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Speaker 1: by former Dallas Cowboys safety's Danny McCray and Barry Church
Speaker 1: at Church. Apparently he's feeling real good to day, McCray,
Speaker 1: So I guess we gotta get on that that feel good.
Speaker 1: He's all right now. I'm thinking he gonna come out
Speaker 1: here with some sad news, but he come up his
Speaker 1: singing all during the break. He's ready to go. Mister
Speaker 1: must fun times up in here. He listen. He's he's
Speaker 1: carefree because he's accepted you know where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: So he's fine with it. You know, whatever happens happened,
Speaker 1: that's what he's He just rolled just rolling on through, okay, man,
Speaker 1: Like I said, like I said earlier in the week, man,
Speaker 1: I'm very optimistic of what we got going on today.
Speaker 1: And you know, my babes, my music was just just
Speaker 1: showing how optimistic I am about this game. That's all
Speaker 1: that was happening. Who are you listening to? Um? You
Speaker 1: know I was corrected, you know. For the longest I
Speaker 1: thought it was with Oates and Hall. But it's Hall
Speaker 1: and Oates. And my boy knew you every day. I
Speaker 1: made his day, you know, I made his day. Thought
Speaker 1: that was the funniest thing on earth. As well as
Speaker 1: our producer Chris Bean, they thought that was hilarious. But hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to listen to good music. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. Man, so so literally, because I'm
Speaker 1: older than you got, I grew up on Hall and Oates,
Speaker 1: all right, the two gentlemen Philadelphia. It's Darryl Hall and
Speaker 1: John Oates. I have never heard it referred to as
Speaker 1: Oates at Hall. Okay never but but but but but okay, okay? Which? So?
Speaker 1: Which which song were you vibing to of of Hall
Speaker 1: and Oates? So I was jamming to a little bit
Speaker 1: of Sarah Smile earlier and had a little Private Eyes
Speaker 1: as well. Private Eyes was jamming that a little bit
Speaker 1: as well. And for for the for the longest. Man,
Speaker 1: I just found out they were they were two white guys. Man,
Speaker 1: I thought for the longest they were two brothers, you know,
Speaker 1: Oates and Hall as I call them, you know, say,
Speaker 1: I thought they were brothers out there. But I mean
Speaker 1: to two white dudes who had the soul with them, man,
Speaker 1: it was it was awesome. It was awesome. So I
Speaker 1: mean they were influenced by They talked about how you know,
Speaker 1: they were influenced by soul music and the Motown records
Speaker 1: that got them going. That's how they how they got
Speaker 1: themselves going. I'll tell you what. Since you're on that
Speaker 1: Hall of Notes kick, I want you to go to
Speaker 1: YouTube and look up Darryl's House and Daryl Hall's house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so a bunch of a bunch of artists that you like,
Speaker 1: um go in and they sing old school Hall of
Speaker 1: Notes songs and then they sing some of their own stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's just a big jam session at Daryl Hall's
Speaker 1: house out in uh in the in Kinnectic, no New York,
Speaker 1: out of New York. So like Celo Green, CeeLo Green
Speaker 1: goes in there and he plays I can't go for
Speaker 1: that with with Daryl Hall in the band, and then
Speaker 1: they play, then they go play some of Seelows music.
Speaker 1: So it's really cool to see them just five and
Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, it's it is Hall of Notes,
Speaker 1: my man, Hall of Notes. I'm glad you directed me
Speaker 1: because I would have I would have been saying that too.
Speaker 1: I would have been going out about Oates and Hall.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's not it's it's not the Five Jacksons. It's
Speaker 1: the Jackson five. These groups are older than you. These
Speaker 1: before you came out something, you know, it's it's the
Speaker 1: Jackson five, not the Five Jacksons. The case you I
Speaker 1: deserve listening to that up, man, But it's good. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that you like good music. So I mean,
Speaker 1: for a while, man, whenever the dudes was putting out
Speaker 1: of music, it was a straight up hit. So they were.
Speaker 1: They were dog and good in the eight Now, if
Speaker 1: you want to see so you thought the Hall of
Speaker 1: Notes were black, if you want to see how all
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, all of us were fooled. It's
Speaker 1: when we looked up and saw Bobby Calledwell. Bobby called
Speaker 1: Well sings the song He's sings the song what You
Speaker 1: Won't Do for Love? And Tupac used it a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago about like he sampled it. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: sampled it. So what I want you, what I want
Speaker 1: you to to do when we take our break here
Speaker 1: is just check your phone Google Bobby Caldwell or fact.
Speaker 1: Just look it up. Man, it's gonna shock you. It's
Speaker 1: gonna shock you. Bobby Carwell, Bobby Carwell. So I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, just we're talking about dude, that's talking about
Speaker 1: what you wanta do. Doom doom do for love? Were
Speaker 1: talking about that guy. Oh god, man, that's a shocker.
Speaker 1: That's the ultimate sid Well. We'll wait till you see him.
Speaker 1: Look at the video when you see that's funny going. Well,
Speaker 1: so it'll it'll, it'll trip you out here. But uh,
Speaker 1: the players lounged by to you by hotels dot com
Speaker 1: is a football so we concentrate on the Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: it was a bad news that came out here today.
Speaker 1: That's what we talked about music, trying to make ourselves
Speaker 1: feel a little bit good. Uh, Tyer Smith is out
Speaker 1: for the year. The left tackle Tyers Smith is out
Speaker 1: for the year. On top of the news we got
Speaker 1: last week that right tackle Lell Collins is done for
Speaker 1: the year. So the book ends guys, one a all
Speaker 1: decade performer in Smith and the other in college who
Speaker 1: I thought had a Pro Bowl season last year, they're gone.
Speaker 1: Adding the fact that last year's starting center perennial Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl or Travis Frederick retired, this is uh. This is
Speaker 1: a whole different offensive line that'll be rolling out here
Speaker 1: against the New York Football Giants. The Giants are over
Speaker 1: a fourth, the Cowboys are are one in three, and
Speaker 1: fellas out I'm sweating right now, I'm bating. I'm sweating
Speaker 1: thinking about this is the combination that Dak Prescott has
Speaker 1: to deal with the rest of the way. Because we've
Speaker 1: seen three guys who could rush the pastor this year,
Speaker 1: Tack McKinley in that Atlanta game, and Tack McKinley was
Speaker 1: given the Cowboys the business before he heard his going
Speaker 1: and left the game. Then you know, then you go ahead.
Speaker 1: You saw what Miles Garrett did to him. We saw
Speaker 1: what Aaron Donald did in Week one. You know, as
Speaker 1: they get ready to face the Steelers and Philadelphia and Baltimore,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid for Dak Prescott with this this unit out here.
