WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: What's the Bigger Issue? 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:16.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.560 Lounge broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:31.880 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and new He Scrugs. Hey, 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.760 it's Friday here Players Lounge coming to you from our 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.840 SWBC Mortgage virtual home studios of New He Scrugs, joined 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.800 by former Dallas Cowboys safety's Danny McCray and Barry Church 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.120 at Church. Apparently he's feeling real good to day, McCray, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.440 So I guess we gotta get on that that feel good. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.519 He's all right now. I'm thinking he gonna come out 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.240 here with some sad news, but he come up his 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.440 singing all during the break. He's ready to go. Mister 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:02.320 must fun times up in here. He listen. He's he's 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.080 carefree because he's accepted you know where we're at right now. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.520 So he's fine with it. You know, whatever happens happened, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.920 that's what he's He just rolled just rolling on through, okay, man, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.720 Like I said, like I said earlier in the week, man, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.319 I'm very optimistic of what we got going on today. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.760 And you know, my babes, my music was just just 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.720 showing how optimistic I am about this game. That's all 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.680 that was happening. Who are you listening to? Um? You 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.800 know I was corrected, you know. For the longest I 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.520 thought it was with Oates and Hall. But it's Hall 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.720 and Oates. And my boy knew you every day. I 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.400 made his day, you know, I made his day. Thought 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.640 that was the funniest thing on earth. As well as 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.119 our producer Chris Bean, they thought that was hilarious. But hey, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.039 I'm just trying to listen to good music. That's all 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:50.240 I'm trying to do. Man, so so literally, because I'm 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.960 older than you got, I grew up on Hall and Oates, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.520 all right, the two gentlemen Philadelphia. It's Darryl Hall and 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.960 John Oates. I have never heard it referred to as 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:06.520 Oates at Hall. Okay never but but but but but okay, okay? Which? So? 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.880 Which which song were you vibing to of of Hall 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.840 and Oates? So I was jamming to a little bit 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.280 of Sarah Smile earlier and had a little Private Eyes 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.639 as well. Private Eyes was jamming that a little bit 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.520 as well. And for for the for the longest. Man, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.200 I just found out they were they were two white guys. Man, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.640 I thought for the longest they were two brothers, you know, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.560 Oates and Hall as I call them, you know, say, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.720 I thought they were brothers out there. But I mean 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.240 to two white dudes who had the soul with them, man, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:39.440 it was it was awesome. It was awesome. So I 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.679 mean they were influenced by They talked about how you know, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.480 they were influenced by soul music and the Motown records 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.480 that got them going. That's how they how they got 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.120 themselves going. I'll tell you what. Since you're on that 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.680 Hall of Notes kick, I want you to go to 0:02:52.720 --> 0:03:00.000 YouTube and look up Darryl's House and Daryl Hall's house. Yeah, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.280 so a bunch of a bunch of artists that you like, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.280 um go in and they sing old school Hall of 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.680 Notes songs and then they sing some of their own stuff. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.239 So it's just a big jam session at Daryl Hall's 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.519 house out in uh in the in Kinnectic, no New York, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.679 out of New York. So like Celo Green, CeeLo Green 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.160 goes in there and he plays I can't go for 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.000 that with with Daryl Hall in the band, and then 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.160 they play, then they go play some of Seelows music. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.440 So it's really cool to see them just five and 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.560 like that. But yeah, it's it is Hall of Notes, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:38.880 my man, Hall of Notes. I'm glad you directed me 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.680 because I would have I would have been saying that too. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.880 I would have been going out about Oates and Hall. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.440 Yeah it's not it's it's not the Five Jacksons. It's 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.960 the Jackson five. These groups are older than you. These 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.440 before you came out something, you know, it's it's the 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.560 Jackson five, not the Five Jacksons. The case you I 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.440 deserve listening to that up, man, But it's good. I 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.800 like the fact that you like good music. So I mean, 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.640 for a while, man, whenever the dudes was putting out 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.080 of music, it was a straight up hit. So they were. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.680 They were dog and good in the eight Now, if 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.040 you want to see so you thought the Hall of 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.839 Notes were black, if you want to see how all 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.840 I'm telling you, man, all of us were fooled. It's 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:25.160 when we looked up and saw Bobby Calledwell. Bobby called 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.760 Well sings the song He's sings the song what You 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.800 Won't Do for Love? And Tupac used it a couple 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:36.760 of years ago about like he sampled it. Yeah, he 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.200 sampled it. So what I want you, what I want 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.600 you to to do when we take our break here 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:47.039 is just check your phone Google Bobby Caldwell or fact. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.960 Just look it up. Man, it's gonna shock you. It's 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.520 gonna shock you. Bobby Carwell, Bobby Carwell. So I was 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.960 gonna say, just we're talking about dude, that's talking about 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.000 what you wanta do. Doom doom do for love? Were 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.800 talking about that guy. Oh god, man, that's a shocker. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.240 That's the ultimate sid Well. We'll wait till you see him. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.159 Look at the video when you see that's funny going. Well, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.000 so it'll it'll, it'll trip you out here. But uh, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.640 the players lounged by to you by hotels dot com 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.240 is a football so we concentrate on the Cowboys. And 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.320 it was a bad news that came out here today. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.039 That's what we talked about music, trying to make ourselves 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.120 feel a little bit good. Uh, Tyer Smith is out 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.800 for the year. The left tackle Tyers Smith is out 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.880 for the year. On top of the news we got 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.200 last week that right tackle Lell Collins is done for 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.440 the year. So the book ends guys, one a all 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.200 decade performer in Smith and the other in college who 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.680 I thought had a Pro Bowl season last year, they're gone. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.440 Adding the fact that last year's starting center perennial Pro 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.160 Bowl or Travis Frederick retired, this is uh. This is 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.839 a whole different offensive line that'll be rolling out here 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.040 against the New York Football Giants. The Giants are over 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.719 a fourth, the Cowboys are are one in three, and 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.240 fellas out I'm sweating right now, I'm bating. I'm sweating 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.040 thinking about this is the combination that Dak Prescott has 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.120 to deal with the rest of the way. Because we've 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.719 seen three guys who could rush the pastor this year, 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.800 Tack McKinley in that Atlanta game, and Tack McKinley was 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.159 given the Cowboys the business before he heard his going 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.640 and left the game. Then you know, then you go ahead. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.000 You saw what Miles Garrett did to him. We saw 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.440 what Aaron Donald did in Week one. You know, as 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:34.200 they get ready to face the Steelers and Philadelphia and Baltimore, 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.080 I'm afraid for Dak Prescott with this this unit out here. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.840 So fellas, you gotta start giving your impressions and just 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.599 reaction to Tyran Smith being gone for the rest of 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.720 the season. Mccraig. Listen, from what we talked about yesterday, 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.159 is really not surprising. He's been dealing with with a 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.120 few injuries and then so the back is always a 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.760 really really serious thing and it's hard to come back from, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.520 especially for the entire season. And then you you have 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.000 his neck injury, and you know, football, like I said, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.159 as a contact sport, and the nick is a big 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.760 part of the game, and you know, when you risk 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.080 putting that your career on the line just so you 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.520 can come back, you know, early and throughout this season, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.920 just so you can try, especially when you're running three right, 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.240 you see what's going on. But you see that and 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.560 you don't want to you don't want to risk your 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.720 entire career just trying to come back to early. And 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.280 I think he actually did that last week. So, like 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.880 I said yesterday, I'm glad that he, you know, made 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.480 that decision today. So now the Cowboys know they need 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.120 to move forward with another option, and they're not you know, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.120 waiting on him to come back and hoping they didn't 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.480 come back for the rest of the season. They know 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.680 now that who they don't have They don't have the 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.800 left tackle or the right tackle. So now you have 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.520 a chance to adapt and make a plan for who 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:42.920 you're going to have out there for the remainder of 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.680 the season. Yeah, for me, I think it was an 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.480 extremely smart move for Tyron Smith to go ahead and 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.000 get that second opinion and go ahead and get the 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.480 surgery and shut it down because you know, like we said, man, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.840 the neck, the neck is nothing to ever play around with, 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.560 and there's life after football. So I think that was 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.240 an extreme the smart move for him to do that. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.920 But to these injuries, I mean, this is where I think, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.360 you know, Kelly Moore and McCarthy and Phil Bin in 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.440 that whole brain trust, they're gonna have to come up 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.400 with something. We know. We had Will on the show 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.280 a couple of weeks ago, and you know he told us, 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.840 you know, they like to promote from within, and they 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.040 don't like to do this whole fantasy football mismatching and 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:20.920 putting people here and there that they weren't doing that 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.080 in camp. We we know they don't like to do that. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.240 But this is it, This is this panic mode right now. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.200 I mean, we're one in the three. We still have 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:30.960 a shot. I mean, if if we could play a 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.880 little bit better, we still have a shot at this division. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.200 So for me, this is the time where they got 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.640 to mix and match, put your best players and your 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.240 best unit on the field. If that means moving Zach 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.319 Martin to right tackle or left tackle or moving whoever 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:47.800 they got to put out there. But they have to 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.439 put their best unit on the field in order to 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.439 protect Dak Prescott won and to get the most out 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.200 of this offense. I mean it's a patchwork right now. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.079 They're struggling. Like you said earlier, KNEWI those edges were 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.760 getting destroyed by tack m Kennedy, they were getting destroyed 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.040 by Miles Garrett, and in the interior, you know, Aaron 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.040 Donald was retroying it. So for us, we're not gonna 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.400 get a lack of pass rushers because Pitt Pittsburgh. They 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.080 can still come after the quarterback. Baltimore, those boys can 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.680 still come after the quarterback. And don't sleep on Washington. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.240 I mean they got chase you and they got right. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.640 They're good. They are good. Yeah, we cannot sleep on 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.360 Washington's D line. So for me, this is where that 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.680 fantasy football is gonna have to come into play, get 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.240 your best unit on the field in order to protect 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.360 Dak Prescott and get the most out of your offense. Listen, hey, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.800 church anew hey, tell me this while we're on it, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.480 because I love Tyron, But do we see Tyron in 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:42.960 Dallas Cowboys uniform again next season? To me, who, I 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.760 don't know, Man, that's gonna be a tough We were 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.120 talking about it earlier. That's gonna be a tough decision. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.440 I mean just just because all, you know, all he's 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.079 done here in this ten year and battling through injuries 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:53.800 and you know, putting the doll on the line for 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.760 the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, it's tough. But at the 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.640 end of the day, it is a business, and you 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.440 can't go out there and have your left tackle, you know, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.720 only playing part of the year, you know, the past 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.920 couple of years. So for me, I think that's something 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.600 that they got to look into and they might want 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.320 to try to go ahead and get his replacement in 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.800 the draft. I look at this situation from two aspects. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.160 When you ask that question, Danny, I looked first at 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.080 Tyrn Smith. Does he want to keep playing? Tyrant has 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.880 a Hall of Fame resume right now? Right now, all 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.640 decade player. And many years ago, when Ricky Waters is 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.120 playing against the Eagles, he ran across the middle and 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.840 the quarterback threw a ball that was gonna get him 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.800 lit up, and he decided he wouldn't go go reach 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.320 for it. And so people ask him after the game, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:39.720 They're like, well, why did you reach for the past? 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.719 He said, for who? For what? He was like, why 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.719 am I gonna get killed? Who for what? And when 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.040 I sit around here and I think about the question 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.480 that's gonna hit tyrant Smith after this next surgery, it's 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.320 for who for what? You need to I mean, you 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.400 guys have played this game. And I tell everybody, all 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.000 of my friends who don't play football, I tell I said, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.400 this game leaves everybody hurt. There's a one hundred percent 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.480 casualty rate when you leave this game. I don't know 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.319 anybody who's playing at this level for three or four 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.400 years that doesn't have something wrong with them. Okay, this thing, this, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.720 this takes stuff out of your body. So he's got 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.600 a back, he's got a neck. How much longer do 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.200 you want to keep doing this to the point where 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.560 you can't bend over? You guys are seeing tiring, and 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.800 you guys play with him, you know him personally, Here's 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.720 a guy that likes being outdoors. You know, he's an 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.640 active guy. How much longer do you want to do 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.720 this and take these kind of hits where you literally 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.040 are debilitating yourself here, He's got nothing else to prove, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.040 Hall of fame, resume, fantastic tackle. So that's why I said, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.920 you gotta ask him what does he want to do? 