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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newy Scrugs.
Speaker 1: Here we are Players Lounge. Everybody your Wednesday edition. High.
Speaker 1: I'm Newi Scrugs, a long time Cowboys reporter, joined by
Speaker 1: two former Dallas Cowboys safeties buried Church at Danny McCray
Speaker 1: and boys. We've been waiting all day for Wednesday afternoon football.
Speaker 1: This was supposed to be a game played Thanksgiving nights
Speaker 1: between the Steelers and Ravens, but COVID has moved it
Speaker 1: all the way to Wednesday. So if you are local
Speaker 1: in the Dallas foot Worth area, it is on the
Speaker 1: NBC five. So I will I will be on, gentleman
Speaker 1: after we get done with this broadcast, give myself ready
Speaker 1: to go on down to get ready to be on
Speaker 1: TV because when the game ends then I gotta go
Speaker 1: get on channel five here. So before they have kickoff,
Speaker 1: all right between the Ravens and Seelers. Uh Noster Damas,
Speaker 1: can you make your prediction? Let let's go ahead, get
Speaker 1: out the way, because I want the game to start
Speaker 1: to try changed, all right, I'm man, before we before
Speaker 1: we start this kickoff, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and make a prediction at the Ravens
Speaker 1: pull this one out even with all their starters going.
Speaker 1: They got RG three at quarterback. And for those who
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean last time RG fee RG three
Speaker 1: was on the football field, it was against US Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers and he did hand them an el. So for me,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say they overlook Baltimore, but Baltimore gets the
Speaker 1: dub twenty four thirteen d mat you know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna Yeah, I'm going to totally opposite of this man, Church.
Speaker 1: I'm going thirty one to ten. I know what RG
Speaker 1: three is and that lucky stuff that he came out
Speaker 1: with last time, it's not happening this time, Church, and
Speaker 1: they miss it. They miss it more. They're missing more
Speaker 1: people than just Lamar Jackson, so RG three won't be
Speaker 1: the only replacement in there. So I'm giving this on
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh. They stay undefeated and hopefully Claypool has a
Speaker 1: big game for my work fantasy league. So thirty one
Speaker 1: to ten Steelers. All right, you know how this goes?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going you know how this goes? We
Speaker 1: do these Hey, hey, okay, ain't been working out too far.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I wouldn't do it, NEWI
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. Let me know. I'm going to
Speaker 1: Steelers twenty seven to nine in this game. And by
Speaker 1: the way, in case you why are you guys talking
Speaker 1: about Ravens and Steels. Well, the next opponent for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys will be this Baltimore Ravens team. That game
Speaker 1: was supposed to be tomorrow, but because of all the
Speaker 1: COVID restrictions in the game getting pushed back from Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: to Sunday to Monday to Tuesday to that Wednesday, that
Speaker 1: Cowboys Ravens game will not happen tomorrow. It will happen Tuesday,
Speaker 1: December eight. Now here's a couple of things about this
Speaker 1: football game. That one reason why church I went ahead
Speaker 1: and took the Steelers. The Ravens are going to start
Speaker 1: a brand new center who's making his first start because
Speaker 1: the other dudes on COVID. And then they've got their
Speaker 1: right guard making his second NFL start. So RG three
Speaker 1: is getting ready to come up here with some dudes
Speaker 1: who are not used to playing NFL games, and we're
Speaker 1: starting NFL games that we're talking about having to go
Speaker 1: against arguably the top defense in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: The Steelers are at home. The Steelers are ten and old.
Speaker 1: The Steelers are upset. They're upset at the Ravens for
Speaker 1: the outbreak that happened with their organization. They're upset at
Speaker 1: the NFL because they've had to keep on pushing this
Speaker 1: game back. And I don't think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a real crisp game because both teams haven't played
Speaker 1: in a while. But I did go adding, say twenty
Speaker 1: seven nine, because I just think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bunch of field goals for the Ravens, and I do
Speaker 1: think um Pittsburgh will just kind of wear them down
Speaker 1: and be able to get get get a couple of
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the board here. And I just think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough, tough day for the Ravens. RG three,
Speaker 1: I am. I feel for him, man, I feel for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a tough way to get put
Speaker 1: into this. By the way, the Steelers are gonna have
Speaker 1: Marquis Bounty. They're starting center. He's on the COVID nineteen lists,
Speaker 1: so I'll be interested to see how that exchange goes
Speaker 1: for Ben Roethlisberger and the center. Expected a lot of
Speaker 1: shotgun out of the Steelers. But it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough game, man. It could be a tough game. So
Speaker 1: go ahead, man, tell me this. So so just you know,
Speaker 1: according to what Jerry Jones said yesterday, you know, since uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't feel sorry for for Denver because
Speaker 1: we had our quarterback that we drafted in there, So
Speaker 1: he won't feel sorry for for RG three either. That
Speaker 1: I guess that's the same as as Denver having their
Speaker 1: their wide receiver going out there and play quarterback as well.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't call this equal, And it is absolutely and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, it's not equal. It wasn't equal
Speaker 1: when uh when when we put the Nuci out there
Speaker 1: to the to the Broncos. And it is not equal
Speaker 1: when the Ravens put RG three out there. This is
Speaker 1: this is totally different. Come on, Jerry, and knew it.
Speaker 1: From now on, when you refer to the game coming
Speaker 1: up next week, you say this is Brian versus the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: All right, just just make sure this is Brian versus
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, not the Ravens. There's Brian and the
Speaker 1: Ravens versus the Dallas Cowboys. I'll take that. I'll take
Speaker 1: that as well. Can I stay with you on Dez
Speaker 1: right here? Um, the Ravens do not have their top
Speaker 1: receiver really sneed so, um, I'm looking for a RG
Speaker 1: three Dez Ryan connection because RG three has been their
Speaker 1: backup quarterback and desn bit the backup receiver. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm expecting these guys that have a little
Speaker 1: bit of chemistry because you know, a working relationship. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking for Des Bryan today to try and catch
Speaker 1: a couple of passes here, just because they're gonna need
Speaker 1: some experience out there. So so I think that's Bryan
Speaker 1: Church checked this up here. He's not called called out
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah. Now he's starting he's starting to get
Speaker 1: on that X train. Huh yea, they do Church, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: listen to me. The Ravens do have their number one receiver,
Speaker 1: all right, he's playing. He's wearing number eighty eight is
Speaker 1: Das Bryant. They got their number on receiver. The other day.
