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Speaker 3: I'm mcmaharrison alongside former safety of the Dallas Cowboys, my
Speaker 3: man Barry Churches in the building. I don't want to
Speaker 3: call this a victorm Monday, because we had victory Friday.
Speaker 2: So this is just a you know, we already had
Speaker 2: the twenty four hours. I can't do that. I can't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: But uh, it's been a long, long weekend. It's been
Speaker 3: some great man Gray football on television. Man already know,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna talk about all of it. But before
Speaker 3: I get to any of that, what's happening? Check your mentals?
Speaker 2: Man? What's going on?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I thought she was going to check it. Man, we're
Speaker 3: gonna do that to you. Man, let me tell you something, Man,
Speaker 3: I do that. I do that because I had a
Speaker 3: friend in high school. Man, something tragic happened to him,
Speaker 3: and I never got an opportunity.
Speaker 2: To check his mentals.
Speaker 3: And so that's why I said, you know, when I
Speaker 3: got an opportunity to do what I do, I think
Speaker 3: it's first best to start by asking, you know what's
Speaker 3: good with people?
Speaker 5: Oh Man, Well, uh, since you're asking, everything's been going great,
Speaker 5: always is. Man, can never complain, never complain, family doing great,
Speaker 5: everybody's healthy. So uh, you know, I can't complain a
Speaker 5: little hot outside. But you know it is Texas, so
Speaker 5: it's gonna be like that, man. So how about yourself?
Speaker 5: You know, man, you know what I'm not gonna tell
Speaker 5: you no lies, Barry.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I am a I am a father of a high
Speaker 3: school wide receiver. And you know we're starting this season
Speaker 3: off and the way man, his production hadn't been there, and.
Speaker 2: Father is hot. That is hot. That is hot. You
Speaker 2: know I need some I need some production. Man.
Speaker 3: It's just you know, overall, you know, it's just one
Speaker 3: of the things that that's on my mind. Man, it's
Speaker 3: football's football season. You know, I'm a football dad, and
Speaker 3: so I'm pulling for my son. But man, it's just
Speaker 3: a lot of things going on with him that I'm
Speaker 3: just like.
Speaker 2: Getting the opportunity.
Speaker 3: That's that's the thing, the opportunity, him getting the opportunity.
Speaker 3: And this is, uh, you know, just in a place
Speaker 3: of just frustration. But you know, we believe in the
Speaker 3: proper power of prayer, you know, and we are staying
Speaker 3: step fast and you know how these things go. It's
Speaker 3: about being ready for the opportunity when it presents itself.
Speaker 2: That's all you gotta be.
Speaker 3: We're just continuing to preach to him, stay ready for
Speaker 3: his opportunity. So you know, I'm sure there are other
Speaker 3: parents out there that feel the same way. But let
Speaker 3: him know, let him know.
Speaker 5: I didn't really start and tell my senior year in
Speaker 5: high school. Man, that's what I got my first offer,
Speaker 5: so long a time. There's allays time.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you this board numbers so you can tell,
Speaker 3: you know, let him know it's gonna come avention. Man,
Speaker 3: you see, that's that's what I'm saying. See, when you
Speaker 3: share what's going on with you, you end up talking
Speaker 3: to somebody that can kind of lighten up.
Speaker 5: Telling you playing a little bit here and there. And
Speaker 5: then senior year started took off. But you know there's time.
Speaker 5: There's always time. Always Barry that just that was good
Speaker 5: for my soul. Let you know, the mentals, the mentals.
Speaker 5: Brother had a little ball.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: It was did you see let me just start with Saturday.
Speaker 3: Did you see the game on Saturday the Alabama?
Speaker 5: You talk about a game now that was exciting. The
Speaker 5: first half was a it was a sloberknocker, it was
Speaker 5: a it was a white belt. I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 5: should I changed a channel on this man? And I
Speaker 5: was like, you know what, because you know, old lady
Speaker 5: wanted to watch Power and all that stuff. And I
Speaker 5: was like, you know what, Power, Let me just give
Speaker 5: him one more series, you know, let me give one
Speaker 5: more series. And man, I'm glad I did that because
Speaker 5: them boys steamed back and I thought it was all
Speaker 5: once they caught that momentum. Everybody knows in football, man,
Speaker 5: once that momentium train started rolling, it's hard to stop.
Speaker 5: No matter who you are, it's harder to stop. So
Speaker 5: that was an awesome game. Back and forth like that,
Speaker 5: and the kid Williams.
Speaker 2: Well, you're seventeen.
Speaker 5: That's crazy doing this out here, man, Jackson. I couldn't
Speaker 5: have seventeen. I was just getting ready to start my
Speaker 5: first you know what I mean, in high school, my
Speaker 5: senior year, and he's out there doing this in the SEC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he reclassified. The kid reclassified in his junior year
Speaker 3: and graduated, and so what he's doing, I mean, it
Speaker 3: really is kind of it's really phenomenal to see a
Speaker 3: kid his age, but just just to know that his
Speaker 3: talent level was already where it is right now.
Speaker 2: You imagine this kid in high school.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't imagine seeing my child across from somebody that's
Speaker 3: blazing like that, catching the ball like that. But I
Speaker 3: just think, you know, it was not only that that
Speaker 3: George Alabama game was was an amazing game that just
Speaker 3: came down to so many different drives and scores, but
Speaker 3: also that Colorado, that Colorado University Central Florida game, that's
Speaker 3: a good game to me. I don't know about you, man,
Speaker 3: but to me, man, look at.
Speaker 2: This guy to come back over here. Hey, Travis Haunter.
Speaker 2: Travis Hauntera to.
Speaker 3: Me, is the best player in college football right now now.
Speaker 5: And you know when you could do what he's doing
Speaker 5: on both sides of the football. It's outstanding because when
Speaker 5: you look at it, man, just playing one side of
Speaker 5: the football is hard enough to be able to excel offensively,
Speaker 5: go over to the defensive side of the football excel
Speaker 5: as well, playing what eighty hundred snaps a game.
Speaker 2: It's to me is it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: And the way he's able to make plays on both
Speaker 5: sides of the football, man, I do the special.
Speaker 2: No, and it's something to watch.
Speaker 3: And going all the way back to a player by
Speaker 3: the name of Charles Woodson.
Speaker 2: If you ever got a chance to see Charles.
