WEBVTT - Players Lounge: Anyones Division 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:07.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:09.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:12.879 Cowboys. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:19.720 This is the Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:25.080 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:30.360 Anthony Dorset, Demntrey More and Newi Scrugs. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:40.599 Welcome to. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:45.240 Players. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.000 Loud Man, WHOA, what A, what A, what a funny 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.040 funny funny second man. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.120 I am your host, Jesse Holly. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.480 I am accompanied by the great men that freak with 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:57.880 this show every single day. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.480 I'm in for Newie. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.240 You have Demontree Moore, you have Barry Church, you have 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.120 Anthony dor set in the back of Chris Beam making 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.160 this all possible. The segment is brought to you by 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.000 Aristocrat Fellas. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:12.559 Big Game this week. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.040 Big game this week for the Cowboys taking on the 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.080 Carolina Panthers, the third time in the row. The Cowboys 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.800 are taking on the Panthers, and it's very rare that 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.640 you have to go to a team three years in 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.759 the row that's not in your division. The Cowboys travel 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:32.479 up to Charlotte coming off a very convincing win against 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.240 the New York Football Jets. But before we get into that, 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.240 before we talk about Carolina Panthers football. There was a 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:46.000 big game that went on last night, Philadelphia Eagles. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:52.280 And I wasn't here yesterday. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:57.600 The Philadelphia Eagles lost to the New York Football Giants. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.560 I'm assuming I'll give him the I'm assuming that you, 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.600 Demontrade picked the Giants to beat Philadelphia. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.400 Uh, how do you feel about that this morning? 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:10.760 Are you? 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.600 Is this a show of always want to see the 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:19.679 Philadelphia Eagles. Uh, see demise, see failure, see them get 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.280 belt to taeil put on them. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.360 No, this ain't that type of show. Not me. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.240 I ain't no hating my blood. You gotta gotta call 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:31.119 it how it is. And all I'm saying it feels great. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.600 It feels great. It's the top is so lonely, you know, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.400 when you're the only one that picks scatter boot I 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.600 mean the Giants. I'm sorry, But as far as that, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.679 I'm just happy because you know, I've been getting a 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:42.640 lot of ridicule. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:43.160 I was. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.760 They know what happened. They was there, they were there, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.160 We won. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.160 So all I'm gonna just say is, hey, that's a 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.000 great game by the Giants the Eagles. You know, hey, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.240 when you see a wounded elephant. You gotta pounce on it. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.680 And you had two hungry hyenas. You didn't have no 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.800 no lions over there a hyena. They more ferocious, but 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.120 they haven't lun while they do it. And I've seen 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.360 that within Jackson Dark and Cam Scataboo or should I 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.400 say aka is Halloween season? 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:10.520 It's bou season. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.600 Mister Scatt is out there showing that he was a 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.760 scat packed last night, and I just love what I say. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:18.639 It's okay, Barry keeps shaking your head. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.560 Does this give you, guys the feeling because two weeks 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.360 ago we may have all felt like this division was 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.480 Philadelphia's to win or to lose, right and it was 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.320 kind of always like, man, what do we have to 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.480 do to kind of get to close that gap? Does 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.960 this feel more after what you saw last night from Philadelphia? 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.480 A lot of people are saying Philadelphia are collapsing, They're 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.120 falling apart. Do you guys now feel like and this 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.040 thing is wide open? This is anyone's division right now? 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:54.119 Or is Philadelphia still in the doghouse? We'll start with you, Barry. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.560 Nah, I feel like this is still Philadelphia's division. I mean, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.600 this is the same squad, you know, two and two 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.920 last season, and they turned around ripped off what thirteen straight. Now, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.600 granted that team last year was healthy defensively and offensively, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.600 they had a Sakuon Barkley that I was just ripping 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.800 off a hundred yard games after a hundred yard games. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:11.600 So it's a. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.720 Different season, and you know, you got to update your 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.000 resume each and every year. But I still believe, you know, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.040 with a four and two record right now, a win 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.560 against the Cowboys like this, this this Philadelphia team still 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.760 you know, is in the captain's chair when it comes 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.680 to this division. But what I will say is you're 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.919 looking at a guy at the receiver position number eleven, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.120 aj Brown that if they don't get some type of 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.320 I don't know, some type of something with this guy, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.680 he's gonna he's gonna single hair handedly tear down this 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.840 this this team and this philosophy and their identity. I mean, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.480 when you look at it, the guy pout last year, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.160 we all get it. They won a Super Bowl, winning 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.799 covers up all that. Once again, you pouting and pouting 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.880 and pouting. Their whole philosophy, their whole identity has changed 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.719 just because one guy's over there, pounting about not getting 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.760 the football, and that's spreading because now you see Davonta 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.120 Smith over there, he's he's in his feelings a little bit, 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:02.680 am I not getting the battle. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:03.440 Ultimate team got. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.920 It's spreading out through everybody. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.880 It's like kind of like I don't want to call 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.840 him a disease, but what he's going out there is 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.880 is kind of spreading like a disease, and it's bringing. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.839 Now you got team meetings. We're only three people are 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:15.799 invited to the meeting. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.040 I don't know. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.359 My man is my man is out here tearing his 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.360 team down. Man, they're not even running on first down. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.120 But why do we know about the team? Why do 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.880 we know about that meeting between the three of them? 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.760 And to begin with like that should have never got 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:35.200 outside that whoever did but still at that point supposed 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:35.520 to have. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:38.840 Here the worst said, he don't know nothing about. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.479 It, don't know now, he don't know. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.640 He don't recall, man, But. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:46.920 Last night he's like, I don't recall. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:50.960 In the process of us trying to fix some things 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.400 in house, nobody should have ever knew outside. We shouldn't 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.479 even be talking about that meeting right now. That should 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.480 have been something that we heard about later on if 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.360 it got fixed or if it didn't get fixed. Right, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.040 second of all, like we're looking at Philly and we're 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.080 judging them off the team that they were last year. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.520 They have a lot of same people, but they lost coordinators. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.799 They lost major pieces with coordinators, and so right now 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.080 like last year, you know, and those coordinators went on 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.599 to become head coaches, so they are obviously great coordinators. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.320 So right now we're looking at the situation and we're 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.320 looking at what's going on. Whereas, Okay, the timing of 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.600 AJ Brown's like whole pouting and like being out in 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.560 the public the time, you ever, couldn't have been any 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.400 better because they weren't flowing on anything. They didn't have 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:33.880 no rhythm going to offense, period. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.400 Was it with the run game? This game? Passing game 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:36.800 this time? 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.479 And so they were just still finding ways to win 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.960 because they're the Eagles, you know what I'm saying. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.040 So like as of right now, like and. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.880 Just from you know, we didn't heard it, we didn't 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.240 see it, and now it's all coming to fruition. Just 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.279 like you said, it's happening outside, it's happening on game 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.679 day now, you know, what I mean, and unfortunately aj 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.280 Brown kind of looks like the scapegoat. But it's something 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.159 more so in with just getting used to know I 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.480 think more so them getting used to some more new 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.840 play calling, new coordinators, and just new systems being put 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.720 into as well trying to find themselves. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.240 I'm sending it to you, Demontrey and asking the question 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.160 for the Cowboys if you're looking at this division. And 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.720 I talked about this on Hanging with the Boys. I 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.840 watched the Giants last night. Looked like they found some energy, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.480 some belief. I felt like the energy was back when 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.240 the Giants was all celebrating. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:34.240 Remember Dipseid had. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.240 The song balling Ye Remember the energy that Giants team 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.400 and you can feel how you feel about Philadelphia. Are 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.160 they collapsing? Are they not collapsing? They still on the 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:48.040 driver seat, They're not driver's seat. But would now be 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.720 a good time for the Cowboys to look at this 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:58.360 open division and say, what can we do to ensure 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.440 that we put the players in place and fill up 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.480 some of the holes that we may have to find 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.760 ourselves in a better position when it. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.600 Comes to winning this division, Because that's the. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.080 First right right, The part is win a division, try 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.960 to get home field advantage, make. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.680 It to the playoffs. Sa da da da da da 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:18.880 da da da. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.400 Do you feel like this is the parody across this 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.400 division right now? Should make the Cowboys step out of 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.360 their comfort zone and say we need to be active 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.640 around that time of November fourth when the trade deadline hits. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.480 Man, that's a phenomenal question. And in a. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.280 Nutshell yeah, if I'm the Cowboys and I'm a player 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.480 and I'm a coach, it it gives you that optimistic 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.560 to optimism to sit there and say like, Yo, this 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.480 is our time, because I'm kind of like there right now. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.360 The football side of me and the player in me 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.480 is like, Yo, this is still the Eagles Division because 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.600 this is a team that went on that streak like 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.200 they did because remember less year, people were saying, hey, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.240 this might not be the mix. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.080 We got to get this person out of there. Oh, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:04.480 we got to. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.120 Get that person out of there, and then they went 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.760 on to do what they did. If I'm the Cowboys 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.439 right now, the way that for is rolling, the way 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.880 that his status is going, and there they gradually gotten better. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.040 Might not be as fast as everybody want to, but 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.439 they've getting they've gotten better each. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.040 Week, weekend and week out. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.520 And for the Giants to come in here and do 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.080 what they did against the Eagle, I'm saying. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.240 Oh, he's human. Oh that is real blood over there. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:29.880 That ain't it? 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.840 Ain't you know how when you watch the movies back 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.240 in the day Hercules and when he had he couldn't 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.160 get cut. But then once he became a human and 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.560 it was like, oh, snap, you bleed just like I do. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.480 The Cowboys should be looking at saying, hey, Philly bleeds 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.800 just like we do. They are the Super Bowl champions, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.680 they have all this going for theself, and not only 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.760 are they beatable, but let's get past the fact that 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.200 they're beatable. Let's go back and use what they said. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.760 Everybody was ridiculing the Eagles last year. Oh, y'all spent 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.120 all this money in free agency, y'all did this and that, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.320 and y'all not going to the Super Bowl. To all 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.160 of a sudden, they struck on the strike when was good. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.000 If I'm the Cowboys, I'm gonna say, hey, we got 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.520 the number one offense right now, if we can score points, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.200 we just got to fix it over here and we 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:11.080 can do what they did. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:12.480 People was talking about us at. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:16.800 The beginning with Michael Parson's defense getting bombed over bag that. Well, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.560 guess what, you can't truly have that success and embrace it. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.800 That division that's been going on. Right now, now they're 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.560 starting to get synergy, or at least that if I 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.400 was a coach, I would come in there and tell 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.960 the Cowboys, let's start doing this right here. Let's really 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.120 start blending, because we can do this right here. We 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.240 have all the pieces. We're right there. We're only one 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.640 or two plays away from doing this thing to build 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:38.400 that momentum. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.320 But we can be like the Eagles. We can have that. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.760 Hoorah because they've been having the number one offense all year. Now, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.120 if the defense starts actually playing good, you go from 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.640 being the middle of the pack ranked sixteen and some 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.839 poles twenty five and some poles to being a top 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.920 ten team right there. Just fixing that by those little 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.480 bitty mistakes. So it's still time in this. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:00.920 Andy. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.280 Do you believe do you do you believe now? Do 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.840 you believe that the Cowboys will move in that type. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.280 Of energy you know they have? 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.880 They called a pregnant pause. That was that might have been, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.600 that might have been a double pregnant pall. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:20.800 Right. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:25.680 Then the whole thing about it is like, first and foremost, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.160 like what what what? 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.800 What players out is out there? 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.640 It's like that right now, And if that dude is 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.520 sitting at home, there's a reason he's sitting at home, right, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.959 so you know. And and structurally with the Cowboys need 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.559 more so than anything, is they need help on defense somewhere. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.920 And it could come in a big bang at any 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.040 level at this moment. It wouldn't matter if it was 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.240 a d line, a linebacker or the secondary. And so 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.040 when you when you think about that, and you have 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.960 to really consider, like we're sitting in here, we're all 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:54.560 former players. 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:55.600 Who's sitting at home. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.679 Well, there's a possibility of the trade. So like so like, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.520 do you believe that the Cowboys will will move in 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.400 that way? They haven't necessarily. The last I guess to 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.120 me was the big trade is I don't know who 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.280 the hell allowed them to coach. Prince was like, hey, yeah, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.600 let's do this Viraceiver by committee thing back in twenty 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.440 eighteen or whatever that was, and they were like yeah, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.679 Alan hearn and yeah, and it was. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.839 Like, yeah, that's not gonna work. Hey, Omar. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.480 You went out of oaklandright, We'll send the first and 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.079 we got Amar and it worked out for the tom Beams. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.719 But what all the picks the Cowboys currently do have, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.560 And that's the route that I'm talking about. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.280 I'm talking about that trade route. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:42.199 Yeah, Now, effectively, I would be looking for it, honestly, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.960 if I have the way the dak is playing right now, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.880 and if there could be some help to slow down 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.680 something on defense until where he doesn't have to worry 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.360 about putting up thirty one points a game, you know, like, yeah, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.280 I would definitely be looking for it. I'm Jerry Jones 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.679 at this point. I'm not me. I'm eighty something years old. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.800 Every year, if I got an opportunity to get out 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.520 there and try to make something happen, I'm swinging for defenses, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.040 and especially. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.760 Now I have the collateral to be able to do it. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.160 And then if it doesn't happen now, I still prayerfully 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.760 and hopefully have this upcoming draft to be able to 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.600 spread it out as well. But yeah, yeah, if I'm here, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:19.240 I'm going forward. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:19.960 Yeah. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.360 My only thing is I could see because offensively, you 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.480 can play with anybody in the league. I mean, they've 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.440 proven that you know the offensive line no matter who's 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.000 in there. I forget the heck or the offsive line coach, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.760 but he's done an amazing job. Clayon Adams has done 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.319 an amazing job of just whoever is plug and play, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.480 we're gonna work as a unit. Wide receivers, you've seen, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.520 without your top dog, one of the top receivers in 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.600 the National Football League, you're still able to put up 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.760 forty burgers on teams. So the way Dak Prescott is playing, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.840 like y'all said, offensively, you can play with anybody, but 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.400 the defense, the defense is the question mark. And for me, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.559 I could see if you were just that one piece away, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.280 like if you were just an edge rusher away, or 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.559 a linebacker away or safety corner one piece away, then bang, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:03.360 I would be. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:03.720 All with it. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.600 Let's go ahead, and let's let's go in there. Put 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.360 the first round up there, let's trade them, let's see 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.440 what we can get for them. But in my opinion, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.480 on the defensive side of the football, you're plenty at 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.960 pieces away from from being a top notch unit out there. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.520 When you look at it, yeah, maybe you can stop 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.720 the run, but then we've also seen you get bombed on. Yeah, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.640 maybe you're slowing down the bombed on. But when you 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.360 look at Breist Hall's numbers last week, he was gashing. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:25.960 You know that the. 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.560 Turnovers was a difference for the defense last week. So 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.920 for me, the young guys that are going in there 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.120 at the linebacker position, you know, the guys that you 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.480 had in the defensive tackle, they're starting to come along 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.600 a little bit. You've seen guys like James Houston, Solomon Thomas, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.680 these depth pieces is on the defensive line just starting 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:43.960 to create a little bit of pressure out there. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.040 Dante Foul was starting to come alive just a little bit. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.880 And I loved what I saw from the linebackers from 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.080 Maryslea Foul and Shamar James. Last week, Jamar Jane fifteen 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.520 tackles forced some fumbles out there. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.040 So I'm gonna let that cook a little bit. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:57.760 I'm gonna let that cook a little bit and see 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.880 if those young guys can you give us the de 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.040 It's a little bit of juice. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.960 But if you was just one piece away, like I said, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.000 if you was just one then yeah, go ahead and 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:05.320 put it. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.520 But I just feel like you're more than just one 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.560 piece away from making this defense, a championship caliber defense. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:12.840 In my p. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:19.160 So, let me let me just bring it up. If 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.200 Mike was still here with it be like that, No. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.680 I'd be a totally different story. Yeah, I ain't gonna 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:24.400 hold you on that one. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.000 I feel like if Michael was still in the building, Yeah, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.960 you yeah, there would be a less because, you man, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.360 we got the pass us now we just need back 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.320 end or you know, maybe lying back in here and there. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.200 But yeah, that's that's that's the game changing piece. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.440 Yeah, that's the that's the that's the changing piece that 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.320 you that's not here right now. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:44.760 I get you saying that. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.680 Obviously you're talking about from a perspective of a football 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.560 player just being out there, but this ain't just that. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.280 We're at the level now to where it's not just football. 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.560 It's not just ex's and o's. It's the front office, 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.120 it's the coaches, it's the parameters, the it's the playing 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.800 the game within the game that people don't see showing 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.440 up to work early during those meeting times, having that 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.160 cohesiveness and that synergy when you bring Michael back into 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.680 the fold. One of the things that people kept saying 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.680 was our little rumors here and there was that there 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.400 might have the team wasn't yelling together and stuff like that. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.240 So do you think if Michael was still on the 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.040 team that people will be playing to the best of 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.560 their abilities? Do you think, for do you think the 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.800 whole offense will still be smoking like that? 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.160 And do you think that the defense would be like that? 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.880 Because we also know how close Micah and Trayvon Diggs 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.320 work together. If Trayvon's not playing and Trayvon say he 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.720 complains about man the man Cover three playing like that, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.000 do you think Michael be here saying, oh, yeah, we 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.120 need to do what he says. 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:47.600 And now the whole system. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:48.920 It ain't so much about the person. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.040 It's more so much about the talent that's it so like, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.360 it wouldn't matter if it was him per se, It's 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:55.720 just if that talent was here. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.360 No, I get that, That's why, But I was asking 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.440 about everything else that bodies that come with that, because 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.240 we all know plenty of team prime example Miami, they're 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.560 down there, they have a lot of talent, and they 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.600 still haven't been able to turn over because for whatever reason. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.200 So I'm asking about the other part that comes into 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.680 football because people don't realize, like they come to the 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.800 players loundes to figure out our perspective all the stuff 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.680 that you're playing with inside that game. Do you think 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.640 everything that comes on with Micah that this team would 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:25.680 be better off with. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.400 Him or ye, the better with him? 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.040 Just a talent perspective, and when you look at it 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.680 from leadership perspective, I mean, they got one of the 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.080 ultimate leaders in the building, and that's Dak Prescott. When 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.959 you look at Miami, even though they got talent, they 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.280 got wild, they got healed, they got who's the guy 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.760 that's like, all right, galvanizing all the troops. I mean, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.359 if it show, it ain't too a you know what 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.720 I mean, they don't. From what you see down there, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.719 they look like they don't respect too out there in 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.720 my opinion. But when you come here to Dallas, yeah, 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.679 Michah and me. You know, he might have had his 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.040 little spats here and there, but I feel like Dak 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.280 was that calming factor for everybody. And I feel like 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.480 if you had a talent like Micah still in the building, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.440 I mean, his play on the field alone would justify 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:07.400 all the other stuff. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:07.840 It might be. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.959 We all understand, if you're playing good, then all right, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:13.600 let's take our. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:14.320 First break of the show. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.640 When we come back, we'll get into the Carolina Dallas 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.399 matchup this week. Is some of the things that the 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.600