Speaker 1: They got the best guy. They can make the biggest
Speaker 1: plays out there, and he's the number one guy. He's
Speaker 1: better than Willie Sneed. So you know, I'm taking this
Speaker 1: to at least have a big day of the luve
Speaker 1: today he's been He's better than Willie Sneed by far.
Speaker 1: I mean Willie Sneed. Dad's even being out of football
Speaker 1: two years with a torn achill leeds. I mean, Willy
Speaker 1: Sneed is still not even in the same realm as him.
Speaker 1: So look for me to this game. I think this
Speaker 1: is where we're gonna see Dad's kind of take over
Speaker 1: that wide receiver room. If they give him fifty fifty
Speaker 1: jump balls. I mean I don't I still don't think
Speaker 1: anybody in the league can jump with him. So I
Speaker 1: think this is the game Dads takes over that receiver room. Man,
Speaker 1: at least this game, not Dallas game. Is that your prediction?
Speaker 1: Is that your nose to Thomas prediction. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this neuis if if Das gets in
Speaker 1: the end zone this game, you got a rocket eighty
Speaker 1: eight jersey next time we get on the show. Is
Speaker 1: that is that is that something you would you would
Speaker 1: buy into neuis you go send it to me, Go
Speaker 1: send me the eighty eight jersey. I'll get you one
Speaker 1: of them. I'll get you one of them, lick them stickles.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna get you the authentic you know you
Speaker 1: stick the jersey. You know what, I'll get you one
Speaker 1: of those. But yeah, I'll make it happen if you
Speaker 1: get Is that a handshake agreement, my friend? If you
Speaker 1: if you send it to me, I will put it
Speaker 1: on h on. But but I've only got the rad
Speaker 1: scoring nine points to that. I've only got him scoring
Speaker 1: nine points to that, gentleman. I just think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a real tough time for this Baltimore offense. To that,
Speaker 1: I think des Brito catch some passes. But in terms
Speaker 1: of trying to score against this team, but I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. I mean, they're down. You know
Speaker 1: you don't have Mark andrews Um he's out. You you
Speaker 1: got your running back issues so and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you have a Mark. So yeah, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: Did you got you got him putting up with twenty
Speaker 1: four points? Okay, nostre domas, I don't know, man, y'all
Speaker 1: sleeping on on RG three out here man and Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards is not a scrub back there. I know they
Speaker 1: you know, they're missing JK. Dobbins and they're missing mark Ingram,
Speaker 1: But Gus Edwards literally eats on the Steelers. I think
Speaker 1: he averages like eighty yards on the ground every time
Speaker 1: he goes against this team. So look, I know they're
Speaker 1: missing some some dynamic pieces. They don't got the tight
Speaker 1: end Mark Andrews and I mentioned to other people out there,
Speaker 1: but I think with RG three in the game, it
Speaker 1: at least gives them a better opportunity to pass the ball.
Speaker 1: I know he's no Lamar Jackson with that dual threat ability,
Speaker 1: but I think he presents a more accurate pastor and
Speaker 1: we might see more to the receivers in this game plan. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you guys have played the league and you've dealt
Speaker 1: with bye weeks, and but what about the fact that
Speaker 1: these teams haven't had a whole lot of practice. I
Speaker 1: think the Steelers have been able to practice two times
Speaker 1: um since last Wednesday. I mean this has been an
Speaker 1: issue where because of the COVID outbreak, these teams haven't
Speaker 1: been able to just get out here and keep their
Speaker 1: normal routine in practice, and it's cold, by the way,
Speaker 1: they're talking about. What's the temperature they're talking about here,
Speaker 1: they're saying, with the wind chill, there's gonna be twenty
Speaker 1: eight degrees, you know, Wendy out there. So I mean,
Speaker 1: these are these are this is a very interesting thing
Speaker 1: that we're watching here. This is very abnormal of what
Speaker 1: we see in the national football You've played in the league, guys,
Speaker 1: so you want to tell me what's what is it
Speaker 1: like when your routine is broken up this much? Mccraig,
Speaker 1: I mean, listen for them. The good thing about it
Speaker 1: is these are division opponents, and these guys know each other.
Speaker 1: Their offenses have not changed. Ben Roethlisberger is still running
Speaker 1: the same offense, running running every once in a while,
Speaker 1: try to get James kind of started and then then
Speaker 1: go to empty set. And the Ravens are still going
Speaker 1: to run the same offense that they had with Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson running those tight end heavy sets and and using
Speaker 1: a lot of play action. And RG three can still run,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure you'll get them out there on the
Speaker 1: edge as well. So that's a good thing for them,
Speaker 1: and stuff that they've seen already, even though they haven't
Speaker 1: been able to be on the practice field. But it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a little strange when your routine gets broken.
Speaker 1: And this is probably the most difficult time that they
Speaker 1: that they've been through because they are supposed to play,
Speaker 1: then they're not playing and they don't know when they're
Speaker 1: gonna play. Then they move in a day back. So
Speaker 1: I think it's a little difficult than it threw them
Speaker 1: off a little bit, But it's a division game. These
Speaker 1: guys they know how to play in their professional so
Speaker 1: I think I think it'll be a little bit more
Speaker 1: crisp than than you expect. Yeah, McCray, you're right about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, these two are division opponents. They know each
Speaker 1: other like the back of each other's hands, so I
Speaker 1: don't really see you know, practice time being that influential
Speaker 1: on this game. But I will say this, I mean,
Speaker 1: these are two veteran teams and it ain't like you know,
Speaker 1: these guys are led by you know, rookies or guys
Speaker 1: in their second or third year. These guys are led
Speaker 1: by guys that's been in the league for at least
Speaker 1: five years. So I think they have a routine down
Speaker 1: pat even if it gets kind of screwy with the schedule.
