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Speaker 1: conversation go along. Talk about moved the sticks coming out,
Speaker 1: hot coming out. I just want to beget the show
Speaker 1: by acknowledgy. Mike McCarthy wrote the check the players cast,
Speaker 1: So can we at least get them that? Because I
Speaker 1: don't watch the Sunday shows, I don't spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time on it, but I see the clips that
Speaker 1: will pop up on Twitter. So there are a lot
Speaker 1: of folks going after Mike McCarthy for what he's said.
Speaker 1: So the biggest thing the people that I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of Sunday shows. Oh, Mike McCarthy guarantee the Way
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys had their own benches, um bitch
Speaker 1: warmers for the game ship that was clutch. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna line to you. I've been in a couple of
Speaker 1: games now. I wasn't as cold as the games I
Speaker 1: played in when we didn't have a heat warmer. But
Speaker 1: when those things go out, I mean cast getting mad,
Speaker 1: cast getting frustrated. What are we doing. We're talking to Bucky,
Speaker 1: We're talking to Mike, like, man, hold on, get this
Speaker 1: thing working. What are we doing out here as cold
Speaker 1: is on? Heck, because when you called, your fingers start
Speaker 1: getting dumb. Told start getting dumb. You want nothing to
Speaker 1: do with that football field. So when I when I
Speaker 1: heater goes out, I'm telling you it's clutched. It's clutch
Speaker 1: to make sure you have your old one and always
Speaker 1: goes out in the way games, Like every time you
Speaker 1: go to somewhere else, it seems to always flicker and
Speaker 1: go out. I don't know, but I would have been
Speaker 1: frustrated if that thing was off. Listen, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say this all right. Shout out to Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: for pulling up the guarantee. But I tell you this,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he was holding a real little tighter. The
Speaker 1: end of that game, I'm saying, oh, man, didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't feel asleep at halftime, like yeah, defensive roller, We're okay,
Speaker 1: We're good. And then the second half comes around and
Speaker 1: we do our usual thing, you know, start snatching people
Speaker 1: out of the game, don't play inspired as we have
Speaker 1: been playing at the beginning, and then letting some people
Speaker 1: sneak back in the game. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they guarantee looked like it might have been at risk,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, please, don't do this, the
Speaker 1: big Mike, don't do this, the big Knight, don't do it.
Speaker 1: So I saw a little nerrves on his face, but
Speaker 1: he pulled it out. Man, So shove off the hill
Speaker 1: and shout out to the cowboys to getting the douve,
Speaker 1: and we back on another victory by day. Hey Man.
Speaker 1: At certain point the time, I'm thinking, if I'm a carthay,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this is kind of where I miss
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels because there would have been a confrontation. I
Speaker 1: have to Dick through that interception. They put them, and
Speaker 1: they put Washington in the game. There would have been
Speaker 1: there would have been a confrontation, there would have been words,
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy just just held it all in there.
Speaker 1: Most of all, they get the win and no one,
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't see any tweets or anything about
Speaker 1: the benches afterwards, though people were trying to play that
Speaker 1: whole thing up because it was forty eight degrees. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they didn't they didn't need defenses. But it's amazing
Speaker 1: about how many people wanted to make that a topic
Speaker 1: and saying that the Cowboys were disrespectful and that they
Speaker 1: inflamed the rivalry. And most of all, as Todd Archer
Speaker 1: pointed out and others later did, was that Seattle's operational
Speaker 1: people told the cow boys, hey, guess what, those benches
Speaker 1: don't work. They went out on us. So, oh well,
Speaker 1: So what did Jerry do as to me as a
Speaker 1: responsible as a good owner. He decided, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to take the chance that Daniel Snyder and the folks
Speaker 1: at FedEx Field will have working benches. The league will
Speaker 1: allow us to bring in our own. So he rented
Speaker 1: them from a company in Cleveland, who wouldn't brought them
Speaker 1: down to the football game, and then they put their
Speaker 1: they put the cowboy logos on there. So to me,
Speaker 1: this is where give Jerry Jones credit because he takes
Speaker 1: a lot of bullets, but give him credit for trying
Speaker 1: to make sure that his players were not who going
Speaker 1: to be in a position of being cold if the
Speaker 1: weather turned a certain direction. I mean, you're right, Jerry's
Speaker 1: always been, you know, a players guy like, he's always
Speaker 1: looked out for his players for the most part. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling you when you it wasn't that cold, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't that big of a factor. But you want
Speaker 1: your players as comfortable as possible when they hit that
Speaker 1: football field. I mean they're already putting their bodies on
Speaker 1: the line, crashing into each other, hitting me, getting concussions,
Speaker 1: you know, tearing ligaments. So I mean you gotta make
Speaker 1: them as comfortable as possible. And by having a heated
Speaker 1: bench there, I mean, Jerry can afford it. He got
Speaker 1: all the money in the world. So to me, you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a big deal. Get him on there, get
Speaker 1: him heated up, and get him ready to roll. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you listen, let me tell yourself, Jerry, Jerry, he remembers, okay,
Speaker 1: that that year we went down to Chicago and everybody
Speaker 1: was freezing. How we went out there and performed, all right.
Speaker 1: So he's like, listen, I'm not giving us no reason,
Speaker 1: and my head coach made a guarantee, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make sure that there is no reason or excuse for
Speaker 1: us not to go out here and win this game.
Speaker 1: So shout out to him. He put the pressure on.
Speaker 1: He put his money behind everything that he's talking about.
Speaker 1: It is like, I'm going to do whatever I can
Speaker 1: to get this team to win the Super Bowl, included
Speaker 1: bring our own heating benches if we need to, all right.
Speaker 1: So he's cutting no corners in this. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Jerry, and you know he's serious about it. Hey, mccraig,
Speaker 1: Ay mc craig, he was there that year. We went
Speaker 1: to Chicago. We gotta the bus kit, we gotta bus kit.
Speaker 1: But then they cut off the hot water for the
Speaker 1: shot afterwards, and we would take it. It was already,
Speaker 1: you know, close to below zero out there. They cut
Speaker 1: off the heat in the showers. Man, boys couldn't even
Speaker 1: take showers. Man. It was. It was one of those
Speaker 1: deflating losses. Man, I was listen, you know, I went.