Speaker 3: Woodson when he was playing college ball, he was probably
Speaker 3: like not even probably he was must see TV. He
Speaker 3: was you knew why you were watching. Charles Woldson was
Speaker 3: about to do something. And it's the same thing as
Speaker 3: I'm watching Travis. It's like, man, he is about to
Speaker 3: do something. He gonna do something special, and I mean
Speaker 3: it is. It is magnificent to see. But the NFC East,
Speaker 3: moving on to Sunday, the NFC East is getting very interesting.
Speaker 3: It's very interesting. And I did something I don't do
Speaker 3: it all the time, but I picked the Eagles to
Speaker 3: beat Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: And I did too. Man, it was a problems.
Speaker 3: That is a problem, and I'm telling them and the
Speaker 3: thing that I'm starting to see with the way that
Speaker 3: the NFC East matches up each and every year, we
Speaker 3: said that there hasn't been a back to back NFC
Speaker 3: champions I believe since two thousand.
Speaker 2: All right, man, it's been that long. But here you
Speaker 2: have here.
Speaker 3: You have a team in the Philadelphia Eagles that is
Speaker 3: struggling in every way defensively and obviously Jalen Hurst was
Speaker 3: out his weapons and you know, it's boot Eagles. For
Speaker 3: life of me, I have no sympathy for him, but
Speaker 3: he was definitely limited. And you know, your your guy
Speaker 3: Keller Keller Moore, and that offense.
Speaker 5: It looks stagnant. It did outside of outside of Saquan who.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's making every every opportunity he has out
Speaker 5: there to shine.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's doing it. That dude is. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a freaking nature.
Speaker 5: But you know, they were missing you know, Aj Brown,
Speaker 5: top wide receiver, Davonte Smith top wide receiver, as well
Speaker 5: as their Hall of Fame left tackle Lane Johnson. But
Speaker 5: still even with those three guys missing, you would like
Speaker 5: to see some type of something going on. I mean,
Speaker 5: you look at the rams those guys were missing. They're
Speaker 5: both of their top to wide receivers and some other pieces,
Speaker 5: and Sean McVay is still able to get the most
Speaker 5: out of that team. When you look at Philadelphia, man,
Speaker 5: I see trouble brewing. I see trouble brewing between that
Speaker 5: head coach, that quarterback offers a coordinator killing more my
Speaker 5: boy just I don't know. It just ain't adding up.
Speaker 5: And then when you look at it, I know Hurts
Speaker 5: has been a turnover massique machine last year.
Speaker 2: It's like it carried right over into this year.
Speaker 5: I mean, the man is still turning the football over,
Speaker 5: whether it's taking too long in a pocket, getting stripped,
Speaker 5: throwing interceptions. I mean, he's making mistakes and he looked
Speaker 5: like he's kind of regressing. I hate to say it,
Speaker 5: but it looks like he's kind of regressing out there
Speaker 5: for the Philadelphia Eagle. So I'm gonna give my boy
Speaker 5: k more, you know, than an opportunity. I wait till
Speaker 5: you get all these pieces back and see what they
Speaker 5: can do out there. But as of right now, man,
Speaker 5: it does not look good.
Speaker 3: For Phillip North eighteen for thirty one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: eight yards Before Jalen hurts, he was sacked six times
Speaker 3: that in games, Say, Kawon Barkley did have ten carries
Speaker 3: eighty four yards, Jalen had eight carries twenty yards. They
Speaker 3: ended up with one hundred and thirteen total as a team.
Speaker 3: But he was playing with a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of his weapons were gone. So but man, there is
Speaker 3: another problem brewing other than you know, we love to
Speaker 3: see when when the when the Eagles are no good,
Speaker 3: the Washington Commanders let him though, because we got man,
Speaker 3: I got you know, this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: And and I've always told you personally, I have a
Speaker 3: disdain for every team in the NFCS. I wouldn't call
Speaker 3: it I hate them.
Speaker 2: I just don't like them. I hate the Eagles. I
Speaker 2: don't but I don't know, I just don't like just
Speaker 2: don't like. Get it.
Speaker 3: But I can tell you right now that the Commanders
Speaker 3: are a.
Speaker 2: Problem, big problem.
Speaker 3: And dan Quinn in that defense right now, and before
Speaker 3: you even start talking about Jaydon Daniels, dan Quinn in
Speaker 3: that defense, one of the and I'm seeing just with
Speaker 3: Eball is he has a bunch of guys, all eleven
Speaker 3: of them on defense, believing in his scheme.
Speaker 2: And they are flying to the ball.
Speaker 3: And you are somebody that have played on great defenses,
Speaker 3: and you know what that feeling is when you know
Speaker 3: the assignment alignment and all you.
Speaker 2: Can do is just go out there and play free.
Speaker 3: That's what I see when I'm watching, when I'm watching
Speaker 3: the Commanders on defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're right about that. Everybody believes in that system.
Speaker 5: Dan Quinn was always a player's guy, like everybody, you know,
Speaker 5: they love the man when he walked in and they
Speaker 5: kind of took to his system, whatever the system may be.
Speaker 5: They're the type. He's the type of coach that you'll
Speaker 5: run through a brick wall for. So you're gonna get
Speaker 5: the most out of each and every one of your
Speaker 5: players out there. But what we see with that team
Speaker 5: is depth. We see that along that defensive line that
Speaker 5: you know, the Foulers of the world, the Armstrongs of
Speaker 5: the world. Of course, you got the two Bama boys
Speaker 5: in the inside and they're gonna hold it down. You know,
Speaker 5: they're gonna they're your blue Chippers, they gonna hold everything down.
Speaker 5: But that depth, they're able to rotate guys in and
Speaker 5: you get fresh legs each and every time. You either
Speaker 5: go after the quarterback or you're out there trying to
Speaker 5: set an edge and making sure the run game is
Speaker 5: under contained.
Speaker 2: That Washington defense they're playing, they're playing well.
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna call them, you know, the two thousand
Speaker 5: Ravers or anything like that, but they're playing well as
Speaker 5: a unit out there. You know, the only week link
Speaker 5: I see from that defense right now is the secondary.
Speaker 5: The secondary can be had, but you know, as the
Speaker 5: week's progress and you understand, it's just like I do.
Speaker 5: When dan Quinn first got here, that rush started to work,
Speaker 5: and then in the back end came along with the
Speaker 5: rust because you can't work without without one another.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: The rush worse with the back end, back end worse
Speaker 5: with the rest. And that's what we saw on Dallas.
