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Speaker 1: Player's Lamb broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at
Speaker 1: the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and
Speaker 1: Newe Scrugs. Here we are on a Monday in which
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did not secure another victory, in which the
Speaker 1: Cowboys now find themselves as a number four seed in
Speaker 1: the NFCAT instead of the number two seed in the NFC.
Speaker 1: I'm Newe Scruggs players Large Box by Hotels dot Com,
Speaker 1: joined by four Dallas Cowboys safeties, Buried Churchy McCray, and
Speaker 1: I give Barry Church all the credit in the world
Speaker 1: because he said on Friday that Arizona will win the game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was twenty two, the Cowboys twenty four. So mister Church,
Speaker 1: how did you know, baby? How did you know? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, in the streets they called me Nigro damas man,
Speaker 1: so I you know I was. I was taken back
Speaker 1: to my by Nostromo man. And uh I knew, I
Speaker 1: knew man going into this game. It was just a
Speaker 1: tough matchup, tough matchup, overall, you got one of the
Speaker 1: most explosive running quarterbacks in the game, Rick Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: and the way he's able to escape and not only
Speaker 1: use his legs but also his arm. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy was deadly accurate out there yesterday. So I figured
Speaker 1: this would be a tough matchup for US. Um I
Speaker 1: didn't throw. I didn't know it was gonna get that
Speaker 1: out of hand at first. You know, we've been We
Speaker 1: battled back, you know, made it close towards the second half.
Speaker 1: But that first half really stunned me because Arizona they
Speaker 1: were without James Connor fourteen rushing touchdowns, they were without
Speaker 1: their two starting corners on the outside. So I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe this would be kind of a shootout,
Speaker 1: maybe Cayla Murray would be able to squeak by with
Speaker 1: a field goal here there. But it wasn't like that
Speaker 1: at all, and they started fast. We once again started
Speaker 1: and we didn't get that effort or we didn't put
Speaker 1: that emphasis on getting number nineteen to football early and often.
Speaker 1: We saw it last week. It worked unbelievable. We got
Speaker 1: him the ball that opened up everything else for the
Speaker 1: run game, for the other receivers out there, and it
Speaker 1: just didn't happen. We we instead of you know, fed
Speaker 1: Dalton Scholtz a lot, and you know, the what happens
Speaker 1: is what happened. We ended up out there taking the
Speaker 1: l Defensively, I think they played as good as they
Speaker 1: could have against this team, but they were dialed in.
Speaker 1: They were dialed in, and eventually, eventually Diggs is not
Speaker 1: gonna bite on the double move. One of these days,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna bite on this double move. They were
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of him on the outside. I
Speaker 1: think A. J. Greener had one of his better games
Speaker 1: as well. So overall, I mean, I think it was
Speaker 1: a Colin Murray show and he took over this game
Speaker 1: and went nine to know and Jerry World. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, goodness gracious, yeah, I'll start. I'll start where
Speaker 1: you ended off with Diggs. I'm open to, like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'll take the interceptions for him getting beat on a
Speaker 1: double move, all right, That's that's it comes with the
Speaker 1: territory when you when you have Trade Diggs on your team.
Speaker 1: But his ability to change the game, that's something that
Speaker 1: I'll take, right. But I think what happened when him
Speaker 1: was he got hit with a dove move at the beginning,
Speaker 1: and then aj Green just kept hitting him with to
Speaker 1: come back, come back, so he didn't want to jump
Speaker 1: it after that. So I think they set him up
Speaker 1: on that end. But I still think he played a
Speaker 1: decent game. Like nobody went crazy on him. Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: had had a tough game. He's going to continue to
Speaker 1: find the ball coming toward him until he's able to
Speaker 1: figure out the way to stop those stop those throws.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing is offensively. We talked
Speaker 1: about this last week. The defense, like the offense. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna say the week link, but you have a
Speaker 1: strength in your defense, right and you say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: if this team can score twenty four like new He
Speaker 1: literally said, this team can score twenty four points somewhere
Speaker 1: in that range, then we should be able to win games.
Speaker 1: We go out there, we miss a field goal which
Speaker 1: would have gave us a twenty fifth point, and we
Speaker 1: lose the game. And I'm looking at these people and
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, the defense, I'm not like, what else
Speaker 1: you want them to do? They held these dudes the
Speaker 1: fourth field goals they gave and the offense gave them
Speaker 1: the ball in their own territory. You know what, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that they've been but not but don't break it. And
Speaker 1: I think that was I think that was a help
Speaker 1: of performers by the defense. I think they came out listen,
Speaker 1: this is why I think they had Colin Murray under
Speaker 1: pressure the entire night. All Right, he was able to
Speaker 1: get out and scramble. But when you when you have
Speaker 1: your you on the on the field for seven eight minutes,
Speaker 1: offense gets back up there, it goes three and out.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like you, you have to
Speaker 1: find a way to play balanced football. And I think
Speaker 1: for the amount of time that our defense was on
Speaker 1: the field, I think they did as much as they could,
Speaker 1: like you said, to keep us in the game. They
Speaker 1: gave us every opportunity that we needed. And then we
Speaker 1: also got a fumble at the end, and we don't
Speaker 1: got the tip. We don't have the timehouse to fix it.
Speaker 1: I think our biggest issue here is the offense. Like
Speaker 1: you said, we don't find a way to feature nineteen
Speaker 1: and twenty one in the game, we will not win consistently. Uh.
Speaker 1: When you got two targets to Cede Lamb and Uh
Speaker 1: and Amari Cooper and nine carries to Ezekiel Ella, you
Speaker 1: do not have a success a recipe for success, and
Speaker 1: I just don't think it makes sense. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep saying this weekend and week out, but it's obviously
Speaker 1: not gonna change. Let's go to the offense. Let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about this offense for a little bit, because you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's hard for me to say this,
Speaker 1: but you know, they were out coached by click Pingsbury.