Speaker 1: I think they understand how to warm up for each
Speaker 1: game and how to get ready for each game, because
Speaker 1: these these are better in guys. And so for me,
Speaker 1: like mccraize said, I don't see it being asked sloppy
Speaker 1: as kind of you know, penalties all over the place.
Speaker 1: But I do see this game having a lot of
Speaker 1: big plays. I mean defensively, you haven't been practicing, you
Speaker 1: haven't really broke down the scheme yet, so there could
Speaker 1: be a lot of big plays in this one. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where RG three will shine. And when
Speaker 1: you say, wait, Church, I'm sorry when and when you
Speaker 1: say I do see do you mean like literally since
Speaker 1: you're sitting there watching the game or or is it
Speaker 1: it's something that you how that's how we're doing that.
Speaker 1: Friends like y'all who needs and you keep saying I
Speaker 1: see going, yeah, I'm doing my job. Over here. You
Speaker 1: see the toys under there, you see what's going on
Speaker 1: at the church. I'm looking at it right over here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got it all right over here. Three gets ready
Speaker 1: to take his first snap. And by the way, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, it is press conference this morning that the
Speaker 1: cow Boys are going to watch the game as a team,
Speaker 1: so that that's what they're doing right now, and said
Speaker 1: they're gonna break it up in a position group. But
Speaker 1: at the star right now, the Cowboy players are watching
Speaker 1: this game since it is their next opponent. Just watching
Speaker 1: RG three, by the way, completed the past. You guys
Speaker 1: were in the league when this young man got there?
Speaker 1: Are you surprised that the former Highsto Trophy winner from
Speaker 1: Baylor did not capitalize more off his Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year campaign and become a player like a Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: a Dak Prescott, or even a Lamar Jackson in the league. Look,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna say this, I'm not surprised. And
Speaker 1: there's two reasons why I'm not surprised. One is, yes,
Speaker 1: he had a phenomenal rookie season. We were all witnessed
Speaker 1: to that. You know, we played him twice and I
Speaker 1: think that was the only time the Redskins swept the
Speaker 1: Dolls Cowboys and I was unfortunately a part of that.
Speaker 1: But he had a phenomenal rookie season. But the thing
Speaker 1: that kind of hampered him and the thing that I
Speaker 1: think brought him back down to Earth was one he
Speaker 1: had injury. He tore his knee up in that playoff
Speaker 1: game too. I just think the coaches in the NFL,
Speaker 1: they're too good. The defensive coordinators are too good. They
Speaker 1: had that year, they had that off season to kind
Speaker 1: of get the tape built up on him and understand
Speaker 1: what he does well and what he struggles with, and
Speaker 1: they were able to take advantage of that. Compounded with
Speaker 1: the injury that I think he never really got a
Speaker 1: chance to fully heal from before he went back out there.
Speaker 1: I just think it was just a compound of that
Speaker 1: and it kind of brought his game back down to Earth. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Same here. I think it's similar to what they're doing
Speaker 1: right now currently with Lamar Jackson. It's a system that
Speaker 1: they're running. You know, remember he had Alphred Morris who
Speaker 1: also had a crazy year that year as far as statistics,
Speaker 1: and they would run that play action and then hit
Speaker 1: that bang gate right behind you and they would do
Speaker 1: that all game because the safeties and linebackers had to
Speaker 1: respect the run. So he got a lot out of
Speaker 1: that system. And then you would hear a lot of
Speaker 1: people telling RG through hey man, you gotta learn how
Speaker 1: to slide you gotta not take those hits. And every
Speaker 1: game you would see it and you'd be like, bro,
Speaker 1: you're not listening, and you know, and they caught up
Speaker 1: to him. And once you see him out there with
Speaker 1: that knee braids, he hadn't been in the same sense
Speaker 1: in church once again, another time that the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: been swept by the Redskins was win. By the way,
Speaker 1: do you remember who the offensive coordinator was RG three's
Speaker 1: rookie year in Washington. Do you remember who you want?
Speaker 1: Was that Shannahan? It was his son. It was his
Speaker 1: son was coordinator and Big Mike was the was the
Speaker 1: head coach, and they won the divisions, the head coaching
Speaker 1: Bookie of the Year and Alfred Morris had that outstanding
Speaker 1: rookie season and that was that clear. I will always
Speaker 1: remember that final game Cowboys against Washington and Rob Ryan
Speaker 1: is the defensive coordinator, remember Brady Pepina being out there
Speaker 1: the Cowboy defense. That defense was decimated and kept the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the game. It was, I thought, a fantastic
Speaker 1: defensive effort for shorthanded Cowboys team. And here it was
Speaker 1: the game came down to the offense needing to get
Speaker 1: down the field and make a play and rollo through
Speaker 1: and I think it was almost triple coverage and ended
Speaker 1: up getting picked off and Washington won the division. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a rough man, I was a rough pass
Speaker 1: right here. That whole year, Man was tough. But we
Speaker 1: bounced back. We did bounce back eventually. But man, that
Speaker 1: was a tough year. That in twenty fifteen were the
Speaker 1: two worst years in Cowboys history. To me, I don't church.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one, which one? What's worse, all right?
Speaker 1: Being totally out of it or losing the last game
Speaker 1: of the season to go to the playoffs three years straight. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the worst of me was
Speaker 1: being so close and not being able to get there.
Speaker 1: Since I've never actually got to the tournament. See, to me,
Speaker 1: it's opposite, man. It's that when you know you don't
Speaker 1: have a chance, like twenty fifteen, it makes it hard
Speaker 1: to get up and go to work each day. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get up, you get out the bed, your feet
Speaker 1: start hurting, and you're like, man, why am I doing this? Man?