Speaker 1: I went to Chicago the next year. And it's not
Speaker 1: that they cut it off. It was when it's that cold,
Speaker 1: you have to run that water for almost twenty four
Speaker 1: hours for it to be warm, right, So of course
Speaker 1: they didn't go to our side in the locker room
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, we're gonna do the Cowboys a favor.
Speaker 1: So they was like, yeah, we let them figure this
Speaker 1: out on their own. And that was some freezing. That
Speaker 1: was probably the dirtiest I've been on the plane ride
Speaker 1: back home because I was like taking up one of
Speaker 1: those one of those kid washes. I just put the
Speaker 1: twel under a little bit. Yeah yeah, hit some salt
Speaker 1: the tie and he was going ahead, Yeah yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: so that because that's all you can do. I was
Speaker 1: there that day too. That was ridiculous. Man. I think
Speaker 1: it was Josh McCown. Josh McCown had one of them
Speaker 1: crazy days man as the quarterback. But I was, I
Speaker 1: was woof and uh yeah, I made I made shoot it.
Speaker 1: I did not go back to Chicago unless I check
Speaker 1: the schedule again because I was in December. Games like
Speaker 1: you will not catch me. The Soldier Field and December
Speaker 1: ever again, and I think they went back, maybe it
Speaker 1: was two years ago. They went back and the weather
Speaker 1: was nice. It was later in the year, but it
Speaker 1: was not anywhere close to what it was before. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys get the win here, and I think we
Speaker 1: can go ahead and act like hanging with the boys
Speaker 1: in the break and just pat ourselves on the back
Speaker 1: because yeah, you know, dude, the way they always like
Speaker 1: to do that. But we were very right on the
Speaker 1: players lines talking about what we thought the impact would
Speaker 1: be and could be by getting Neville Gallimore, Tank Lawrence,
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory back and how it could help Michael Parson.
Speaker 1: The front seven was absolutely, absolutely ridiculously wicked. Just looking
Speaker 1: at the game here, Washington three or fourteen on third day,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty nine percent. Four turnovers for the defense. Six
Speaker 1: possessions all right, there were fourteen possessions in the game
Speaker 1: for Washington. Offensively, six of those possessions were three and
Speaker 1: out seven punks. You could not really ask you defense
Speaker 1: to do much more than they did yesterday. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: hit FedEx. Yeah, listen, the defensive one out there shout
Speaker 1: out to taking lauds. Also, by the way, who's been
Speaker 1: showing up for the last two weeks. Churches guy double Gallimar.
Speaker 1: He's been hyping them up since last year. Last season,
Speaker 1: A Church said Neuble Galliwar was gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those big time players on the interior defensive line for us,
Speaker 1: and he is showing out. I see the pull a
Speaker 1: vita vea. It runs straight through the center. We want
Speaker 1: to play right. Took it right back into the quarterback
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory. I'd looked like a defensive back trade. Mound
Speaker 1: Diggs is running off on everybody. Boys, I had getting
Speaker 1: Tippins tipping it to him. So you got Michael Carson's
Speaker 1: out here getting multiple sacks. The only thing that could
Speaker 1: have went better, and is Anthony Brown capitalizing one of
Speaker 1: those two interceptions that he had, all right, and then
Speaker 1: let you know that, lets you know that he was
Speaker 1: in position to make the plays. And I'll take a
Speaker 1: PVU before I take a completed pass anything. So I
Speaker 1: think we all around went out there and play and
Speaker 1: as in game, unfortunately, we continue to take our foot
Speaker 1: off the gas at the end and let these teams
Speaker 1: rack up yards and get these trash touchdowns and make
Speaker 1: the game a little bit more interesting. Than it should be.
Speaker 1: But our defense came to play yesterday and I'm starting
Speaker 1: to see this attitude of like, we are going to
Speaker 1: beat the unit to carry us deep into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: not the offense. I think they took offense to everybody
Speaker 1: saying that as long as we had the middle of
Speaker 1: the road defense that we would be okay. They're like, nah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hold. We're gonna do more than that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna be the people who carry this team
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and may then have to respect our
Speaker 1: defense when they playing against and saying how they're gonna
Speaker 1: beat us. You talked about that too, We talked about that,
Speaker 1: We talked about the two on the shows that the
Speaker 1: defense at this point time is gonna have to carry
Speaker 1: this team. Right now, that's where they're at. Go ahead, Church. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had to let Danny get that in there because
Speaker 1: he was calling in front of the beginning. Man. He
Speaker 1: called it definitely, you know back in March talking about
Speaker 1: get dan Quinny and how he's gonna impact this defense.
Speaker 1: So definitely, hats off to dan Quinn. Danny called it right.
Speaker 1: This team, this defense, I mean, they're hitting off all
Speaker 1: cylinders right now, and like you said, News, we talked
Speaker 1: about it on the players lounge with the big three, Parsons, Gregory,
Speaker 1: and the law out there. It's like picking your poison offensively,
Speaker 1: Like if you slide the line one way, you're leaving
Speaker 1: all these other guys with one on ones and then
Speaker 1: they just Parsons and Lawrence that you're leaving one on ones.
Speaker 1: If you decided to slide the line to Gregory, like
Speaker 1: you said, you got Neville Gallimore in there. Oh, Digizua, Calos, Watkins.
Speaker 1: They're so deep on the defensive line it's ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: mean you could literally have a fresh set of defensive
Speaker 1: lineman rotating there and the play might drop off a
Speaker 1: little bit, but not significantly. So this defense is rolling
Speaker 1: right now. Like you said, Randy Gregory picked off right
Speaker 1: where he left off. I mean he had five sacks
Speaker 1: going into that and then he had injured Mystery Weeks,
Speaker 1: came back, got another sack, forced fumble, got another pick interception.
Speaker 1: The guy is all over the place and would impressed
Speaker 1: me the most about this defense. In this secondary it
Speaker 1: was like you said, everybody was in position. There was
Speaker 1: nobody you know, busted coverages. You didn't see anybody complaining
Speaker 1: important fingers. Everybody was there where they needed to be,
Speaker 1: and even if Washington was able to make the play
Speaker 1: or make a catch, it was contested. There was no
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. And what a job Diggs did.
