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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey Scrugs.
Speaker 1: Here we go on a Tuesday edition of the Players Lounge,
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Speaker 1: Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Dallas Cowboys safeties, Danny
Speaker 1: mccraig and Barry Church. Okay, gentlemen, before we dive into
Speaker 1: a whole lot of issues, not just the Cowboys around
Speaker 1: the National Football League. I was watching Monday Night football
Speaker 1: and I couldn't help but remember how Barry gave out
Speaker 1: this great prediction before the game of a thirty one
Speaker 1: twenty one, a ten point raven beat down that he
Speaker 1: was expecting against. And Barry was telling us, how, you know,
Speaker 1: trust trust Church, You're gonna take us a church. And
Speaker 1: I just surely hope nobody putting no cash on that
Speaker 1: ten point. I don't know why, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I follow Notre Damaso is a fraud like like like
Speaker 1: I always say, man, with friends like y'all. Who needs enemy?
Speaker 1: That's all I got to say. I'm just I mean, Barry.
Speaker 1: When you said it, I wrote it down. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, when the last time we started beat
Speaker 1: by ten points. I mean I had confidence. I had confidence, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I let my heart. I left my heart.
Speaker 1: I went with my heart into my head. Man. I
Speaker 1: was going with my fantasy. I was hoping, you know,
Speaker 1: Baltimore would do something. But they let me down. Man,
Speaker 1: they let me down. But my thing was ten. I mean,
Speaker 1: my homes beat by ten. I mean, I can't even
Speaker 1: think of the last time these dudes got beat by
Speaker 1: ten points. But I had a three point when I
Speaker 1: Kansas City twenty four twenty one, and then thirty three
Speaker 1: twenty seven is what Danny had. But you know, I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure we let you. I'll be
Speaker 1: as I'll be. You know, we got we got next
Speaker 1: week predictions coming up, so I'll be a hopefully even
Speaker 1: putting no diaper money on that game, you know, a
Speaker 1: typer money. We're scraping by, man, we're scraping by over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, all right. The Cowboys. Cowboys are one
Speaker 1: and two. Cleveland is coming to town at two and one.
Speaker 1: But the bigger news, which affects two clubs today Tennessee
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, but actually affects a whole lot of clubs
Speaker 1: because the way the NFL and the nfl PA handled
Speaker 1: the situation is going to be very interesting. In case
Speaker 1: you have not heard, three Titans players have tested positive
Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen with five staffers. Tennessee shut down their
Speaker 1: whole facility until Saturday. They played the Vikings over the weekend.
Speaker 1: That game was held up in Minnesota. Minnesota closed its facilities.
Speaker 1: They have not had any positive tests. There's still awaiting results.
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the NFL wants to
Speaker 1: play the Titan Steelers game on Sunday, and if they
Speaker 1: have to move it into Monday, they will. That game
Speaker 1: is expected to be in Nashville. So you guys were
Speaker 1: in the players association and tell me how does a
Speaker 1: situation like this work where the players have concerns and
Speaker 1: they want those concerns relayed to the team. How does
Speaker 1: the team rep go about this? For Tennessee in Minnesota
Speaker 1: at this point in time, Barry dany Ill a little
Speaker 1: bit start, go ahead, Ladie matt Oh well, at first,
Speaker 1: I want to say, man, isn't an ironic right? Who
Speaker 1: who was the quarterback that was talking about day worried
Speaker 1: about COVID and all out of all this other stuff
Speaker 1: and look the irony other sension. Way, boy, it's something else.
Speaker 1: You know. I just want to get that shout out
Speaker 1: to you, Kirk Cousin, because y'all sucking this year anyways.
Speaker 1: Um nah, So you know, I imagine that you know,
Speaker 1: this was discussed, you know, before the season even started.
Speaker 1: They had to have some idea that something like this
Speaker 1: will happen, to have some type of protocols in place
Speaker 1: to where they will be able to handle the situation.
Speaker 1: So hopefully, um you know, the player of rep is
Speaker 1: just reiterating, you know, what they originally told them before
Speaker 1: the season started, and you know, and calming the players down.