Speaker 1: We don't have no chance to succeed this year. Each
Speaker 1: and every time you knew going out, dear, yeah, we
Speaker 1: might survive for the first half, but they gonna eventually
Speaker 1: blow us out. I mean, it just made it hard
Speaker 1: to come to work, man. So I gotta say, when
Speaker 1: you're out of it, it's tough. It's tough. I'm with you, mccraye.
Speaker 1: Three straight years, the final game, you'll lose each one
Speaker 1: of them, and all of them in just heartbreaking fashion
Speaker 1: where you were right there the game was winnable. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like that. That's the part that I just look at.
Speaker 1: I just say, my goodness, gracious, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: why can't the Cowboys win these games? And that Washington game,
Speaker 1: I just go back to that when I just remember
Speaker 1: you were hoping that the defense could just put you
Speaker 1: in the position, and the defense did its part and
Speaker 1: it was the offense that failed. And Tony throwing the interception.
Speaker 1: That was the thing. I was like, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: you you know, because so many times we saw Tony
Speaker 1: get it done, and to see him not get it
Speaker 1: done and throw the pick, I was I was literally shocked.
Speaker 1: I just remember being shocked, like wow. And that was
Speaker 1: one of those games too where they flexed into it,
Speaker 1: so NBC got the game so that man, I was working,
Speaker 1: and so you know, they and everybody the TV station,
Speaker 1: We're all ready to do you know, the post game coverage,
Speaker 1: and you just deflated. You're like, wow, man, it was
Speaker 1: right there. So I'm with you. I'm with you with
Speaker 1: prey because all three of those games, NBC flexed into
Speaker 1: you know, they put it on the prime time game
Speaker 1: on TV, and the Cowboys couldn't get it done. That
Speaker 1: was that was a part of what also, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: led to that negativity for Jason Garrett. He said, different,
Speaker 1: if Jason Garrett wins one, if or two or even
Speaker 1: three of these NFC championship games, he's looked at differently
Speaker 1: and he's probably the head coach now, but he should
Speaker 1: bank though he listened. We did lose to every other
Speaker 1: team in the division those three years. But like Church says,
Speaker 1: it was two seasons where he shook back and outside
Speaker 1: of them changed having to change the rule with Dad's
Speaker 1: actually catching that ball. We don't know what happens with
Speaker 1: Jason Gerett and how far they go into that playoff run.
Speaker 1: So I mean, you know, you gotta pick and choose.
Speaker 1: The Church is still on the kool a, but I'm
Speaker 1: still like, hey, you know it was it was bad,
Speaker 1: but we were competitive a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: the seasons that JG was here, opposite of what we
Speaker 1: look like now. All right, let's not go down that
Speaker 1: negative train right here, with that negativity when we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to dive into the chess match that Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan is going to have to deal with with Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: the Ravens quarterback who's not playing today against the Steelers
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Speaker 1: so so so h mccraig, you have some props for
Speaker 1: for those two jobs, Centre. Go ahead, Oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: listen to the guy. Listen. I'm gonna give him some
Speaker 1: props for coming back from last year being last and
Speaker 1: our Fantasy Football division and getting the last place trophy
Speaker 1: to this year. If he wins, he's in the playoff race.
Speaker 1: And he started off bad. It was a few he
Speaker 1: said he's done with this, he's not playing for fantasy
Speaker 1: football anymore. And he stuck with it and he came back.
Speaker 1: He won a few games straight, and now he's in
Speaker 1: the race. So I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you the most Improved trophy for this year. You can
Speaker 1: count on on receiving that, the most improved player for
Speaker 1: this year. I appreciate that, Commissioner, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I came from a long way. But what you alluded
Speaker 1: to tell the people was last year was an auto pick.
Speaker 1: You know, I had missed the draft and it was
Speaker 1: an auto pick. So my team was kind of trash
Speaker 1: last year, you know, and it was my fault. I'm
Speaker 1: missed the draft, you know, and so it was my fault.
Speaker 1: But this year, the GM skills came to play and
Speaker 1: I'm one game out of the playoffs. So let's make
Speaker 1: it happen. Church, Church. You wasn't the only team the
Speaker 1: auto pick, but you was the only team to come
Speaker 1: in last last season. All right, So we're not gonna
Speaker 1: blame the auto picking. We ain't talking about last year.
Speaker 1: We ain't talking about last We talking about this. Okay,
Speaker 1: to turn up the drake started from the bottom. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly right, we had Now, Hey, man, I feel bad
Speaker 1: for you. Man. You had you had to face Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill last year. I mean any last week. Anybody who
Speaker 1: had to face Tyree Hill and fantasy football in one
Speaker 1: you must have one heck of a team because I
Speaker 1: have yet to see a performance like that in fantasy football. Took.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was just ridiculous what Tyree Hill did
Speaker 1: putting up numbers there. I mean, Kansas City is crazy
Speaker 1: and crazy good and Todd Bowls was crazy. To leave
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill one on what? What? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: What what game plan? What thought? Proce said, Hey, we'll
Speaker 1: just leave Hill one on one. I don't get it, man,
Speaker 1: I don't get that. Yeah, the mistakes were made. And
Speaker 1: then if you're if you're Carlton Davis, man how do
Speaker 1: you get back in the group chat with your boy's like,
Speaker 1: I know, he was getting flamed up left and right, Like, man,
Speaker 1: how you let him burn you like that? I mean
Speaker 1: it was bad. And then and then you know, whoever
Speaker 1: did that game, ESPN, ABC, whoever it was, they're dirty
Speaker 1: for just zooming in on him after every touchdown. The
Speaker 1: man's on the bench just head down just like and
Speaker 1: I don't even want to play football no more. And
Speaker 1: they just capt zooming in on them like it was.
