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Speaker 1: are Danny McCray and Barry Church to former Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: safety's both undrafted here. So, gentlemen, Mike McCarthy says, they
Speaker 1: are going to play to win the game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones says they plan to play. They planned to win.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that, McCray, the better. They better go
Speaker 1: out here and find a way to get some momentum
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs. All right. You have to, especially
Speaker 1: with the outings that we've had against these teams that
Speaker 1: we believe are better competition than Taystom Hill with the Saints,
Speaker 1: whoever was playing quarterback for the Washington football team. Like,
Speaker 1: you have to go into this knowing that the team
Speaker 1: feels like they can play against anybody. It's one thing
Speaker 1: to say it, like they continue to say, yeah, we
Speaker 1: know that on our bench to day and as long
Speaker 1: as we come to play, we can beat anyone. But
Speaker 1: we have not shown that, right, So you need to
Speaker 1: go out here against the Eagles, who are a playoff
Speaker 1: team and show that you can beat them, all right.
Speaker 1: If you don't, then you're gonna go into the playoff
Speaker 1: limping with like not knowing who you are on offense,
Speaker 1: the defense probably filling the type of way about the
Speaker 1: offense not being able to help them out. So this
Speaker 1: is your week to fix that before before the tournament starts. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta go. You gotta play it. You guys to
Speaker 1: have all your guys on deck, and you gotta play
Speaker 1: this last game. I mean, you're not in position right
Speaker 1: now to rest and be like, all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: ready for the playoffs. Because right now, this offense, they
Speaker 1: have no identity. The offense doesn't know what's going, whether
Speaker 1: it's a run team, whether it's a past happy team.
Speaker 1: We just don't have an identity offensively. And what we've
Speaker 1: seen so far this season is there's no evidence that
Speaker 1: Dak in this offense can just say, all right, it's
Speaker 1: time to go. It's playoffs, let's flick the switch and
Speaker 1: we're hitting on all cylinders. There has been no evidence
Speaker 1: of that. There's actually been evidence contrary to that. Like
Speaker 1: we've seen this offense, you know, steadily go downhill. They
Speaker 1: might have a blip here and there where the offenses
Speaker 1: is balling and hitting on all cylinders. But once again,
Speaker 1: those happened against the New York Giants, you know what
Speaker 1: saying that happened against the Washington football team, and we're
Speaker 1: not going against those guys in the playoffs. So to me, offensively,
Speaker 1: we've got to play because we got to get some
Speaker 1: type of momentum. You can't limp into the playoffs and
Speaker 1: expect to just be flipping the switch and turning into
Speaker 1: this miraculous ninety nine, you know, rams type of offense.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. We got to have some momentum
Speaker 1: going into this playoffs. And defensively we need to play
Speaker 1: as well. We need to play as well because we've
Speaker 1: we've played great. Don't get me wrong, we played great.
Speaker 1: We beat up on the NFC East, we beat up
Speaker 1: on a couple of guys here and there. But when
Speaker 1: we get to the plays. Like you just mentioned, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be playing against the Garoppolos of the world, the Bradies,
Speaker 1: the Rodgers if we get that far. So we gotta
Speaker 1: make sure we're hitting on all cylinders going into this playoffs.
Speaker 1: And lastly, we still got some seeding you know, to
Speaker 1: go about right now, Like like we got playoff Satday.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're in the four seed. We can't get
Speaker 1: any worse than the four seed. But to me, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need a lot of help, but we can
Speaker 1: still get that two seed. We can still get that
Speaker 1: three seeds. So it comes down to would you rather
Speaker 1: go against? You know, if you're in that two or
Speaker 1: three seed, you get to go against maybe a Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo or a Jalen Hursts at the six or seven seed,
Speaker 1: rather than if you're at that four, you're more than
Speaker 1: likely going against either Stafford or Cala Murray. And we've
Speaker 1: seen what Cala Murray was able to do. So to me,
Speaker 1: get the momentum, play this game out, hopefully get a dub,
Speaker 1: and you go into the playoffs not limping, but with
Speaker 1: some type of momentum. And I'll say this, I think
Speaker 1: I think it'll be the worst situation that you can
Speaker 1: have is if you go out here and lose on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then if all the chips falling your favorite for
Speaker 1: you to be seed and you ain't and you didn't play.
Speaker 1: I think I think that is the worst possible scenario
Speaker 1: for you. So I think it's probably a blessing and
Speaker 1: the curse to have to play on Saturday. One, you
Speaker 1: get a little extra rest in order to the first round,
Speaker 1: but two, it's like you need to go out here
Speaker 1: and put all you like, all your chips on the table,
Speaker 1: because if everything falls in your favor, whatever happened last
Speaker 1: week is irrelevant you It still bounce up to the
Speaker 1: number two seed and find a different opponent. But the
Speaker 1: fact that we are sitting here saying, man, we might
Speaker 1: not want to you know, Arizona, That lets me know
Speaker 1: that we have work to do as a team. Because
Speaker 1: we should feel confident us as viewers, us as people
Speaker 1: who are talking about the game. We should feel confident
Speaker 1: enough to say we're good enough to play against anybody.
Speaker 1: And at some points in the season we felt that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah we did this week. I'm like, I'd rather play
Speaker 1: those better teams after we get our get our footing
Speaker 1: in the tournament. Now, now an Eagles day, you know
Speaker 1: they got a lot of people in the protocols right now,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of casts. Now we know it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different. You can do the five days
Speaker 1: and they might be able to have them back. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you're blowing the goes out. Let's just
Speaker 1: say they're killing the Eagles second half, the up twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty eight points, then I can see, you know, you're
Speaker 1: resting some people. You know, obviously, if you got that
Speaker 1: big of a league, you had something doing, something brewing offensively,
Speaker 1: something brewing defensively. So in that case, I can see
Speaker 1: us resting in the second half. But if it's a game,
Speaker 1: you gotta play your boys. You gotta play all of them,
Speaker 1: all hands on that. Yeah, Anthony Brown playing, Jordan Lewis playing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Traylun Digs he should play, you know, at least the
Speaker 1: first half, you know, depending on how the game is going.
Speaker 1: Like you're saying, only people I will be worried about.
Speaker 1: It is like a d law or something like that.