Speaker 1: You know, they all have a right to be concerned,
Speaker 1: but they all you know, when they said yes to
Speaker 1: go throughout the season, they all signed up and knew
Speaker 1: that at some point that this will happen. So just
Speaker 1: reiterating it and you know, and calming them down and
Speaker 1: making sure that everybody's following all the rules and they
Speaker 1: don't put anybody at risk. So this if this game
Speaker 1: needs to be moved back, you know further than Monday
Speaker 1: that you know, the NFL and NFLPA can agree to
Speaker 1: do that, and if they feel safe with doing it
Speaker 1: on Monday or Sunday and the players feel that way,
Speaker 1: then let them go out there and play. But you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully it's pushed back a little bit further because I
Speaker 1: don't know, the quarantine period is like fourteen days, so
Speaker 1: that's pretty quick. Yeah, I think that's really quick if
Speaker 1: they if they went ahead and just push it just
Speaker 1: a couple of days or just one day over the Monday. Um,
Speaker 1: just knowing how the protocols work and they make sure
Speaker 1: everybody's out at least two weeks before they come back around.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't I don't see this game
Speaker 1: being pushed back to Monday. Hopefully they they make up
Speaker 1: for it in a bye week or something. But um,
Speaker 1: like like you said, um D Smith and those boys,
Speaker 1: there was protocols going out to all the teams, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll go ahead and review those protocols and
Speaker 1: how the players do as such. Um. But like when
Speaker 1: Crais said, I mean all these players they pretty much
Speaker 1: signed up for this. I mean, they had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to opt out and they chose to keep going. So hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, no bad ramifications comes from this outbreak, and
Speaker 1: hopefully they can contain it in Tennessee because, um, like
Speaker 1: you said, if if it's spread to Minnesota and then
Speaker 1: who knows, you know, where those players are going after that.
Speaker 1: So hopefully they can just have it contained to that
Speaker 1: one club. Intendant see and they'll push this game back
Speaker 1: a little bit and we'll get it resolved a little
Speaker 1: bit later. But as far as the protocols go, I'm
Speaker 1: sure d Smiths reached out to both teams and all
Speaker 1: teams throughout the NFL, and they're going through as such.
Speaker 1: Minnesota sent out a statement about four hours ago saying
Speaker 1: they had no positive COVID tests. Judy Bautista of NFL
Speaker 1: dot Com had an interesting tweak. She put this about
Speaker 1: an hour ago. Let me read it. Says, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the NFL will finally decide about Sunday's games,
Speaker 1: but remember that owners were told there could be competitive
Speaker 1: inequities this season, and a committee of former players, coaches
Speaker 1: gems was formed to advise Roger Goodell on these issues.
Speaker 1: Lots of moving parts, So that's that. And then also
Speaker 1: Mike Garafolo of NFL dot Com says Titan coaches have
Speaker 1: told players if they have to go to go without
Speaker 1: any work until Saturday, they're gonna have a walkthrough, then
Speaker 1: play the Steelers Sunday, and that's what they'll do, no excuses.
Speaker 1: So who it getting blasted and get and get ram rotted.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're telling me they're gonna go in there
Speaker 1: with just walking through, the walking through what they got
Speaker 1: for the Steelers on the whole man, the good luck
Speaker 1: to you, I'm telling you good luck. That's just it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work. I hope, I hope, listen, I hope
Speaker 1: this doesn't happen. But I'm just imagining the lou Will situation,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know, where the first case
Speaker 1: of this came from, and what that person was doing
Speaker 1: to contract COVID, and hopefully he was he or she
Speaker 1: was was not out doing something they weren't supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing. And this just doesn't run rampant just because
Speaker 1: somebody was breaking the rules. So hopefully that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: But I just keep thinking of lou Will going to
Speaker 1: the Strip club for chicken wings. Let Pepper lou Let
Speaker 1: me be fair here too. Something I left out here.
Speaker 1: I should have said that all eight people with Tennessee
Speaker 1: were asymptomatic. Okay, so the asymptomatic and we'll see exactly
Speaker 1: what what goes on further there. But you bring up
Speaker 1: a very interesting point there, guys, when you say that
Speaker 1: if they go without work and they got to show
Speaker 1: up and play the Steelers and they will get blasted.
