WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Slowing Down Baltimore 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.039 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:20.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:26.160 Lounge broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:36.560 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and Newey Scrugs. Hi, everybody, 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:41.040 Players Lounge Time. Forty five minutes of some fun conversation 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.760 between myself, Newi Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, and two former 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:49.400 Dallas Cowboys safeties, Barry Church and Danny mccraig. The day 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.159 after Wednesday Night Football on NBC, in which the Pittsburgh 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.480 Steelers go to eleven and oh by beating the Baltimore 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:01.640 Ravens nineteen to fourteen. This game was slopping. It looked 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.040 like two teams that hadn't been practicing. But the Steamers 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.800 get picked, the Ravens get the lost. So who picked 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:13.319 Who picked the Ravens to win? Somebody? That would be 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.840 you and I No, no, no no, no, no, who who 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.240 somebody picked up? Somebody picked the Ravens to win? Oh 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.559 the Ravens. Oh, Oh, the Ravens. Oh. That was only 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.440 one person who did that on this show. Oh in America. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.480 Problem one person and in America and probably picked the 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.720 raven Who was that? There was your boy, man, there 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.920 was your boy, none other it was none other than 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.160 those your domas your boy. You know, I picked them boys, man, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.319 you know, and I got something to say, Man, I 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.520 picked the Ravens, And yeah, I was wrong. You know, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.880 I'm not afraid to admit, unlike some people on this show, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.640 when I was wrong, and I was wrong about to 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.440 pick last week. But I'll tell you this, man, I 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.480 felt bad. I felt extremely bad just looking at what 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.240 happened to RG three. I mean, this guy is a 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.200 shell of himself. He was just got like eight years. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.840 He was the rookie of the year, bona fide. He 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.560 was Lamar Jackson before there even was a Lamar Jackson. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.320 He had world class b and then you just see 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.040 him out there and it's like, man, what happened? I 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.880 mean he and I'll tell you what that what he 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.680 did last night and not watching it, he basically messed 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.680 up his whole cushy job. He had a nice cushy 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.240 job where he was the backup quarterback, probably making three 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.360 four million dollars a year. He's sitting behind a young study. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.160 He's probably never gonna see the field. So he's gonna 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.440 collect on that money. But now after they saw that 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.880 performanceship man, they're gonna be like, hey, look, we ain't 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:34.880 gonna bring you back next year. That cushy job you had, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:42.160 it's gone now. No, no, just feel bad. Oh bron 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.079 did you They're down with eight to twelve guys. You're 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.440 on your You're on a sinner who's never started in 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.840 the NFL, and your your right guard is a dude 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.040 making a second start. You don't have your top receiver, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.520 you don't have your tight end. I mean, how are 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.320 you putting all this on RG three? Man? And so 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:06.080 person on three out there we saw him, but only 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.760 one person on this on this podcast expected RG three 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:16.760 to do something spectacular, which is you, Well that was 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.320 wrong about that. I'm talking about just the way he 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.720 looked out there. The man looked, didn't They looked terrible 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:27.399 trams better than him out there. Listen, dude, I'm gonna 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.440 say all that, thank you, thank you. I don't know 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.960 exactly what I'm church Church. You need stop, bro, I'm serious. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.200 Aren't you three look good yesterday? RG three look good yesterday. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.560 What I'm saying is there was a cast of people 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.480 around him, which was going to make the job hard. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.160 Right now, I think you're being as unfair to RG 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.960 three as you've been Andy Dalton. You're sitting around here 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.640 mad at a guy who has nobody around him. I mean, 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.600 when you think about what makes the Ravens offense go, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.800 there's the running backs are out, the number one tight 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.080 ends out. You got Willie Steed, your leading receiver route, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.480 he got a center. Okay, I'm sorry, bro. I'm not 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.280 trying to sit up here at all and say I 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.520 understand what it's like to play in the NFL. But 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.800 I'll say this as a guy who used to snap. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.279 You throw a dude out here, and you and you 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 go up against the Pittsburgh Steelers trying to call up man, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.360 trying to call fronts against these dudes with a right 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.320 guard making his second start. So the communication between you 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.599 guys about who gets who? I mean, you see T J. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.279 Watt went out there. I had a heck of a day. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.520 I'm sorry, man, that's not all on the quarterback round that. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:39.320 That's that's unfair. Boy looked terrible out there, man, he 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.560 did not RG three did not stand the chance. You listen, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.719 something in us are something in us already knew that 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.600 he was gonna go out there and get injured. He 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.760 went out there and he had another soft tissue injury. Uh, 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.359 you know, like it's it's the usual, RG three. What 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.080 happened was Church, you looked at his past performance against 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.880 the Ravens, what you brought I mean against the Steelers, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.400 what you brought up last time, and said, yeah, the 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.240 last time he started, he was beating up on the Stillers, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.160 and he was like, this is the RG three that 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.560 we're gonna see this week. And what did we say? Now, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.200 Bro that that's not who he is. That's not what 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.479 Danny and Danny No Church was thinking about the last 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.760 time RG three faced him, He like he what he 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.359 is he was, But he gave what he gave me 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:28.240 that work. First of all, First three, Yeah, forgetting me 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.600 no work. You was that you was covering the game 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.440 forgetting me no work. So we're gonna, we're gonna, we're 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.560 gonna work. He could have gave you to work. He 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.520 ain't getting you the work. Listen, listen, listen. The Red 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.920 Skids gave me, gave me all I can handle on 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.600 things giving. I remember exactly what RG three looked like. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.120 And I knew that that was a skin like he 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.280 was benefiting from the scheme that they were running. That 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.039 ain't the scheme they're running up the uh in Baltimore. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.520 And that was the Dallas Cowboys offense that they were 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.400 playing against. Either. That was Mega Fitzpatrick Watt and those 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.640 boys running out there and rieking heavy. And the old 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.160 thing that kept them in the game was the Ravens defense, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.000 which is coming in next week. So man, I mean, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.240 we we got our hands full. So RG three, by 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.000 the way, was the leading Russia on the team. All right, Um, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.640 that tells you something right there. The only thing that 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.320 worked in that offense yesterday was RG three doing a 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.760 quarterback drop up the middle, so that that offensive line 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.560 to do anything at all. And by and by the way, Um, Church, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.440 didn't you say somebody was supposed to be leading receiving 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.400 yesterday and that was gonna put up? And yeah, I 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.520 thought he was. Man, how many catches it does Bryan 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:51.760 have yesterday? Man? How anybody all the way away? No, no, Church, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.840 don't don't take that one. I'm not no, I'm not 0:06:53.920 --> 0:07:01.160 winning new on that one. Church, man. So how did no, no, 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.120 no in Church? You gotta find me in church, ask 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.240 him how many passes the Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks completed yesterday 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.560 before you go out here talking about Den Brane. They 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.600 kissed the passes. Why I gotta kind of go with nook, man, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.760 I don't know, man, my boy, Look did you see 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.720 that bang? Eighty ran and he slipped and fell. I 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:25.200 don't know, Man's outside. Did you see j Claypool? They 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.960 all looked the same, everybody that was out there and 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.960 was cold on a Wednesday. It was on the Wednesday. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.880 And so you gave him bring the sauce this week, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.720 though he gonna bring the sauce this week against that. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.240 Look what Whatd's had two targets in the game, And 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.400 I go back to something. You just sat right here, Danny. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.360 It was Wednesday. This looked like a Wednesday scrimmage more 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.720 so than it looked like an NFL game. These guys 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.480 have been off, uh. And I spoke a little bit 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.560 out yesterday, man, these guys are gonna be off. And 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.960 and I was wrong giving the Steelers to what. I 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.880 gave the Steels twenty seven points to win. I said 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.000 they win twenty seven and nine wasn't too far off 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.480 for what the Ravens did. But um, you know that 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.000 that was bad. That was some bad football that we 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.320 saw there of teams, you know, not really ready to 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.800 play and and and off routine. You guys are professed 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.880 on athletes. Athletes are creatures, have happed, and the habit 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.480 was definitely off. The Cowboys right now are going to 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.640 be off. And I'm I'll say, right now is they 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.040 get ready to face the Ravens Tuesday in Baltimore on 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.240 December eight, I'm going to be worried about how they 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.480 look being off this long. And then you add in 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.920 today where um, there's the virtual memorial service for Marcus Paul, 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.160 there is strength and conditioning coach who passed away fifty 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.000 four years old. Uh, they've dealt with a lot and 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.360 we got you got another issue with the offensive line. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:47.320 Your left tackle is out, your right tackle is out. Um, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.240 you know this is another revolving door for the Cowboys 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.560 to try and get things done. So I expect them 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.599 to look a little bit slow when they face the 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.520 Baltimore Ravens on Tuesday. Hold on, hold on, I can't 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.480 let listen. The only team that was off here, Actually, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.400 I don't think any team was off yesterday the Pittsburgh 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.079 Steelers have looked the same way almost the entire season. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.920 They come out, they start off slow, and they find 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.320 a way toy inch out the game in the second half. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.280 And then Baltimore didn't have all their players. Pittsburgh would 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.079 have been in some serious trouble. If Lamar Jackson and 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.880 Andrews and all those guys that were out were playing yesterday, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.160 and the defense on the defensive side of the ball, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.560 where they had most of their players. They came out 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.520 there to players today, they didn't look sloppy. They were 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.200 They were giving Pittsburgh everything they can handle. Pittsburgh has 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.199 always has looked like this in the entire season. That's 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.400 why some people don't even have them as the number 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.000 one team, because they've looked this way even in their wins. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.200 So I don't really think they were off. I think 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.280 that's just the type of football that Pittsburgh is playing. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.839 And then you know, of course you had Baltimore missing 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.199 all the all the pieces of offense. Tomlin called it 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.679 a JV performance. That's what he said yesterday. He said 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.079 they looked off. I thought they were off, like you know, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.880 go back to having James Connor. My fantasy team, and there, Ibron, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.640 I've watched I've watched a lot of Steelers games. I mean, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.560 the way these receiving a brown, he dropped at least 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.319 three passes dropped the touchdown pass. I mean in this 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.840 football game I saw, I saw a lot of passes 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.319 being dropped. And for me, as I look forward, I 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:10.760 picked the Steelers to make the Super Bowl. The one 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.760 thing that worries means they don't run the football enough. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.199 I looked out there yesterday and the Steelers fence with 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.080 just sixty eight yards rush, and part of me said, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.360 is it your unwillingness to run? And also the Ravens, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.240 by the way, are really good. And if you're the 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.480 Cowboys and Callen Moore, good luck trying to figure out 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.800 how you're gonna run on this Ravens defense. But they've 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.719 got some issues here in my mind, and they just 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.120 throw away too much from my my take, especially when 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.480 you think about the kind of weather and that's what 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.640 you grew up in Barry. That kind of weather that 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.319 they had yesterday was made to run the football more 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.040 so than trying to trying to pass it. But oh well, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.800 what do I know, man? I mean, and lucky they 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.120 didn't play the day before. There was a snowstorm up 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.920 there the day before when they were scheduled to play Tuesday, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.400 and it would have been even worse. But I'm interested 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.040 to see what Pittsburgh can do in the playoffs and 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.240 it once the postseason comes around, because you can't really 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.240 be a one trick pony when it comes to the playoffs. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.920 You gotta be you gotta be able, you gotta be multifaceted, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.800 so you can't just go out there and throw the 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.400 ball fifty sometimes and expect to win, especially when you're 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.480 going to get the better teams in the AFC. So 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.520 I'm interested to see how they do out there. They 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.600 might be a first round exit, you know. I don't know, man, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:16.800 I don't know these past a couple of years, and 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.599 Stiler has been out of the playoffs after one. So 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.000 I'd be interested to see what Bank can put up 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.520 out there. Gotta make a commitment to the run here. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.520 So um, looking at that Baltimore game yesterday, and while 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.360 you were trying to run down RG three who got 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.480 hurt in the football game, I looked at it from 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.160 the standpoint, even with them having offensive line issues, they 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.160 ran for one hundred and twenty nine yards on the 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.040 Steelers and the Cowboys, telling you, I want to know 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.040 what Mike Nolan's gonna do because to me, I'm selling 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.679 out and I'm trying to put eight nine in the box. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.680 Or you can you trust your corners to go? Man? 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.240 Mark Andrews, the tight end, will not be available for 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.559 Baltimore when they face the Cowboys on Tuesday. He's on 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.679 COVID nineteen. Lamar Jackson should be out. They should get 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.520 some more of their starters out. But knowing that they 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.880 like to run the football, and maybe you have your 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.559 safety cheat over. Well, you gotta have your safe to 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.920 cheat over at the Hollywood brawdcas even beat Deep. But 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.040 how do you go about stopping this team that wants 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:18.840 to run the football? And well, by the way, they'll 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:25.160 have their top two running backs, ladye Mac Yeah, listen, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.920 do we that's is that a trick question? We haven't 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.160 stopped to run all seasons, So how do we stop them? 