. I mean, I would love 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:50.960 to see is right now. You know, I'm putting the 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.000 onus on that because I believe he's that leader, he's 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.080 the franchise whatever, and he has a cachet to be 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.560 able to to do that. But I wonder if is 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.720 he getting open, because we gotta see, like all twenty two, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.800 is he even back? Maybe he's getting locked up. I'm 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.840 going to die on the field with a Mark Cooper 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.640 getting the ball and not being open like like that 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.720 is a bet that I'm going to take because every 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.640 time we've seen him be able to get catches in target, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.120 he's been watching, he's been wilde open. I don't think 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.720 you can guard that dude one on one especially intermediate routes. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.400 I don't think that. I don't I don't think you could. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:23.640 I don't think you can guard him in that. And 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.360 there's always a way for you to get get him 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.440 the ball in no situations specifically. Just watch DeVante Adams. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.240 Just just watch them. It literally happens. Everybody knows who 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.640 the ball is going to. Every time that ball is 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.800 now is DeVante Adams. You got to focus on him 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.480 to somehow to do end up with ten eleven cats 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.640 one hundred fifty yards every week. And I don't understand 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.800 how these defensive coordinators if I if I want to 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.920 get DeVante Adams, I don't give what you in. I 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.840 am putting two. They're gonna be on that vice gript 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.480 rember how they used to do. Calvin Johnson used to 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.440 be like the punt vice cript. That's how I'm doing 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.520 these guys. And we don't see that on a Mark 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.880 Cooper like he's sometimes he's one on one coverage out there. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.680 We're not giving him. Well, well, you know what happens 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.360 with with a team like Green Bay. You know what 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.240 they can do. They can run the ball, right, So 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.960 when you have those type of situations where you just 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.680 sprint it out and you got a J. Dillon and 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.360 you got Aaron Jones out there. Yeah. It puts the 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.280 defensive coordinators in those type of situations. Us, they're gonna 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.480 run it nine times. It's okay, they're gonna run the 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.040 nine times. It's all right. We're gonna get out here 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.320 and play how we want to play. All right, we're 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.440 gonna we're gonna make them. We're gonna dictate to them 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.720 what they're gonna run. I think Keller Moore also falls 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.240 victims to that often, starting with Tampa. Tampa was able 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.400 to dictate that we were not just off the run 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.520 the ball against just off the and then they can 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.040 do that same thing with them. They can do that 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.440 same thing with Ceedee Lamp and Dak will have to 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.040 look the other way because that look is not something 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.440 that works for whatever offensive player is called on killing 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.320 Moore's playsheet. Okay, uh, let's get a break in here. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.360 Power rankings are out. I looked at one power ranking, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.360 and I want to know if you guys think it's 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.640 fair the way the Cowboys have been ranked this week. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.040 Let's dive into that. 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