Speaker 1: So fellas, you gotta start giving your impressions and just
Speaker 1: reaction to Tyran Smith being gone for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Mccraig. Listen, from what we talked about yesterday,
Speaker 1: is really not surprising. He's been dealing with with a
Speaker 1: few injuries and then so the back is always a
Speaker 1: really really serious thing and it's hard to come back from,
Speaker 1: especially for the entire season. And then you you have
Speaker 1: his neck injury, and you know, football, like I said,
Speaker 1: as a contact sport, and the nick is a big
Speaker 1: part of the game, and you know, when you risk
Speaker 1: putting that your career on the line just so you
Speaker 1: can come back, you know, early and throughout this season,
Speaker 1: just so you can try, especially when you're running three right,
Speaker 1: you see what's going on. But you see that and
Speaker 1: you don't want to you don't want to risk your
Speaker 1: entire career just trying to come back to early. And
Speaker 1: I think he actually did that last week. So, like
Speaker 1: I said yesterday, I'm glad that he, you know, made
Speaker 1: that decision today. So now the Cowboys know they need
Speaker 1: to move forward with another option, and they're not you know,
Speaker 1: waiting on him to come back and hoping they didn't
Speaker 1: come back for the rest of the season. They know
Speaker 1: now that who they don't have They don't have the
Speaker 1: left tackle or the right tackle. So now you have
Speaker 1: a chance to adapt and make a plan for who
Speaker 1: you're going to have out there for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, for me, I think it was an
Speaker 1: extremely smart move for Tyron Smith to go ahead and
Speaker 1: get that second opinion and go ahead and get the
Speaker 1: surgery and shut it down because you know, like we said, man,
Speaker 1: the neck, the neck is nothing to ever play around with,
Speaker 1: and there's life after football. So I think that was
Speaker 1: an extreme the smart move for him to do that.
Speaker 1: But to these injuries, I mean, this is where I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Kelly Moore and McCarthy and Phil Bin in
Speaker 1: that whole brain trust, they're gonna have to come up
Speaker 1: with something. We know. We had Will on the show
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and you know he told us,
Speaker 1: you know, they like to promote from within, and they
Speaker 1: don't like to do this whole fantasy football mismatching and
Speaker 1: putting people here and there that they weren't doing that
Speaker 1: in camp. We we know they don't like to do that.
Speaker 1: But this is it, This is this panic mode right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're one in the three. We still have
Speaker 1: a shot. I mean, if if we could play a
Speaker 1: little bit better, we still have a shot at this division.
Speaker 1: So for me, this is the time where they got
Speaker 1: to mix and match, put your best players and your
Speaker 1: best unit on the field. If that means moving Zach
Speaker 1: Martin to right tackle or left tackle or moving whoever
Speaker 1: they got to put out there. But they have to
Speaker 1: put their best unit on the field in order to
Speaker 1: protect Dak Prescott won and to get the most out
Speaker 1: of this offense. I mean it's a patchwork right now.
Speaker 1: They're struggling. Like you said earlier, KNEWI those edges were
Speaker 1: getting destroyed by tack m Kennedy, they were getting destroyed
Speaker 1: by Miles Garrett, and in the interior, you know, Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald was retroying it. So for us, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: get a lack of pass rushers because Pitt Pittsburgh. They
Speaker 1: can still come after the quarterback. Baltimore, those boys can
Speaker 1: still come after the quarterback. And don't sleep on Washington.
Speaker 1: I mean they got chase you and they got right.
Speaker 1: They're good. They are good. Yeah, we cannot sleep on
Speaker 1: Washington's D line. So for me, this is where that
Speaker 1: fantasy football is gonna have to come into play, get
Speaker 1: your best unit on the field in order to protect
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and get the most out of your offense. Listen, hey,
Speaker 1: church anew hey, tell me this while we're on it,
Speaker 1: because I love Tyron, But do we see Tyron in
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys uniform again next season? To me, who, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Man, that's gonna be a tough We were
Speaker 1: talking about it earlier. That's gonna be a tough decision.
Speaker 1: I mean just just because all, you know, all he's
Speaker 1: done here in this ten year and battling through injuries
Speaker 1: and you know, putting the doll on the line for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, it's tough. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it is a business, and you
Speaker 1: can't go out there and have your left tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: only playing part of the year, you know, the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. So for me, I think that's something
Speaker 1: that they got to look into and they might want
Speaker 1: to try to go ahead and get his replacement in
Speaker 1: the draft. I look at this situation from two aspects.
Speaker 1: When you ask that question, Danny, I looked first at
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith. Does he want to keep playing? Tyrant has
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame resume right now? Right now, all
Speaker 1: decade player. And many years ago, when Ricky Waters is
Speaker 1: playing against the Eagles, he ran across the middle and
Speaker 1: the quarterback threw a ball that was gonna get him
Speaker 1: lit up, and he decided he wouldn't go go reach
Speaker 1: for it. And so people ask him after the game,
Speaker 1: They're like, well, why did you reach for the past?
Speaker 1: He said, for who? For what? He was like, why
Speaker 1: am I gonna get killed? Who for what? And when
Speaker 1: I sit around here and I think about the question
Speaker 1: that's gonna hit tyrant Smith after this next surgery, it's
Speaker 1: for who for what? You need to I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys have played this game. And I tell everybody, all
Speaker 1: of my friends who don't play football, I tell I said,
Speaker 1: this game leaves everybody hurt. There's a one hundred percent
Speaker 1: casualty rate when you leave this game. I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody who's playing at this level for three or four
Speaker 1: years that doesn't have something wrong with them. Okay, this thing, this,
Speaker 1: this takes stuff out of your body. So he's got
Speaker 1: a back, he's got a neck. How much longer do
Speaker 1: you want to keep doing this to the point where
Speaker 1: you can't bend over? You guys are seeing tiring, and
Speaker 1: you guys play with him, you know him personally, Here's
Speaker 1: a guy that likes being outdoors. You know, he's an
Speaker 1: active guy. How much longer do you want to do
Speaker 1: this and take these kind of hits where you literally
Speaker 1: are debilitating yourself here, He's got nothing else to prove,
Speaker 1: Hall of fame, resume, fantastic tackle. So that's why I said,
Speaker 1: you gotta ask him what does he want to do?
