WEBVTT - Hangin' with the Boys: Running on Empty 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.720 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:15.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys blowing out of 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.720 the backfield, the flooding down the sidelines. He is hanging 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:26.240 with the Boys, presented by Wingstop Where Flavor Gets its Wings. Now, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:34.080 your hosts, Jesse Holly, Kurt Daniels, and Nate Newton, what's 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.199 going on, y'all? It's Monday, nothing to cheer about. You 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.880 see what outside looks like. That's how we feel. Dark, gloomier, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:47.479 rainy cold. That's what it is. Cowboys lose a heartbreaker 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.880 in overtime yesterday thirty one, twenty eight to the Green 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.640 Bay Packers and Lambow Field. This segment is brought to 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:00.800 you by Wingstop Where Flavor Gets its Wings? What no 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.960 further ado, I mean, there's no way to introduce this. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.200 This is This is one of those deals where you 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:13.160 get right to it all right, Um, this is one 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.480 of those times I wish Shannon was here because I 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.119 would love to sit over there in that seat and 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.400 not have to say a word. But such as life 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.399 and I have to sit in this captain seat. We 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.280 got to hear your and uh opinions and viewpoints. Yeah, 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.440 we'll we'll we'll get to all of those and that 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.760 I can promise you this. There is not enough showtime 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.560 for us to go over everything today, but we'll start. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.119 I mean, we'll start. Where do y'all want to start? Well, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.440 I mean, what do you want to start? What do 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.040 you want to start? Let's start with the nice curtain 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:55.120 sent Let's start with that. Let's go listen. Oh you 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.200 want me to start? I'd be glad. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.600 I did it. I did it in a show before 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.040 this show, and I'm gonna do it again. And I 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.400 got nothing to do after this Michael part Part Michel. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:15.240 I want to apologize to coach McCarthy because I thought 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.440 he had made a rash decision. But as I go 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:23.400 back and I look in, our kicker Maher wasn't himself 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.240 in the wins situation. So because I thought at the 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.120 end we could have could have kicked the field goal 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.560 and gave our defense one of the last shot to 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.200 try to stop that vaunted running game or the Packers, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.640 I thought, we you know, but our kicker wasn't. He 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.400 wasn't hitting it yesterday, he wasn't feeling it. So I 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:48.480 want to apologize to coach McCarthy. But to the rest 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.960 of y'all, do your job. And I'm not talking about coaches. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:59.760 I'm talking about the defensive line. Do your job. That 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.520 was poor. We brought in Hankins. It didn't make a difference. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:10.760 That was poor. We we said all week, every podcast, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.800 we listened to every radio station in in in the 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.519 DFW area, how do we know as a collective media 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.800 group and ex players and editors who've been writing for 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:29.760 eighty five years, I'm talking about you, Mickey h Nick 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:34.120 Eatman to a man saying, all we don't need is 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.800 for Rodgers to find a receiver. And I never heard 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.840 of Watson in my life. I didn't even know it's 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.880 a first round pick. But get what did like three 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.040 years ago, I had never heard of Aaron Jones. Now 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.000 I know him. Just to give you a little bit 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.920 of context on that leading into this game, Christian Watkins 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:58.720 and Christian Christian Watson, Sorry sir. In nine NFL weeks 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.360 nine NFL weeks, he had a total of ten catches 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.080 for eighty eight yards and zero touchdowns in nine weeks. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:14.480 In nine NFL American Football weeks, ten catches, eighty eight yards, 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.880 zero touchdowns. Last night. It gets the Cowboys four catches 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.000 one hundred and seven one hundred and seven yards, twenty 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.800 six point eight yards, a catch along of fifty three 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.000 and as he did in the end zone, not one, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:33.279 not two, but three wow touchdowns on the Cowboys, and 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.120 he dropped two or three passes that could have made 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:42.240 this even more of us an egregious outcome of this situation, Kurt, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.680 you watched the game. Is the sky falling? Is this team? 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.720 But as good as we think they, y' all is 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.880 an offense, is a defense? Yes all? They above it 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.960 feels like it today, it feels like a sky is falling. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.559 You know. I still think this is a playoff caliber team, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.480 but as talked about before, they just can't prove that 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.960 they can beat the good teams. You know. They're they're 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.840 they're beat up on the on the younger, you know, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.800 the lesser teams and get the wins racked up where 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.120 they'll probably be a wild card. But again just makes 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.240 you a question that they are they gonna ever gonna 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.640 get out of the first round, you know, and they 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.680 just don't seem to be able to put that together. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.400 And I don't know, like to your point, now, you're 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.440 talking about the defensive line and do your job. I 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.840 mean is it. Are they not doing their job, or 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.320 they doing the wrong things, or they just not don't 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.680 have the talent to or the bulk or the strength 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.800 or whatever it takes to to get it done. Yea. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:41.600 The alternative is I'm serious. The other alternative is, UH, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.800 bring eight people on the line and just let them 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.320 sit there, you know, and and try to scheme up 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.080 out of that. Who's gonna drop back or whatever. Fellas, 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:58.320 this has been happening for me over five years, and 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:05.760 I said it Fried, I say, Fellas, we play a 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.359 good quarterback who wants to win, that's his goal is 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:13.599 to win the game, and a decent running game, and 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.640 we always seem to fall a little bit short. Yeah, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.599 this play didn't go right. This relf did this, This 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.040 relf did that, this ref did Yeah, and that's why 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.000 Minnesota went up to Buffalo and one because the ref 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.920 did the men too. So I don't want to hear it. Man, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:39.000 do your job. If you are Bohannon, if you are Armstrong, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.480 if you are de Marcus Marnes, if you are Michael 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.799 Parson playing deeds of men, do your job. They open 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.440 up first, first, four or five runs average four yards, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.960 average four yards. Aaron Rodgers at the end of regulation 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:02.640 said to his head coach, run and he says, run 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.640 the ball. That's a quarterback that I'm going to win 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:12.160 and at all costs turneys team around. What if I 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:17.280 told you at the end of the first half, the 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.800 end of the first half of a football game, that 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:27.560 a two time MVP three time MVP would only have 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:36.160 six passing attempts and four one two, three, four four 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.120 completions in an entire half of football. Then what if 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:48.560 I told you that the end of regulation that he 0:07:48.560 --> 0:08:02.240 would only have another nine completions and total and a 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:08.120 total of nineteen passage thrown? And what if I told 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.440 you in overtime that he only had one pass and 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.120 one completion. Wow, this is Aaron Rodgers we're talking about here. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.320 This is this is a dude and a team that 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:25.880 says conversely, on the other side, Dak Prescott through twenty 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:31.120 five times at halftime, through another fifteen in the second 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.640 half to put him at forty, and then through another 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:42.319 six in overtime. Forty six passing attempts against the twenty 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.920 seventh ranked run defense in the National Football League. One 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.600 of these teams realized that where our advantages at him, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.000 our advantage is playing a poor run defense. So what 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.240 are we gonna do? Run the football? And to your point, Nate, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.559 when they had the game on the line the first 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.640 time and I thought they were going to go down 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.400 to win it and La Flour called a pass play, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.440 Aaron Rodgers comes off the sideline and he looks at 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.840 his coach and say, you run that, mother, don't call 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.280 another pass. This is Aaron Rodgers saying, do not call 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:24.400 another pass. Yea. And we've we've had this discussion time 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:29.720 and time and time again. I said this back in 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.400 other games earlier in the year that we had won, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.240 and everybody told me, Jesse, you're making too big of this. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.040 And I said, even the Philadelphia game, there were two 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.640 drives in that game that I said, those a big 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.080 boy playoff drives where they go and they run the 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.720 ball in your face eleven twelve times in a row 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.880 and there's nothing you can do to stop it. And 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:58.200 it was on display again. And it ain't just up 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:02.280 the middle, ladies and gentlemen opening game with four runs outside, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.800 this is attacking the edges. Yeah. Yeah, And we thought 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.079 many moving Michael Parson back to linebacker with help. Michael 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.400 Parson praised up primarily linebacker this game. It didn't matter. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.600 They ran left, they ran right, they ran up the middle, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.520 they ran off, they ran you name it, they did it. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.360 I would have you could have bet you could have 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.760 come in here and bet me a thousand dollars Kurt, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.840 and said Jesse, Aaron Rodgers is only going to pass 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.640 the ball twenty times in this football game. Kurt. I 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.040 would have broken my hand reaching in my pocket so 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.200 fast to make that bet with you. And you you 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.520 the one, And what a what? And this goes back 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:51.000 to we've we've praised dan Quinn for his tremendous ability, 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.800 and I still do think dan Quinn is an absolute 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.520 good leader. But you had an entire bye week, plus 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.320 the preparation week, to try to figure out some way, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.800 shape or form how can we get our run defense better. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.480 And this was the game after you already gave up 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:15.040 two hundred and fifty yards to Chicago and you gave 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.720 up one hundred and fifty yards to Detroit. Yeah, see, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.600 it's all it's all good because they don't have quarterback 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.760 that can that matter, that can make the right play. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.520 When it's time to make the right play, and we 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.000 just we glossed right over that. But this was the 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.520 performance that you came out with, and you gave up 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:41.920 another hundred two, one hundred and seven total yards of rushing. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.200 They were rushing both of their running backs. One was 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.280 almost at six yards of clip, the other one was 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.440 at five yards of clip. As a team, they were 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.640 at five point three yards a clip, and they ran 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.120 the ball thirty nine times. They didn't Aaron Rodgers coming 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:01.720 here two years ago and beat us um they last 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.959 I think it's been longer than that. Look up the 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:11.160 last time. I think he's completely like eighteen passes. I 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:17.120 tell people that's right here, some quarterbacks, that's why you 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.400 you're always gonna be loving or Aaron Rodgers control tempo. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.720 Understand where his defense at, where his offense at. Control 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.000 Brady control tempo. One day, the kid Mahome's gonna learn 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:36.480 that control tempo. Help Note at the end of regulation 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.880 thirty two minutes and forty six seconds, they were down 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.720 by fourteen. They did not abandon the run. They kept 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.880 going with it. That's why I tell people. I have 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.600 people want him to say, well, that team, you just 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.760 can't run the ball that is not right. Is always 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.240 a run way to run the ball wherever it's five 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.400 point one yard and get carry. I mean we were 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.400 right there with it and we decided to throw the ball. Yeah. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.160 But then but then black coach McCard to say, big 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.600 play penalty, big play penalty, and we'll get into keep 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.400 getting knocked back. We'll get we'll get into that. Well, well, 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.240 you got something you want to say that last game 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.679 you're talking about the Rogers through for two hundred and 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.439 thirty eight yards. He had thirty four tims, so he 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.360 had a pretty good game. Dak in that game through 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.480 for through forty four times. Did we lose that one? 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.920 All right? So let's go to our break. When we 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.360 come back, we'll talk penalties. Is this team and undisciplined 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.680 football team that rid his ugly head again? 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And I didn't say this at 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.600 the beginning. I gotta say it now. I just ready 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.560 to get to this. We are this is Kurt, that's Nate, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.240 I'm Jesse. We are hanging with the boys, the sports 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.400 equivalent of Braille. People feel us when we speak. Yes 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.640 day got off, I got off tasks because it's so 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.639 they fill us today in this next segment what we 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.960 were about to talk about. I hope they fill us. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.359 And you saw in this game and there were certain 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.640 things that I talked about earlier this week, Nate, I said, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.440 remember guys footing on that grass. Yes, And I said, 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.560 remember that dak is coming off an injury of the 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.679 thumb right and his ability to deliver the football, grip it, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:50.800 rip it and all those kinds of things. And if 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.080 you go back and you watch the opening of that game, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.800 three and out, three and out, balls were everywhere. Literally 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.800 they were high, they were low, they were behind, they 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.040 were too far in front, they I mean they were there. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.840 It was Yes. Now I'm not saying that's all due 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:13.000 to the thumb, but there was that. That was a scene. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.000 I was just like this dude. It was just er 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.399 throw after airon throw after Aaron throw. And then he 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.280 got a rhythm and things got going a little bit, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.080 and he went ten for ten, rent down the field 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:29.240 for a touchdown, and then the turnover was beginning to happen. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.399 They drive down the field. Um, and they get in 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.960 the red zone. I mean you're you're at you're at 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:43.040 the doorstep of really putting your foot on the necks 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.439 of the Green Bay Packers, and then you gifted to them. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.280 They were they got that was that was a fumble 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:53.000 started at the ten business And here you are. You 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.640 have Dalton shots your Star tight end, you have Ceedee 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.320 Lamb your Star wide receiver, and they're running this route combination. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.280 Now people understand that when you get into the red zone, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.640 that is a condensed space. You have to be precise 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.040 on a regular down in space in the open field, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.000 you have to be extra precise in the red zone 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.080 because the dbs don't they don't have to worry about 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.960 anything really after the ten yards of the back of 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.160 the end zone, so that space becomes condensed. More people 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.800 are there, more arms, bodies and all that kind of stuff. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:34.000 And you see Dalton Scholtz go and run his route, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.640 and maybe in practice this route was run on air 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.760 over and over and over again, and nobody touched Dulton Scholtz. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.000 But when you go back and you watch the play 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.560 as he's trying to release, he gets knocked off his 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.040 route and for whatever reason. Instead of him keeping his composer, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.880 staying composed in that moment and fighting back where he's 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.920 supposed to be to carry his route to the back 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.080 of the end zone, which would have then had a 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:05.080 what we call a high low on the safety, he 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.440 just continued to ooze his route right, I mean, not 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:14.199 even two feet above. CD Lamb was then allowed the 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.919 safety defender, the one you wanted to hide low for 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.840 him to sit there and play both of you. Yeah, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.560 so he was supposed to stay he was supposed to 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:26.520 stay vertical and go deep, and then it was CD 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.600 was pupsed to run a kind of a similar route 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.520 underneath that. So now that mental defender has to make 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.800 a decision either you're going to back up and play 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:36.879 that and I'm gonna I'm gonna laser this thing in 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.040 the CD Lamb, or you're gonna stay up and close 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.879 in on CD Lamb. And I got Dalton Shoults in 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.400 the back of the end zone. And you can tell 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.680 when Dak let the football go. This was an anticipation throw. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.280 He got to the top of his route, his break, 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.040 and he didn't even think about looking to where it was. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.520 He let that thing rip and he let it rip 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.600 and he hit the dude in the numbers. Yeah, the 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:05.560 defender is between schultzon and he he hit the writing 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.399 the numbers. A lot of clutter around that play, and 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.240 and yes I put that one on Schultz in lamb. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.120 But there's a slight bit of that that goes into 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:19.359 dat Prescott for not being able to recognize coverage, even 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.440 though it may have worked in practice. You gotta sometimes 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.320 look and see this dude ain't move like he hadn't 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.399 move with my eyes. He moved my head. He's standing 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.159 right there. I can't let this one rip. Where's my 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.119 next read? And then you come back later on in 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.040 the game and you're trying them a trick late the 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:41.280 ball down the field and there's that safety again sitting 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.120 dead smack in the middle of the field. Now, as 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:48.320 a receiver, we call that middle of the field close. 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:52.160 When you have split safeties and maybe a Cover two 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.760 type of formation or a Cover four type of formation. Uh, 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.199 sometimes you'll have a half read. But when you have 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.920 two states that are sitting on the half we as 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:05.120 receivers call that middle of the field open. That's when 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.560 you can bend your route inside there or maybe take 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.320 it up that seam. But when you got a safety 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.000 sitting dead smack in that middle, we call that middle 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:16.119 of the field closed. And nine to nine ten. If 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:17.800 you have a route that supposed to go that way, 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.359 it's supposed to be flat and what we call cross 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.440 the defender's face. And here we have ceedee Lamb, which 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.360 is almost the same route that we saw against Chicago 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.320 be run and ceedee Lamb looking at this route and 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:35.560 thinking to himself, the ball's not gonna come, and just 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.159 casually runs this route. When you watch the interception, he 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.240 doesn't even look. He doesn't even know the ball is 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:45.760 intercepted for the past and there is Da trusting a 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:50.080 receiver again and his receiver not being where he's supposed 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:53.680 to be for the reception. Two turnovers that then the 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:57.600 Green Bay Packers turned into fourteen points and allowed you 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:02.600 to get back in this football game. We miscommunication between 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:06.040 maybe a rookie, maybe a guy who didn't get many snaps, 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:10.880 but to have miscommunication between your star receiver and your 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:14.720 leading tight end is unacceptable to me. When you're talking 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:19.720 about trying to win important games, especially on the road, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:30.760 you want to comment, you know, Jesus, hey man, well done. Yeah, 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.080 I didn't do anything well done. That's all I can say. 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:44.480 Do your job. You think this ain't got nothing to 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:49.240 do with the coaches? Ruh, do your job. Do you 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.280 think Lamb just didn't think he was the first option 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:55.080 or something, and so it wasn't ready gonna That's an 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:59.760 excuse which I'm not willing to give today you. And 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:03.960 here's why. Leading up to watching the Cowboys game yesterday, 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:08.000 I watched the Vikings and Buffalo game and I watched 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:12.159 Jamar Chase be doubled, tripled all over the field, and 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.560 I watched him work his tail off to a tone 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:17.879 of a ten catches for one hundred and ninety three 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:20.280 yards and a touchdown and made one of probably the 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:26.080 greatest catches you'll see this season. So my mindset is, 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.320 if I'm the number one receiver, this is just this 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:32.680 is just how I think. And when I the number 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.280 ones that I've been around in my time across this league, 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:40.560 the ball is always coming to me. I don't give 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:44.399 a damn what the coverage is. It's coming to me 0:24:44.600 --> 0:24:48.640 because I'm the best. It's coming to me because I 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:52.280 am are. I ain't wr one. It's coming to me, 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:56.800 whether it's man coverage, zone coverage, double coverage, whatever, my 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:03.200 quarterbacks are gonna throw me to football because I'm that dude. 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.480 And for cdee Lamb to sometimes go through these routes 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:09.760 and have this lacks of Day's coolness to him, as 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:15.679 if he's just a regular dude bothers me. And you 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.840 know what, He's not in the conversation of what Justin 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:22.520 Jefferson is. He's not in the conversation of what guys 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:26.040 like Tyreek Hill is. He's not in that conversation. And 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:28.280 maybe we should stop expecting him to be in that 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:32.919 conversation because just because you hold a title of wide 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:36.080