WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Help on the Way? 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:21.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.440 Lounge broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:32.080 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.600 All Right, everybody, it is Tuesday, a player's day off, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.479 but it is the Players Lounge that is on. For 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.120 the next forty five minutes bot Hotels dot Com, I 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.560 will get a blow time Cowboys reporter joined by two 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.960 former Dallas Cowboys players. They were safeties and their times 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.520 here in the Silver and Blue. Talking about Danny McCray 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.040 and Barry Church. We have one full week of NFL 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:04.360 football played in this COVID pandemic, so congratulations to the 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.680 league forgetting it done. We had two games wrap up 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.520 yesterday from Monday Night Football. The Steelers take out the 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.000 New York Giants in game one, and then the second game, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.480 the Denver Broncos hosted the Tennessee Titans, with the Titans 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.520 ending up winning that game sixteen fourteen. All right, very 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.160 week one. What do you think and what you think 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.800 about the Monday Night games? Last game? Well, first of all, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.280 I'm gonna start out with this New York, this New 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.840 York game that they had out there. You know, I 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.399 thought our offensive line looked bad a little bit during 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.880 that Week one loss against the Rams, But I mean 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.280 we're nowhere near as treacherous as that New York or 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.399 New York Giants offensive line. Look. I mean, eleven out 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.840 of sixteen carries for Tae Kwon Barkley, he was hit 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.800 in the backfield. He didn't even get a chance to 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.440 get to the line of scrimmage to see what he 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.920 can do. I mean, so that just gives me a 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.960 more positive light towards this Dallas officive line because New 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.160 York looked horrendous. And Danny Dimes, I mean, he had 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.920 his flashing moments. I feel like Jason Garrett called a 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.000 pretty good game. He kept to steal his off balance. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.240 For the most part, it was just the mistakes made 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.280 by Danny Dimes towards you know they were They had 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.440 a nineteen play drive and then they got down to 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.320 the red zone. All he had to do was throw 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.200 the ball away. There was no one open. Yet. He 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.400 made a rookie mistake in his second year, and probably 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.120 that was a turning point of the game. So if 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.560 I'm in my outlook of that first game, it just 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.480 it goes down to the offensive line play again in 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:31.280 the trenches. It just looked horrendous. Yeah, same here, uh 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.200 from last night. I'll tell you this, Pittsburgh is on 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.200 our schedule and their defense ain't nothing to play with. 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.600 I'm telling you, if you're not ready to play and 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.800 you haven't schemed up ways to slow this defensive line 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.680 down this front seventh, they will eat you alive. So 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.280 we learned a little bit from them. Um, Like you said, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.880 Danny Downs made a huge mistake at at that nineteen 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.640 play drive which was which was it just killed? Um? 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.000 I honestly thought it was a good game. I feel 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.160 bad for sake one because if they don't block this season, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.040 he won't have many good stats. His games will look 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.560 very similar to those. He'll be lining up at the 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.800 ex receiver soon just so they can so they can 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.720 get them some getting the ball in his hands because 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.920 the offensive line is not blocking on the run. Um. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.600 But I thought it was a good game. Shout out 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.320 to Big Band for coming back, uh, you know, showing 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.280 showing that he still can do it, and Juju showing 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.040 that if he if he has a quarterback, then he 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.880 can still make plays. He doesn't need Ab. So it 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.600 was good to see see those two connect and big 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.200 being get out there and make some play. Hey, and 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.320 I know I don't say this much, but man, man 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.800 shout out to Toledo. Man. You see the young cat 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.280 out there, I say, Johnson, the wide receiver out there. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:47.840 I mean he looked like a young ab out there, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.240 quick as lightning. So they shout out to Toledo man. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.160 They produced sakes and wide receivers. You know. Just I was. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.880 I was nervous for him, man, because he started off 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:00.240 run though. Church. He started off, He started off real rough. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.720 I was like, man, here we go again. He ended 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.280 up he ended up pulling it out. Though he ended 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.960 it up pulling it out all right. For those of 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.840 you who don't know, Bury Church played football for the 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.920 Toledo Rockets. He doesn't ever talk about his Alba Art 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.920 love admiration that Danny does for LSU or I do 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.599 for USC Pembroke. So why is that Church? You never 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.600 you never really broke it down. Pullos man. I'm gonna 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.000 break it down, you know, for the listeners man, because Toledo. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.840 You know, like I went there. I played safety, strictly 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.880 safety my first two years. Man, I was a freshman 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.520 All American, all the first team, All MAC, all that 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.080 good stuff. And then my junior year they decide to 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:42.039 move me to this hybrid linebacker position. It just blew 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.000 my mind. I mean, I felt like I was playing 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.719 great as safety and then they moved me to this 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.200 hybrid linebacker position. For my last two years, still made 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.080 all MAC and all that stuff, but it was just frustrating, man, 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.600 Just just frustrating situation there. But you know, shout out 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.200 to Toledo, man, they do want to hide out there. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.240 So so you've made at the coaching staff, not the university. Yeah, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.919 I'm mad that coaches that, and the coaches have not 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.080 there anymore. So I gotta started showing some more love 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.240 to Toledo. But yeah, they didn't be dirty, man, they 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.480 didn't me wrong. You know what, Church, I look at 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.279 it this way, despite the adversity, look at what you've 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.760 done out of it. I mean, maybe it I'm not 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.920 saying it's a good case, but maybe if it was different, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.800 who knows how it would have worked out for you. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.520 Because you came to a situation with the Cowboys where 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.080 you were able to make the team as an undrafted 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.240 free agent. You ended up becoming a starter, and then 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.360 you got that big time, that big time deal out 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.440 of Jacksonville. So if you're drafted, maybe you don't you know, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.159 maybe it got you. I don't know, man, just it 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.560 just it just worked out, right, just worked out. This 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.440 is true. This is very true. I mean ended up 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.800 working out in my favor. So I guess I can't 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.919 be too mad. I just know at the time I 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.800 was pretty hot, and I figured that's the reason I 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.479 didn't get drafted. So but it ended up ended up 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.640 working out, like you said, you know, I just it 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.200 just took me a while to get over it. That's 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:58.440 all all right. That Tennessee Denver game, the once brilliance 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.640 of Stephen Gatskovski is gone. And it makes me think 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.040 one more time to how Bill Belichick truly understands how 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.240 to get rid of a football player a year two early. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.480 Because the miss kicks almost cost the Titans the football game, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.400 but they end up winning it sixteen to fourteen. That 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.120 that's what my big takeaway out of watching that as 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.200 a Tennessee's got to get themselves a kicker if they 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.600 want to go as far as they did last year, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.240 and they were one game away from the super Bowl 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.520 last season, losing they actually championship game to the Kansas 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.599 City Chiefs. Danny, your thoughts on that man? That game 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.200 came on so late. I forgot that it was yesterday. Yeah, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.160 it was, it was. It was. It was tough man 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.360 to see that guy missed those kicks. But I'll tell 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.400 you what, the coach still put it on him at 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.240 the end and showed him that he had confidence in 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.960 him to win the game. And he came out there 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.640 and he made the field goal. I tell Derek, Henry 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.719 is still a monster. He's going to be a problem 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.440 for the whole NFL and especially in that division. So 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.760 as long as they have him, they still have a 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.400 chance to win that division and be a contender in 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.760 the playoffs. Yeah. I can feel for Gustkowski right there. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.039 I mean you could just see the frustration in his eyes, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.920 his body language after those miss kicks. I mean, he 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.920 was able to go out there and redeem itself for 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.000 the game winner. But you just gotta feel for a 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.920 guy like that. And I'm with you Knui on this point. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.560 I mean, it goes to show you the genius of 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.119 Bill Bill Belichick, because right now he's looking really smart. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.000 I mean, he got rid of Gustkowski, he went out 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.640 there and Shanka Potamus everything. Then he got rid of 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.120 Tom Brady, who he had a decent game, but he 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.280 didn't look like the Tom Brady of old. And then 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.520 he went and got on a flyer with Cam Newton 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.440 for you know, Vet minimum. And he looks like a 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.200 genius the way he's out there doing it right now. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.320 So kudos to Bill Belichick on that one. Hold on, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.000 hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Here we 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.440 go with Bill Belichick. Okay, would you rather would you 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.880 rather have? I listen, and though we take out they 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.480 went to the Super Bowl last year and all this, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.000 would you rather have Cam Newton or Jimmy G on 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:58.600 your team? Right now? Cam Newton? Because they definitely because 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.320 Bill Belichick definitely wanted Jimmy G. That was the air apparent, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.840 right so you know, he could have been stuck with 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.000 Jimmy G and Cam Newton could have been somewhere else. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.720 So as much as he does know, I think this 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.960 worked out for him. In that case, it's still worth doubt. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.720 I couldn't see that bottom lines, It still worked out. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.480 And for Bill Belichick. You think about nine too Boll 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.960 appearances and six six Super Bowl wins, it has worked 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.000 out for very much in his favor. So, um, you 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.120 got to get Bill the benefit of the doubt. Absolutely, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.800 you look at these things, are you gonna miss on something? Sure, 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.400 everybody misses, but he's clearly hit on more than anyone 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.960 that I've seen in my years of covering football. And 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.960 I covered Bill Belichick when I was in Cleveland before 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.160 when the Browns ended up leaving town here. So you 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.440 could have never told me he would have the kind 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.680 of success that he's had and that he's going to 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.960 the Pro Football Hall of Fame at that time, and 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:52.679 they had a really good staff and we can all 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.200 look look back now of how many great players and 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.400 coaches were there with the Cleveland Browns during that era. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.199 He knows what he's doing, and I definitely was with 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.000 him most of the time. Here's one thing that I 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.280 took away, especially if you're Cowboy fans. All right, listen up, Okay, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.880 everybody on the players line right now, listen up. The 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.640 Cowboys face the NFC West, and they faced the AFC 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.480 North this year. Those teams and those divisions right now 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.439 look really good. Obviously, we saw what the Rams have. Okay, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.679 the Rams brought that running game back and if they 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.840 can run, that's gonna help make Jared Golf a lot better. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.920 Seattle ended up taking Atlanta to the woodshed that that 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.880 score could have been worse than what it was. Russell 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.679 Wilson Thorne four touchdown passes there. Then you look over 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.800 the AFC North and then the Cowboys got to go 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.079 to Baltimore. They get Pittsburgh at home. We saw roethlisbergers, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.640 the three touchdown passes, the dominant defense they had in 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.160 Baltimore just took Cleveland apart in that football game. So 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.440 you know, there's there's a couple of teams right there 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:48.880 on the schedule for the Cowboys that they got to 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.440 really pay attention to because it's not going to be 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.880 easy trying to get to the ten wins. And I said, 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.400 the Cowboys are gonna get to so a lot of 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.360 work when you look at those divisions there. But it's 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.160 still weak one. Okay, it's still week one. The Cowboys 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.960 are like a whole lot of half the league. Okay, 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.000 taking an l and despite as bad as we felt, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.319 they looked at times. They still lost by three points, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.560 So that's the bright side of things. Let's dive into 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.120 the injuries here, gentlemen. Jerry Jones on one or five 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.920 three the fans saying that the Cowboys are going to 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.400 address their injuries within house. So cam Irvin was Gotamaniscu's 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.839 gonna miss two to four weeks, got Lake Vanderesh with 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.400 a collarbone injury, broke collarbone, he's gonna miss probably six 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.200 to eight weeks. Then he got tight at Blake jar 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.240 went out for the year. Danny, how do you feel 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.120 about Jerry saying, Hey, we're gonna look in house and 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.080 try and fill these positions, not gonna go look outside first. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.600 I mean, I mean, I mean it's smart because the 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.000 guys you know in house have been guys who've been 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.040 through the system, and they're familiar with the coaches and 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.560 the plays and the schemes, and you know, did the 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.720 weeks go by fast? Right? We're coming up on Wednesday 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.640 where you're already inputting stuff, so it is more difficult 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.600 to go outside and look for a guy who can 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.240 step up and play this week. But I think at 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.280 the end of the day, the people who are filling 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.080 in for the long term in this season, which for 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.400 the LV'ST position, I think it'll be a season long thing. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.520 I think they will have to go outside and find 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.440 somebody to fill that position outside of you know what 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.320 they have now, because I don't see his season long 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:19.640 replacement in the locker room currently. Yeah, for me, it 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.679 makes me extremely nervous that he's talking about, you know, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.360 just bringing in the in house guys to help replace 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.520 these dis unit. Now, if there was a healthy Sean Lee, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.920 then I would say, okay, you know, the linebacker positions 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.840 should be just fine. But with Lve going down, do 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.120 they assume I assume that they're gonna put Joe Thomas 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.560 in there. And nothing against Joe Thomas. I think he's explosive, 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.160 he's fast, and he can run sideline the sideline, But 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.720 I just don't see him as an every day or 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.360 every down backer just banging in there in the trenches. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.400 I see him more as maybe at nickel or dime 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.640 type backer or a cover situations. So we'll see what 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.199 goes on in that situation. And as far as the 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.679 tight end goes with Blake Jarwin going down, Dalton Schultz, Yes, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.640 they say he had a pretty impressive camp out there. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.680 But the way he performed in Week one, dropping those passes, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.199 I just don't think he's the answer at tight end, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.800 so we have to who have to usk keep looking 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:12.800 for that one. But and as far as right tackle, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.040 I mean Brandon or Still who was in there for 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.800 Lyle Collins. We know Lyle's gonna come back, maybe any 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.520 these next couple of weeks, But still he grated out 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.880 as I believe one of the worst, if not the worst, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.520 offensive are starting offensive linemen this week a Biro football focus. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.760 So I don't think we can go in house and 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.280 find these solutions, but we're gonna have to try this 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.600 Week two's coming around soon. Well, listen to my bad 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.040 say bringing up the pro football focus. I think Zach 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.160 Martin was on that list too, for Yeah, for people 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.280 who didn't perform very well. So listen, they can hold out, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.559 you know what I'm saying for a few weeks and 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.520 get LC back and with the tight end, I know 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.240 I would listen, it's Tuesday. I was hard on Monday, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.800 you know, on the defense and the old line and 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.199 tight end. I think that what happened with Schultz is 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.480 he was thrust into a position and he didn't think 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.240 he was gonna have to be in right, and I think, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.240 you know, the lights may have been too bright for him. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.720 But I think this week he'll settle down and he'll 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.520 show us why they said he has such a great 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.920 training camp. So I'm gonna give him another chance this week. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.240 You know, I'm an lightening up and uh, you know, 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.320 try to feel, you know, a little bit more positive 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.600 about the Cowboys going forward. Yesterday was just super frustrating. Danny, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.839 stay with me right here, because this is where you 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.640 guys come in and help our help the folks who 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.960 tune into the players lunch. How do the Cowboys coaching staff? 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.760 How does the coaching staff and even the teammates, how 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.560 do they get steal In Shultz to raise this game up? 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.199 Because you need these guys this week, So how do 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:43.559 you get them better? Well? What Church can tell you that? 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.719 You know? So I give you from my experience. Right So, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.400 when the year that we keep going back to, when 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.760 everybody got hurt, when me and Church were playing, I 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.559 was stressed into a position of you know, having to 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:58.120 go play starting safety. Well, you know we're not able 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.920 to be on the field as long. Uh, you know, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.400 with the new CBA. So what happens is when you 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.320 go out there and you're practice, the ones get most 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.320 of the important reps. Then the twos get a couple 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.319 of reps, and if you're three, you really don't get 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.280 any game reps, right, so most of your stuff comes 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.840 from film. So a lot of times when when guys 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.079 go down and then you put a guy who's second 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.640 string into that position where he hadn't got as many 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.920 reps as the starters got, so some of the stuff 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.400 may look a little new to him and he didn't 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.840 get that experience. And you see that happened with don't shows. 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.360 I know it happened to me, right, So I think 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.280 this week it'll just be a little bit different. I 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.600 think he'll he'll he'll get a little bit more focused, 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.440 a little bit more attention from the coaches, and I 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.000 think he'll be able to pick up his play. But 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.760 it's it's tough, you know, being in being a second 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.560 team or third team and coming in and having to 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.480 fill that starting role when you hadn't really got as 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:48.160 many reps as the starters. Yeah, and for me, I think, um, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.280 I think the situation with still is I just think 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.920 the coaches have to instill that confidence in him. Um, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.520 I feel like you know when they watched him, when 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.680 they break down the film, Yes, he's made some mistakes 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.400 and he gave up a sack towards the end. But 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.360 I I think as a coach, you should just go 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:02.960 in there and just be raided him and just kind 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.640 of push him down, like, man, you gotta play better 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.440 than this. You gotta step your game up. Because he 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.680 is a young player, he's a rookie and he's trying 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.760 to figure out the game as he goes as a starter. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.280 He didn't think he was gonna have to be thrust 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.640 into this lineup this early in the season. So I 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.320 just think the coaching staff can just instill that confidence 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.240 in them. Let them let him know that, Hey, we 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.320 know what you can do out there. There's a reason 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.560 you're you're thrust into this position right now, and you're 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.640 a starter. We believe in you, we trusting you. Just 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.880 get that confidence going in him, and I think he'll 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.920 be able to play a lot better and awfully also 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:31.800 if you just let him know that, hey, we're gonna 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.880 send help your way. We're gonna have people chipping, we're 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.640 gonna have the running backs chipping. For you on the 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.240 way up for their their patterns or whatever. I just 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.040 think that the coaching staffs needs to just get this 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.920 confidence going in this young man, and I think he'll 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.320 perform a lot better. They're gonna they're gonna send us 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.960 some help. Hopefully the rest of the old line is 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.840 getting killed. If the rest of the old line getting 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:52.640 is playing like that, there's no way help coming for 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.960 him because they need to show up the inside. So 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.280 hopefully the rest of the old line can perform up 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.680 up up to par and then they can send that 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.800 help over that tune, because like we talked about last week, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.960 make him tell you that heat unneath the help start 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.080 the game over by helping him. And we didn't do that. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.560 Cowboys take all the Atlanta Falcons Sunday at Jerry World 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:17.040 at season ticket single season say single tickets on sale yesterday, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.640 So go ahead get over there because fans can go 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.560 to the game. We've got a lot more to dive 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.760 into here on the players, lads. We'll dive into Dak 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.720 Prescott's deal, Jaylen Smith, he's getting dogged out here. What 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.720 does Jerry Jones had to say about Layton Vanderesh. Let's 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.880 dive into that Ezekiel workload the fourth down call Lee 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.360 got a lot to get We got a lot of 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.960 stuff to get to. I'm NEWE Scrugs. That's Barry Church. 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.600 Also Danny mccraig. This is the Players Lounge, brought to 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.600 you by Hotels dot Com. 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