Speaker 1: He got the better of this group as a whole,
Speaker 1: as a team, He got the better of this whole
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys team. Because we look at it and we
Speaker 1: saw from the very beginning Arizona's defense was blitzing. They
Speaker 1: blitzed about seventy to eighty percent of the time against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Yet we're still calling plays where Dad's
Speaker 1: gotta take a five step drop, Dad's gotta being shotgun
Speaker 1: holding the ball for a long time while these routes
Speaker 1: are developing. If you see these guys coming on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis, you can't get anything going. You gotta call
Speaker 1: some plays where the ball gets out of Dak's hands.
Speaker 1: Quick screens, uh, you know, short three step drop some slants,
Speaker 1: something to get the ball out of his hands quick
Speaker 1: to slow down that pass rush and slow down there BLI.
Speaker 1: But we didn't do that, and Arizona just kept dialing
Speaker 1: it up, dialing it up, and then once again, we
Speaker 1: don't have great blocking tight ends. Why an't we continuously
Speaker 1: leaving these tight ends Shoults, Sprinkle, whoever's out there on
Speaker 1: All Pro defensive ends, Chandler Jones. We've seen it from
Speaker 1: the group. Arizona's defense does not get going unless Chandler
Speaker 1: Jones gets going, and he got it going early and
Speaker 1: often in that football game. And for the life of me,
Speaker 1: I just don't understand why we're leaving Dalton shots, who's
Speaker 1: a receiving tight end. He's never he's never acted like
Speaker 1: he was one of the best blocking tight ends. If
Speaker 1: you want to put a block, put McEwen in there,
Speaker 1: the big kid from Michigan. Put him in there to
Speaker 1: go ahead and try to block. But you got Sholts
Speaker 1: out there blocking against an All Pro defensive end, one
Speaker 1: of the best defensive ends in all of football. And
Speaker 1: that's what the results is gonna happen. The guy's gonna
Speaker 1: get strip sacks. The guy's gonna make his energy just
Speaker 1: be felt throughout that entire defense. They built up on
Speaker 1: that momentum that the rest was history. We just couldn't
Speaker 1: get out of the whole. Well. One of the things
Speaker 1: that we have talked about here on the players Lounge
Speaker 1: is running the football here and it was a tale
Speaker 1: of two teams who decided to run the football. Arizona
Speaker 1: made a commitment to the run. He start looking at
Speaker 1: them and what they did for the football game. They
Speaker 1: had twenty second half rushes alone, and for the game
Speaker 1: they had thirty two rushes on one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards on the football on the ground. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys basically abandoned the run. In the first half.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliot actually the whole game, Ezekiel Elliet had nine
Speaker 1: rushers for sixteen yards. Tony Pollard had three rushes for
Speaker 1: nine yards. But here's the damning stats for me. In
Speaker 1: the second half, Zeke had two rushes for zero yards
Speaker 1: and Tony Pollard had zero rushes. How in the world
Speaker 1: can you go into a football game and you tell
Speaker 1: me that you have those two running backs and they
Speaker 1: only get two carries in the second half and Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott ends up being your leading rusher for the entire
Speaker 1: football game. To me, that's a failure. Listen, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something and I can hear it now. We
Speaker 1: had negative plays. We had negative plays. Two of those
Speaker 1: negative players I can see right now, Chandler Jones run
Speaker 1: straight through Dalts Shows and it's and it's and it's
Speaker 1: a negative. It's a negative play. And I'm not fault
Speaker 1: faulting Dalton Shows for this. If you're going to put
Speaker 1: the emphasis on running the ball, put a tackle out there,
Speaker 1: like what who? It doesn't matter, right, If they know
Speaker 1: that you're gonna run the ball, they already lining up
Speaker 1: with eating the box. Anyways, put a tackle out there.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get this guy blocked, and do not
Speaker 1: let him wreck the game because he moved the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. And then now Zeke has no where to go.
Speaker 1: And you're like, man, well, Zeke ain't doing nothing. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not Zeke, it's not Zeke. It's your scheme. You
Speaker 1: know all year we've been watching Dalts and Shows blocked
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, he's a receiver tight end, so
Speaker 1: I'm not facing him for this. But help him out,
Speaker 1: Help him out. This a year in and year out,
Speaker 1: about helping people when you know that they lack at
Speaker 1: the at a certain skill. Right, if he's not that
Speaker 1: good of a run blocker, help him out, a put
Speaker 1: a tackle out there. You got you got Terrence still
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench, Go put him out there, bro
Speaker 1: help him. It just it doesn't make sense. And then
Speaker 1: when you see those negative type of runs, I think
Speaker 1: that's when the offensive coordinator goes, oh, yeah, well we
Speaker 1: can't run the ball, and then it just turns into
Speaker 1: this Tampa Bay game where everybody thought it was amazing
Speaker 1: when we played Tampa. But you continue to try that
Speaker 1: throughout the entire season, and you're gonna end up just
Speaker 1: like you ended up twelve rushes for twenty yards and
Speaker 1: then Dak Prescott all of a sudden being your leading
Speaker 1: rusher because you have not emphasized running the ball. You
Speaker 1: will not win playoff games that way. You cannot play
Speaker 1: that way and win, especially when your defense is doing
Speaker 1: everything they can, but they end up being on the
Speaker 1: field for extended period of time, and sometimes that happens
Speaker 1: like it happens like you're gonna play teams they're able
Speaker 1: to put those type of drives together. Now when the
Speaker 1: offense gets back out there, they can't go three and
Speaker 1: the out. You gotta help. You gotta find a way
Speaker 1: to help your squad. Right, if you run the ball twice,
Speaker 1: it go three and out least you giving them two
Speaker 1: three minutes you get out there and just start hacking
Speaker 1: and you ain't getting the first down. Your defense like, man,
Speaker 1: what what what are we doing? Five six weeks we
Speaker 1: on this. And this is another example of how I
Speaker 1: think Cliff Kingsbury, you know, got the better of this
Speaker 1: Cowboys team, because if you look at Arizona's game plan,
Speaker 1: the outside of a couple, you know, Kyler Murray scrambles,
Speaker 1: you take those scrambles away. They didn't run the ball crazy,
Speaker 1: they didn't gash us or anything like that. Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: wasn't killing. But what they did was they never gave
Speaker 1: up on the run game, which kept this defense honest.
