WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Glass Half…? 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:04.960 The following. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.960 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:08.720 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.760 Cowboys. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.079 This he is Talking Cowboys Screaming live. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.280 From the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:31.800 Second pus dot Tix, Touchdown and now your hosts, Isaiah Standback, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:36.640 Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.519 It's a Talking Tuesday, Enter of Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.519 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.560 Texas and the SWBC studios. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.120 Normally today we would. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.919 Be taking calls, but that's not the case because we 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.480 have two of the best in the Dallas media scene 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.680 filling in on this bye week. Pleasure to welcome in 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.760 back on the Talking Cowboys team for the first time 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.600 and quite some time, but glad to always have him back, 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.600 the one the only Brian brought us the Scouts, I himself, Brian, 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:08.479 Welcome to the show. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.720 Thank you very much, Kyle, and very good to be 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.440 with you guys. We have got a lot of former safety. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.800 Barry Church here, certain this is true, a lot of 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.520 a lot of enthusiasm. I like this. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.759 Oh yeah, Derek is usually very kind of low key 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.200 and then boy, you just kind of just gonna jump 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:23.679 right in there. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:24.080 I like it. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.039 See, here's the thing there was There was once a 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.160 wise man who his name is David Hellman. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:29.920 He David Hillman. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:31.800 He told me one of my best traits is my 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.319 big booming radio voice. There you go, and he said, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:35.880 use it. I was like, all right, it sounds good, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.640 so I'll use it. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.160 Dave knows what he's talking about. Oh yeah, he definitely does. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:40.280 But good to have you boys back. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.200 Of course, I've gotten the pleasure and opportunity to do 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.160 the Draft show with you since twenty twenty. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:46.839 I've been on pregame. 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.240 Shows and postgame coverage with Barry Church since twenty twenty. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.400 So we're all very accustomed to being around each other, 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.280 and in a time like this, I think this is 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.600 important that Cowboys fans are around each other. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.000 Yeah, and are together because it was rough on Sunday. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.720 Hey, gentlemen, and I want to start things off by 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.760 getting your opinion on scouts eye and former players. I 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.000 want to go through for those who may not have 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.720 heard you on the break and on Players Lounge yesterday, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.959 I want to hear your opinion about what happened in 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.560 the forty seven and nine beat down the Detroit Lions 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:16.480 handed you on Sunday. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.240 Yeah, I think there's a couple of different ways that 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.000 you can start. You were going to be shorthanded in 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.440 this game defensively, so you had to kind of find 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.520 a game plan maybe offensively that can tailor in a 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.000 tailored in a way that you could kind of try 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.840 and score along with him and hope for the best 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.880 that maybe you get a stop, maybe you get a 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.480 golf mistake, maybe you know, something happens, you get a return, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.000 a kickoff return, upont return, something like that to kind 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.320 of keep you in that football game. But when you 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.600 couldn't move the ball offensively or really establish anything. You know, 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.119 you don't run the ball well enough. That's no secret. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.680 You know, you kind of win a different little bit 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.520 of an angle the way you tried to run the ball. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.680 And when you did try to run the ball, the 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.600 Lions did a pretty good job of shutting you down 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.800 that way. So now it became in turn into a 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.240 throwing game, and that's kind of where I felt like 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.160 it was going to be. You know, if you were 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.880 able to handle if you were able to handle Aiden Hutchinson, 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.600 their first four games they had not really nobody else 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.760 had really got any pressure. And so now you're in 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.799 a situation where you're thinking, okay, handle Aiden Hutchinson. You 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.840 look in the game that you know Christy scalees in 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.600 our pregame show on one O five three, the fan says, oh, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.160 Tyler Smith start a left tackle today. Ah, okay, here 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:25.839 we go. Now we're going to take care of that side. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.079 When Aiden Hutchinson goes. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.040 Over to the other side, we got that squared up. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.400 Now we've got to figure out how to block the 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:31.960 other side. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.240 And what we didn't account for in that game was 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.800 that Zach Martin struggled and then Steele also struggled as 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.280 well in that game, and then your quarterback, you know, 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.760 you got a little banged up in the game with 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.760 the hand. There were some poor throws, there were some 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:52.200 turnovers unfortunately, and you just really couldn't generate anything enough, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.760 and you know it was going to be difficult even 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.000 at full strength. I believe this defense would have had 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.800 a struggle stop Detroit's offense. You're the only chance you 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.680 had in this game, in my opinion, was if you 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.040 turned it into a shootout and Dallas never could make 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.720 it a shootout game, and now I think that's really 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.280 where this scene came down to. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:13.920 It's just a difficult cover. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.080 It's a difficult It's difficult when you don't have a 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.720 whole lot of confidence playing run defense. This team presents 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.240 a lot of problems with their their scheme, their run, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.679 the way they throw the ball, the in cut routes. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.120 It's a and heck, you know, give them credit, they 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.560 hadn't really shown all year about throwing a vertical ball. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:33.600 Hit two of money. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.960 So that that kind of a lot of things that 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.400 I just went through. But that's kind of where going 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.040 into it. And then as the game unfolded, it showed 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.799 up even more as you as you started to watch. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.880 Yeah, from you know, my perspective, and I think broadest 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.000 one hundred percent right when you look at it, this 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.360 team got handled in the trenches. You know, it got 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.839 handled in the trenches. That's where it started. And to me, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:57.760 like what you just said, even if they were at 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.800 full strength, you had a Parsons, you had a d Law. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.560 They're going against Detroit, who has arguably the best offensive 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.919 line in the National Football League. I mean, they have 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.000 a great mix of young and upcoming guys that are 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.600 just about to hit their prime, as well as a 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.560 group of veteran guys who've seen pretty much every defense 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.840 out there. So they're playing as a unit out there 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.560 protecting golf and as well being able to run the football. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.280 And it doesn't hurt that they have, you know, that 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.120 monstrous duo in the backfield with. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:23.520 Montgomery and Gibbs. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.320 But when I looked at this game, I mean, the 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.200 line of scrimmage, as soon as the ball was snapped, rundowns, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.160 whatever the case may be, it just changed. I mean 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.320 there was no penetration, there was no you know, getting 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.200 in the backfield causing chaos. Detroit was able to pretty 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.560 much do what they wanted to do offensively, and then 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.640 you started to see guys in the secondary press to 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.120 make plays. One of the pressing players I want to 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.000 talk about was, you know what is he went to 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:45.760 jump jam. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.279 On John Jamison Williams. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.280 You know, one of the fastest guys in the National 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:49.920 Football League. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.320 You missed there. There's no way you're coming back. It's 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:52.640 over with. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.040 So you started seeing guys press a little bit out 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.760 there defensively, and it just kind of snowballed from there. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.560 But because if you don't win in the trenches. I mean, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.400 as a guy I played this league, you you starts 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.839 up front, and if you're not able to win up front, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.480 it puts a lot of stress on the back end. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.080 And right now, not a fully fully strength or whatever 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.600 full strength the secondary is right now, they struggled a 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.800 little bit out there, So to me, the trenches were 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.520 one both sides of the football by Detroit, like you 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.800 just mentioned, still struggled a little bit. Zach Martin, you know, surprisingly, yeah, 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.160 struggled a lot in this game as well. But when 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.479 you look at Golf and how comfortable he was back there, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.440 I mean, he's one of those quarterbacks that you got 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.240 a roughfull his feathers a little bit, you got them 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.760 get them seeing goes back there getting happy feet, and 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.640 they weren't able to do that. I mean, he completed 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.320 one more pass than Dak Prescott, but we had almost 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.480 one hundred and fifty yards more. Right So, those that 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.680 tells me there's a lot of explosive plays going on 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.080 out there, and that's what this defense can't give up. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.240 You got to make them work the entire length of 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.200 the field. You can't give up a lot of explosives 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.840 and has what happened defensively and then offensively as we 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.680 saw that that connection just wasn't there between the passing 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.000 game or the run game, because I believe offensively you 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.320 gotta be balanced. You gotta be balanced in this game, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.000 and they weren't doing that as well. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.000 Yeah, one thing that Brian said, they're the kind of 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.680 stuck out to me. You said, golf mistakes. Yeah, he said, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.520 you were kind of hoping for a couple of golf mistakes. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.480 If there's anybody that knows about a golf mistake, it's 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.000 Barry Church once in a while. He knows about these 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.000 golf mistakes every once in a while. But it kind 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.800 of feels like the Cowboys wanted a mulligan, right instead 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.920 of having the golf mistake from Detroit side. Now they're 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.800 the ones that want the mulligan after what happened in 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.400 week six. You kind of felt that frustration a little bit. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.040 This morning on one to five three the Fan and 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.680 Jerry Jones talked to some of the questions that were 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.080 very fair all the way through. But I thought the 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.440 way that the outlined did it was very clear he's 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:33.600 not making a coaching change. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.680 No Mulligan there. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:36.920 You're not going to necessarily add a ton of talent. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:38.320 No Mulligan there. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.840 This is your team and you're gonna get some guys back, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:41.920 which is significant. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.200 But the way that that happened, it was frustrating. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.520 And you can kind of feel that a little bit 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:46.880 this morning. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.480 Yeah, you know, And and folks, let me be really 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.080 honest with you about this, Going into these interviews with 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.520 Jerry Jones or Steven Jones, sure there's a lot of 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.880 prep that goes into it. And I know fans could 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.440 be very critical of us at win O five three 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.880 the fan for not asking tough questions, you know. And 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.880 I think that throughout we've asked some tough questions, you know. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.040 I think that Jerry and Steven have done a really 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.480 nice job throughout of handling questions. Today was one of 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.800 those unfortunate days in my opinion, just because the frustration 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.120 level with Jerry the general manager. I think there was 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.240 a little bit, you know, Sean Sharif, who does a 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.240 really nice job, felt like he needed to press a 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:24.720 little bit. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:25.080 In this one. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.960 And you know, and Jerry, you know, he senses it, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.960 he senses you know, you know, nobody wants to be told, Hey, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.640 I'll go through all my issues, go through all my prompts. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.400 There are a lot of things that they have done 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.880 well here, but today was the first day that I 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.240 really was I felt poorly for really for both sides, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.560 because I think it was kind of unfair to Jerry 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.880 in that situation, how frustrated he is. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.199 But I think it was also unfair to Sean and 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:50.679 and Bobby. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.760 And too, and to uh, you know, into our Jay 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.679 with maybe some of the comments that Jerry made along 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.600 the way. I think I think, you know, we're trying 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.600 to press he's trying to kind of give his answer 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.640 his side, and you know, it's the first time that 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.840 I've seen Jerry really on air not be able to 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.320 handle it well. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:10.760 And but you. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.280 Know, there's a lot of pressure on him. There's a 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.200 lot of pressure on us to ask questions, and that's 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:17.840 what you're going to get when you get in that 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:18.480 kind of setting. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.160 Well, I think the pressure comes in the way that 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.200 the losses have happened too. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.120 Yeah, grand scheme of thing. You look at it in 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.120 your three and three. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:25.880 I think if you and if all three of us 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.840 were sitting at the table and we're going into the 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.720 bye week at three and three, we say, Okay, they 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.160 may have dropped the game, they probably shouldn't have, but 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:33.760 this is still a decent football team. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:34.839 This is still where we own. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.160 Way the losses have happened exactly, Yeah, and the way 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.960 it's the blowouts, it's down by twenty plus at halftime. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.840 It's those significant situations that have put a strain on 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.520 the fan base. I put a strain on this coaching staff. Yeah, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:49.959 I put a strain on the front office. And I 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.880 think you saw that a little bit today and bury it. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.960 You've been through some ups from downs with the Dallas Cowboys. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:56.439 Yeah. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.079 With all of that being said, I mean, where do 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.720 you feel like the temperature of the team is based 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.400 off of some of those those comments and really the 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.240 fan base as a whole frustrated through the first three 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:08.480 losses this season. 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:09.680 Well, when you look at. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.120 It, like you said, you know they're three and three 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.360 right now, you know you're still just one game out 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.240 of the division league. I mean, season is not a season, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.360 not over by any stretch of the imagination. The team 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.160 ahead of you is, you know, playing well, you're talking 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.400 about Washington, but they're also led by a rookie quarterback. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:23.679 Let's see if he can do it. You know, all 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.280 seventeen games to like ten weeks left, so we'll see 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:26.679 what happens. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:27.160 That's wild. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.560 There's a long way to go on way to go, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.320 and you still have all your goals up there. But 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.920 you know, I can understand, you know why, you know, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.360 Jerry might have been frustrated in this fan base could 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.320 be frustrated as well. You look at it from Jerry situation. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.800 You know, you pay your quarterback, you know, two hundred 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.920 and thirty something million dollars, the highest paid in the 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.080 National Football League history. You play your wide receiver number one, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.599 but is it top two money or top three money. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.600 Numbers money at his position? 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.000 And those two guys, who have you know, seemingly been 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.520 healthy throughout this season, haven't really connected. And you look 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.600 at that offense. You know they're turning the football over. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.840 You know, you're three of thirteen on third down, which 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.120 is the money down. You got to be able to 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.000 complete those things. And the red zone has been a 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:04.640 struggle this. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.120 Entire sist the whole time. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:07.920 So when you look at it, you look at you 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.720 your two highest paid players out there. These are the 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.360 supposed to be the guys that we look to when 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.120 things are getting struggling to write this ship, and right 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.960 now they're not doing that. So I can understand the 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.240 frustration level from a Jerry Jones. But when you talk 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.560 about the questions being asked, I believe that's you know, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.080 their job to do that. And you know, I understand, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.160 you know, them pressing the situation saying, hey, you know, 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.240 what do we got to do here? What's the situation there? 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.600 But I can also understand why Jerry was frustrated as well. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.840 Yeah, yeah, I mean, and I think Barry makes an 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.160 excellent point about you know, when you look at your 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.160 you need your best players. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.520 And I don't, and I don't look at his money. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:38.240 I don't. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.080 I mean, these players are paid what they're negotiated, you know, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.080 they they it's the front office makes the decision to 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.440 make DAC one of the highest paid quarterbacks. They make 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.440 the decision to make CD one of the highest paid. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.280 When you do that, though, it you know, you kind 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.480 of say, well, he's making sixty million dollars. Well, you know, yeah, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.800 he's making sixty million dollars. That's what they negotiated, you know, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.679 But how he plays that, that's what you need to 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.240 kind of focus on and when you know, when Zach 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.960 Martin doesn't plays particularly best, that hurts you. You Know, 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.560 when Terrence Steele doesn't plays particularly best, that hurts you. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.960 When Lamb doesn't play his best, that that hurts you. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.320 You know, the quarterback that hurts you. You know, there's 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.120 there's so many things that go into this and and 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.559 from the front office. And I can understand the frustrations 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.679 over there because I was on an organization here that 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.760 went five and eleven three straight years, and I understand. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.720 I get the feeling, you know, of the frustration from Jerry. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.280 I've seen Jerry mad before, and I've seen him really mad, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.880 so you know, I understand that hey trying to avoid that, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.680 but but you know, his frustration has to be that, like, Okay, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.240 my best players, my best players are not playing their 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.320 absolute best. And I think that's the thing that's first 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.840 because he's you know, yeah, sure, playing with you know, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.480 backup guys and playing with rookies and all that, you're 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.280 going to have some issues. But these guys that are 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.880 veteran players that you've earmarked as these are my guys 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.240 I'm taking care of, and I need them to play 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.160 at a high level all the time and they don't 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:08.560 do that. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.160 Boy, that's that's a hard pill to swallow. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.160 And that's kind of the big point that I take 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.560 away from that specifically, is you named guys that have 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.679 not missed time. Right, there are guys missing time. There's 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.600 going to be a drop off from your top guys 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:24.679 to your soci. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.440 Young linebackers had a handful the other day, all sorts 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.120 of They had a Harris Leamarve and overshown, they Clark. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.600 All those guys did what they could. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.079 But at the same time, they're not starters for a reason. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.280 They play sixteen to eighteen plays a game. They don't 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.160 play sixty five plays again, and a lot of those 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.960 are And what's going to happen to you is you 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.960 play sixty five plays a game and you normally play 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.200 sixteen to eighteen, You're going to make mistakes. You're going 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.640 to jump routes, you were going to jump out of 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.679 a hole, you were going to miss a tackle. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:54.400 You know. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.480 It's Mike McCarthy talks about it, and I do appreciate 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.960 as a former personal man, I do appreciate the fact 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.520 he really doesn't have a choice about playing young guys 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.160 because that's really all they've got right now. But he 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.640 talks about, you know, there's a lot of coaches that 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.160 would just play veteran guys that aren't good enough, you know, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.079 and they because and then the young guys don't. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:14.520 I'm okay. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.680 I'm not okay losing games like it happened to the 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.000 Lions of the Saints or the Ravens, but I'm okay 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.160 with the fact that these young guys are getting reps. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.200 I mean, I'm. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.040 Cooper Bebe is getting better about He's gonna get better 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.120 about picking up twist stunts inside. You know, Guidon playing 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.640 left tackle is going to get better with the more 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.040 work that he gets. He just hasn't played against anybody 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.680 that he's better than. Everybody that he's lined up against 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.240 has been better than him, you know, the gauntless. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.360 Yeah, so that you know, there doesn't get much. 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.120 There's things that you know, Mike McCarthy's kind of taken 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.920 a big picture approach about this about playing guys. Yes, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.880 he has to do it. Mike McCarthy is not guaranteed 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.760 the end of this year, you know. I mean, so 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.400 that's the problems that you kind of run into. Man, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.120 I do appreciate this about Mike is playing guys, you know, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.360 and saying, hey, we're going to stick with We're going 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.720 to the best chance they really had the other day, 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.120 in my opinion, they did it. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:05.760 They tried it. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.640 Moving Tyler Smith to left tackle was the best chance 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.920 they had because that solidified at least one side. The 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.680 right side of your offensive line wasn't good in that 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.360 football game the other day. You know, that was the 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.120 that was the issue with your offensive line. They tried 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.160 to say, listen, we can eliminate Hutchinson on the other 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.400 side against Smith, we can wash that. But now we'll focus. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.920 But they got in that game and the metrics will tao. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.240 They went single block eighty five percent of the time 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.080 with those tackles. Wow, the two tackles went eighty five 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.920 percent single blocks in that game. And that made me 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.840 question a little bit of like, wait. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.800 A minute, what are we doing? What are we doing? 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.600 But but but see to me, I look at I 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.720 look at Tyler Smith, and I understand him doing it. Yes, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.400 but still, but tern Stiell and Terren still is a 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.600 veteran guy. And Terren still, if you great him sixty 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.840 five plays, he has five bad plays a game, and 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.480 you're just hopeful that it's not five bad plays that 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.560 kill you in a drive or kill. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.120 You that could be five drafts killed. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.840 But they but these are Again, the point is Jerry's 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.200 frustration level has to be about guys that these ear 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.760 marked as these are my guys, this is my guy, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.360 this is my guy, this is my guy. He's not 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.160 getting the level of play out of that those guys that. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.000 He's ear marked. That's that's a problem. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.880 I completely agree, because if you're earmarking these benchmark, cornerstorm, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.680 cornerstone players of your organization, right and they're not playing well, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.880