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Speaker 1: We don't want to point any fingers while we weren't
Speaker 1: on the air last week. But all I can say
Speaker 1: is it wasn't me. It wasn't either way. To start
Speaker 1: out with the Orlando Skendrick tape was nice, reading straight
Speaker 1: from New Orlando Scandrick screen was actually okay, thought he
Speaker 1: was too okay, O cas see a kind of team
Speaker 1: were running. Hey Louis, welcome back. Hey yeah, it's good
Speaker 1: to be back. Okay. So so fine, let's start off
Speaker 1: the Players Lounge with an explanation here. So last week
Speaker 1: we didn't have a show because my flight didn't get
Speaker 1: back from New Jersey until four o'clock. Now, I couldn't
Speaker 1: change the flight without a severe financial penalty, because you
Speaker 1: know how the airlines were, so couldn't do that. The
Speaker 1: flight was booked this summer before the show had even
Speaker 1: been created. All sounds sounds. So my first thought and
Speaker 1: talking to Big Boss man, can we do it Wednesday?
Speaker 1: But you two had a golf outing, so we didn't
Speaker 1: do it Wednesday. I suggested Thursday, I or anything. So
Speaker 1: that was when it moved to next week. So that's
Speaker 1: what did you try to like push that on too? No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I giving you, I giving you. Happen wednesday? We were busy,
Speaker 1: so no, no, these were what we were doing. That
Speaker 1: one Airlines false just you know how it is, changing
Speaker 1: the plane ticket, it's a little price, it's a car,
Speaker 1: especially coming out when you're trying to change it on
Speaker 1: after a cowboy game. So anyway, Bytom mind, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get on an earlier flight either, So it
Speaker 1: was what it was. It was what it was. So
Speaker 1: we're back now, We welcome back. Happy to just Scandrick
Speaker 1: knife down here. We got it is about to get
Speaker 1: heated here right now. Come on, man, you for Pittsfurn
Speaker 1: and I ain't going back North. I think I ain't.
Speaker 1: That's the reason I ain't going back. It's the same
Speaker 1: dude that they say it's too hot in Texas and
Speaker 1: he wanted to move. Hey, I gotta be right in
Speaker 1: the middle. They gotta do it alright in the middle.
Speaker 1: All right, two former Cowboys safeties here for an hour,
Speaker 1: and we've got a lot to get into. We've got
Speaker 1: our football phrase the day. We will dive into that.
Speaker 1: I do want to get into this combination. We'll do
Speaker 1: it later on the show of Dak Prescott to Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper and comparing it to uh one, you guys played
Speaker 1: with Tony Romo to Dez Bryant. So we want to
Speaker 1: get into there. Um the tight end situation. Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: having another game there where we're seeing him make a play,
Speaker 1: hits playing time increase, will get into the college football Playoff.
Speaker 1: Ohio State was ranked number one. They have another unveiling tonight.
Speaker 1: Should Ohio State stay number one? Should there be a
Speaker 1: change based on what we saw in the SEC this week?
Speaker 1: We have a food debate here sugar and grits. It's
Speaker 1: a must sugar and grits. Some people think the sugar
Speaker 1: should go and grits and some people leave that it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: So we will debate that here on the show today.
Speaker 1: But let us start with this loss that we saw
Speaker 1: an NBC by Sunday Night Football. Here the Vikings came
Speaker 1: out and played well. And if you really think about it,
Speaker 1: what we thought about this game too evenly matched teams,
Speaker 1: and we saw how it ended up turning out. Cowboys
Speaker 1: lose the game twenty eight twenty four. They fall to
Speaker 1: five and four. Now they are in a first place
Speaker 1: type of Philadelphia. They own the type breaker because they
Speaker 1: beat Philly on Sunday Night Football last month. But as
Speaker 1: a player, how do you get past another loss where
Speaker 1: you can sit here start counting on your fingers mistakes
Speaker 1: that you made as a Cowboy player that prevented you
Speaker 1: from winning. How do you get past this? As you
Speaker 1: get towards and you have to look towards a road
Speaker 1: game against the Lions coming up on Sunday, which the
Speaker 1: lines are no slous man. I mean staffords out here
Speaker 1: if he, if he does play, there are no slouch
Speaker 1: out there. But I mean, you just gotta break down
Speaker 1: that film. I know, defensively, I mean there was a
Speaker 1: lot of mistackles out there. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: bad angles taken cook just looked like different type of running.
Speaker 1: May just explosives, some of that, some of that gap
Speaker 1: responsibility that we talked to them. Saw a lot of
Speaker 1: peaking in gaps, and that's why you saw. I mean
Speaker 1: they were running through holes that looked ghenormous, but I
Speaker 1: mean some guys were peeking in and out. They got
Speaker 1: on They got on woods so quick. I know, he
Speaker 1: was in his back pedal a few times and it
Speaker 1: was like, I'm still BACKFEDO, how to cook? Get up
Speaker 1: here so fast? The play calling from the Minnesota side,
Speaker 1: I thought it was excellent. I mean, the way they
Speaker 1: used the aggression from you know, the front four and
Speaker 1: used that against them, used that speed against them by
Speaker 1: hitting them with screen passes, slowing that down, and that
Speaker 1: gave Kirk Cousins a little bit more time to kind
Speaker 1: of dissect this defense. I mean, I know we talked
Speaker 1: about it earlier. You don't want to give enough credit,
Speaker 1: but I thought he played a pretty good game against
Speaker 1: this defense. He did. I think they played the game
Speaker 1: that we planned on playing against them, make them stop
Speaker 1: the run, and they said they would do the same
Speaker 1: thing us, and we didn't stop the run. Run and
Speaker 1: screen and cook and cook and cook, And then that
Speaker 1: just opened it up for kirk Cousins. Okay, stay right there, now,
Speaker 1: this is just me. You guys played I didn't, So
Speaker 1: help me understand. Just my my eyes, my eyes are
Speaker 1: telling me that Gary Kubiak and company went and saw
Speaker 1: the film. Here's what the Colts did last year where
Speaker 1: they beat the Cowboys. Here's what Sean mcbah and the
Speaker 1: Rams did in the playoffs. This is what the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers did. Now we're gonna figure out how we
Speaker 1: can run it on these guys and and and they
Speaker 1: won't make any changes, and we're just gonna keep on going.