Speaker 5: Guys were benefiting off of a great pass for US
Speaker 5: eleven picks for Treymon digs. You got Bland getting fourteen
Speaker 5: in his first two years. So as that rush progresses
Speaker 5: for Washington, that secondary will come along. But to me,
Speaker 5: you know, the defense dan Quinn is amazing and all that. Man,
Speaker 5: what about that que so that on.
Speaker 3: So here's the thing, and I'm sure you've you've been
Speaker 3: like this in your career. You know special when you
Speaker 3: see it, you know, specially when you see it. I
Speaker 3: don't care what level it is, college, pro, It could
Speaker 3: be boxing, and could be basketball. When you see a
Speaker 3: special player, it's just like, that's what it is. I mean,
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford. I saw Matthew Stafford in high school at
Speaker 3: Highland Park High School, and I watched him go from
Speaker 3: one side of the field to the sideline and throw
Speaker 3: a ball on a frozen rope.
Speaker 2: To the other side.
Speaker 3: And I looked over at my girlfriend, which was now
Speaker 3: my wife, and I said, oh, he gonna play on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Because I don't care what level.
Speaker 3: You could throw across your body on a frozen rope
Speaker 3: across the field. Now, that's special, right. And when I
Speaker 3: watch Jaden Daniels, I feel like I'm watching something special.
Speaker 3: And look at that the twenty six or thirty two
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty three yards a tud and an interception,
Speaker 3: all right, and no sacks on this guy. The other
Speaker 3: thing it really bugs me is the fact that Brian
Speaker 3: Robinson Junior had twenty one catches for one hundred and
Speaker 3: one yards. Also, Jeremy McNichols eight carries sixty eight yards.
Speaker 3: Jaydon Daniels also had eight for forty six and a touchdown.
Speaker 2: They had four rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Now, when I think about the Dallas Cowboys and I
Speaker 3: do these numbers, right, two hundred and sixteen yards on
Speaker 3: the two hundred and sixteen yards.
Speaker 2: On the ground.
Speaker 3: And who a guy that was once the laughing stock
Speaker 3: of the NFL. Cliff Kingsbury is the offensive coordinator, got
Speaker 3: tacobab being rejuvenated as an office man.
Speaker 2: They look good.
Speaker 5: They do look good. They do look really good. And
Speaker 5: then what stuck out to me about Daniels. He, of
Speaker 5: course the numbers out there, but his completion percentage, I
Speaker 5: mean through the first four games, I think he likes
Speaker 5: set a record. It might be eighty two percent for
Speaker 5: you know, that four game stretch. And he's a rookie.
Speaker 5: He's a rookie out there doing this. I mean, he's
Speaker 5: seeing defenses. And to me, what kind of you know,
Speaker 5: kind of jumped out to me is he never looks
Speaker 5: like he's rushed. He's always just back there. Okay, you know, cool,
Speaker 5: calm and collected. Okay, this is what they're in. All right,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to force it over here. I'll throw
Speaker 5: it out of bouts, I'll check it down to this guy,
Speaker 5: I'll check it down to that guy, or.
Speaker 2: I'll use my legs.
Speaker 5: He never really puts the ball in harm's way out there,
Speaker 5: and he knows when it's time to make the big play.
Speaker 5: And you know who's the most thankful for all of this,
Speaker 5: scary Terry mcclaur's going through quarterback after quarterback after quarterback,
Speaker 5: showing the patience. He never was out there talking about
Speaker 5: trading me. I need to get out of this. Finally
Speaker 5: got a guy that can get him the football. And
Speaker 5: you see his skill set as well at the wide
Speaker 5: receiver position. So you know, great job of Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 5: Dad Quinn surrounding his players with people who can go
Speaker 5: out there and get the job done.
Speaker 2: You see Zach Ertz, who disappeared for like two years.
Speaker 2: He's on the way back. He's being that security blanket
Speaker 2: for the for the quarterback.
Speaker 5: And then you look in the backfield that got the
Speaker 5: kid from Alabama, Robinson, the big bruiser, And then you
Speaker 5: got he didn't play that or this past game, but Eckler,
Speaker 5: you know from from the Chargers out there doing this
Speaker 5: thing as that kind of scat back. So they present
Speaker 5: a little bit of a problem for the entire nfcast.
Speaker 2: Man, they got a good offense. Defense is coming along.
Speaker 5: So so once again that momentum train, that momentum train
Speaker 5: is rolling for Washington, and we got to hope that
Speaker 5: Dallas can be that bus off man dan Quinn. Dan
Speaker 5: Quinn is one of those transformative coaches and I and
Speaker 5: I didn't take that for granted when he got here
Speaker 5: because I saw how the guys kind of how they
Speaker 5: could flock to him and his methods. But you could
Speaker 5: see just how infectious he is and the way that
Speaker 5: this team is believing in him every time they have
Speaker 5: a locker room session where they get a chance to
Speaker 5: show him around. Those guys, man, they just it's something
Speaker 5: to admire. One that the turnaround. There are three and
Speaker 5: one two in one.
Speaker 3: Division in first place currently with the big win over
Speaker 3: the Arizona Court Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Forty two to fourteen.
Speaker 3: Boy College column in as Colin Murray is looking funny
Speaker 3: light right now, man, And there's a lot of things.
Speaker 3: I mean, the teams that you thought that were gonna
Speaker 3: be that. In the NFL. It's a lot of things happening, man, well,
Speaker 3: a lot of different teams. The one thing about it,
Speaker 3: the Washington Commanders are one of those teams that we
Speaker 3: definitely have to worry about another NFC. Another NFC team
Speaker 3: doesn't tell you the Vikings the Vikings if you got
Speaker 3: a chance to see Sam Donald and the way that
Speaker 3: that thing is being transferred. Sometimes the football guys just
Speaker 3: won't let you mess it up. Because I promise you
Speaker 3: the Vikings were gonna start JJ McCarthy sign of delivered.
Speaker 2: He was gonna be up in there.
Speaker 3: They were gonna, like I said, nobody would ever wish
Speaker 3: anyone gets hurt, but just the football guys won't let
Speaker 3: you mess it up. And Sam Donald being in there
Speaker 3: has trained changed that whole thing. And going to the
Speaker 3: team that we play Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Stiller, is
Speaker 3: the same thing. Football guys would little mess it up
Speaker 3: because I'm telling they were gonna start Russell Willaer instead.
Speaker 2: Of Justin Fields, and Justin Fields.
Speaker 3: To me is probably the quarterback actually that they needed.
Speaker 3: We're gonna open the seal on this whole Cowboys and
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Speaker 3: How are we gonna get away without Tank? Oh no
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Speaker 2: And man, this is this is This is a good week.