Speaker 1: It was brutal. It was a brutal day for my boy. Hey,
Speaker 1: New I know you don't want to go down to
Speaker 1: negativity rabbit hole, but goodness, as I as I listened
Speaker 1: to that in that stat line from Tyrek Hill, I
Speaker 1: just cannot. I have to mention Calvin Johnson didn't go
Speaker 1: for three hundred yards on us when we wore Man,
Speaker 1: I know you ain't. I know you ain't just bringing
Speaker 1: that up. You know what you've been. You've been on
Speaker 1: side of the day, you know, but your day coming,
Speaker 1: your day is I was I can't believe you. Church.
Speaker 1: I was there, No, I was there. D and b
Speaker 1: Car were harad that day against Calvin Johnson. The man
Speaker 1: with thirty on us and the church but Church, but
Speaker 1: Church that that wasn't one on one though we got
Speaker 1: beat up. They had d Ware trying to drop in
Speaker 1: the deep curl and cover two and Calvin Johnson was
Speaker 1: running twenty yard then rounds he caught like eight of them.
Speaker 1: It wasn't one on them one. I'm just saying when
Speaker 1: you look at the stat line, Calvin Johnson went off
Speaker 1: on us. The man was unstoppable. I mean, like, if
Speaker 1: you this man has he has nightmares for me because
Speaker 1: not only did he have that three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: yard game against us, it was also I think a
Speaker 1: game on Thanksgiving where this man just went up and
Speaker 1: just mossed all three of us in the back of
Speaker 1: the day and then ESPN going gonna put it on
Speaker 1: there like Happy Birthday Megatron. It has a host to him,
Speaker 1: just you know, just mossing us in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone. Man. So disrespectful man, But it's all
Speaker 1: good because when I when I see the man who
Speaker 1: runs ESPN, I got some words for you. Man. Changed
Speaker 1: that photo. Change the photo. Man. That thing was eight
Speaker 1: years ago. Man, Wow, mccraig, he was just stabbing him
Speaker 1: all up to day mccraig. It wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 1: Churt Listen. Church was not guarding Calvin Johnson's like like
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis was like, so it wasn't a shot at you, Church.
Speaker 1: It was just me remembering like because Louis like, man,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, I haven't seen the performance like that, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh I have, and I just bringing
Speaker 1: up wounds, man, just picking up the wounds man. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Steelers inside the red zone decided
Speaker 1: to go for it on fourth down. Ben Roethlisberger with
Speaker 1: no play back pedaling, just throws it up in the
Speaker 1: end zone and the Ravens pick it off. So it's
Speaker 1: a zero zero football game right now. As Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: decided to go ahead and roll the dikes instead of
Speaker 1: going ahead and kicking a field goal, which which, guys,
Speaker 1: this is a thing for me right now in the
Speaker 1: National Football League that I don't understand. Call me old school,
Speaker 1: but it's the first quarter. Your team hasn't practiced, that
Speaker 1: you haven't practiced, and you know, but twice in the
Speaker 1: last week, why not take a shore or three points.
Speaker 1: You're at home. It's early in the first quarter. Why
Speaker 1: why why get out here and try and and and
Speaker 1: risk it. So I mean to me, you are the
Speaker 1: better football team today, especially since they're shorthanded. Why not
Speaker 1: take three? Guys, help me understand that. You're like Tom
Speaker 1: this early in the game, why are we going I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's right or not, but I think he's
Speaker 1: just trying to put that team to bed, like he's
Speaker 1: trying to go ahead and just impose his will, go
Speaker 1: ahead and rack up as many points as he can,
Speaker 1: because at halftime, he just wants to tell these boys,
Speaker 1: little man, let's just step on these boys throats and
Speaker 1: end and end this game. You know, this RATNS team
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be on the same field as this Pittsburgh team.
Speaker 1: But and missing that fourth down and going forward and
Speaker 1: missing to it, you actually did the opposite and you
Speaker 1: gave this team life. But I can understand where he's
Speaker 1: coming from on this one. Yeah, listen, I'm with Mike
Speaker 1: team because if you guys remember back when they first
Speaker 1: moved the kickoff, I mean the PA team back the
Speaker 1: Stiller's word, like the number one team is it going
Speaker 1: for two versus kicking the field goal? So Mike t
Speaker 1: is known for taking that risk going forward on fourth down,
Speaker 1: going for two instead of going for one. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't expect anything different from him, and they expect
Speaker 1: to beat this team pretty handily, So why do not
Speaker 1: start off fast and try to get it? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can disagree on that, but that's that. That's just
Speaker 1: me feel only for the Steelers newly, Only for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: not for the Cowboys. Only for them. They have a
Speaker 1: reputation for doing it. They are undefeated, so their reputation,
Speaker 1: you know, they can afford to take some of those risks.
Speaker 1: A lot of other teams in the league cannot include us.
Speaker 1: You know, Mike has only lost one Super Bowl, He's
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl, He's lost the Super Bowl. You
Speaker 1: remember who beat him in that Super Bowl game? L Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: who gat Mike? You remember who game Mike that L day? Mccraig,
Speaker 1: I do not. I think I remember them? What was it?
Speaker 1: A Green Bay? Green Bay? Get all big Mike Harthyr
Speaker 1: They beat Arizona lost the Green Bay And you know
Speaker 1: where that game was played. Remember that game was played
Speaker 1: in detail. It was played right here in Arlington at
Speaker 1: six feet snow. That was all it wanted to have
Speaker 1: a blizzard that year and ruined all the small festivities. Man,
Speaker 1: I was ready for that week too, Like it's going
Speaker 1: down this week, man, Man, snow and the whole Metroplex
Speaker 1: act like they didn't know what to do. Man, it
Speaker 1: was crazy. I ain't go a lot to you. I
Speaker 1: was at the Rick Ross. I was at the Rick
Speaker 1: Ross party. Man. I got me, I got me a driver.