Speaker 1: Because we saw what Travis Frederick Travis said, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't do this the way I want to do this,
Speaker 1: So he walked away. So I look at it from
Speaker 1: his standpoint. From the Cowboys standpoint, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they can even cut tyrant Smith the way they've they've
Speaker 1: been pushing out these contracts. You know, they pushed out
Speaker 1: a bunch of contracts. Is here, so you already got
Speaker 1: you know, you got you paid part of Travis's money
Speaker 1: this year for five million. You got another five million
Speaker 1: you got to deal with next year. So you got
Speaker 1: to start to ask yourselves as this cap goes down.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if the Cowboys in a
Speaker 1: position to just sit up here and tell him, hey, man,
Speaker 1: go ahead, call it a career. We're gonna move on
Speaker 1: without you. And then my last part on this, Danny,
Speaker 1: you talk about the draft. Okay, so you need a
Speaker 1: tackle because Tyrant's been hurt and missing three games out
Speaker 1: of the last it's gonna be five years now, three
Speaker 1: games a year. You got lel Collins. You know how
Speaker 1: Collins is gonna react, So you gotta tackle issue. You
Speaker 1: got de tackle issues. Um, you probably got to go
Speaker 1: get another defensive end because Griffin's on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: Old the Smith's on a one year deal. You've got
Speaker 1: a corner issue because you're gonna have um A Woozier
Speaker 1: and Lewis who are free agents. You got safety issue
Speaker 1: that they still have yet to address. So when you
Speaker 1: to talk talking about cowboy draft picks, Lord knows where
Speaker 1: they go. They've got a lot of needs that are immediate.
Speaker 1: And then if vander ash can't really come back here
Speaker 1: and show you he's the real deal, and Lord knows
Speaker 1: you shouldn't trust him, you shouldn't trust him right now,
Speaker 1: you may have to go get a linebacker. So I
Speaker 1: don't know where they go right now when you talk
Speaker 1: about a first round pick, I don't know where they
Speaker 1: go because they have so many holes that they need
Speaker 1: to feel I'm done. Yeah, and then yeah, listen, it
Speaker 1: sounds like it sounds like we're in some deep trouble
Speaker 1: come twenty twenty one season. So if so, everybody out there,
Speaker 1: if you're listening and you think it's bad now, man,
Speaker 1: when you start figuring out who what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: in the draft and who's gonna be on this team
Speaker 1: next year, you're gonna I'm sure you'll be scratching your
Speaker 1: head then too. But just to address the Tyrant Smith thing,
Speaker 1: I know we talked yesterday about trainers and players trusting
Speaker 1: the training staff, and one thing I didn't think about,
Speaker 1: and it just crossed my mind when you said, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to figure out what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: We're not even sure if if it was his idea
Speaker 1: to go get the second opinion because he really wants
Speaker 1: to play that bad. We don't know which which side
Speaker 1: it was on. Maybe maybe our training staff told him, man,
Speaker 1: you need to shut it down for the season, and
Speaker 1: he said, look, I really want to play. This is
Speaker 1: what I do, this is what I love. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the second opinion if they say yes, are you
Speaker 1: guys okay with me playing, So we don't know where
Speaker 1: he is. I think that, you know, Church, you've been
Speaker 1: around guys who football is life and they were risking
Speaker 1: almost anything to play. So you know, you just got
Speaker 1: to figure out where's mindset is. And he might be
Speaker 1: one of those guys who all he knows his football
Speaker 1: and he's gonna come back and give it a shot.
Speaker 1: So you know, we don't know what, so it'd be
Speaker 1: something interesting for us to wait and see. Man, that
Speaker 1: is true, and man, knew he You know, I was
Speaker 1: feeling so optimistic. I was out here singing my haul
Speaker 1: of notes. Man, I was vibing out and then man,
Speaker 1: you just listed that laundry list of problems that we
Speaker 1: got calling on here. I'm over here thinking, Man, we'll
Speaker 1: be I, you know, get the draft and left tackle.
Speaker 1: But man, you're right, man, what are we going to
Speaker 1: do in the secondary. We got so many guys on
Speaker 1: the d line that haven't played up to par or
Speaker 1: a one year deals. What are we gonna do about
Speaker 1: Vanders who's been injured back to back? I mean, man,
Speaker 1: I was optimistic, but man, you just you just you
Speaker 1: definitely put a rain cloud on my situation over here. Man, geez,
Speaker 1: you got to find a new song something. I mean,
Speaker 1: But when you start looking at at just the way
Speaker 1: the National Football League works, I mean Philadelphia as a
Speaker 1: team that has been ravaged by white receiver issues and
Speaker 1: on their offensive line. So when when you start digging
Speaker 1: into it, there's a lot of teams that have issues.
Speaker 1: We concentrate on the Cowboys because this is this is
Speaker 1: you know, the team that we deal in with year in,
Speaker 1: year round. I mean, the New York Jets have no
Speaker 1: talent anywhere. You know, the Giants have talent issues at
Speaker 1: a whole lot of spots. So while the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: their own issues, they're not as bad as other teams.
Speaker 1: But we know, okay, we know from from watching this
Speaker 1: team all the time, they've got some serious issues. And
Speaker 1: if anything, we've kind of glossed over them. You know.
Speaker 1: I was one of those who did talk about an
Speaker 1: offensive tackle around the draft and say, hey, look it's
Speaker 1: something you've got to think about because you've had the
Speaker 1: injury with Tyrn Smith. Now for me, this becomes a
Speaker 1: real interesting question. And then maybe they don't do it
Speaker 1: this year. But we've talked consistently amongst ourselves and other
Speaker 1: people have about Connor Williams being a guard, and maybe
Speaker 1: the Connor Williams could be a better tackle. He's going
Speaker 1: to be coming up on his last last year in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, maybe, And I wonder is now the
Speaker 1: time to try and maybe put Connor at a tackle
Speaker 1: spot and then put Connor McGovern, a guy that they
Speaker 1: used a third round pick on two years ago, and
Speaker 1: play him. I mean to start to find out what
Speaker 1: some of these combinations are going to be, not just now,
Speaker 1: but also just moving forward, to see exactly what it
Speaker 1: is you have. If they want to be committed to
Speaker 1: leaving Zack Martin at a guard and not moving him
Speaker 1: to tackle, fine, but I think one of these guys
Speaker 1: has to move, be it Martin or Connor Williams. Who
Speaker 1: I believe one. You know, one of these guys will
Speaker 1: be better than steal at Night. You know, I just
Speaker 1: believe that. And yes, Will's talked about Hey it's not
Speaker 1: fantasy football, but this point in time, you're desperate. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a desperate situation because you'd have two guys
Speaker 1: that you counted on being there and what have we seen?
Speaker 1: These pass rushers are beating steal and Night. So you
Speaker 1: may have to go ahead, at least move one player
Speaker 1: out there who could possibly be better. And I hope
Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy are out here now
Speaker 1: thinking of how they need to go to a quicker
Speaker 1: passing game because trying to do some of these drops
Speaker 1: that they've done in the past. If Dak is not
Speaker 1: getting rid of the football very quick, he's going to
Speaker 1: find himself sacked or even fumbling with strip sacks like
Speaker 1: we saw with Miles Garrett where I felt like on
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and he's got to know you got steal
Speaker 1: there one on one with Garrett. You got to get
Speaker 1: rid of the ball quicker. So there's there's some issues. Man.