Speaker 1: Let me go ahead and move James Conner up in
Speaker 1: my fantasy lineup. Go ahead, lockdown James Connor, putting him
Speaker 1: my number one running back to the Steelers. And that's
Speaker 1: right there there. We go ahead, go ahead and set
Speaker 1: that right there. So what's your so far? What's your
Speaker 1: record so far? To one in two? One in two?
Speaker 1: The first week I played the guy who who just
Speaker 1: he had everybody rolling, He had he had everybody rolling.
Speaker 1: And then the second week is where I messed up
Speaker 1: with the James Connor situation because I sat him and
Speaker 1: had I played him by the one by four. Instead
Speaker 1: I ended up losing. This week, we played James Connor again,
Speaker 1: and so we were rolling. We're rolling. So we're on
Speaker 1: the CoA a you know, like Mike McCarthy. Like Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: I was making some mistakes. I had to correct a mistake.
Speaker 1: They were correctable mistakes, so I made my correct Yours
Speaker 1: wouldn't half as bad as McCarthy's. But we you know,
Speaker 1: we touched on that next week, probably touching on that
Speaker 1: next week. I hopefully we're talking about a blowout of summer.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here with the same record at one and two.
Speaker 1: One of the things that we spoke about yesterday and
Speaker 1: I was just kind of looking into today since we had,
Speaker 1: you know, some final statistic numbers because of the Monday
Speaker 1: night game was in. I want to look at see
Speaker 1: where Ezekiel Elliott was at here, and he is nintheen
Speaker 1: yards right now, two hundred and nineteen yards. He is
Speaker 1: third in the NFL and attempts with the fifty eight
Speaker 1: he is ninth and average per game seventy three yards
Speaker 1: per game, and he's tied for seventh with three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Um your thoughts, Church then, McCray on the usage of
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott three games into this season under McCarthy. Look,
Speaker 1: I think you know those three games he's getting his
Speaker 1: touches as you see, I mean he's top tending some
Speaker 1: of these touches in some of these areas, so I
Speaker 1: think they're getting them the touches. And that's even with
Speaker 1: last week's game, him not really getting that that good
Speaker 1: users are getting that ball rolling for him. So I
Speaker 1: feel like, so far, so good this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: they let him run the ball a little bit in
Speaker 1: LA and then as we offous and we saw Atlanta,
Speaker 1: he was able to pound Atlanta's defense down and get
Speaker 1: the get the engine rolling on that offense. So as
Speaker 1: of right now, yes, I would like to see him
Speaker 1: being run a little bit more, especially early on in
Speaker 1: the game. They got away from that last week in Seattle.
Speaker 1: But um, so far, I mean, you know, I can't
Speaker 1: I can't complain saying he needs a lot more, but
Speaker 1: I think a little bit more running touches should should
Speaker 1: provide well for this offense. Yeah, I honestly, I think
Speaker 1: he's okay. But I don't even think it's, you know,
Speaker 1: necessarily about his touches. I think it's about him being
Speaker 1: the focal point of the offense, like running off of
Speaker 1: him and then if he isn't open, and then throw
Speaker 1: it to somebody else or you know, just just just
Speaker 1: make the play based off what happens to Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: and I think that will help us get a little
Speaker 1: bit more successful. Uh, you know, we keep falling behind,
Speaker 1: and I think that we can kind of negate that
Speaker 1: if we get him going early and get some of
Speaker 1: those long drives and get him rolling and punishing those
Speaker 1: those defenders. Because when you get Ezekiel going early and
Speaker 1: he's falling forward for four or five yards, that is
Speaker 1: demoralizing to a defense. And I think that we can
Speaker 1: get that done early in the game so we don't
Speaker 1: end up being behind so you know, so quick and
Speaker 1: then have to go to throwing them you know, flat
Speaker 1: routes and screens when everybody already know it's gonna be passed,
Speaker 1: because that kind of takes away, you know, the element
Speaker 1: of surprise or the element of creativity for getting Zeke
Speaker 1: involved in the passing game. So they play the Browns