Speaker 1: Or scary Terry McLaurin. I mean that matchup I thought
Speaker 1: was gonna be a little scary for us. But three targets,
Speaker 1: zero receptions for McLaurin until he got hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: this dude, he did what he hasn't done all season.
Speaker 1: We know he's good for the interceptions. We know he's
Speaker 1: good to jump on something, to break on the pass
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But he literally got in mcclaurin's
Speaker 1: face and locked him down. He shadowed him with right left.
Speaker 1: Wherever mcclorin was, Diggs was right there in his hip pocket.
Speaker 1: And I would love to see more of that as
Speaker 1: the season progresses. But this defense, man, You're right, mcfraidy.
Speaker 1: They're carrying the squad right now and right now, this
Speaker 1: is the formula for success. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: it can last too much longer when we start playing
Speaker 1: better teams. We think Dig's gonna get a second contract. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was right. He was right, nude, he was right.
Speaker 1: Listen the way that Digs is playing right now, he
Speaker 1: continues this for the next couple of years. Yes, he
Speaker 1: will get he will get a a second contract. And
Speaker 1: that's easy. That is easy if dan Quinn is here.
Speaker 1: Everybody on the defensive getting second contracts, all right, everybody,
Speaker 1: because everybody has elevated their game. What did I tell
Speaker 1: y'all about Tank? Give him the same time that the
Speaker 1: other players on the team have had with dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: who is a defensive line specialist. Give him that same
Speaker 1: time and see what take Lawrens you get. And we
Speaker 1: are getting the Tank Lawrence that the Cowboys paid for.
Speaker 1: And I can only imagine as he continues to get
Speaker 1: his feet under them and continues to get in football shape,
Speaker 1: how good he's going to look. This is going to
Speaker 1: be an amazing defense. We have an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: something really, really special on the defensive end. And I
Speaker 1: think that that one has to go to dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: but two has to go to the players for buying
Speaker 1: in as well. Agree with a one hundred percent one
Speaker 1: hundred percent And I want to emphasize this very much
Speaker 1: and taking nothing away from what Tank and Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: did in the defensive defensive in spots because they were fantastic.
Speaker 1: But you saw what Neville Gallimore could do as a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle and why I was I was talking about
Speaker 1: how good he had looked at camp, but he was
Speaker 1: their best interior defensive player. How he was moving that
Speaker 1: center around. I mean, and plus he had those those
Speaker 1: sweet air Jordans on he got the right right, I mean,
Speaker 1: so you got him on the center. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: they got Michael Parsons, you know, going in blue, you know,
Speaker 1: blitzed off his hit pocket. I mean, that's what happens
Speaker 1: when you can can have a presence up front that
Speaker 1: interior line. The Gibson here was his numbers. Ten attempts,
Speaker 1: thirty six yards. Man, that's what he did. They just
Speaker 1: as a team. Washington had twenty three touches for one
Speaker 1: hundred yards. But you and I saw it. There was
Speaker 1: nothing affective. They couldn't get their run game going at all.
Speaker 1: And Gibson last year was I think he had his
Speaker 1: two career highs against the Cowboys. So they shut that down,
Speaker 1: and once you saw that, it allowed in my opinion,
Speaker 1: once you shut the rundown, now they got to throw it.
Speaker 1: And this is where you saw a tank. You saw Randy,
Speaker 1: you saw Parsons. I mean, I poor kid out there, man, Taylor,
Speaker 1: How Dicky saw ghost? I mean maybe literally they beat
Speaker 1: him up. He had to leave the game, and that
Speaker 1: Sackra Parsons came in and picked him up and put
Speaker 1: him down. I mean that was vicious, man, that was vicious.
Speaker 1: It was definitely filthy how they did it. And and
Speaker 1: like you said, last year, Antonio Gibson, he rushed for
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty three yards and I think three
Speaker 1: or four touchdowns against US in two games. And then
Speaker 1: this year you fast forward it to what we got
Speaker 1: going on now. That combination of Neville Gallamore, oh, Dicky Zua,
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins, I mean, Tristan Hilling there, that interior defensive
Speaker 1: defensive line right there, it really sewed it up and
Speaker 1: it allowed like you said that the line depending their
Speaker 1: ears back. What are you gonna do when you have
Speaker 1: a package like that where you got the Law on
Speaker 1: one side, Gregory on the other side, pinning their ears back,
Speaker 1: you got Michael Parsons just rolling in the front line.
Speaker 1: You don't know where he's gonna pressure or where he's
Speaker 1: gonna come. It just leave too many one on ones
Speaker 1: for the offensive mind. And if you don't get that
Speaker 1: ball out quick. I mean, these guys are hunting. They're
Speaker 1: head hunting out there, and it's a scary sight. Matsten. Listen,
Speaker 1: and I'll say this one of the biggest differences that
Speaker 1: you that it's been so obvious when Tak Lawrence and
Speaker 1: when Randy Gregory were not in the game and you
Speaker 1: watch the other teams playing on how they were going
Speaker 1: to attack us in the run. They were attacking the edges.
Speaker 1: People were not standing outside. You would see runs break
Speaker 1: outside all the time because you would see the deepest
Speaker 1: of ends give a little nose and they would peek
Speaker 1: inside and then the room will pop outside for eight
Speaker 1: to ten yards. You were not seeing that anymore. You
Speaker 1: got two veteran guys out here who are playing their
Speaker 1: responsibility and rushing the passer. And I'll say this for
Speaker 1: the defense Church. You named all those guys right, all
Speaker 1: of the Carlos backingsas Tristan's Hills. Right. When you have
Speaker 1: a defense that is playing this way, that puts the
Speaker 1: onus on those guys, those rotational guys to come in
Speaker 1: and make sure that they play up to the standard.