Speaker 1: This coaching staff has got their work cut out for him.
Speaker 1: They got their work cut out for him. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: They got to start coaching first. They didn't even start yet.
Speaker 1: They stop at the start line. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I think I got the word cut off level we
Speaker 1: wanted three worst ever seen in my life trying. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to be nice, man, I'm trying to be nice. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's take let's take our first break here. We've got
Speaker 1: we still have our predictions to go for this uh
Speaker 1: for this Giant's game, and I feel like we haven't
Speaker 1: talked about the Giants all week long. But there's so
Speaker 1: many issues with the Cowboys we've concentrated on them. Let's
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Speaker 1: NWI Scrugs longtime Cowboys Report are joined by Barry Church
Speaker 1: Danny m Create, two former Dallas Cowboys safeties. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: are we ready to make a prediction? Are we ready
Speaker 1: to get into this whole thing here? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: we gotta do it. I figured we might as well
Speaker 1: just go ahead, get it on over with here. Let's
Speaker 1: get it all over way. Yeah yeah, Church a man, Look, look,
Speaker 1: Nostre Damas. I've been off. I've been off my game lately.
Speaker 1: I mean last night's game and the week before. I've
Speaker 1: been off my game just a little bit. But you know,
Speaker 1: I am optimistic. Like I said, I got those good
Speaker 1: feeling vibes, so I feel like I'm getting right back
Speaker 1: to where I left off at. So let me go
Speaker 1: ahead and hitch out with the prediction and what's gonna happen? Um,
Speaker 1: I say, this game being early, it's gonna be back
Speaker 1: and forth. But after the second quarter, I feel like
Speaker 1: Dallas is gonna take control of this game. I feel
Speaker 1: like Zeke's gonna go off. So I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and give it a thirty five to twenty one Cowboys victory. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, all right, okay, listen, I um, you
Speaker 1: know the first quarter of the season is over with,
Speaker 1: all right, So so we're officially into the second quarter.
Speaker 1: And I said I was going to stop picking these
Speaker 1: games based on my emotion. All right, Well, this is
Speaker 1: not the week where I think we're gonna lose to
Speaker 1: the Giant. So I'm gonna say that we beat the
Speaker 1: Giants thirty one to twenty four. And it's going to
Speaker 1: be a very ugly start to the game. As usual,
Speaker 1: We're gonna make a lot of mistakes, but the Giants
Speaker 1: are going to make more in this game. We will
Speaker 1: somehow get a turnover for a touchdown. That that is
Speaker 1: how we will win this game. Are you saying it's
Speaker 1: gonna be an I N T and second? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it could be. It could be it could be it
Speaker 1: could be a lot kick, it could be anything. I'm
Speaker 1: not I believe me. I'm not cow know anything coming
Speaker 1: from our secondary. I've seen us drop picks and I've
Speaker 1: seen us look in the backfield at the quarterback while
Speaker 1: the ball is going over our head. So no, I
Speaker 1: just believe you will get some big play with will
Speaker 1: score and it will not be offensive. Daniel Jones is
Speaker 1: known for giving up the football, so so you do
Speaker 1: have that. I will sit with you guys on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys winning. So I did my prediction yesterday for NBC five,
Speaker 1: so it's already on video. So I've got the Cowboys winning,
Speaker 1: but I have a close game. I went. I went
Speaker 1: with Dallas winning twenty seven twenty four. The Cowboys have
Speaker 1: issues here. The Giants have issues. And until I see
Speaker 1: the Cowboys go out here and be able to win
Speaker 1: a game going away convincingly, I've got to imagine it's
Speaker 1: going to be a close football game. And mccraig, they
Speaker 1: come out here as they've normally have, starting off slow,
Speaker 1: and this game is a game they got a punch
Speaker 1: and fight back on. Then then I can see an issues.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Giants, to me, showed a lot of
Speaker 1: fight last week when they went out to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and gave the Rams, gave the Rams all they wanted.
Speaker 1: Rams ended up winning it. But but you saw the Giants, Um,
Speaker 1: they played well. It was a game. You thought the
Speaker 1: Giants were gonna get blown out of the water, and
Speaker 1: it just didn't happen. So I'm not ready to sit
Speaker 1: up here and say, hey, the Cowboys are gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and get it all done and they just run
Speaker 1: away with this thing. Um, Jason Garrett still does know
Speaker 1: a little bit about this football team. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about You've talked about the coach. You know, you talked
Speaker 1: about the coaching on my carton. I gotta get I
Speaker 1: gotta see these guys, but you know what we gotta
Speaker 1: did you go out compliment if you go out and
Speaker 1: check out my video that I put on Channel five,
Speaker 1: I said, one of my favorites is coming to town.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, Offensive Coordinating Football Giants. Listen. Did you also
Speaker 1: did you also say that the Giants uh play they
Speaker 1: played harder than us, specifically on defense? Mum, I said
Speaker 1: last week when they played hard right last week? But
Speaker 1: I saw last week, Yes, yes, yeah, they gave they
Speaker 1: get effort, let's go ahead and score and say don't yeah,
Speaker 1: if not, tap dance around it. Did they go give
Speaker 1: effort last week? Yeah, yeah they did. Was this a
Speaker 1: game out of the water? But but no, yeah, so okay,
Speaker 1: because we have, because we have, we have to get
Speaker 1: to the video. We have to get to the video.
Speaker 1: It's not over yet. No, it's not old. It's so
Speaker 1: it's so bad that we gotta finish off the week
Speaker 1: with this taste in the mouth and we gotta spit
Speaker 1: this taste out this week. We gotta come out here
Speaker 1: and we gotta hustle. But I was I just want,
Speaker 1: you know, us on the players nows, we want to
Speaker 1: show everybody that it is possible for the backside corner
Speaker 1: to make place. It is possible for you to give
Speaker 1: full effort for the entire game. It is possible. It
Speaker 1: is not impossible. As Barack Obama was said to met
Speaker 1: Rodney proceed, Danny proceed, go ahead? Man? Is that is
Speaker 1: that's that's se Kuan right there is that se Kuan
Speaker 1: Roller Man. A look at twenty f still on the team.
Speaker 1: Twenty four is still on the team. He was the
Speaker 1: backside corner, went down the chased that one of the
Speaker 1: fastest guys in the NFL. And you mean to tell
Speaker 1: me that you it's impossible. What does he It's exactly
Speaker 1: the ones out there. NEI, yeah, that's an exactly out there.
