WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: 8-29-24 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:15.920 No Cowboys, This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:21.240 Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.840 Barry Church, Hecma Harrison, and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.440 All right, everybody, here we go. It is the Players Lounge. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.640 No players today, It's just me Scrugs in heck Maharson, 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:37.160 It's just us. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:37.800 It's just him. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.720 It's just us today. So will we will power through? 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.159 Bear Church off today former Cowboys safety. Lots of topics 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.560 to get to as the Cowboys are now back here 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.360 full time in North Texas. Had another open practice yesterday 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.080 at Ford Center for fans to come in and check 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.320 out for free as they get ready for all efforts 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.920 towards the Cleveland Browns to start the twenty twenty. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.480 Four in FL season. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.839 So, Heckma, they've added two more names to the practice 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.960 squad today. But the other name that was added yesterday 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.000 of big importance was Dalvin Cook. We'll get into Dalvin Cook, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.959 but I want to start with to me, the most important, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.000 which is the quarterback. Jerry Jones met with the media 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.720 yesterday Jerry has the smoothest press conferences that I've ever covered. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:25.720 From this standpoint, nobody knows how to put the sponsor 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.680 a sponsor in front of him a massive group of 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.160 media before the press cars. So if he just says, hey, look, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.639 you know we're gonna have a lottery, a Texas Lottery 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.360 press conference. That's the Cowboys to scratch off, and you know, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:39.720 just like, hey, we're gonna have it a ten o'clock 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.920 on a Wednesday. Nobody shows but to have a presser 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.600 in which Jerry's gonna talk. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.480 We're all showing up for that. But beforehand, here. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.440 Come the cheerleaders, and here comes the little scratch off thing, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.480 and the guy comes over and then we talked to him. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.400 You know what, I learned more about the scratch off 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.000 than a whole bunch of stuff tests. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.120 I was like, you know, this is smart. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.040 I remember the time he had Papa John coming when 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.520 they started their sponsorship with Papa John's pizza first off 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:06.840 as a trend and get he brought a whole bunch 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:07.320 of pizzas. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.280 So you're happy about that. Happy about that? All right? 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.680 So so Papa John talks and Jerry goes through that 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.919 and then then after Jerry talks in here comes the 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:18.959 head coach everything. I was like, you know what, that's 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.240 a smart way to do it if you want to 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.520 get coverage for the sponsor in the media, to talk 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:24.760 about it and get out there. So I was like, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.320 you know, this is Jerry. Jerry still on top of 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.400 his game. But then he went into the questions and 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.880 it became about Dak Prescott, and one of the questions 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.440 I asked him is what's Plan B. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:35.359 What's the strategy here? 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.880 You do not have another quarterback under contract next year? 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.639 Because Jerry basically came out and told everyone and Clarence 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.359 Hill wrote about it, He's not signing Dak before the season. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.040 So the deal for CD Lamb, that was for CD Lamb. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.520 There's no deal coming for Dak Prescott. Heck man, how 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.960 do you feel about that and no Plan B? 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:58.680 Well, look, I think this is Jerry being the ring 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.480 leader basically in this circus and calling you all in 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.760 and making you hang on every word that he says. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.520 And the media is going to do that because it's 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.040 Jerry and he knows how to play you guys. He 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.280 really does us guys. I'm sorry, I'm a part of 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.200 that well, but you know, when it comes to the 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.320 road mapping, you ask the biggest question, well, what do 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.359 you do if you don't sign Dak? And no one 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.280 has even gotten to that part of what does Plan 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.919 B look like? And to America's team, plan B does 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.160 not look good at all. Plan B does not get 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.840 butts into the seats. Plan B does not get more 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.680 memorabilia purchase. So you know, whatever Plan B is, if 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.400 it's not Dak, it's going to have to be something else, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.480 because right now you don't have I don't believe you 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.960 have a quarterback on your roster that you're confident with 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.600 going forward in the future. You're not saying, hey, we're 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.880 just going to develop this guy some more and he's 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.200 going to be the one to take us to the 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.200 Promised lad. The future without Dak doesn't look like twelve 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.600 wins seasons. The future without Dak looks much more abysmal. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.440 And people can talk about what they think about this 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.000 season all they want to. The previous seasons when they 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.200 went twelve and five, people were not predicting them to 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.760 go twelve and five, and they had talented rosters, and 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.520 so here you go. Here is and if you're just 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:20.000 asking me to dissect and interpret what Jerry is saying. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.120 I just I don't have a I don't have enough. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.960 I don't know I have enough skins on the wall 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.800 one to be able to do that. But number two, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.839 when I think when it comes down to what's going 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.080 on with Dak, I'm not saying that this is a 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.360 ploy in him negotiating through the media, but I am. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:36.680 If I was a. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.120 Betting man, I'd be betting that there's a deal already 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.080 on the table for Dak and Dak has yet to 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:43.800 sign that deal. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.760 You're, like all of us were yesterday. We don't know 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.000 what's going on. You're just asking the question, trying to 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.520 figure it out about why this doesn't make sense. So 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.320 Jerry tells me, you know what, they could all be 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.560 under contract. It wouldn't matter. They may not be here. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.160 So he went to this whole rigamarole of Okay, it 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.680 doesn't matter if they're under contract, because they basically I 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.320 could fire them, I could get rid of It doesn't 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.760 matter just because there are the contracts. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.920 Mean nothing, like Jerry, they mean nothing. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.360 They do and we haven't got to that point yet, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.480 which exactly make it. You know what makes this and 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.640 does it right? Come on, now, you know food, So. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.760 He gave us that whole rigamarole and did Jeff Cole 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.920 the Fox four asked Jerry a very legitimate question, what 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.799 else does Zach Prescott have to prove to you that he's. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.240 Worthy of contract? Yea? 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.520 And Jerry said nothing, And then he goes into the 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.279 whole economics of this is so Jerry just runs around 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:50.839 his whole thing there there like, Jerry, make it make sense? 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.719 Yeah, any day now the math is gone, math right, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:54.880 make it make sense. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.480 And when you say you think that there's a contract 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.120 there back to sign, I don't. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.160 Here's why I would be skeptical on just me. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:08.000 Okay, considering you already hurt your leg before you know, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.160 would you want to risk that? 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.280 And you say you want to be here, and if 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.000 there's a deal here that you're that's ready to go 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.880 that you like, why would you not take It's it? Okay? 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.400 So let's just be clear on this that right now 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.000 at the headquarters in Frisco, this is a pressure cooker 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:31.520 situation going into this season. Everybody is basically performing for 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.880 their job in the future if everybody beside CD lamb right. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.280 And so with that being said, there are a lot 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.800 of people here that need for this team to be successful. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.320 One of them, one of them right now, Dak Prescott. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.240 I feel like he's not a part of that pressure 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.080 cooker situation because let me tell you something, Dak's gonna 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.680 get paid sixty million. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.600 Dollars regardless, guardless, regardless, yes, regardless, he. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.360 Should be playing free. I'm getting paid you want, I mean, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:01.120 think about it. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.080 I mean, if we could just really add up who 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.640 the pressure is on this season to succeed and fail, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.040 and what this the representation of what this team is 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.800 gonna look like when we get to January, Dak is 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.280 gonna get paid, regardless if he's. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:12.560 Hurt or not. 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.640 Some team is going to play pay more than market 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.680 value for him. I would I mean, I would beg 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.280 to say that Mike McCarthy right now is the one 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.680 who's sweating the most as we're talking about Dak. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.880 Dak's gonna land on his feet. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.840 I'll tell you this, and this is my opinion, just 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.400 my opinion. I think McCarthy's fine too. If Mike McCarthy 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.840 is on the street after this year, I truly believe 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:39.120 that he'll get a head coaching job. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.360 Of course, of. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.160 Course, Mike McCarthy's not going to go somewhere and be 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:43.960 an assistant. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.440 That's never gonna happen to Mike. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.400 Well, come on, and I would say, from this standpoint, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.840 if we're asking ourselves right now, have they done everything 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.800 to help Mike McCarthy or they made a little bit 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.880 harder on Mike McCarthy, I'd say it's been made a 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:58.160 little bit. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.000 It's been made a little bit harder on Mike McCarthy 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:00.320 to hear. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.880 And if Mike McCarthy can figure out how just a 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.480 winning season, right, just winning a winning seat. You go 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:11.600 nine and eight here, considering what all In was said 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.960 and what all In showed us, this guy has another 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.480 winning season your first year calling plays again Dak Prescott, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.240 who led the league and picks the year before. As 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.040 you said, we gotta getri his offics a coordinator, you 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.360 take over. He leads the league and touchdown passes. Cede 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.280 Lamb is what one vote away from being unanimous All Pro. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.760 This man has shown in my mind he can coach. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.439 And you start going down to the winslows we talked 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.040 about here, he's top twenty all the time. This man 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.120 is this man is a really good coach in this league, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:41.760 in a league, but. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.160 It ain't a lot of good coach, right. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.320 I mean, you know we're talking to a man in 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.960 LA Brandon Staley was out there charges me. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.160 So we're seeing guys get jobs that can't perform. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.800 So to me, Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy should just 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.080 do what they do and if they're not wanted here, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.280 I do believe they'll. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:08:59.760 Be wanting somewhere. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.640 Question is on that it comes down to who do 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.840 we lose when we start talking about this team and 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.320 when we start talking about talent on this team, You know, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.160 who do we lose? Of substance that we're saying our 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.040 team is much worse because we lost this person we 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.360 had nine. You had nine All Pros on last year's team, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.640 all right, If you take away the specialty guys. You 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.240 lost Tyron Smith, an aging veteran still top of his 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.400 game at left tackle. That still leaves you with six 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.920 All Pros on this team that you have under contract 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.960 this year. There aren't a lot of teams with six 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.720 All Pros on them. And I'm taking away the other 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.360 the other specialty guys that you have that are definitely 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:37.240 viable for you. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:40.839 I'll hit you back with this. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.719 You now have two rookies that are going to start 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.840 for you on the offense at I would say the 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.520 two most critical positions on the offensive line left tackle 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:59.559 and center. So that to worry your running back room 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:04.920 is question mark field. That's one reason why you got 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.200 Dalvin cooking here. I had to fill out a sheet 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.520 the other day that said, Okay, how many yards will 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.320 Ezekiel Elliott game? 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:17.040 And they're assuming it was numbers? What's your number? What's 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:22.880 your number? Can I guess? Can I guess? Go ahead? Okay, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:23.840 go ahead, go ahead? 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:29.880 Newie shrugs went between six point fifty and in eight hundred. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:36.400 No lower than that? Yes, really, yes, wow, I am wow? 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:41.040 Really what four four hundred to four hundred and six hundred? 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.480 It was in the four hundred ange wow under five hundred. Okay, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.120 And I say that to you from the standpoint right now. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.640 We don't know exactly what it is they're going to do. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.520 You've brought in Dalvin Cook. Rico Dawdles listened to Brian 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.920 on the break. If you don't listen to the break here, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.320 make sure you go over to the Das Cowboys dot 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.800 Com and check out all the great podcasts. But the 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.439 break because is when I was just checking out on 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.240 my way over here today. He thinks at some point 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.839 time they're gonna look at Rico Daddle and saying, you 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.640 know what, hey young man, we want to see more 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.160 from You can't forget about my guy, ol boogie. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.040 This is a this is a smorgas board of running 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:15.520 backs here. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.640 This don't look at twenty sixteen Z or twenty seventeen 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:20.480 or twenty eighteen Z. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.880 It's not that player anymore. I don't know. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.599 Exactly what they're going to do because what do I 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.200 always say here? Man, listen to what they don't say. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.959 Nobody's come out here and said Ezekiel El, it's our workhorse. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.160 Ezekiel's number one, number one guy. Even what they talked 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.120 about last year with Tony Polar, you're not hearing anybody 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.760 tell you that about this running back room. So until 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.679 I I'm not convinced. So that's what I'm saying. This 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.240 thing is going to be spread out, it's gonna be 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.400 where do they want to go with this hot hand injuries, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.480 this whole thing. So offensive line running back rooms a 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.719 question the defensive line at their defensive tackle spots or 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.760 issues outside of your darters at the defensive end spots 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.920 you confident about the backups. I mean there's questions so 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.080 when you say, hey, look you've got six all pros. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.880 Having all pros helps, what are your all pros? Is 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.439 down Deron Bland for at least a month. We'll see 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.800 when he comes back. So there's there's there's question marks 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.360 there that I would say, but I understand your premise 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.439 of hey, look is this a talented roster. Yes, this 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:26.080 is a talented roster. How it fits in jails together, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:26.840 we'll see. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.000 This is where I. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.559 Come back into you where I think Mike McCarthy has 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.120 shown you since he's been here, especially after that first year. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.719 He knows how to work with young players and knows 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.600 how to make make the jigsaw puzzle work. We'll see, Yeah, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.960 we'll do we'll do wins later on how many wins 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.480 we think they'll get. But I just think there's some 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.680 unsolved question marks here about where this team goes. And you, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.040 I just I believe offensive defensive lines are where you 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.160 win these football games. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:56.840 I believe. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.439 I believe it's also where the Cowboys lost their playoff 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.920 game last year because they weren't strong on either one. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:07.720 Okay, So in this case, like I, I agree with 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:08.720 half of your premise. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:09.520 When when. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.240 Please, the thing is when I when I think about 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.080 Mike McCarthy, and since he's been hired here, the one 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.920 thing that he hasn't been that he has been willing 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.440 to do is change if something needs to be changed. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.240 And I'm talking about this goes from his defensive coordinator, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.440 his offensive line coach positions that were not working out. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.040 Mike McCarthy has not stayed the course in situations. He's 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.960 made those changes. He understands exactly what's going on with 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.720 his front line. And I think you point out something 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.240 that's very important. Dealing with a few rookies, not one, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.160 but two rookies on your offensive line. I don't think 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.080 that that's advantageous. But look at the draft order of 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.880 those two players that we're talking about, Okay, I think 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.040 that guyton comes in here, uh with with the hell 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.640 of a recipe of a guy that you know that 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.360 you can take and make into a left tackle. Now, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.920 going to your running back position, I'm sorry you were 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.200 in the same position last year with Tony Poler coming 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.440 off of a snapped ankle. All right, So the expectation 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.720 there wasn't that high, but Tony Poler still finished with 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.120 what one thousand yards? And I'm not saying, and I'm 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.960 not saying, I am not sitting here saying that Zeke 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.720 is going to be a thousand yard rusher. Okay, But 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.840 I do believe that when you incorporate a guy like 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.880 Dalvin Cook that's coming in and his whole thing has 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.200 been can he stay healthy? And what version are you 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.600 going to get of Dalvin Cook? But there are definitely 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.360 packages that I believe that coach McCarthy can use to 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.600 his advantage. The L but we call it the L 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.640 Boogie package. All right, I formation with Dalvin Cook. What 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.720 are some of the things that you've seen Dalvin Cook 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.880 do in the past, being in a pistol, the way 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.480 that he lines up off the formation, things like that 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.920 that I think can help you as a team because 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.680 it's going to be a running back by committee approach 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.920 and Dalvin Cook doesn't hurt that. So I don't think 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.640 that you are You are as bad off as we're 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.120 trying to make this sound going into your first game 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:06.720 in Cleveland. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.360 Guy, it was the right tackle Oklahoma. Now he's going 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:09.800 over the left. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:10.760 So there's a change. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.440 And this is the National Football League, the toughest levels 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.640 there is, and you're starting off with the defensive player 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.000 of the year. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:18.600 It's going to be an adjustment. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.560 The first six games are pretty he's they're throwing the 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.640 kitchen sink at him right away. Of course I have 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.160 a concern. And then how do you help him? That's 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.400 been my concern as well. Is it schoonmaker? What do 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.720 you do to just to just throw him on out 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.320 there and just say go handle it? I think that 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.280 I think that would be unfair. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:38.960 Why do you take a guy in the first round 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.360 then to be your left tackle and you know that 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.680 that's what his position is going to be. So I mean, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.600 you're setting him up for failure. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.360 I'm not saying you're setting up for failure. But at 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.040 the same time, I am I'm allowing an adjustment. I'm 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.600 allowing a rookie to be a rookie that there's going 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.600 to be It's going to be a it's gonna take 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:57.640 it's gonna take some time. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.360 It didn't do that with Tyler Smith. He was a 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.800 left tackle moved into the left guard. I mean, look, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.000 I'm not trying to say that the adjustment is easy. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.280 I know that the speed of the game is completely different. 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.320 I'm not naive to that, but just to say that, okay, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.560 this could be this is the weakest part of your 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.120 team because your first round draft pick, you know, isn't 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.360 any good. I think you've already talked about things that 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.680 you could do to cover up some of those warts. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.120 Just starting off in Cleveland. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.160 But remember Tyler had to go play left tackle. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.200 Okay, remember that the injuries in case. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.240 So he had to get it. I mean they had 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.240 to throw him out there, and look at the guy 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.280 did a fantastic job he did. I just think that 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.840 it's a lot to put out there for a guy 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.880 to go from right to left and not think that, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.360 hey man, there's gonna be some tough nights out here. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.040 Start your first game off with Miles Garrett. I just 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.640 think that's a challenge. I'm not saying that the guys 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.920 go fall on. I'm not saying this is gonna be 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.800 another Mozzie Smith type situation where your first round pick 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.760 is gonna let you down. Because Mozzi let everyone down. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.440 He was not what they thought he was gonna be. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.280 I'm not saying that. What I'm just saying is you 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.560 look at this skin sedle. Here he's facing some heavy 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.320 hitters and along this thing. If I'm the coach, I 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.399 got to sit there here room. He's a rookie player. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.800 It takes everybody in a little minute to get here. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.600 And then how do we help the player? Once again, 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.320 I talk about warts. How do you cover a warts? 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:21.840 If you're the defensive coordinator for Cleveland, you're, hey, let's 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.560 figure out the left tackles nor center's new. Let's test them. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.160 Let's test them. And so the tests are going to come. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.840 So Lari's a good offensive line coach. We've seen his 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.800 track record. The Cowboys is an organization. You are correct, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.879 They've done a very good job of developing people. But 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.440 at the same time, I just know it takes people 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.400 a minute. We can talk all day about how long, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.600 how great CD Lamb was last year leading the league 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.959 in receptions, make it all pro. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.280 Remember the first four games it was not pretty absolutely, and. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.040 We're talking about a veteran player who they had to 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.800 figure it out a little bit. That's kind of my 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.359 thing that I'm saying, we we we look at we 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:03.640 just want to hit the presto button. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.000 Say it's automatically gonna happen. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.680 This league is a challenge, and it's going He's coming 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.000 out facing one of the biggest challenges. And you know 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.920 you've got jj Lott, you got eight Hutchinson on the list, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.040 you got tip Oft on me, and there's gonna be 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:15.920 some tests right here. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.200 We'll see how he works with it. But it's going 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.480 to be a challenge, and I am going to be 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:21.840 on the cautious side. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.120 Maybe that's where I'm at. I'm on the cautious side 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.800 of things to say, hey, look, let's be ready because 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.120 it's going to be a challenge. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.080 He may he. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.280 May exceed everything he could. That could happen. We have 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.920 seen it happen with their first round picks. The offensive line, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.280 Tyron Smith excel have a history tign proof of consistency, Yes, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.639 Travis Travis, Travis for exceled. So if he excels, then 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.360 hey man, you follow it. But at the same time, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.000 I'm one of those guys and I'm gonna sit up 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.600 here and just say, man, look, let's let's be let's 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:58.320 be At the same time, Zach and Tyron were. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.480 Number one at their positions pretty much coming out, and that. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.480 You know where they were ranked Actually Tying was number two, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.120 but they were ranked pretty. They're ranked high. He wasn't 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.240 one of your top two offensive tackles off the board. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:16.119 He was drafted later. Travis Frederick was number two in 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.480 his class at the center position. So there's a little 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.280 bit of a difference. Tyler Smith was not. Tyler Smith 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.640 was a guy people like, who's this guy is at Tulsa. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:25.840 So we'll see. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.000 But I'm just one of those I just said, hey, look, 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.000 let's just be cautious here. It's gonna be tough. And 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.119 my gosh, Miles Gearhead can play from Arland, tex the 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.560 heck of a player here. So we'll see where it goes. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.920 Your confidence level is higher than mine if we got 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.800 if we got if we got a glass. So this 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.240 is this is probly the best way I actually put 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:44.800 this before we go to break. If this is a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:47.159 glass hecklers looking at I say it's half full. You 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.679 just said it's half empty. 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Yes, Mary 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:49.359 Church out for today. 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:50.240 I am new he Scruggs. 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.680 We're rolling along here. So Dalvin Cook added to the 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.960 practice squad something I wanted to bring up here. Jerry 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.480 Jones was asked yesterday, what did Zimmer tell you about 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.800 Dalvin Cook? And then what did it mean coming from him? 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:06.199 And Jerry basically said, you know, there's recommendations and then 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:09.640 there's recommendations from somebody that knows, and then the way 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:16.120 he said it, so basically Zimmer put it on Jerry, Yeah, 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:20.280 this guy, you want this guy. I leaned on this guy. 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.600 This is this is a good move for you. And 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:26.320 so they did it. They brought him in. We talked 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.119 about Dalvin Cook last year on this show here it 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.760 was coming off injury, didn't really jive with the Jets, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:33.800 ended up with Baltimore, and of course they got put 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:38.000 out of the playoffs. He potentially is fully healed, now 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:39.840 be interested and we would get a chance to talk 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:42.840 to Dalvin Cook. But I just think that mixed. Once again, 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:46.320 what are they not telling us? You know, Mike out 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:50.160 here praised the Elik Davis. Malik is cut. So now 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.919 you've got Ezekiel Elliott not hearing anybody say he's going 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:54.480 to be the bell Cow guy. He's going to be 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.080 our I'm not hearing that. So she got Rico o'dowdell, 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:00.680 you got Hunter Limpke, and now you to add Dalvin 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:02.959 Cook in the room. There's just a lot a lot 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.920 of gumbo. Ain't no one chili. It's a lot of gumbo. Now, 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:08.800 got a lot of gumbo in here. So that means 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:10.800 a lot of guys can potentially get the football here. 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:12.520 So I'll be interested to see exactly what they. 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.040 Do at this point in the season. 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:16.760 You know that the moves that they're making our telltale 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:18.879 signs of where they feel like their weaknesses are. I mean, 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.920 we bought in a cornerback, we bought in another defensive tackle. 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:23.520 So you can tell me what you think all you 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:26.040 want to. I'm looking at your moves and this isn't 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:30.320 one of those in season you know, gamesmanship type of moves. No, 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.840 they're trying to strengthen this fifty three and they're going 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:35.600 to continue to turn as they see need. And so 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:37.240 you bring in a guy, You bring in a guy 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:40.480 like Dalvin Cook, and that says to me that, look, 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:42.960 if we go to game day, we've got to have 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:45.119 two guys in his backfield that we can bet on, 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:46.719 and right now I don't feel like we have that. 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:50.359 And so what does Dalvin Cook bring that the rest 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:54.239 of those guys don't. And look, as you just just 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:57.120 narrated that, look Dalvin Cook last season, he was hurt. 0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.480 I mean, nobody would touch him besides the Jets. Who 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:01.640 did the Jets half the Jets had a guy by 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:03.520 the name of Breece Hall that was coming off of 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:05.800 a knee injury. But oh, by the way, he legit 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.960 all right, he was fine, he was he was hell, 0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:12.040 he was here, and the situation was nothing like Dalvin 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.800 Cook originally thought he went into New York because look, man, 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:18.320 this this young guy is for real in New York. 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:20.280 But you know, I look at the way that he 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:23.320 ended last season, only had five carries in those last 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:25.520 two games. Then he goes on to Baltimore, and I 0:25:25.520 --> 0:25:26.880 think those are forgettable reps. 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:29.719 Right, Yeah, I'm laughing because I'm just thinking about you know, 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:33.680 Dalvin is probably looking just man, priest is hurt, he's hurt, 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:34.840 and you know he look out that you see the 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:36.159 guy running and then somebody. 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:36.280 Just like. 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:40.800 Not as hurt as we thought, not as hurt as 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:42.960 we thought. And that's uh. 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.440 Bill walshton that to Steve Young, Yeah, because Steve Young 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:48.120 saw he was with that forty. Yes, you said Joe's 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:49.879 you said Joe's hurt like the back you said he 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:50.200 was hurting. 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:51.680 Bill wats kind of game looked. 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:56.399 Like yeah, yeah, oh oh well not as hurt as 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:56.800 we thought. 0:25:56.840 --> 0:25:58.960 But I mean when you look at when you look 0:25:58.960 --> 0:25:59.760 at Dalvin. 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:01.640 Cook again, and I just said it, man, it's it's 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:03.159 all about him staying healthy. 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:04.679 If they if he can stay healthy. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.200 And we've seen when he was, you know, running on 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:10.040 the Kevin Stefanski, which I think the Kevin Stefanski Mike 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:13.000 Zimmer we're gonna talk about this next week. The the 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:15.760 parallel between those two. I think it's gonna be interesting 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.680 going into Cleveland. But the best years that you got 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:20.720 out of Dalvin Cook, not only was he a runner, 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:22.960 He's also a guy that can receive out of the backfield. 