Speaker 1: People who've actually missed extended periods some time during the
Speaker 1: season to where it's really a risk of that person
Speaker 1: possibly not being being ready for the playoffs, maybe a
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith get back and get your feet with in
Speaker 1: the first half or whatever. But other than that, ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent of this roster should be playing, including that
Speaker 1: well Philly dealing with the COVID issues. Twelve guys several
Speaker 1: starters on that COVID list, So it would be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how did they approach this football game. Do
Speaker 1: they just out, hey, look, you know what, We're just
Speaker 1: gonna be where we are and we're not gonna put
Speaker 1: anybody out here who can't give it, give it the
Speaker 1: way that you know, can't go out here on a
Speaker 1: hundred percent. So I'll be interested to see what they
Speaker 1: do on there end. As far as Gimg when you
Speaker 1: brought him up with the forty nine ers, Barry, he's
Speaker 1: probably not playing trade. I'm playing last week and got
Speaker 1: the wind. So the Cowboys have some some things that
Speaker 1: they need to work on for themselves. But it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what other folks end up
Speaker 1: doing around them, because to me, Philadelphia has got an
Speaker 1: excellent opportunity to say, you know, we're just not gonna play.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not going We're not going to take
Speaker 1: the chance with guys on COVID to put them out
Speaker 1: here and not have them be one hundred percent and
Speaker 1: possibly get hurt, because what for them, what is it?
Speaker 1: What are they playing for? It's a kind of interesting thing.
Speaker 1: We know why the Cowboys are playing. They don't look good.
Speaker 1: They need to try and get themselves um operating at
Speaker 1: a higher level. But I would do wonder about Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: What's their incentive? I would I hope you know, they rest,
Speaker 1: you know, hope they rest their whole squad. You know,
Speaker 1: they got they they're filling themselves a little bit right now.
Speaker 1: I think they won what four or five straight or
Speaker 1: something like that, so I know they're feeling themselves. But
Speaker 1: I hope they rest because we've seen when you got
Speaker 1: all that momentum going and then y'all, let's take a
Speaker 1: little break here and you try to get right back
Speaker 1: into it, and it's it's you're not You're not exactly
Speaker 1: right where you were when you left off. And hopefully
Speaker 1: that's the case we go. If we go acats the
Speaker 1: Eagles in that first round, the Boys rested and they ain't.
Speaker 1: They ain't. They ain't got the momentum on the side
Speaker 1: no more. We could take them the house, listen and all. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the truth is, if we were the Eagles right now,
Speaker 1: we would be ready. We can talk all this stuff
Speaker 1: about having to catch momentum and whatever. We're gonna all
Speaker 1: the starters are gonna play. If we were in the
Speaker 1: Eagles position right now, a lot of our starters would
Speaker 1: be sitting on the sideline. Um. So if I was them,
Speaker 1: that that's that's what I would be doing. They actually,
Speaker 1: they absolutely have nothing to play for at this moment,
Speaker 1: and it actually puts more pressure on the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: go out there and perform better knowing that the Eagles
Speaker 1: may sit their players, right, because what you don't want
Speaker 1: to do is you don't want to have the Eagles
Speaker 1: go out here and say, you know what we offered
Speaker 1: us on and then we go out there and lose.
Speaker 1: If you remember that six and teen year we went
Speaker 1: out there to the Eagles and we was like, you know,
Speaker 1: this should be good. You know they ain't really it
Speaker 1: ain't really playing for them. I think they had one
Speaker 1: of the one of them had Yeah, they had already
Speaker 1: won it. And that was a tough game. That was
Speaker 1: It came down to the wi y'all want some playing time. No,
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, it's like it's a lot going into
Speaker 1: this this Saturday game, short week. We got players who
Speaker 1: need to get in here and get their feet wet
Speaker 1: before they get into the tournament. So this this would
Speaker 1: be very interesting to see how this plays out. Will
Speaker 1: let me ask y'all both this question. Do y'all think, um,
Speaker 1: the advantage could go to the Eagles if they rest
Speaker 1: their players and they see what type of game playing
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are trying to go against their defense or
Speaker 1: against their offense. They could use that for film study
Speaker 1: if we had to play them right again next week,
Speaker 1: you still like the advantages for the Eagles. And let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I was watching clips on Twitter
Speaker 1: Twitter the other day and it was it was backing
Speaker 1: up what I said about teams finding out what Kellen
Speaker 1: is doing. Right when you see Buddha Baker get out
Speaker 1: there and jump that that that jailbreak screen, they tried
Speaker 1: to tea like like how many times are we gonna
Speaker 1: do this? When you see Zeke lining up at fullback
Speaker 1: on third and one, he's getting the ball, they're doing
Speaker 1: like we do the same stuff all the time. So
Speaker 1: I don't think they need any additional game game film.
Speaker 1: Specifically on the offense, we need to find a way
Speaker 1: on the offense to be a little bit more creative
Speaker 1: or actually a little bit more simple. Get the get
Speaker 1: the big time players the ball, Get them the ball.
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. And we've seen it
Speaker 1: all over the league. You know Green Bay with Devonte
Speaker 1: Adams Cooper cut over there in LA he's leading the
Speaker 1: league in all three categories. Alan it did like, if
Speaker 1: you are that guy, and every team has a guy
Speaker 1: that's considered that guy when it comes to the receiving room,
Speaker 1: you gotta find a way to give him the ball.
Speaker 1: Whether it's reverses, bubble screens, I don't care what it is.
Speaker 1: And he might not be successful the first couple attempts,
Speaker 1: Like you might throw the ball to Mark Cooper, he might,
Speaker 1: you know, catch one of the three, but at least
Speaker 1: you're involving him early in the game, getting his confidence
Speaker 1: up early in the game, and who expect that ball
Speaker 1: tom to come to him? And we saw when you
Speaker 1: get the ball to Cooper early in the game, it
Speaker 1: opens things up for the rest of the offense, the
Speaker 1: rest of the receivers. Hope league, we can get a
Speaker 1: game listen, and I'm gonna keep listening. I'm gonna keep listening.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, Justin Herbert Keenan Allen, Okay, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Alan Clan or Justin. I mean, you can literally go
Speaker 1: down the list for quarterbacks who have guys who they
Speaker 1: are going to to key on in those type of situations,
Speaker 1: and then ours is literally only talk. We only talk
Speaker 1: about Amark Cooper in that situation. Outside of one game
Speaker 1: when he made a little noise in the locker room
Speaker 1: and said, hey, they're not focusing on me. I think
Speaker 1: I can help us win these games. They came out
Speaker 1: and they focused on them, and then they ran away
Speaker 1: from it the next week. Same thing with Zeke. Actually,
Speaker 1: Zeke need to come out, Hey man, Hey look, if
Speaker 1: y'all give me the ball and put put the ball
Speaker 1: in my hands, then I can help you guys. Feed Z.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen the feed ze sign in weeks. He's
Speaker 1: trying to be that. He's trying to be that good
Speaker 1: team trying. I don't want to feathers. I don't want
Speaker 1: anything to do. He must be vegan. He listen nine
Speaker 1: carries my man, he loses a weight. They let us
Speaker 1: out there help help the guy out. But so, Danny,
Speaker 1: are you Are you saying you feel the offense is predictable.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not. I'm not saying I believe it's predictable,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I believe that when we get in
Speaker 1: certain situations, we are running some predictable stuff, all right.