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.480 Because we saw what Travis Frederick Travis said, you know, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.520 I can't do this the way I want to do this, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.719 So he walked away. So I look at it from 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.320 his standpoint. From the Cowboys standpoint, I don't know if 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.480 they can even cut tyrant Smith the way they've they've 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.400 been pushing out these contracts. You know, they pushed out 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.720 a bunch of contracts. Is here, so you already got 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.760 you know, you got you paid part of Travis's money 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.960 this year for five million. You got another five million 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.760 you got to deal with next year. So you got 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.760 to start to ask yourselves as this cap goes down. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.319 You know, I don't know if the Cowboys in a 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.520 position to just sit up here and tell him, hey, man, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.880 go ahead, call it a career. We're gonna move on 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.760 without you. And then my last part on this, Danny, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.520 you talk about the draft. Okay, so you need a 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.600 tackle because Tyrant's been hurt and missing three games out 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.760 of the last it's gonna be five years now, three 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.280 games a year. You got lel Collins. You know how 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.440 Collins is gonna react, So you gotta tackle issue. You 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.800 got de tackle issues. Um, you probably got to go 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.440 get another defensive end because Griffin's on a one year deal. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.640 Old the Smith's on a one year deal. You've got 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.559 a corner issue because you're gonna have um A Woozier 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.680 and Lewis who are free agents. You got safety issue 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.599 that they still have yet to address. So when you 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.360 to talk talking about cowboy draft picks, Lord knows where 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.840 they go. They've got a lot of needs that are immediate. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.560 And then if vander ash can't really come back here 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.880 and show you he's the real deal, and Lord knows 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.240 you shouldn't trust him, you shouldn't trust him right now, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.160 you may have to go get a linebacker. So I 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.000 don't know where they go right now when you talk 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.160 about a first round pick, I don't know where they 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.040 go because they have so many holes that they need 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:20.360 to feel I'm done. Yeah, and then yeah, listen, it 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.920 sounds like it sounds like we're in some deep trouble 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.559 come twenty twenty one season. So if so, everybody out there, 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.040 if you're listening and you think it's bad now, man, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:31.920 when you start figuring out who what we're gonna do 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.640 in the draft and who's gonna be on this team 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.360 next year, you're gonna I'm sure you'll be scratching your 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.000 head then too. But just to address the Tyrant Smith thing, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.560 I know we talked yesterday about trainers and players trusting 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.160 the training staff, and one thing I didn't think about, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.840 and it just crossed my mind when you said, you know, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.520 we got to figure out what he wants to do. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.280 We're not even sure if if it was his idea 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.280 to go get the second opinion because he really wants 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.280 to play that bad. We don't know which which side 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.240 it was on. Maybe maybe our training staff told him, man, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:01.640 you need to shut it down for the season, and 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.600 he said, look, I really want to play. This is 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.080 what I do, this is what I love. I'm gonna 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.200 get the second opinion if they say yes, are you 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.520 guys okay with me playing, So we don't know where 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.440 he is. I think that, you know, Church, you've been 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.360 around guys who football is life and they were risking 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.120 almost anything to play. So you know, you just got 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.800 to figure out where's mindset is. And he might be 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.720 one of those guys who all he knows his football 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.440 and he's gonna come back and give it a shot. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.600 So you know, we don't know what, so it'd be 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.960 something interesting for us to wait and see. Man, that 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.280 is true, and man, knew he You know, I was 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.040 feeling so optimistic. I was out here singing my haul 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.320 of notes. Man, I was vibing out and then man, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.480 you just listed that laundry list of problems that we 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.520 got calling on here. I'm over here thinking, Man, we'll 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.520 be I, you know, get the draft and left tackle. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.400 But man, you're right, man, what are we going to 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.440 do in the secondary. We got so many guys on 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.920 the d line that haven't played up to par or 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.080 a one year deals. What are we gonna do about 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.960 Vanders who's been injured back to back? I mean, man, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.480 I was optimistic, but man, you just you just you 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.720 definitely put a rain cloud on my situation over here. Man, geez, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.520 you got to find a new song something. I mean, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.440 But when you start looking at at just the way 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.920 the National Football League works, I mean Philadelphia as a 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.440 team that has been ravaged by white receiver issues and 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.040 on their offensive line. So when when you start digging 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.360 into it, there's a lot of teams that have issues. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.080 We concentrate on the Cowboys because this is this is 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.560 you know, the team that we deal in with year in, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.240 year round. I mean, the New York Jets have no 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.240 talent anywhere. You know, the Giants have talent issues at 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.520 a whole lot of spots. So while the Cowboys have 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.120 their own issues, they're not as bad as other teams. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.000 But we know, okay, we know from from watching this 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.280 team all the time, they've got some serious issues. And 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.320 if anything, we've kind of glossed over them. You know. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.560 I was one of those who did talk about an 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.760 offensive tackle around the draft and say, hey, look it's 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.280 something you've got to think about because you've had the 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.640 injury with Tyrn Smith. Now for me, this becomes a 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.520 real interesting question. And then maybe they don't do it 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:08.080 this year. But we've talked consistently amongst ourselves and other 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.840 people have about Connor Williams being a guard, and maybe 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.360 the Connor Williams could be a better tackle. He's going 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.600 to be coming up on his last last year in 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.200 twenty twenty one, maybe, And I wonder is now the 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.400 time to try and maybe put Connor at a tackle 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.200 spot and then put Connor McGovern, a guy that they 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.680 used a third round pick on two years ago, and 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.760 play him. I mean to start to find out what 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.280 some of these combinations are going to be, not just now, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.880 but also just moving forward, to see exactly what it 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.040 is you have. If they want to be committed to 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.080 leaving Zack Martin at a guard and not moving him 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.880 to tackle, fine, but I think one of these guys 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:48.000 has to move, be it Martin or Connor Williams. Who 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.440 I believe one. You know, one of these guys will 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.880 be better than steal at Night. You know, I just 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.840 believe that. And yes, Will's talked about Hey it's not 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.880 fantasy football, but this point in time, you're desperate. You know, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.399 this is a desperate situation because you'd have two guys 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.359 that you counted on being there and what have we seen? 