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.600 So he is multi dimensional in that way. And the 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.800 biggest question that you ask yourself is is he healthy? 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:31.639 If you're saying zeke, I'm just gonna push it to 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:32.399 five hundred. 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:33.119 Uh. 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:36.200 If he's gonna get you five Hunter Lifkey, whatever those 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:38.640 numbers are gonna be, We're gonna like, there's your gumbo, 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:41.040 there's your gumbo. This is how we're mixing it up 0:26:41.200 --> 0:26:42.840 because there are a lot of packages that I believe 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:46.200 that Mike McCarthy is gonna experiment with the over these 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:48.720 first quarter of games just to figure out what that 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:50.359 running back room is gonna look like. 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:53.399 Here's the most important package and they failed at this 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:56.600 last year, the red zone package, of course too many times, 0:26:56.680 --> 0:27:00.639 especially inside the five yard learning they had problems. To 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:02.960 me when I look at the move for Dalvin Cook, Okay, 0:27:02.960 --> 0:27:05.959 here's Dalvin Cook, here's Ezekiel Elliott. We're trying to figure 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:08.880 out who can get this ball into the end zone here, 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:11.399 and uh, I know Link had the. 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:15.920 Funled inside the one again. 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:18.240 So he's got he's got work he's got to do 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:22.400 to gain confidence back. You got Rico Daddle. They are 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:24.800 looking at we're going to try to fix with these 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:27.919 four players. We're going to try to fix how we 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:31.760 can punch this thing in inside the red zone, especially 0:27:31.760 --> 0:27:35.160 inside the five because that was a critical area which 0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:37.920 I think they lost at least two football games last 0:27:38.000 --> 0:27:41.880 year by not being able to have it, possibly possibly three. 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:44.680 Game imagine that, I mean, and in those situations which 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:47.040 are documented and you saw it, and just going back 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:50.720 to the Miami game, losing Zeke in that situation I 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:53.800 think was big because you lose your biggest red zone 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:57.040 threat and having that back, how does this mix because 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:00.840 we still haven't yet, even through the preseason, we haven't 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:03.720 seen that change that back that is okay, he could 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:06.359 take this sixty yards. We haven't even seen any of 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:07.680 those types of runs. 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:10.000 So now you got it? All right, great, I'm glad 0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:11.960 you brought it up. Guess what, you don't have it? Yeah, boom, 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.560 there you go. So there's no TP. Tony Polk ain't 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:16.520 walking through that door. Tony door Set, ain't walking through 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:19.480 that You don't have it. Old Zeke twenty sixteen, Z 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:22.000 he's not walking through that door. That's not going to 0:28:22.080 --> 0:28:22.720 be your game. 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:25.280 And I think that's why you and that's why you 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:28.280 bet on Tony Parlard last year, was because you were 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:31.479 saying he's that game breaker, he's that game changer, and 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:33.720 you never saw that, even when you tagged him for 0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:36.280 all that money, you never saw him be that guy 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:39.080 because he only gave you one one hundred yard game 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:41.360 last season and you said he was top ten. And 0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:42.840 I'm saying this, I'm misused him. 0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:50.000 What So skip Pete form a running back coach. 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:52.240 Skip set. 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:54.640 When you had a guy like Pollard, you just don't 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:56.960 make him your one guy and try to He's a 0:28:57.040 --> 0:28:59.960 part of a tandem. And the best usage you can 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:01.920 go out of him was that kind of thunder lightning 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:05.400 thing between Zeke and Pollard. The problem was they probably 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:08.680 needed to change around the dynamic in making Tony maybe 0:29:08.680 --> 0:29:12.040 the starter more and getting him more playing time before 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:14.640 they actually made him the starter. But he said, don't 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:16.440 just put him back there and just say go be 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:18.920 the one guy, Go be the workhorse. That's not the 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:22.160 best use of his talent, I mean, And to me, 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:23.280 I think he was correct. 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:25.360 So I'm gonna just say this. 0:29:25.800 --> 0:29:28.840 I thought that last year Tony poly Rico dalore like 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:30.840 kind of like one and the same. You didn't get 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:32.720 as much of the change of pace that you needed 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:35.440 from those two guys as running backs in that backfield. 0:29:35.480 --> 0:29:35.800 That's all. 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:39.560 That's really all I can point to because really newly, fundamentally, 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:42.360 I believe that a good running back and a good 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:43.880 defense can win your championship. 0:29:43.880 --> 0:29:44.720 That's just what I believe. 0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.040 But that's to me, I found now that a lot 0:29:47.040 --> 0:29:49.800 of people view that as being a dated, dated train 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:51.720 of thought when it comes down to football, because this 0:29:51.800 --> 0:29:55.000 is a past centric league. You need a guy in 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.280 those moments where you're just talking about two to three 0:29:57.360 --> 0:29:59.520 games that would have been decided if you could score 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:00.680 down in the red zone. 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:01.360 That's big. 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:05.080 That's the difference between being a one seed are playing 0:30:05.120 --> 0:30:07.560 in the wildcard. You feel what I'm saying, So I 0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:11.520 just look where. That's where I really feel like. Look, 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:16.520 you are hanging on to everything you hear coming off 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:19.360 of these boards of who's being cut, because you're still 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:21.920 trying to find that guy. I don't think they're done. 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:25.160 I don't think they're done looking for running backs because 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:29.280 you can't. You can't bet the house that Dalvin Cook 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:32.920 can be an eight hundred yard rusher for the season. 0:30:32.960 --> 0:30:35.400 I'm not looking for eight hundred from him. I'm looking 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:35.640 for you. 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:39.480 Just say Smorgas, board of these guys together, Okay, that's 0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:41.880 why I got Zeke under five hundred. I think this 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:44.640 is going to be a true committee of guys. We'll 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:47.480 ride who's hot, we'll ride the situation. We'll see where 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:48.360 guys are going. 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:50.600 At the end of the season. If it's fifteen yard, 0:30:50.840 --> 0:30:53.600 it's a success. If you have three guys or two 0:30:53.680 --> 0:31:00.320 guys with five hundred yards rushing, this is sea you 0:31:00.360 --> 0:31:02.760 would call it a successful experiment if you get that right. 