Speaker 1: And except for they had that great ability as you
Speaker 1: talked about the screen game, Oh you think it's a
Speaker 1: run nine now, and that that for me was just
Speaker 1: I was just trying to It was tough to watch
Speaker 1: because right now, there's a blueprint. It seems to beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Run the football, go up front, go out physical,
Speaker 1: and you can win a game. There's a there's a
Speaker 1: blueprint print. Defensively, I think I thought we played pretty
Speaker 1: well on offense. I think the way that they yeah, yeah, defensively,
Speaker 1: that is the brue blueprint. Make us stop the run,
Speaker 1: and we haven't been able to. And that's the way
Speaker 1: you lose the game. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to stop any offense in the league when you
Speaker 1: can make them balanced, or you don't make them choose
Speaker 1: which way, which way to go. Like if I was,
Speaker 1: you know, if I was playing for the Cops at
Speaker 1: that time, I would have wanted, you know, Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: trying to beat us with his arm. But it's it's
Speaker 1: hard when you got to go, man, we gotta try
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to stop Cook. We gotta
Speaker 1: start found a way to stop these screens and Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is throwing the digs a little bit. It's hard, man,
Speaker 1: when you keep it the defense off balance like that,
Speaker 1: it's tough. Hundred fifty three yards of rushing on the
Speaker 1: grand Man and the Madison kid, the Alexander Madison, he
Speaker 1: looked just as good. I mean, they didn't drop off.
Speaker 1: We weren't stopping the run against anybody that game. It
Speaker 1: just like I said, it didn't look good. It look
Speaker 1: like we got a little bit off physical on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, a little bit on our front. Their line
Speaker 1: was better than I than I had expected to them
Speaker 1: to be, and they lost two people during the game,
Speaker 1: and they didn't play like it at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was runs where Cook wasn't getting touched five yards
Speaker 1: it was. And on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: I think Zimmer did a great job of just saying, look,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make y'all beat us through the air. He
Speaker 1: left his corners out the drive, I mean, and they
Speaker 1: did get abused, dig get abuse, but he said, look,
Speaker 1: Zeke's not y'all can keep running them into the wall
Speaker 1: if y'all want to. But but but the thing is, we've
Speaker 1: played against teams that have said the same thing, and
Speaker 1: we've produced against them. So like we go into the
Speaker 1: game knowing, ay, they're gonna try to stop Zeke, and
Speaker 1: we've been able to still get Zeke going to get
Speaker 1: them some yards and then anybody stop. They didn't have limball,
Speaker 1: So it's confusing missing Adam feeling. You know, another receiver,
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs really had one good catch up the sideline,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's kind of the maddening thing when
Speaker 1: you started to look at some of the things that
Speaker 1: happened in this football game, where um, the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: every opportunity, this thing was designed for them at home
Speaker 1: to get to get a win and it gets away.
Speaker 1: But defensively, that's the thing for me right now is
Speaker 1: if you know how to run the football, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it now. Detroit doesn't have a running back that
Speaker 1: can can produce like Cook. But you know, Matt Patricia,
Speaker 1: being in former New England Page's assistant, it's going to
Speaker 1: come do say we're stopping twenty one the next the
Speaker 1: next two games and stop twenty one right and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: they got a corner out catch up. And as we
Speaker 1: say every week before we go into these games, it's
Speaker 1: the Lions. They may not have Mats Stafford, you know,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Do not sleep on the Lions. They're
Speaker 1: not a bad team. They're they're a competitive team, and
Speaker 1: they have that quarterback. They're pretty good. After the Jets,
Speaker 1: I don't think get to say this, you think so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. After look, I mean, you're the next seven
Speaker 1: teams that the Cowboys play have a combined record to
Speaker 1: thirty two, thirty and one. But when when I say sleep,
Speaker 1: I'm also talking about what you tweeted about. I believe
Speaker 1: yesterday or today that this is a real issue. You said,
Speaker 1: this is a real issue of us coming out sleepwalkings
Speaker 1: on these games. If it's a real issue, then is it?
Speaker 1: Is it the mindset of the player? Are we really
Speaker 1: when we come out here on the field and then
Speaker 1: we wake up at halftime? I don't know, Like you said,
Speaker 1: you can't keep you can't keep battling back every every game.
Speaker 1: Great point you made, and I've got to I've got
Speaker 1: to pull it up here. Bob's Storm of the Athletic
Speaker 1: wrote about in the in the Cowboys four losses in
Speaker 1: the first half, Um, I think the numbers except they
Speaker 1: were outscore seventy five to nine, which is the first half.
Speaker 1: That's nuts. So so this this is not you know,
Speaker 1: it's not some theory. It's not just fans saying you're not. No,
Speaker 1: they're coming out with slow starts here and you know
Speaker 1: you're thirty and one to three or something the green.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just you're getting it handed to you.
Speaker 1: And I wonder what could it be, because it's like
Speaker 1: as a player, I mean, you're not just gonna come
Speaker 1: out there sleeping, like you're not even gonna come out
Speaker 1: and be like, I don't feel like playing this week.
Speaker 1: That's why I go back to I don't think it's
Speaker 1: the pregame speech. Yea is it? Is it the way
Speaker 1: that the players are being called at the beginning. Is
Speaker 1: it trying to establish something that that they're stopping, or
Speaker 1: like like, I'm must stablished the run, So my first
Speaker 1: five or six players are gonna be X, Y, Z
Speaker 1: or whatever. And now we go through and out of
Speaker 1: a couple times, and it's our slow starts versus running
Speaker 1: the stuff that you would run at halftime when you
Speaker 1: come out of halftime. So so right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: a fifty seven yard field goal attempt is I don't
Speaker 1: understand now one, well, a little about the sword by
Speaker 1: the sword that's gonna say, Man, this thing just went
Speaker 1: left right out of the game, had no shot. So
Speaker 1: now we talk about sudden change here, so boom, hey,
Speaker 1: they've got the ball to forty seven yardline. So this
Speaker 1: is a situation that we are becoming too comfortable with, right,
Speaker 1: Let it mire her to attempt to kick a fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty yard field goal and feeling comfortable about it.
Speaker 1: Think it's not thinking about the consequence of Yeah, this dude,
Speaker 1: he could be fifty percent from from sixty plus, but
Speaker 1: when he misses sudden change, do you think it's like
Speaker 1: players thinking, you know, we'll battle out of it, we'll
Speaker 1: come back from It's the same thing is that you
Speaker 1: think can attribute to slow stars or like, I don't understands.
Speaker 1: I'm not a lot now. I think it's honestly a
Speaker 1: way that we're calling the game offensively. Defensively, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not that many defensive different defenses that you can run.
Speaker 1: Because the ball marched down the field on you first drive,
Speaker 1: you like, yeah, we're in for a long yeah see.
Speaker 1: But defensively, sometimes that happened comes out they having some
Speaker 1: schemed up special players and all that stuff. Our special
Speaker 1: players don't seem to be in get getting called at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game. I'll tell you what was disrespectful.
Speaker 1: When they went down. I think it was a nine
Speaker 1: played drive coming out of half that it might have been,
Speaker 1: but in seven of them are runs. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: literally marched the ball. This caller imposing your will you
Speaker 1: just stop the run, we are going to run it.