Speaker 1: Oh so he watched that, he saw it, He saw
Speaker 1: the impossible. Ain't that something? Couldn't this grace. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you, look at that hustle. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: Marinelli defense. Look at all the guys hustle. Everybody's still
Speaker 1: sprinting the twenty yards behind, say Quint, everybody sprinting. That's
Speaker 1: not something that you see us doing right now. And
Speaker 1: that's why I say the first quarter of the season
Speaker 1: over is over with, and we're gonna change that. Oh
Speaker 1: check this out again. Oh it breaks. Look at that
Speaker 1: Byron Jones. We let him go. He could have still
Speaker 1: been on our squad. Chase down tackle. That's called that's
Speaker 1: that's that's that's effort, that's hustle. That is something that
Speaker 1: you can do. It takes no talent for you to
Speaker 1: be able to run and try to give full effort
Speaker 1: until the whistle blows. That is what you're talking a
Speaker 1: little bit right there. But running a little that's that's
Speaker 1: one of the plays where he went full speed. He
Speaker 1: gave it a shot, but he forgot about that with Mary.
Speaker 1: When Mary Nilly Love, they don't do that. So I
Speaker 1: just want everybody to see that as possible, and hopefully
Speaker 1: the effort that you just saw on these last two plays,
Speaker 1: that's something that we see for the rest of the season, because,
Speaker 1: like we said, you can eliminate some of these big
Speaker 1: plays by just by just having an effort from your
Speaker 1: entire team. Man, just just looking at that video, man,
Speaker 1: it just reminded me how much I miss White Lightning
Speaker 1: aka Jeff Heath back then. Man, I mean, look, this
Speaker 1: is a dude who got ridiculed and got destroyed by
Speaker 1: the fan base each and every week. Oh Jeff doesn't
Speaker 1: tackle good, Jeff doesn't create takeaways. Ye man, all he
Speaker 1: did was hustle and he was always in the right position.
Speaker 1: He might not always make the greatest plays, but he
Speaker 1: was never someone you just looked at him was like, man,
Speaker 1: his efforts just not there. He's just not the answer.
Speaker 1: I mean, we wanted so bad to get you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta get one of these high price and then
Speaker 1: we gotta get one of these big time safeties and
Speaker 1: we let you know, arguably one of one of the
Speaker 1: one of the backbones of the defense. Go and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you from what I saw, man that just that
Speaker 1: just just may need missed Jeff heat that much more. Man, Mmm,
Speaker 1: what a loss? Oh oh, you want to see it again?
Speaker 1: Twenty four man, same guy on the team right now,
Speaker 1: hustling like crazy. Jordan lewis out there still hustling. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's the coaches because they accepted these guys
Speaker 1: do not fear what's going on. They did not fear
Speaker 1: any consequences of repercussions for not spreading to the ball.
Speaker 1: When Marydell was here, you got put on blast. If
Speaker 1: you didn't hustle to the ball, you got put on
Speaker 1: blasts more more more so than if you didn't make
Speaker 1: the play. If you just if you miss missed the assignment,
Speaker 1: then then you got blasted. But if you didn't hustle,
Speaker 1: that was like the biggest thing that you could do
Speaker 1: to piss Mary Nelly off. Yeah, So it was like, blasts.
Speaker 1: How do you fix this thing? If you're saying, ain't
Speaker 1: they're getting away with it? How is it fixed? It's
Speaker 1: gotta be for me, it's gotta be with the players.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the players have got to go out
Speaker 1: there and they got to play with some type of
Speaker 1: pride for the name in the back of their jersey.
Speaker 1: I mean, Mike McCarthy, he can go out there and
Speaker 1: do all the talking, do all the motivating, say hey,
Speaker 1: we gotta do this, we gotta do that. But to me,
Speaker 1: to change their culture, to change the philosophy of this team,
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to come down to the players. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go out there and show some type
Speaker 1: of respect for themselves on the field and just not
Speaker 1: wanting to put this bad tape out there. I mean
Speaker 1: that was to me, that was one of the worst
Speaker 1: things you can do if you go out there and
Speaker 1: put bad tape, because not only are you putting that
Speaker 1: tape on there for your team to see that, but
Speaker 1: just if you're released or cut. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 1: thirty one other teams out there that are going to
Speaker 1: be looking at this tape and they're not gonna want
Speaker 1: to sign somebody that just you know, gives lackluster performance,
Speaker 1: even if they're talented this heck. So for me, I
Speaker 1: think it comes down to the players. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to change this culture and get back to the hustling
Speaker 1: ways because right now, what they're doing, it's what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now, just ain't cutting it. Look, And I
Speaker 1: think it's the players too. I think it's really important
Speaker 1: to understand what you used to talk about Garrett visions.
Speaker 1: The big thing about Garrett Vision and him making us
Speaker 1: watch it in front of our teammates is because he
Speaker 1: was trying to make us hold each other accountable. So
Speaker 1: you should see your teammate, you know, not hustling and loafing,
Speaker 1: and you should say something to them. So when that
Speaker 1: happens in the game, they should feel obligated to sprint
Speaker 1: and hustle every snap because they owe to the person
Speaker 1: next to them. And I don't know if they have
Speaker 1: McCarthy vision. I don't know if they're getting put on
Speaker 1: blasts out there in front of each other, because if
Speaker 1: they are, and they still letting the slide, we have
Speaker 1: a bigger issue than we could ever imagine. I doubt it.
Speaker 1: I doubt they're doing that that Garrett vision, because I
Speaker 1: mean it was embarrassing the back, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you sat beside me and new team meetings like I
Speaker 1: would have theres the player that I would I would count,
Speaker 1: I would know the specific play that was coming up,
Speaker 1: and it would just you would just duck your head
Speaker 1: or kind of like cower down, like, man, I hope
Speaker 1: they just go through this, and it would it would
Speaker 1: only be about thirty seconds of watching that tape, but
Speaker 1: it would feel like it was twenty minutes, and they
Speaker 1: just ridiculing on you, man, what do you do this
Speaker 1: right here? This is Garrett's favorite right here, fellas, this
Speaker 1: just is not acceptable. That's right here. Just can't just
Speaker 1: can't cut it. And he would just have that laser
Speaker 1: pointer just circling circling your body on the tape like
Speaker 1: this is just not acceptable. It can't happen, and it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they do that still, man,
Speaker 1: but that was embarrassing someone guys, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: What are we doing? This is just not it? Kidding me?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? This is just not it Like
Speaker 1: it was embarrassing. It's funny you said that because they
Speaker 1: had robbed Nikovich on on esp the other day and
Speaker 1: Nikovich played for for New England and they they said, hey,
Speaker 1: what would Bill Belichick said he did this big Belichick thing.