Speaker 1: When you see the lineman line up out there, we
Speaker 1: saw at the beginning of the season, We're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's great. You see what Keller Moore did and like
Speaker 1: literally Bouda Baker said, I know what's coming and almost
Speaker 1: picked that thing off for six. All right. In the
Speaker 1: same thing we saw in this game where the ze
Speaker 1: lines up at fullback offset and then you have a
Speaker 1: running back lined up behind whoever there's line up behind
Speaker 1: the quarterback and they turn around handed to Zeke. We've
Speaker 1: actually gotten stopped on that play a couple of times
Speaker 1: like these, like it's it's it's it's a few plays,
Speaker 1: but it's the situation that they're being running that that
Speaker 1: sometimes becomes predictable, specifically for players who are in that
Speaker 1: in that type of situation. Boode Baker is an All
Speaker 1: Pro player, like he's going to see that, uh, And
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what's what's holding us back?
Speaker 1: But specifically you have to you have to get the
Speaker 1: ball to Mark Cooper. Oh, y'all forgot Chasing Burrow? Just
Speaker 1: keep yeah, Chason Burrow, what's the third twenty seven? You
Speaker 1: know where the ball is going? Going to number one?
Speaker 1: All right? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But
Speaker 1: they're gonna get that man a shot. All right. He
Speaker 1: ain't making twenty million dollars a year. Okay, So all right,
Speaker 1: So so based on what you guys are saying, how
Speaker 1: much do you now put this on Dak Prescott because
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers going he's going to Davante. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: that's where he's going. You know he's gonna go there.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows looking for Jamark Chase he out here. How
Speaker 1: much do you put on Dak Prescott for not saying, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going roller here to Mark Cooper. I'm putting them
Speaker 1: I'm putting the majority on it. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it. Whether it's seventy thirty, sixty forty, I'm
Speaker 1: putting the majority on Dak Prescott. And the reason I
Speaker 1: believe that is he has the power, all right, when
Speaker 1: he's at the line of scrimmage. We've seen he has
Speaker 1: the power to either checking the run, checking the pass,
Speaker 1: switched the offensive line protection this way that way. He
Speaker 1: is basically extension of the coaching staff on the football field.
Speaker 1: Like he's Him and Keller Moore are basically like this.
Speaker 1: I mean they teammates together, quarterback coach. Now he's an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator for him, they're like this. I believe that
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott not only has you know, the power at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmas, but the cash to do so.
Speaker 1: If he's like, you know, we're gonna get this guy
Speaker 1: to ball, who's gonna tell him no, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: you cannot throw the ball to Mark Cooper on this play.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna do that. So to me, I think he
Speaker 1: has a cash and he's the guy that has to
Speaker 1: feel like, you know what, I gotta get nineteen involved
Speaker 1: earlier offen, Listen, I'm going sixty forty forty on Dec.
Speaker 1: Sixty one. And the reason that I'm doing that is,
Speaker 1: like you said, the quarterback is an extension of the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, and I think one these guys already have
Speaker 1: to go out there with a ton of tons of
Speaker 1: things to think about like you said, protection, what formation?
Speaker 1: What check? What this? What that? And now you want
Speaker 1: to add an additional piece to to where he has
Speaker 1: to kind of go out on his own and do it.
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you when he goes out there, he
Speaker 1: already has to say, what are they lined up in here?
Speaker 1: Because I got to check for this one? What are
Speaker 1: they lined up on the right side? Because I gotta
Speaker 1: check for this one? And then now as you're trying
Speaker 1: to communicate all that, it's like, you know what, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, let me line up all my
Speaker 1: receivers over here and put a Mark Cooper over there
Speaker 1: and get that communicated, and then get a Mark Cooper
Speaker 1: the ball. So I'm saying that Kellen should put this
Speaker 1: in the game plan. Hey, let me tell you something
Speaker 1: that no matter what happens, Okay, no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: we're going to Coop. And the way you can do
Speaker 1: that and say three we all know three bout one.
Speaker 1: If you put the running back to the three receiver
Speaker 1: side and you leave a Mark Cooper on the back side,
Speaker 1: that is literally going to be one on one ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the time unless they're running two man like.
Speaker 1: Other than that, that's a one on one call. We
Speaker 1: know Mary Cooper's rout running his slants. He can run digs,
Speaker 1: he can run gost, he can run all that. So
Speaker 1: he can literally get out there and work that other
Speaker 1: cornerback and we just not have We've not seen that consistently.
Speaker 1: I don't actually think we've seen that at all. I
Speaker 1: would love to see, like what his win percentage is
Speaker 1: like when he's going out there and he's getting these routes,
Speaker 1: if he's open or not. I mean, I would love
Speaker 1: to see is right now. You know, I'm putting the
Speaker 1: onus on that because I believe he's that leader, he's
Speaker 1: the franchise whatever, and he has a cachet to be
Speaker 1: able to to do that. But I wonder if is
Speaker 1: he getting open, because we gotta see, like all twenty two,
Speaker 1: is he even back? Maybe he's getting locked up. I'm
Speaker 1: going to die on the field with a Mark Cooper
Speaker 1: getting the ball and not being open like like that
Speaker 1: is a bet that I'm going to take because every
Speaker 1: time we've seen him be able to get catches in target,
Speaker 1: he's been watching, he's been wilde open. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can guard that dude one on one especially intermediate routes.
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't I don't think you could.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can guard him in that. And
Speaker 1: there's always a way for you to get get him
Speaker 1: the ball in no situations specifically. Just watch DeVante Adams.