Speaker 1: Right when you looked at it last year, there was
Speaker 1: no standard for the guys to come in and blow
Speaker 1: them too. Now, when you start saying stuff like, hey man,
Speaker 1: we got a guy like Parcels, we gotta pub like
Speaker 1: we got a guy like Tank and Rander Grandy Gregory,
Speaker 1: When when those guys come in the game, they know
Speaker 1: what's expected of them. And I think you can see
Speaker 1: that through the entire secondary, through the linebackers, and you
Speaker 1: can see another the defensive line. I really, I just
Speaker 1: think it's it's it's a total one eighty from what
Speaker 1: we saw last year. And that's that's the exciting part
Speaker 1: about it. All. Right, let's take our first break. There's
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Speaker 1: when I mentioned who it should go to, Danny and
Speaker 1: Barry will say yes. And what's going on with Dak Prescott?
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Speaker 1: to earn it with about the blood, as they say
Speaker 1: Danny mcraig. So we all were praised in the defense
Speaker 1: at last segment as we should have. They were outstanding.
Speaker 1: A game ball needs to go to Britt Rank because
Speaker 1: Britt Rown, who we've seen as we go do this podcast,
Speaker 1: you see out of the Star all the time working
Speaker 1: to get guys back. Neville Gallimore hadn't played since the preseason,
Speaker 1: so not only did they help get him back, Britain
Speaker 1: the staff, but you saw him effective. You know Tank
Speaker 1: Lawrence who broke his foot after the first game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's back and effective. And that's the kind of thing was. Man,
Speaker 1: you gotta give a guy a game ball like that,
Speaker 1: because what kind of price tag can you put on
Speaker 1: getting guys back and having them be effective. You guys
Speaker 1: have worked with britt as well, so you know what
Speaker 1: he can do. And May the guy's a hell of
Speaker 1: a trainer, man, and that's why, I mean, that's why
Speaker 1: he's been doing it for what twenty five plus years now.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's amazing at his job or what he does,
Speaker 1: and it's just amazing because he brought these guys back.
Speaker 1: He had such lengthy you know, injuries. They were out
Speaker 1: what I think the Law was out maybe ten weeks,
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore even more. And you saw out there there
Speaker 1: in durance was good. It wasn't like they were huffing
Speaker 1: and puffing or out there just a long one knee
Speaker 1: can barely go subbing in. And now they were out
Speaker 1: there good for me well, and in dire situations. So
Speaker 1: you gotta love his training ability to get these guys
Speaker 1: back in shape and back on the field and having
Speaker 1: some of their best games out there. And I just
Speaker 1: reflect back to when I tore my achilles. You know,
Speaker 1: I did a whole year rehab. What Britt came back
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen and had, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: best seasons of my career. So shouts definitely goes out
Speaker 1: to Britt Brown and Jim Mower and those boys because
Speaker 1: they definitely know what they're doing and they get these
Speaker 1: guys back as soon as possible and sometimes better than
Speaker 1: they were when they left. Yeah, I'm a second everything
Speaker 1: that Church just said, you know, fill the injuries that
Speaker 1: I that I sustained when I was playing. Britt and
Speaker 1: Jim and and g Money, they all took care of
Speaker 1: me when I was in there. But I'll say just
Speaker 1: to add on, I think one of the most important
Speaker 1: things that they're able to do is get these guys
Speaker 1: back when they're ready to come back, right. You don't
Speaker 1: you don't often see us put that pill guys back
Speaker 1: in there when it's too early, and you don't see
Speaker 1: them sitting out for too long. Right. It seems like
Speaker 1: they always come back right on time to where you
Speaker 1: don't see them some for those same type of injuries. Again,
Speaker 1: So shout out to them for being able to do that.
Speaker 1: And you have to gain the trust of the players
Speaker 1: in order for them to be able to have that
Speaker 1: belief that you're doing the right thing and takeing care
Speaker 1: of the right way. You don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: people going to get second opinions on the Cowboys trading
Speaker 1: staff either, because they trust that what that staff is doing.
Speaker 1: So you know, they're great. To shout out to all
Speaker 1: of them. But they got our guys back and ready
Speaker 1: to go. And I'm hyperbout it. Yes, yes, in this defense,
Speaker 1: as we were talking about, may have to go ahead
Speaker 1: and carry the Cowboys down the stretches they get ready
Speaker 1: to go to matlife, stay to face the Giants, then
Speaker 1: host Washington the day after Christmas on NBC Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: then host Kyler Murray and the Cardinals before ending the
Speaker 1: season half Philadelphia. The offense, on the other hand, has
Speaker 1: got some issues. I'm just sitting right now looking at
Speaker 1: how they were one and six in the red zone.
Speaker 1: There were six punts in the fourteen possessions on offense
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys had in the fourth quarter in five drives,
Speaker 1: there were three punts. In those three punts, they were
Speaker 1: three outs, and then you had an interception. In the
Speaker 1: football game. The Cowboys win twenty seven twenty, but the
Speaker 1: second half was ugly and Dak Prescott completed twenty two
Speaker 1: or thirty nine for two hundred and eleven yards, one touchdown,
Speaker 1: two picks with the QB reading of fifty eight point eight. Guys,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah, I'm gonna tell you like this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you like this. Okay, I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: it straight. We've been talking about this run game, okay
Speaker 1: for week one, all right, and if you're not able
Speaker 1: to do it, you're going to continue to be in
Speaker 1: these situations. If you look at that runs a bootleg
Speaker 1: and throws an interception, the linebacker doesn't even look like
Speaker 1: he bent on the run face. You know why, because
Speaker 1: you ain't got no ringing. I mean, you're the reason
Speaker 1: that you're able to run bootlegs is because you have
Speaker 1: established the run or the deepest beliefs that you are
Speaker 1: going to run the ball. Same thing with screens. The
Speaker 1: only reason you can run the screen is because somebody
Speaker 1: You believe that somebody's putting some pressure on you, because
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the illusion that you're giving off. There's
Speaker 1: no allusion with our ring game, all right. And the
Speaker 1: thing is even with Zeke Hamper on Sunday, I still
Speaker 1: believe that we had a chance to continue to get
Speaker 1: some of those runs. And he wasn't moving as fast
Speaker 1: as he as he usually does, but he was getting
Speaker 1: some positive some positive runs. You just want to keep
Speaker 1: the defense honest, and I think that still oftentimes in
Speaker 1: drives we've moved away from the run, or we'll start
Speaker 1: with a deep pass on first down and before you note,
Speaker 1: you behind the sticks, so you got to throw it
Speaker 1: on second and third and it didn't work out for us.