Speaker 1: Was kept Cowboys defense honest. We know when a team
Speaker 1: is forced to throw the football, our defensive ends Parsons
Speaker 1: Gregory the Law, they're gonna pin their ears back and
Speaker 1: they're gonna get ready to go. But since Arizona put
Speaker 1: that run game and didn't give up on it, even
Speaker 1: though it wasn't producing nothing. They might have gotten, you know,
Speaker 1: two point five yards to carry outside of Kyler murray scrambles.
Speaker 1: Even though it wasn't producing nothing. It kept that defense honest.
Speaker 1: So they couldn't just pin the ear back and turn
Speaker 1: the corner and go after the quarterback. They had to
Speaker 1: make sure it wasn't a run and then go to it.
Speaker 1: And that helps slow down our pass rush and eventually
Speaker 1: let Kyla Murray be as effective as he was. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboy run game. Let's start to dissect this a
Speaker 1: little bit here. What do we put on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: It's in terms of the struggles that were seeing from
Speaker 1: this football team and not being able to run. You know,
Speaker 1: I put a little bit on the old line. But
Speaker 1: it's hard because they were going against eight man boxes
Speaker 1: the entire time, because Arizona doesn't believe that our past
Speaker 1: game and Dak Prescott's arm can beat them. If you
Speaker 1: saw it, a lot of those times, there was you know,
Speaker 1: eight guys up in the line of scrimmage. Whether they
Speaker 1: were blitzing or backing out, they were still giving that
Speaker 1: look to where you're sitting there thinking, Okay, there's no
Speaker 1: way we can run against this eight man box. But
Speaker 1: to your credit, Danny, you talked about it earlier in
Speaker 1: the season. Even though they have that look, sometimes you
Speaker 1: still gotta just hit that battering ram. Sometimes you still
Speaker 1: gotta just go at that wall to keep them honest,
Speaker 1: similar to what Arizona did to us. But when you
Speaker 1: don't have that, you know when you gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: check up out here, I gotta pass the football. It
Speaker 1: creates problems, and it creates trouble for your offense. And listen,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something that And they also goes
Speaker 1: into the fact that you see, we tried to run
Speaker 1: the boot. You know why it didn't work. We ain't
Speaker 1: running the ball, abody, You're not fooling anybody. This is
Speaker 1: the same reason Dak Prescott throws that pick at the
Speaker 1: end of the I believe it's a Washington game where
Speaker 1: you're like, man, what is going on? If we run
Speaker 1: the boot, linebacker doesn't really bite on. He biting on
Speaker 1: a little bit and then he's able to get back
Speaker 1: underneath the route. The same thing here. If you are
Speaker 1: not going to focus on the run game, we are
Speaker 1: not the only team who sees eight man boxes. Because
Speaker 1: teams are gonna dare us to throw it, but we
Speaker 1: are seeming to be the only team who does not
Speaker 1: have any answer for it except throw it. We cannot
Speaker 1: find a way. Like last week we came out, we're
Speaker 1: pulling guys. Layel's pulling, Zack Barnes's pulling, like we're figuring
Speaker 1: out ways to get guys on the edge. And this year,
Speaker 1: I mean this week, it seemed like that creativity was
Speaker 1: just was lost and gone, like we have no we
Speaker 1: have no identity, and our identities should be run through
Speaker 1: twenty one and get the ball to nineteen. Somehow we
Speaker 1: cannot figure out how to get it. I'm still looking
Speaker 1: at the game. I'm saying central Russe comes in and
Speaker 1: he's catching Oh oh listen, greatness to him. That should
Speaker 1: not be him. It should be nineteen like getting these
Speaker 1: passos because because other than that, he is like literally
Speaker 1: not on the field. Ye that's the true. So do
Speaker 1: you think it's more not you know, the offensive line
Speaker 1: getting beat, you know, man on man or whatever. You
Speaker 1: think it's more of a lack of attempts? Absolutely? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you cannot go into a game with Ezekiel Elliott. He
Speaker 1: ends the game with nine gears for sixteen yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: lack of a like, how can he get going? Like
Speaker 1: he's not a necessarily a pass catching running back, right,
Speaker 1: he is a like down the throat, punish you. And
Speaker 1: then at the end of the game is where he
Speaker 1: starts to wear on you. Well, ain't nobody. You ain't
Speaker 1: wearing no nobody with no nine runs, and earlier in
Speaker 1: that game he looked like he has some juice, Like
Speaker 1: he looked early in the game he had a couple
Speaker 1: of runs where you know, he got through the lane scrimmage,
Speaker 1: show a little bit of burst there. But you know,
Speaker 1: we just didn't stick with it long enough. This I
Speaker 1: don't know why this is how you know those those
Speaker 1: excuses A BS one is all right, we you know
Speaker 1: we got a stack box, so we're not gonna give
Speaker 1: it to Zeke nexus. We're gonna wrest him a little
Speaker 1: bit because his knee hurt. What's the excuse? Now, you're
Speaker 1: the man in the ball, right, you got one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety million dollars to who you are not focusing
Speaker 1: on on? This team? Makes absolutely no sense. One hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety Newey one hundred and ninety ms. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of ms. I went back here, just started breaking
Speaker 1: down the numbers in the second half, seventeen pass attempts
Speaker 1: by the Cowboys offense to seven runs, and of those
Speaker 1: seven runs, only two of them were by the running backs.
Speaker 1: So seventeen or two man that is a damning number.
Speaker 1: And that's not what Mike McCarthy has called for this year,
Speaker 1: he says, complimentary football. Mike's talked about that all offseason long.