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.640 I don't know, We don't. What we do is we 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.480 control the clock on offense and we try to we 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.000 try to play the game to where we get the 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.120 ball last, and we give our chances to give ourselves 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.439 a shot of the great Andy Dalton having another comeback. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:50.319 Who Church wants to replace Church with with double G. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.360 You know, I think the only chance we have of 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.600 stop the only chance we have them stopping this running game, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.439 is to have our offense on the I don't I 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.440 don't think we have a real shot and stopping off 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.120 running the ball, just because we haven't been able to 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.600 do it against almost any team all season. Yeah. Man, look, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.640 this is gonna be tough for the Cowboys. Man. I mean, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.600 like you said, they haven't been able to stop the run. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.839 And this is a downhill running team. This is a 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.480 team that when they do hand the ball off to 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.760 the backs, they're straight downhill, right up the gut of 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.680 the defense. And that's something that we haven't been able 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.480 to stop all year. So it's gonna be tough. Man. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.720 But if I'm if I'm the Cowboys, and you gotta 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.319 stack the box, you got to. I mean, you gotta 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.440 force this team to throw the ball. You gotta force 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.880 um Lamar Jackson to try to find Hollywood Brown, to 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.439 try to find a Willie Snead out there. And you 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.880 gotta trust your corners out there. Look, I know Holly Brown, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.959 Hollywood Brown. He can, he can run. He's a he's 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 a deep threat guy. But I mean I don't see 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.960 him as being Oh my gosh, we gotta double team 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:49.959 this guy. We gotta keep him under wraps. Like I 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:51.960 think you can single cover him. You just can't let 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.719 him get over the top. And then Willie sneed. I 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.360 mean Willie teams like a tight end out there. I 0:13:55.400 --> 0:14:00.560 mean he's slow. Oh he's out the guy. So really, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.520 so you stack? I think you stacked the box. I 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.280 think you shave the safety over towards Hollywood Brown, just 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.719 because he can beat you the Dez. He doesn't have 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.360 the wheels anymore. He can get you on the fifty 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.520 fifty balls, but he doesn't have the wheels anymore. I 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.480 think you leave a corner on him except for the 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.959 red zone because we all know those jump balls. He's 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.440 still got that explosive ability. So for me, you gotta 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.720 stack the box. You gotta shut down this run. You 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:29.440 gotta force Lamar Jackson to throw the ball. Wait, Church, Church, Wait, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.840 who do you so when you stack the box and 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.240 you get Lamar Jackson running read option, you know, giving 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.200 it or playing off the defensive end, which one on 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.360 our linebackers. Do you do you put in a situation 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.640 to where he has the quarterback, which one do you 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.160 trust out of all of them? I put I put 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.280 at all of them. I put Vanderish. I mean, I 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.080 know that's not the greatest solution, but look, Jalen Smith, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.080 he can't move side to side. I mean we've seen 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.160 it time and time again. He's a straight, straight, vertical guy. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.760 He can run when it goes straight line, but if 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.400 you're go on side to side, he just doesn't have 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.840 that ability to move that way. And I don't think 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.240 at all. We see what Kyler Murray was able to 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.360 do to just gut in the open field, Lamar Jackson 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.800 is ten times worse than open field. So I put 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.480 vander Esh as far as the read option rules apply. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.080 But it's gonna be tough. Man. You can't leave a 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.200 spy on him because he'll make that spi look ridiculous 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.720 in the open field. I guarantee you that's a situation 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.560 that you will see the entire game to where they're 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.960 they're getting one on one and seeing who they're gonna 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.240 have taking the quarterback, because depending on who that is, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.160 if it's if it's a big time mismatch. Lamar Jackson 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.040 will be keeping that thing and turned the corner often. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:40.040 You know they might want to team. They might, you know, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.600 I don't think they would do this, But I think 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.040 Joe Thomas that line. I think with the linebacker we 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.440 got Joe Thomas, I think he'd be a better, better 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.000 situation to handle Lamar's running versus a Vander esh and 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.320 a Jalen Smith. But I don't I don't see him 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.880 cracking the lineup with Shaun Lee Bean in this game 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.720 on Tuesday between the Ravens and the Cowboys. You're talking 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.120 about six and five Ravens team that is looking outside 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.680 the playoffs. I mean, you know playoffs starting today, they're 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.840 not in. They're a third place in the division. You know, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.360 Cleveland is ahead of them, and of course the Steelers 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.280 are gonna go ahead and win that division. So this 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.760 could be a desperate team. And Lamar's coming off the 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.760 COVID nineteen lists. I don't know if he had it 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.480 or not, if he tests a positive or he was 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.480 close to someone who did. But I'm expecting Lamar Jackson, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.920 the reigning MVP, to be a desperate player who decides, 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.120 you know what, I'm gonna put this on my back. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.200 And what's the one thing I know about this Cowboys defense. 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.120 They can't stop the run. So I'm gonna see what 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.960 these guys can do. So I think I'm expecting Lamar 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.280 Jackson to come out here and put on a show. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.680 And you know, whether they run run some routes out 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.480 there or some guys and he decides to take off. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.920 I mean, I just expect this to be the Lamar 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.480 Jackson Show on Tuesday. It could be, and he needs 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.880 it to be because I mean it's started to the 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.840 chirps of everybody around and starting to say, hey, Lamar, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.560 he can't win the big game. I mean, he's been 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.760 in the playoffs twice. He's been exited twice in the 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.600 first round. So he needs to have a good display 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.080 these past couple of games just to reassure himself with 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.560 the with the Ravens, because if he goes out, if 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.040 he goes out there and they don't make the playoffs, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.960 I don't know, man, I don't know. So man, you 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.800 know what, Church, We're gonna keep this thing. We're gonna 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.679 play it back on Tuesday on Monday when we make 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.600 our pictures. Right now, it sound like you're leaning toward 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.119 the Ravens and then my mom, you know, for them, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.760 for them to get the six wins, that you would 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.879 be leaning toward the Cowboys. So, nah, I'm listening. I'm 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.040 gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard, but no, I can't. 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.200 I can't a little bit. I dug my grave, man, 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:33.719 and if I gotta lay in it, I gotta lay 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.480 in it. So I'm gonna go with the Cowboys. Man. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.440 We'll see if that changed my Monday, but we go ahead. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.120 So let me ask this to you guys watching the game. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.440 So you know, we're watching the game here, and obviously 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.760 you know we're looking at the Ravens specifically. But I 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.960 kept seeing t J. Wat in the backfield, and they 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.760 kept coming into my mind over again, how much they 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.240 talked about TJ. And I think of Taco Charleston. I 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.879 just keep felt thinking Taco Charleston decided to take Taco 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.359 Charlton over TJ. Watt, And and there was not you know, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.879 when you look at their collegiate you know, careers, t J. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.159 Watt was a much better player, you know, just the 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:15.000 mistake that the Cowboys made. And I was looking at 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.399 Pro Football Focus and they came out with their with 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.879 their All Pro list and they had Tank Lawrence second 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.119 team All Pro. And I'm just thinking, what could Tank 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.320 Lawrence and t J. Watt, What could they be together? 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:35.200 In my mind, I'm thinking von Miller d Ware of 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.680 what they were able to do in Denver and create 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.600 havoc and just just what Dercus Ware could have had 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.679 with another with that kind of guy on the other 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.359 side of him, beside Taco Cho. What a miss? What 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.399 a tragic miss by the Cowboys in the draft room 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.000 that day. It's a It's a tragic miss because I 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.160 mean Taco he's been bouncing around since he left, since 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.320 he left Dallas, and he's never kind of produced to 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.480 what t J. Watt has been able to do. But 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.959 I gotta get back to to your to your initial statement. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.080 They got the Marcus Lawrence as a what as a 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:10.119 as a second team what? All Pro? Yeah? Who was this? 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.960 Pro Football focus? Yeah? Oh? Man, ain't nobody, man, that's 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:20.320 at Chris Collinsworth. Jump man, Ain't nobody wants that? If 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.639 y'all don't know, man, I don't like Chris Collinsworth. Man. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:28.960 But that's all. That's a story for another day. And 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.439 you listen. You have a lot of stories for another 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:38.000 day that I cannot wait to hear down and break 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:44.160 this all down. You know, my listening, My list listens, Yo, listen, Yo, listens. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.159 It's right there with mine. It seems like, you know, 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.200 I like this jerif you don't like Chris, I like 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.240 se Man. I can't stand here. Knew it, knew it. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.160 Do you get do you get the Cowboys the pass 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.720 for passing up on what? Since they ended up getting 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.960 back in the fourth round, does that kind of even 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:07.040 it out or not? No? No, no, because I I 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:12.119 saw both players playing college and Taco Charlton had a 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:16.480 good senior year and it took him, you know, basically 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.719 four years to get there. And also, this is one 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.960 of the this is one of the damning things because 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.320 I lived in Ohio. If you're a good player in Ohio, 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.480