Speaker 1: We set in together, and we were driving all through
Speaker 1: that snow. Listen, I've never seen somebody fall fall so
Speaker 1: hard at the snow. Man. People don't realize that it's
Speaker 1: ice under there. It's slippery. It's not like you see
Speaker 1: on TV. People just be running. Man, it was it
Speaker 1: was funny to see. But I had my fair share
Speaker 1: of good times during that that snow blizzard. Hey, is
Speaker 1: it is it too? Is it too late to change
Speaker 1: my pick? Man? RG three out here looking terrible? I
Speaker 1: know you cannot change it. We knew this, Terry. Let's
Speaker 1: look at this guy. Oh Man, you know, hey, I
Speaker 1: was mistaken so far on this one. No, we don't know.
Speaker 1: Stick with your pick, Stick with your pick. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna back out. I ain't gonna back out,
Speaker 1: all right, And I'm facing the Steelers defense and fantasy
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Speaker 1: doing the show, and everybody I'm sitting he knew he
Speaker 1: looking at fantasy football. Church churts, church Man because it's
Speaker 1: pick pick. Let's take a prank. Let us take a break.
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Speaker 1: Church and Danny McCray. Cowboys are going to face the
Speaker 1: Ravens Tuesday. Okay, it's gonna be a Tuesday night game.
Speaker 1: Right now, the Cowboys are watching this game in position groups,
Speaker 1: and I think if you're the Cowboys, you cannot look
Speaker 1: at this Ravens team and expect the same outfit on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Because Lamar Jackson isn't playing in the game, the Ravens
Speaker 1: don't have some offensive blind help, and right now the
Speaker 1: Ravens aren't looking good as RG three just threw a
Speaker 1: pick six into the end zone. Though Church has them
Speaker 1: scoring twenty four points and beating the Steelers thirteen Nostra
Speaker 1: Dallas strikes in. Okay, So I will start with you Church.
Speaker 1: If you are Mike Nolan, how do you scheme Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: the reigning MVP, who right now is not having the
Speaker 1: season he had. The Ravens are a six and four
Speaker 1: football team. Lamar Jackson has fifteen touchdowns and six interceptions
Speaker 1: three Russian touchdowns. Last year he had thirty six passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: six interceptions and seven Russian touchdowns. So it looks as
Speaker 1: though the league is caught up with and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: right now has less passing yards than Cam Newton to
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. So Church, how does Mike Nolan defended?
Speaker 1: Who I mean? It's gonna be rough. They gotta bring
Speaker 1: some boys out of retirement, man. They gotta get de
Speaker 1: Marcus where back out there? They gotta get you know,
Speaker 1: they gotta get Woodson at the safety. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: gonna need some help back there defensively to hold this
Speaker 1: dude down. But in all reality, man, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be extremely tough because you got so much
Speaker 1: to worry about what this guy. I mean, look, if
Speaker 1: you his legs, which is his predominant feature, right, he
Speaker 1: can outrun anybody on the field. He might be the
Speaker 1: fastest guy on the field when he touches the field
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. So for me, I mean it's tough. You
Speaker 1: got the RPO action. I mean, he has all he'll
Speaker 1: have all his weapons back at that point too, So
Speaker 1: it's not like you can singularly, you know, focus on
Speaker 1: one person or one person out of this offense to
Speaker 1: kind of shut down because he has so many people
Speaker 1: to throw it too. It's just to me, I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to take a pick. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to take a page out of the Las Vegas Raiders
Speaker 1: defensive scheme when they went against Mahomes out there. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, Lamar, he doesn't have the arm or anything
Speaker 1: like that. In my homes, he doesn't have the accurates
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But what they did was they
Speaker 1: only rushed three at a time and they kind of
Speaker 1: dropped everybody else back in coverage and zone and kind
Speaker 1: of had everybody's eyes looking at the quarterback. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what you're gonna have to do with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to force him to try to beat
Speaker 1: you with his arm because if you don't, man the
Speaker 1: man and everybody's backs turned to this guy, he's gonna
Speaker 1: take off and he's gonna destroy you all games. So
Speaker 1: for me, you gotta have all eyes on this guy.
Speaker 1: You gotta play some type of zone. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough, man, because this guy's electric. Yeah absolutely, Uh listen,
Speaker 1: make them make him meet you with the arm. But
Speaker 1: we already know we can't stop the run, so just
Speaker 1: let them do what they do in the ring game. Anyways.
Speaker 1: Make the guy beat you with his arm. Do not
Speaker 1: try to put a fire on him like we did
Speaker 1: against Calamur. We know that doesn't work. The more eyes
Speaker 1: that you have on Lamar Jackson as he's dropping back
Speaker 1: and trying to pass, the better for you. So play
Speaker 1: a lot of zone, have a lot of eyes on
Speaker 1: the guy, Try to not think it beat deep, but
Speaker 1: force him to make those tight window throws and read
Speaker 1: the zone coverage. And I think you have that's your
Speaker 1: best chance. You know, as far as your defensive line,
Speaker 1: those guys can rush. But to make sure those guys
Speaker 1: do not rush past Lamar Jackson, you have to stay
Speaker 1: in your lanes and stop your rush before you get
Speaker 1: past him, or it's gonna be a long bay for
Speaker 1: guys chasing them, chasing them around out there. All right, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: and Barry specifically for you, what is it like to
Speaker 1: be a have an outstanding season? Last year Ravens thirteen
Speaker 1: and three, number one seed, they didn't make They made
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but they got knocked out by Tennessee, so
Speaker 1: they didn't make the super Bowl. And then the next
Speaker 1: year thinking okay, hey we could be better, and then
Speaker 1: you're not. I picked Pittsburgh to win the division, and
Speaker 1: I picked Pittsburgh to go to the super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: what is it like that next year trying to climb
Speaker 1: Everest one more time? It's tough, man, because like you said,
Speaker 1: when I was with Jacksonville in twenty seventeen, I mean
Speaker 1: we almost got to the top of the mountain. I mean,
Speaker 1: we were three minutes away from playing in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: We got cheated by the refs. But that's another story
Speaker 1: for another day. But it's hard to get It's hard
Speaker 1: once you get to that. You know that for Echelon
Speaker 1: to come back that next year and you have to
Speaker 1: get even better. You have to get even better as
Speaker 1: a team, as a unit, as a physician group, you
Speaker 1: have to get better. You can't just rest on what
Speaker 1: you did that last year and I can only go
Speaker 1: back example, that's what we did in twenty eighteen. We thought,
Speaker 1: you know, coming into the season, man, there's no way
Speaker 1: nobody can hang with us. We were three minutes away
Speaker 1: from beating Tom Brady and the Patriots. We got this
Speaker 1: thing under wraps. And we started out two and know
Speaker 1: we ended up beating those Patriots during those first two games,
Speaker 1: and you couldn't tell us anything. We kind of just
Speaker 1: kind of gott you know, just confident in ourselves and
Speaker 1: was just like, you know what, no one can beat us,
Speaker 1: and we went on to lose eight straight. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just you have to change. You have to evolve
Speaker 1: each and every year. You can't just rest on what
Speaker 1: you did the year before, or teams are gonna pass
Speaker 1: you up, And that's exactly what happened to us. We
Speaker 1: ended up finishing dead last in our division and I
Speaker 1: ended up getting released. So what you gotta do is
Speaker 1: you gotta evolve and get better each and every year,
Speaker 1: and we just weren't able to do that in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: and looking like Baltimore might be on that same road.