Speaker 1: And so for me, I wonder when is the conversation
Speaker 1: the head coach has with the coordinator and the quarterback
Speaker 1: about what you're calling or what you're checking into, because
Speaker 1: you're just abandoning the run, and clearly yesterday you weren't
Speaker 1: effective at all in the football game and you became predictable.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's more of what Dak is deciding
Speaker 1: to check into up in the line street because we've
Speaker 1: seen it a bunch of times last week, or yeah,
Speaker 1: this week. This past week he was at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and it seemed like almost every play in
Speaker 1: that first half he was checking out of something, or
Speaker 1: whether it was making a line twitch or checking from
Speaker 1: past or run, whatever the case may be. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's more of him doing that or what Kellen's calling.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you because also to that what happened
Speaker 1: to the tempo like timpo? Timpo is gone when you
Speaker 1: line up on the on the ball and then you
Speaker 1: don't snap until his five seconds left because you're checking
Speaker 1: all over the place. I think it's both of them,
Speaker 1: but I think Kellen Moore has the opportunity and he
Speaker 1: has to say so to say, hey man, this is
Speaker 1: what we're going out here to run. You might have
Speaker 1: two checks. Run or pass right and based off what
Speaker 1: you see. If it's a man box, I want you
Speaker 1: to throw this ball to nineteen. If he's covered, then
Speaker 1: go to read number two. If it's seven in the
Speaker 1: box and you see too high running the ball right
Speaker 1: or left, that is it. But you think that he
Speaker 1: can tell him that, I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: a guy. I mean, he's not a face in a rookie.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that they gave all that money too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you as coach? Yes you if you If you cannot
Speaker 1: tell him that, then then who are you? Right? You
Speaker 1: are his coach? Right? Then Quinn can go out there
Speaker 1: and tell any one of them dudes to line up
Speaker 1: and play how we practice on plan all right, and
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore should be able to do that as well,
Speaker 1: Especially if you have aspirations of being a head coach,
Speaker 1: you need to be able. You gotta have that type
Speaker 1: of control over your quarterback. You can say whatever you
Speaker 1: want to. I know knew he's gonna like this about
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett and what he did. But when he went
Speaker 1: out there called to run, they're gonna run the ball.
Speaker 1: He went out there and said throw at eighty eight.
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw at eighty eight. Can we get just
Speaker 1: a little of that? We don't have to be all that.
Speaker 1: Can we get a little of Marie Cooper is out
Speaker 1: here in the press scene, give me the ball? You
Speaker 1: go to him one game against the Washington football team,
Speaker 1: who doesn't have all these players. And when you go
Speaker 1: out here against the team that is a playoff team,
Speaker 1: that is a litmus test for you. You go out
Speaker 1: here and you sleep walk into this thing. It makes
Speaker 1: absolutely no sense for the play callers perspective, and from
Speaker 1: the quarterback if it's him who's checking out of these plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you would love your coordinator to be able
Speaker 1: to you know, like you said, talking to be like, hey,
Speaker 1: just what we need to do, get it done or
Speaker 1: But it's like a different dynamic between those two because
Speaker 1: they were teammates at one time. You know, they were
Speaker 1: teammates at one time than Kellen Moore was the quarterback
Speaker 1: coach that so it ain't like he just came in
Speaker 1: and was like, yeah, I'm the boss. You are, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're the student. You're to eat the pupil
Speaker 1: you They was at the same level. So I can
Speaker 1: see where it's hard for Kelly Moore to just be like, no,
Speaker 1: you better do this or else. Plus, when you give
Speaker 1: a guy a paycheck like that, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard just you know, to just put him
Speaker 1: in his place. But you know, it needs to happen.
Speaker 1: Something needs to happen, something needs to change with his offense.
Speaker 1: Oh well, Kellen Moore has got a job interview with
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jacks this week, affording Tom pla sero of
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Speaker 1: of weeks of Dak Prescott and Kellen Moore working together.
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Speaker 1: it's pretty damn it. The Cowboys that faced four Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl quarterback team. They've got a one, one and three
Speaker 1: record against those quarterbacks. They beat Justin Herbert, but then
Speaker 1: proceeded to lose to Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes and yesterday
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. So the Cowboys have eleven wins. They're six
Speaker 1: and five against teams. I mean, you start thinking against,
Speaker 1: you take away the nfcast, and then that record is
Speaker 1: almost a five hundred record against other teams. So how
Speaker 1: should we view the Cowboys outside of beating up on
Speaker 1: these divisional teams? You should view them, is what you say,
Speaker 1: are who we thought they were at this point? All right,
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna say this. I still think that we
Speaker 1: are a good team defensively. I think that if we
Speaker 1: don't find a way to find some balance and help
Speaker 1: our defense out to where we all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: if we don't get three turnovers in the game, we
Speaker 1: can't win. Because now we're starting to see that the
Speaker 1: defense is really carrying you by giving you these extra possessions.
Speaker 1: So now if they can only give you one, if
Speaker 1: they can't give you any, but they can still hold
Speaker 1: these teams to field goals and you still can't score touchdowns,
Speaker 1: that we don't have a shot. Right. So the offense
Speaker 1: that I thought we had at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year when we were playing against Tampa, but we didn't
Speaker 1: run the ball, which I said was gonna be our
Speaker 1: Achilles Hill, it's not the offense that is playing right now.
Speaker 1: We are literally they have. I believe they have found
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore out. I believe that we're literally just out
Speaker 1: there running routes and these teams are able to get
Speaker 1: underneath these routes by playing zoner man and stop us.
Speaker 1: We have not been able to say my guy is
Speaker 1: better than yours. This is not a scheme. This is
Speaker 1: just as what me. I'm gonna line up with Mark Cooper,
Speaker 1: let him run a slant, let him run a go,
Speaker 1: let him run out, and let him beat the guy
Speaker 1: across from and we have not been able to do that.