Speaker 3: This is a good week if you enjoy the story
Speaker 3: history of the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: Still is a good one. That's one of those matchup
Speaker 3: marriages that I don't just go into the NFC. You're
Speaker 3: going to the NFL film's vault and you can go
Speaker 3: back to the seventies, eighties, nineties. These are two teams
Speaker 3: that have always found a way to collide at the
Speaker 3: top of collide anytime, anytime they get together. And then
Speaker 3: this is this is one of those match ups that
Speaker 3: everybody's waiting for.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be waiting all day for Sunday night. For real.
Speaker 3: It's in the bird too, It's it's in your negative woods.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised you ain't going home for this.
Speaker 2: You can't do it, can't start to get cold up there.
Speaker 2: I can't do it. And it's cold at night. That
Speaker 2: is Yeah, it's past hooty season up there.
Speaker 3: So it's like, so just set the scene like nighttime
Speaker 3: in in pa is.
Speaker 5: What it's crisp right now around this time it's crisp.
Speaker 5: But you're going to Their stadium is right on the river,
Speaker 5: right on three rivers, so you're gonna get that wind
Speaker 5: coming off of there, and you better wear a jacket.
Speaker 5: It's all I'm gonna say. You better wear a jacket.
Speaker 5: It ain't like a night time around here where you
Speaker 5: can go out there with shorts and the tea and
Speaker 5: feel great. It's a little crisp, you know. You get
Speaker 5: a little little crisp, little moisture.
Speaker 2: In their man.
Speaker 5: You know, it's true fall. It's like the leaves are
Speaker 5: turning colors. It's true fall.
Speaker 3: And that's the one thing about this match that really
Speaker 3: worries me is about, you know, Brandon Aubrey and the
Speaker 3: way that we use him and that winir at hines Field.
Speaker 3: This is it's a different type of environment. But whatever
Speaker 3: the Cowboys do, uh, they're gonna have to do it
Speaker 3: without the production of DeMarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons and
Speaker 3: a big.
Speaker 2: A big a colossum a huge blow. Okay, no, No,
Speaker 2: What I tried to do.
Speaker 3: What I tried to do is frame this in a
Speaker 3: way that because you know, in the NFL, man, everybody's hurt,
Speaker 3: everybody's gonna be hurt, and that's at some point people
Speaker 3: are going to miss. And I don't believe in that
Speaker 3: theory of next man I just don't. But Barry, come
Speaker 3: on talking to me off the ledge on this one,
Speaker 3: because I feel like the Dallas Cowboys defense to get
Speaker 3: get right game that they had against the New York Giants,
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to repeat that, but repeat that without
Speaker 3: two of their best defenders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. I can't talk you off the ledge
Speaker 2: on this one.
Speaker 5: I just can't do it, Okay, because I you know
Speaker 5: some I don't really believe in the next man up
Speaker 5: if it comes to, like, you know, positions like that,
Speaker 5: aren't you know, star star players out there, Like you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like we had you know, Bland
Speaker 5: go down. Carson was able to fill in great, and
Speaker 5: we saw what happened with the other cornerbacks out there.
Speaker 5: But when you lose a guy of the magnitude you
Speaker 5: know of a Parsons, you know, Tank Lawrens. I believe
Speaker 5: can be you know, replaceable at this point in his career.
Speaker 5: Like I feel like you can get you know, knieland
Speaker 5: can get the job done, goals and may be able
Speaker 5: to move out there. You can get guys to fill
Speaker 5: those shoes. But what you can't do is you can't
Speaker 5: fill the shoes of a guy like Parsons and what
Speaker 5: he's able to do for this defense.
Speaker 2: I mean, we see it time and time again.
Speaker 5: You look at that Cleveland game, and I understand Cleveland
Speaker 5: didn't have a both of the tackles, I get.
Speaker 2: It, but still all the attention was on Eleven.
Speaker 5: You're getting double teams, you're getting triple teams, and that's
Speaker 5: allowing the other guys to eat out there. That's allowing
Speaker 5: your linebackers to do what they do because the offsive
Speaker 5: linemen are focused on Eleven and making sure the game
Speaker 5: plan that he doesn't wreck it.
Speaker 2: All right. That's the thing. When you got a guy
Speaker 2: like eleven out there, with him gone, Tank Lawrens, it's gone.
Speaker 2: Where is the pressure coming from? Where are you going
Speaker 2: to be?
Speaker 5: You can go and try to bring pressure from the
Speaker 5: nickel position, you know, Jay Lou on a corner blitch,
Speaker 5: you can you know bring some of them safeties, Donald
Speaker 5: on a corner blitz, a safety blitz.
Speaker 2: But then you're leaving your already thin.
Speaker 5: Secondary exposed that way, because that's what happens when you
Speaker 5: bring guys from the secondary to create pressure.
Speaker 2: They're thinking that the quarterback guy to get it ahead.
Speaker 5: If that thing gets blocked up, you're leaving a guy
Speaker 5: like uh mikuamu maybe on the outside booth, maybe on
Speaker 5: the outside.
Speaker 3: I don't want to butcher my head because we all know,
Speaker 3: we all know what we saw all out there, right,
Speaker 3: we all know what we.
Speaker 2: Saw all out there.
Speaker 5: But and I don't want to butcher my guy's name.
Speaker 5: Number twenty said, I don't want to butcher his name
Speaker 5: out there. But you know you're leaving guys like that exposed.
Speaker 5: I ain't worried about Digs, all right, you can leave Diggs.
Speaker 5: I'm not worried about it. He's gonna get his But
Speaker 5: it leaves the rest of your secondary guys that aren't
Speaker 5: as experienced, aren't as talented, just aren't as good as
Speaker 5: a guy like Diggs on the outside expos Maybe if
Speaker 5: you had Bland back at full potential, you had those
Speaker 5: two corners on the outside, then you could think about
Speaker 5: sending some zero pressure, some some nickel pressure, some safety
Speaker 5: pressures to generate something because without the bzooka. And I'm
Speaker 5: telling this, I played with guys that that garnered that
Speaker 5: type of attention, and when we missed those guys, you know,
Speaker 5: the defense it took a step back.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be completely honest with you.
Speaker 5: Same thing with Sean Lee when we when I played
Speaker 5: with him here early in his career, he was that guy.