Speaker 1: They literally just back bobbing, then shamed the ball. They
Speaker 1: got us, They got us. Yeah, man, it was it
Speaker 1: was rough to watch, just no one knowing the players
Speaker 1: that we have on defensive linebackers that we have the
Speaker 1: defensive line, that we have safeties, we got corners that
Speaker 1: the tackle and worked every run of that word. And
Speaker 1: he looked amazing previous in previous games. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: it wasn't he knew he's the number one running back,
Speaker 1: number one Russia coming into this thing. Take lords. He said, no,
Speaker 1: not this week, That's what he said, Not this week, lady. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that that that what happened. I said, I feel for
Speaker 1: the food. The foods go from last week they stopped
Speaker 1: say Kuan yeah right, yeah, they stopped saying good on
Speaker 1: Devin Cook. And then the next week, say Quan says,
Speaker 1: next team and he has thirteen rustlings from White one
Speaker 1: yard And I was like, oh, that's that's what it
Speaker 1: was killing. So it wasn't that's what happens in football too, right,
Speaker 1: So it wasn't less really being great. They just weren't
Speaker 1: really that good at running the ball. And if you
Speaker 1: think about it defensively, I think the last week it
Speaker 1: gets the Giants of Giants World one to five and
Speaker 1: the Reds Minnesota was I think three for five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you opened the door. Let me just go ahead and
Speaker 1: walk through the second play. Well, actually when Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: All right on the fourth down, fourth alcohol, Rudolph blocks
Speaker 1: Vanderash And I'm looking at that and I'm saying that
Speaker 1: that just to look like last year's Lake Vanderash, that
Speaker 1: that Kyle Rudolph can block. He's not known for Listen,
Speaker 1: thank you, important part of the body when you're playing
Speaker 1: football playing And that's that's what I'm getting this. We're
Speaker 1: not seeing the fifty five we saw last year. And
Speaker 1: he's had the injury, and he's saying after the football game,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm okay. You guys know better than me.
Speaker 1: He didn't look the same. So if he's not looking
Speaker 1: to say and I also knew this because I was
Speaker 1: around Terence Newman as a round de Marcus where these
Speaker 1: guys didn't want to talk about the injuries. That it
Speaker 1: was like, nope, we're not gonna do it, not gonna
Speaker 1: use excuses. But I'm just sitting here watching this. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I've got to believe something's not right with
Speaker 1: this young man because he doesn't look the same and
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph blocking him on it just just him right there,
Speaker 1: and I know he had an edge, but still, yeah,
Speaker 1: he did look right man, someone could be wronging him.
Speaker 1: But like you said, I mean, as a player, you
Speaker 1: just you're just not going to bring that even up
Speaker 1: as an excuse. You're not even just gonna black. I mean,
Speaker 1: you might be hailing from something and it really really
Speaker 1: bothers you, but he just can't have this excuse because
Speaker 1: then you're gonna get a stigma. I think I think
Speaker 1: we have the responsibility to understand as being here knowing
Speaker 1: that the guy has a knack injury, that there will
Speaker 1: probably be a little little, a little fall off on
Speaker 1: his play, and we saw it. You cannot play football
Speaker 1: without having the upper body, and especially as a linebacker
Speaker 1: and a guy that needs to hit and extend, you know,
Speaker 1: shock and create contact and separation, and he's not able
Speaker 1: to do that. He might be able to get away
Speaker 1: with that at corner, but that linebacker or some players,
Speaker 1: right if you if you chase it down the screen
Speaker 1: or something that you might have not had an issue.
Speaker 1: But when you man the man, you know you got
Speaker 1: a shot separation. NA. Yeah, that's rough. All right, Players
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Speaker 1: scrug Sports. So despite everything that happened here, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is balling. Dak Prescott, Zimber said, twenty one won't beat
Speaker 1: us four? Show us if you can beat us four
Speaker 1: is doing his part. They go down the field, they
Speaker 1: get to the eleven yard line and yeah, everybody's playing
Speaker 1: armchair quarterback. Everybody looking back saying I don't understand it,
Speaker 1: um and Bury something that you wanted to talk about, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to me, I just you know, the whole
Speaker 1: sequence of events that happened, starting from the from the
Speaker 1: punt return, you know, from the tape on Austin back there,
Speaker 1: from TV, from the TV prospective, because that's why I
Speaker 1: was watching the game, and from the television it looked
Speaker 1: like he had twelve or fifteen yards of free grass.
Speaker 1: You know to run at least set up something twenty
Speaker 1: twenty plus. My man was telling me so for him
Speaker 1: to just you know, fair catch that, and it looked
Speaker 1: like and he's an experienced returner, he's not like a
Speaker 1: rookie out there just you know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm doing. Some of the fair casters. Somebody had to say,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, fair casters for the team or whatever.
Speaker 1: Something had to happen like that because I don't think
Speaker 1: an experienced punt return like that's gonna see that much
Speaker 1: green grass, that much time left on the clock. And
Speaker 1: there he goes like, yeahs if you rewind this, I know,
Speaker 1: I look at the coach, he looks at somebody like, man,
Speaker 1: you sure that was the right card. Ever, everybody's going
Speaker 1: over this, so I would just like to rewind to
Speaker 1: the beginning. And this is how you can tell what
Speaker 1: was what was coach to the guys that are going
Speaker 1: to block, and there's a difference between that and the
Speaker 1: guy that's catching the ball. These guys are given one
Speaker 1: hundred percent effort and holding up not blocking the thirty seven,
Speaker 1: and the guy next to him are coming out to
Speaker 1: be the wall with the lead blockers for Tava and
Speaker 1: Austin on this right. So they're setting up. They're not
Speaker 1: taking the playoff. They're not expecting the fair catch, because
Speaker 1: if they were, they will just all be jogging down
Speaker 1: not doing much. So the communication from that front line,
Speaker 1: those guys who are working, working their butts off to
Speaker 1: go and block these guys and hold them up. It's
Speaker 1: different from the communication than the return of gout. That's obvious.
Speaker 1: And as soon as he catches it, that man, you
Speaker 1: can see him, he looks dead at the you know,
Speaker 1: the side. It's no question that there was a there
Speaker 1: was bad communication or it's not miscommunication, like what you're
Speaker 1: looking at me for. Yeah, I'm doing what I was told.
Speaker 1: That's what it seemed like to me. Look cheetoh, look
Speaker 1: all these guys are coming out setting up this wall
Speaker 1: on the up. He rolling, He's like, yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed Yeah, you mean, I don't you know? So
Speaker 1: who told him? Who told him? What? You know? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not I'm not in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, somebody said something wrong. I know. I know
Speaker 1: we have some other stuff that's going on with with
Speaker 1: with some sources and all that. I don't have any
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my best to find out what happened.
Speaker 1: We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna find out because it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's leaks and cracks in there. Somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: say something the streets and style, and I don't I
Speaker 1: don't see somebody like Tavon falling on the sword for
Speaker 1: something that he didn't do, especially with all all the
Speaker 1: attention that is getting. And they were gonna go further
Speaker 1: on into the to the sequence of events that happened.