Speaker 1: Dak has looked off. He just looked off. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what's going on with him. Some of his placement
Speaker 1: on some of the balls have been off, his decision
Speaker 1: making and some instances have been off as well. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what's going on. And he doesn't trust what's
Speaker 1: in front of him. He needs to be able to
Speaker 1: move in the pocket a little bit better, scramble a
Speaker 1: little bit more. It's it's a lot that he can
Speaker 1: do to get better. But overall, I think this really
Speaker 1: hinges on the offensive line in our billity running football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right about that. I'm with you on running the football,
Speaker 1: and it's tough, it's tough to because you know, when
Speaker 1: we don't, we don't know when we're gonna get back
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. He has that foot injury, and Zeke just
Speaker 1: hasn't looked himself since he's been injured. As we can tell,
Speaker 1: he's still laboring around out there, and it's not like
Speaker 1: we can we can rest him because we have who
Speaker 1: we have behind Clement. I mean Clement, he came in
Speaker 1: and did a couple of good things, but is he
Speaker 1: a featured back. Is he a guy who can turn
Speaker 1: around and hand the ball off two twenty five times
Speaker 1: a game? I don't know. I mean, he's never had
Speaker 1: that type of situation in his career. But we've got
Speaker 1: to find somehow, some way to at least have the
Speaker 1: threat of running the football. I mean, it's just but
Speaker 1: right now, with our two lead backs hurt, it's a
Speaker 1: hard thing to do. And like mccraie said, when when
Speaker 1: you don't have any type of threat of the running
Speaker 1: game and you're trying to get the ball out of
Speaker 1: your quarterback's hands quickly, the whole defense is just sitting
Speaker 1: back and watching. You can't really, you know, do an
Speaker 1: RPO or fake to run and do a quick bubble
Speaker 1: screening because nobody's gonna bite up on that. And like
Speaker 1: that that that bootleg McCrae was talking about, he had
Speaker 1: a defender in his face, but it's like the linebacker
Speaker 1: got so much depth under there because no but he
Speaker 1: was forced to bring him up he had. If you
Speaker 1: watch it, he didn't even take one step towards the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. As soon as the ball was snapped,
Speaker 1: he turned and knew something was coming his way and
Speaker 1: got underneath that overwrought by Dalton Scholtz on that one.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's the creative play call
Speaker 1: from Kelly Moore, if defensive coordinators have caught up to
Speaker 1: him and caught up to how he likes the call plays,
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. But something has to change.
Speaker 1: And like mcraie said, Dak Prescott looks off, you know,
Speaker 1: ever since that calf injury. I'm gonna say it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just hasn't looked right. Whether it's accuracy, just timing
Speaker 1: with the receivers, whatever the case may be, he just
Speaker 1: has not looked right. Because if we're being honest here,
Speaker 1: he should have thrown four interceptions yesterday. I mean that
Speaker 1: first drive going out there, he hit the corner dead
Speaker 1: in his hands. I mean it looked just like Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown out there. He dead in his hands, was nowhere
Speaker 1: near the receiver on that one. And then you fast
Speaker 1: forward to i think the third quarter, and he threw
Speaker 1: that screenplay when you when you know as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: And I'm sure he knows this if the screen is
Speaker 1: covered up, if d lineman or all over it, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't have a play here, Let's just throw it
Speaker 1: in the dirt instead. He trying to take a risk,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he try to side arm
Speaker 1: it in there. I don't know what he was trying
Speaker 1: to do, but hit the d line in writing the numbers,
Speaker 1: and thank goodness he dropped the football. But he could
Speaker 1: have had foreign receptions out there. I'm not sure what's
Speaker 1: going on because it doesn't seem like he's getting a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Like I feel like, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: there's opportunities here and there where he has to run
Speaker 1: a little bit, but it's not like he's getting running
Speaker 1: for his life out there. I feel like he has
Speaker 1: he has a pocket enough to do some damage out there.
Speaker 1: So I'm not so sure if it's the receiver's not
Speaker 1: getting open if it's the play calling, but whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, that that definitely needs to step his
Speaker 1: game up if we're gonna think we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: long playoff run, because I tell you now, once we
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, we're not gonna run into too
Speaker 1: many Taylor Heinekes. There's gonna be a lot of Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's and those sorts. So we're definitely gonna need
Speaker 1: an a game from Dak Press Scott. I'll say this.
Speaker 1: I'll say this too, man. You know when you want
Speaker 1: to help out the quarterback and you want to if
Speaker 1: you're not going to run the ball, you want to
Speaker 1: give us some easy throws. And I just as I'm
Speaker 1: watching the Green Bay Packer game yesterday, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Alice and how the game
Speaker 1: becomes so easy for them, right when you have that
Speaker 1: number one guy who you can depend on to get open.
Speaker 1: You see the quick slant in his own easy pass,
Speaker 1: you don't even have to call a play. Hey, then
Speaker 1: we got DeVante one on one, He's gonna run quick slant.
Speaker 1: He's gonna catch that ball in his own same thing.