Speaker 1: Just just watch them. It literally happens. Everybody knows who
Speaker 1: the ball is going to. Every time that ball is
Speaker 1: now is DeVante Adams. You got to focus on him
Speaker 1: to somehow to do end up with ten eleven cats
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty yards every week. And I don't understand
Speaker 1: how these defensive coordinators if I if I want to
Speaker 1: get DeVante Adams, I don't give what you in. I
Speaker 1: am putting two. They're gonna be on that vice gript
Speaker 1: rember how they used to do. Calvin Johnson used to
Speaker 1: be like the punt vice cript. That's how I'm doing
Speaker 1: these guys. And we don't see that on a Mark
Speaker 1: Cooper like he's sometimes he's one on one coverage out there.
Speaker 1: We're not giving him. Well, well, you know what happens
Speaker 1: with with a team like Green Bay. You know what
Speaker 1: they can do. They can run the ball, right, So
Speaker 1: when you have those type of situations where you just
Speaker 1: sprint it out and you got a J. Dillon and
Speaker 1: you got Aaron Jones out there. Yeah. It puts the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators in those type of situations. Us, they're gonna
Speaker 1: run it nine times. It's okay, they're gonna run the
Speaker 1: nine times. It's all right. We're gonna get out here
Speaker 1: and play how we want to play. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna make them. We're gonna dictate to them
Speaker 1: what they're gonna run. I think Keller Moore also falls
Speaker 1: victims to that often, starting with Tampa. Tampa was able
Speaker 1: to dictate that we were not just off the run
Speaker 1: the ball against just off the and then they can
Speaker 1: do that same thing with them. They can do that
Speaker 1: same thing with Ceedee Lamp and Dak will have to
Speaker 1: look the other way because that look is not something
Speaker 1: that works for whatever offensive player is called on killing
Speaker 1: Moore's playsheet. Okay, uh, let's get a break in here.
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Speaker 1: and I want to know if you guys think it's
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Speaker 1: negative as we start talking about the Cowboys this week?
Speaker 1: Coming up that loss to Arizona. I think I've been
Speaker 1: saying the same thing about the offense. I think for
Speaker 1: literally half the season. I still think that our defense
Speaker 1: can be elite as long as we have the offense
Speaker 1: doing doing something right. When you go out there and
Speaker 1: you're going three and out, defense is fighting and scratching
Speaker 1: the claw to hold these teams the field goal, and
Speaker 1: then you go three and out and put them right
Speaker 1: back out there. I think that's a recipe for disaster
Speaker 1: for our defense. So our offense does have to bring
Speaker 1: something to the table, like you said, twenty four twenty
Speaker 1: five points, give our defense a chance to get out
Speaker 1: there and make a play to change the game like
Speaker 1: dlof did. We didn't have the time out, but give
Speaker 1: our defense that type of shot, and I think we're okay.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's negative. I think it's we're seeing
Speaker 1: what needs to be fixed this week going into the
Speaker 1: playoffs in order for us to be successful. I still
Speaker 1: think we can be a successful team. We just need
Speaker 1: to go out there and show it against a playoff team,
Speaker 1: which which would be the Eagles if they play everybody.
Speaker 1: But no matter what, we need a good we need
Speaker 1: a good positive showing. Yeah. I don't think it's too
Speaker 1: negative at all, you know, because we go out here
Speaker 1: and we praise them for when they beat up on
Speaker 1: New York or they beat up on Washington, or they
Speaker 1: beat up on some of these other teams. Can we
Speaker 1: praise them? We say, you know, they playing great defenses
Speaker 1: on fire. But I've always had this, just this thought
Speaker 1: in the back of my head, thinking, Man, if we
Speaker 1: go ahead gets better quarterbacks and better teams, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a little shaken. We're gonna have to have one
Speaker 1: of them top performance. It's one of them complete games
Speaker 1: like in Atlanta to go ahead and win the game.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're good enough to just one side
Speaker 1: of the football dominating still get a W. I think
Speaker 1: both sides, maybe even all three phases with special teams,
Speaker 1: has to play well in order for us to get
Speaker 1: a dub over the better teams out there. So I
Speaker 1: don't think it's being too negative. I think we're just
Speaker 1: stating the obvious. You know, we're staying obvious. This offense
Speaker 1: right now has no identity. I mean and and right
Speaker 1: nowity that's either inconsistent in the past game or it's
Speaker 1: not enough attempts in the run game, or the run
Speaker 1: game is just getting shut down completely. But we have
Speaker 1: no no identity in this with this offense. And defensively,
Speaker 1: it's like if we don't get four or three takeaways, man,
Speaker 1: are we gonna, Are we gonna be able to win
Speaker 1: the game? You know? And and that's an absurd like
Speaker 1: just level of defensive play that you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: play if you want to be able to take four
Speaker 1: get four takeaways each and every game. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just that's just that's just you. You can't you can't
Speaker 1: do that. You just can't do that. So to me,
Speaker 1: it's it's not unfair. I think it's fair criticism. And
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have got to play better, especially when we
Speaker 1: go against playoff teams. I was still gonna say, listen,
Speaker 1: d Law came out and we should have had that turnover.
Speaker 1: Should have we should have We should have had that
Speaker 1: one turnover in this situation because Mojoe moment. That's Mike
Speaker 1: McCarty's thing. Mojoe moment. This is the Mojoe moment. And
Speaker 1: we one we we can't get in New York to
Speaker 1: get in because they say it's not enough evidence or whatever,
Speaker 1: but we don't have the time out to actually challenge
Speaker 1: that because it's right before like the time and of
Speaker 1: that is horrible. But when you talk about like opportunistic teams,
Speaker 1: it's still to me counts as the defense being an
Speaker 1: opportunistic like we you know, they did everything they could
Speaker 1: that game and it did it did not. It didn't
Speaker 1: work out for them, But that's that's taking the ball away.
Speaker 1: So I still think we still have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: do that. Even if it's not four times, you still
Speaker 1: got one to two. Because Curse gets out there and
Speaker 1: he dropped, he drops off, I could have turned the
Speaker 1: game all around. So so we still have the defense
Speaker 1: can still get one of the two takeaways no matter
Speaker 1: who you're playing against, because that's two on Arizona that
Speaker 1: we should have had. Those are missed opportunity for big players.
Speaker 1: But we can still do it. And after the game
Speaker 1: a lot of players were upset about that. They went
Speaker 1: after the officials. So I'm expecting guys to have to
Speaker 1: write a lot of checks to the league this week.