Speaker 1: He said. He looked at me, He's like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Jesus Christ. That's just how he pointed that
Speaker 1: finger at him. Man. But but it's funny you say that,
Speaker 1: because coaches had their own way, and I remember they
Speaker 1: would talk about how it got like Tony Dungey, we
Speaker 1: just look at you, you know, just just just just
Speaker 1: give it that look and you just knew that look
Speaker 1: of just and that's you know, those are those are
Speaker 1: the ways that that they've got to get to. I
Speaker 1: don't know what Mike McCarthy does. He's secretive about everything.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to tell us what you're doing with
Speaker 1: the players, or how he addresses the players. It's a
Speaker 1: big old secret. So maybe maybe behind this, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they taped somebody on the shoulder. Hey, can you
Speaker 1: get a little bit of effort next time? That's okay
Speaker 1: with you? Can we work out a little something here? Thing,
Speaker 1: you know, can we give a little bit I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how it works, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. But obviously something needs
Speaker 1: to change there. Let's let's take another break here, all right, guys.
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Speaker 1: We've already made our predictions for this game. Church went
Speaker 1: thirty five twenty one Cowboys over the Giants, d Mat
Speaker 1: going thirty one twenty four, Cowboys winning. I am going
Speaker 1: with a closer football game at twenty seven, twenty four
Speaker 1: game that the Cowboys are going to win. So we
Speaker 1: have we're all saying the Cowboys win just a little
Speaker 1: bit differently here last night, By the way, I believe
Speaker 1: that you guys were absolutely wrong. Here we go Church.
Speaker 1: Church said that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by he said
Speaker 1: Uncle Tom was gonna win that one twenty three and
Speaker 1: d Max and that Nick Foles and then had no,
Speaker 1: he didn't believe in the Bears offense, and that Tampa
Speaker 1: baby win thirty one to ten. And I said a
Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty one, Chicago, when the Bears eke out
Speaker 1: to win twenty to nineteen, with Tom Brady at the
Speaker 1: end not even knowing how it was. He thought it
Speaker 1: was fourth down when the Bay was over, Like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about, dude? And what's interesting? Did you
Speaker 1: watch during the game where Tom out here yelling at people,
Speaker 1: Tom out here on the sideline yelling folks, and then
Speaker 1: this food don't even know how many downs there are
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, like this operation They
Speaker 1: reason why one reason why I didn't pick Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: to win the game was because they took all the
Speaker 1: Chargers last week and the Chargers ended up blowing a
Speaker 1: game they should have won. So I felt like Tampa
Speaker 1: still had issues, and going on the road to Chicago,
Speaker 1: I thought the Bears would perform well enough to win,
Speaker 1: and the Bears have a good defense, and so the
Speaker 1: Bears defense made a tougher and so I just figured
Speaker 1: I'd go with the home cooking, and that's why I
Speaker 1: picked the Bears to win. Listen, I know everybody was
Speaker 1: getting on Tom Brady for yelling at this old lineman
Speaker 1: and then messing up at the end. He couldn't he
Speaker 1: couldn't have seen it. He was gonna mess it up
Speaker 1: the way that he was getting put on his back
Speaker 1: and the persson was coming to him at that point
Speaker 1: where he was yelling at the old Liman on that series,
Speaker 1: I would have yelled at them too. I was talking
Speaker 1: about penalties, Russian dudes getting hip flip by Khalil mac
Speaker 1: all type of crazy stuff going on out there. They
Speaker 1: need they needed a little talking to my dude. One
Speaker 1: dude head button. People getting fifteen yard penalties. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: they needed somebody to talk to them, kind of like
Speaker 1: we need somebody on the Cowboys and talking and listen
Speaker 1: to it. You were right tonight, though you'll be wrong
Speaker 1: because he and six is dead. We talked about football, No, no,
Speaker 1: we talked about women. Were talking about women of the movie.
Speaker 1: We made that bet. We made that bet on the
Speaker 1: Football Show. It's all right, Yeah, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: I don't remember saying that at all, So just just
Speaker 1: let you on. I remember that, But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be happy. Dwight Howard gets a ring. Do
Speaker 1: I have White Howard? Dwight Howard will do what Carl
Speaker 1: Malone failed to do to jump on the team and
Speaker 1: it went a ring Howard. So who me? White Howard
Speaker 1: has been passed around the league man in Alaska. I
Speaker 1: mean he get passing to White around and Dwight's gonna
Speaker 1: end up winning a dog older he and JaVale McGee.
Speaker 1: JaVale McGee is gonna win another NBA championship Ring Church,
Speaker 1: do you hear this? Of all the stuff here, all
Speaker 1: accomplishments that just getting made tonight with a D and
Speaker 1: Lebron and all this stuff, he said he is happy,
Speaker 1: but what he wants to see is the White Howard
Speaker 1: super man. I mean, he was getting tossed around like
Speaker 1: a hot potato man. But hey, I guess he landed
Speaker 1: at the right spot. I mean he even got him
Speaker 1: another one. Jr got him, you know, he Jr. Hey man,
Speaker 1: they ride Lebron, Abody jumped on Lebron back and getting
Speaker 1: themselves some rings. And no poor Karl Malone, he tried
Speaker 1: to jump on that Laker bandwagon with Kobe and Shocking.
Speaker 1: They got blown out by the Pistons, so Carl never
Speaker 1: got his ring. Gary Payton joined him, and then Gary
Speaker 1: Payton went from from the Lakers and then ended up
Speaker 1: jumping on that Miami bandwagon with d Wade and Shack
Speaker 1: and he ended up finally getting himself a ring that way.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we Dwight Howard gonna end up with a ring.
Speaker 1: You know, be able to talk. You'll be able to
Speaker 1: talk trash to Charles Barkley. Now, next time they on
Speaker 1: the White Howard World Champion, he contributed. Though the White
Speaker 1: Howard contributed to the ring, I will give him that
Speaker 1: he played. He played. He played some good ball, especially
Speaker 1: when they needed some big man in there. He gave
Speaker 1: some good minute so he didn't just he not Jr.
Speaker 1: And this and this. Uh in this instance, I will
Speaker 1: give you that one. Yes, yes, yes, indeed. But y'all
Speaker 1: still was wrong about the Tampa ba Oh. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna count as many times you've been wrong with the
Speaker 1: current topic. So before I came in to do the show,
Speaker 1: I was having lunch and was driving around and I
Speaker 1: was I was listening to the Cowboy flagship station here
Speaker 1: in Dallas Fort Worth one O five three the fans,
Speaker 1: and they were talking about trading players, and someone on
Speaker 1: the show brought up trading wide receiver Michael Gallup. And
Speaker 1: you know those times, I don't know how you guys,
Speaker 1: you view you think about sports radio. But I just
Speaker 1: wanted to turn the station off because I just said
Speaker 1: to myself, you're not trading Michael Gallup and getting any
Speaker 1: good defensive piece. And Michael Gallup and when you think
Speaker 1: about the money he's making, Michael Gallops is to me,
Speaker 1: Gallup is a piece that you want to keep. Um.