Speaker 1: I believe they got down to the eleven yard line
Speaker 1: I think it was, and it was what second and
Speaker 1: I want to say second and four, maybe second and two,
Speaker 1: something like that. Well, the point was that that was
Speaker 1: that was going into the last seconds where they got
Speaker 1: the ball all the way down to the alist we
Speaker 1: thought out, oh yeah, okay, it which ended in the
Speaker 1: fourth It was it was run z twice twice and
Speaker 1: then throw up and then on the fourth down I
Speaker 1: was running. Yeah, he was catching. You remember you had
Speaker 1: two honey yard receivers and we threw the balls and man,
Speaker 1: my man that had the high he was driving him
Speaker 1: the whole way down. And you know, that was it
Speaker 1: was great it was. I mean, I can see I
Speaker 1: can see switching it up here and there just to
Speaker 1: get a run in, just to keep the defense unbalanced
Speaker 1: or whatever. But they decided to run an east west
Speaker 1: like you got it. You got one of the best
Speaker 1: one of the backs that go on north south when
Speaker 1: he gets his pass square to the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: going north and south, he got one of the best
Speaker 1: one of the backs in the league. And to run,
Speaker 1: you know, an east west run like that to give
Speaker 1: the defensive about, you know, opportunity to penetrate and create
Speaker 1: a tackle for laws like that, that just blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Right there went from third and two to a fourth
Speaker 1: and five, which I mean, that's that's a huge difference.
Speaker 1: One go on to the east west. I think it's
Speaker 1: like the third time we've seen that. It hasn't always
Speaker 1: been Zeke. I think that. And I know how Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett thinks about running the ball and how seriously is
Speaker 1: about it, and how much effort they put into it.
Speaker 1: They I know they believe it's a man on man
Speaker 1: when you get into those situations, our guys are better
Speaker 1: than yours, and running east east west, that show the
Speaker 1: trust I'm expected to see even if you get hit
Speaker 1: at the line of crimage. Yeah, these are losses. The
Speaker 1: losses and if and then Frederick right there getting not
Speaker 1: getting the ball. Look for I'm I'm in the end
Speaker 1: zone because I'm getting ready to do the TV show
Speaker 1: by my TV show, So I'm in the end zone
Speaker 1: watching this, and I'm simply saying to myself, dance with
Speaker 1: what brung you. That was Dak throwing the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. You get to the eleven and you decide
Speaker 1: to ditch what was was working. They committed to stop
Speaker 1: twenty one. They stopped twenty one. You had how many
Speaker 1: more minutes before to get this game out? I mean
Speaker 1: it was almost fifty You haven't done in fifty eight minutes,
Speaker 1: But the last two minutes you're gonna get it. That
Speaker 1: was the thing to show when Press Scott was playing
Speaker 1: so well, and for me, I'm thinking I want him
Speaker 1: throwing it, but also knowing his ability to act like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it and then just keep going. We
Speaker 1: saw so Wilson last night. I'm money and football. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you've got a quarterback that can can use his
Speaker 1: legs and in a smart way like Dak, I just
Speaker 1: that was what I was looking at and questioning just
Speaker 1: to myself, say, man, this seems like you didn't put
Speaker 1: the ball in the best player's hands that you had
Speaker 1: that So who does that go on? Though? Like which
Speaker 1: decision maker that this is killing Moore's fault. He's calling
Speaker 1: the players, this is killing the five yard out route,
Speaker 1: the quick out that's on killing Moore. You telling me
Speaker 1: that you believe JJ said, hey, line him up being empty,
Speaker 1: put Zeke at one. What I'm on the quick out?
Speaker 1: On it, not having it? Not having you don't run
Speaker 1: a pick route. We got the option kiing the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame option king. We have two one on the
Speaker 1: yard receivers, and somehow we hit Zeke on a quick out.
Speaker 1: Didn't to give a chance to read against against Kendricks,
Speaker 1: one of the best couple of live babies. Can't. I'm
Speaker 1: looking like you gotta be come on, man, he was
Speaker 1: gonna turn the corner. He was gonna turn the corner
Speaker 1: to take over cold easily and run these routes across
Speaker 1: the middle of shake cross. And we came up with
Speaker 1: a let's line up an empty and they said they're
Speaker 1: gonna stop Zeke. Nah, I'm gonna wrong. We ain't gonna
Speaker 1: let h run, he gonna diving. We got him with
Speaker 1: this thought. He had a call their parents on and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, that was a bad play call, but
Speaker 1: he saved us. But that it just it just didn't
Speaker 1: give it didn't let Dak do what he had been
Speaker 1: doing best pretty much this whole season. Mind receiver, make
Speaker 1: the throw, make something happen. And it just wasn't feel
Speaker 1: like it was a bad decision. All right, players lounge,
Speaker 1: We've got more to get to about this game, and
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Speaker 1: about it at the end. All right, Okay, he is
Speaker 1: damn mccraig. That's Berry Church. I knew he scrugs. You
Speaker 1: were listening to the players lounge. Now, we typically on
Speaker 1: this show seemed to have debates that range outside of football.
Speaker 1: And that's okay, that's okay, perfectly fine. Um, I knew
Speaker 1: he's always on the other side. He's always scaredy you
Speaker 1: guys setting the players, the media gonna be right here
Speaker 1: all along. I bet you I went to talk to
Speaker 1: special teams after. I bet they didn't go find him.
Speaker 1: They went, I'm ahead, take up myself. Okay, after the game,
Speaker 1: I didn't go in the lit room because I had
Speaker 1: to come right on the field because the game was
Speaker 1: on NBC, So right after the game, I'm right there.
Speaker 1: So I didn't go in the locker rooms, right there
Speaker 1: on the field, um doing my things. I didn't get
Speaker 1: you having to make the decision. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: go in the locker room. Got be that guy, you
Speaker 1: know what after a game like that? Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: got was like, Pat, don't you good to go in there?
Speaker 1: He was our first and only guess so far the show. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you know all right, So grits and a staple of
Speaker 1: the American southern diet. You're from Pittsburgh, it's a must.
Speaker 1: And I was heavy with the gritz. You're from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: so I wasn't sure your your grit experience or not.
Speaker 1: But Danny and I, being guys who who were South
Speaker 1: dirty South grits, were on there. So I can't remember
Speaker 1: who brought it up. I just saw you tweeted. It
Speaker 1: might have been my boy Xavier Pope or jes Holly,
Speaker 1: I can't remember. It wasn't Jesse, okay. And he said
Speaker 1: he likes sugar and grits, and I said, that's a no,
Speaker 1: like just outright, no, I'm not putting sugar. It's not
Speaker 1: cream of wheat. Okay, sugar and the grit you mix
Speaker 1: it up. I'm gonna give I'm gonna give you my
Speaker 1: go His Hop grits recipe. All right, it's a grit recipe.