Speaker 5: You know, he wasn't an ass pressure pressure guy or
Speaker 5: anything like that, but he was the quarterback of the
Speaker 5: defense and he made sure everybody was lined up and
Speaker 5: you know he's gonna be sidelined the sideline getting his
Speaker 5: ten to fifteen tackles again. When we lost him out there,
Speaker 5: the room, just just the whole the defense felt deflated.
Speaker 5: Like you started the game off, Yeah, we could do this. Man,
Speaker 5: next man up, the next thing, you know, you're get in.
Speaker 2: The back of the head. At least I was hey,
Speaker 2: Sean would have had that where was it? He didn't
Speaker 2: wrap around hold on what it?
Speaker 5: Lee would have been there for that man second and
Speaker 5: eight turning the second in twos, you know, eight's turning
Speaker 5: the third and threes when you're losing a guy of
Speaker 5: that magnitude. So look, man, it's gonna be tough because,
Speaker 5: like you said, you're not only missing the bazookah, but
Speaker 5: you're missing Tank Lawrence as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't I don't like anything about what.
Speaker 2: You just said.
Speaker 3: Exactly, man, I just want to be honest. I don't
Speaker 3: like anything that you just said. And yeah, I'm positive heck,
Speaker 3: I want to try and put a put a spin
Speaker 3: on this and I can't find one right now.
Speaker 2: Well, let me go here, let me go here. Okay.
Speaker 3: So, in that sense, for a guy like Michael Parsons
Speaker 3: that office coordinators know that you're gonna he's gonna move,
Speaker 3: he's gonna be a guy that you have to slide
Speaker 3: protection for. You're gonna have to adjust your defense when
Speaker 3: he's in the middle of your defense. You gotta do
Speaker 3: so many different things. When that guy isn't there, then
Speaker 3: everything that the Cowboys do is gonna be obviously a
Speaker 3: mystery to you because you can't slide. I don't think
Speaker 3: they're gonna be sliding to Chauncey Gholston, They're gonna be
Speaker 3: sliding to Marshaw Kneeland.
Speaker 2: Any of that So if you're.
Speaker 3: Mike Zimmer, let's let's let's just do the element of
Speaker 3: surprise here, all right, go ahead. And I heard you saying,
Speaker 3: like like literally talking about those nickel blitzes. But let's
Speaker 3: talk about guys. And you gave him the first loaf.
Speaker 3: You gave him the first loaf, a god like the
Speaker 3: marve and overshown, all right, And what you can do
Speaker 3: to allow for his athletic ability to floorist because you
Speaker 3: gotta have some some weapons somewhere that's gonna be able
Speaker 3: to put pressure on justin fields because you know that's
Speaker 3: like I know, if the pressure is on him, he
Speaker 3: gets flushed out of the pocket. He's one of those
Speaker 3: guys that doesn't have any pocket awareness of you know time.
Speaker 3: You know, he's gonna rely heavily on the running game
Speaker 3: right off the bat, right, But they're gonna be They're
Speaker 3: gonna have to be things that you scheme up. And
Speaker 3: I think you can scheme it up with the linebacking
Speaker 3: group now that you don't have Micah in there. That's
Speaker 3: gonna make the offensive line of justice.
Speaker 5: So you're saying using kind of overshown as that that
Speaker 5: chess piece, Yeah, maybe having them blitz here, spy a
Speaker 5: little bit there, come off the edge a little bit,
Speaker 5: just to generate some type of different look for a
Speaker 5: guy like Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: And I feel like that that that's a possibility.
Speaker 5: That is because like you said, Fields, you know, I
Speaker 5: still feel like he's a raw talent talented is all. Heck,
Speaker 5: got arms, trings, run out of the gym, all that
Speaker 5: good stuff. But I feel like he's a guy that
Speaker 5: when he drops back if one ain't there, and he's
Speaker 5: done a better job of it this year, but going
Speaker 5: through progressions and seeing all right, if one's not there,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take off, Like I can see that type
Speaker 5: of style going on. The old thing defensively, is you
Speaker 5: gotta know who's gonna be his number one? And who
Speaker 5: do you gotta take away that he's gonna first look at, Oh,
Speaker 5: George Pickens, isn't there him taking it off right off
Speaker 5: the toime. So you got to be able as a
Speaker 5: defense to garner up something, to be able to take
Speaker 5: Pickings away and hope that help worth you gotta hope
Speaker 5: that you know, Fields ain't gonna go through his progressions
Speaker 5: and be able to.
Speaker 2: Dot you up.
Speaker 5: He hasn't been able to do it yet, time proof
Speaker 5: and consistency, so we can trust that that he's not
Speaker 5: been able to go through his progressions and use his
Speaker 5: secondary options out there against you, like drop back. Oh
Speaker 5: he's not there, Still be in the pocket, all right,
Speaker 5: that guy's not there as well, then take off. So
Speaker 5: if I was you know, the DC, if I'm in
Speaker 5: zim shoes, I'm going up there and I'm trying to
Speaker 5: take away pickings. Pickings to me, by far, is their
Speaker 5: best wide receiver, and he's their number one option when
Speaker 5: they do that drop back pass game or that shotgun
Speaker 5: pass game. So you're saying, draw it up to where
Speaker 5: you take away pickings, and you're saying Field is gonna
Speaker 5: try to take off with his legs. In that case,
Speaker 5: then comes an overshown that would come into play as
Speaker 5: that spy. It's a risky play. It's a risky play.
Speaker 5: But at this point, what else she got? I don't
Speaker 5: have anything else, right, And that's what I'm saying. All
Speaker 5: of my playmakers are on deck, and I have to
Speaker 5: be able to generate some type of pressure because I
Speaker 5: cannot allow anybody to just sit back there and pick
Speaker 5: us a party, even as bad as he is he'll
Speaker 5: find a way. I mean, Dann Jones did have success
Speaker 5: and that zero to fifteen yards and then when you.
Speaker 3: Go back and watch it, you recognize how much Daniel
Speaker 3: Jones missed. You realize how many opportunities with Derek he
Speaker 3: has some big plays that he left on the field.
Speaker 3: And I mean, I don't I don't know, Like right now,
Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Stills are probably right where everybody didn't think
Speaker 3: they would be at this point in the season. The
Speaker 3: production that they've had at three and one. I mean,
Speaker 3: this was a team that preseason everybody's talking about Tomlin
Speaker 3: losing his job.
Speaker 2: You know that, right.
Speaker 3: They didn't look good at the at the quarterback position,
Speaker 3: even with Russell with Wilson. But what has held true
Speaker 3: has been the fact that they have brought presented a
Speaker 3: running game, They don't turn the ball over, and they
Speaker 3: have a defense that can pretty much hold you as well.
