WEBVTT - Players Lounge: Excepting Mediocrity? 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.119 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:17.919 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:23.240 Lounge broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.920 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newey Scrugs. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.559 Here we go Thursday Players Lounge, brought to you by 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.600 Hotels dot Com on Newy Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.040 by former safety's Barry Church and Danny McCray. We've got 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.159 forty five minutes of professional football talkwee key in on 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.640 the Dallas Cowboys who have a noon game against the 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.800 San Francisco forty nine Ers on Sunday. That means I 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.200 gotta get out of the house, like nine thirty to 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.040 get on down here for this game. So yeah, it 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.360 was supposed to be a Sunday night game on NBC. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.760 You know, seven o'clock, waiting all day for Sunday night. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.039 Now it's get on up in the morning and get 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.920 ready for a brunch kickoff game between the Cowboys at 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:15.000 forty nine ers. Maybe you're not bothered by it. Clearly 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.600 Jalen Smith and the Cowboys not bothering him at all. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.440 As Jalen was asked about this, and he said, quote, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.199 if the owner ain't tripping, we good talking about being 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:32.040 from prime time to the noon game and being flexed 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.440 out four Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Cleveland and 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:43.920 the New York Giants. Gentleman, I'm just gonna read to you. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.280 I'm gonna read to you what one gentleman told me. Okay, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.960 I asked. I asked a veteran, a person who's been 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.840 around the Cowboys for a long time, knows Jerry Jones 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.840 very well. And I sent I sit the same thing 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.960 I said to you guys that I retweeted Twitter, and 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.200 this person said, noon starts are the graveyard of mediocrity, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.800 the weekly home of the non contenders. The Cowboys have 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:16.320 embraced their new identity sad thoughts. I'm gonna tell you what, man, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.600 you write it, But whoever told you that was right 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.440 about the mediocracy thing? Because I tell you what. When 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.600 I was in Jacksonville, that's all we had was twelve 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.000 o'clock games. I mean, we scratched it. We clawed to 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.480 try to get even the three o'clock afternoons start, and 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.680 I think we had maybe two of those throughout my 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.040 whole time down there in Jacksonville. So this is not 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.880 where the Cowboys want to be. I mean, this is 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.600 supposed to be America's team. This is supposed to be 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.240 the ratings are supposed to be spiked when the Cowboys 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.520 touched the field. But I mean, I guess, I guess 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.799 the Lord's gone. I mean, when you go four and 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.040 nine so far this season, I mean things start to 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:49.880 get snatched away from you. Then now we got the 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.160 Sunday Night getting pulled for Cleveland and New York game. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.320 I mean, how the Mighty have fallen? D Mac, How 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.919 the Mighty have fallen? You know, listen, it's the first 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.360 time Rights, it's a rough season. You don't have Dak. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.639 You know, your team's underperforming. In Cleveland, all of a 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.799 sudden is playing well enough to be flexed on Sunday 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.840 Night because this may be the first year they've been 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.560 in the playoffs since since I don't know when, you know, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.399 So this is a really big game. I don't think 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.640 this is something that will continue to happen to the 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.600 Dallas Cowboys. I mean, this is this is one of 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.400 the off years. So I think Jalen was okay with 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.240 his response. Was I think worded wrong. But he should 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.000 not be worried about being flexed to twelve o'clock now, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.320 he should be worried about playing the best football that 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:37.640 he could play. I don't think it's that big of 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.520 a deal. But you know, like NEWI said, it's never happened. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.160 So this is a sign that, you know, the same 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.200 old stuff that happens with the Cowboys to where you 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.680 can you can be below five hundred team and people 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.120 still gonna watch and all that stuff. This may be 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.280 changing so that this may be that little kicking the 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.680 butt that we need, you know, to to get things 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.000 right so we can stay in those promtime games. Here's 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.800 my fault process. When I hear what Jalen says, and 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.080 I'll repeat it. If the Yonner ain't tripping, we good. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.640 Yeah it was very wrong, but he said it all wrong. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:16.760 The thought process through the years has been, hey, forget 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.880 the head coach, because when these guys have a direct 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.960 line to Jerry, that's what they care about. Don't care 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.599 what the head coach says. And this goes back to 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.320 Troy Aikman, who hated Chan Gailey's offense and was straight 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.640 to the Jerry to get Jan Gailey gone. Dion Sanders 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.200 had that pipeline, and Romo had that pipeline, And it 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.440 just seems as though from what I'm reading from this 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.520 with Jaylen Smith is say, hey man, you know, Jerry's cool. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.800 You know Jerry and I cool. I got my contract. Man. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.839 You don't forget it. No, no, man has some personal pride. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.800 Your season is so bad that the one network who 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.560 always wants you on and said, yeah, man, we can't 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.359 even put these dudes on. You're that bad. And you're like, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.000 hey man, it's cool, it's cool, it's down. What is 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.000 this supposed to say? What? Like? What what would be 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.400 your ideal response to that? To that question, the fact 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.320 that they asked him to question anybody, but what would 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.720 be your ideal response? He should have said. He should 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.680 have said, you know what, you know, that's something I 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.600 can't control. Unfocused on the game in San Francisco. That's 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.400 what That's all he had to say. And let it go. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.520 Take that. I mean, what the guy over there talking about, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.080 you know, if he and I could pitch. I didn't 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.200 see this, but I can picture how he handled it. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.560 I can see him just laughing about it. Hey, Well, 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.880 look man, what Jerry said he ain't say, man, I 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.880 ain't worried about it. Then, like that whole non chalant 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.640 adtitude from one of your leaders is just something you 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.160 can't have. I mean, and we wonder why the Cowboys 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.880 a fourule nine right now, and we wonder why the 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.560 Cowboys have one of the worst defenses in NFL history. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:47.280 I mean, when you got guys doing things like this, 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.280 it's just it's just it ain't gonna work out. It's 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.159 just not Is that? Is that? Is that an acceptable 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.920 answer for you knew it? So here's more. I gonna 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.480 give you more from Jalen Smith. This comes from Michael 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.720 Gelkin o the Dallas Morning News. Jalen said, quote, Honestly, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.840 I didn't know that until now. My thoughts right now, 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.200 this is my thoughts right off the top, is it's 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.520 a business. I don't focus on what's happening in the future. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.120 I'm embracing each moment each day. So that was more 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.640 from his thoughts about the Cowboys being moved from prime 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.840 time with the forty nine er. But I'm just telling 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.279 you my opinion. And I've seen this a lot longer 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.440 than you guys, because I've covered this team going back 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.200 to when Jimmy Johnson was head coach. Is this mentality 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.040 of dudes thinking, hey man, I'm just I'm just taking 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.640 whatever Jerry says. It's cool. I'll just play off that. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.600 And also this acceptance of hey man, we're at the 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.000 twelve o'clock spot now, I mean, this is I remember 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.360 years when the Cowboys may have hell he had, you know, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.919 one or two twelve o'clock starts. I remember when I 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.440 had a new boss at TV and this guy had 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.200 once worked in Minnesota, and he was trying to tell 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.760 me that, hey, what you need to do is go 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.640 to these games in the NFC East, fly home immediately 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.040 after and come to the late show. And I had 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.400 to explain to him, Dude, in Minnesota, you guys played 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.040 a lot of noon games. This is the Cowboys. Most 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.560 of the games are gonna start at three o'clock if 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.960 it's not a seven o'clock. Can you know the Cowboys 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.880 are America's team. They don't play a lot of protect 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.920 game why because the networks want them on. The networks 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.120 fight to keep them on. And when you get dropped 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.800 down to this and you're just like, hey man, it's 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.160 all good, it's cool. I just find that just like 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.240 what this person said. This is accepting mediocrity, dandy, and 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.000 that's how I feel about it. It should be accepting mediocrity. Listen, 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.600 I feel you listen, And like I said, I think 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.920 his response was off the beginning of it. Anyways, I 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.320 like the second part that you read. I really don't. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.400 As a competitor and knowing some of these guys just 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.400 just a little bit, I don't think that they're really 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.720 accepting it. I mean, the question was asked, he started 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.360 off wrong, he finished it right. I think that if 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.239 it does still bother them to be flexed to twelve 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.320 and they're gonna be losing and going four and nine 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.200 and all that stuff. So I don't think they're accepting. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.040 I think they want to be better. You know, sometimes 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.840 it just doesn't show on the field. But I you know, 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.520 I don't. I'm not gonna put this against Jayalon Smith 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.960 to say that he's accepting the fact that there four 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.720 or nine he's collecting this check and that he's just 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.200 gonna go on about his business because because Jerry say 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.160 it's fine. Because one thing we do know new it 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:20.360 Jerry is not okay with this. Well, it's it's interesting, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.120 so speaking of this game against the forty Nineers, in 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.240 which the Niners are five and eight Cowboys or five 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:30.280 nine San Francisco favorite in this football game by three. Defensively, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.680 what should the game plan be to stop this Niners 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.280 football team and the witch that you're gonna have to 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.760 match up against Kyle Shannahan, the head coach who calls 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.600 a place, who's very good at it. Well, look, I 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.640 think something that we're gonna that we're gonna have to 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.000 do that we haven't done pretty much all season, and 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:54.240 that's just played decent run defense. I mean, look, take 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.600 a page out of Marry Nelly's book. Whatever you gotta do, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.600 get some stunting going on, get something to keep these 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.480 line back is clear to where they can just go 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.280 out there and make plays. Because we know Kyle Shanahan 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.560 loves the run game and he's creative with it. And 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.720 what did we see last time we went against a 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.000 creative run team in Baltimore? They gash just with all 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.840 those pulling guards, the ghosts, motions, the counter looks. That's 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.920 all right up. Kyle Shanahan's allie. He's creative when it 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.840 comes to the run game. And they got three running 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.800 backs back there that can tote the rock, and you 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.640 know that's all they're gonna do when it comes to 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.400 this defense, because we haven't stopped it all years. So 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.280 that if it's my game playing and I'm going out 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.880 there with this Cowboys defense, I'm stacking the box. Man. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.679 I don't believe it. Either Mullins or Beth back there 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.240 at quarterback. I know they got Auka or I'm sorry 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.160 I butchered his name, but they got the right receiver 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.960 over there, they got the rookie receiver a Yuk out there, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.480 they got Deepo Samuel. But I just don't trust the 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.960 quarterback play. So I gotta stack the box because I 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.880 know Kyle Shannonhame is gonna come with some type of 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.760 creative run scheme to take advantage of our linebackers and 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.600 try to confuse our linebackers and go out there and 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.640 get big games. We have to stop the run if 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.280 we won any part of winning this game. And that's 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.920 just defensively. I mean another fact. We're talking about the 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.160 offense another time, but defensively, we have got to stop 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.560 the run or at least play okay run defense. Talk 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.240 about talk about wishful thinking, all right, This is if 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.960 you have to put out a game plan, like you said, Church, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.920 if you have to put one out, if you have 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.319 to go into the lab and try to figure out 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.280 something to do, you're going to say, yes, the same 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.120 thing that we've been trying to get done for the 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.000 first thirteen weeks of the season. Stop the run, dude. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.240 I think it's going to happen. Absolutely not. Like you said. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.640 This is one of the most creative running the tacks 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.040 in the NFL. He's going to find their way to 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.559 maximize any advantage that he has, and he's going to 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.440 take advantage of the fact that we have not been 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.400 able to stop the run. Inside. Our linebackers are catching 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.760 on blocks in their eyes, they're seeing too much, so 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.199 they're going this way and chasing stuff that they shouldn't 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.280 be chasing. They're going to take advantage of all that, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.920 and unfortunately our secondary really hasn't played enough to stop 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.360 even second to thirteen or quarterback. So it's going to 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.559 be a run day for us. So the offense is 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.320 going to have to save us. That's that's my offices, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.400 that's my defensive game plan. Going there and talk to 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.480 Andy Dalton and Kellen Moore and say, look, bro, y'all. Y'all, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.600 y'all do what y'all can to keep us off the field. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.320 And I think I think we can. We can make 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.080 a couple of big, big plays for y'all because they 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.880 have been able to turn the ball over for the 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:20.040 last few weeks. So will they put three linebackers on 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.160 the football field something they didn't do against the Ravens? Yes, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.839 I would. I mean, look at me. I would. I 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.400 put I put Jal, and I put LV out there, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.040 and I put Sean Lee out there. I mean, just 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.880 for the simple fact that if any of those linebackers 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.920 can dissect or run and try to help this this 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.079 defense going forward, it's Sean Lee. I mean he might 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.640 not have the physical attributes to go out there and 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.440 be a game destructor like he used to be in 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.719 the past, but he can at least get these linebackers 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.920 lined up and going in the right direction, because we're 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.000 gonna need to. I mean, we've seen what happens when 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.040 these guys are going out there reading their keys. They're 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.520 looking at way too much. And when you and Danny 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.040 said it, when you look at a lot, you see 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:56.600 a little, and when you see a little, you see 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.520 a lot, And That's what I think Sean Lee can 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.520 provide with this linebacking corps and hopefully just hopefully go 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.000 out there and do something against the run. Just don't 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.599 let a guy coming off the street rush for a 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.680 hundred yards like we did against Cleveland and like we 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.280 did against all these other teams. I mean, it's just 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:17.080 it's hard come we just we just talked about Shanahan 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.680 being one of the most creative guys when it comes 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.320 to call it plays. If you plan on going out 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.880 there and running your base package for the entire game, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.040 you are going to get ran out of the stadium. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.319 I can get first second down. Where do they come 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.400 out of What did they say, Hey, we're gonna maximize 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.360 the fact that you know, we're gonna take a man 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.280 into LV and jayals Smith. We're gonna come out an 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.839 eleven personnel and we're still gonna run power, We're still 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.400 gonna run counter, We're still gonna run zone read. Are 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.480 you putting your three linebackers out there when they personnel 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.040 on first second down? I could live with with Mullins 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.200 and better trying to beat us with our arm I 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.600 can live with that. If they go out there and 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.280 throw for three hundred and beat us because we're in 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.200 base and they're in the eleven person up. I can 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.839 live with that, But if we go out there and 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.040 base and they're still just trumping going down the field 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.040 on us, I mean, it's that's disheartening. That's like a 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.000 stab in the heart right there. So I can live 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.720 with the throwing, but I just can't. I can't do 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.760 running up the gut for three hundred some yards and 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.960 I just can't do it. You hear this, do it? 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.040 You hear this. We've been known to give up the 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.960 run for the entire season, so this week we'd rather 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.080 stop the run and let Nick Mullins beat us. Now, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.200 I'm saying, listen, when you stop to run all year, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.040 so why don't we figure out how to do what 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.520 we've been able to do sometimes turn the ball over 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.360 and cover some of these receivers because you listen. Like 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.320 I said, wishful thinking for you to be able to 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:36.720 think that you're gonna be able to turn into a 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.800 run stopping team this week against a team that knows 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.320 they're on their backum quarterbacks, so they have to run 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:49.520 the ball. So here's a crazy question, because you guys 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.040 mentioned base defense, do you think they'll start tak Lawrence 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.200 this week because when they ran out based defense last 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.120 week against Cincinnati, he had to run off the field 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.959 because he says he's not a a the base defense man. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.400 They better start d law I'll tell you that right now. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.360 He's been the most consistent player of these past couple 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.400 of weeks. He sparked the whole defenses takeaways last week 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.959 by punching the ball out. He's your energy player, he's 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.559 your guy. You paid him twenty some million dollars. There's 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.360 no way in hell he should be on the sidelines 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:19.760 to start this game. I don't care if you run 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.520 out of base Nickel, DN, special teams, whatever it is. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.720 He needs to be on the field to start this game. Yeah, okay, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:33.720 he's got He should, he should, he should. Ain't no way, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:41.320 the hesitation, the hesitation of my voice. Let you know 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.400 what's been going on in all season. We have no idea. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.840 They've been hiding stuff since training camp, trying to trying 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.840 to be all incock. Need a lot. Let not let 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.400 people know what's going on, and all of a sudden 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.960 they run out here. Don't start taking Lawrence. They hide 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.280 too much, man, Let us see it. So somebody can 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.760 tell you, Hey, bro, what y'all doing is wrong during 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.400 the week. Y'all need to go ahead and re evaluate 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.280 that before y'all get to the game all Sunday, because 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:07.160 that ain't making no sense. All right, let's take our 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.280 first break. Danny McCray wants a timeline met on the 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.360 Mike McCarthy Air. In terms of it, he wants to 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.120 know when is a deep playoff run coming, when is 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.760 a Super Bowl appearance. Let's get to that. And I 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.600 got a barking dog right outside my door here my 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.440 SWBC more Virtual home studio, so let me handle that. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.560 We'll be right back here on the plans loud. Hey, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.600 they're cowboys fans With ty Cleaners at home pickup and delivery, 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.280 cleaning your clothes has never been more convenient. 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New He Scrubs, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.560 long time Cowboys reporter joined by Danny mc created Barry 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.359 Church two former Dallas Cowboys safetists. Cowboys are four A 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.000 nine hosting San Francisco forty nine ers Sunday at high 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.600 noon at AT and T Stadium. All Right, Danny and 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.679 our topics before the show. Wanted to know and wants 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:21.440 a timeline on Mike McCarthy and when Mike McCarthy is 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.280 going to produce a deep playoff run and possibly a 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:30.160 Super Bowl run, and when I got the question, absolutely laughed. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:34.320 I laughed at it. Let's just say Barrett, Okay, here's 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.280 why I laughed at it. TCU once hired a basketball coach. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.800 His name was Trent Johnson, and I asked, Trent, how 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.160 long before you make the NCAA tournament? Got a timeline 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.119 at all? And he gave kind of a terse answer 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.560 that afterwards, when I meant to go meet him the 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.040 press coffy and say, oh, yeah, you're the one that 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:02.959 asked that dumb ass question. Why is it a dumb question? 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.639 It's like you can't put no timeline on making a tournament. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.440 I said, yeah, what I remember when Jimmy Valvano took 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.160 over NC State said they went NAS Championship. Four years 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.960 they end up win NAS Championship. So I'm sorry. You 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.879 got a contract, and in your contract, is it legitimate 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.920 to ask you when you think you'll take this team 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.680 to an NCAA tournament. I mean, I don't think that's 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.280 a crazy question at all, because people kind of want 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.359 to know what's the return on investment. So this question 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.200 is asking Mike McCarthy, All right, go ahead, there, no look, no, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:37.919 what I was saying was I wanted to hear this. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.000 I wanted to Church to answer this question because that's 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:43.080 this guy, right and maybe having these meetings in there 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.240 so and when you know how people have those vision 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.280 boards in the back of the office or something like that. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.080 I want to know if Church saw that when he 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.320 walked in there, and if he can give us an 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.520 ideal of what is acceptable for him, because he was 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.919 the de kool aid man, and so I want to 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.320 know what is acceptable for him and Mike McCarthy and 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.399 how how his seasons should progress, how how should we 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.199 see them get better? Because I want to will you 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.400 accept another four and twelve season, which which what we're 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.600 heading for right now? Nah? You see, you see I'm 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.399 not accepting another four and twelve season. And like I 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.840 told y'all, went to my AA meetings and I got 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.360 off to kool Ai. I'm kool aid free right now, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.840 Big Mike. I mean, that's still my boy. But he 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.359 maybe looked bad. He baby looked bad this season. So 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:30.280 I'm off to kool Ai. But for me next year 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.000