Speaker 1: League gonna get fat based off so many Cowboys players
Speaker 1: criticizing the officials. Former defensive tackle Tony Cassius, who was
Speaker 1: on three Super Bowl teams with the Cowboys, tweeted this
Speaker 1: out and I want to get your take on this.
Speaker 1: When the church, he said, when you blame the officials
Speaker 1: for a loss, you need to look in the mirror
Speaker 1: Are we that good your take on that? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with Tony on that one, because we talked about this
Speaker 1: on the pre and post game or the post game show,
Speaker 1: when pretty much the entire guys that they asked to
Speaker 1: do interviews after the game. We're basically saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we had to go against two teams today, the refs
Speaker 1: in Arizona, and you can't do that. You can't do
Speaker 1: that because the refs, you know it didn't didn't mess
Speaker 1: up when they went up seven, oh, didn't mess up
Speaker 1: when they went up fourteen, oh, you know, twenty one
Speaker 1: to three. I mean it was you had opportunities to
Speaker 1: get yourself in the game and not rely on the
Speaker 1: last second fumble that could have been or could not
Speaker 1: have been. I mean, you had opportunities in that game
Speaker 1: the stake to put your mark on that and take
Speaker 1: the control of that game, and you didn't. You didn't,
Speaker 1: and you got to hold yourself accountable on that one.
Speaker 1: You can't sit there and blame the refs because look,
Speaker 1: they're humans too. They're gonna make mistakes. They're gonna throw
Speaker 1: flags that they think are flags and we may not
Speaker 1: think they're flats. But that's just a part of the game.
Speaker 1: Just like injuries are a part of the game. Refs
Speaker 1: are a part of the game. You can't blame that.
Speaker 1: You gotta hold yourself accountability. Look, Arizona went out there,
Speaker 1: they out coached you, they outplayed it, and they got
Speaker 1: him doub At the end of the day, you just
Speaker 1: kind of suck it up and being I'm gonna say this, man,
Speaker 1: he's about ninety five maybe nine correct, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this. I'm gonna say this, No, not for us.
Speaker 1: If you're talking about the New Orleans Saints. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's different. If you talk about the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: and those type of situations, was there, then you have
Speaker 1: an argument, all right, yes, like they were driving, that
Speaker 1: was a clear opportunity they would have been to win
Speaker 1: a game. Like hours is they get the fumble. We
Speaker 1: still have to make stuff happen. You know, you got
Speaker 1: to get out there to do it. So, like coaches
Speaker 1: always say, they're like four to five players in the game,
Speaker 1: they really turn the game, all right, So outside of
Speaker 1: that possible fumble, there's still four or five opportunities that
Speaker 1: you have to to win the game, and that ain't
Speaker 1: one of them. A right offense struggle for a long time,
Speaker 1: and the real like the realization of it is the
Speaker 1: offense started putting up points when the defensive Arizona started
Speaker 1: playing a little lacks, right, they were just trying not
Speaker 1: to give up the big play that you start. You
Speaker 1: started methodically moving the ball down the field. It seems
Speaker 1: a lot easier than it did in the first three quarters,
Speaker 1: right because they were playing playing a little different Um,
Speaker 1: same same thing that happens with us. So what offense
Speaker 1: did not play well this game? No, no matter what,
Speaker 1: they made it closer at the end. But realistically that
Speaker 1: that team was like I think, I think we're okay,
Speaker 1: We're just gonna play not not to give up the
Speaker 1: home run. Um, so yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't complain
Speaker 1: about the Reds even though you know it was a
Speaker 1: fun Where do y'all think this is? This is coming
Speaker 1: from them? Y'all think it's coming from up top, like
Speaker 1: the head because it's the second game, because I think
Speaker 1: it was the Raiders game and things giving it. Now
Speaker 1: this game where you know, things don't go our way
Speaker 1: and we lose the game, and then the first thing
Speaker 1: we come out and say is that we had to
Speaker 1: go against two squads a day. We had to go
Speaker 1: against the rest. Where do you think that's coming? Didn't
Speaker 1: that's the players just saying themselves, like, man, it's the
Speaker 1: refs against us, or is it somebody up top head coach? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? What they're really saying? A man, this
Speaker 1: dude would have made this kick again, we would have
Speaker 1: been Okay, that's what they said. But you can't talk
Speaker 1: about Joe's teammates, So we're gonna put it on somebody
Speaker 1: else because make the kick broke? Do you know how
Speaker 1: hard it is to coach in a big time game
Speaker 1: when you don't have confidence in your kicker, stuff like
Speaker 1: when you don't have that ultimately man's look, he could
Speaker 1: we know he could hit the goal post or something
Speaker 1: from sixty, But if you don't have confidence in the
Speaker 1: guy hitting it from forty eight thirty, You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Chips, that's making extra points. That is a
Speaker 1: hard thing to do. I'm surprisedly we can't start going
Speaker 1: for two more man, And I'm ain't got no comforts, Superman.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Anybody else? Yeah, yeah, too late
Speaker 1: for that, thank you. It's it's too late for that.
Speaker 1: And this is a lot, a lot of this right
Speaker 1: now has been on on Fossil. This is his guy.
Speaker 1: He brought up for the Ramsay game, that stupid contract
Speaker 1: and during training camp. I can't, I can't emphasize that enough.
Speaker 1: This dude had this dude hurt and there's no competition
Speaker 1: and no kickers out there. I'm sorry, I hadn't seen
Speaker 1: anything like you. Man. This is I just man, I'm flabbergast.
Speaker 1: I think it's just silly. Now, how about this note
Speaker 1: from John Macholda. He tweeted out NFC playoff kickers. Matt
Speaker 1: Gave of LA two miss field goals, one missed extra point,
Speaker 1: Jake Ellie to Philadelphia three miss field goals, zero extra
Speaker 1: points missed. Ryan suck Up of Tampa Bay four miss
Speaker 1: field goals, three miss extra points, Greg Zerline the Cowboys
Speaker 1: six miss field goals, five miss extra points, Matt Prader
Speaker 1: of Arizona seven miss field goals, too, missed extra points,
Speaker 1: and then Mason Crosby of Green Bay nine miss field goals,
Speaker 1: one extra points. Listen, no matter the numbers matter, but
Speaker 1: the situations matter more for us, right, it is when
Speaker 1: are you missing these field goals or how does it
Speaker 1: play out at the end of the game, Like Mason
Speaker 1: Crosby's out there missing them, but he Aaron Rodgers still
Speaker 1: out there putting up buckets and their offensive playing well enough,
Speaker 1: defensive playing well enough for them to win the game.