Speaker 1: At the end of the game, quick out. You know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be open. It's easy throws for a guy,
Speaker 1: so he could give into the rhythm, and I just
Speaker 1: hadn't seen us be able to do that, which is
Speaker 1: why I always HARKing on this Amari Cooper being on
Speaker 1: number one receiver. You have to have a guy who
Speaker 1: when when things are going bad, you can lean on
Speaker 1: this guy, say this guy's gonna be open, and we
Speaker 1: have not. It looks like we haven't schemed scheme that,
Speaker 1: so you don't see it when we get into these
Speaker 1: situations where hey man, you've gotta have it. What are
Speaker 1: we gonna do? It seems like it's a schemed up
Speaker 1: play concept versus hey man, this is our player who
Speaker 1: we're gonna lean on to get us get us this
Speaker 1: first down. Ah. There are definitely some things that's gotta
Speaker 1: get fixed around there. Confidence is obviously one thing for
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott had Jack Taylor on my TV show last
Speaker 1: night and Jack said at a conversation he had with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott that Dak talks about, Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: I can't lose confidence. He says, you know, we're all human,
Speaker 1: and I think something where fans don't always want to
Speaker 1: acknowledge is quarterbacks are a lot like pictures. You're gonna
Speaker 1: go through some bad streams. Okay you are. It happens,
Speaker 1: and it's how do you get out of that? And
Speaker 1: so I don't know whether this is the combination of
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore helps Um the offensive coordinator, or whether it's
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the offensive plot. There's there's one thing
Speaker 1: that you guys are gonna be happy about, and that
Speaker 1: is how the line responded. When Dak Prescott got pushed
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, Lell Collins came to his defense, threw
Speaker 1: a punch, and he was ejected. I was a lot
Speaker 1: different when we saw last year where Andy Dalton was
Speaker 1: getting thrown around and he was just like looking at
Speaker 1: him like, oh right, Now here comes to issue. As
Speaker 1: you start to get ready for the thing it gets
Speaker 1: New York. Will the NFL suspend college with a punch,
Speaker 1: and so that means if he's suspended, you got a
Speaker 1: right tackle issues. Tyler Smith left the game, has an
Speaker 1: ankle injury. If he doesn't play, then you're gonna need
Speaker 1: a left tackle. So you could need two tackles, which
Speaker 1: the count was, Oh, by the way, had their backup
Speaker 1: tackles out there the end of the game. They could
Speaker 1: need two tackles going into this Giant's game. So Bellas
Speaker 1: is something to think about, especially as we talked about
Speaker 1: trying to get the one game fixed with two running
Speaker 1: backs who are not help Danny. I was, I know
Speaker 1: you better not be giving a layoff college no, no,
Speaker 1: no points, but going out throwing the punch again me
Speaker 1: take it all right, I know you better not be
Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, I'll have enough by different attitude. Oh,
Speaker 1: none of that. It's a different way to get that
Speaker 1: type of stuff handled. You ain't have to throw no push.
Speaker 1: You know why you don't need to throw no push
Speaker 1: because you're already missed five games. Never miss five, you're
Speaker 1: just five already. What are we doing? Like? What are
Speaker 1: we or it does not make sense, It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: I've seen players defend their quarterback and not get ejected
Speaker 1: from games. I've seen it happen. You do not have
Speaker 1: to get ejected to show that the offensive line is
Speaker 1: there for their quarterback. You don't have to do it because,
Speaker 1: like you said, now you have an issue where you
Speaker 1: possibly don't have either tackle right you're talking about you're
Speaker 1: talking you're talking about going on a run. You're talking
Speaker 1: about making it deep into the playoffs, getting the offense
Speaker 1: back on track. This is this is what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do with. At the same time, you're also missing
Speaker 1: players who are key parts of it. Where where the
Speaker 1: coaches put you in a position to say, you got
Speaker 1: your starting job back because we don't know why, but
Speaker 1: you got it back. And man, and now and now
Speaker 1: now you might be suspended again. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: it don't make sense to shout out to help and
Speaker 1: having back back and Zeke and all that stuff. I
Speaker 1: just wish he would have found a different way to do.
Speaker 1: Do a chess bump, do something you ain't got to
Speaker 1: You ain't got to punch nobody. Man. The funny the
Speaker 1: funny part about it, man, is when they closed stuff,
Speaker 1: when they did the close up on him, he was
Speaker 1: he was his heart. He was trying as hard as
Speaker 1: not to swing like he was like, oh I can't,
Speaker 1: and then just the instincts and just I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was just took over. And when I dud
Speaker 1: ducked his head, he definitely swung a little uppercut in
Speaker 1: there and caught him one. But like you said, he
Speaker 1: could have did with Zeke did ran in there, just
Speaker 1: gave him a little chess bump, push, push, and just
Speaker 1: you know, separated things like that. We've seen it all
Speaker 1: the time in practice, when guys really don't want to fight,
Speaker 1: they just kind of grapple each other, hold each other
Speaker 1: up by the by their jersey, like, oh no, you
Speaker 1: swing first, you swing first, take your helm and off.
Speaker 1: He could have did one of those, but the instincts
Speaker 1: took over. He decided to take that swing and hopefully
Speaker 1: the NFL doesn't swing and try to suspend them. So
Speaker 1: it puts us in a shaky situation. But he's been
Speaker 1: doing this before. They put us in a shaky situation
Speaker 1: earlier in the season when you know, we know what happened.
Speaker 1: So man, he just can't seem to find his way
Speaker 1: out of trouble. I'll say, who started the downfall on
Speaker 1: his officive? Lite? Who did it? Okay? I want I
Speaker 1: want to I want to see him play. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying this is this started. Okay, we had a we
Speaker 1: had a bad left guard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But he did go against some some top knots competition.
Speaker 1: He was getting walked back into the into the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But but but as far as shuffling the guys and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how we're gonna protect east Side,
Speaker 1: we know when it started. Well, you disagree game game one,
Speaker 1: when when Zack Martin missed because of the COVID. The
Speaker 1: there's just been one issue after another with this offensive
Speaker 1: line all season long. If we just come going back
Speaker 1: to Game one of not being able to have the
Speaker 1: guys who thought you'd have out there, and then we'd
Speaker 1: put some of the guys out there, you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we got a problem the left We got the problem
Speaker 1: with the left guard, and then you got issues with
Speaker 1: the center. I mean, um, this when the season ends,
Speaker 1: it'll be very interesting to see him kind of conversations
Speaker 1: Joe Philbin and Mike McCarthy and Will McClay have because frankly,
Speaker 1: I thought this unit would be a lot better than
Speaker 1: what it's been that Um, so there's issues. And look
Speaker 1: there's another issue coming up this week, and it's about
Speaker 1: who's going to be available and who will be healthy
Speaker 1: if they are available for this football game. So, um,
Speaker 1: they think we're going against the Giants. Man, So this
Speaker 1: offensive line, the quarterback, you and then the running backs
Speaker 1: aren't healthy. So this offantastic issues right now, guys, and
Speaker 1: you just hope and this is where you're paying people
Speaker 1: a lot of money as coaches fix it, figure out
Speaker 1: how you fix it, and get with your players, because
Speaker 1: right now, what you have it's not going to take
Speaker 1: you very far in the playoffs. I see it right now.