Speaker 1: And it's disappointed because I watched the Green Bay game
Speaker 1: last night and I watched the Adam it's not even
Speaker 1: it's not scheme. He said, hey man, you run this
Speaker 1: way and I'm gonna throw you the ball. It's not
Speaker 1: that hard, bro. So when I'm until we find a
Speaker 1: way to get some balance. Was we only got one game,
Speaker 1: and you better not sleep on Philly. You better not
Speaker 1: sleep We got one We got one game to get
Speaker 1: this thing right and find some balance. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, I think it's a little too late
Speaker 1: to find that type of to find that type of balance,
Speaker 1: especially in your run game. Yeah, I mean I agree
Speaker 1: with everything you said. And once again, I tried to
Speaker 1: tell y'all weeks ago knew he had Danny. I tried
Speaker 1: to tell y'all weeks ago, we were feasting on bad quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: We were feasting on Mike Glennon, we were feasting on Taylor,
Speaker 1: Heinik Jake from those type of guys, and you can
Speaker 1: only play who's in front of you. So that in
Speaker 1: the defense that they did their job, they did what
Speaker 1: they had to do and above force and four turnovers
Speaker 1: doing all that great stuff. They were playing amazing. But
Speaker 1: what got me nervous was when we get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I'm no so sure we're gonna be playing those terrible quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to go against some better quarterbacks, saying
Speaker 1: last year and yesterday we went against one of the
Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in the National Football League and Kyler Murray. Now,
Speaker 1: not everybody is dynamic as Kyler Murray like. He was
Speaker 1: able to buy time, extend the pocket, and he was
Speaker 1: able to do a lot of things that a lot
Speaker 1: of other quarterbacks can't do. But we gotta find a
Speaker 1: way defensively to just I mean, it's hard to say
Speaker 1: step it up even more but when your offense is
Speaker 1: struggling the way it is and you can't get turned
Speaker 1: and you can't get a takeaway, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do something and it's gonna have to be better on
Speaker 1: third down or something like that. They were seven to
Speaker 1: sixteen last night on third down. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, and usually this Dallas defense is the number
Speaker 1: one defense on third down. They've been helping Cats to
Speaker 1: only thirty percent on third down the entire season. Yesterday
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case. You know, Arizona was able to
Speaker 1: keep drives alive, keep moving the football and tiring out
Speaker 1: this defense. I mean, we've seen drives of ninety one
Speaker 1: yards again, they had another one of eighty some yards.
Speaker 1: It was just the long sustained drive eighty by penalties. Yea,
Speaker 1: I'll give you that as well by penalties. But it's
Speaker 1: just something that this defense has to do when they're
Speaker 1: not getting takeaways. They've got to be better on third
Speaker 1: down and in the offense. I think it just is
Speaker 1: what it is right now. They just can't get out
Speaker 1: their way. They seem to not have an identity or
Speaker 1: really a solution to not having an identity. So it's
Speaker 1: got to be on this defense right now, and that
Speaker 1: makes me nervous going into the playoffs when we have
Speaker 1: to face against a quarterback. We ain't winning like that. Yeah, tough,
Speaker 1: So we're not going to be able to win games
Speaker 1: if the defense has to do everything. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: not taking anything away from the offense, but what Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and then they were number one team before they
Speaker 1: went on the slide, all right, We went through the
Speaker 1: same the same type of slump, all right, so good
Speaker 1: teams do go through slumps. But when he was able
Speaker 1: to wake up and they offense started to look at
Speaker 1: least half of what they were. Our defense is holding
Speaker 1: them to field goals and giving the offense opportunities even
Speaker 1: when Dak is fum running his own territory and we
Speaker 1: held them to like we're holding these guys. You have
Speaker 1: to find a way to then find the momentum and
Speaker 1: score some points, and not specifically just at the end,
Speaker 1: because right, you stopped this team five or six times
Speaker 1: and then you're like, all right, now we gotta stop
Speaker 1: them three more times where the offense comes back like
Speaker 1: it don't work that way, right, It's like not a
Speaker 1: defense got to hold they've been holding all games like
Speaker 1: that Kansas City game, like it was just like, man,
Speaker 1: we again. Everywhere it's in the group chat, like again,
Speaker 1: this defense is going to hold them again, and they
Speaker 1: were able to do it. But I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of time before a great quarterback is able
Speaker 1: to take much well. And then and then a miscommunication
Speaker 1: or or being out coast where we got tricked out
Speaker 1: of that time out, your defense actually cause us the
Speaker 1: turnover that you need, right like, we need our defensive
Speaker 1: step up and make a play. They did, they did,
Speaker 1: but you don't have the time out the challenge and
Speaker 1: not yet the ref did miss it. But it happens
Speaker 1: all the time. You have to try to find a
Speaker 1: way to make sure that you know what's coming at
Speaker 1: you so you don't waste the time out like that.
Speaker 1: And it ended up literally killing us at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. Because I'm still on the defense, whether
Speaker 1: we might not end up top ten, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this, that defense when it was time for them
Speaker 1: to make plays, they did, and then at the end
Speaker 1: of the game when Dak started coming back, they still
Speaker 1: made more plays to get you back in the game.
Speaker 1: They caused that turnover. We didn't get it, but they
Speaker 1: are still able to turn the ball over and that's
Speaker 1: always gonna give you a chance in the game. But
Speaker 1: if your offense is is sleeping through the first three quarters,
Speaker 1: then you don't have a shot to start fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you look at the way that Arizona was able
Speaker 1: to play at the end. They were able to just
Speaker 1: continue to try to run the time, run the time,
Speaker 1: mother tick. We don't need to score. They don't have
Speaker 1: time to come back. And you saw that at the
Speaker 1: end of the game and Greg de leg you know, uh,
Speaker 1: hook them left, man. I mean we started we started.
Speaker 1: We started this in the Tampa game. Okay, we started
Speaker 1: us in the Tampa game. And we've been seeing this
Speaker 1: throughout the whole season. We've been seeing this throughout the
Speaker 1: whole night. He ain't been horrible, but when when these
Speaker 1: moments coming you had you had to start tallying up
Speaker 1: to these points. You're like, where we love him on
Speaker 1: the field that it's coming from the field goal because
Speaker 1: it's fun to you because it's not like it's a
Speaker 1: nutcutting time where it's like, you know, fives. He's usually
Speaker 1: good in that in that area. When it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's the last kick he has to make it. It's
Speaker 1: those ones where it's like, oh, this is routine, he
Speaker 1: can do this, this is a forty yard this is
Speaker 1: you know, this is this is easy, this is and
Speaker 1: boom he misses it. Then you're just like, oh man,
Speaker 1: what's going on there? You chasing points the entire game,
Speaker 1: and when you're going to get a quarterback like Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: you can't give him extra shots like that. Look, this
Speaker 1: guy was let go by the Rams and they haven't
Speaker 1: missed him at all because the Pro Bowl kicker on
Speaker 1: the NFC squad this year is is Matt Gay, who's
Speaker 1: with the Rams. So clearly they knew what was going on,
Speaker 1: and you saw John Fossil come here. They gave Greg's
Speaker 1: earline a big contract. I don't know whether Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: got any say or any or what happens with this
Speaker 1: field goal kicker, because clearly it feels like Bones Fossil
Speaker 1: is the one in charge running things when it comes
Speaker 1: to the kicking unit. Now. I asked him specifically two
Speaker 1: questions after the Thanksgiving that game about this kicker, and
Speaker 1: he told me he had confidence in him. And then
Speaker 1: yesterday he was like, well, you know we're in the
Speaker 1: playoffs situation. Now he knows what he's got to do.