Speaker 1: I was just putting us in a situation to where
Speaker 1: we're chasing points and then we're losing by the exact
Speaker 1: amount of points that you missed on field goals and
Speaker 1: extra points, which which makes it a little bit more.
Speaker 1: It just makes it worse. It just makes it worse
Speaker 1: because just like you said, it's not like when when
Speaker 1: it comes down a nutcutting time and he has to
Speaker 1: make this to either tie the game or put us ahead,
Speaker 1: he's usually money. Like the season, he's usually been money.
Speaker 1: It's those early in the game. I'm just gonna come by.
Speaker 1: This is a routine kick for me. This is forty yards,
Speaker 1: thirty five yards is easy money. And he hooks him
Speaker 1: left where he sails him somehow. And then, like you said,
Speaker 1: we're chasing these points. When do we go for two?
Speaker 1: What do we keep going for just an extra point?
Speaker 1: And it wavers your confidence. It wavers your confidence because
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be routine from from what life for
Speaker 1: hitting for this guy from forty end fifty end, it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be routine, but those are the things that
Speaker 1: he's missing and it's costing us in the long run.
Speaker 1: The problem might have is the whole amount of confidence
Speaker 1: that Mike McCarthy kept having in this guy and talking
Speaker 1: about how he kicked the Rams to a field to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl when he was there with with with
Speaker 1: the Rams in the Superdome against the Saints. I just
Speaker 1: feel like, dude, you're you're praising a guy for what
Speaker 1: he used to do. Yeah, he's not that guy anymore.
Speaker 1: And it's very clear I haven't played the game. You
Speaker 1: guys are out there, and you guys who played on
Speaker 1: special teams, so you understand the whole mentality out there. Dude,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys score a touchdown, I don't get up
Speaker 1: and go get a drink anymore. I sit there watch
Speaker 1: the extra point because you don't know what this dude.
Speaker 1: That's how scary it is right now. It's extremely scary.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you know, I'll go back to our
Speaker 1: days with Dan Bailey, like you know, when he was
Speaker 1: on fire, when he was when he was that that
Speaker 1: stretch run three four or five years. He couldn't miss,
Speaker 1: He could not miss. But when he fell off, I
Speaker 1: mean he fell off a cliff and he started hooking
Speaker 1: him left right, you couldn't you couldn't find a goal.
Speaker 1: He couldn't find the center of the goal post. And
Speaker 1: I hopefully you know this doesn't happen to their line
Speaker 1: at least for this stretch run. But man, if he
Speaker 1: falls off, the kickers usually fall off extremely hard, and
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully he's able to regain his swing, regain
Speaker 1: that at whatever swing momentum he had, But we gotta
Speaker 1: stop getting these hooks left, especially in the playoffs where
Speaker 1: it could come down to a two or three point game. Listen,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. It is. It is what
Speaker 1: it is. It is what it is that I mean
Speaker 1: ain't known you can do about it. And he's our kicker.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he finds a way to get hot in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's just the showing, uh that we've seen throughout the seasons,
Speaker 1: particularly with not having any competition and training camp. But
Speaker 1: than him being hurt and knew he out there and
Speaker 1: watching nobody actually get kicks like that, that is that
Speaker 1: is something that's concerning. But listen, he's a vet, and
Speaker 1: if they believe that he can get hired and get
Speaker 1: this thing straight and get this thing on on on path,
Speaker 1: then well, y'all, I'm gonna please please help us. Oh
Speaker 1: so so literally at this point in time, I hate
Speaker 1: to say it, but I'm gonna go ahead and say it.
Speaker 1: I think this man is gonna cost the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I do. I think everything is lining up
Speaker 1: for You've already had three football games where you can
Speaker 1: look at the fact that his lack of performance to
Speaker 1: make to do his job has cost the Cowboys, So
Speaker 1: why will it not not cost them in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I just think it's going to be more of the
Speaker 1: same because what they played against Arizona, they all said,
Speaker 1: this is a a state in the game. You know, this
Speaker 1: was a playoff type team, and this guy came up
Speaker 1: small one more time. I don't I don't see how
Speaker 1: he's not going to continue to do what he's been doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the evidence is there, just like there's like our offense.
Speaker 1: The evidence is there for our offense. Man, we got
Speaker 1: a six or seven game um example of what our
Speaker 1: offense is. And that's why it's gonna be hard for
Speaker 1: me to think that unless we play our guys and
Speaker 1: build this momentum going into the playoffs, that we're just
Speaker 1: gonna be able to flip a switch and be hitting
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, at least offensively. Listen, because defense travels,
Speaker 1: and I think we had been on it. We have
Speaker 1: been on like a four or five game streak of
Speaker 1: the defense playing excellent and they still played. They still
Speaker 1: played well enough for us to win the game against Arizona.
Speaker 1: I'm still not counting them out from being able to
Speaker 1: carry us throughout the playoffs as long as the offense
Speaker 1: and the special teams bring brings a little bit to
Speaker 1: help them out. Yeah so so so I still feel Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be on grig. I'm really I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put the onus on the defense at this point
Speaker 1: because I believe that this is the X factor for
Speaker 1: us to be able to one have to play on
Speaker 1: the road. If we do and and and hold these
Speaker 1: teams to under twenty five points of the offense still
Speaker 1: has an opportunity if they score under thirty. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get our check the break in here when we
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Speaker 1: guys were undrafted. All right, gentlemen. The final game of
Speaker 1: the regular season coming up. It's the seventeenth regular season game,
Speaker 1: first time we've ever seen that in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are sitting within eleven and five record as we
Speaker 1: go into this final game. They are NFC East champions
Speaker 1: here they will be no less in the four seat
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. What grade would you give Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: as the head coach in the second year with the team.
Speaker 1: Gonna start with you, McCray. I'm gonna give him straight
Speaker 1: up B. He's getting to be he's getting to be. Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think you could discount the
Speaker 1: fact that this team does have eleven wins, possibly going
Speaker 1: on twelve. All right, and you're also in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You turned the team around from what you had last year.
Speaker 1: You've been able to get guys to play better than
Speaker 1: they did last year. On defense. We credited to dan quinn,
Speaker 1: but it's also Mike McCarthy. He got dan Quinn in here.
Speaker 1: He allows dan Quinn to be the coach that he
Speaker 1: can be. So I'm gonna give him a BEA. You're
Speaker 1: looking at possibly a twelve win team, division winner, possibly
Speaker 1: a number two seat, So I'm giving him a B.