Speaker 1: I saw Temple Man they were firing that that blitz
Speaker 1: up against Buffalo. I'm just telling you it's it's it's
Speaker 1: some defenses you do not want to see if your
Speaker 1: offensive line is not at full strength. All right, moving
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, when you start playing some of these
Speaker 1: better teams we've seen, We've seen us have struggle with
Speaker 1: teams in the AMC. We're seeing us have trouble with
Speaker 1: the Saints offensively. If you look at a team like
Speaker 1: like Tampa right now, who is they're starting to can't
Speaker 1: fire a little bit on defense? This is not a
Speaker 1: recipe for successful us. We have to find a way
Speaker 1: to get the five best play and make sure they're
Speaker 1: healthy and ready to go. This is the challenge, and
Speaker 1: this is why you pay coaches a lot of money.
Speaker 1: This is where Mike McCarthy and Joe Philbin and Skip
Speaker 1: Pete and Kellen Moore and Doug and Dust Meyer, I
Speaker 1: mean all this group of guys, these coaches, man, this
Speaker 1: is where they've got to go ahead and figure out
Speaker 1: how how they addressed the warts murder. Talking to Duck Collins,
Speaker 1: the former coach of the Chicago Bulls and He was
Speaker 1: working at T and T at the time and talking
Speaker 1: to a group of people and he said, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: your job as a coach is to buying the warts
Speaker 1: and cover up the warts. Sometimes you can't fix everything
Speaker 1: because you know, it's just how sports works, and sometimes
Speaker 1: your players and what you have is what you have.
Speaker 1: So how do you cover it up? And that's to
Speaker 1: me the challenge for the Cowboys right now on offenses.
Speaker 1: Just figure out how do you cover it up? And
Speaker 1: maybe you can become what Kansas City has become. Because
Speaker 1: one the thing I noticed, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: chew guys have watched this, So you saw Kansas City
Speaker 1: struggling with the defense. They get guys healthy, get guys healthy.
Speaker 1: Now boom, now they're playing well. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: the offense is going through a couple of issues. And
Speaker 1: then yesterday against the Raiders, the office just broke out
Speaker 1: and they went crazy. Now you look at Kansas City
Speaker 1: and you say, you know what, man, that could be
Speaker 1: a team that could win the Super Bowl the way
Speaker 1: they're playing on both sides of the football. Had seen
Speaker 1: their defense play that well in the last three four years.
Speaker 1: So kay, yesterday and yes, they did and maybe it's
Speaker 1: Maybel and Tea didn't normally like to run the ball,
Speaker 1: So maybe the Cowboys and these next four football games
Speaker 1: can find some of that. And guys, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: if they go beat the Giants and they beat Washington
Speaker 1: and then you get into a great shootout with Arizona
Speaker 1: and come away with that one, you're gonna look at
Speaker 1: this team a whole lot different, a whole lot different,
Speaker 1: because now they're gonna be sitting here with three more wins.
Speaker 1: You now they're talking about a team with twelve wins
Speaker 1: in the back. What I doubt you're gonna look at
Speaker 1: them different, especially if they're able to rattle off these
Speaker 1: next three because Arizona, it goes New York, Washington, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Am I correct with that? Yes, yes, sir. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: if you're able to rip these next three off and
Speaker 1: it puts you in great position to even challenge for
Speaker 1: that number one spot as far as the NFC contender
Speaker 1: is in the playoffs, then we are looking at this
Speaker 1: team totally different. Now, the question I want to ask
Speaker 1: both of y'all is do y'all feel like, let's just
Speaker 1: say we do rattle these off, we rattle these wins off,
Speaker 1: but we're having that same type of formula where the
Speaker 1: defense is carrying us. They're taking the football away. Offense
Speaker 1: has been so so, but they haven't really, you know,
Speaker 1: just cost us the whole game. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: that formula could work and it lead to a long time,
Speaker 1: a long term playoff room. I do. I mean, like
Speaker 1: I said in my opinion, you have to have something
Speaker 1: to lean on when you're when you're I say, when
Speaker 1: you're passing games now not working. But you can't lead
Speaker 1: on your offense at all, then your defense has to
Speaker 1: be able to make some type of plays for you.