Speaker 1: this week, and we know what they want to do
Speaker 1: that they want to utilize their running backs. Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt might arguably be the best one two combination
Speaker 1: of running backs. Got two guys who both led the
Speaker 1: NFL in rushing. Kareem did it his rookie Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and Chubb did it last year with this team. Here,
Speaker 1: they control the ball for thirty three minutes against Washington,
Speaker 1: and while Dwayne Haskins had his issues quarterback for Washington,
Speaker 1: I go back to this same thing that I've been
Speaker 1: marching and talking about all season long. This Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: is not good enough to be on the field for
Speaker 1: thirty plus minutes. And I bring up Ezekiel Elliot and
Speaker 1: I go back to this thing where once again last week,
Speaker 1: we saw the Cowboys defense on the field for thirty
Speaker 1: three minutes and it's a loss. At some point in time,
Speaker 1: I need Kellen Moore of the offensive coordinator, Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: the head coach, to realize that, you know what, you
Speaker 1: need to go out and control the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and hold a football. You know, all these nice little plays,
Speaker 1: all that stuff and all this yard it's all that
Speaker 1: stuff's nice, fine and dandy, and it looks good. And yes,
Speaker 1: dak is leading the NFL in passing yards. But if
Speaker 1: they're gonna go where they want to go, you need
Speaker 1: to control the football. Green Bay's defense is okay, okay,
Speaker 1: It's not at the level of the Steelers or some
Speaker 1: other defense but it's okay. One reason why it is okay,
Speaker 1: it's because Aaron Rodgers in the offense or keeping the football.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I need to see from
Speaker 1: the Cowboys is they get in here to week number
Speaker 1: four because if you don't, Cleveland's gonna run it down
Speaker 1: your throat. They got a good offensive line, They're gonna
Speaker 1: hold a football. And if this team is on the
Speaker 1: foot on the field for thirty minutes, we could be
Speaker 1: talking about a team that's one in three. I mean,
Speaker 1: can't centipede and say hey, here comes Cleveland, let's go
Speaker 1: right down to w You can't do that. This team's
Speaker 1: not that good. That's why I was bringing up just
Speaker 1: kind of this. That's that's kind of me getting to
Speaker 1: my point of why am I bringing up Elliott? Guys,
Speaker 1: I'm still worried about the time of possession? Am I
Speaker 1: wrong to think that way? Danny? Now, you're right, And
Speaker 1: I feel like we are the only team, baby, besides
Speaker 1: the Giants with Sacon Barkley that has a start running back.
Speaker 1: They can't figure out how how to control the clock
Speaker 1: and get and get the player involved, you know, And
Speaker 1: like you said, the way we play with our defense
Speaker 1: and the way they want to come in here and
Speaker 1: control the clock and you know, and how they can
Speaker 1: attack our defensive backs because they do still have two
Speaker 1: start receivers out there that's coming to town from Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So it could get ugly for us if we don't
Speaker 1: for the whole season, if we don't figure out how
Speaker 1: to control the clock and how to keep our defense
Speaker 1: off the field. Yeah, we gotta we gotta figure out
Speaker 1: some type of way to get this this engine rolling,
Speaker 1: which I think we should. But to the point which
Speaker 1: you made earlier, knew this upcoming matchup, Man, it scares
Speaker 1: me a little bit because like you said, they have
Speaker 1: arguably the best one to punch and Hunt and Um
Speaker 1: and Chubb in the backfield. I mean they're both they're
Speaker 1: both downhill runners, Hunt who can be a dangerous weapon
Speaker 1: outside of the backfield and catching, and we're already down
Speaker 1: to I mean we got third linebacker in there. So
Speaker 1: these are these are dangerous matchups looking forward to this
Speaker 1: Cleveland game. And like you said, Danny, they got dangerous
Speaker 1: weapons on the outside. Both of those LSU boys Landry
Speaker 1: and Odell out there. They can do damage and they
Speaker 1: got some speed at tight end. So we got we
Speaker 1: got all work to a work cutout for us this week.
