WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Defending the Quarterback? 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.760 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:13.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.960 Players Loue broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:24.119 the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:33.440 Newe Scrugs. Alrighty, it is Monday of victory money for 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.800 the Dallas Cowboys as a defeat Washington football team at 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.600 fed Ex Field. You are in the players line proct 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.239 you buy Hotels dot Com. Danny mccraig, Barry Church, two 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.880 former Dallas Cowboys freeting safeties. These are the players. Undewe 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.479 Scrugs Cowboys Reporters is merely here to help move the 0:00:51.560 --> 0:01:00.680 conversation go along. Talk about moved the sticks coming out, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.679 hot coming out. I just want to beget the show 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.640 by acknowledgy. Mike McCarthy wrote the check the players cast, 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.840 So can we at least get them that? Because I 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.600 don't watch the Sunday shows, I don't spend a lot 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.280 of time on it, but I see the clips that 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.240 will pop up on Twitter. So there are a lot 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.520 of folks going after Mike McCarthy for what he's said. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.440 So the biggest thing the people that I saw a 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.920 lot of Sunday shows. Oh, Mike McCarthy guarantee the Way 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:34.440 and the Dallas Cowboys had their own benches, um bitch 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:41.000 warmers for the game ship that was clutch. I ain't 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.560 gonna line to you. I've been in a couple of 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.080 games now. I wasn't as cold as the games I 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.720 played in when we didn't have a heat warmer. But 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.080 when those things go out, I mean cast getting mad, 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.639 cast getting frustrated. What are we doing. We're talking to Bucky, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.680 We're talking to Mike, like, man, hold on, get this 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.280 thing working. What are we doing out here as cold 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.640 is on? Heck, because when you called, your fingers start 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.440 getting dumb. Told start getting dumb. You want nothing to 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.360 do with that football field. So when I when I 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.200 heater goes out, I'm telling you it's clutched. It's clutch 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.240 to make sure you have your old one and always 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.000 goes out in the way games, Like every time you 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.440 go to somewhere else, it seems to always flicker and 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.920 go out. I don't know, but I would have been 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.040 frustrated if that thing was off. Listen, and I'm gonna 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.600 just say this all right. Shout out to Mike McCarthy 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.240 for pulling up the guarantee. But I tell you this, 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.400 I'm sure he was holding a real little tighter. The 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.600 end of that game, I'm saying, oh, man, didn't I 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.079 didn't feel asleep at halftime, like yeah, defensive roller, We're okay, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.000 We're good. And then the second half comes around and 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.440 we do our usual thing, you know, start snatching people 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.840 out of the game, don't play inspired as we have 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.400 been playing at the beginning, and then letting some people 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.120 sneak back in the game. And then all of a sudden, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.079 they guarantee looked like it might have been at risk, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.520 and I was like, oh, please, don't do this, the 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.920 big Mike, don't do this, the big Knight, don't do it. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.360 So I saw a little nerrves on his face, but 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.240 he pulled it out. Man, So shove off the hill 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:06.880 and shout out to the cowboys to getting the douve, 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.720 and we back on another victory by day. Hey Man. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.440 At certain point the time, I'm thinking, if I'm a carthay, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.520 I'm looking at this is kind of where I miss 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.079 Bill Parcels because there would have been a confrontation. I 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.680 have to Dick through that interception. They put them, and 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.440 they put Washington in the game. There would have been 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.920 there would have been a confrontation, there would have been words, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.720 and Mike McCarthy just just held it all in there. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.320 Most of all, they get the win and no one, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.760 I mean, I didn't see any tweets or anything about 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.000 the benches afterwards, though people were trying to play that 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.080 whole thing up because it was forty eight degrees. Okay, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.680 so they didn't they didn't need defenses. But it's amazing 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.200 about how many people wanted to make that a topic 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.440 and saying that the Cowboys were disrespectful and that they 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.160 inflamed the rivalry. And most of all, as Todd Archer 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.880 pointed out and others later did, was that Seattle's operational 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.640 people told the cow boys, hey, guess what, those benches 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.600 don't work. They went out on us. So, oh well, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.320 So what did Jerry do as to me as a 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.680 responsible as a good owner. He decided, I'm not going 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.400 to take the chance that Daniel Snyder and the folks 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.640 at FedEx Field will have working benches. The league will 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.840 allow us to bring in our own. So he rented 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.120 them from a company in Cleveland, who wouldn't brought them 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.160 down to the football game, and then they put their 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.520 they put the cowboy logos on there. So to me, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.280 this is where give Jerry Jones credit because he takes 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.279 a lot of bullets, but give him credit for trying 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.279 to make sure that his players were not who going 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.480 to be in a position of being cold if the 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.080 weather turned a certain direction. I mean, you're right, Jerry's 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.120 always been, you know, a players guy like, he's always 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.440 looked