Speaker 3: And to me, like in that game versus Indianapolis, and
Speaker 3: that's why I was watching it so close, because Indianapolis
Speaker 3: is one of the The Nouse Cowboys are no longer
Speaker 3: the worst rush defense in the league.
Speaker 2: Okay, what yeah.
Speaker 3: The Indianapolis coach have taken but still they were able
Speaker 3: to get out there and present some problems to the
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh still So that's why that's why was saying like
Speaker 3: that's as soon as I saw him, I'm like, Overshawn
Speaker 3: could could possibly be an impact on this game. And
Speaker 3: I'm looking for guys like Wilson Donald. You're gonna have
Speaker 3: to get your your your safety is involved, not only
Speaker 3: uh Jay Lou involved on those blisters, but also those
Speaker 3: safety blisters have to be effective as well. You have
Speaker 3: to generate pressure from every place that you possibly can.
Speaker 3: And we're not even mentioning Mazzie. You're just saying, if
Speaker 3: Mozzie can just be New York, Mazzi got he.
Speaker 5: Gotta show me though, Like Mazzi, I don't have a
Speaker 5: little bit more see at all because we you know,
Speaker 5: we see flashes and you know, flashes here and there.
Speaker 5: I gotta see a little bit more before I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: you know I can count on that. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Like I could see you know that New
Speaker 5: York game was as as to me right now, it
Speaker 5: was a you know, it might have been a one
Speaker 5: of you know, because he was out there, he was balling,
Speaker 5: he was you know, setting the line of scrimmage back
Speaker 5: getting the penetration. He was playing extremely well and hopefully
Speaker 5: that's you know, things to come from Ozzie. But until
Speaker 5: I see it on a consistent basis, I can't depend
Speaker 5: on him being that guy in the center that's gonna
Speaker 5: get off me, young fella.
Speaker 3: I can't see that just yet. Just yet, man, just yet.
Speaker 3: I was trying to sell that. Hope you man, you
Speaker 3: didn't none of that. Look, but what we got to
Speaker 3: talk about, what we got to get into, what we
Speaker 3: gotta get into is this offense.
Speaker 2: What's gonna what are we gonna put?
Speaker 3: Well, what are we gonna put in the bag before
Speaker 3: we get to Pittsburgh?
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Speaker 2: Slash Watch. What have you ever been in one of
Speaker 2: those watch parties? I have not done yet.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot, a lot going on within
Speaker 3: my family right now, so I don't know if I'll
Speaker 3: be intending your watch party talking talking to my family.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about you get to the Middle Lighthouse as
Speaker 3: a subliminal shot. But listen, I was telling you before
Speaker 3: we went to break about certain things that you you pack,
Speaker 3: right and and will the cowboys be packing the things
Speaker 3: that they need on this trip to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you.
Speaker 3: When I go on a family trip, I put everybody
Speaker 3: suitcase outside the door and I say pack two things.
Speaker 2: That is a deal break, no, no.
Speaker 3: Deal, all right, I gotta have it, must I must
Speaker 3: have because my family will overpack. We'll take everything. Daughter
Speaker 3: used to take her stroller for her barbies and stuff
Speaker 3: like that on family trips. I can't do that no
Speaker 3: more because the target full quick with the cryingness. The
Speaker 3: cowboys right now are looking in at that bag is
Speaker 3: on the floor, and they got two things that they
Speaker 3: need to put in there. I just tried to sell
Speaker 3: you on one. So that's not going in the bag.
Speaker 3: That ain't going in the It ain't okay, that ain't
Speaker 3: going well. Let me okay, God, I'm trying to Perry
Speaker 3: Mason my point here.
Speaker 2: You're not letting me.
Speaker 3: So look, Barry, Fundamentally, in football, when you go on
Speaker 3: the roads, you gotta have a defense and you gotta
Speaker 3: have a running game.
Speaker 2: That's a non negotiable.
Speaker 3: Those are no negotiables, right You just said to me
Speaker 3: that I don't have a defense that could go on
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 2: You don't have a pass rush.
Speaker 3: I don't have a pass right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 3: To see it, Barry, can I pack and running game?
Speaker 3: You got you know, I'm a sprinkle a little hope.
Speaker 5: You gotta be able to pack the run game, especially
Speaker 5: on the road. And after watching that, you know, Burt
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh versus you.
Speaker 2: Know Colts game. You know that defense. It can't be
Speaker 2: run off. Now, granted the Colts do.
Speaker 5: They do have one of the best running backs international
Speaker 5: Football League, Jonathan Taylor. Alright, so not everybody is Taylor,
Speaker 5: and there's not a tailor on this team.
Speaker 2: I would be honest, there's not a tailor on this team.
Speaker 5: But you gotta be able to sprinkle some type of
Speaker 5: run game to keep this defense on this for the
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh Steelers, because what you do not want to do
Speaker 5: heading into Pittsburgh is one you don't want to let
Speaker 5: them get that momentum and realize offensively, all you have
Speaker 5: is a passing attack with Dak Prescott Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2: Because I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: You go out there and let's just say you only
Speaker 5: run the football ten twelve times.
Speaker 2: You're going to allow TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt, Alex Highsmith, Cam Hayward and the crew pin their
Speaker 5: ears back and they just go and get after you.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna tell you right now, from what I've
Speaker 5: seen from this offensive line for the Dallas Cowboys, No,
Speaker 5: they're young up there, two players, they're young. But if
Speaker 5: you're gonna let him Cam Hayward pin his ears back
Speaker 5: against bbe Hein Smith pen his ears back against Terrence Steele.
Speaker 2: And TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt pen his ears back against the rookie, You're gonna
Speaker 5: have some issues.
Speaker 2: Man, You're just gonna have issues.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: That's one thing that you're gonna get from Pittsburgh is
Speaker 5: that front seven, they're gonna be humming, all right, They're
Speaker 5: gonna be humming. And they got a guy on the
Speaker 5: second level by the name of Patrick Queen all right,
Speaker 5: who used to be with Baltimore. He brings that same
Speaker 5: flavor to Pittsburgh. He hasn't quite yet been what he
Speaker 5: was in Baltimore, but he is still a player.
Speaker 2: Out there on that second level.
Speaker 3: Like it, do you like him to a guy like
Speaker 3: Rokuwan Smith, because these two guys played together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were right here together.