Speaker 1: Just get you some regular grits first, all right. You
Speaker 1: get that, you put it in the bowl. Get you
Speaker 1: some syrup. Put that in there, a little dad with
Speaker 1: sugar and some grape jelly. Stir all that up. You
Speaker 1: got you. You got you a nice mix. And do
Speaker 1: you dip your toes in the Okay? None? None, that's
Speaker 1: not grits, man, that's crear. What's the first thing I
Speaker 1: said that I have never ever heard ever but grit
Speaker 1: and sugar ever grit, sugar and butter. Yeah, okay, now
Speaker 1: now this is okay, good black you told me you so,
Speaker 1: this is don't forget the dip your toast and it
Speaker 1: has to be toasted. Toast I'm trying to get. I'm
Speaker 1: rolling with a biscuit. Listen, put it on the biscuits.
Speaker 1: Put the eggs on that, a little bacon. Make your sandwich. Now.
Speaker 1: Butter and grits just playing not my thing. That's how
Speaker 1: my dad did it for a long long time. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't want these grits. I want these gris. Then
Speaker 1: I found cheese, cheese grits. That's so so, some butter,
Speaker 1: some cheese. I'm good. Give yourself some options though. I
Speaker 1: found bacon. Oh oh yeah, some bacon, some cheese, and bam,
Speaker 1: that's it. But I know I don't put sugar in them.
Speaker 1: I don't want them sweet. That's cream and wheat. If
Speaker 1: I want cream and wheat, cream wheat, I'm not putting
Speaker 1: it in grit You're just sitting in sugar grits. You're
Speaker 1: serving up Hello, my favorite Halloween. Can't he want to
Speaker 1: ask about grits. I pull this lit from the side,
Speaker 1: sugar and everything. How much did you put your back
Speaker 1: in the day about serving up talking about that. That's
Speaker 1: the same house we put sugar rice. If they had rice,
Speaker 1: I put sugar now everything. Look, I am the sugar freak. Okay,
Speaker 1: when you don't, I don't. I don't smoke, I don't
Speaker 1: drink my vice in life and probably sugar. Me and sugar.
Speaker 1: We didn't sugar freak when we've been too friendly. But
Speaker 1: I don't do it in the grand Try to recipe, man,
Speaker 1: Try to get a spoonful. You'll be all right, man
Speaker 1: to try. You try. If you try, you tell me
Speaker 1: it's nasty. You just don't like. I don't know about
Speaker 1: the jelly, but the srub. I'm gonna let Church try
Speaker 1: first after we work out tomorrow. So you're going, Danny, sugar,
Speaker 1: a few grits, not a lot of grits. Syrup and
Speaker 1: grape jelly, yeah, yeah, grape grape is grape is good
Speaker 1: with toast. And I also I got my eggs and
Speaker 1: stuff on there. So at the end of the at
Speaker 1: the end of the middle, I just started all together.
Speaker 1: I put it on top of toast, so it was
Speaker 1: like the bargest boards in the boat. I got the bowl. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a boat. It's one of those big bowls, you know,
Speaker 1: the cereal boats. Country crock. Uh, it's a country crock.
Speaker 1: It's not a real bowl. It's a left over from
Speaker 1: the butter that you had the last time you got
Speaker 1: as a bowl. So let me ask this because because
Speaker 1: this is how it works. Sound who first made this
Speaker 1: for you? My big sister. She put sugar on everything.
Speaker 1: If we don't have grits, then she made rice. That's
Speaker 1: how I got the sugar rice sugar, right, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: never heard that sugar sugar. You know you haven't lived
Speaker 1: rights you making rice, putting everything, got a little got
Speaker 1: a little bit rice never heard you know what. He
Speaker 1: don't want it because he think he gonna get he
Speaker 1: gonna get it. Come. That was in the Giants game,
Speaker 1: the Cowboy Giants game they have they had rice footing.
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's I'm not putting in. You guys
Speaker 1: going over to a pandix fress putting sugar on your rice.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was a substitute for the grits.
Speaker 1: So it also goes for breakfast. Pandis preson for breakfast.
Speaker 1: We didn't have grits in the pantry, so we had rice.
Speaker 1: It was minute rice too, so you get a quick
Speaker 1: bottle water boos, let us. I put butter in the rice,
Speaker 1: got butter and rice. We got to him yet. Knock.
Speaker 1: That's a Houston thing. That's he just said from the
Speaker 1: bird way up north. Okay, we're gonna get you. I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I will Yeah, I ain't coming to your
Speaker 1: house with brunch. So you kids prepared to be disappointed.
Speaker 1: Sugar and everything. Kids on the back. Do you know what?
Speaker 1: My kid knocked my head phone out? All right, no,
Speaker 1: stop stop stop that fine. Let me let me continue,
Speaker 1: Let me continue, as gonna say, let me continue to
Speaker 1: make Danny Danny's day here. Um. Ohio State is currently
Speaker 1: number one to college footballer. I spoke with Devin that
Speaker 1: Smith to the locker room last week with Clarence Hill
Speaker 1: and and and Jack Taylor. We discussed whether or not
Speaker 1: Ohio State should have been number one. I hope your
Speaker 1: discussion came out as no. Well, I wanted to get
Speaker 1: his opinions as the Buckey wanted to get his opinion,
Speaker 1: and he felt that they should have been and um My,
Speaker 1: my thing was simply, it'll be a one week deal.
Speaker 1: Whoever Bama, whoever won the Alabama Las Who game, was
Speaker 1: gonna go elevate themselves. And so they've got the College
Speaker 1: Football Playoff ranking tonight and then you know they do
Speaker 1: it over in grape Vine. So that's where the College
Speaker 1: Football Playoff is headquartered, right there, Great Vine across the street. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Big twelve is on on one side of the street.
Speaker 1: Big Twelve headquarters on the other side of the street.
Speaker 1: So where they have the college for I know where
Speaker 1: to go if we not number one to night, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, and the final and the final ranking,
Speaker 1: they'll do the final ranking over at the Gaylor Word Hotel.
Speaker 1: But you never really answered that. You said it's a
Speaker 1: one week thing, so you try to stay neutral. Should
Speaker 1: Ohio State have been number one, I wouldn't have put
Speaker 1: in there, thank you. Yeah. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll freely admit I'll have the sec bias there. Um,
Speaker 1: I just think it's the gauntlet that you go through
Speaker 1: is tougher than it is in the Big Ten. But
Speaker 1: I also I am of this has always been my
Speaker 1: opinion with this thing. I believe they throw some of
Speaker 1: this stuff out here for TV purposes and to go
Speaker 1: ahead and get people debating and talking and to throw
Speaker 1: it off the center. Well, we don't want to hear
Speaker 1: that say it's sec BI. So we're gonna put Ohio
Speaker 1: State number one. The winner of the Alabama LSU game
Speaker 1: is LSU should be number one tonight and Ohio State
Speaker 1: will fall that it didn't. Thus more debate. Will should
Speaker 1: Ohio State be knocked down? They didn't. They put the
Speaker 1: whooping on on Maryland. They did their part. Watch. I
Speaker 1: do think a lot of this is theatrical. Where does
Speaker 1: Obama go? They got to be out of the top four,
Speaker 1: they lost, so they lost by five. What does Bama go?
