WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: No Laughing Matter 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:15.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lounge, 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.920 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:26.520 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.160 new he Scrugs. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:31.880 Here we are once again. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.159 Your boys are here for the podcast known as The 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.199 Player's Lounge. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:41.200 Verry O time in here, hech Ma Harrison is here. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.519 I I'm new he Scruggs, and we've got the return 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.960 of our own Danny McCrae. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.480 And me say this, man, God is good all the time. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.240 God is good. Danny is here. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:00:58.520 Man. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.320 We're so happy that you hear my brother feeling good. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:02.520 Man. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.440 Yes, listen, I'm excited to be back. God is good. Yes, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:08.960 you put you in the right spot at the right time, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.280 on the right talk with people. Thank y'all for the 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.920 for the prayers and and all that stuff. Man, I 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.200 felt it appreciate the support. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.080 You get this thing going all right. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:23.520 So I like this, man, it's untucky. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.200 I like that thread account. I like that, you know, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:29.560 you know my stuff like that. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:35.959 That that's that I don't even know what the gut 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.560 colors clean charcoal like that. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.640 You're gonna come out roasting me by time. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:41.720 Righting now, like get roasty. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:50.840 I really do like this. I really do like you alone. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:56.720 Man, y'all know you already know you Speranza. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.280 Uh he little person. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.960 Is a comboy right Downpas came in, Max. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.400 That's when they that's when they did that. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.440 All right, So you guys before pre showed, before we 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.880 did the players, you guys are saying that we need 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.320 to watch the Tom Brady wrote on Netflix, Oh you 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.400 got from a quarterback in the Patriots they got. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.600 I listen, my my thoughts of Bill Belichick changes. I 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.799 was waking right because the person like you going to 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.679 and you know that the players believe that Bill Belichick 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.880 has some type of personality. I'm sure he gives them 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.120 a little a little much. But you always see people 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.400 go on those roasts and there's always one person that 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.040 bombs and I thought it was gonna be Bill, and 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.240 Bill went out there and killed it. He had personality, 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.120 He was funny. Uh he you know, he played along 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.600 because they gave him a lot of They gave him. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.080 They gave him hell, Robert Cramp gave him a little 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.560 bit the people got Tom Brady, you know, because it 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.680 was the whole thing about who was the reason for 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.919 the dynasty. So they went back and forth with that one. Yeah, 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.040 shout off the Bill man. I got respectful Bill. He 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.880 went out there this thing. But it was a three 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.640 hours a straight just laugh out. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.280 It takes a brave man to get up on them 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.000 roasts because they will bring everything out. Any type of 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.160 rumor you had back in the day, cheating halted. They 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.920 brought it all out. And the man, they held no punches. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:29.400 Everybody got a piece. He's a robber craft because Tom 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.200 is a good sport to allow them to do that. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.640 Three hours of being roasted, I mean I was, you 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:41.480 get uncomfortable for personal like literally, you know, three hours 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.480 of watching him squirm, just it has to be uncomfortable. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.640 The best roast that I've seen, though, if y'all get 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.360 a chance to go check out Michael Irvings roast. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.640 Yeah snoop Dog on the No, no, no, no, it 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.840 was Jamie Fox. Jamie Fox did it's yeah, what's the 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:07.560 old one? When he was like, I gotta run it back, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:08.520 I gotta run back. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.800 I'll say this about Belichick and and when I when 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.839 I was around him in Cleveland, covered the team. They 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.719 would all the players and even coaches would tell you 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.000 he's a funny guy. He wasn't giving us any of that. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.760 That was reserved and for the people at his orbit 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.599 and that what you're saying there, I'm not surprised because 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.120 I consistently have heard that from from the people who 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.080 were with him and work with him. So all good, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.720 So all right, I will check that. I will put 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.520 it on my list today. Your brave man wear that. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:53.040 About the Stars winning in season championship. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.160 That was in the back of the Bentley. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:56.600 You just. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:03.240 Come on, dog, you're playing Sha the morning. I was like, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.640 you know, I got you know, you know. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:06.680 Not for long. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:16.159 You know, let's dive into the Cowboys here, and Barry 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.280 Church as you do, I'll be right back. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.040 Here's a good question, Barry asked this team. Can the 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.920 defense be dominant without Dan Quinn. Dan Quinn is now 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.279 the head coach of the Washington Commanders in the NFC East, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.560 So I'll let you start, Barry your thoughts. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.640 I think it's going to be extremely difficult for this 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.080 team to match their intensity they've had since Quinn has 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.280 gotten in here. I mean We've all heard from all 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.480 the players throughout the locker room, especially on the defensive 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.760 side of the football, how much they love Quin and 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.839 how much they love playing for him, and they believe 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.159 in his system. And we saw what happened when players 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.520 don't believe in your system. The defensive coordinator before Quinn Nolan, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.960 players were coming out saying this ain't working, this scheme, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.680 ain't doing this, they ain't doing that, And we saw 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.720 how bad and terrible that defense is. So if your 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.880 players don't believe in you, it's hard for them to 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.360 go out there and run through a brick. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:11.719 Wall for you. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.120 So you know, hopefully, you know, with the new defensive 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.880 coordinator coming in here, he can install that defense and 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.839 have them believing in it. But I think it's gonna 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.279 be extremely hard because if you think about it, man, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.760 then Quinn got the best out of each and every 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.880 one of those guys. I mean, look, de Marcus Lawrence 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.560 turned the clock back the wrong. Bland was out there, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.599 you know, leading the league in interceptions. Diggs went from 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.919 you know, having a couple of picks and getting toasted 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.560 to man, this guy is a ball hawk out there. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.760 The safety is the way he was playing those those 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.200 safeties are three safeties out there. To me, he got 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.960 the most out of each and every one of his players, 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.080 except for the interior of the defensive line, but we'll 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.239 talk about that a little bit later. 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.800 But the rest of the squad, he got the most 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:50.200 out of them. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:51.839 And when you believe in a coach like that, you're 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.920 gonna you're gonna go above and beyond. And that's what 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.320 that defense was able to do. And I think it's 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.640 gonna be hard to replicate that, especially on a one 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.800 year This is well, if it doesn't work out this year, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.800 I think a lot of this is gonna change. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.840 So it's gonna be tough to make sure. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.159 You know your beliefs and your core beliefs on that 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.600 defense get installed in these players in just a couple 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.560 of months and then head into the season. So they're talented. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.600 You got Michael Parsons, You got these guys out there, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.960 so they're gonna have a talented defense. It's just are 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.560 the players gonna believe in it when something goes wrong, 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.200 or they gonna be like, you know what, it's okay, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:24.920 he understands what he's doing up top, or they just 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.920 gonna do how like they would Nolan and say, man, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:27.680 this ain't working. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.280 He ain't getting the best out of us. This defense 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:29.800 ain't working. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.240 We're gonna see because this team's gonna need this defense, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.560 in my opinion, to be able to go to the. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:35.720 Next level in which they want to do. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.800 The thing for me when you raise the question is 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.880 I asked a question like what was the identity of 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.000 dan Quinn's defense, And the identity of his defense was pressure, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.080 turnovers and sacks. And when they couldn't get pressure, they 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.640 couldn't get turnovers, they couldn't get sacks. They were pedestrian, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.800 all right. And you found ways to expose this defense. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.480 And look for the three years that that he was 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.840 at defensive coordinator, you saw, like you just said, him 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.280 bringing out those pieces that you were like, look, I 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.840 got the best version of Diggs. I'm getting the best 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.640 version of my safeties. I'm getting the best version of 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.920 the way that he's using Michael Parsons. But at the 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.120 end of the day, when what all of this fell 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.760 apart about was how you operate in the playoffs, and 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.360 when you get to the playoffs and you go back 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.080 to those just go back to last season and look 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.000 at our worst games Buffalo turn on the Buffalo tape. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.200 When we couldn't get pressure, we couldn't get sacks. Teams 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:29.800 exposed us we could. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.000 We are continuously getting exposed on the back half of 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.080 our defense, in the front up front, and also on 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.120 the back half when they get unbalanced. And so when 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.160 I look at when people ask the question about Mike Zimmer, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.840 I say, and replacing dan Quinn, I say, it can't 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:51.280 get worse, and no, no, no, Respectfully, what I'm saying 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.440 is he is not going to change any of those 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.760 things that made the defense what it was last season, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.800 because now I believe Digs is what it is, Bland 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.080 is what he is. Okay, but how does he get 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.040 these guys in position now to stop the run? Because 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.199 that's our achilles hell. We can't stop them when we 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.880 can't stop anybody dog, it really puts us in a 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.640 bad way. Yeah, I think the question of can you 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.200 be dominant under Zimmers? 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:17.760 Were we dominant last year? 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.120 Like I think at the beginning of the season we 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.360 felt like generational, generational. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.360 I remember the story. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:41.880 You said, I shout out, listen, I don't and you 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.319 know I love dan Quinn. I think dan Quinn brought 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.439 a different type of leadership here where the players following 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.400 them they brought he brought from swag Dude started playing 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.520 going out there, they talked a little a little crazy, 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.200 and they backed it up. You always know you're gonna 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.800 get the same stuff out of the laws. But like 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.160 you said, the biggest issue here is do we have 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.760 the pieces on the interior defensive line to be dominant 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:04.200 all right? 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.600 Actually to just be good? 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.080 And our starting defensive line right now is O DIGGI, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:15.000 Zeua Yegg and Mazzie Smith, right, So like when you 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.640 look at what Mazzie Smith did last year and then 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.320 you say this guy is going to this is who 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.240 we're depending on right now, just based off what it 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.680 was last year. He can get better in the off season, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.440 he can get better in training camp, just but just 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.680 based off what it was last year, we don't we 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.400 don't think. I don't think that that is going to 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.360 hold up for us to be able to be dominant 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.439 like we want to. Dron Bland can play as good 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.760 as you want to. Trayvon Diggs will be coming off 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.400 an injury, right We got Overshan coming off an injury, right. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.320 So when you talk about being dominant right now, I 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.480 just want us to be serviceable, like we know that 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.439 we're going to be able to get pressure in certain 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.440 situations because Michael Parsons is there d laws there like 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.080 you know they're going to get their opportunities. But right now, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.160 I don't think we can look at the roster and 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.480 be like, Okay, we are healthy enough one and we 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.360 have the pieces to be a dominant D defense. I 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.840 think this is gonna be some patchwork, like crazy, like 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.000 you're gonna have to ay, where does this guy fit in. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.719 You're gonna bring in some more free agents off the 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.679 street that probably played for Zimmer to see if they 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.000 can they can help because they know the system. But 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.199 right now, I think it's passwork. I think you're looking 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.640 at top fifteen defense, and if you get that, I 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.920 think you should you should be happy. I think you 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.319 get top fifteen with with what you got right now, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.839 knowing the injuries and people coming off of what they 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.680 what happened to him last season, and having Mazie Smith 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.320 play in the interior. Yeah, I think in top fifteen 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.000 is so no dominant, no dominant to answer that question, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.680 no dominant top fifteen. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.520 I think I think right that you are ecstatic. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.720 I will just the church say amen to what you said. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:53.320 You're gonna, I believe, face three of the top five 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:58.280 or top eight rushing teams this year. You not fix 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.040 this defense. The drafts showed you that you didn't fix 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.720 the defense up front. As Warren Sapp always says, back 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.640 don't work without the front. This front right now is 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.800 a problem. And if I'm having you line up and 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.760 face the Dallas Cowboys, I'm trying to figure where am 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.520 I gonna run? Okay, we're running up the middle. Hey, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.360 Michael Parsons have fun chasing whatever's up the middle. So 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.199 that's what you're gonna do. I am concerned about Mazzie Smith. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.880 What is the weight gain is he getting back there? 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:28.319 He's had shoulder surgery. These things were not addressed enough 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.600 in my opinion right now to simply say, looking at 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.400 what Mike Zimmer wants to do, people gonna blame the carpenter. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:36.679 But then the carpenter gonna be able to say, what 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:37.760 my tools? 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:38.800 What do I have? 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.880 And so that for me is scary. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.160 You're gonna have to face San Francisco, you have to 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.520 face Philadelphia twice. Well, if Kellen Wore decided to get 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.360 it we'll figure that out. You're gonna face Detroit. You've 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.880 got teams that are gonna want to come and do this. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.480 So how do you respond? Have they given Mike Zimmer 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:00.680 enough to be dominant? 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:02.560 Forget that? 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.319 Have you given Mike Zimmer enough to just be competitive 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.160 when it comes to that? So we shall see. I'm 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.400 found the same letter play out right now? What I 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:19.319 see I don't think so they can get and shootout, 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.800 so you can do all that stuff. But if this 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.800 team makes the playoffs, what have we seen the last 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:24.280 three years? 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:25.079 People? 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.640 You can run on the Cowboys and you can beat them. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:33.280 They haven't fixed it, at least I haven't seen them 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.400 fix it. Maybe I'll be wrong. They gonna find a 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.800 way to plug holes. Mike Zimmer put some pixie dust 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.400 and make some magic happen. But that's a concern for 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.320 me right now for this football team. When I look 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.840 at the defense and forget dominant, can you can you 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.080 figure out a way to. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.000 Just stop the run? 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:52.240 Man? 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.200 Because in the critical games we saw them play last year, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.040 we saw how they lost against the good teams who 0:13:58.040 --> 0:13:58.920 could run the football. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.360 And then you look at Zimmer's defenses. You know when 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.120 he was in Minnesota, and what is he known for? 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.120 And sin is what a you known for? Two safety 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.439 high to saftyhead Harrison Smithy saying they hold them guys 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.439 are too safeties highs, which means you're leaving the box light. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.240 That's what he's known for. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.080 Having those big guys in the middle, the big defensive 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.640 line just out their gap stopping everything and linebacker's flowing. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.280 That's what he's known for this defense. The past couple 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.400 years under Quinn, they've always had that extra guy in 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.600 the box and he still hasn't been able to stop 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:33.200 the run. Right right, Two safeties back light box with 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.760 defenders that haven't been able to stop the run. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.320 To me, that's just not a good formula going forward. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.720 That's why you bring in the Kendricks, and he bringing 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.120 the Kendricks because you understand from a linebacker standpoint, and Danny, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.160 you've been begging for this. It's a guy that could 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.640 be tough in the middle and can stop those inside runs. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.680 You and I feel like you have that. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.800 And I feel like also with guys getting healthy back there, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.520 that that's going to be the importance put on this 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:57.480 defense this season. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:58.440 You gotta stop it. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.560 Last season under Quinn the defense was undisciplined at best. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.560 You've seen those games where those guys are getting out 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 of their running lanes because they're pad that they're stat 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.720 padding right. Everybody's hot, boy, chain you want to get 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.840 out there, you want to get pressure on sax strip, fumble, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:13.280 all of that. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.160 But then you're seeing the Green Bay game. Okay, get 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:16.600 up the field. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.040 All we gonna do is just run this thing right 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.080 behind you and pick up those extra yards. And so 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.880 that's where I think the change for Mike Zimmer coming 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.160 in and this guy is he's seeing the best of 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.520 the best, and so's it's not like he doesn't come 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.560 in with a reputation that you can hang your hat on, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.120 because he's that guy that that can tell you back 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.680 in this year. This year, I've coached guys like Prime Time, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.880 I've coached at Charles Hayley. Look, can we just go 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.160 down the list about like who who were sure about? 