Speaker 5: You know, Rokwan I still believe is a little bit better.
Speaker 5: We saw that, you know, yesterday against the dust out
Speaker 5: there in Buffalo. That man, he's something else and he
Speaker 5: holds everybody accountable. So you know, I don't see that
Speaker 5: Queen being that level of a linebacker, but he's still
Speaker 5: a problem to be had on that second level. And
Speaker 5: like I said, you cannot let those guys pen their
Speaker 5: ears back. It's going to be a hellish day, all
Speaker 5: right if they're not able to keep those guys honest
Speaker 5: and let those guys just pin their ears back and
Speaker 5: get out the prescott. So what has been different about
Speaker 5: this season is watching the lack of production from the
Speaker 5: running game three hundred and one yards so far as
Speaker 5: a as a room for the Dallas Cowboys at four
Speaker 5: games three hundred and one yards and games that they
Speaker 5: have needed the running game to be effective. They just
Speaker 5: have had no juice and Rico double right now and
Speaker 5: four games played and has thirty four carries four one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty four yards.
Speaker 2: Why not, why not.
Speaker 5: Let the man get some get some flavor going, like
Speaker 5: we've seen it time.
Speaker 2: And time again.
Speaker 5: And I know they're going by this running back Bay
Speaker 5: committee situation and I get all that.
Speaker 2: But obviously that ain't working. It's not working. Obviously the
Speaker 2: committee ain't working. The committee.
Speaker 5: You know they must have been when the NCAAS'M committee
Speaker 5: ain't working.
Speaker 2: All right, let the man go out there and let
Speaker 2: him prove you wrong.
Speaker 5: Like if that's the case, if he ain't got it,
Speaker 5: if he can't be in redown back, that he just
Speaker 5: ain't got it. But at least give him the opportunity
Speaker 5: to go out there and show that he can be
Speaker 5: in every down back here.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: I mean to me, if you look at all the
Speaker 5: running backs, and we haven't seen Cookes, but you know
Speaker 5: from what I hear, but we haven't seen my man
Speaker 5: but we have seen Rico, we have seen Zeke, we
Speaker 5: have seen Deuce, and out of all those backs, to me,
Speaker 5: Rico has the most juice. To me, he can give
Speaker 5: you the most out of the run game. And it's
Speaker 5: just hard for a guy to go out there. One
Speaker 5: series you're playing, you may get two totes, the next
Speaker 5: series you're off.
Speaker 2: Then the next series, the next guy goes and you.
Speaker 5: Taking two some series all by the time you get
Speaker 5: back in there, it's like, man, you know, how am.
Speaker 2: I supposed to get rolling?
Speaker 5: How am I supposed to you know, get a feel
Speaker 5: for how the offensive lines blocking, how how they're running
Speaker 5: defenses on first and second down? Are they blitzing on
Speaker 5: first or they blitzing on third? Like are they playing
Speaker 5: the pass on second covers or second down? So to me,
Speaker 5: you gotta let the guy get into some type of rhythm.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's a liability in the in the
Speaker 5: past blocking game. You know, he ain't Zeke when it
Speaker 5: comes to pass blocking. But I don't think he's a
Speaker 5: pure liability. Let the man go out there, give him
Speaker 5: three fold series and then it's you know, if nothing
Speaker 5: pans out, then you may sub somebody in. But I just,
Speaker 5: I just I just hated that they don't let that
Speaker 5: man at least just get you know, at least get
Speaker 5: some get a sweat going before you want to pull
Speaker 5: the man out.
Speaker 3: You know, when you watch when you obviously watching all
Speaker 3: the games that you saw yesterday, even when the Vikings
Speaker 3: and in the Green Bay Packers and a guy like
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones who was free agent, and I think twenty
Speaker 3: two carries ninety eight yards or something like that. Again
Speaker 3: effective as a runner, and literally that's what the Cowboys need.
Speaker 3: I'm when I watched Derek Henry do what he does,
Speaker 3: I watched him over last weekend, and I'm looking at Zeke,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure Zeke has to be the most unhappy
Speaker 3: man in that running back room because he probably feels
Speaker 3: like he hadn't even gotten an opportunity to give you
Speaker 3: because twenty four carries eighty one yards right now, Yeah,
Speaker 3: twenty four carries eight.
Speaker 2: Eighty one yards and that's I mean, that's three yards
Speaker 2: of a cloud of dust that its.
Speaker 3: Finest just by definition. I don't think you wanted to
Speaker 3: come out that way. And those numbers are ugly, those
Speaker 3: are those are ugly, But you're not getting I mean
Speaker 3: it's not even saying much to say Rico Dallo has
Speaker 3: thirty four for one thirty four and I get it
Speaker 3: what you're saying, like, let this guy get into some
Speaker 3: type of rhythm because it doesn't feel right as you're
Speaker 3: watching the game. You know, Rico runs, you know, on
Speaker 3: first down, he gets five yards on second down, whatever
Speaker 3: it is, And as soon as he gets going, what.
Speaker 2: Do they do?
Speaker 3: They pull him out and put Duzvon in. And it's like, okay,
Speaker 3: that's what And duz Van is. First of all, Duzvan
Speaker 3: has been doing hell of a job blocking. He's been
Speaker 3: doing a lot of a lot of the good things
Speaker 3: out there. But as far as just seeing that continuity
Speaker 3: in the running game, it hasn't happened. The other thing,
Speaker 3: if you can't pack this running game, then you're going
Speaker 3: to have to get more production from your wide receivers.
Speaker 3: There's gonna have to be more production. We know, ceedee
Speaker 3: lamb obviously awesome game in New York. Uh, you're still
Speaker 3: getting some production there from from your tight end. But
Speaker 3: my god, man, but either Brandon Cooks something's going on
Speaker 3: that we don't know about, you know, but he's still
Speaker 3: out there. So I haven't seen him missing. All right,
Speaker 3: I gotta be real with you.
Speaker 2: Heck on this one, please, somebody tell me what what
Speaker 2: is it? Cooks might be cooked ante man, he may man.
Speaker 5: I look, and it's tough to say that because this
Speaker 5: is a man who's no matter who's that quarterback has
Speaker 5: always had a thousand yards leading up before he came
Speaker 5: to Dallas.
Speaker 2: But I'm watching my guy.
Speaker 5: And it's just this this entire season, and maybe it's
Speaker 5: how the players are being drawn up. I don't know,
Speaker 5: but it seems like d b's are in my man's
Speaker 5: hip pocket, like just.