Speaker 1: Because you got one spot love now? So who I'm
Speaker 1: trying to ask? You got Oklahoma and Bailey playing this week,
Speaker 1: so put them out? What you got? How state right now?
Speaker 1: Or last state? Penn State lost right and sold to Alabama,
Speaker 1: So Penn State, Penn State might not even be in
Speaker 1: the top ten. And see, here's an interesting thing. Because
Speaker 1: Minnesota State is undefeated and Penn State lost on the road,
Speaker 1: Alabama lost at home. How do you factor that in?
Speaker 1: Does that matter? Or is it the fact that LSU,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the better football team. You lost,
Speaker 1: you lost at home, but you lost to a football
Speaker 1: team that has an argument to be the number one
Speaker 1: team in the country. Penn State did not lose to
Speaker 1: a team that that that has that So I mean,
Speaker 1: there's that. That's the once again, it's the beauty of
Speaker 1: the TV show of what they want to put out
Speaker 1: there and how how you throw it out there. I
Speaker 1: am of the opinion, having watched that football game, that
Speaker 1: these are two evenly matched football team teams and LSU
Speaker 1: was better that day. Yeah, this is an Alabama football team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the four best teams in the country.
Speaker 1: I think Alabama is one of the four best teams
Speaker 1: in the country. Would agree, And I think last week
Speaker 1: we saw the two best you know, arguably two of
Speaker 1: the four best teams, if not two of the best
Speaker 1: three teams in the country. Do you put Clemson in there,
Speaker 1: put in the top They'll be there based on being undefeatable.
Speaker 1: Hold on, We did all this as the LSU Tigers
Speaker 1: just for y'all to come out here and say that
Speaker 1: Alabama and LSU are equal. If we just went in
Speaker 1: the house and beat them. We had a twenty point
Speaker 1: lead on this team. We are the better team. Not
Speaker 1: that night. We are the better team. We not evenly match.
Speaker 1: We have the better quarterback, we have the better group
Speaker 1: of receivers running backs maybe equal, maybe equal, but we
Speaker 1: are not even our receiver. Our group, our group they
Speaker 1: have they have, they have two. We have three tight
Speaker 1: running back And then you and brought us in helmet
Speaker 1: need to go do that little podcast play. Hey, you
Speaker 1: watched it, you watched at you. I didn't get to
Speaker 1: watch most of he gonna come ahead and give some
Speaker 1: real insight about I was getting ready to have your backs.
Speaker 1: Where are you? Listen? They were about twenty radio points
Speaker 1: and I got to hear everybody talking about all the
Speaker 1: fumbles and listen that people fumbled as part it's part
Speaker 1: of the games, part of the part. The game went
Speaker 1: into the house while they was ranking number three, and
Speaker 1: we beat them, unless you wam were defeated. They Now
Speaker 1: we gotta hub, we gotta Hugsbar from runner our team
Speaker 1: who just what he proved I told you going through
Speaker 1: all the what I told you say they were number one?
Speaker 1: You did okay, huh, yes I did. And then and
Speaker 1: then after that he said yeah, but Alabama it's just
Speaker 1: as good. They just wanted as good as them. That day,
Speaker 1: as I said, Joe Burrow that jumped over to He
Speaker 1: proved it. We talked about this earlier. They would go
Speaker 1: against each other and one of them we out build
Speaker 1: each other, and Joe Burrow did it. Joe Burrow for Husman. Popados.
Speaker 1: We on our way, baby, We on a way to Popados.
Speaker 1: We will see. Was I right by these? I will
Speaker 1: tell you this. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you Texas,
Speaker 1: by Alabama, Ohio Stateman, all you got all right there together?
Speaker 1: Better we travel, Our stadium is better. Everything is better
Speaker 1: about the way. Who was who was the young man?
Speaker 1: It was crying. The coach was holding him and the
Speaker 1: best what's his name? Video? Right side the video? What
Speaker 1: do then? Ojaran was crying? Just shows you that's what
Speaker 1: I mean when you beat, when you beat the man,
Speaker 1: when you beat the standard, you know, that's how much
Speaker 1: it means to you had to crying on the so
Speaker 1: he watched the clip. You well, you know what the
Speaker 1: dude was crying for because he got passed up on
Speaker 1: by all of the schools that he's played against, and
Speaker 1: he got a chance to prove them wrong, and he
Speaker 1: had the biggest game of his life. As I said, Barry,
Speaker 1: that's what happens when it it means that much more.
Speaker 1: When you beat saving, you you beat standard, means more
Speaker 1: if they go back to who you got, if they
Speaker 1: have to, if they have to rematch who you got
Speaker 1: l okay, let's you and the rematches within. So then
Speaker 1: that did a better team. Yeah, you can't say even,
Speaker 1: but it was better that day. But but on a
Speaker 1: different day, maybe Alabama win. Let's see it, right, Let's
Speaker 1: take a break. Let's take a break, and when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get back into the Dallas count playoff chances.
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Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about the Cowboys playoff chances. There
Speaker 1: are seven games left in the season. Cowboys are the
Speaker 1: five and full record, tie with the Eagles first place.
Speaker 1: The record of these teams is thirty two. Thirty and
Speaker 1: one starts Sunday in Detroit. We don't know if Detroit
Speaker 1: will have quarterback Matthew Stafford and then after that is
Speaker 1: a road game against the New England Patriots. They end
Speaker 1: the month of November with this game Thanksgiving their game
Speaker 1: at home against the Buffalo Bills. All Right, gentlemen, Cowboys
Speaker 1: playoff chances? What you got I'm thinking if we're going
Speaker 1: to percentage wise, I'm I'm gonna say the percentages. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give them seventy five. Let's let's go this way.
Speaker 1: What you want to do? Seven games left? Ye? Last year,
Speaker 1: second half of the season, Cowboys is fantastic. The lost
Speaker 1: one game starts. They had to get backed up against
Speaker 1: the wall in order to come out and play that.
Speaker 1: So they're sitting here at five and four. Where do
Speaker 1: you think their record ends up being? I called ten
Speaker 1: and six to start to see so that was what
Speaker 1: I had called. Um So that just means if they're
Speaker 1: gonna go ten and six down to stretch here where
Speaker 1: we got seven games left, I mean they got five
Speaker 1: and two. They gotta go five and two to make
Speaker 1: me look like no newstradamis I'm ten to six. You
Speaker 1: ten and six? Still? So you got five and two? Man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: based off what I've seen, Church, Yeah, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go I'll go ten and six with y'all. Is
Speaker 1: he the tennis six? You say nine seven, go Ahead's okay,
Speaker 1: so I might go nine to seven just just because
Speaker 1: it's new year in church. I got eleven in five,
Speaker 1: all right, So we got ten and six and nine
Speaker 1: and seven. Put me down for eleven and five. It's
Speaker 1: on paper now eleven. Don't lose one Patriots. Listen. Huh listen, yeah, listen.