Speaker 1: A you game, I'm gonna go ahead and give him
Speaker 1: a C plus, right mcgiel m a C plus. They
Speaker 1: did make the playoff. Yeah, yeah, I'm mc give him
Speaker 1: a SEA plus. They did make the playoffs. They turned
Speaker 1: this they turned this thing around from last year. He
Speaker 1: was a little five or six and six and six
Speaker 1: and ten last year because made yeah, yeah, six and
Speaker 1: ten last year. He turned this thing around eleven and five.
Speaker 1: Right now they're going to the playoffs. But the reason
Speaker 1: I can't really give him a B and the reason
Speaker 1: I can't really give him an A is because, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I think the majority of what
Speaker 1: we talked about it on this show thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of times, the majority of the guy that turned this
Speaker 1: defensive around, it's Dan Quinn. It's his system. It's him
Speaker 1: putting players over system and getting the most out of
Speaker 1: his players. Offensively, we talked about it earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: You know, Kelly Moore's boy Jenius giving all these all
Speaker 1: this stuff and it's offensive. This guy McCarthy was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the offensive guy, but then or Kelly Moore
Speaker 1: is the one that's calling the plays. So to me,
Speaker 1: I gotta give him a C plus because he's done
Speaker 1: a great job of basically turning the culture around and
Speaker 1: make everybody out here is basically saying, all right, let's
Speaker 1: focus on the task out of handed what we gotta do.
Speaker 1: You don't see these guys talking about like last year,
Speaker 1: these coaches can't coach and anything like that. So to me,
Speaker 1: I get, yeah, they could like they could. I give
Speaker 1: him a C plus to turn this culture around. But
Speaker 1: when we're talking about what made this defense turn like that,
Speaker 1: it wasn't McCarthy, it was Dan quinn. So I can't
Speaker 1: give him above a C plus. You know, listen, we
Speaker 1: played against the Minnesota we got that. That that with
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback in the game. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we we we did some things well, kool a. So
Speaker 1: you definitely on the cool. I forgot. That's not calling
Speaker 1: the plays, not calling defense. How could we really give
Speaker 1: him a much credit? All I know is I, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I've seen C plus coaching around the Cowboys. Man, I
Speaker 1: can't this was not a C plus coaching job. Okay,
Speaker 1: you cannot give this man anything less than it be. Okay,
Speaker 1: I seen C plus all right? So so so on
Speaker 1: the dance call the eyear on the dence called the year,
Speaker 1: what did you give Jason Garrett as far as that
Speaker 1: year for coach? Did he win Coach of the year?
Speaker 1: That he did? He did that her sixteen? Okay, so
Speaker 1: he didn't win the Coach of the Year. He didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't remember. I don't remember. I will
Speaker 1: forget that he won. He won Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: when they went thirteen and three with the two rookies
Speaker 1: and then McCarthy came in there and beat the daylights
Speaker 1: at him in the first quarter and they ended up
Speaker 1: winning the playoff games. Rogers hit that same third and
Speaker 1: the same dude, this table the floor to the back
Speaker 1: to back. Come on, man, don't discount that well, which
Speaker 1: dis great. I'm glad you said. I'm glad you said
Speaker 1: that because I had been. I was killing McCarthy last
Speaker 1: year for the six and ten and I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: look look at what Green Bay's done without him. They've
Speaker 1: won thirteen games two years in a row and playing
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game without McCarthy, And they said, do
Speaker 1: you were the problem? What did the Cowboys get? And
Speaker 1: so here they are again, there's the number one seed
Speaker 1: going thirteen games, and I'm saying, all right, Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: you've got the Cowboys at eleven wins. I had him
Speaker 1: at nine. He's done a better job than I I thought.
Speaker 1: And Mike Nolan was the problem. I give him credit
Speaker 1: for getting out of the way of Dan Quinn, and
Speaker 1: so to me, I give Mike mccarthyer a because I
Speaker 1: did not think he could do anything that he did
Speaker 1: this year. I was not betting on it. I had
Speaker 1: lost money in Las Vegas. I said, the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: the division with nine wins, so I'm gonna given a.
Speaker 1: So so you so your A is based off your
Speaker 1: your previous expectation and not his actual body of work
Speaker 1: for this year. It was like, I thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna be an ill but since he go out of
Speaker 1: two more wins and I thought he was gonna get
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him again. What about the performance of
Speaker 1: the year. Not because your expectation was so low, And
Speaker 1: he was like, oh man, this is a total one eighty.
Speaker 1: That ain't right. We're giving this man an A for
Speaker 1: staying out the way defense highly gonna do this. So no,
Speaker 1: I'm not on the fence. I'm not on the fence
Speaker 1: because Danny, you can relate to this haven having gone
Speaker 1: through an NBA program where you start judging people on
Speaker 1: where where did you come from? Okay, where was your
Speaker 1: knowledge base at? When you take a class like an
Speaker 1: analytics or statistics where you where's your space? And then
Speaker 1: where do you end up that I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1: To start this season, I did not think Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: had what it took. In fact, I was one of
Speaker 1: those people saying this dude could be fired. Okay. I
Speaker 1: was like, this dude could be fired if this thing
Speaker 1: doesn't go correctly here. That's where I was on him.
Speaker 1: And the man has gone past the expectations of what
Speaker 1: I thought he could do and what this team could
Speaker 1: do here. So I'm gonna give him an A based
Speaker 1: on that, I am what about us? So if we
Speaker 1: if we get in the first round exit, if we
Speaker 1: go in there, we get out first round, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this man. I ain't give him no
Speaker 1: ad because my expectation, my expectation going into the year
Speaker 1: was different than newis. We had him at eleven wins
Speaker 1: uh and knew he knew he had him in something
Speaker 1: totally different, which to me didn't make sense because I
Speaker 1: believe that I believe that the defense was going to
Speaker 1: be better and we were going to be a better
Speaker 1: team because of it. Dan and you know, and knew
Speaker 1: it is you know, he thought we was gonna win nine.
Speaker 1: So he's like, oh, since we want more than nine,
Speaker 1: that's an a. We should we should have won more
Speaker 1: than nine. Knew if you're being honest. Okay, we just
Speaker 1: got through with two Washington football team and the Saints
Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill. Okay, we set we settle one eleven games.