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.040 These pass rushers are beating steal and Night. So you 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.240 may have to go ahead, at least move one player 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.879 out there who could possibly be better. And I hope 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.040 that Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy are out here now 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.080 thinking of how they need to go to a quicker 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.440 passing game because trying to do some of these drops 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.560 that they've done in the past. If Dak is not 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.760 getting rid of the football very quick, he's going to 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.320 find himself sacked or even fumbling with strip sacks like 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.600 we saw with Miles Garrett where I felt like on 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.320 the quarterbacks and he's got to know you got steal 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.040 there one on one with Garrett. You got to get 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.880 rid of the ball quicker. So there's there's some issues. Man. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.040 This coaching staff has got their work cut out for him. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.280 They got their work cut out for him. Yeah, you're right. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.680 They got to start coaching first. They didn't even start yet. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.720 They stop at the start line. What are you talking about? 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.359 I think I got the word cut off level we 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:10.800 wanted three worst ever seen in my life trying. 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A limited number of tickets are available. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.520 Get yours now at Dallas Cowboys dot com slash tickets. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.320 This is the players Lounge ROTI by Hotels dot Com. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.240 NWI Scrugs longtime Cowboys Report are joined by Barry Church 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.359 Danny m Create, two former Dallas Cowboys safeties. All right, guys, 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:08.480 are we ready to make a prediction? Are we ready 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:13.320 to get into this whole thing here? Because I mean, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:16.360 we gotta do it. I figured we might as well 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.960 just go ahead, get it on over with here. Let's 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:30.120 get it all over way. Yeah yeah, Church a man, Look, look, 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.119 Nostre Damas. I've been off. I've been off my game lately. 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.320 I mean last night's game and the week before. I've 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.240 been off my game just a little bit. But you know, 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.080 I am optimistic. Like I said, I got those good 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.160 feeling vibes, so I feel like I'm getting right back 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.359 to where I left off at. So let me go 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:49.399 ahead and hitch out with the prediction and what's gonna happen? Um, 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.640 I say, this game being early, it's gonna be back 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.960 and forth. But after the second quarter, I feel like 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.360 Dallas is gonna take control of this game. I feel 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.960 like Zeke's gonna go off. So I'm gonna go ahead 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:08.160 and give it a thirty five to twenty one Cowboys victory. Wow. Okay, 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:14.040 all right, okay, all right, okay, listen, I um, you 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.399 know the first quarter of the season is over with, 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.040 all right, So so we're officially into the second quarter. 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.920 And I said I was going to stop picking these 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:26.000 games based on my emotion. All right, Well, this is 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:27.560 not the week where I think we're gonna lose to 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.440 the Giant. So I'm gonna say that we beat the 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:35.800 Giants thirty one to twenty four. And it's going to 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.399 be a very ugly start to the game. As usual, 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.840 We're gonna make a lot of mistakes, but the Giants 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:46.440 are going to make more in this game. We will 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:50.760 somehow get a turnover for a touchdown. That that is 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.520 how we will win this game. Are you saying it's 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.280 gonna be an I N T and second? No, no, no, 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.480 it could be. It could be it could be it 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:04.640 could be a lot kick, it could be anything. I'm 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.120 not I believe me. I'm not cow know anything coming 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:09.840 from our secondary. I've seen us drop picks and I've 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.280 seen us look in the backfield at the quarterback while 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:15.040 the ball is going over our head. So no, I 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.160 just believe you will get some big play with will 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.600 score and it will not be offensive. Daniel Jones is 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:23.760 known for giving up the football, so so you do 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:28.800 have that. I will sit with you guys on the 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:32.440 Cowboys winning. So I did my prediction yesterday for NBC five, 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.320 so it's already on video. So I've got the Cowboys winning, 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:37.320 but I have a close game. I went. I went 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:41.560 with Dallas winning twenty seven twenty four. The Cowboys have 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.400 issues here. The Giants have issues. And until I see 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.800 the Cowboys go out here and be able to win 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:50.679 a game going away convincingly, I've got to imagine it's 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.600 going to be a close football game. And mccraig, they 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:56.200 come out here as they've normally have, starting off slow, 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:58.119 and this game is a game they got a punch 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.000 and fight back on. Then then I can see an issues. 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.199 I mean, the Giants, to me, showed a lot of 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.360 fight last week when they went out to Los Angeles 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.359 and gave the Rams, gave the Rams all they wanted. 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:11.800 Rams ended up winning it. But but you saw the Giants, Um, 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:13.200 they played well. It was a game. You thought the 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:14.800 Giants were gonna get blown out of the water, and 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.360 it just didn't happen. So I'm not ready to sit 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:19.280 up here and say, hey, the Cowboys are gonna go 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:21.160 ahead and get it all done and they just run 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.399 away with this thing. Um, Jason Garrett still does know 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.800 a little bit about this football team. And I'm talking 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:30.240 about You've talked about the coach. You know, you talked 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:32.920 about the coaching on my carton. I gotta get I 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:36.680 gotta see these guys, but you know what we gotta 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:39.440 did you go out compliment if you go out and 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:41.360 check out my video that I put on Channel five, 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:43.040 I said, one of my favorites is coming to town. 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:49.400 Jason Garrett, Offensive Coordinating Football Giants. Listen. Did you also 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.960 did you also say that the Giants uh play they 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:58.440 played harder than us, specifically on defense? Mum, I said 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.119 last week when they played hard right last week? But 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:03.800 I saw last week, Yes, yes, yeah, they gave they 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:06.560 get effort, let's go ahead and score and say don't yeah, 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:08.360 if not, tap dance around it. Did they go give 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.679 effort last week? Yeah, yeah they did. Was this a 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:17.159 game out of the water? But but no, yeah, so okay, 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:20.920 because we have, because we have, we have to get 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:22.600 to the video. We have to get to the video. 