Speaker 1: I have not been wrong since I've been on the
Speaker 1: players loud. That's about the football. Let's don't sleep on
Speaker 1: the Jets. There was the previous one before that one.
Speaker 1: I said, you said that was on your on your
Speaker 1: can we can we double up? No no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no no no. The Tigers was at two
Speaker 1: different times. Okay, So the Hidian race stays the same.
Speaker 1: So okay, all right, So having in five, I didn't
Speaker 1: say it was gonna lose to the Patriots. I tear
Speaker 1: you got one lost in there. Yeah, so they're gonna
Speaker 1: be the last game is the one that's gonna lo
Speaker 1: because because they already So you got you got eleven
Speaker 1: and five, what we put got wheel, I'm about I'm
Speaker 1: losing this, Okay, to lose something. Episode I'm trying not
Speaker 1: to go to that restaurant, trying. I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: out of I see, I see a window. I can
Speaker 1: run through here Church. So it's not a bet I
Speaker 1: wanted to make. And five got you. Yeah, no, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think we're really about to get roller. That is
Speaker 1: playing amazing. So we got we got to Detroit and
Speaker 1: one you got six one Buffalo to Detroit. But Detroit,
Speaker 1: I know you got Philly somewhere in there. Buffalo. Then
Speaker 1: it's Chicago, and then Philly, Philly. That's the isn't the
Speaker 1: I think it's the Ram, the Rams of the Fifteenthmber
Speaker 1: RAMSI twenty seconds Philly, Philly's Washington, Washington washing the game
Speaker 1: that we lose, okay on purpose, not on purpose, but
Speaker 1: you know some people, that's I mean, that's a tough
Speaker 1: like I'm saying, nine to seven, you got this happens
Speaker 1: when you look at that schedule. Name one of those
Speaker 1: teams literally, because the Patriots just got embarrassed. One of
Speaker 1: those teams who have not been beaten, and we don't
Speaker 1: who we really don't have a chance to beat that.
Speaker 1: We don't have a beat anybody, no I anybody, So
Speaker 1: none of those are for sure loss. Right, we can
Speaker 1: go ahead and we can and we can pick up
Speaker 1: which one do you believe is a sure loss? New England?
Speaker 1: Why they just they just got embarrassed to leap running
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the game. That's something about Jerry saying he
Speaker 1: wanted no Lamar Jackson. What he said, want to us
Speaker 1: is us legs song out dueling. Bill Belichick his team,
Speaker 1: his team. We would say that about Harbor, I'll do,
Speaker 1: but he did Ring. He's got a ring Detroit. If
Speaker 1: Stafford don't play, if Staffor don't hit detroits terrible Detroit,
Speaker 1: we man, well, you can put them off. Then you know,
Speaker 1: it's about the trans I hate to say that, but
Speaker 1: it's really about us and how we come out of Detroit.
Speaker 1: Was in that game against the Bear. I mean, he's risky.
Speaker 1: Come on, so I'm just saying. I'm just saying, you
Speaker 1: know who's who Detroit was the kid from Florida thing right,
Speaker 1: drift School. Come on, he's not gonna You're not gonna
Speaker 1: do that. New No, You're not gonna do that. All
Speaker 1: you come which two games do they lose? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say what two games they're gonna You know you got
Speaker 1: three games. You got three. I did go, so pick
Speaker 1: pick three more, pick three of them teams on there.
Speaker 1: You think they canna lose to the Patriots. I hope
Speaker 1: they don't. You so right now Patriots, Okay, I think
Speaker 1: Philly gonna get him and the next go around because
Speaker 1: at Philly's and then um it's gonna be a shocker.
Speaker 1: But but can't sleep on Buffalo, man, Buffalo's coming here though, ruh, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so then you can't sleep on Buffalo. They got good defense.
Speaker 1: Cod Beasley revenge game. Actually, Cole Beasley's been playing what
Speaker 1: you go, like six TD you've been playing well, what
Speaker 1: here we go? Just wrote down man that needs some tea.
Speaker 1: He's been playing well yeah, okay, I mean he has
Speaker 1: like six to receiving they got six tons. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he's in the red zone. He's like okay, So I said, Washington,
Speaker 1: you have Buffalo, New England and the Rams not Rams on.
Speaker 1: I don't like Buffalo in New England, Philly, Philly. I
Speaker 1: think Phillly gonna get him in the next goal you listen,
Speaker 1: pick too, now, don't go don't go neutral Rams New England.
Speaker 1: You got the Rams is raised the Ram or here
Speaker 1: in la he is here, Uncle were coming? Hey until
Speaker 1: until once again we're talking about when I look at
Speaker 1: New England and also look at the Rams. These are
Speaker 1: two teams who can run the football. And what do
Speaker 1: we know with the Cowboys? Can you stop their run?
Speaker 1: And they can match up on the outside, they could
Speaker 1: put eight in the box. As been running the ball
Speaker 1: well offensively, the Ram tra offensively right now. It looks
Speaker 1: to me right now with the way Jared Golf is playing,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure everything. I can stop the run.
Speaker 1: But all I know is through the years, even when
Speaker 1: the Rams were good, remember back, remember that time, pac
Speaker 1: Man Jones, it's the Rams, dude. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: they've had issues with the Rams through the years. This
Speaker 1: is true. I don't think the Rams gonna run the
Speaker 1: ball on the way Phillips Way felt Wait wait still salty,
Speaker 1: you know, wait still. I got one loss, Ski mask Golf,
Speaker 1: I got one loss on now I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the last one. Could possibly be New England possibly,
Speaker 1: I mean they match up well. Actually they go to
Speaker 1: Chicago on twelve five. It's Thursday game in Chicago. Socks
Speaker 1: out there, Chicago or washing at the end, MVP Mitch
Speaker 1: getting it done. No, it's not Mitch. The defense Ye
Speaker 1: you young Khalil, That's what I'm talking about. Took that man.
Speaker 1: They took Bisky third. I still can't wrap my head around, now,
Speaker 1: will you? Then they trade up to two trade over
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. I do got a question though, speaking of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys playoffs opportunities. Do you think this this defense
Speaker 1: can go only go as far as that linebacker trio
Speaker 1: can take them? You think that's that's the heartbeat, that's
Speaker 1: the glue. I don't want to put it just on them.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's they can't be weak at any
Speaker 1: level because it all affects, you know, everything affects you
Speaker 1: know it all it's all right there. I mean they're
Speaker 1: not this This isn't see the eighty five Bears. I
Speaker 1: mean this is you know, if the d line's not
Speaker 1: playing well, it's gonna be a propt the linebackers play.