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:04.840 I'm not looking so much at the numbers to say, 0:31:04.840 --> 0:31:08.240 hey man, five five for Cook and and five for Zeke. 0:31:09.280 --> 0:31:11.160 Give me the are you converting in the red zone 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.520 and scoring. Okay, good deal. You know, are you are 0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:14.080 you able? 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:18.080 Are you able to complement your quarterback Dak Prescott and 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:21.800 your defense? That's more I'm more concerned about that than 0:31:21.840 --> 0:31:26.080 I am necessarily yards, because we've seen we've seen people 0:31:26.160 --> 0:31:28.920 get that. You know, these diet coke empty calorie yards 0:31:28.960 --> 0:31:31.480 a lot. You know, you get down, you know you 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:33.240 can get down in a game. The next thing you know, 0:31:33.240 --> 0:31:36.320 you're filling the stat sheet up. You look at the 0:31:36.400 --> 0:31:39.320 numbers in the Packer game. Okay, that adds some numbers, 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:43.440 but the competitive phase was over. So I'm more concerned about, 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:46.160 you know, how are you winning games than the numbers, 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:50.360 because you could you could have Ezekiel Elliott have a 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:53.120 forty nine yard rushing day, but he could have some 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:55.400 really critical plays where he's moving the ball on third 0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:57.720 and two or he's scoring inside that red zone, and 0:31:57.760 --> 0:31:59.760 then that's more of an effectiveness there. So I don't 0:31:59.800 --> 0:32:02.360 think necessarily looking at numbers are going to tell me 0:32:02.520 --> 0:32:04.440 what I needed to get out of these guys as 0:32:04.520 --> 0:32:05.400 much as hey, what. 0:32:05.320 --> 0:32:07.360 Are the wins looking like? How are we able to 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:08.640 keep our defense fresh here? 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:10.880 How are we able to keep moving the ball and 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:14.080 allow Dak because if we're if it's me, what is Mike. 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:17.280 Mike's a passing guy, always been a passing guy. Can 0:32:17.320 --> 0:32:20.320 you run the ball effectively enough that Dak doesn't have 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.160 to throw the ball forty to fifty times a game. 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:24.400 That's what I would not want, And I. 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:26.800 Guess and the only reason why I was questioning that 0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:30.520 because the one thing is I'm assuming that everybody feels 0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:32.240 like the running game is and is going to be 0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:35.040 a compliment to your quarterback. It's going to help him 0:32:35.040 --> 0:32:38.000 in those situations where he doesn't have to sustain drives 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:39.760 by throwing the ball. If you could turn around and 0:32:39.760 --> 0:32:42.080 hand it off to a guy like Ezekiel Elite, if 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:44.560 you could score down in the red zone, I just 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:47.720 think that one. Even going back to those those those 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:51.080 five losses, these are five games that you had where again, 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:53.840 if you're able to convert, convert, you're able to win 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:55.160 those games, as you pointed out. 0:32:55.160 --> 0:32:56.240 But then going back to the. 0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:59.360 Green Bay playoff game, if early that first quarter, if 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:02.080 you're able to run the ball, that changes the dynamic 0:33:02.320 --> 0:33:05.240 of being down fourteen to oh quickly stop it. 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:06.480 Or stop it. 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:08.400 But I'm saying if you can run the ball, convert, 0:33:08.440 --> 0:33:11.040 pick up a first down, and still keep that offense 0:33:11.280 --> 0:33:14.280 on the sideline. Sometimes the best offense is the best defense, 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:15.520 and that comes with the running game. 0:33:15.640 --> 0:33:17.560 Let's get our second break in here. 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So all right, 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:08.840 good luck to you guys as you get ready to 0:37:08.880 --> 0:37:14.280 do that here back here on the players lounge. Who's 0:37:14.320 --> 0:37:18.400 the biggest threat to the Cowboys in the East. The 0:37:18.400 --> 0:37:21.560 first thought is Philadelphia. But as I was trying to 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:25.800 pick playoff teams, we know every year there's shuffles. It 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:34.839 shuffles around. And Dan Quinn is in Washington. Now trader trade, Yeah, 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:36.320 trader man. 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:39.000 Trader. 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.920 He left us not the first. 0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:44.960 Do attorney did it. 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:47.520 Once went from being a coordinator here to coordinate a 0:37:47.600 --> 0:37:50.880 head coach of Washington and Bryan Day balls back with 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:53.920 the New York Giants. I don't have a lot of 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:57.880 faith in the g Men, But is it Philadelphia who 0:37:58.280 --> 0:38:01.120 got two different coordinators? Vic Fangi takes over the defense 0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:03.239 and Vic Fangjo was once the guy when he was coached. 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:05.640 Denver came and came over to Jered World said here's 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:07.440 the blueprint how to beat the Cowboys. And then they 0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:10.440 have Kellen Moore, former Cowboy quarterback and coordinator. He's now 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:12.879 the offensive coordinator for the philip Eagles. So in your mind, 0:38:12.920 --> 0:38:15.919 heck Maherrison, who of the three is the biggest threat 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:18.520 to the Cowboys to knock them off from being nfcas champion. 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:20.440 That's but look, let me just say this, man, it 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.000 is every time I see a news flash about the 0:38:23.120 --> 0:38:27.040 dysfunction in Philadelphia, I smile because for so many years 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:30.480 they've just gotten that. Everybody's so kudos and high on 0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:33.400 their general manager and the signings that they're making, and 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:36.520 guys are not very far removed from going to a 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:40.080 super Bowl, super Bowl. But yet here are questions between 0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:44.880 Sirianni and Jalen Hurts, which to me is absurd between 0:38:44.920 --> 0:38:47.319 a guy that you paid a substantial amount of money 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:49.000 to to lead your team. 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:50.720 You bring in Saquon Barkley. 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:53.239 Obviously your defense doesn't look the way that it used 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:56.839 to now that Fletcher Cox has retired. But I think 0:38:56.880 --> 0:39:01.160 Philadelphia still is Philadelphia. I mean hasn't been a repeat 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:04.680 NFC East champion since two thousand and four, and for 0:39:04.840 --> 0:39:08.359 good reason, because bad teams all of a sudden become good. 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.080 And I think dan Quinn, because I loved him so 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:13.239 much as a coach when he was here, realized that 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:16.279 he is a real, true culture builder and he's going 0:39:16.360 --> 0:39:19.560 to do exactly that down in Washington, DC that I 0:39:19.640 --> 0:39:22.279 think with that rookie quarterback man, they have an opportunity 0:39:22.360 --> 0:39:24.279 to surprise a lot of people. I do know that 0:39:24.360 --> 0:39:27.000 there is going to be struggle anytime that you have 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:30.640 a rookie quarterback, but defensively, I think with the guys 0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:33.200 that they've brought in and with the mind of Dan Quinn, 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:35.520 it's going to be a problem for a lot of teams. 0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:38.440 And I don't want to just discount the New York Giants, 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:40.840 but right now the Giants don't look like they're putting 0:39:41.280 --> 0:39:45.240 any effort into getting Daniel Jones any you know, supporting 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:48.360 casts other than the god neighbors that they got from Lsha. 