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:24.960 It's not over yet. No, it's not old. It's so 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.920 it's so bad that we gotta finish off the week 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.120 with this taste in the mouth and we gotta spit 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.119 this taste out this week. We gotta come out here 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:34.240 and we gotta hustle. But I was I just want, 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.000 you know, us on the players nows, we want to 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:39.600 show everybody that it is possible for the backside corner 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.320 to make place. It is possible for you to give 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:46.080 full effort for the entire game. It is possible. It 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:50.480 is not impossible. As Barack Obama was said to met 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:54.359 Rodney proceed, Danny proceed, go ahead? Man? Is that is 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:56.920 that's that's se Kuan right there is that se Kuan 0:25:57.080 --> 0:26:00.680 Roller Man. A look at twenty f still on the team. 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:02.399 Twenty four is still on the team. He was the 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:04.719 backside corner, went down the chased that one of the 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:09.080 fastest guys in the NFL. And you mean to tell 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:13.919 me that you it's impossible. What does he It's exactly 0:26:13.960 --> 0:26:18.480 the ones out there. NEI, yeah, that's an exactly out there. 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:21.960 Oh so he watched that, he saw it, He saw 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:26.000 the impossible. Ain't that something? Couldn't this grace. I'm gonna 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:28.080 tell you, look at that hustle. That's a that's a 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:30.840 Marinelli defense. Look at all the guys hustle. Everybody's still 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:33.520 sprinting the twenty yards behind, say Quint, everybody sprinting. That's 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:36.399 not something that you see us doing right now. And 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:38.119 that's why I say the first quarter of the season 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:40.119 over is over with, and we're gonna change that. Oh 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.000 check this out again. Oh it breaks. Look at that 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:45.560 Byron Jones. We let him go. He could have still 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:49.440 been on our squad. Chase down tackle. That's called that's 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:53.800 that's that's that's effort, that's hustle. That is something that 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.199 you can do. It takes no talent for you to 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:58.800 be able to run and try to give full effort 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:01.600 until the whistle blows. That is what you're talking a 0:27:05.080 --> 0:27:09.320 little bit right there. But running a little that's that's 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:11.840 one of the plays where he went full speed. He 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:14.440 gave it a shot, but he forgot about that with Mary. 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:17.600 When Mary Nilly Love, they don't do that. So I 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:20.040 just want everybody to see that as possible, and hopefully 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:22.240 the effort that you just saw on these last two plays, 0:27:22.240 --> 0:27:24.320 that's something that we see for the rest of the season, because, 0:27:24.560 --> 0:27:26.600 like we said, you can eliminate some of these big 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:28.879 plays by just by just having an effort from your 0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:32.440 entire team. Man, just just looking at that video, man, 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:36.160 it just reminded me how much I miss White Lightning 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:39.280 aka Jeff Heath back then. Man, I mean, look, this 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.880 is a dude who got ridiculed and got destroyed by 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:45.680 the fan base each and every week. Oh Jeff doesn't 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:49.119 tackle good, Jeff doesn't create takeaways. Ye man, all he 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.720 did was hustle and he was always in the right position. 0:27:51.880 --> 0:27:54.119 He might not always make the greatest plays, but he 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.080 was never someone you just looked at him was like, man, 0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:58.399 his efforts just not there. He's just not the answer. 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:01.560 I mean, we wanted so bad to get you know, 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:03.000 we gotta get one of these high price and then 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:05.119 we gotta get one of these big time safeties and 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:07.159 we let you know, arguably one of one of the 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:09.440 one of the backbones of the defense. Go and I'm 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:11.320 telling you from what I saw, man that just that 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:15.040 just just may need missed Jeff heat that much more. Man, Mmm, 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:17.840 what a loss? Oh oh, you want to see it again? 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.480 Twenty four man, same guy on the team right now, 0:28:26.560 --> 0:28:29.600 hustling like crazy. Jordan lewis out there still hustling. I'm 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:32.800 telling you it's the coaches because they accepted these guys 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:34.800 do not fear what's going on. They did not fear 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.600 any consequences of repercussions for not spreading to the ball. 0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:40.800 When Marydell was here, you got put on blast. If 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:42.760 you didn't hustle to the ball, you got put on 0:28:42.840 --> 0:28:45.120 blasts more more more so than if you didn't make 0:28:45.160 --> 0:28:47.920 the play. If you just if you miss missed the assignment, 0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:50.320 then then you got blasted. But if you didn't hustle, 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:52.200 that was like the biggest thing that you could do 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:57.040 to piss Mary Nelly off. Yeah, So it was like, blasts. 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:00.200 How do you fix this thing? If you're saying, ain't 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:03.680 they're getting away with it? How is it fixed? It's 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:05.840 gotta be for me, it's gotta be with the players. 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.760 I mean, look, the players have got to go out 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:11.000 there and they got to play with some type of 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:13.240 pride for the name in the back of their jersey. 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.560 I mean, Mike McCarthy, he can go out there and 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:18.280 do all the talking, do all the motivating, say hey, 0:29:18.280 --> 0:29:20.360 we gotta do this, we gotta do that. But to me, 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:23.240 to change their culture, to change the philosophy of this team, 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:25.120 it's gonna have to come down to the players. They're 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.560 gonna have to go out there and show some type 0:29:27.560 --> 0:29:29.719 of respect for themselves on the field and just not 0:29:29.800 --> 0:29:32.000 wanting to put this bad tape out there. I mean 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:33.720 that was to me, that was one of the worst 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:35.200 things you can do if you go out there and 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:37.720 put bad tape, because not only are you putting that 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:39.720 tape on there for your team to see that, but 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:41.800 just if you're released or cut. I mean, there's there's 0:29:41.840 --> 0:29:43.600 thirty one other teams out there that are going to 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:45.760 be looking at this tape and they're not gonna want 0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:48.440 to sign somebody that just you know, gives lackluster performance, 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:50.960 even if they're talented this heck. So for me, I 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:52.760 think it comes down to the players. They're gonna have 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:55.320 to change this culture and get back to the hustling 0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:57.960 ways because right now, what they're doing, it's what they're 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:01.360 doing right now, just ain't cutting it. Look, And I 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:04.040 think it's the players too. I think it's really important 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:06.240 to understand what you used to talk about Garrett visions. 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:09.120 The big thing about Garrett Vision and him making us 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:11.840 watch it in front of our teammates is because he 0:30:11.920 --> 0:30:14.560 was trying to make us hold each other accountable. So 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.920 you should see your teammate, you know, not hustling and loafing, 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.520 and you should say something to them. So when that 0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:23.360 happens in the game, they should feel obligated to sprint 0:30:23.400 --> 0:30:25.800 and hustle every snap because they owe to the person 0:30:25.880 --> 0:30:28.480 next to them. And I don't know if they have 0:30:28.640 --> 0:30:30.640 McCarthy vision. I don't know if they're getting put on 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:32.360 blasts out there in front of each other, because if 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:34.080 they are, and they still letting the slide, we have 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:37.760 a bigger issue than we could ever imagine. I doubt it. 