WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: What Went Wrong vs Minnesota? 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:15.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:21.880 Labe broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. No, 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.880 your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and Knew He scrugs 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:32.720 to day your favorite trio back in the mix. No, man, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.400 we were going away. We don't want to today's episode goes. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.680 We don't want to point any fingers while we weren't 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.239 on the air last week. But all I can say 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:49.080 is it wasn't me. It wasn't either way. To start 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:58.080 out with the Orlando Skendrick tape was nice, reading straight 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:03.440 from New Orlando Scandrick screen was actually okay, thought he 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:10.840 was too okay, O cas see a kind of team 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.399 were running. Hey Louis, welcome back. Hey yeah, it's good 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.119 to be back. Okay. So so fine, let's start off 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:23.319 the Players Lounge with an explanation here. So last week 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.760 we didn't have a show because my flight didn't get 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.920 back from New Jersey until four o'clock. Now, I couldn't 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.520 change the flight without a severe financial penalty, because you 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.240 know how the airlines were, so couldn't do that. The 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.080 flight was booked this summer before the show had even 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:51.240 been created. All sounds sounds. So my first thought and 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.160 talking to Big Boss man, can we do it Wednesday? 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.920 But you two had a golf outing, so we didn't 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.240 do it Wednesday. I suggested Thursday, I or anything. So 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 that was when it moved to next week. So that's 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.440 what did you try to like push that on too? No, no, no, no, no, 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:14.720 I giving you, I giving you. Happen wednesday? We were busy, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.959 so no, no, these were what we were doing. That 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.400 one Airlines false just you know how it is, changing 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.480 the plane ticket, it's a little price, it's a car, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.200 especially coming out when you're trying to change it on 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.760 after a cowboy game. So anyway, Bytom mind, that's what happened. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.640 I couldn't get on an earlier flight either, So it 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.760 was what it was. It was what it was. So 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:47.720 we're back now, We welcome back. Happy to just Scandrick 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:53.160 knife down here. We got it is about to get 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.880 heated here right now. Come on, man, you for Pittsfurn 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.440 and I ain't going back North. I think I ain't. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.160 That's the reason I ain't going back. It's the same 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.679 dude that they say it's too hot in Texas and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.360 he wanted to move. Hey, I gotta be right in 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.640 the middle. They gotta do it alright in the middle. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.440 All right, two former Cowboys safeties here for an hour, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.880 and we've got a lot to get into. We've got 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.960 our football phrase the day. We will dive into that. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.560 I do want to get into this combination. We'll do 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.520 it later on the show of Dak Prescott to Amari 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.800 Cooper and comparing it to uh one, you guys played 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.400 with Tony Romo to Dez Bryant. So we want to 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.280 get into there. Um the tight end situation. Blake Jarwin 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.200 having another game there where we're seeing him make a play, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.960 hits playing time increase, will get into the college football Playoff. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.600 Ohio State was ranked number one. They have another unveiling tonight. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.000 Should Ohio State stay number one? Should there be a 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.800 change based on what we saw in the SEC this week? 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.400 We have a food debate here sugar and grits. It's 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.800 a must sugar and grits. Some people think the sugar 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.760 should go and grits and some people leave that it shouldn't. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.720 So we will debate that here on the show today. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.240 But let us start with this loss that we saw 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.720 an NBC by Sunday Night Football. Here the Vikings came 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.320 out and played well. And if you really think about it, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.920 what we thought about this game too evenly matched teams, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.200 and we saw how it ended up turning out. Cowboys 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.240 lose the game twenty eight twenty four. They fall to 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.920 five and four. Now they are in a first place 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.800 type of Philadelphia. They own the type breaker because they 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.560 beat Philly on Sunday Night Football last month. But as 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.800 a player, how do you get past another loss where 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.080 you can sit here start counting on your fingers mistakes 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.839 that you made as a Cowboy player that prevented you 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.920 from winning. How do you get past this? As you 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.279 get towards and you have to look towards a road 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.760 game against the Lions coming up on Sunday, which the 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.360 lines are no slous man. I mean staffords out here 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.240 if he, if he does play, there are no slouch 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.000 out there. But I mean, you just gotta break down 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.359 that film. I know, defensively, I mean there was a 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.120 lot of mistackles out there. You know, a lot of 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.880 bad angles taken cook just looked like different type of running. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.800 May just explosives, some of that, some of that gap 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.800 responsibility that we talked to them. Saw a lot of 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.200 peaking in gaps, and that's why you saw. I mean 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.839 they were running through holes that looked ghenormous, but I 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.760 mean some guys were peeking in and out. They got 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.440 on They got on woods so quick. I know, he 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.159 was in his back pedal a few times and it 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.600 was like, I'm still BACKFEDO, how to cook? Get up 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.040 here so fast? The play calling from the Minnesota side, 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.640 I thought it was excellent. I mean, the way they 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.000 used the aggression from you know, the front four and 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.840 used that against them, used that speed against them by 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.280 hitting them with screen passes, slowing that down, and that 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.520 gave Kirk Cousins a little bit more time to kind 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.720 of dissect this defense. I mean, I know we talked 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.440 about it earlier. You don't want to give enough credit, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.200 but I thought he played a pretty good game against 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.640 this defense. He did. I think they played the game 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.200 that we planned on playing against them, make them stop 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.200 the run, and they said they would do the same 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.880 thing us, and we didn't stop the run. Run and 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.040 screen and cook and cook and cook, And then that 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.320 just opened it up for kirk Cousins. Okay, stay right there, now, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.599 this is just me. You guys played I didn't, So 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.280 help me understand. Just my my eyes, my eyes are 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.520 telling me that Gary Kubiak and company went and saw 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.800 the film. Here's what the Colts did last year where 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.520 they beat the Cowboys. Here's what Sean mcbah and the 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.000 Rams did in the playoffs. This is what the Green 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.400 Bay Packers did. Now we're gonna figure out how we 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.840 can run it on these guys and and and they 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.560 won't make any changes, and we're just gonna keep on going. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.200 And except for they had that great ability as you 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.040 talked about the screen game, Oh you think it's a 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.920 run nine now, and that that for me was just 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.679 I was just trying to It was tough to watch 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.240 because right now, there's a blueprint. It seems to beat 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.960 the Cowboys. Run the football, go up front, go out physical, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.240 and you can win a game. There's a there's a 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.960 blueprint print. Defensively, I think I thought we played pretty 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.320 well on offense. I think the way that they yeah, yeah, defensively, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:54.839 that is the brue blueprint. Make us stop the run, 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.920 and we haven't been able to. And that's the way 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.680 you lose the game. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.919 hard to stop any offense in the league when you 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.200 can make them balanced, or you don't make them choose 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.960 which way, which way to go. Like if I was, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.640 you know, if I was playing for the Cops at 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.360 that time, I would have wanted, you know, Kirk Cousins 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.480 trying to beat us with his arm. But it's it's 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.360 hard when you got to go, man, we gotta try 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:14.760 to figure out a way to stop Cook. We gotta 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.880 start found a way to stop these screens and Kirk 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.280 Cousins is throwing the digs a little bit. It's hard, man, 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.360 when you keep it the defense off balance like that, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.360 it's tough. Hundred fifty three yards of rushing on the 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.600 grand Man and the Madison kid, the Alexander Madison, he 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.200 looked just as good. I mean, they didn't drop off. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.760 We weren't stopping the run against anybody that game. It 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.600 just like I said, it didn't look good. It look 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.000 like we got a little bit off physical on the 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.720 defensive line, a little bit on our front. Their line 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.920 was better than I than I had expected to them 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.240 to be, and they lost two people during the game, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.040 and they didn't play like it at all. I mean, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.240 it was runs where Cook wasn't getting touched five yards 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.560 it was. And on the other side of the ball, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.960 I think Zimmer did a great job of just saying, look, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.240 we're gonna make y'all beat us through the air. He 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:01.920 left his corners out the drive, I mean, and they 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.120 did get abused, dig get abuse, but he said, look, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.280 Zeke's not y'all can keep running them into the wall 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.560 if y'all want to. But but but the thing is, we've 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.920 played against teams that have said the same thing, and 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.200 we've produced against them. So like we go into the 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.040 game knowing, ay, they're gonna try to stop Zeke, and 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.080 we've been able to still get Zeke going to get 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:29.800 them some yards and then anybody stop. They didn't have limball, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.080 So it's confusing missing Adam feeling. You know, another receiver, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.080 Stefan Diggs really had one good catch up the sideline, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.680 and that's that's that's kind of the maddening thing when 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.040 you started to look at some of the things that 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.160 happened in this football game, where um, the Cowboys had 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.240 every opportunity, this thing was designed for them at home 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.680 to get to get a win and it gets away. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.839 But defensively, that's the thing for me right now is 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.480 if you know how to run the football, you're gonna 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.920 do it now. Detroit doesn't have a running back that 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.480 can can produce like Cook. But you know, Matt Patricia, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.720 being in former New England Page's assistant, it's going to 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.400 come do say we're stopping twenty one the next the 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:15.400 next two games and stop twenty one right and uh yeah, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.920 they got a corner out catch up. And as we 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.839 say every week before we go into these games, it's 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.800 the Lions. They may not have Mats Stafford, you know, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.680 blah blah blah. Do not sleep on the Lions. They're 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.240 not a bad team. They're they're a competitive team, and 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.360 they have that quarterback. They're pretty good. After the Jets, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.240 I don't think get to say this, you think so, yeah, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.280 I don't. After look, I mean, you're the next seven 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.480 teams that the Cowboys play have a combined record to 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.560 thirty two, thirty and one. But when when I say sleep, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.760 I'm also talking about what you tweeted about. I believe 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.800 yesterday or today that this is a real issue. You said, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.800 this is a real issue of us coming out sleepwalkings 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.840 on these games. If it's a real issue, then is it? 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.600 Is it the mindset of the player? Are we really 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:01.720 when we come out here on the field and then 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.200 we wake up at halftime? I don't know, Like you said, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:10.080 you can't keep you can't keep battling back every every game. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.720 Great point you made, and I've got to I've got 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.760 to pull it up here. Bob's Storm of the Athletic 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.200 wrote about in the in the Cowboys four losses in 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.160 the first half, Um, I think the numbers except they 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.360 were outscore seventy five to nine, which is the first half. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.680 That's nuts. So so this this is not you know, 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.400 it's not some theory. It's not just fans saying you're not. No, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.520 they're coming out with slow starts here and you know 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.160 you're thirty and one to three or something the green. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.240 I mean, you're just you're getting it handed to you. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.280 And I wonder what could it be, because it's like 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.840 as a player, I mean, you're not just gonna come 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.720 out there sleeping, like you're not even gonna come out 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.199 and be like, I don't feel like playing this week. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.640 That's why I go back to I don't think it's 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.040 the pregame speech. Yea is it? Is it the way 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.920 that the players are being called at the beginning. Is 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.839 it trying to establish something that that they're stopping, or 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.520 like like, I'm must stablished the run, So my first 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.120 five or six players are gonna be X, Y, Z 0:10:58.520 --> 0:10:59.719 or whatever. And now we go through and out of 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.160 a couple times, and it's our slow starts versus running 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.079 the stuff that you would run at halftime when you 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.240 come out of halftime. So so right out of the gate, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.840 a fifty seven yard field goal attempt is I don't 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.920 understand now one, well, a little about the sword by 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.440 the sword that's gonna say, Man, this thing just went 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.240 left right out of the game, had no shot. So 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.880 now we talk about sudden change here, so boom, hey, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:34.400 they've got the ball to forty seven yardline. So this 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.320 is a situation that we are becoming too comfortable with, right, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.800 Let it mire her to attempt to kick a fifty 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.359 or sixty yard field goal and feeling comfortable about it. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.559 Think it's not thinking about the consequence of Yeah, this dude, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.600 he could be fifty percent from from sixty plus, but 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.880 when he misses sudden change, do you think it's like 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.839 players thinking, you know, we'll battle out of it, we'll 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.320 come back from It's the same thing is that you 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.520 think can attribute to slow stars or like, I don't understands. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.240 I'm not a lot now. I think it's honestly a 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:08.480 way that we're calling the game offensively. Defensively, I don't know. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.960 It's not that many defensive different defenses that you can run. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.080 Because the ball marched down the field on you first drive, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.520 you like, yeah, we're in for a long yeah see. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.640 But defensively, sometimes that happened comes out they having some 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.520 schemed up special players and all that stuff. Our special 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.600 players don't seem to be in get getting called at 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.720 the beginning of the game. I'll tell you what was disrespectful. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.280 When they went down. I think it was a nine 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.000 played drive coming out of half that it might have been, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.880 but in seven of them are runs. Yeah, and they 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.079 literally marched the ball. This caller imposing your will you 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.040 just stop the run, we are going to run it. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.600 They literally just back bobbing, then shamed the ball. They 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.440 got us, They got us. Yeah, man, it was it 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.120 was rough to watch, just no one knowing the players 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.160 that we have on defensive linebackers that we have the 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.400 defensive line, that we have safeties, we got corners that 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.600 the tackle and worked every run of that word. And 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.240 he looked amazing previous in previous games. It wasn't like 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.080 it wasn't he knew he's the number one running back, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.160 number one Russia coming into this thing. Take lords. He said, no, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:21.080 not this week, That's what he said, Not this week, lady. Unfortunately, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.520 that that that what happened. I said, I feel for 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:31.040 the food. The foods go from last week they stopped 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.559 say Kuan yeah right, yeah, they stopped saying good on 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.000 Devin Cook. And then the next week, say Quan says, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.199 next team and he has thirteen rustlings from White one 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.440 yard And I was like, oh, that's that's what it 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:51.440 was killing. So it wasn't that's what happens in football too, right, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.200 So it wasn't less really being great. They just weren't 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.960 really that good at running the ball. And if you 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.880 think about it defensively, I think the last week it 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.559 gets the Giants of Giants World one to five and 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:04.040 the Reds Minnesota was I think three for five. Yeah, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.520 you opened the door. Let me just go ahead and 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:19.080 walk through the second play. Well, actually when Dalvin Cook. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:23.840 All right on the fourth down, fourth alcohol, Rudolph blocks 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.240 Vanderash And I'm looking at that and I'm saying that 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.440 that just to look like last year's Lake Vanderash, that 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:34.080 that Kyle Rudolph can block. He's not known for Listen, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.880 thank you, important part of the body when you're playing 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.720 football playing And that's that's what I'm getting this. We're 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.480 not seeing the fifty five we saw last year. And 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.760 he's had the injury, and he's saying after the football game, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:52.000 I'm okay, I'm okay. You guys know better than me. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.720 He didn't look the same. So if he's not looking 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.200 to say and I also knew this because I was 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.640 around Terence Newman as a round de Marcus where these 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.880 guys didn't want to talk about the injuries. That it 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.320 was like, nope, we're not gonna do it, not gonna 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.680 use excuses. But I'm just sitting here watching this. What 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.360 I'm saying, I've got to believe something's not right with 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.520 this young man because he doesn't look the same and 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.160 Kyle Rudolph blocking him on it just just him right there, 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.720 and I know he had an edge, but still, yeah, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.960 he did look right man, someone could be wronging him. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.320 But like you said, I mean, as a player, you 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.120 just you're just not going to bring that even up 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.800 as an excuse. You're not even just gonna black. I mean, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.040 you might be hailing from something and it really really 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.840 bothers you, but he just can't have this excuse because 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.600 then you're gonna get a stigma. I think I think 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.480 we have the responsibility to understand as being here knowing 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.800 that the guy has a knack injury, that there will 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.600 probably be a little little, a little fall off on 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.600 his play, and we saw it. You cannot play football 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:49.600 without having the upper body, and especially as a linebacker 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.200 and a guy that needs to hit and extend, you know, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.280 shock and create contact and separation, and he's not able 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:57.480 to do that. He might be able to get away 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.840 with that at corner, but that linebacker or some players, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.720 right if you if you chase it down the screen 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.160 or something that you might have not had an issue. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.560 But when you man the man, you know you got 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:13.960 a shot separation. NA. Yeah, that's rough. All right, Players 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.040 lounge right here on Dallas Cowboys Radio dot com. We'll 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.880 get into the play calling here, but before we do that, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.600 Barry give everybody your social media info, Danny, same thing 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.800 at Barry Church forty two. That's both Twitter and Instagram. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.800 At Danny d mc forty four on Twitter, Danny Underscore 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.680 mccraig forty on Instagram. All right, find me on Twitter 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.800 at NEWI Scrugs, It's n E w Y Scruggs. It's 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.680 n E W Y Scruggs. On Twitter, Facebook, it's newis 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:45.080 scrug Sports. So despite everything that happened here, Dak Prescott 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.480 is balling. Dak Prescott, Zimber said, twenty one won't beat 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.760 us four? Show us if you can beat us four 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.160 is doing his part. They go down the field, they 0:16:55.240 --> 0:17:01.080 get to the eleven yard line and yeah, everybody's playing 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.240 armchair quarterback. Everybody looking back saying I don't understand it, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.280 um and Bury something that you wanted to talk about, Yeah, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.120 I mean to me, I just you know, the whole 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.520 sequence of events that happened, starting from the from the 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.920 punt return, you know, from the tape on Austin back there, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.280 from TV, from the TV prospective, because that's why I 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.280 was watching the game, and from the television it looked 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.000 like he had twelve or fifteen yards of free grass. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.080 You know to run at least set up something twenty 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.480 twenty plus. My man was telling me so for him 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.160 to just you know, fair catch that, and it looked 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.240 like and he's an experienced returner, he's not like a 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:33.960 rookie out there just you know, I don't know what 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.400 I'm doing. Some of the fair casters. Somebody had to say, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.800 you know, you know, fair casters for the team or whatever. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.720 Something had to happen like that because I don't think 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:42.760 an experienced punt return like that's gonna see that much 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.040 green grass, that much time left on the clock. And 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.199 there he goes like, yeahs if you rewind this, I know, 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.920 I look at the coach, he looks at somebody like, man, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.240 you sure that was the right card. Ever, everybody's going 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.600 over this, so I would just like to rewind to 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.040 the beginning. And this is how you can tell what 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.640 was what was coach to the guys that are going 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.199 to block, and there's a difference between that and the 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.439 guy that's catching the ball. These guys are given one 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.520 hundred percent effort and holding up not blocking the thirty seven, 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.879 and the guy next to him are coming out to 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.480 be the wall with the lead blockers for Tava and 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.800 Austin on this right. So they're setting up. They're not 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:23.920 taking the playoff. They're not expecting the fair catch, because 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.880 if they were, they will just all be jogging down 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.800 not doing much. So the communication from that front line, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.440 those guys who are working, working their butts off to 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.200 go and block these guys and hold them up. It's 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.399 different from the communication than the return of gout. That's obvious. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.080 And as soon as he catches it, that man, you 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.320 can see him, he looks dead at the you know, 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:45.160 the side. It's no question that there was a there 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.760 was bad communication or it's not miscommunication, like what you're 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.280 looking at me for. Yeah, I'm doing what I was told. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.480 That's what it seemed like to me. Look cheetoh, look 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.960 all these guys are coming out setting up this wall 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.080 on the up. He rolling, He's like, yeah, that's what 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.119 I'm supposed Yeah, you mean, I don't you know? So 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.080 who told him? Who told him? What? You know? I 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.040 don't know. I'm not I'm not in the locker room. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.760 Somebody said, somebody said something wrong. I know. I know 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.120 we have some other stuff that's going on with with 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.679 with some sources and all that. I don't have any 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.080 I'm gonna do my best to find out what happened. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.840 We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna find out because it's 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.200 you know, it's leaks and cracks in there. Somebody's gonna 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.879 say something the streets and style, and I don't I 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.440 don't see somebody like Tavon falling on the sword for 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.240 something that he didn't do, especially with all all the 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.600 attention that is getting. And they were gonna go further 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.680 on into the to the sequence of events that happened. 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.760 I believe they got down to the eleven yard line 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:37.840 I think it was, and it was what second and 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.400 I want to say second and four, maybe second and two, 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.520 something like that. Well, the point was that that was 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.960 that was going into the last seconds where they got 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.480 the ball all the way down to the alist we 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.080 thought out, oh yeah, okay, it which ended in the 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.919 fourth It was it was run z twice twice and 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:55.560 then throw up and then on the fourth down I 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.000 was running. Yeah, he was catching. You remember you had 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.560 two honey yard receivers and we threw the balls and man, 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:02.760 my man that had the high he was driving him 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.800 the whole way down. And you know, that was it 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.320 was great it was. I mean, I can see I 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.280 can see switching it up here and there just to 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.920 get a run in, just to keep the defense unbalanced 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.399 or whatever. But they decided to run an east west 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:15.760 like you got it. You got one of the best 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.280 one of the backs that go on north south when 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:18.960 he gets his pass square to the line of scrimmage 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.119 going north and south, he got one of the best 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.320 one of the backs in the league. And to run, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.120 you know, an east west run like that to give 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.680