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:49.600 Look all we had to do is watch the heart 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:52.200 knocks and then tell y'all do they know what they're 0:39:52.280 --> 0:39:55.320 doing amongst each other? I mean that was there watching 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:59.560 that heart knocks, and just I didn't understand the strategy. 0:40:00.280 --> 0:40:03.480 I go back into the strategy. I'm with you in 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:08.319 terms of looking at Washington because he has meaning, dan Quinn, 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:10.160 He's got institutional knowledge of what's here. 0:40:11.200 --> 0:40:11.680 He knows it. 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:19.240 I was so right about Kellen Moore with the Chargers. 0:40:20.280 --> 0:40:22.000 Remember Church was fighting me on it fighting. 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:23.440 I'm like that, ain't it? Man? 0:40:23.520 --> 0:40:26.520 And I was also right in terms of Mike McCarthy 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:28.000 needed to be the guy they needed to move on 0:40:28.080 --> 0:40:32.840 from Kelly Moore. So Kellen Moore goes out to the Chargers. 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:38.160 Kellen went to a seat. Let's be fair, though, Kellen 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:40.719 was he went to a sinking ship, all right. So 0:40:40.880 --> 0:40:44.960 Kellen got on a sinking ship. That thing was already 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:45.439 going down. 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:48.920 What was what were we told about what Justin Herbert 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:51.399 was going to do? Oh oh, he goes from Dack 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.640 to Justin Hurry. He's with a better quarterback. Okay, Justin 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:56.920 herb about to blow m v ple that that was 0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:00.719 what was put out there. Meanwhile, oh, you know, like, hey, 0:41:00.800 --> 0:41:03.440 you know he putting in out there though Dak limited 0:41:03.560 --> 0:41:05.440 him and Dak had all these picks last year, that 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:09.839 Dak was the problem. You're working with an inferior, right, 0:41:10.040 --> 0:41:12.040 Dak goes to Mike McCarthy and leads the league in 0:41:12.120 --> 0:41:16.240 touchdown pass It happened to Justin Herbert. Well, Justin Herbert 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:19.400 got paid, but they didn't make the playoffs. Head coaches fired, 0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.680 Kellen Wore's out of a job. So we saw how 0:41:21.800 --> 0:41:25.239 that thing just imploded. So now you're gonna go work 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:28.760 with Jalen Hurts, who was having a couple questionable issues 0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:32.200 last year. People started, you know, chirping about him despite 0:41:32.360 --> 0:41:37.440 you know, being the super Bowl the year before. Jalen 0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:40.280 Hurts is not the same kind of quarterback with Dak Prescott. 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:45.640 They're different quarterbacks. Okay, Okay, they're different. Their strengths are different. 0:41:45.440 --> 0:41:46.360 Because of his legs. 0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:50.040 Okay, and I think Dak is I think Dak has 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:55.719 a better arm. So good players, but different. You know, 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:59.520 so many times people are thinking, yo, black quarterbacks. You know, 0:41:59.600 --> 0:42:03.200 they're not. They're not. They're just not so that's why 0:42:03.239 --> 0:42:05.359 I would just say I think I'm just not sold 0:42:05.400 --> 0:42:09.760 on Calimore. And also knowing that the general manager, Howie Roseman, 0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:12.279 likes to be involved, Yeah, well they want to collaborations. 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:13.719 I don't know how to go other And. 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:15.880 That's what I'm saying for so many times you hear 0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:19.160 how Howie Roseman's name comes come up as the genius 0:42:19.600 --> 0:42:21.719 that gets these guys signed. And you know it made 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:26.360 it to Philadelphia Bulldogs with all the Georgia acquisitions that 0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:28.560 they made out there. But I mean, look, I think 0:42:28.920 --> 0:42:33.000 no matter what, you could, possibly the Cowboys could could 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:37.239 repeat as NFC He's champions. It'd be a twenty years 0:42:37.239 --> 0:42:39.400 since it's been done, but they are going to have 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:43.560 the number one stop the run that happens. If the 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:46.759 Cowboys do that, then I'm looking at a team that 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:50.840 obviously offensively. If Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb they have 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:54.080 a connection coming into this season, that doesn't take them 0:42:54.160 --> 0:42:55.520 five games to get started. 0:42:55.719 --> 0:42:59.319 Correct. Yeah, Hey, look, you know so on my head 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:02.719 said off the run and also be able to run 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:04.160 the ball in the red zone. 0:43:04.440 --> 0:43:12.320 Half full sure, I hope you have full so on 0:43:12.440 --> 0:43:12.880 the record. 0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:15.560 Biggest threat in the NFC East of the Cowboys is. 0:43:15.680 --> 0:43:20.280 For Heck Mahers. I'm going to Philadelphia, go Washington, Okay, 0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:21.840 I am going to go Washington. 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:25.960 The institutional knowledge of Dan Quinn and his belief of 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:28.200 being able to get because people up there and players 0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:31.319 up there, they're starving for something different what he brought 0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:33.759 here and how that defense was changed around here. I 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:35.600 believe he can do some of those same things for 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:38.600 them as well. Not saying it's going to necessarily result 0:43:38.640 --> 0:43:40.520 in them winning the East or making the play, but 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:42.320 I do think we're going to see some you know, 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:44.440 they're They're not going to be They're not going to 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:45.480 be an easy game on Sunday. 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:47.759 What are your thoughts on rookie quarterbacks, because most people 0:43:47.840 --> 0:43:50.239 believe the same thing about rookie quarterbacks. So you think, 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:53.280 you know that Daniels, obviously in his first year at Washington, 0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:56.160 can have a substantial amount of success to lead them 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:59.239 to a championship or just NFC East championship. 0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:02.399 Honestly, I have not seen enough of the young man 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:07.640 to make a determination here in the preseason, but I'm 0:44:07.680 --> 0:44:10.200 a fan of Cliff Kingsbury. I think he's I think 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:12.719 he understands offenses, very well. You just kind of look 0:44:12.719 --> 0:44:16.160 at his track record there and I just the biggest 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:17.920 thing is just keep him in games and if you 0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:20.279 can get this thing to the fourth quarter. And we 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:23.000 know they have defensive especially the D line, They've got 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:25.320 talent there. It's just been a matter of unlocking it. 0:44:25.640 --> 0:44:27.239 And I think that Dan Quinn will be able to 0:44:27.280 --> 0:44:29.400 unlock some things that Ron Rivera was not able to do. 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:31.640 In Washington. 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:33.560 I also think Ron had too much on his plate 0:44:33.640 --> 0:44:35.719 in Washington as well. Dan's gonna be able to coach 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:37.560 the team. They've got people in front office to run it. 0:44:37.640 --> 0:44:39.040 They have Ron doing a lot of stuff here, so 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:42.960 I think they can be improved approved overall organization from that. Heck, 0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:45.120 this was fun, man, Will Yeah, we'll get after it 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:45.560 on Monday. 0:44:45.560 --> 0:44:50.840 Didn't take us long to disagree. Or Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:54.480 Labor Day, Labor day, labor Day. I'm not going to 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:56.680 make you labor on Labor Day. Yes, yes, yes, Chris 0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:58.680 is gonna be working on Labor Day for sure. All right, 0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:01.440 that's players, Lou goodbye. 0:45:03.120 --> 0:45:06.160 He has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:08.160 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.