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:40.600 I doubt they're doing that that Garrett vision, because I 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:43.040 mean it was embarrassing the back, you know, I mean, 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:45.320 you sat beside me and new team meetings like I 0:30:45.320 --> 0:30:47.320 would have theres the player that I would I would count, 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:50.080 I would know the specific play that was coming up, 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:51.960 and it would just you would just duck your head 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:54.120 or kind of like cower down, like, man, I hope 0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:56.120 they just go through this, and it would it would 0:30:56.160 --> 0:30:59.080 only be about thirty seconds of watching that tape, but 0:30:59.120 --> 0:31:01.120 it would feel like it was twenty minutes, and they 0:31:01.280 --> 0:31:03.040 just ridiculing on you, man, what do you do this 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:05.720 right here? This is Garrett's favorite right here, fellas, this 0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:08.200 just is not acceptable. That's right here. Just can't just 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:09.840 can't cut it. And he would just have that laser 0:31:09.880 --> 0:31:12.680 pointer just circling circling your body on the tape like 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:16.240 this is just not acceptable. It can't happen, and it's embarrassing. 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:17.800 And I don't know if they do that still, man, 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:20.680 but that was embarrassing someone guys, what are we doing? 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.719 What are we doing? This is just not it? Kidding me? 0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:26.040 Are you kidding me? This is just not it Like 0:31:26.800 --> 0:31:30.560 it was embarrassing. It's funny you said that because they 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:34.920 had robbed Nikovich on on esp the other day and 0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:37.920 Nikovich played for for New England and they they said, hey, 0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:40.400 what would Bill Belichick said he did this big Belichick thing. 0:31:40.440 --> 0:31:42.560 He said. He looked at me, He's like, what are 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:48.800 we doing? Jesus Christ. That's just how he pointed that 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:51.240 finger at him. Man. But but it's funny you say that, 0:31:51.240 --> 0:31:54.560 because coaches had their own way, and I remember they 0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:56.680 would talk about how it got like Tony Dungey, we 0:31:56.840 --> 0:31:58.560 just look at you, you know, just just just just 0:31:58.600 --> 0:32:00.960 give it that look and you just knew that look 0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:05.200 of just and that's you know, those are those are 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:07.040 the ways that that they've got to get to. I 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:10.000 don't know what Mike McCarthy does. He's secretive about everything. 0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:11.960 He doesn't want to tell us what you're doing with 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:14.680 the players, or how he addresses the players. It's a 0:32:14.680 --> 0:32:17.640 big old secret. So maybe maybe behind this, I don't know, 0:32:17.640 --> 0:32:21.680 maybe they taped somebody on the shoulder. Hey, can you 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.080 get a little bit of effort next time? That's okay 0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:26.720 with you? Can we work out a little something here? Thing, 0:32:26.840 --> 0:32:28.800 you know, can we give a little bit I don't know, 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:30.520 I don't know. I don't know how it works, man, 0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:33.160 I don't know how it works. But obviously something needs 0:32:33.160 --> 0:32:37.320 to change there. Let's let's take another break here, all right, guys. 0:32:37.800 --> 0:32:40.240 During this break, take out your phones. 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Please be aware of all 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.600 safe stadium policies prior to arriving at AT and T Stadium. 0:35:15.680 --> 0:35:19.440 Visit Dallas Cowboys dot COM's last Safe stadium for details. 0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:22.799 We've already made our predictions for this game. Church went 0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:26.120 thirty five twenty one Cowboys over the Giants, d Mat 0:35:26.120 --> 0:35:30.680 going thirty one twenty four, Cowboys winning. I am going 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:33.520 with a closer football game at twenty seven, twenty four 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:37.000 game that the Cowboys are going to win. So we 0:35:37.120 --> 0:35:40.000 have we're all saying the Cowboys win just a little 0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:43.680 bit differently here last night, By the way, I believe 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:48.520 that you guys were absolutely wrong. Here we go Church. 0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:52.640 Church said that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by he said 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:58.799 Uncle Tom was gonna win that one twenty three and 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:01.800 d Max and that Nick Foles and then had no, 0:36:01.960 --> 0:36:04.160 he didn't believe in the Bears offense, and that Tampa 0:36:04.200 --> 0:36:08.560 baby win thirty one to ten. And I said a 0:36:08.760 --> 0:36:13.080 twenty four, twenty one, Chicago, when the Bears eke out 0:36:13.120 --> 0:36:16.799 to win twenty to nineteen, with Tom Brady at the 0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:19.520 end not even knowing how it was. He thought it 0:36:19.560 --> 0:36:22.880 was fourth down when the Bay was over, Like, what 0:36:22.960 --> 0:36:26.719 are you talking about, dude? And what's interesting? Did you 0:36:26.760 --> 0:36:29.000 watch during the game where Tom out here yelling at people, 0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:31.960 Tom out here on the sideline yelling folks, and then 0:36:32.000 --> 0:36:34.239 this food don't even know how many downs there are 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.400 at the end of the game, like this operation They 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:41.200 reason why one reason why I didn't pick Tampa Bay 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:43.239 to win the game was because they took all the 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:46.719 Chargers last week and the Chargers ended up blowing a 0:36:46.800 --> 0:36:49.760 game they should have won. So I felt like Tampa 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:52.240 still had issues, and going on the road to Chicago, 0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:54.799 I thought the Bears would perform well enough to win, 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:56.759 and the Bears have a good defense, and so the 0:36:56.760 --> 0:36:58.720 Bears defense made a tougher and so I just figured 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:00.360 I'd go with the home cooking, and that's why I 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:03.719 picked the Bears to win. Listen, I know everybody was 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:05.760 getting on Tom Brady for yelling at this old lineman 0:37:05.800 --> 0:37:07.880 and then messing up at the end. He couldn't he 0:37:07.880 --> 0:37:09.480 couldn't have seen it. He was gonna mess it up 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:12.000 the way that he was getting put on his back 0:37:12.000 --> 0:37:13.560 and the persson was coming to him at that point 0:37:13.560 --> 0:37:15.480 where he was yelling at the old Liman on that series, 0:37:15.680 --> 0:37:17.759 I would have yelled at them too. I was talking 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:21.319 about penalties, Russian dudes getting hip flip by Khalil mac 0:37:21.440 --> 0:37:23.759 all type of crazy stuff going on out there. They 0:37:23.840 --> 0:37:26.839 need they needed a little talking to my dude. One 0:37:26.880 --> 0:37:29.839 dude head button. People getting fifteen yard penalties. Come on, man, 0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:32.600 they needed somebody to talk to them, kind of like 0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:34.759 we need somebody on the Cowboys and talking and listen 0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:38.240 to it. You were right tonight, though you'll be wrong 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:45.880 because he and six is dead. We talked about football, No, no, 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:47.839 we talked about women. Were talking about women of the movie. 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:55.600 We made that bet. We made that bet on the 0:37:55.600 --> 0:37:59.840 Football Show. It's all right, Yeah, I don't remember that. 0:37:59.840 --> 0:38:01.960 I don't remember saying that at all, So just just 0:38:02.040 --> 0:38:05.439 let you on. I remember that, But you know, I'm 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:09.400 just gonna be happy. Dwight Howard gets a ring. Do 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:15.560 I have White Howard? Dwight Howard will do what Carl 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:18.200 Malone failed to do to jump on the team and 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:24.600 it went a ring Howard. So who me? White Howard 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:27.239 has been passed around the league man in Alaska. I 0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:29.600 mean he get passing to White around and Dwight's gonna 0:38:29.680 --> 0:38:32.040 end up winning a dog older he and JaVale McGee. 0:38:32.120 --> 0:38:37.000 JaVale McGee is gonna win another NBA championship Ring Church, 0:38:37.040 --> 0:38:39.040 do you hear this? Of all the stuff here, all 0:38:39.120 --> 0:38:41.759 accomplishments that just getting made tonight with a D and 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:44.840 Lebron and all this stuff, he said he is happy, 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:49.520 but what he wants to see is the White Howard 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:54.160 super man. I mean, he was getting tossed around like 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:57.479 a hot potato man. But hey, I guess he landed 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:01.000 at the right spot. I mean he even got him 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:05.799 another one. Jr got him, you know, he Jr. Hey man, 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:08.439 they ride Lebron, Abody jumped on Lebron back and getting 0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:11.080 themselves some rings. And no poor Karl Malone, he tried 0:39:11.080 --> 0:39:13.560 to jump on that Laker bandwagon with Kobe and Shocking. 0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:16.520 They got blown out by the Pistons, so Carl never 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:19.279 got his ring. Gary Payton joined him, and then Gary 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:22.000 Payton went from from the Lakers and then ended up 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:25.760 jumping on that Miami bandwagon with d Wade and Shack 0:39:25.800 --> 0:39:27.960 and he ended up finally getting himself a ring that way. 0:39:28.000 --> 0:39:30.839 But yeah, we Dwight Howard gonna end up with a ring. 0:39:31.160 --> 0:39:33.279 You know, be able to talk. You'll be able to 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:36.920 talk trash to Charles Barkley. Now, next time they on 0:39:35.520 --> 0:39:42.040 the White Howard World Champion, he contributed. Though the White 0:39:42.080 --> 0:39:44.200 Howard contributed to the ring, I will give him that 0:39:44.239 --> 0:39:46.800 he played. He played. He played some good ball, especially 0:39:46.840 --> 0:39:48.560 when they needed some big man in there. He gave 0:39:48.560 --> 0:39:51.040 some good minute so he didn't just he not Jr. 