Speaker 1: But be real about that, Okay, be real about at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. I don't think they'll finish
Speaker 1: number two, but they're gonna finish no more than number four.
Speaker 1: I did not see that for this football team going in.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just did not have these expectations. Didn't
Speaker 1: see them doing what they did that was coming off
Speaker 1: the injury. I just had a lot of doubts about
Speaker 1: this football team, especially what they were doing on what
Speaker 1: was done defensively last year. So I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: that's that's where I am, and that's where I was.
Speaker 1: We all have three different grades, we all have three
Speaker 1: different expectations to kind of what we thought. And that's okay. Now,
Speaker 1: if you get beat, if you get if he pull
Speaker 1: a Garret and there's one of these Garret specials in
Speaker 1: the first hand, then yeah, I'm a lord of the
Speaker 1: grade because I reserved the ranking teams my mind. So
Speaker 1: if you get average performance in the playoffs, you know
Speaker 1: I'm going down on them. So there we go. So
Speaker 1: there we go. I just said right now, right now, listen,
Speaker 1: all listen, this is what I know. Okay, whatever you're
Speaker 1: gonna say about Jason gear and all that that funny
Speaker 1: with thirteen, then they get first round by one time,
Speaker 1: all that time, coach of the Year, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But that's what I want to do before we get
Speaker 1: off the show. Look at the AFC side of things, Okay,
Speaker 1: And as much as we believe that it's possible for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to get the number two seed, it is
Speaker 1: very it is possible for the Cincinnati Bingers to get
Speaker 1: the one seed in the a FC this week. That
Speaker 1: is not gonna happen. Hey man, I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: that it's possible, it is mathematically possible for the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Beingles and Joe Burrow to end up as the number
Speaker 1: one team in the ac as we're doing that. And
Speaker 1: I say that because LSU was playing night against Kansas
Speaker 1: State eight o'clock. Y'all, make sure y'all tune in because
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the first game of the Brian
Speaker 1: Kelly era, and I hope that it goes well. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you just did what you just did right there,
Speaker 1: it's NEWI let's say I get the number one seed.
Speaker 1: Where did I lie? They better get the number one? See,
Speaker 1: because if they two, you know who they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go against in that first round? What you mean,
Speaker 1: are they two? They like number three right now? If
Speaker 1: they get up to two, huh, what about it? You
Speaker 1: know who they gotta play in the first round? That
Speaker 1: that man, that guy Jay Herbert, That's who they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go against. You see what happened last time
Speaker 1: they went up against each other. If they clinched, who
Speaker 1: have the Chargers the playoffs? All I got do is
Speaker 1: be the team they already beat this year? All right,
Speaker 1: That's all they got. The Charges haven't clinched. They're seven
Speaker 1: right now because because they couldn't be, because they couldn't
Speaker 1: beat the Texas. They's seven right now. That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: But they could be Cincinnati. We saw what happened when
Speaker 1: they went together early in the season, so I guess
Speaker 1: that we see what happened. They could be the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They they did, they already did up in the regular season.
Speaker 1: They beat Cincinnati and the Chiefs. They could be Chiefs now,
Speaker 1: don't matter who they don't matter who they ain't playing.
Speaker 1: They're not even in the playoffs. You see, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see what's up now. So Church, Church, you you're going
Speaker 1: against Richard Bes that's my guy, but that's my guy.
Speaker 1: But he gonna take this Alan, that's my guy, but
Speaker 1: he gonna take this al Man. Is that maybe want
Speaker 1: too straight? Who? Yeah? They want two strangers they want
Speaker 1: to shout Listen, the charges couldn't be the Texans, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. All I'm saying. They beat the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. They already beat the Chiefs, and they already
Speaker 1: beat the Rangers. It ain't done none sense. They're not
Speaker 1: in the player a se seat right now, they ain't
Speaker 1: a seven seat. One more quarterback topic before we go,
Speaker 1: because I wanted to get you guys opinion on this
Speaker 1: as players and how you would take this in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Baker Mayfield said afterwards that he's pretty beat
Speaker 1: up and he's gonna start to look out for his
Speaker 1: own health and basically saying, I probably don't go play
Speaker 1: next week. I'm gonna go ahead get the shoulder fixed here.
Speaker 1: What would be your thoughts if you heard this from
Speaker 1: your quarterback? Bro? Just do it. Don't say it. You
Speaker 1: ain't got to say all that. Okay, you hurt that far.
Speaker 1: We know we're in the locker room with you, but
Speaker 1: you ain't got to say, oh that, that's how you
Speaker 1: know that the outside noise is getting to Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield his wife be sitting on Twitter, scrolling through
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who they should reply to, who
Speaker 1: they shouldn't, and then they just do one mask, one mask,
Speaker 1: blind copy, and then they reply to everybody. Let the
Speaker 1: noise get out of your head. Man, if the season
Speaker 1: didn't go well for you, you're gonna go get your surgery.
Speaker 1: Just gonna do that quietly, right and let the rest
Speaker 1: of these dudes who're gonna put it out there on
Speaker 1: the line, let them go out there and focus on
Speaker 1: getting to win. Because somebody dudes playing for their job,
Speaker 1: all right. We don't care that you don't have to
Speaker 1: play for your job. Was you already got your fifth
Speaker 1: year option? Okay? I need to go out here and
Speaker 1: do everything I can to make sure I put something
Speaker 1: more tape for me to have an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: in the league next year. I don't want to hit
Speaker 1: nothing about your shoulder in your search. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: He ain't have to say nothing. He could have just
Speaker 1: been like, hey, man, I'm hurt, I'm done. Go see
Speaker 1: y'all next year. You already picked up the fifth year option.
Speaker 1: We'll see y'all next year. I'm not Hurbert, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm not just a hurt all right.
Speaker 1: I'm not about to lead a team to the playoffs
Speaker 1: in a long stretch run. That's not me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and get this this shoulder done and call
Speaker 1: it a day. Are you Are you willing to bet
Speaker 1: on this somehow? Are you willing to bet on this?
Speaker 1: But Joe Burrow versus just how they how far are
Speaker 1: they making it to the play already mopped up Joe Burn?
Speaker 1: How far are they making in the playf he will
Speaker 1: mop up Joe Burrow again. Okay, we've seen this already. Guys.
Speaker 1: We gotta go. We're talking about this tomorrow, guys, we
Speaker 1: gotta go. We go tomorrow. We can do this tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Jay Herbert from Barry Church. Danny McCrae, I'm knew, he scrugs.
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