Speaker 1: If the dbs, I mean, it's they've got to be
Speaker 1: a complete you gotta be true. They have to be
Speaker 1: a true When did they play their basket when they
Speaker 1: played together as a as a true unit. So they
Speaker 1: can't afford anyone, anyone slip. We didn't get our football
Speaker 1: phrase the day, so I want to make sure we
Speaker 1: get that before we run out of here. So in
Speaker 1: that situational football, that's the football football, situational football, and
Speaker 1: and this came up uh in Church touched on it
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier with the fair catch right situational football. Right,
Speaker 1: there are two situations that you focus on in that
Speaker 1: UH In that particular instance, one, you have five six
Speaker 1: seconds left. You want to get a chance to get
Speaker 1: to hell Mary. You think that the punt will give
Speaker 1: you wherever it lands at you will have that quarterback
Speaker 1: has enough arm to get it to the end zone.
Speaker 1: So you tell them automatically fair catches, so we have
Speaker 1: some time to run this last hell Mary play. Second
Speaker 1: situation is you run a hold up like you did there,
Speaker 1: and you assume that with was it thirteen seventeen seconds
Speaker 1: stuff that you can get a return, get some yards,
Speaker 1: get out of mounds, and then maybe you run a
Speaker 1: play and then talk to the ten end zone. Situational football.
Speaker 1: These are things that we go over in practice and
Speaker 1: in training camp all throughout the year for when these
Speaker 1: when these things come up, we're prepared for it. It's
Speaker 1: not like everybody's shot. Same thing with going forward on
Speaker 1: fourth down and two point versions in situational football. I
Speaker 1: guarantee you that throughout training camp and OTAs they stop practice.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett sut got them all on the huddle and
Speaker 1: he said, hey, the situation here is we need fourth
Speaker 1: and two with this mini seconds stuff, and we need
Speaker 1: to figure out how to get it done right. So
Speaker 1: this is something that goes on throughout training camp through
Speaker 1: our OTAs. So when you see this type of stuff
Speaker 1: come up and you say, hey, man, the coaches, this
Speaker 1: is all on JG. This is on this person whatever.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, you would hope that they've been
Speaker 1: in this situation and they've repped it and repped in
Speaker 1: and repped it, so they know what to do in
Speaker 1: this in this moment. And unfortunately, in the play that
Speaker 1: we saw earlier, situational football was just it was not
Speaker 1: up to par. I mean we saw it. I mean
Speaker 1: they practice it every Friday, every every fast Friday. It's
Speaker 1: a two minute, it's a hail Mary situation, it's a
Speaker 1: fair catch. It's some situations that we used to go
Speaker 1: over that you'd be like, we do no mis. So
Speaker 1: we have a situation called no miss right, So you
Speaker 1: have one minute left in the game and you're down
Speaker 1: by six. I'm sorry, you're down by one, whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. You're down by certain a certain amount of
Speaker 1: time the opposing you're on defense, the offense can run
Speaker 1: out the rest of the clock. Going back to what
Speaker 1: you talked about with the punt, So just just pulled
Speaker 1: it up here, twenty three seconds left, twenty three when
Speaker 1: when when they ended up making the punt. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had the ball first and ten at the forty
Speaker 1: six with twenty four seconds left, and he's kind of
Speaker 1: going back to what you were saying, trying to save
Speaker 1: some time versus by by making the fair catch versus
Speaker 1: running there. So maybe if he runs, takes what maybe
Speaker 1: seven maybe seven or the way that was set up,
Speaker 1: probably ten because he's running an end zone. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I got you at least to the thirty. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but so you you would have I would look, the
Speaker 1: yard's gonna say, it's it's yeah, it's what do you
Speaker 1: want to trade? Do you want to trade time or
Speaker 1: you want to trade yards? And clearly from what you're saying,
Speaker 1: having been a special team's guy, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of yards to gain right there. Which would have been
Speaker 1: worth the time because you were already trying to get
Speaker 1: that back once you got the football. Anyway, Well, because
Speaker 1: what happens is if you listen honestly, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: call fair catch, if you're gonna tell the return of
Speaker 1: the call fair catch, then you run a punt block,
Speaker 1: not a hold up. Right, So now you're like defeating
Speaker 1: the purpose of even having that situation going. If I'm
Speaker 1: telling a table to call fair catch, then I'm rushing everybody.
Speaker 1: We're trying to go block the punt. There's no point.
Speaker 1: You're just wasting He just way seen your ute your
Speaker 1: guys on that communication. Listen, it made no sense. Situational football,
Speaker 1: which also involves communication, was just not up the bar
Speaker 1: and out. You gotta find out what happened, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta get you no names. I'll try to find out
Speaker 1: what actually happened, but there will be no names or
Speaker 1: a finger from my friends on the other side of
Speaker 1: that building. Let me, let's spend the last two minutes
Speaker 1: you're talking about. First of all, we know Prescott and
Speaker 1: Cooper were sensational in the game day, with three hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety seven yards passing through three Touchdownsmari Cooper caught
Speaker 1: one of those touchdowns and in the game eleven catches
Speaker 1: one hundred forty seven yards better Combo DAKAMRII or Tony
Speaker 1: Romodas Bryant guys, you I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Dass.
Speaker 1: Tony just offer a simple fact that the touchdowns, I
Speaker 1: mean they're they're in the record book of the connection
Speaker 1: they had together. I mean, he's a had of her.
Speaker 1: I think like seventy some touchdowns with with Rome not
Speaker 1: over time. Maybe if they get them both signed here
Speaker 1: again for the future, they can take that over. But
Speaker 1: just off of history, alan STA's a loan, that connection
Speaker 1: was historical. Yeah, I'm going U Dans and Romo for
Speaker 1: those reasons and the chemistry that they had. It was
Speaker 1: more of less of them having to run the right
Speaker 1: routes and do all that stuff. It was he saw
Speaker 1: Da Davis knew he was learn the ball and it
Speaker 1: was so many of those instances where it was jump
Speaker 1: ball for Daz and Romo could put it right. Basketball
Speaker 1: players and they you know they because of their height,
Speaker 1: they went to football, but they're both basketball play. Tony
Speaker 1: all state basketball guy in Wisconsin. We know des basketball ability,
Speaker 1: it seemed at times, and that's what they were doing,
Speaker 1: just kind of like looking at each other on the
Speaker 1: basketball court. Nowhere to go. But I'll say this, with
Speaker 1: these two guys both being free agents, I expect them
Speaker 1: to be cowboys. Talking about Cooper and Dak. They're both young.
Speaker 1: You put this, you put these guys together here for
Speaker 1: another seven or eight years, and they should be able
Speaker 1: to make some challenges to those numbers because they have
Speaker 1: a chemistry. I mean, he got I think that nineteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns or something. He's going crazy. But I mean, and
Speaker 1: that's to me, that's like team and scheme and all
Speaker 1: that just with them, with Daz and Romos, and that
Speaker 1: was like they had a connection. He knew and he
Speaker 1: was gonna it was every time you got that Alabama
Speaker 1: receiver right there, business Rollo took rolling out here like
Speaker 1: Oldell Beckham junior with all these issues and everything. All right,
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