Speaker 1: I got a question for you Church to follow it up,
Speaker 1: because in my eyes, I think the biggest mistake that
Speaker 1: you guys made was did you guys extend Blake Brdles
Speaker 1: after that season? Oh? Yeah? Like I was looking and
Speaker 1: I was like, he's not the reason why y'all made
Speaker 1: it as far as y'all did. It's a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: he was a detriment to y'all and y'all could have
Speaker 1: made it a little further. He played better as the
Speaker 1: playoffs went, but he was not really a reason for y'all.
Speaker 1: He did not deserve an extension, and that showed the
Speaker 1: next season. I didn't understand that, and it healed y'all back.
Speaker 1: As complacent of y'all may have been, y'all's quarterback player
Speaker 1: was not helping y'all at all. Yeah, and that's what
Speaker 1: and that's what I meant by saying, you know, we
Speaker 1: gotta get better each and every year. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to put his name out there, but we didn't get
Speaker 1: better at the main position. Yeah, and he was really bad,
Speaker 1: and he was even worse that next year. So um yeah,
Speaker 1: And when you don't have a quarterback back there, it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough to win games in this league. And we
Speaker 1: found out that out that hardway. Now I go back
Speaker 1: to that draft and I keep looking at the teams
Speaker 1: who passed on Deshaun Watson, and there's only been one
Speaker 1: team that got out of that unscathed. The Bears, um
Speaker 1: have have rued, They've rued the day they them not
Speaker 1: taking Watson, they took Trabisky. The forty nine ers ended
Speaker 1: up getting Garoppolo. They went to Super Bowl and Garoppolo
Speaker 1: couldn't make that throw to a wide open Emmanuel Sanders
Speaker 1: to win the game. The Jets decided to take Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams and the safety instead of Deshaun wa Uh. Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin decided to draft Leonard Fournette over Deshaun Watson. I mean,
Speaker 1: just looking at these teams and saying, look at what
Speaker 1: you guys did and where you where you are when
Speaker 1: you passed on a franchise changing quarterback. And I think
Speaker 1: to myself all the time, what Jacksonville could have been
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson as their quarterback. And we see how
Speaker 1: Watson has frustrated New England in the past and how
Speaker 1: they've struggled trying to contain guys with the ability to
Speaker 1: run and throw. Watson could have transformed Jacksonville. Man, you
Speaker 1: know what, Church, who knows you could have still been there?
Speaker 1: You still could have been another two three years, um
Speaker 1: like that exactly. I mean, we could have done we
Speaker 1: could have done some things, man, because we were still
Speaker 1: in twenty and eighteen. We were still the top ten defense.
Speaker 1: Like I think we ended up number eighth overall in defense,
Speaker 1: but our record didn't show that, and mainly because you know,
Speaker 1: our quarterback play was so bad. Man. We ended up
Speaker 1: I think the last two games of the the year. We
Speaker 1: ended up starting Brandon Island, I think the last two games,
Speaker 1: and it was just bad. It was just all bad. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a rough experience right there. But that's what
Speaker 1: happens when you miss on your quarterback. You cannot miss
Speaker 1: on a quarterback. And just said for me, I never
Speaker 1: understood why would you take a Leonard for that? And
Speaker 1: this is not a shot at the LSU, Danny, But
Speaker 1: why would you take a running back when you can
Speaker 1: get I mean, and I didn't think la Fournette was special.
Speaker 1: I thought he was good at LSU, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he was a special back. I thought you could
Speaker 1: have got another running back later on. But to take
Speaker 1: a gay like Watson who is so special, that was
Speaker 1: my thing, and I'm still to this day. I don't
Speaker 1: understand what were NFL executives thinking this was a special quarterback?
Speaker 1: And the forty nine ers passed, the Bears passed, the
Speaker 1: Jets path, the Jacks path. I did not get that
Speaker 1: at all. Well, the bat the Browns passing the Jacks
Speaker 1: pass because they extended their quarterback. They thought they had
Speaker 1: their got Somebody upstairs said, we got our guy, and
Speaker 1: if we just add a running back on a different
Speaker 1: piece outside of the quarterback, I think that we win.