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.720 Let's go if you just go down the list on 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.880 the defense about hey man, I'm sure that this dude 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.560 right here is going to have a productive season. The 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.520 Marcus Lawrence de Marcus Lawrence. Well, I mean if you 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:56.000 just start on the corner, Okay, Trayvon Diggs not healthy though, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.520 Like so I'm saying when you talk, so you're not 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.000 sure about Trayvon Diggs, who was probably you know, one 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.640 of your best players on defense, right, Malle Cooker, Billie Cooker, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.440 he's probably gonna he's gonna play how he plays right, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.600 so you can so you can count on him. Donovan 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.760 will You got Donovan Wilson, you can count on him 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.800 to play how he's gonna play. Then you got Jordan Lewis, right, and. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.240 Then you got right. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:21.880 So now then when you get to the to the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.680 to the next level, you got Kendricks Overshan Clark. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:28.320 Rick is also part. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.320 Don't know, I'm saying Kendricks you can depend on, right, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.640 So you're talking about this level, what we struggled at 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.040 was do you Overshan. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:35.520 Right? 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.960 But that's who they're pegging right to be the guy 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.560 Mizzie Smith when you get to the to love before. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:47.040 That, I wouldn't it was that last year, you know 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:47.400 what I'm saying. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.080 When we play so right now you're just looking at 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.880 a lot of spaces where you're like a like, I 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.800 don't you know. You got d Long and you got 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.440 Michael Parsons. But on the inside. After that, I'm not sure. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.920 Then you got Kendricks and then now you're like overshawan 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.840 Or or DeMont Clark based off what we saw last season, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.480 and then the injury, You're not sure there. So right now, 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.160 the most sure we are as the secondary, which is 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:08.040 not the issue. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.320 That we've had. The issue that we've had is the 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:10.879 front seven. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.920 So before we go to break, I just want to 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.200 go over the opponents we're talking about, you know, trying 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:17.840 to stop the run. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:28.240 Baltimore, Cincinnati at Atlanta. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.720 But who they replaced Joe Mixon with? Was it Aaron 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:33.919 It was a good player. It was a good player. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.040 You know who Aaron Jones was Minnesota. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.119 It was a good play. It was a good player. Uh, 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.640 you're at Carolina, You're at Cleveland. 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:46.680 Coming coming back. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.160 But overall their identity is running. They go find somebody 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:51.720 to run the ball. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:54.919 We don't know what the Giants are gonna do We 0:17:55.000 --> 0:18:00.800 know Philadelphia, They're at Pittsburgh, Okay, not Harris, you know, 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:05.440 going on the ball there at San Francisco. They will 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.560 face Detroit here, you know what that is. You will 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.480 face Houston here, they got you mix. You will have 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:17.480 a home game against New Orleans, Skippy Pete and Tampas coming. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.480 Here if he's still there, so. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.480 And then of course you got you got Washington. But 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.520 just right here, you know we're naming there are there 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.160 are some there. There's some running teams on the schedule, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.600 and it's gonna be pretty clear. You got Bejonne Robinson 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.440 Atlanta coming in here, new head coach. Okay, hey, let's 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.720 let's try to run. So some of this stuff is here, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:38.760 and that's when we talk about just being dominant. I 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.200 go back to, hey, look man, you're trying to beat 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.400 this team and run the ball. So we'll have to see. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:45.280 We will have to see. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.880 Okay, I think we made down the room here all 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:50.639 dark cloud. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:59.400 So let's let's let's look at a positive. Okay, talked 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:04.119 about defense. Here's one player that I have a hopeful 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:06.560 huh a hope A hope. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:11.680 Jack. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.520 I'm just saying, I'm just saying, let's have the conversation. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:17.520 We'll do that next week. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:23.160 Damy mcraig, who's back here. This is playing Slash Team 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:23.960 by Dallas Cowboys. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:24.439 That cover. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.240 It's the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.320 Jack Black and right now Cowboys fans can get fifteen 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.520 percent off their seventy five dollars order plus. 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