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:54.440 And this and this. Uh in this instance, I will 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:57.839 give you that one. Yes, yes, yes, indeed. But y'all 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:03.600 still was wrong about the Tampa ba Oh. We're not 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:09.520 gonna count as many times you've been wrong with the 0:40:09.640 --> 0:40:13.600 current topic. So before I came in to do the show, 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:15.560 I was having lunch and was driving around and I 0:40:15.600 --> 0:40:18.160 was I was listening to the Cowboy flagship station here 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:20.480 in Dallas Fort Worth one O five three the fans, 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:24.480 and they were talking about trading players, and someone on 0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:28.640 the show brought up trading wide receiver Michael Gallup. And 0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:30.719 you know those times, I don't know how you guys, 0:40:30.880 --> 0:40:34.719 you view you think about sports radio. But I just 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:36.600 wanted to turn the station off because I just said 0:40:36.600 --> 0:40:41.080 to myself, you're not trading Michael Gallup and getting any 0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:43.839 good defensive piece. And Michael Gallup and when you think 0:40:43.840 --> 0:40:46.920 about the money he's making, Michael Gallops is to me, 0:40:47.000 --> 0:40:49.920 Gallup is a piece that you want to keep. Um. 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.759 But nobody in football right now, especially when you start 0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:55.600 thinking about how guys are dealing with COVID and so 0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:59.480 many injury issues, nobody's trading you a good player. They're 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:02.000 just not gonna do it. So if anybody's thinking that 0:41:02.040 --> 0:41:03.719 the Cowboys can make some trades and then all of 0:41:03.719 --> 0:41:06.080 the Sids fix some stuff here, this is not this 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:08.960 is in baseball. This is in basketball. I don't believe 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:10.799 there's a trade out there that the Cowboys are gonna make. 0:41:10.800 --> 0:41:12.920 To me, that's gonna go ahead and fix this football team. 0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:15.839 There's not another Amari Cooper trade out there. And then 0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:18.239 somebody had texted into the station trade Amari Cooper for 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:20.600 two first round picks? Like what what? What land are 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:24.279 you living in? Its trading for that? And they just 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:26.840 gave Amari Cooper one hundred million dollars contracts. So the 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:29.720 salary cap hits would be. It just doesn't work. But 0:41:29.719 --> 0:41:31.360 but fans who are just thinking that they're going to 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:33.600 all of a sudden make some major trades. And somebody 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:35.520 hit me up on Twitter saying, you know, the Cowboys 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:36.960 need to go ahead and give us the draft picks 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:39.680 and go get somebody who's got tackle depth, who has 0:41:39.760 --> 0:41:42.359 offensive tackle depth in the National Football League, and who's 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.799 willingly going to give it up. No one is right now. 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:47.600 The Cowboys are basically gonna be stuck with what they've 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:53.560 got here. They really are, guys. Go ahead, you, Matt, Yeah, listen, listen, 0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:56.239 and it won't happen. And what I'm about to say 0:41:56.320 --> 0:41:58.760 makes no sense, But it's just me being mad at Keller. 0:41:59.040 --> 0:42:01.400 If you're gonna trade some the way, if you're not 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:03.880 gonna feature this guy in the offense and focus the 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:07.120 office around him, just trade twenty one. I'll be goodness Grace. 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:09.200 Just get him out of here. Let Tony Powler run 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:11.480 you let him start the game once already, start with 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.080 the whole series. You're throwing the ball all over the 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:16.720 play fifty sixty times. The man ain't getting that many carriers, 0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:19.600 I mean, not as many carries I think he should 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:21.720 get well, let him go if you're not gonna focus 0:42:21.719 --> 0:42:23.800 the offense around him. You paid him this big contract 0:42:24.040 --> 0:42:26.560 and he's been the bell cow of our offense for 0:42:26.600 --> 0:42:28.560 the last four or five years, and all of a sudden, 0:42:28.600 --> 0:42:31.480 now he's not the guy. I don't understand it. So 0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:34.200 they won't trade him. They shouldn't. But this is my 0:42:34.280 --> 0:42:37.279 shout out to Kelly to say, focus the offense on 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:39.680 Ezekiel Elliott. That is the way that you are going 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:44.799 to win games. Yeah, and I sincerely doubt they would 0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:47.239 do that, But I get your point, man. I mean 0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:49.960 they're not running the bell cow back like like we 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:51.839 thought they would. I mean, even when they were down 0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.359 twenty something in Atlanta, they fed the gout a rock 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.200 and we got it back into the game. We just 0:42:56.320 --> 0:43:00.560 haven't seen that amount of touches or production from from Zeke. 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:02.640 But I get what you're saying there. But back to 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:06.480 uh to um gallop. I mean, that's that's that's crazy, 0:43:06.640 --> 0:43:09.560 that's just click bait. That's ridiculous. I mean, look, the 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:12.279 dude is arguably your best receiver on the team right now. 0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:14.560 I mean he's winning all his deep balls. I mean 0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:16.920 it seems like nobody can cover them, so you would leave, 0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:19.040 you would you would trade off your best offensive weapon. 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:23.320 Right now, that's just crazy to me, and it won't happen. 0:43:23.440 --> 0:43:25.680 It won't happen. But like I said, it's just clickbait. 0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:30.120 That's crazy. Now, Danny, you know the three of us 0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:35.200 are outliers in terms of saying, hey, give twenty one 0:43:35.280 --> 0:43:38.080 the football. Yeah. I mean, I've put that out on 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:42.359 Twitter before, and I've had these these analytics people come 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:45.239 after me talking about that's not the way to win. 0:43:45.480 --> 0:43:49.400 You gotta throw and keep slinging it. And Bucky Brooks 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:51.239 and said it too, and they went after Bucky, and 0:43:51.280 --> 0:43:53.080 Bucky went back and forth through these people. I just 0:43:53.239 --> 0:43:56.200 I just let it go. But there's there's a bunch 0:43:56.239 --> 0:43:57.839 of folks out here who don't believe in it. They 0:43:57.840 --> 0:43:59.879 don't think you should pay a running back. They think 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:02.200 running back to just interchangeable, that it's all about just 0:44:02.320 --> 0:44:05.000 throwing the football, and that's what the analytics tell them. 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:08.319 But all I know is I watched Cleveland come in 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:12.280 here and run the football and they didn't have Baker 0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:15.360 Mayfield throwing the football over the place, and they pounded 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:19.520 the Cowboys almost put fifty on the Cowboys. And when 0:44:19.560 --> 0:44:21.279 I go back and I think about, what's the most 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:24.440 successful year that Dak and Zeke had together, it was 0:44:24.440 --> 0:44:26.600 the first year. And you know what that Cowboy team was. 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:29.399 It was a ball control offense where they were given 0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:32.200 it to Zeke and they were limiting Dak Prescott. When 0:44:32.200 --> 0:44:34.000 I think about the best year I ever saw for 0:44:34.080 --> 0:44:36.520 Tony Romo, one of their most successful years. They were 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:39.000 twelve and four, Jason Garrett's Coach of the Year, DeMarco 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:42.440 Murray offensive Player of the Year in the International Football League. 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:44.960 That was when Romo was limited and they ran the 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:47.880 daylights and ran the dickens out of DeMarco Murray in 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:51.720 his final year before he hit free agency. Why won't 0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:54.400 guys go back and do that very thing that worked? 0:44:54.560 --> 0:44:57.880 The Cowboys were the Super Bowls with Emmitt Smith. They 0:44:57.960 --> 0:45:00.839 won a Super Bowl with Tony Dorsett running the football works. 0:45:00.880 --> 0:45:03.800 I don't care what anybody says about these whole analytics things, 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:08.600 but it's just us, though, It's just us. Go ahead, Church, 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:12.600 And then then I finish, I think I'll cut you off. No, no, 0:45:12.719 --> 0:45:16.160 you he was going with it. Go ahead, all right, well, listen, listen, 0:45:16.480 --> 0:45:18.600 look around the league, all right, and when we say 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:20.759 give the ball to Zee, it ain't just you know up, 0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:23.520 you know, power left, power, right, counter left, count of right. 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:27.120 Look around the league. Christian mccaffree focal point of the offense. 