Speaker 1: But nobody in football right now, especially when you start
Speaker 1: thinking about how guys are dealing with COVID and so
Speaker 1: many injury issues, nobody's trading you a good player. They're
Speaker 1: just not gonna do it. So if anybody's thinking that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can make some trades and then all of
Speaker 1: the Sids fix some stuff here, this is not this
Speaker 1: is in baseball. This is in basketball. I don't believe
Speaker 1: there's a trade out there that the Cowboys are gonna make.
Speaker 1: To me, that's gonna go ahead and fix this football team.
Speaker 1: There's not another Amari Cooper trade out there. And then
Speaker 1: somebody had texted into the station trade Amari Cooper for
Speaker 1: two first round picks? Like what what? What land are
Speaker 1: you living in? Its trading for that? And they just
Speaker 1: gave Amari Cooper one hundred million dollars contracts. So the
Speaker 1: salary cap hits would be. It just doesn't work. But
Speaker 1: but fans who are just thinking that they're going to
Speaker 1: all of a sudden make some major trades. And somebody
Speaker 1: hit me up on Twitter saying, you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: need to go ahead and give us the draft picks
Speaker 1: and go get somebody who's got tackle depth, who has
Speaker 1: offensive tackle depth in the National Football League, and who's
Speaker 1: willingly going to give it up. No one is right now.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are basically gonna be stuck with what they've
Speaker 1: got here. They really are, guys. Go ahead, you, Matt, Yeah, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: and it won't happen. And what I'm about to say
Speaker 1: makes no sense, But it's just me being mad at Keller.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna trade some the way, if you're not
Speaker 1: gonna feature this guy in the offense and focus the
Speaker 1: office around him, just trade twenty one. I'll be goodness Grace.
Speaker 1: Just get him out of here. Let Tony Powler run
Speaker 1: you let him start the game once already, start with
Speaker 1: the whole series. You're throwing the ball all over the
Speaker 1: play fifty sixty times. The man ain't getting that many carriers,
Speaker 1: I mean, not as many carries I think he should
Speaker 1: get well, let him go if you're not gonna focus
Speaker 1: the offense around him. You paid him this big contract
Speaker 1: and he's been the bell cow of our offense for
Speaker 1: the last four or five years, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now he's not the guy. I don't understand it. So
Speaker 1: they won't trade him. They shouldn't. But this is my
Speaker 1: shout out to Kelly to say, focus the offense on
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. That is the way that you are going
Speaker 1: to win games. Yeah, and I sincerely doubt they would
Speaker 1: do that, But I get your point, man. I mean
Speaker 1: they're not running the bell cow back like like we
Speaker 1: thought they would. I mean, even when they were down
Speaker 1: twenty something in Atlanta, they fed the gout a rock
Speaker 1: and we got it back into the game. We just
Speaker 1: haven't seen that amount of touches or production from from Zeke.
Speaker 1: But I get what you're saying there. But back to
Speaker 1: uh to um gallop. I mean, that's that's that's crazy,
Speaker 1: that's just click bait. That's ridiculous. I mean, look, the
Speaker 1: dude is arguably your best receiver on the team right now.
Speaker 1: I mean he's winning all his deep balls. I mean
Speaker 1: it seems like nobody can cover them, so you would leave,
Speaker 1: you would you would trade off your best offensive weapon.
Speaker 1: Right now, that's just crazy to me, and it won't happen.
Speaker 1: It won't happen. But like I said, it's just clickbait.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Now, Danny, you know the three of us
Speaker 1: are outliers in terms of saying, hey, give twenty one
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah. I mean, I've put that out on
Speaker 1: Twitter before, and I've had these these analytics people come
Speaker 1: after me talking about that's not the way to win.
Speaker 1: You gotta throw and keep slinging it. And Bucky Brooks
Speaker 1: and said it too, and they went after Bucky, and
Speaker 1: Bucky went back and forth through these people. I just
Speaker 1: I just let it go. But there's there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of folks out here who don't believe in it. They
Speaker 1: don't think you should pay a running back. They think
Speaker 1: running back to just interchangeable, that it's all about just
Speaker 1: throwing the football, and that's what the analytics tell them.
Speaker 1: But all I know is I watched Cleveland come in
Speaker 1: here and run the football and they didn't have Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield throwing the football over the place, and they pounded
Speaker 1: the Cowboys almost put fifty on the Cowboys. And when
Speaker 1: I go back and I think about, what's the most
Speaker 1: successful year that Dak and Zeke had together, it was
Speaker 1: the first year. And you know what that Cowboy team was.
Speaker 1: It was a ball control offense where they were given
Speaker 1: it to Zeke and they were limiting Dak Prescott. When
Speaker 1: I think about the best year I ever saw for
Speaker 1: Tony Romo, one of their most successful years. They were
Speaker 1: twelve and four, Jason Garrett's Coach of the Year, DeMarco
Speaker 1: Murray offensive Player of the Year in the International Football League.
Speaker 1: That was when Romo was limited and they ran the
Speaker 1: daylights and ran the dickens out of DeMarco Murray in
Speaker 1: his final year before he hit free agency. Why won't
Speaker 1: guys go back and do that very thing that worked?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys were the Super Bowls with Emmitt Smith. They
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl with Tony Dorsett running the football works.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody says about these whole analytics things,
Speaker 1: but it's just us, though, It's just us. Go ahead, Church,
Speaker 1: And then then I finish, I think I'll cut you off. No, no,
Speaker 1: you he was going with it. Go ahead, all right, well, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: look around the league, all right, and when we say
Speaker 1: give the ball to Zee, it ain't just you know up,
Speaker 1: you know, power left, power, right, counter left, count of right.
Speaker 1: Look around the league. Christian mccaffree focal point of the offense.
Speaker 1: Kamara focal point of the offense. These are teams that
Speaker 1: pay these guys and their and their focal points of
Speaker 1: the office, and they help their office run. These guys
Speaker 1: are successful, successful, and when a defensive coordinator comes in,
Speaker 1: they know that they have to focus and stop these guys.
Speaker 1: And we don't have that. And Ezekiel Elliott has always
Speaker 1: been that guy, so it's confusing to why all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he's not. And our offense has changed to
Speaker 1: back throw on a ball fifty sixty times a game.