Speaker 1: What we know about our defense is they're giving us
Speaker 1: extra possessions. They can't even score the ball. What we
Speaker 1: know about our special teams is at any point that
Speaker 1: you know, bones, as much as he does some crazy stuff,
Speaker 1: we can block a punt, we can get we can
Speaker 1: get some type of faith going. So we still have
Speaker 1: opportunities to make stuff happen. But as long as our
Speaker 1: deepest can keep us in the game, I still have
Speaker 1: faith that our offense can can get a score when
Speaker 1: they need to. I mean, I don't think we have
Speaker 1: to score. It's it's great for us not to happen
Speaker 1: to score thirty to win. So I think the recipe
Speaker 1: for success for us is that that New York Giants
Speaker 1: type of type of defense that you talked about when
Speaker 1: they had those four guys up front and they can
Speaker 1: rush for the four and then and then just play
Speaker 1: coverage on the back end and shut guys down. I
Speaker 1: think that if we're able to do that, we got
Speaker 1: a chance to be just about anyone. The red zone
Speaker 1: efficiency is a problem with guys, and that even you
Speaker 1: go back and you look at New England win that
Speaker 1: they had of a Fox brow Um, the Cowboss just
Speaker 1: got to be better in terms of getting point to
Speaker 1: mean one of six yesterday in the red zone. That's
Speaker 1: just that that's good enough to be a Taylor Heinekey,
Speaker 1: but that's not good enough to be you know, a
Speaker 1: Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers or some of these other
Speaker 1: folks that you can potentially face in the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: they got it fixed in just looking here at the
Speaker 1: ball possession and drive chart in the second just in
Speaker 1: the second half alone, the first one was a nine
Speaker 1: play drive which ended in a punt. Then it was
Speaker 1: a four play drive which ended in a punt. Then
Speaker 1: they got the football off a fumble at the Washington
Speaker 1: twenty five and then only went fifteen yards and had
Speaker 1: to kick a field goal. Then you go into the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Cowboys three and out punt, next possession three
Speaker 1: and out punt. Then they get the ball at their
Speaker 1: own twenty two pick. Then the next possession three and
Speaker 1: out punt, and then they got the ball after a
Speaker 1: fumble by the defense, and then it was the they
Speaker 1: ran the clock out. Um, you know, five drives and
Speaker 1: a fourth quarter, three of them punts and a pit No,
Speaker 1: this is where the offense has got to go ahead
Speaker 1: and fix these things. And maybe Washington I've watching it,
Speaker 1: but maybe New York is the excellent opponent to go
Speaker 1: ahead and start fixing these things. But that's what I
Speaker 1: look at, guys, when I just see what has to happen,
Speaker 1: is that got to be better about using the clock
Speaker 1: and generating points. When they get in the red zone,
Speaker 1: your defense is out here giving you the football back
Speaker 1: and you're only giving them three points. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that cut it yesterday. But if you're trying to talk
Speaker 1: about having any kind of playoff runnings, it's lasting longer
Speaker 1: than a game that those areas have got to improve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to improve in your red zone, and like
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, they got to improve on first down.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you can get in, you know, three
Speaker 1: four yards on first down, second down, get some more
Speaker 1: positive plays, it makes it a lot easier when you're
Speaker 1: third and manageable. When you're in third and three, third
Speaker 1: and four, third and five, you can have a high
Speaker 1: percentage of third down conversions when it's that low and
Speaker 1: not manageable. But what we've seen in these past couple
Speaker 1: of games with the runna being where it's at those
Speaker 1: first down, those first down, those first down plays, they're
Speaker 1: not very positive. You may get one or two yards,
Speaker 1: then you're looking at the second along and then ends
Speaker 1: up being a third and long. And that's when we've
Speaker 1: been suffering at these third down conversion races when it's
Speaker 1: over five yards or where it's over ten yards. So
Speaker 1: I feel like, if we can get better on first down,
Speaker 1: maybe find a way to get this run game going.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how we do it. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie to you. I don't know how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: But if we're able to find some way to get
Speaker 1: that going, I think it's proved dividends for this offense.
Speaker 1: But right now they're they're staggering there, they're stuck in
Speaker 1: neutral right now, how do you get your run game going? Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it like it like it's easy. I'm
Speaker 1: no offensive coordinator, but I can tell you one thing.
Speaker 1: When you're playing defense, misdirection and the illusion of the
Speaker 1: ball going one way and then you hand it off
Speaker 1: to somebody else that can help you. Like jet sweeps
Speaker 1: can help you. When they're teams are running zone, they're
Speaker 1: running man and you get somebody jet sweep across the formation,
Speaker 1: it changes everything, right, So you're gonna have to get creative.
Speaker 1: You gonna have to get some of that show Nick
Speaker 1: Big type of stuff on to where you're kind of
Speaker 1: confusing the defense, making them check their reads, making them
Speaker 1: just slow down just a little bit to gear that
Speaker 1: extra extra piece of space. And I haven't seen us
Speaker 1: do it since cde Lamb I think came out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, and I think you might to score a
Speaker 1: touchdown in that place, but I'm not sure. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get creative with our ring game. All right.
Speaker 1: Sounds like Kellen Moore's got some work to do because
Speaker 1: special piece trying to get a head coaching job after
Speaker 1: the season national Football Leagues. So offense has got some
Speaker 1: issues and the quarterback's got to be a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But right now Dan coint of the defense. It also
Speaker 1: bones the special teams units that got the Cowboys playing
Speaker 1: at a at a level that has nine wins and
Speaker 1: the three game lead in the NFC East. So all
Speaker 1: the victory Monday, let's not lose sight of that as
Speaker 1: we wrap up the shelves. Cowboys are in there. They
Speaker 1: are where they want to be. There's areas to fix,
Speaker 1: but right now they're where they want to be here. Listen, hey,
Speaker 1: and before we get off in here, Okay, because I
Speaker 1: know Church you wanted to say, Joe Burrow had a
Speaker 1: hell of a game yesterday. Okay, he left his team.
Speaker 1: He left his team on the field, right, They left
Speaker 1: the field with the league and his and his defense
Speaker 1: couldn't get him, right, you know, he brought his team
Speaker 1: all the way back him with Jamarche single handedly got
Speaker 1: him in the game. He had three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: eight yards twenty four for thirty two something like that.
Speaker 1: He had a hell of a game and they just
Speaker 1: didn't win. Joe Herbert got to do. Congratulations him, But
Speaker 1: what happened with Burrow? And then when it was zero zero,
Speaker 1: when the game was right there in the balance, he
Speaker 1: should have had to bring him back like that. Bro, Herbert,
Speaker 1: herbody ain't doing none of that. He's starting it from
Speaker 1: the jump. Man. You see what he's doing out there,
Speaker 1: and you know what you know. I don't gotta say,
Speaker 1: you know, her Birst speaks for itself. Who these first
Speaker 1: two seasons, he's definitely been better than Burrow. We'll see
Speaker 1: going forward. That's not true. Right now, Herbert has been
Speaker 1: better these first two listeners. Herbert has been better. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you this. Do it and you might not
Speaker 1: agree with him, but I'm telling if that keep playing
Speaker 1: where he playing, that comeback play of the year would
Speaker 1: not be his. I'm just a million I meet it. Well.
Speaker 1: I told you that Joe Burrow was gonna be in
Speaker 1: the running forward and he's playing group. He's playing really
Speaker 1: good football right now. He has his team, the Cincinnati Beagles,
Speaker 1: in position to possibly go to the playoffs and win
Speaker 1: a division. I mean that. You can't understate how how
Speaker 1: reporting that is for a guy playing for the Cincinnati Bagas. Yeah, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: I have an argument. We'll have to continue that next
Speaker 1: time and add in a little bit of Urban Meyer
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