out for his players for the most part. And 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.919 I'm telling you when you it wasn't that cold, so 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.080 it wasn't that big of a factor. But you want 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.320 your players as comfortable as possible when they hit that 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.039 football field. I mean they're already putting their bodies on 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.120 the line, crashing into each other, hitting me, getting concussions, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.520 you know, tearing ligaments. So I mean you gotta make 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.880 them as comfortable as possible. And by having a heated 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.359 bench there, I mean, Jerry can afford it. He got 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.159 all the money in the world. So to me, you know, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.080 it wasn't a big deal. Get him on there, get 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.440 him heated up, and get him ready to roll. Yeah, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.520 you listen, let me tell yourself, Jerry, Jerry, he remembers, okay, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.679 that that year we went down to Chicago and everybody 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.200 was freezing. How we went out there and performed, all right. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.240 So he's like, listen, I'm not giving us no reason, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.040 and my head coach made a guarantee, so I'm gonna 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.640 make sure that there is no reason or excuse for 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.200 us not to go out here and win this game. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.279 So shout out to him. He put the pressure on. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.359 He put his money behind everything that he's talking about. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.160 It is like, I'm going to do whatever I can 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.120 to get this team to win the Super Bowl, included 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.920 bring our own heating benches if we need to, all right. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.480 So he's cutting no corners in this. So shout out 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.200 to Jerry, and you know he's serious about it. Hey, mccraig, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.000 Ay mc craig, he was there that year. We went 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.960 to Chicago. We gotta the bus kit, we gotta bus kit. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.720 But then they cut off the hot water for the 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.719 shot afterwards, and we would take it. It was already, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.960 you know, close to below zero out there. They cut 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.760 off the heat in the showers. Man, boys couldn't even 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.840 take showers. Man. It was. It was one of those 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.520 deflating losses. Man, I was listen, you know, I went. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.359 I went to Chicago the next year. And it's not 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.400 that they cut it off. It was when it's that cold, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.800 you have to run that water for almost twenty four 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.400 hours for it to be warm, right, So of course 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.000 they didn't go to our side in the locker room 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.640 be like, yeah, we're gonna do the Cowboys a favor. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.159 So they was like, yeah, we let them figure this 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.840 out on their own. And that was some freezing. That 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.200 was probably the dirtiest I've been on the plane ride 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.880 back home because I was like taking up one of 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.800 those one of those kid washes. I just put the 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:36.520 twel under a little bit. Yeah yeah, hit some salt 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.720 the tie and he was going ahead, Yeah yeah, yes, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.400 so that because that's all you can do. I was 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.600 there that day too. That was ridiculous. Man. I think 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.880 it was Josh McCown. Josh McCown had one of them 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.200 crazy days man as the quarterback. But I was, I 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.760 was woof and uh yeah, I made I made shoot it. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.840 I did not go back to Chicago unless I check 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.039 the schedule again because I was in December. Games like 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.560 you will not catch me. The Soldier Field and December 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.479 ever again, and I think they went back, maybe it 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.840 was two years ago. They went back and the weather 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.559 was nice. It was later in the year, but it 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.960 was not anywhere close to what it was before. So 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.520 the Cowboys get the win here, and I think we 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.000 can go ahead and act like hanging with the boys 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.800 in the break and just pat ourselves on the back 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.480 because yeah, you know, dude, the way they always like 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.120 to do that. But we were very right on the 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.440 players lines talking about what we thought the impact would 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:35.600 be and could be by getting Neville Gallimore, Tank Lawrence, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.720 Randy Gregory back and how it could help Michael Parson. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.320 The front seven was absolutely, absolutely ridiculously wicked. Just looking 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.560 at the game here, Washington three or fourteen on third day, 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.840 I'm twenty nine percent. Four turnovers for the defense. Six 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.680 possessions all right, there were fourteen possessions in the game 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.720 for Washington. Offensively, six of those possessions were three and 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.440 out seven punks. You could not really ask you defense 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.920 to do much more than they did yesterday. In my opinion, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:08.520 hit FedEx. Yeah, listen, the defensive one out there shout 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.200 out to taking lauds. Also, by the way, who's been 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.440 showing up for the last two weeks. Churches guy double Gallimar. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.360 He's been hyping them up since last year. Last season, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.480 A Church said Neuble Galliwar was gonna be one of 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.760 those big time players on the interior defensive line for us, 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.000 and he is showing out. I see the pull a 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.120 vita vea. It runs straight through the center. We want 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.120 to play right. Took it right back into the quarterback 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.240 Randy Gregory. I'd looked like a defensive back trade. Mound 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.080 Diggs is running off on everybody. Boys, I had getting 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.199 Tippins tipping it to him. So you got Michael Carson's 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.240 out here getting multiple sacks. The only thing that could 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.520 have went better, and is Anthony Brown capitalizing one of 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.920 those two interceptions that he had, all right, and then 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:50.800 let you know that, lets you know that he was 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.839 in position to make the plays. And I'll take a 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.040 PVU before I take a completed pass anything. So I 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.560 think we all around went out there and play and 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.520 as in game, unfortunately, we continue to take our foot 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.720 off the gas at the end and let these teams 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.160 rack up yards and get these trash touchdowns and make 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.240 the game a little bit more interesting. Than it should be. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.360 But our defense came to play yesterday and I'm starting 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.960 to see this attitude of like, we are going to 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.160 beat the unit to carry us deep into the playoffs, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.480 not the offense. I think they took offense to everybody 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.360 saying that as long as we had the middle of 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.560 the road defense that we would be okay. They're like, nah, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.520 we're gonna hold. We're gonna do more than that. We're 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.720 gonna we're gonna be the people who carry this team 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.800 into the playoffs and may then have to respect our 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.520 defense when they playing against and saying how they're gonna 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.679 beat us. You talked about that too, We talked about that, 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.880 We talked about the two on the shows that the 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:41.840 defense at this point time is gonna have to carry 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.800 this team. Right now, that's where they're at. Go ahead, Church. Yeah. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.600 I had to let Danny get that in there because 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.520 he was calling in front of the beginning. Man. He 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.920 called it definitely, you know back in March talking about 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.440 get dan Quinny and how he's gonna impact this defense. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.480 So definitely, hats off to dan Quinn. Danny called it right. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.120 This team, this defense, I mean, they're hitting off all 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.360 cylinders right now, and like you said, News, we talked 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.720 about it on the players lounge with the big three, Parsons, Gregory, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.119 and the law out there. It's like picking your poison offensively, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.320 Like if you slide the line one way, you're leaving 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.200 all these other guys with one on ones and then 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.600 they just Parsons and Lawrence that you're leaving one on ones. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.560 If you decided to slide the line to Gregory, like 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.360 you said, you got Neville Gallimore in there. Oh, Digizua, Calos, Watkins. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.920 They're so deep on the defensive line it's ridiculous. I 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.680 mean you could literally have a fresh set of defensive 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.199 lineman rotating there and the play might drop off a 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.360 little bit, but not significantly. So this defense is rolling 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.360 right now. Like you said, Randy Gregory picked off right 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.320 where he left off. I mean he had five sacks 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.520 going into that and then he had injured Mystery Weeks, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.959 came back, got another sack, forced fumble, got another pick interception. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.720 The guy is all over the place and would impressed 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.000 me the most about this defense. In this secondary it 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.440 was like you said, everybody was in position. There was 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.760 nobody you know, busted coverages. You didn't see anybody complaining 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.720 important fingers. Everybody was there where they needed to be, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.520 and even if Washington was able to make the play 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.880 or make a catch, it was contested. There was no 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.240 yards after the catch. And what a job Diggs did. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.640 Or scary Terry McLaurin. I mean that matchup I thought 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.119 was gonna be a little scary for us. But three targets, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.360 zero receptions for McLaurin until he got hurt. I mean, 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.400 this dude, he did what he hasn't done all season. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.319 We know he's good for the interceptions. We know he's 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.320 good to jump on something, to break on the pass 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.600 or anything like that. But he literally got in mcclaurin's 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.560 face and locked him down. He shadowed him with right left. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.640 Wherever mcclorin was, Diggs was right there in his hip pocket. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.280 And I would love to see more of that as 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.240 the season progresses. But this defense, man, You're right, mcfraidy. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.280 They're carrying the squad right now and right now, this 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.640 is the formula for success. But I don't know if 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.440 it can last too much longer when we start playing 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.960 better teams. We think Dig's gonna get a second contract. Now, Yeah, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.280 he was right. He was right, nude, he was right. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.360 Listen the way that Digs is playing right now, he 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.400 continues this for the next couple of years. Yes, he 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.480 will get he will get a a second contract. And 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.280 that's easy. That is easy if dan Quinn is here. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.240 Everybody on the defensive getting second contracts, all right, everybody, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.480 because everybody has elevated their game. What did I tell 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.120 y'all about Tank? Give him the same time that the 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.600 other players on the team have had with dan Quinn, 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.880 who is a defensive line specialist. Give him that same 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.440 time and see what take Lawrens you get. And we 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.679 are getting the Tank Lawrence that the Cowboys paid for. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.480 And I can only imagine as he continues to get 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.360 his feet under them and continues to get in football shape, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.920 how good he's going to look. This is going to 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.840 be an amazing defense. We have an opportunity to be 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.480 something really, really special on the defensive end. And I 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.079 think that that one has to go to dan Quinn, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.280 but two has to go to the players for buying 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.200 in as well. Agree with a one hundred percent one 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:53.280 hundred percent And I want to emphasize this very much 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.480 and taking nothing away from what Tank and Randy Gregory 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.680 did in the defensive defensive in spots because they were fantastic. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.520 But you saw what Neville Gallimore could do as a 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.439 defensive tackle and why I was I was talking about 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.160 how good he had looked at camp, but he was 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.680 their best interior defensive player. How he was moving that 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.040 center around. I mean, and plus he had those those 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:20.679 sweet air Jordans on he got the right right, I mean, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.680 so you got him on the center. Next thing, you know, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.559 they got Michael Parsons, you know, going in blue, you know, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.920 blitzed off his hit pocket. I mean, that's what happens 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.880 when you can can have a presence up front that 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.880 interior line. The Gibson here was his numbers. Ten attempts, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.400 thirty six yards. Man, that's what he did. They just 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.880 as a team. Washington had twenty three touches for one 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.880 hundred yards. But you and I saw it. There was 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.840 nothing affective. They couldn't get their run game going at all. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.439 And Gibson last year was I think he had his 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.959 two career highs against the Cowboys. So they shut that down, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.840 and once you saw that, it allowed in my opinion, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.080 once you shut the rundown, now they got to throw it. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.199 And this is where you saw a tank. You saw Randy, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.120 you saw Parsons. I mean, I poor kid out there, man, Taylor, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.000 How Dicky saw ghost? I mean maybe literally they beat 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.800 him up. He had to leave the game, and that 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.960 Sackra Parsons came in and picked him up and put 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.840 him down. I mean that was vicious, man, that was vicious. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.880 It was definitely filthy how they did it. And and 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.800 like you said, last year, Antonio Gibson, he rushed for 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.800 two hundred and forty three yards and I think three 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.080 or four touchdowns against US in two games. And then 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.920 this year you fast forward it to what we got 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.960 going on now. That combination of Neville Gallamore, oh, Dicky Zua, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.160 Carlos Watkins, I mean, Tristan Hilling there, that interior defensive 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.880 defensive line right there, it really sewed it up and 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.280 it allowed like you said that the line depending their 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.760 ears back. What are you gonna do when you have 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.840 a package like that where you got the Law on 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.040 one side, Gregory on the other side, pinning their ears back, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.560 you got Michael Parsons just rolling in the front line. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.960 You don't know where he's gonna pressure or where he's 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.240 gonna come. It just leave too many one on ones 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.280 for the offensive mind. And if you don't get that 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.160 ball out quick. I mean, these guys are hunting. They're 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.360 head hunting out there, and it's a scary sight. Matsten. Listen, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.240 and I'll say this one of the biggest differences that 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.800 you that it's been so obvious when Tak Lawrence and 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.760 when Randy Gregory were not in the game and you 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.080 watch the other teams playing on how they were going 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.960 to attack us in the run. They were attacking the edges. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.320 People were not standing outside. You would see runs break 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.640 outside all the time because you would see the deepest 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.720 of ends give a little nose and they would peek 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.040 inside and then the room will pop outside for eight 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.640 to ten yards. You were not seeing that anymore. You 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.160 got two veteran guys out here who are playing their 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.360 responsibility and rushing the passer. And I'll say this for 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.280 the defense Church. You named all those guys right, all 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.440 of the Carlos backingsas Tristan's Hills. Right. When you have 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.600 a defense that is playing this way, that puts the 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.400 onus on those guys, those rotational guys to come in 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.240 and make sure that they play up to the standard. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.160 Right when you looked at it last year, there was 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.000 no standard for the guys to come in and blow 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.640 them too. Now, when you start saying stuff like, hey man, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.320 we got a guy like Parcels, we gotta pub like 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.000 we got a guy like Tank and Rander Grandy Gregory, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.160 When when those guys come in the game, they know 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.160 what's expected of them. And I think you can see 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.240 that through the entire secondary, through the linebackers, and you 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.520 can see another the defensive line. I really, I just 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.520 think it's it's it's a total one eighty from what 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.360 we saw last year. And that's that's the exciting part 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.080 about it. All. Right, let's take our first break. There's 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.360 a game ball I want to give give out and 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.720 fans out there won't really notice it, but I know 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.560 when I mentioned who it should go to, Danny and 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.880 Barry will say yes. And what's going on with Dak Prescott? 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.360 Is it mental? Is that what's going on? Possibly decision making? 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.240 Let's dive into that next on the Players brought to 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.560 you by Hotels dot Com. 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