Speaker 1: They saw him make some plays during the playoffs and
Speaker 1: they said, all right, he's he's on the upswing and
Speaker 1: next year he can do nothing but get better. And
Speaker 1: they forgot about all the stuff that he did in
Speaker 1: the past to make him look that way, and they
Speaker 1: extend him. I put the game in twenty five million bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that that draft was before Okay, that draft was
Speaker 1: before they went on that run. So Blake Portles at
Speaker 1: that point in time was a guy who still had
Speaker 1: question marks that you're looking him like saying, hey man,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know about this dude. And and
Speaker 1: to me, I think Rich Filman might be the only
Speaker 1: guy that I can think of recently in the NFL
Speaker 1: who's done it the right way. He used a top
Speaker 1: fifteen pick on Christian Ponder in Minnesota. Ponder could not
Speaker 1: play at all. They ended up moving on from Ponder
Speaker 1: and they got Bridgewater. Bridgewater ended up helping him get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and they ended up he ended up
Speaker 1: being a Pro Bowl guy. But to me, at some
Speaker 1: point in time, it's very I mean, you saw Danny
Speaker 1: Blake Portles was nothing special. This is a guy like, okay,
Speaker 1: you missed right, right, so good not special? He was
Speaker 1: not good? Wasn't it wasn't good? Right? He couldn't process.
Speaker 1: He couldn't process. I mean, it's like it's like watching
Speaker 1: mental troubisky for anybody's like, oh, I don't remember Blake portals.
Speaker 1: We'll just think of mental troupisky And so why are
Speaker 1: we waiting around? As a general man te to me,
Speaker 1: you just raise your hand and you say, you know what.
Speaker 1: Guess what, folks, we made a mistake. But guess what,
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to take a game changing guy.
Speaker 1: And and in fact, let me take let me resend
Speaker 1: that um Steve Kahn, there's the guy who most recently
Speaker 1: got it right. Where they traded up for Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a good fit. They fired the head coach,
Speaker 1: they traded Rosen, they took Kyler Murray and got a
Speaker 1: new coach, and it looks like Arizona's probably gonna make
Speaker 1: the playoffs this year. Yeah, I mean it must be
Speaker 1: tough for gems to admit, you know, they're wrong, because
Speaker 1: I mean, look at it. Look how long it took,
Speaker 1: you know, the Detroit to fire Patricia. I mean, they
Speaker 1: just did it. And look at Adam Gates. He's still
Speaker 1: over there in New York. So it must be something
Speaker 1: where it's like a pride thing or something where these
Speaker 1: guys are like, na, I can't admit I can't give
Speaker 1: up on my guy. I just don't understand it. I
Speaker 1: wish they would have did it down in Jacksonville. It
Speaker 1: was one of the fun the most, like craziest situations.
Speaker 1: We're in the locker room. He had just got paid
Speaker 1: and everybody's kind of like, oh yeah, congrats man, we
Speaker 1: got you for another couple of years. Like great, I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. Like it was. It was one of
Speaker 1: the weirdest situations ever. Man, congrats man. Where to go?
Speaker 1: Where to go buying dinner? It was rough because we
Speaker 1: knew we were gonna struggle next year. It was rough.
Speaker 1: A d mac um Noster Damas is leading. Now Baltimore
Speaker 1: ends up recovering a punt fumble punt they scored, so
Speaker 1: it is seven to six Baltimore front. So Nostre Damas,
Speaker 1: you're still trying to change your pick now, Oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with him. Down with ships man, either
Speaker 1: anyway it goes, I'm going down. You know the ship's
Speaker 1: going down. That's that's all that matters. You know, the
Speaker 1: ship's going down. All Pittsburge needs to doing score what
Speaker 1: six more points? You said? Right? We'll see on the
Speaker 1: show tomorrow. Who was right. We'll see on the show
Speaker 1: tomorrow who right. So, Danny Berry, since you guys were
Speaker 1: both safeties and the Cowboys right now are watching this
Speaker 1: game at the start, what do you how do you
Speaker 1: look at this Ravens game knowing from an offensive standpoint,
Speaker 1: this is not going to be the group you see
Speaker 1: on Tuesday? How do you how do you really look
Speaker 1: at this game? And it's to definitely look at man,
Speaker 1: but you gotta go back tendencies. I mean, one, if
Speaker 1: they're watching the game, you can't get the all twenty
Speaker 1: two looks, so you can't really see what the receivers
Speaker 1: are doing route wise, and you're pretty much kind of
Speaker 1: focused on the just the front. Just what are the
Speaker 1: front doing and what the scheme they got running back wise,
Speaker 1: So for me, you just kind of look at the
Speaker 1: concepts and how they like to run the ball and
Speaker 1: how many times they're pulling guys and all that other
Speaker 1: stuff because you can't really do anything with the past
Speaker 1: watching the TV copy. Yeah, listen, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: say anything about this at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1: The only people that should be watching this is the offense.
Speaker 1: They should be watching them. They should be watching how
Speaker 1: Baltimore's defense plays, because you can scrap the tape for
Speaker 1: what's going on with the defense, right, if you watch
Speaker 1: any of this tape, you can guarantee yourself as you
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and look like a straight food
Speaker 1: all right, watch the previous weeks with Lamar Jackson out there,
Speaker 1: because I can guarantee you that it's a totally different dynamic,
Speaker 1: totally different a way that they are calling the places.
Speaker 1: It might be some of the same plays being called,
Speaker 1: but the situations that they call them in to me
Speaker 1: will be totally different. So don't watch this tape defense,
Speaker 1: watch the previous takes. But if you want to just
Speaker 1: do some team comaraderie stuff to do what you gotta
Speaker 1: do and get together. Well, I'm watching special teams to
Speaker 1: see if there might be any area where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can run a fake punt on these Ravens. Man, we
Speaker 1: don't fake. Maybe a fake field goal, fake field goal,
Speaker 1: maybe you know that we had the Cowboys haven't tried
Speaker 1: that yet. Maybe a little end around where you know,
Speaker 1: the holder just throws it up and you know so
Speaker 1: maybe So I'm checking out the special team and seeing
Speaker 1: how that is. All right, this was, uh, we'll do
Speaker 1: a show tomorrow. We're gonna be off on Friday, so
Speaker 1: we'll have a reaction to this this Ravens Steelers game
Speaker 1: tomorrow and get you ready as the Cowboys get ready
Speaker 1: to face these Ravens on Tuesday in Baltimore for Danny
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