WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Is Help on the Way? 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:04.520 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:12.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.680 Players Label broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:22.840 the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:29.400 Newe Scrugs. Here we are. It is Tuesday, Game Day 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.920 coming right around the corner, real fast. Cowboys play on 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.760 Thanksgiving Day. They are thirty one, twenty one and one 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.520 all time. Cowboys have lost their last two Thanksgiving Day games. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.000 Dak Prescott has been the starting quarterback and four of 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.400 them he's got a two and two record. Here come 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.680 the Raiders who've lost three straight football games. Lots to 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.360 dive into here on the players, lads, I'm Newe Scrugs. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.520 He is the ultimate survivor. Danny McCray in the house. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.360 I'm in the house. Am I here? I'm here, I'm 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.800 in us. Oh yeah, okay, surviving music knew we welcome back, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.800 welcome back. We missed you yesterday. You had a flight 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.920 back from Kansas City? Is that that what That's what 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.880 kept me from being on the show or was it assignment? 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.600 It was it was it was a flight and let 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.920 me tell you who knew getting I'll say this, if 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.920 you were traveling, you got two options right now. Okay, 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.240 you need to seriously think about if you're traveling for Thanksgiving. One, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.759 go ahead and make some money by giving up your seat. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.400 Or two, bring something to read because you're gonna be 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.440 up in the airport for a minute. It's delays like that. Yeah, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.639 it's delays like that. They called me during the game, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.120 the Kansas City Chiefs Cowboys game. They I got called 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.440 during the game. They offered me five hundred dollars to 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.959 change my flight to the same but the same day, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.360 just later, or the whole name later. Say hey, you 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.880 go home Monday at three o'clock for five hundred bucks. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.280 I can't do it. My photographer didn't get that call. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.560 He was supposed to fly out at twelve. He wasn't 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.880 flying out to two twenty one. It's like, man, I 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.560 wish they had called you because at least you could 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.840 have made some money off and then by So that 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.400 was Sunday, Monday. The offer was up to seven hundred dollars. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.720 So I'm telling you right now, if you plan on traveling, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.200 and if you are, you can make yourself. Somebody actually 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:18.600 told somebody to the other, I say, look, you can 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.480 make Boddy coming and going right now, because they are 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.880 they are oversold. Flight to getting moved left and right. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.360 So yeah, is that what happened to Burry is burying 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.200 one of those one of those flight churches church church 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.440 had a function to get to the church was out. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.200 Churches out today. I was out yesterday, but you were 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.040 the concert. I'll be here. I'll be here Tomorrow's good. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:40.839 If they if they asked me to come on things, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.400 I'll be here on the Friday, Black Friday, I'll be 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.320 here too. But I think if we add up twenty 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.600 twenty one, y'all, y'all, y'all are definitely catching up. Add 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.960 up twenty twenty one. Let you you let me tell 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.600 you why your standard deviation is in the in the 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.880 three they got a three. Okay, let me tell you 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.160 our mind is My mind is made up because all 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.160 know exactly where I was at at that time. I 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.320 didn't know. Now now now you know exactly where I 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.200 was at, and I had a perfectly good reason for 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.440 not being available to be on the show. You work, 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.120 I'm sorry. Work. You can do it, virtual work, you 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.440 can do it virtual. The flight was twelve twenty two. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.440 Huh my flight, he said, you said you said they 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.520 was offering money with people to leave later. Yeah, but 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.120 it was three for me, it would have been three o'clock. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.000 Oh yeah, yeah, so my photographer got bumped. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.239 so you moved it three and then you knew the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.200 show and then you'd be all right. I couldn't do it. 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:40.000 Now Andy's defense, Okay, he is now content for our show. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.800 This is ye look work now. I will say this. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.800 I did think about it. He could I do the show, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.880 but I didn't have a mic little mike. I had 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.400 mike the last time I did the show. Thank thank you, 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.960 see me but for getting that out the window. But 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.080 we're glad to have you in the airline. Yo. Yeah, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.520 he had no help. But then both headphones booked up 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.560 the microphone and I'm say, you don't need you don't 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.400 need the mic. Yes, So anyway, I wasn't here yesterday. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.320 We have a firing in the National Football League. Will 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.240 get too later on. They start with the Dallas Cowboys, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:22.479 and there are two things that I'm consistently seen happening 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.599 to the Cowboys that I just wonder how come they 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.000 don't happen to other teams as much so if the 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.040 Cowboys lose is immediately they're not a contender, They're not 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.240 really good. They gotta go show us they can beat somebody. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.919 So that's one aspect you get when they lose. The 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.880 other aspect is from the fans who want to believe 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.080 that everything is just absolutely wrong with the football team, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.280 as though guys aren't out here trying. And I shake 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.920 my head at that is like you just will, let's 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:52.360 go get beat, not what happened or that guys don't 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.960 care it. It amazes me from the fan base how 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.400 they can be just so hard on their own players. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.799 They lost, but it wasn't like guys did not go out, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.760 Guys who just decided to like they slept walk through 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.920 the gain like they weren't ready to play with No 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.240 guess what got beat happens in the league. And you 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.320 got beat by a team who if we think about it, honestly, 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.640 the last three years, who's been better than Kancie Chiefs 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.279 last three season? The last three season? Come on? Nobody? 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:26.320 And where I messed up in my prediction was not 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.159 realizing how Frank Clark and Chris Jones missed parts of 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.560 the season when they were giving up the thirty points 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.240 when the defense was off, that these guys came back 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.279 and that there was some improvement from there. The offense 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.560 is still an issue at Kansas City. Okay, they'll end 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:46.520 two touchdowns in the football game our defense, Yeah, yeah, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.280 four or twelve on third down. So if anybody thinks, well, 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.440 they're they're the old seats, no they're not. They are 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.240 not that Patrick Mahomes still threw a pick out there 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.040 and then right you know, Michael Parson has got to him. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.599 So the Cowboys defense, so they still have but that's 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.360 still good football team. The Cowboys weren't blown out of 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.680 the water. You would have thought that this was the 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:10.480 Denver game. Listening to Cowboy fans and reading social media, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.920 I will say this offensively, this was very similar to 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.159 the to the Denver Broncos game. Okay, great. I asked 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.920 that very question to Mike McCarthy, Zach Martin, and Dak 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.720 Prescott because I wait to the game. So I asked 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.040 them that, and Mike says, look at the NFL, until 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.920 you prove you're gonna be able to stop something, you're 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.839 going to you're going to continue to see and here 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.080 comes the other issue. We spoke about this on the 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.240 players line. How many people have defensive backfields where you 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.240 can do this? Kansas City obviously, Tyran Matthew Back. I 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.080 mean they were able to do that. Spagnolo, who's what 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.360 won two super Bowls, so two different teams. As according 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.040 he drew up a really good game play. Yeah, that 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.600 was that was more of it. And then also the 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.920 deficiencies that we have on offensive line, which I'm sure 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.120 we'll get to. That was probably the biggest, the biggest 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.440 downfall for team last week. So you took two guys who, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.640 in my opinion I think are above average coordinators, if 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.480 not elite defensive coordinators this league, Vic Fangio and and 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.840 Steve Spagnola, who came up with that plant. Can the 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.320 Raiders do this? I don't think the Raiders can do 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:21.320 this with their defensive backfield come Thursday. That's gonna be 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.720 the challenge. Okay. I can say, oh da, hey, that's 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.400 that's how you beat so and so, But do you 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.640 have that type of team to do it? And can 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.920 you get that? You know, can you get that? So? Um, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.840 it's two games. I'm just not ready to panic on everybody. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.240 I keep going back Danny to Tampa Bay last year 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.640 seven and five at one point, then they go on 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.400 an eight game run. Everybody wants it to be perfect 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.960 right now, hearing over it's just not how football works. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.120 You can get better. They do have guys out not 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.200 sitting up here saying, oh mister, excuse guy. But I'm 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.760 just not ready to just trash everyone the way certain 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.280 people are right now. And then the national media, well 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.040 they had beating a continue, had beating anybody any good. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.080 But at the same time, what am I also hearing 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.960 about the Patriots? Right now? We're looking at Patriots, Patriots 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:11.040 getting good, but belichi like Cowboys beat them. True, but 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.520 so it doesn't con me though, So I'm just interested 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.280 in how how you move the ball all the time. Well, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.560 I'm learning the way the team works. I think, you know, okay, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.560 I'll do both sides here, all right. If you look 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:27.000 at the history of like the last whatever five six 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.320 years of the Cowboys, I think a lot of fans 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.680 and a lot of the media have PTSD of the 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.000 Cowboys to where they always come in and they say 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.800 the Cowboys should be this. They have these high expectations 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.000 for the team, and then in the past they haven't 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.080 lived up to those expectations, so they've been able to 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.199 say same old Cowboys. So they're just going to continue 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.000 to put that on the Cowboys until they win the 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.720 Super Bowl. That so that's something the Cowboys are going 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.960 to have to deal with until they prove that they 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.160 can win a Super Bowl. On the Cowboys side is 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.160 I've been a part of these teams, and I've been 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.920 a part of watching social media and watching the fans 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.120 and watching the media and say the same stuff that 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.600 they're