Speaker 1: It's not just gonna be let's just go ramp up
Speaker 1: on the regular old Cleveland bound. So we gotta figure
Speaker 1: out a way because if we turn the ball over
Speaker 1: against this defense and that offense gets it for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: our offense may not ever see the field. So what
Speaker 1: happens this week? Cleveland with thirty seven rushes one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty eight yards against Washington, you see what they
Speaker 1: want to do. They want to limit Baker Mayfield's touches,
Speaker 1: which I think is a smart thing to do because,
Speaker 1: like most quarterbacks, and more times you're throwing it, the
Speaker 1: more opportunities you're gonna have to make mistakes. And Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield is not a proven quarterback in the league yet
Speaker 1: in my opinion. So we see Stefanski, who was with
Speaker 1: Minnesota last year and you saw what he was able
Speaker 1: to do with Dalvin Cook. He's bringing this over to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: They're running the ball, So the Cowboys have got to
Speaker 1: be able to stop the run on first down, and
Speaker 1: they've got to buckle up and get ready to get
Speaker 1: these dudes off the field on third down. That's another
Speaker 1: problem too for this cowboy defense. You got to get
Speaker 1: off the field on third down here, You've got to
Speaker 1: stop the run this week. And Danny giving your opinion
Speaker 1: right now when you're looking up front at the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle position between Pole, Tristan Hill and Antoine Woods, are
Speaker 1: you seeing guys doing enough here as they get ready
Speaker 1: to face Hunting Chump. I think they did enough in
Speaker 1: games two and three, just because you know, and I
Speaker 1: think it's misleading because those aren't really running teams. The
Speaker 1: running team that came in here was was La and
Speaker 1: we kind of saw, you know what that was like.
Speaker 1: So you know, honestly, I don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to stop these guys. I really
Speaker 1: didn't feel like that against Atlanta and Atlanta you know
Speaker 1: that they went out and made some dumb mistakes and
Speaker 1: they got away for some stuff that they should have
Speaker 1: done it and took us let us off the hook,
Speaker 1: and uh, same thing with Russ. So I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna see this week how how our defense really plays
Speaker 1: against a true running team. And unfortunately, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think it's gonna go that well. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm here to be proven wrong. Man, you're
Speaker 1: being nice over there. Man, I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: step up this defensive line does next step up their play.
Speaker 1: Chubb and Hunt are gonna run all over the defense
Speaker 1: and they're gonna keep them on the field for thirty
Speaker 1: thirty five minutes. And that's just gonna limit the effect
Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott and his offense has to master their
Speaker 1: point total. So if these boys don't step up, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's it could get extremely, extremely ugly Cleveland. When
Speaker 1: they played Cincinnati in their second game of the year,
Speaker 1: thirty five rush is two hundred and fifteen yards. They're
Speaker 1: going to come ready to run the football. And that's
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys are gonna have to do is stop
Speaker 1: that run. And at the same time, they need to
Speaker 1: run the football. When we come back, let's dive into
Speaker 1: some comments from Jerry Jones today on his radio show
Speaker 1: about Earl Thomas and also the Cowboys offensive line issues,
Speaker 1: and they've got a couple of them. You are checking
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Speaker 1: I've never done that church for crae. Have you guys
Speaker 1: been a part of those tours. Yeah. When my my
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Speaker 1: It's cool. I have not toured it, But what do
Speaker 1: you say? Go ahead, Danny? Now I would have said
Speaker 1: I haven't toured it, but all my camps run through there,
Speaker 1: so I think I know that place in and out. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the first times. Its twenty fourteen is Alden Smith. Alden
Speaker 1: Smith leads the NFL with four sacks through three games.
Speaker 1: And I bring that up because we right here on
Speaker 1: this show had a little spirited debate about Alden Smith
Speaker 1: coming back here and what a pleasant surprise. Alden Smith
Speaker 1: is basically everything the Cowboys have been hoping Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: could be one day as a second round pick in
Speaker 1: terms of being an impact player. Right now, he is
Speaker 1: the best defensive player for the Dallas Cowboys in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Three games in Church, Yeah, I mean, look, I was
Speaker 1: one all one of those guys had my reservations about him.
Speaker 1: Wasn't really sold on on. I mean, how could he
Speaker 1: come back after five years and play good and play
Speaker 1: at the high level at such a premium position like that.
Speaker 1: He's not playing a long snapper or or hunter or
Speaker 1: anything that her positions after the quarterbacks. So for me,
Speaker 1: it was not and I for me, I was just like,
Speaker 1: I'm not having it. First three games and I was
Speaker 1: dead that dude. I mean, his energy out there, I mean,
Speaker 1: he just seems like he has a high motor and
Speaker 1: he's able to get to the quarterback whenever, whenever he
Speaker 1: wants to almost and it just seems amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: for him, it seemed like he just missed five games
Speaker 1: instead of five years. I mean, this dude is doing
Speaker 1: something that I didn't think was possible. So hat goes
Speaker 1: off to him. I mean, hopefully he can continue this
Speaker 1: rampant rage and hopefully we can get get more of
Speaker 1: a pass rush from the rest of those guys out there. Yeah, he's, uh,
Speaker 1: he's doing great. Um, actually, he's doing amazing. He's out
Speaker 1: playing the rest of the dude and he's he's he's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, creating pressure, getting sacks. You know, he's in there.