Speaker 1: So it's like he's coming off this a little bit like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I wasn't crazy. This dude is problem. We saw himss
Speaker 1: two extra points against the Giants and I wrote down
Speaker 1: this just going back to three games. Man, that three
Speaker 1: point lost to Arizona, he missed the field goal. That
Speaker 1: three point loss to Las Vegas, he missed the field
Speaker 1: goal and an extra point. Then you go back to
Speaker 1: that two point loss against Tampa Bay, he missed the
Speaker 1: field goal, an extra point. That's three football games right there,
Speaker 1: where if he did his job, we're probably talking about
Speaker 1: a different outcome for the Dallas Cowboys. Man, this guy's
Speaker 1: not been good. And after the season, I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear anymore of this who he about, how he's
Speaker 1: the guy he's kind of having a bunch of competence
Speaker 1: in the camp, okay, because that dude had no competition
Speaker 1: at camp. Guys, there were times when we were like
Speaker 1: we go see a field goal. We went weeks without
Speaker 1: seeing a field goal at him because bones Fossil was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's coming off surgery, he's gonna be good. We're good
Speaker 1: We got him, and McCarthy's like, man, he's kicked the
Speaker 1: team to a super Bowl. He's all us. This is
Speaker 1: a bunch of bulljive. Man, This dude is mediocre at best.
Speaker 1: He'd kicked you out the number two seed, that's what
Speaker 1: he did. It kicks you to the four. But since
Speaker 1: we're on special teams, man, I gotta give a shout
Speaker 1: out to our guy, man c J. Goodwin. Once again, Man,
Speaker 1: he is making plays and I'm surprised he didn't get that,
Speaker 1: you know, special Team's Pro Bowl. Not because I don't
Speaker 1: see another better gunner in the league right now. I
Speaker 1: know that the guy in New England is awesome, But
Speaker 1: the way CJ is making plays, I mean out there's
Speaker 1: a special teams guy. I mean he's bawling. It was
Speaker 1: hurt a little bit. I think when he hurt. Oh
Speaker 1: he didn't miss like that again a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 1: even he's bawling. And I'm not even gonna put the
Speaker 1: onus on on that fake punt on on like bones
Speaker 1: because literally the rule is, you know, no pass to
Speaker 1: the first, but only on the outside like they had
Speaker 1: they had it covered. The Dudel made a David Tyree
Speaker 1: like unbelievable kiss they get a pass interferes it was covered.
Speaker 1: It just didn't. It just didn't go out away there.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they got tricked out of it. What
Speaker 1: they got tricked out of was when they put the
Speaker 1: kicker in the quarterback on the field on that on
Speaker 1: that field goal, they gotta have a spot up. You
Speaker 1: got somebody gotta see that. Somebody got to see um,
Speaker 1: and you just got to be prepared to do it
Speaker 1: instead of just being like, hey man, we're just gonna
Speaker 1: run our field goal block team out there. So shout
Speaker 1: out to special teams. C J. He's still I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna he's not the MVP this year, but he's still
Speaker 1: the guy. He's the guy. He's still the guy. And
Speaker 1: you know, Port Nation. I told New Nation he should
Speaker 1: have kept that number forty yea. He just came by.
Speaker 1: He came by one. Man. How that's how it is.
Speaker 1: The season you're like, man, I can't even man, can't
Speaker 1: buy one. That's tough. But I tell you this, if
Speaker 1: you if you are still thinking about who should be
Speaker 1: the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Okay, that conversation
Speaker 1: that we had earlier this season where it was a
Speaker 1: fort gun conclusion and it was Dak Prescott and he
Speaker 1: was all in the MVP conversation. Yeah you better watch that. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I just that's leading. Okay, my bad, my bad, my bad,
Speaker 1: bad bad. Hold on, man, you know, I'm excited. I'm excited.
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Speaker 1: he about to lose the potential what seemed to be
Speaker 1: a shoe or comeback Player of the Year award, because
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Speaker 1: free agent safety's Buried Church in Danny McCrae, all right, guys,
Speaker 1: I sent my note out here. Ask somebody who's got
Speaker 1: a vote in the Comeback Player of the Year, And
Speaker 1: I said, who gets it? Is it Joe Burrow Comeback
Speaker 1: player of the Year? Is that Dak Prescott? And he says,
Speaker 1: the way Joey b playing is now, it's him Nick
Speaker 1: Bosa also in play. I would also say Joey b
Speaker 1: Dak and botha. Asked another voter, I would have said
Speaker 1: Dak until yesterday. Now it's interesting, toss up Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: out there bowling has Cincinnati as Division champions. Here, Danny mccraig,
Speaker 1: go ahead and take the floor on this, because I
Speaker 1: know Burry Church ain't got nothing. Did he really want
Speaker 1: to say on this right? Listen? Listen, listen. Before Barry
Speaker 1: Church got off the air last week, I asked him
Speaker 1: what would he say about Joe Burrow if he beat
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, And he said, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him his dude. I'm gonna give miss dude Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow went out there this week down fourteen points
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, did not blink. Jamar Chase has
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty plush yards on eleven catches. Te
Speaker 1: Higgins got a touch down, he goes for another. I
Speaker 1: think was it four hundred something go for So in
Speaker 1: the last two games he's broke the record for how
Speaker 1: many yards you have in the two game span. He
Speaker 1: wins the division, and you're gonna sit here and talk
Speaker 1: about Justin Herbert. This is what I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: If you vote for anybody but Joe Burrow to be
Speaker 1: the NFL Comeback Player of the Year, then you are
Speaker 1: just straight up bias. Because I love the Cowboys, I
Speaker 1: like Joe Burrow, but as far as the person who's
Speaker 1: performed the best and done more for their team this season,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely Joe Burrow, all right, So please tell me
Speaker 1: what you think about Joe Burrow compared to Justin Herbert Hillo.
