WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: The Culture & Moxy Change 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:18.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:23.400 player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:28.560 the Star No. Your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:35.280 Neue Scrugs. Victory Monday, Yes, sir, starting a little earlier, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.720 two and a half earlier, hours earlier than normal. Players 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.240 lounge right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Come. Brought to 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:46.800 you by Hotels five in a row five victory at 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:54.440 Seeing Instance twenty sixteen five Tuesday were good. Yes, Barry Church. 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:58.960 Yes for Cowboys safety Danny mccraig, the ultimate survivor for 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.000 Dallas Cowboys safe. You have new Scrugs. Players lounges about 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.480 these two guys in their perspective as players, as we 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.120 talk about things of the Dallas Cowboys in and the 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.720 National Football League A thirty five twenty nine over time, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.280 when you and I thought the Cowboys win by seven, um, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.720 they won by six. You thought it would be more 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.760 of a blowout, And I mean I got you no, no, 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.800 ye you know what they say. I didn't say if 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.800 but we all won? Yeah? Yeah, Well, as new he 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:37.080 says anytime he loses, well they beat we were good, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:42.640 right good, We're going to Vegas. We catching showing money 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.720 if we did that. But uh, look, this is it 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.480 reminds me. I've been watching the Muhammad Ali documentary on 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.480 PBS by Ken Burns. If you have not seen it 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.880 as tremendous um. Angelo Dundee was Ali's training Angelo Dundee. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:56.520 I mean, the best fighters went to Angelo. And I 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.559 remember when he was training Sugar Ray Letard and Sugary 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.800 Letards in fight and Sugar it's just not doing what 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.520 he needs to do, you know, the better fighter in 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.280 the ring. He's just not getting it done. And he 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.400 looks at me. You're blowing a kid. You're blowing it. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.079 And I'm sitting there watching the cowboys shoot themselves in 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.560 the foot time after time, and I'm thinking, where's Angelo 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.799 Dundee to come tell the cowboys right now at home? 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.480 You're blowing it. You're blowing it. Because the thing we 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.880 spoke about on the players lives last week was happening. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.480 You could have to beat them and they'll let you 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.840 beat yourself. And the Cowboys were doing that in this 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.320 football doubt. But they won like a great Botcher who 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.920 doesn't come to the ring with his best And you 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.480 guys have played the game. You don't play sixteen now 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.360 seventeen perfect Sundays. That's not gonna happen. But you left 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.120 the stadium with a win. And now, I always remember 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.280 one time when the Cowboys had a bad winner. To 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.320 Wade Phillips, he said, we're not gonna apologize for winning. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.239 What I doubt you can't do that, I mean, and 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:51.919 you go out there and it just goes to show 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.480 you how much this team has changed the culture, the 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.000 moxi of this team. Because before twelve penalties for one 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.680 hundred and say that again, the culture and the moxie 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.520 of this team has changed. Yea, the mojo moment that 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.640 we clowned upon seemed to come to light a little 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.600 bit here. I mean, look, they had twelve penalties for 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:16.040 one hundred and fifteen yards two turnovers in the first half. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.440 This would have killed the Cowboys last year. But they 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.400 just like a boxer, just like you said, they get hit, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.240 they CounterPunch, they get hit again, they CounterPunch again. And 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.720 Dak Prescott, who started off a little slowly, all right, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.480 I mean he started he wasn't putting the ball where 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.320 he did to be at a couple of those things 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.000 in the past, kind of bait him in the butt early, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.120 you know that that early interception in the in the 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.080 red zone, he kind of forced it in there. To say, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.880 Wilson popped it up safety, got an interception, and then 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.440 we go to the goal line on the one inch line, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.080 which you should have scored him, you know, third down. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.480 But I'm gonna say nothing that. But we go to 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.600 that play and we've seen it happen time and time 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.040 again with Prescott. He leaps over reaches, leaps over reaches, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.240 gets to touchdown. This time. You know it been him 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:52.480 in a but a little bit. My man had a 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.200 perfect jab, popped it out, balls on the ground, New 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.760 England's ball. But you sit there, you think, oh, it's 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.240 just not our day. You know, we can't we got 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.600 we block up. We can't score off a block points. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.960 It's over. We ain't going it. We ain't getting the 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.440 calls going our way. This is New England. What can 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.320 we do. All we did is to come out in 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.440 the second half. Defense stepped it up. After the halftime. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.840 The four drives that the Patriots had, they only a 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.360 mass thirty nine yards after that and the until you know, 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.080 get later to the game. They started doing a little 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.159 bit more. But that gave us a chance to fight 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.440 back in battle. And even though our run game wasn't crazy, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.720 it wasn't, you know, off the chains, it did enough 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.839 to keep that New England the defense honest and Dak Prescott, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.200 Ceedee Lamb, the playmakers they had out there, they just 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.240 started to go on to work. And I'm starting to 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.760 be on Danny sat on this one, Ceedee Lamb. He's 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.040 starting to take that he's starting to take that crusp 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:39.960 up there. He's starting to be that number one guy. 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.599 And I know, you know Cooper was hampered a little bit. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.159 But that's the hard thing about our offense. How do 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.880 you plan to attack them defensively? Like like Cooper's down 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.880 a little bit, Our running games not as stout as 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.240 it could be. Ceede Lamb's bawling out. You got Noah 0:04:53.279 --> 0:05:00.040 Brown catching passes, taking it to distant. He did. He 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:01.640 won a lot of us one on ones. He was 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.719 a chain mover out there. I mean, you got said Wilson. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.520 Said Wilson, Who's just making immaculate catch after immaculate catch, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.719 fourth and fourth and you go to you what maybe 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.320 fourth option at receiver, and he makes one of the 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.800 best catches of the game. Over the top, twirling catches 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.680 it two feet in bounds, keeps the chains moving. This 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.960 to me was the most impressive victory so far this 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.360 season from the Dallas Cowboys because it just showed how 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.840 much fight they had and no matter how bad they're 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.520 getting beat down on, how many mistakes they made offensively, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.200 they were still able to overcome that and get the W. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.520 And like you said, I mean, you're not gonna apologize 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.680 for winning. This was an ugly win, but they won 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.200 the game. They showed you they can win in different 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.560 with fallaists. Okay, listen, I'm gonna keep it positive, Okay, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.800 And I know we all feel really good about the 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.960 ugly Okay, but some of the mistakes that we made 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.520 in this game. I was watching it and it just 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.120 took me back to Atlanta last year where we came 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.360 through when we won sometime the conflict it went to 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.720 our side, right, We just got lucky on some instance 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.920 where it was like, all right, today is our day, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.320 right because no matter no matter how many things go bad, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.760 we can find out some things to make way to 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.720 make some things go right, right, and the on side 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.880 kick with Atlanta last year was was one of those 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.680 opportunities for us to make a play, and we did 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.320 and then we come back and we win the game 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.320 right now. But other than that, the game was sloppy, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.960 talking about turnovers, you talk about some of the clock 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.440 management stuff that was going on that has been consistent 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.000 over the last three weeks. We got out of there, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.359 and yes, resilience is a thing, right, but there's Arizona 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.000 coming up, all right, and we have to play Arizona, alright. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.480 He've Beennesota starting to roll, all right, and get Kirk 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.520 Cousins and they got Justin Jefferson, thieland and Cook out there. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.719 So I think so, I think that it is it's 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.080 great that we want and I'm really really happy that 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.520 we did. Kelly Moore still in his bad right, Dan 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.359 Quinn still as bad. We got to tighten up some 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.360 of our run fits. But when it when it really 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.520 came time for us to make some plays and change 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.520 the game and set the tempo, we did, and mostly 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.719 with trade Munt Diggs this time it was not Michael Parson. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.440 Diggs big hits on the sideline interception for six and 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.200 I did give up the touchdown, but it was still 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.640 a momentum thing with him. Um. But going into the 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.640 bye week, I hope that we go back and this 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.960 is not one of those games where we throw the 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.080 film away. Hey man, you know it was going to 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.800 the bye week. We were on the winning streak and 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.280 we just got to win the game. Go back and 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.320 watch this film and say, hey, when we play something, 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.320 because no matter what, the patrons were two and three team, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.800 all right, yeah, they weren't special. When we play some 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.760 of the some of those teams with the winning records 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.360 and those teams that are on the roll and can 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.560 finish some of those drives, we're gonna have some issues 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.520 if we don't go back and watch and say this 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:38.680 is these are some of the things we need to 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:43.200 clean up. But it was. It was great. I mean 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.360 that was the first five minutes of the game and 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.800 the last five minutes of the game absolutely one of 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.960 the best TV shows I've ever seen in my side 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.640 heart was bumping and yes CD lamb Yes, yes this 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.880 is no dig. I want to say this allout, no 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.440 dig Maury Cooper. But we saw this last last year 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.440 when it was fourth and whatever and Cede Lamb is 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.680 the one running the over route and he ended up 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.120 dropping at that time. And you see it again this year. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.800 When you gotta have when you have those guy to 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.080 have in situations, it's Cede Lamb who's making the plate 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.920 and he turns a twenty yard play into a touchdown 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.400 and overtime the way again by I'm just saying that 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.360 the guy is emerging as our top guy. And you 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.559 know the baby if you want to. But you watched 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.440 the game yesterday and he was the guy. And defensively, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.480 like you said, we gotta get into the lab, we 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.400 gotta get into the film room, because in that second half, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.280 the Patriots found a little something. They found that run 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.680 game Stevenson and Harris. They were getting about five yards 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.760 a pot without even getting touched. I mean, that's what 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.679 brought them back into the game. I thought the Patriots 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.160 were dead in the water. I was like, you know what, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.160 they had their offenses gotten stagnant. They've had four drives 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.040 with a total of thirty nine yards in the second 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.000 half so far. This game is a rap. I thought 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.640 I was gonna be that Carolina game where you know, 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.240 the second half we just exploded as an offense. But 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.160 that defense they found a couple of cracks in there. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.319 They were running the ball well in the second half 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.400 and it almost got them the victory. So we definitely 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.800 got to get in the laugh defensively and go over 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.000 those run fits. I'm sure we'll talk we'll break down this, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.520 this digs when you got beat on a double move 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.000 and all those type of things, and the angles that 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.160 the safeties are working. We'll talk about that a little 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.320 bit later in the show. But to me, that was 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.240 a little bit concerning how they were able to run 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.880 that ball because they got away from it. Because the 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.640 first half when they went down the field and scored 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.320 those touchdowns, they were running the ball great on this defense. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.360 Yeah failed and it was like, oh man, this is 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.120 this the Rams game and exactly, but they went away 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.719 from it, which I don't understand. Why did you know 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.600 you why wouldn't you keep your foot on the gas pedal? 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.240 But they went away from it. They came back in 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.080 the fourth quarter and they found it a gift. So 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.720 to me, we gotta make sure we button that up 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.840 a little bit because that can be you know, going 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.600 against a better a better team more quote, and a 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.520 team that's more situated for the run, it could be 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.760 difficult for our defense. Going back to see Lamb a 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.920 career high nine reception for one hundred forty nine yards, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.040 two touchdowns, including the game winner from thirty five yard 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.840 touches on my fantasy and what I ended up just 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.760 just based off what you're saying right now, Okay, the 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.400 Cedie Lamb is the number one receiver. Don't know emerging 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.360 is I don't want to don't want to get a shot. Okay. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.679 You know they be on Twitter now saying Twitter Okay, yes, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.800 social media was pretty much proclaiming him. They've been they've 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.800 been tagging these players. Okay, so I just want to 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:26.880 make sure that that I'm tagging me smoking and for 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.720 me just just my perspective is this. You really have 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.200 two ones. And you've got Cooper who was taking top 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.520 five in his draft, and you've got Ceedee Lamb who 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.440 was a first round pick. This is what You've got 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.840 two great weapons here, and depending on how a defense 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:44.800 wants to play it, you know, some days it's gonna 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.960 be your, It's gonna be you, other days it's gonna 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.160 be you. But man, what what great weapons that you 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:54.559 have at the Arsenal and let's also take into a 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.640 fact Cooper note hundred percent. He's still out here ball 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.240 and giving you what he has, but he's not an 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.040 one hundred percent You know that Tampa Bay game before 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.600 you end up get hurt. We saw what he could 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.520 do out there wall. So the Cowboys have two excellent 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.440 options that not a whole lot of people in this 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.079 league outside of Tampa Bay have. And yesterday was Seed's 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.160 opportunity in his turn. And he continues to get better, 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.280 which is what the hope of what you want to see. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.839 And as Bill Belichick was trying to take people away 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.679 the Cowboys, okay, final, you want to do that, We'll 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.960 go here, We'll go there. What an excellent job by 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.439 by Dak Prescott to involve so many people, but he 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.880 was absolutely outstanding. How about this number here from a 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.640 stat five hundred and sixty seven yards of offense were 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.120 the most yards that Bill Belichick has allowed as a 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.480 head coach in his twenty seven year career. I told 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.080 my man Church. Church was like, hey man, I don't 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.200 know that Bi didn't have something for the run. Though 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.040 I did say that he was going to have something 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.679 for the run, he didn't have something to say it, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.880 but it's like a poisons though this is good. I 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:56.400 wanted to. I wanted to bring this out on the 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.120 podcast because you know they're gonna be put some people 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.000 who want to, you know, poop poo this. So I said, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.280 all right, let me go back and look at what 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.440 happened with Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay five and one team, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.000 the only team to beat the Cowboys, beating on the 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.800 last second field goal. When it came to first downs, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.040 Tampa Champa at twenty two against New England. Cowboys had 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.600 thirty two Canada total yards Tampa three hundred and eighty 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.840 one total yards. The Cowboys had five hundred and sixty seven. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.959 Now Tampa play in the rain. They played in the rain, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.600 but start looking at just how things will go Tampa 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.360 two sixty one passing, Cowboys four forty five third downs. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.920 Tampa was better than the Cowboys nine of nineteen, Cowboys 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.839 three to thirteen. When it came to rushing, Tampa one twenty, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.000 Cowboys one hundred and twenty two to Both had two turnovers. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.679 Time of possession New England. Uh, I mean should say 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.319 Tampa had thirty three fifty five against New England. The 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.839 Cowboys were over time had thirty nine seventeen, so we 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.600 still had one twenty two Russian. Yes, so let's combine, combine, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:57.240 hey one, just we'll come by at thirty one Russians two. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.520 Tampa is a Super Bowl champion. People just put them 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.280 in this category. The Cowboys are doing some stuff. What 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.800 the Cowboys are doing some things here, and I just 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.880 sometimes feel, especially from a national standpoint, you have two things. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.880 Either people want to keep a whole bunch of praise 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.160 on the Cowboys, or there are people who just want 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.640 to just just the naysayers want to find everything negative 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.160 and just kind of matching up. Just Hey, New England 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.240 made life tough on Tampa. They made life tough on 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.240 Dallas a little bit. Dallas shot themselves in the foot 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:37.839 a lot. That game should have been a blowout. But 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.040 you know, you're right about that. Even though Tampa was 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.320 playing in a torrential downpour, it was it was, it 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.480 was pouring out there, so the offensive numbers ain't gonna 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.840 be as high. I still feel as though this Cowboys 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:48.360 team as a whole, if we were matched up against 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.920 Tampa Bay, you know, next week, I feel like we 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.920 would give it to the to the Buccaneers I feel 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.120 like Dallas right now is the better team. And that 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.319 just goes to show you how deep this team is. Look, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.880 I mean, Tyre Smith goes out. We're like, I know, 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.040 I was a first. When he came back, I knew 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.760 he was winning. I was like, he's kind of fighting 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.319 and he kept running. He can't hutting out of it. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.120 He was running, And I would say this, those are 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.160 those are that's an injury that you cannot avoid. That's like, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.160 that's not not the neck injury. He got rolled back injury. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.440 We got rolled up on can That's not one of 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.679 those ones where it's like, man, this dude always injured, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.360 you know what I'm saying, putting a handstring or whatever. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.920 You clearly see the dude. Was it Tony Poler? Somebody 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.720 roll up on the back of his ankle, He goes out, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.200 he comes back in. At that point, I'm like, yes, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.720 because you knew it was gonna get a little rough, right, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.720 It was, oh yeah, you do you know? But I 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.560 will say this, man, the sec he came in there 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.160 and they're like he was just out there getting beat 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:44.360 like a drum. No, it was. It got rough, but 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.400 he was for a couple of times he held his own. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.320 They started. It wasn't you know, it wasn't as bad 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.640 as before when it was like Tyrn Smith is out. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.160 You know, all hell's gonna break loose. He held his 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.680 own for a little bit. Then he started to get 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.640 a little you know, right, he got about it and 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:03.160 then Humes times to the Yeah. I literally it's like 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.520 it's like a baseball you know, in a baseball game. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.480 All right, thanks for the two innings. Time. We good, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.920 we gott. I was excited when I saw that man 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.920 back in the game. I was like, yes, here we go, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.720 because we knew at that point we were going to 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.640 have to make some more plays in order to win 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.920 the game. I'm like, I don't know what the guys 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.640 that we got in there? Right, we got two backup 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.280 tackles in the game, right, and and no matter how 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.760 good still is doing, you bring another one in. But 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.720 like you said, Bill Belichick saw that saw him running 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.160 to the to the locker room, and what he said, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.400 he pulled out the full blitzer. He fulled dog. He 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.760 had all blitzer he filtered and XL filtered blitzes, and 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.360 then he just ran them all and you start seeing, 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.400 oh man, we got we gotta figure out a way 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:43.880 to get the ball out of hands quick. Now we 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.040 gotta run it. Missed direction. Then Tyree came back in 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.080 and he saw Dak Prescott go back to work and 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.960 he was cooking. But what Belichick should have done and 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.160 he should have kept going up the middle because Connor Williams. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.680 That wast Connor Williams. And be honest, they got to 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.640 put more bricks in their pocket. Man, we've been talking 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.400 about they was getting pushed back. I'm talking, I was 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.800 in his face. All those dudes was in their face 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.360 getting pushed back. He will he almost caused him the 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.960 game with that, with that two holding penal in the 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.280 same So listen, you think about it. He was getting 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.040 this butt worked out. You got Vita Vale who we 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.320 talked about game through. You got Hard Graves that we 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.720 talked about. We've been talking about this same part of 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.760 the offensive lines since the beginning of the seasons. Center 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.880 right guard or center left guard, which one left guard, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.040 center left guard. They got that right there, that combo, 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.400 it's it's it's it's a glaring weakness big time. Right 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.040 in half of the time they come a right Well, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.280 you're not going to replace the center no, no, I 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.120 mean you can't do that. So the only your choices 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.640 do you want to put Connor McGovern at left guard? 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.080 And you've got a bye week now to do it. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.680 I mean that's that. That's the only thing. By week 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.880 time perfectly, and the referees calls some stuff, so I 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.960 mean you're looking at Connor. But these the last one, yeah, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.960 the one some of the stuff that refs called. And 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.280 you know, hey man, and uh Brad Allen was the 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.560 chief ref and he was getting tore up onto it. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.840 I went to school, Brad, hey man, listen to what happened. Yeah, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.440 I'm gonna say because I'm still going back to the 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.080 charges game what they call h they call him in 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.800 the grass, but not going forward, don't say. And even 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.600 even in that New England game, that J. C. Jackson 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.880 pass interference was not Come on, man, dude, ain't even 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.840 he just he just had good coverage, didn't. I mean, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.800 it was just I mean it was just hold on, man, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.680 what's going on with these repel That's that's my man. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.600 Brand used to live a Jacob's hold with me and 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.919 he was the main official, right. That's they they get 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.639 all they all got to punishment. They might not be 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.399 throwing the flags, but they gotta go out there and 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.240 say what it is. 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