0:45:27.719 --> 0:45:31.440 Kamara focal point of the offense. These are teams that 0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:34.160 pay these guys and their and their focal points of 0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:36.920 the office, and they help their office run. These guys 0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:40.200 are successful, successful, and when a defensive coordinator comes in, 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:43.000 they know that they have to focus and stop these guys. 0:45:43.360 --> 0:45:46.240 And we don't have that. And Ezekiel Elliott has always 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:48.120 been that guy, so it's confusing to why all of 0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:50.520 a sudden he's not. And our offense has changed to 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:52.640 back throw on a ball fifty sixty times a game. 0:45:52.840 --> 0:45:55.200 And it's no wonder why we're one and three. It 0:45:55.239 --> 0:45:57.960 doesn't work, and it's been proven not to work over 0:45:58.000 --> 0:46:00.520 the years for us as the Cowboys. And for some reason, 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:02.960 all of a sudden, analytics would say that we used 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:06.719 to switch. And and you know, Mike McCarthy brough analytics 0:46:06.719 --> 0:46:12.120 here analytically we are one and thirty and looking more. Look, 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:13.800 I mean the only way I think you know, the 0:46:13.960 --> 0:46:16.600 running back by approach or all that you know anybody 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:18.320 can do it is if you're running the ball against 0:46:18.320 --> 0:46:20.719 our defense. I mean, that's the only way that think 0:46:22.160 --> 0:46:24.640 for me. I mean, Louis you you may you put 0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:26.600 you hit it right on the head, man. Like our 0:46:26.640 --> 0:46:29.080 best formula, our best team that we had and in 0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:31.319 recent years was two thousand and sixteen when we were 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:33.920 feeding the rock to Zeke and we were were limited 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:37.040 Dak Prescott's only making throws when he had maybe third 0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:38.680 and sixes or something like that, and we had a 0:46:38.760 --> 0:46:42.000 highly successful year. Now, look, you know, Zeke, he got 0:46:42.000 --> 0:46:43.520 to step it up a little bit on the run game. 0:46:43.560 --> 0:46:45.160 I mean he you know, he's fumbling the ball a 0:46:45.200 --> 0:46:47.399 little bit too much, and he hasn't had those those 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:50.279 big time spark plays that were used to seeing from him. 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:53.640 But they got to give him more opportunities. So to me, look, 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:55.239 they got to get back to that formula and back 0:46:55.239 --> 0:46:57.640 in two thousand and sixteen two eighteen when they were 0:46:57.719 --> 0:47:00.400 running a ball heavy and limiting Dak Prescott. But this 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:02.919 whole running back by approach, Jing, it's just not gonna work. 0:47:03.160 --> 0:47:05.640 I don't believe. So I forgot I forgot Tennessee in 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:09.120 Minnesota as well with Davin Cook and Derek Henry. My 0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:11.680 bad as far as teams that focus on their running 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:15.200 backs and they have success. Look at the Rams. I 0:47:15.200 --> 0:47:16.799 mean the Rams went to the Super Bowl. It was 0:47:16.840 --> 0:47:19.200 it was a Todd Gurley based offense. And I remember 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:21.640 that playoff game in which the Cowboys played. It was 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:24.840 Todd Gurley and Anderson who just toward the Cowboys on. 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:27.880 They ran the football and went went to a Super Bowl. 0:47:27.920 --> 0:47:30.840 And what did the Rams do and game went against 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:33.040 the Cowboys? They ran the football. I mean this year 0:47:33.080 --> 0:47:35.319 they ran the football. They're running the ball and they're 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:39.560 having success. And that's something that for the strangest thing, 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:43.239 people around here who think they're math gurus and they're 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:45.960 not don't want to hear it. But let's also talk 0:47:46.000 --> 0:47:49.520 about the complimentary football that you have to play. This 0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:52.440 is a Dallas defense that can't stop anybody. So what 0:47:52.600 --> 0:47:55.000 is the best way you can help your defense keep 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:58.120 them off the field. They can't get exposed if they're 0:47:58.120 --> 0:48:00.239 on the sidelines. So that's another bit in a fit 0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:03.239 of running the football, is you run the clock? Last night, 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:06.120 you guys watch that Bears game. Mattnegie out here throwing 0:48:06.160 --> 0:48:08.799 the ball with what did you need to do. Take 0:48:08.880 --> 0:48:11.640 time off the clock, so you didn't put your defense 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.360 back out here, give Tom Brady a chance, and luckily 0:48:14.400 --> 0:48:18.400 the defense saved him. But just another these offensive gurus, 0:48:18.640 --> 0:48:20.920 these guys that want to throw all the time, they 0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:24.840 drive me crazy that. I mean, the Bears won, but 0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:27.520 had they lost that game, if Brady takes him down 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:29.799 the field and they kick a field goal, everybody and 0:48:29.800 --> 0:48:31.400 their brother would have been on the head coach, and 0:48:31.520 --> 0:48:34.279 rightfully so, because he's not doing You got too many 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:36.560 of these ex quarterbacks, too many of these guys who 0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:39.440 are offensive. You know, they're offensive guys who are head coaches. 0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:41.880 I just believe that they're making a mistake. And when 0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:44.080 I look across this league and I look at some 0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:46.880 of the best coaches of all time, you look at 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:52.000 their backgrounds. They're defensive guys. Bill Belichick defensive guy, Tom 0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:57.839 Landry defensive guy, Chuck Nol defensive guy, Pete Carroll defensive guy. 0:48:58.560 --> 0:49:01.480 You know, guys who think different league. These these defensive 0:49:01.520 --> 0:49:04.720 coaches are apt to think more about how to protect 0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:06.680 the defense and not just hey, let's just throw, throw, 0:49:06.800 --> 0:49:09.560 throw and throw throw. And I think that's Jimmy Johnson, 0:49:09.880 --> 0:49:11.800 Jimmy Johnson go on the Hall of Fame. Jimmy was 0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:14.120 a defensive guy. Bill Cowards about to go in the 0:49:14.120 --> 0:49:17.160 Hall of Fame, Bill Coward defensive guy, Tony Dungee in 0:49:17.200 --> 0:49:20.120 the Hall of Fame, defensive guy. At some point in time, 0:49:20.160 --> 0:49:22.880 while everybody wants to love up and get hire the 0:49:22.880 --> 0:49:25.640 Sean mcvains of the world and the Kyle Shanahans, you 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:28.000 may want to ask yourself, do you have a defensive 0:49:28.239 --> 0:49:30.799 a coach out there the understands how to play complimentary 0:49:30.800 --> 0:49:35.920 football because a lot of those guys are winning championships. 0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:40.359 Point yeah, yeah, and listen, and you forget to mention that, 0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:43.759 like we talked about earlier, your offensive line right now 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:47.319 is struggling, you know, to find a rotation and keep 0:49:47.360 --> 0:49:50.839 guys healthy. I can guarantee you that the majority of 0:49:50.840 --> 0:49:55.319 offensive lineman would rather pool than kickstep versus versus a 0:49:55.360 --> 0:49:57.319 big time pass rusher. They would rather come out the 0:49:57.360 --> 0:49:59.840 ball and smack the defensive line in the mouth and 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:02.840 run block versus dropping back, you know, and trying to 0:50:02.880 --> 0:50:05.400 pass the past set fifty six times a game. I 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:08.960 can guarantee you that they will be more comfortable running 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:12.000 the ball. It will help out your entire team, your office, 0:50:12.040 --> 0:50:14.440 them aligning your defense. And I just don't understand why 0:50:14.440 --> 0:50:16.040 it's not a focal point when it can help us 0:50:16.040 --> 0:50:19.719 in so many areas. I know, I know, all right, 0:50:20.080 --> 0:50:22.439 fellas been a fun week here. It's been a fun 0:50:22.480 --> 0:50:26.040 week man. And uh, we'll convene on Monday and it'll 0:50:26.440 --> 0:50:30.480 it'll either be victory Monday or Monday moaning. So we'll 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:33.919 get into that. And as we get ready to leave, 0:50:34.200 --> 0:50:38.680 Chris Bean, we appreciate you handling the show. Um. Remember Church, 0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:41.640 it is Hall and Notes, not Oates in Hall. Okay, 0:50:43.360 --> 0:50:46.920 I got you, I got you, big dog. Go on 0:50:47.200 --> 0:50:51.919 go on YouTube and look up Shaquille O'Neal singing Man Eater. 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:54.680 He sang it on T and T during at the 0:50:54.800 --> 0:50:57.040 NBA All Star Game. He was singing it with another guy, 0:50:57.040 --> 0:50:59.600 Whey or Las Vegas, and Shaq was doing pretty good 0:50:59.640 --> 0:51:01.880 for the first first two or three lyrics. Did he 0:51:01.880 --> 0:51:04.480 butchered after the rest? He didn't know. But it's absolutely 0:51:04.480 --> 0:51:06.840 a fun clip of him singing Hall of Notes. So 0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:11.759 they did. They got Man Man Eater two. Yes, I know, 0:51:12.560 --> 0:51:19.000 Man Hall Classics watch out Boys, Yes, yes they might. 0:51:19.080 --> 0:51:21.359 They might be top ten overall. Man. I don't know, 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:27.880 Okay for the show. Hey, I'm just saying, man, they 0:51:27.960 --> 0:51:30.239 might be top ten, that's all. I'm know the name, 0:51:30.360 --> 0:51:32.040 and you didn't know, and you didn't know that that 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:36.960 they was white, not a top ten, they were black. 0:51:37.239 --> 0:51:42.359 He thought, we go back, we go back, go back. 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:47.880 They had they had Jerry Curls. I saw him just 0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:52.960 about it. It It was summertime. Yeah, hey, hey, I'm gonna 0:51:53.000 --> 0:51:55.880 throw you another one at you. Hey, Church, Michael McDonald 0:51:56.000 --> 0:51:58.239 is white. In case you didn't know that, I knew 0:51:58.239 --> 0:52:02.839 Michael McDonald was like I knew that. They threw me off. 0:52:02.880 --> 0:52:04.839 I saw him from a distance, you know, I mean, 0:52:04.920 --> 0:52:06.600 but hey, we go way back. Man, they might be 0:52:06.640 --> 0:52:08.560 top ten in my book. That's all I'm saying. Man. 0:52:09.360 --> 0:52:12.799 Fellas have a great when. Players Lounge always fun as 0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:15.040 always as Players Lounge brought to you by Hotels dot Com. 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:18.239 We'll talk on Monday, guys. This has been a production 0:52:18.360 --> 0:52:22.080 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.