Speaker 2: Like really sticking to my man. There's no separation. And
Speaker 2: you know he was going against New York what third
Speaker 2: or fourth corner?
Speaker 5: Yes, out there he did have a one slant for
Speaker 5: sixteen yards, but that come back broken up, and then
Speaker 5: we saw Tober run the exact same route, come back
Speaker 5: to the quarterback, have separation, get the completion. I know
Speaker 5: that's only one example out there, but there's plenty where
Speaker 5: there's no separation with Cooks.
Speaker 2: And this is supposed to be a guy that could
Speaker 2: take the top off a the defense. But I haven't
Speaker 2: seen that, and we haven't seen I seen that. We
Speaker 2: haven't so.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's not getting those opportunities or they're not drawing
Speaker 5: up plays to where he can, you know, do what
Speaker 5: he does.
Speaker 2: But I just haven't seen it's another one. I just
Speaker 2: haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, and we were we were just
Speaker 3: talking about special as related it relates to Daniels out
Speaker 3: in Washington after CD. I don't see anything special. I
Speaker 3: don't see another guy. And we've given so much grace
Speaker 3: to Jayleen Tobert, but it just seems like Jalen sometimes
Speaker 3: it is what it is, and let's just call it
Speaker 3: what it is. Jayaln Tober is a fourth wide receiver
Speaker 3: on any team, then he goes to all right, and
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if that's just what it is, and
Speaker 3: you can't ask him to be something that he's not.
Speaker 3: And I feel like that's what you're doing. But I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: If I'm looking at the rest of the season, starting
Speaker 3: with Pittsburgh, if you don't get somebody else to be
Speaker 3: a part of this offense, to have some production, no,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a long night because I don't I
Speaker 3: don't see how you can win these games, especially if
Speaker 3: unless you're paying Daniel Jones every week and we don't
Speaker 3: get the opportunity to do that have a first place schedule.
Speaker 2: So you okay, you get some guys, So that's what
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, Like, okay, so if I can't
Speaker 2: get it, I can't believe you say this, all right?
Speaker 3: So Hunter Liftkey, No, you know what, man, you know.
Speaker 2: You know what? That just felt wrong. I gotta admit something.
Speaker 5: Man. No, he's been he's so I've been productive in
Speaker 5: it with the role he's supposed to.
Speaker 2: Can you rely on that game in and game out?
Speaker 3: Is this because Mike McCarthy man, he's in a vice
Speaker 3: right now and if he can't down it up any
Speaker 3: better than what we've seen.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: It may be good enough to beat the Giants, that's
Speaker 3: not gonna be good enough to beat Detroit. That's not
Speaker 3: gonna be good enough to beat the forty nine ers with.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna be good enough to beat some of
Speaker 3: these top teams that you have this first play schedule.
Speaker 3: So where do you get that production from? And I'm
Speaker 3: just combing to rost at this point and you're not giving.
Speaker 2: Me any hope. So I asked, like, who else is there?
Speaker 2: And you know what, you know, I'm a flipp it
Speaker 2: and ask you a question in this regard.
Speaker 5: You know, we all see you know Prescott as you know,
Speaker 5: a top ten, top eight whatever quarterback in the National
Speaker 5: Football League. Is this the season or is this an
Speaker 5: opportunity where he has to be that? And I say it,
Speaker 5: you force multiplier, But is this that season where he
Speaker 5: has to say, you know what, gimb me CD and
Speaker 5: a couple guys out there, and I can go out
Speaker 5: there and get the job done. And I'm not saying,
Speaker 5: you know, because there's only been what you know, the Brady.
Speaker 5: You know, my homes and those guys are unbelievably elite.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying nobody's in that type of category.
Speaker 5: But there comes a time when you know it's you
Speaker 5: not saying it's his phont for the offense, but I'm
Speaker 5: just saying it comes to time where you got to
Speaker 5: be like, you know what, I gotta put this on me,
Speaker 5: I gotta put this on my shoulders and we're gonna
Speaker 5: get this job done. Give me these guys and we're
Speaker 5: gonna get it done. And there's no other choice. You know,
Speaker 5: it's tough, but hey, you've got to get the job done.
Speaker 4: Barry.
Speaker 3: I would say this, And I guess that was a
Speaker 3: statement that you didn't have to make when he wasn't
Speaker 3: making sixty million dollars a year, when he wasn't the
Speaker 3: highest paid player in the National Football League. But when
Speaker 3: you command that kind of cheddar you have you have
Speaker 3: to be a force multiplier. You have to be the
Speaker 3: guy that can take CD in a couple possibles and
Speaker 3: make them work.
Speaker 2: You have to. You have to because that's all we got.
Speaker 3: We don't have I mean, unless you know about somebody
Speaker 3: else that's coming from, you don't have it.
Speaker 2: I got three and the five three. That's fact. I mean,
Speaker 2: that is that's that's all I have.
Speaker 3: And if I'm going into games versus if I'm going
Speaker 3: into games versus Pittsburgh, that we know.
Speaker 2: Look man, this this defensive end is going to be
Speaker 2: coming after you. TJ. WHTT is gonna be on you.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Look, Guidan, can you can pray for him, try and
Speaker 3: hold up with some tight ends. Chip do all that
Speaker 3: teams do with each and every week, and they still
Speaker 3: are not successful. He is going to have to be
Speaker 3: that And and in order for the Cowboys to win
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh, you're gonna have to get the absolute best
Speaker 3: version of Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 5: And you know, to put a little Hopium out there,
Speaker 5: crank a little hope him out there. You know, the
Speaker 5: offense for Steelers, it's not that that team. That offense
Speaker 5: is gonna put pressure on you. In my opinion as
Speaker 5: of yet, it's not the you know, the Saints, they
Speaker 5: were putting pressure on the Boys.
Speaker 2: You know, you look at Baltimore, they were scoring every draft.
Speaker 5: I feel like this is the type of game that
Speaker 5: can play into the Cowboys hands. And if that defense
Speaker 5: shows up and they get a pass rush from somebody,
Speaker 5: I could believe it could be one of those games.
Speaker 5: But we'll see a lot of hope. You have a
Speaker 5: lot of time left before Sunday night.
Speaker 3: We'll you say, boom boom. It's been the players louds.
Speaker 3: Man knew he will be back tomorrow. He'll be here.
Speaker 3: I'll be over there. But he's still gonna be BC right. Hey,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be players in the players lounge. Man.
Speaker 2: We'll catch up with you tomorrow.
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