Speaker 1: And it's no wonder why we're one and three. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work, and it's been proven not to work over
Speaker 1: the years for us as the Cowboys. And for some reason,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, analytics would say that we used
Speaker 1: to switch. And and you know, Mike McCarthy brough analytics
Speaker 1: here analytically we are one and thirty and looking more. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean the only way I think you know, the
Speaker 1: running back by approach or all that you know anybody
Speaker 1: can do it is if you're running the ball against
Speaker 1: our defense. I mean, that's the only way that think
Speaker 1: for me. I mean, Louis you you may you put
Speaker 1: you hit it right on the head, man. Like our
Speaker 1: best formula, our best team that we had and in
Speaker 1: recent years was two thousand and sixteen when we were
Speaker 1: feeding the rock to Zeke and we were were limited
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's only making throws when he had maybe third
Speaker 1: and sixes or something like that, and we had a
Speaker 1: highly successful year. Now, look, you know, Zeke, he got
Speaker 1: to step it up a little bit on the run game.
Speaker 1: I mean he you know, he's fumbling the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit too much, and he hasn't had those those
Speaker 1: big time spark plays that were used to seeing from him.
Speaker 1: But they got to give him more opportunities. So to me, look,
Speaker 1: they got to get back to that formula and back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and sixteen two eighteen when they were
Speaker 1: running a ball heavy and limiting Dak Prescott. But this
Speaker 1: whole running back by approach, Jing, it's just not gonna work.
Speaker 1: I don't believe. So I forgot I forgot Tennessee in
Speaker 1: Minnesota as well with Davin Cook and Derek Henry. My
Speaker 1: bad as far as teams that focus on their running
Speaker 1: backs and they have success. Look at the Rams. I
Speaker 1: mean the Rams went to the Super Bowl. It was
Speaker 1: it was a Todd Gurley based offense. And I remember
Speaker 1: that playoff game in which the Cowboys played. It was
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley and Anderson who just toward the Cowboys on.
Speaker 1: They ran the football and went went to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And what did the Rams do and game went against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys? They ran the football. I mean this year
Speaker 1: they ran the football. They're running the ball and they're
Speaker 1: having success. And that's something that for the strangest thing,
Speaker 1: people around here who think they're math gurus and they're
Speaker 1: not don't want to hear it. But let's also talk
Speaker 1: about the complimentary football that you have to play. This
Speaker 1: is a Dallas defense that can't stop anybody. So what
Speaker 1: is the best way you can help your defense keep
Speaker 1: them off the field. They can't get exposed if they're
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. So that's another bit in a fit
Speaker 1: of running the football, is you run the clock? Last night,
Speaker 1: you guys watch that Bears game. Mattnegie out here throwing
Speaker 1: the ball with what did you need to do. Take
Speaker 1: time off the clock, so you didn't put your defense
Speaker 1: back out here, give Tom Brady a chance, and luckily
Speaker 1: the defense saved him. But just another these offensive gurus,
Speaker 1: these guys that want to throw all the time, they
Speaker 1: drive me crazy that. I mean, the Bears won, but
Speaker 1: had they lost that game, if Brady takes him down
Speaker 1: the field and they kick a field goal, everybody and
Speaker 1: their brother would have been on the head coach, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so, because he's not doing You got too many
Speaker 1: of these ex quarterbacks, too many of these guys who
Speaker 1: are offensive. You know, they're offensive guys who are head coaches.
Speaker 1: I just believe that they're making a mistake. And when
Speaker 1: I look across this league and I look at some
Speaker 1: of the best coaches of all time, you look at
Speaker 1: their backgrounds. They're defensive guys. Bill Belichick defensive guy, Tom
Speaker 1: Landry defensive guy, Chuck Nol defensive guy, Pete Carroll defensive guy.
Speaker 1: You know, guys who think different league. These these defensive
Speaker 1: coaches are apt to think more about how to protect
Speaker 1: the defense and not just hey, let's just throw, throw,
Speaker 1: throw and throw throw. And I think that's Jimmy Johnson,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson go on the Hall of Fame. Jimmy was
Speaker 1: a defensive guy. Bill Cowards about to go in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, Bill Coward defensive guy, Tony Dungee in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, defensive guy. At some point in time,
Speaker 1: while everybody wants to love up and get hire the
Speaker 1: Sean mcvains of the world and the Kyle Shanahans, you
Speaker 1: may want to ask yourself, do you have a defensive
Speaker 1: a coach out there the understands how to play complimentary
Speaker 1: football because a lot of those guys are winning championships.
Speaker 1: Point yeah, yeah, and listen, and you forget to mention that,
Speaker 1: like we talked about earlier, your offensive line right now
Speaker 1: is struggling, you know, to find a rotation and keep
Speaker 1: guys healthy. I can guarantee you that the majority of
Speaker 1: offensive lineman would rather pool than kickstep versus versus a
Speaker 1: big time pass rusher. They would rather come out the
Speaker 1: ball and smack the defensive line in the mouth and
Speaker 1: run block versus dropping back, you know, and trying to
Speaker 1: pass the past set fifty six times a game. I
Speaker 1: can guarantee you that they will be more comfortable running
Speaker 1: the ball. It will help out your entire team, your office,
Speaker 1: them aligning your defense. And I just don't understand why
Speaker 1: it's not a focal point when it can help us
Speaker 1: in so many areas. I know, I know, all right,
Speaker 1: fellas been a fun week here. It's been a fun
Speaker 1: week man. And uh, we'll convene on Monday and it'll
Speaker 1: it'll either be victory Monday or Monday moaning. So we'll
Speaker 1: get into that. And as we get ready to leave,
Speaker 1: Chris Bean, we appreciate you handling the show. Um. Remember Church,
Speaker 1: it is Hall and Notes, not Oates in Hall. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, big dog. Go on
Speaker 1: go on YouTube and look up Shaquille O'Neal singing Man Eater.
Speaker 1: He sang it on T and T during at the
Speaker 1: NBA All Star Game. He was singing it with another guy,
Speaker 1: Whey or Las Vegas, and Shaq was doing pretty good
Speaker 1: for the first first two or three lyrics. Did he
Speaker 1: butchered after the rest? He didn't know. But it's absolutely
Speaker 1: a fun clip of him singing Hall of Notes. So
Speaker 1: they did. They got Man Man Eater two. Yes, I know,
Speaker 1: Man Hall Classics watch out Boys, Yes, yes they might.
Speaker 1: They might be top ten overall. Man. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Okay for the show. Hey, I'm just saying, man, they
Speaker 1: might be top ten, that's all. I'm know the name,
Speaker 1: and you didn't know, and you didn't know that that
Speaker 1: they was white, not a top ten, they were black.
Speaker 1: He thought, we go back, we go back, go back.
Speaker 1: They had they had Jerry Curls. I saw him just
Speaker 1: about it. It It was summertime. Yeah, hey, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw you another one at you. Hey, Church, Michael McDonald
Speaker 1: is white. In case you didn't know that, I knew
Speaker 1: Michael McDonald was like I knew that. They threw me off.
Speaker 1: I saw him from a distance, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: but hey, we go way back. Man, they might be
Speaker 1: top ten in my book. That's all I'm saying. Man.
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