Speaker 1: He's gonna start on the come back player of the year.
Speaker 1: That was the original question knew he had presented. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and say Joe Burrow needs to
Speaker 1: be the comeback Player of the Year. The man has
Speaker 1: played amazing so far this season. He's bawled out, he's
Speaker 1: did what he had to do, and he's did it
Speaker 1: with a terrible offensive line because half the time the
Speaker 1: guys running for his life. Now he has unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 1: set of receivers in skill position, but he has to
Speaker 1: be able to make those throws and he has done that.
Speaker 1: So the guy has played great. He's gonna be comeback
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. He's got his team in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: say one of division, all this other stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: he get get a man this cookies, get a man
Speaker 1: as flowers and look, you know I said I was
Speaker 1: gonna give him his just dude, So look, I admit it.
Speaker 1: I admit it, all right, Joe Burrow is only on
Speaker 1: the same level as Justin Herbert or right here in
Speaker 1: time beckon back. They right at the same level. It's
Speaker 1: no more Justin Herbert over Joe Burro. They're on the
Speaker 1: same level right now, I'll admit it, on the same level.
Speaker 1: They're on the same level. I admitted Church Church, Church,
Speaker 1: got a met Church, Jeff. Justin Herbert need to go
Speaker 1: ahead and give his Pro Bowl spot to Joe Burrows
Speaker 1: really does right, Stop it's Joe Burrows team is their
Speaker 1: division champs. Stop champs, man, Stop it we don't even
Speaker 1: know if Justin Herbert can make the play, he may
Speaker 1: not make the playoffs. Man, he got to win this week,
Speaker 1: gets the Raiders. He may not make the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: team he's already, He's in there. Man left his left
Speaker 1: tackle was all pro as a rookie, said he had
Speaker 1: helped man Joe out here running for his life. Man
Speaker 1: with bad coaching, with a bad head coach. Man, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit there and say, hey, because he had
Speaker 1: an all pro left tackle, he had he had a
Speaker 1: better situation than Joe Burrow. Bro He Joe bol got
Speaker 1: two thousand yard receivers and all pro running back is better?
Speaker 1: At what? At what point? At what point are you
Speaker 1: gonna say? At what point are you gonna say? Is
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow? Okay? Joe burrowsten He's he's he's throwing throwing
Speaker 1: the ball to these guys, Okay, So act like they
Speaker 1: will be doing the same thing if they had a
Speaker 1: different quarterback back there. Joe Burrow somehow Lee's college and
Speaker 1: has two of the best receivers. Right, He's throwing these
Speaker 1: two dudes the ball. What I'm saying, Joe Burrow ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be there I'm not playing this season, all right,
Speaker 1: Jamar tastes does not play. Justin Jefferson goes on to
Speaker 1: be what a rookie of the year. Jamar Chase comes
Speaker 1: in and breaks Justin Jefferson's record with Joe Burrow. All right,
Speaker 1: This dude is the reason for these guys to be
Speaker 1: as good as they are. And you're talking about he
Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert are just now getting on the same
Speaker 1: same level. Now they on the same level right now.
Speaker 1: Like I said at add on the what Danny said,
Speaker 1: So Joe Burrow left, get fired, get fired? I mean, Herbert,
Speaker 1: this is this is this just shows you, yeah, this
Speaker 1: just shows you how good Joe Burrow is for you
Speaker 1: to like first knock him down. Herbert Burne on the
Speaker 1: same level right right now, right now. Who's having a
Speaker 1: better season Justin? Herbert? You're talking about stat wise? Are
Speaker 1: you talking about no, none of my record wise? You
Speaker 1: know you know exactly what I'm talking about. Who's having
Speaker 1: a who's having a better season justin? Let's you're talking
Speaker 1: about stat wise, because if you talk about stat wise, Herbert,
Speaker 1: this dude got thirty thirty, thirty four or fourteen for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I'm confused on somebody signed justin Herbert's fourteen let me
Speaker 1: five thousand years. Joe Burrow got the same. Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: got the same. He'll be sitting at home next week.
Speaker 1: He's seventh place. Right now, he's seven. Go ahead, back
Speaker 1: to the original question right now, who wins comeback Play
Speaker 1: of the Year? Is it Dak, is it Bosa? Is
Speaker 1: it Joe Burrow? Who wins this award? Joe Burrow got
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow easy. This is We talked about the Cincinnati Bengals, bro,
Speaker 1: So you can say whatever how you think they look
Speaker 1: right now. The expectation for this team at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year was definitely not winning their division and
Speaker 1: playing the way that they playing with two one thousand
Speaker 1: yard receivers, Pro Bowl running back, defense showing up when
Speaker 1: they need to, and then being on the way to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. All right, no expectation for that. And it
Speaker 1: literally is all to meet of this on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Without Joe Burrow being on this squad, they are not
Speaker 1: the seen. The defense ain't playing like this, receivers ain't
Speaker 1: playing like this, and running back it's still playing well,
Speaker 1: but he not having this type of success without Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow being on that squad. I go back to the
Speaker 1: game and with Cincinnati played this year where they were
Speaker 1: going to win this football game. Joe Burrow did all
Speaker 1: he could. Kicker goes out there and this is an
Speaker 1: easy one against Green Bay and they end up losing.
Speaker 1: The guy has been definitely he's definitely been a difference maker.
Speaker 1: Let's let us not in the show without talking about
Speaker 1: Michael Galla, who j Mary Jones, the Cowboys owner said
Speaker 1: afterwards just going to miss the rest of the year
Speaker 1: where they torn acl He's going into free agency. Um,
Speaker 1: what's the most important thing for guys to do for
Speaker 1: Michael Gallapher's teammates in such a tough time like this.