saying now, not understanding that, Yeah, this is the 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.920 National Football League and the Cowboys are the cream of 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.360 the coper when it comes to being marketed and being 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.920 talked about. So they're going to continue to talk about 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.080 the Cowboys. But this happens to almost every team in 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.760 the league. Like you brought up Tampa, this happened to 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.760 them last season. They go win a Super Bowl. We 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.000 were talking about the Kansas City Chiefs like this. Three 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.760 weeks ago. We were like, yeah, we don't know what's 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:25.959 going on with those guys, and then all of a sudden, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.360 last four game defense giving up twelve points a game 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.720 they're playing better. Patrick Mahomes comes and has a five 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.480 touchdown four hundred and fifty yard game. So things can 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.680 change in the NFL like that. What we need to 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.960 do is focus on fixing the things that were exposed 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.280 in the Denver game and in the Kansas City game, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.679 and then becoming a better team moving forward. First thing 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.559 we need to do, find a running game. Find a 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.480 commitment to the running game. We have a running game, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.200 but if you're not going to be committed to it, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.000 then it doesn't make it. It doesn't make no sense 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.480 for you to try to even have it. You can't 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.199 just say I'm gonna do this every once in a 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.280 while to keep them all balanced. We need to establish 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.680 a running game because that's what we need to do 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.480 for our offensive line, not just because we want to 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.640 keep the defense on their toes. I'm with you one 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.280 hundred percent on the running game. I also went back 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.000 and just told myself, let's look look at the three losses. Okay, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.400 you lost to Tampa Bay, good football team, all right, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.520 nobody's are here the Tampa Bay defending super champions. You 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.319 lost to them thirty one twenty nine. You ended up 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.640 losing to a first place Kansas City Chiefs team, which 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.280 seems that they're supposed to from a defensive standpoint. They're 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.560 coming around, they're getting better, and you lost to a 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.959 Broncos team that's five and five right now, they've had 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.120 some you talk about schizophrenic team right now. So you 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.080 could say there's one bad loss of the three. Okay, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.040 I mean there's no shame in losing to the two 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.000 teams who played the Super Bowl last year. And I 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.559 go back to how I went and did the win 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.680 lost thing this year. I had them losing both games. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.640 In fact, I had to lose the Denver game. Can't 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.280 say I have that. And for me, I had picked 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.240 Denver as a playoff team. That was kind of what 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.439 I looked for a wild card this year, and Denver 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.439 was my wild card team. So they've lost three games 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.400 to teams and I thought that they would lose too. Now, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.160 let me ask this simple question. Do you can you 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.959 recall what was your record for the Cowboys this year? 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.440 How many wins did you have? I think I had 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.120 him any eleven, So it's eleven and six. Okay, eleven 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.640 and six. Well, when when we first came in, yeah, 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.480 but after I saw them play, I changed that. It 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:29.600 was like I had nine. They're on point to hit eleven. Right, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.280 they're on point to hit nine. Um, so I just 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.160 kind of I just can't say. I shake my head 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:35.280 a little bit. I go over here and look at 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.800 the Tampa back. So Tampa Bay ended up beating up 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.040 the Giants last night thirty to ten, but they lost 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.840 by ten points to Washington the week before at Washington, 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.360 and I understand their Super Bowl Champson's Tom Brady, but 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.640 it's just very interesting along the way. Guess what in 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.640 the National Football League, you gotta lose some games, do 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.640 you think do you think it's possibly because they're seeing 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.440 like a pattern of Howard losing the games that they 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.280 could probably be casting a little panic of like when 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.520 when we lose those games, we like, we look horrible, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.520 but outside of Tampa where we came and we still 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.120 didn't even try to run the ball in that game. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.120 But when we've lost the last two, it was almost 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:14.120 not competitive offensively. I come back into this. I believe 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.600 it's just me. I believe there's that premise of people 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.240 who saw the Cowboys winning, but last the Cowboys don't 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.240 trust anything and then they lose c CCCC. It's it's 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.840 people jumping on it from that standpoint, they're not They're 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.439 gonna lose some games. This is the National Football League. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.480 The last two games, you know, definitely because see Steve 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.360 Spagnola took and borrowed things from Big Pangea what they did. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.439 And the Cowboys have now been challenged by two teams 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.200 at the AFC West, two uncommon opponents. But I just 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.840 come back to this, how many teams are gonna be 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.520 able to play that way? Listen, if you're listening to this, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.520 the thing that you should be most worried about is 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.840 the health of our football team. That is what you 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.040 should really That is the only thing that should be 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.320 scaring you into thinking that we might not have a 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.920 successful reason is if we cannot keep people healthy and 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.440 keep him on the field. And that's the whole league. Yeah, 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.040 that's that. That's just the whole league at this standpoint. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.280 If you're having those things where you go, hey, what 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.800 about this guy here? Now? So Tyrn Smith is expected 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.320 to play Thanksgiving Day. That so they gave him off 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.800 Kansas City because of the quick turnaround, Like you know, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.120 let's just wait till Thanksgiving, because you got Thanksgiving Day 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.319 a game on Thursday, then you play another Thursday game 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:24.880 because you got to go to the New Orleans. So 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.959 they gave him another week to try and get himself 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.920 ready to go. Chris Jones, by the way, I owned 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.760 people who are talking, there's there's Aaron Donald here in 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.560 his own for me, in his own class. Didn't that 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.480 next class you just better make sure you put Chris 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.240 Jones up in it, because he was as dominant as good. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.280 I mean, I know Connor mcgoverned was was getting at work, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.079 but he gave everybody work. I mean, he just went 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.560 down the line he gave he gave Zach seeing I 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.640 think Zach still played played a good game. He did 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.400 get him, Yeah he got him one time, Yeah he did. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.840 And just but just that whole the month. How many 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.319 times you're gonna face a Chris Jones, you know, and 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.840 Aaron I mean this, you know, this is this you 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.839 know along the way we we I think people don't 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.319 want to know their favorite teams. They don't want to 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.200 give other folks credit and recognize what other people can do, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.600 especially when they're playing their game. And I watched a 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.120 lot of the Kansas City postgame shows in my hotel 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:30.320 room afterwards, and they first off, they treated the Cowboys 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.280 as though this you would have thought they were in 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.840 the Super Bowl last year way and they treated this 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.400 win they should have, and they were hyped up, they 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.320 were excited, and the defensively they're like, you know, we 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.360 came in here, we knew they were number one. We 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.680 wanted I didn't see the Cowboys the way they saw 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.240 the Cowboys. They saw it as as as a get 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:54.560 right game. Well, they saw this is the Cowboys are 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.960 a super Bowl contender, and we can make a stake 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.520 exactly we can show because they felt like people were 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.800 down on them and the only way for people to 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.120 realize who they really were is, hey, you think that 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.360 we're bad, We're gonna be whoever y'all think is ahead 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.120 of us. So that they saw it like that this 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.440 is the ultimate competition of like once we beat this team, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.560 especially if we put it in so where how dominant 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.520 we were on defense, because they had like the number 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.320 twenty fifth ranked defense at that time and they come 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.280 in and shut down the number one offense. So for 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.760 them it was like, all right, we're back. That's how 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.520 they feel. Right now, we are back and we're ready 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.800 to play. I just you're correct, But I just didn't 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.960 think that they thought this was a measuring stick game 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.760 for them. We were sitting around here talking about it 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.280 the other way, but they were thinking of it that way. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:45.640 And that was surprising to me listening to Chris Jones 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.480 and Mahomes and Andy Reid and just Solo the Chiefs 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.160 afterwards and watching their post game shows, and they really 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.520 were bad people, wrote us all people. I mean, they 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.200 were in a different state about trying to prove something 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.120 to people out there. So I still think they're just okay. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.640 I mean, we had a horrible offensive performers. But on 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.440 the other side of Chris Jones, there was a guy 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.240 who was like, I'm trying to play better than him. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.720 And Michael Parsons came out and was like, I'm trying 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.640 to wreck this game, just like Chris Jones is. We 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.000 just could not get anything moving on offense, so he 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.480 could validate how well he was playing. But we all 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.680 see that we held him in the nineteen and Michael 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.760 Parson at the hell of a game. I will take 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:30.760 that performance in terms of my defense is playing good. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.960 If I'm Mike mccarthaker, my defense is playing fun. Keep 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.640 giving me that we can fix this offense. We can 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.200 fix this now. Could be a little bit challenging because 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.840 you've got the unknown of how long can Tyron Smith 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.560 keep going. You've got that you will not have him 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.040 are Cooper this weekend because of COVID ceedee Lamb is 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.440 in concussion protocol. Will see where he is on Thursday 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.520 if he can play, and Lord knows, if you can't 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.840 establish this run and run and have a better run balance, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.760 you're not gonna go where you want to go. So 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.080 there's some issues there. Let's take a break. Jerry Jones 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.920 had something very interesting to say about Amari Cooper. Let's 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.520 dive into that end. We've got a firing in the 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.880 National Football League. We must touch on players. 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