Speaker 1: I'm because I've been in the same literally the same
Speaker 1: exact situation torn Achilles going into the contract year. But
Speaker 1: you know what you need from your teammates is just
Speaker 1: for them to reassure you that you're still part of
Speaker 1: that team. Like when I when I went down, it
Speaker 1: was hard, it was real hard, rook undrafted rookie, and
Speaker 1: I was first chance starting and boom. I went down
Speaker 1: that very next week and the week's following that, Danny
Speaker 1: Gerald sense the ball everybody in that secondary crew would
Speaker 1: come over to my apartment at the time and we
Speaker 1: had just played cars, just talk. We wouldn't even talk
Speaker 1: about football. We had just played cars, just just to
Speaker 1: make you feel like you're still a part of that
Speaker 1: locker room. Because when you're injured and you don't get
Speaker 1: to go to the meetings anymore, you're not practicing. You
Speaker 1: basically just come in for your treatment and then your eve.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't even see your teammates that day. They're
Speaker 1: already either already out practice in order and meetings, so
Speaker 1: you just go to the training room. So it gets hard.
Speaker 1: It gets real hard, especially when your team is having
Speaker 1: a lot of success as well. And this team right
Speaker 1: now has a chance to, you know, make a long
Speaker 1: run in the playoffs, and it's going to be without
Speaker 1: Michael Gallups. So to me, I just think the teammates
Speaker 1: need to reach out to him however they want to
Speaker 1: do it, and just make sure that he knows he's
Speaker 1: still a part of his team and without him, you know,
Speaker 1: the success wouldn't be there. So it's definitely a tough
Speaker 1: one because it's going in the contract. Yere. Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me tell you, I'm gonna pick it back off what
Speaker 1: you said about they got a chance of making a
Speaker 1: deep run in the playoffs. He can He can go
Speaker 1: in knowing that the chance has got a lot slimmer
Speaker 1: without him being on the field. We talked about him
Speaker 1: being We talked about him being the deep threat for
Speaker 1: this team, and when you watch the games with him
Speaker 1: being in it, those fade balls, those back in the
Speaker 1: corner end zone, back shoulder, ninety percent of those were
Speaker 1: going to Michael Gallup, and ninety percent of the time
Speaker 1: he was coming down with those as you see when
Speaker 1: on the play that he heard his he is. That
Speaker 1: is a play that literally boosts a momentum in our
Speaker 1: favor and allows us to score points like he is
Speaker 1: that guy. So I think he's literally gonna be missed.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he did make him some money even though he
Speaker 1: did get injured, because teams will will have to be
Speaker 1: able to watch that film and say, even though you
Speaker 1: got a Mark Cooper, even though you have Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup had a role on this team and he
Speaker 1: was a guy who could make some of those dynamic
Speaker 1: catches when you needed to have a fifty fifty ball
Speaker 1: caught by your player. So shout out to him. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he heals up soon, and hopefully teams take a really
Speaker 1: good look at him and see what he was able
Speaker 1: to do for this squad and pay him pay him accordingly. Well,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, d Mac. You know he
Speaker 1: got injured late in a year, so you know he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to go through you know, surgery rehab, and
Speaker 1: he might not even be ready for training camp. Would
Speaker 1: you rather if you were in Michael gallup situation? And
Speaker 1: let's just say, you know, teams they're not gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing the money at you because you got an AHL.
Speaker 1: They might give you a one year deal, maybe even
Speaker 1: a two year deal here and there. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is hypothetically. Would you rather sign
Speaker 1: a one year, lesser value deal with Dallas knowing that
Speaker 1: you can all right, you're familiar with the training staff,
Speaker 1: you know the offensive system, because you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: an offseason, you might not even have a training camp.
Speaker 1: So would you rather stay here on the one year
Speaker 1: lesser deal or sign a maybe a multi year deal
Speaker 1: somewhere else? But if you if you know, if you
Speaker 1: get done with Dolls to that year, you'll be able
Speaker 1: to reap again after the season. Which way would you
Speaker 1: go down? I think it depends on how much it is.
Speaker 1: Um If you're one year deal and annual equals that
Speaker 1: that three year I'm asked me, I'm gonna stay where
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable later because I know the quarterback, I know
Speaker 1: the training staff. I'm still gonna be working with these
Speaker 1: guys with Britain Jim and I trust the fact that
Speaker 1: they're going to get me back and they're gonna not
Speaker 1: let me get out there on the field until I'm
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and ready to go. I don't have
Speaker 1: that same trust if I go to another squad. So
Speaker 1: that's just me. The hometown thing is a big is
Speaker 1: a big deal. He's familiar with the coaches and to
Speaker 1: know that Jerry Jose and him still has some type
Speaker 1: of faith and believe in him to give him a
Speaker 1: one year shot, I would still do that. Also depends
Speaker 1: on who the quarterback is, Right, Am I going to
Speaker 1: play with Aaron Rodgers? Am I going to play with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Like like like? I think There's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that goes into that decision. Guys. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a tough situation for him, definitely hope he can
Speaker 1: keep his spirits up here because he's had a very
Speaker 1: tough season from what happened in Game one and having
Speaker 1: to set out. You finally come back, you find yourself
Speaker 1: in a groove. And who I feel for Michael Gallant
Speaker 1: because there's one of the good guys on the football
Speaker 1: team who also had gone out of his way, had
Speaker 1: a little Christmas drive that he had for some kids.
Speaker 1: I want to see what was over Dick Sporting Goods
Speaker 1: where he was trying to make people's Christmas has be better.
Speaker 1: So I just hate to see that for him. But
Speaker 1: hopefully um there's something bigger in his future and that
Speaker 1: he can come back and get all that he wants
Speaker 1: to from from the bag to statistics and and everything
Speaker 1: to have a good NFL career. Let's end it there.
Speaker 1: We got a whole lot to get to. This week
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys get ready to face the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: They may not be playing for anything. The game has
Speaker 1: moved from Sunday to Saturday night, so the game is
Speaker 1: a Saturday night game up there in Philadelphia. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be cold, so lots to get to this week. All
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