Speaker 1: He's doing his thing in the ring game. And you
Speaker 1: know the thing that I worried about him when my
Speaker 1: reservations came from his off the field issues, right because
Speaker 1: you know, without COVID, to me, without COVID, you know,
Speaker 1: the pressure in a big city like Dallas and the
Speaker 1: team like Dallas will be will be sky high. So
Speaker 1: I think this is a perfect situation for him, and
Speaker 1: he's capitalizing on every opportunity he got. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for him. I had my reservations and and
Speaker 1: he's proving me wrong, and and and thank goodness he is,
Speaker 1: and I hope he goes out there he continues this
Speaker 1: this big time play that he has going on. So
Speaker 1: we're looking at four sacks right here, and if he
Speaker 1: can stay healthy, I think we're looking safe to say
Speaker 1: we're looking at a possible ten sacks season. As I say,
Speaker 1: I say healthy because we're watching guys every week now
Speaker 1: deal with soft tissue injuries and acls. So I'm just
Speaker 1: saying if we get ten, if there's ten sacks that
Speaker 1: come from Olden Smith, I'm trying to see who could
Speaker 1: actually beat him out for Comeback Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: When you start to think about if he come back
Speaker 1: after five years and get ten sacks in this week, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's crazy. That's correct, that's special. That's special. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't see anybody really
Speaker 1: beating him out for that for that comeback Player of
Speaker 1: the year, especially if he's able to get double digit sacks.
Speaker 1: I mean then you're you're you're with America's team. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're always in the spotlight. So I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: see anybody beating him out for that one at all. Um.
Speaker 1: But I mean, once again, this could be two years
Speaker 1: back to back where a defensive end has come on
Speaker 1: this team and left this team in sacks and pass
Speaker 1: rushers and not you know, the main guy, the main
Speaker 1: attraction on the other side. So I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it could be something, It could be something to worry about.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is back to back years.
Speaker 1: But you know, we shall see, we shall see. Listen,
Speaker 1: I gave I gave, I gave d Law fourteen. I
Speaker 1: gotta take take something away from him and give him
Speaker 1: the Audi Smith and in those sacks that I've seen
Speaker 1: d Law getting the game against Philly and Washington and
Speaker 1: and and and the Giants. Uh, I think all the
Speaker 1: spens are gonna take a lot of those, so I
Speaker 1: can easily I can see him he usually getting ten
Speaker 1: just just based off us playing those teams and seeing
Speaker 1: how their offensive lines are performing and how other teams
Speaker 1: are able to create pass rus against them, and with
Speaker 1: him being being our one guy right now, I can
Speaker 1: see him getting ten ten plus. I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: switch it up. And with d Laud and his knee injury,
Speaker 1: it just makes it, it just makes it even even
Speaker 1: clearer that Alten Smith, you know, will have a great
Speaker 1: year as long as he stays healthy. I joked about
Speaker 1: it when we were texting each other during the game,
Speaker 1: but all jokes have a little bit of seriousness to him.
Speaker 1: He's the only guy who understands defense. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's true. I mean, he's the one guy who understands
Speaker 1: the defense. He's the one guy who's not defensive. Ender's
Speaker 1: not complaining about standing up and putting his hand down.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's been comfortable with it. So I
Speaker 1: think definitely some of that plays into a part there.
Speaker 1: So when do we start to turn the heat up
Speaker 1: on the twenty million dollars a year defensive end for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, Tank Lawrens, Yes, he's got a knee injury.
Speaker 1: They're paying you for sacks, and this could be the
Speaker 1: second year in a row where you're not leading the
Speaker 1: team in sacks. You're having somebody outperform you double digit
Speaker 1: wise and sacks potentially, because right now it's ford to
Speaker 1: nothing Alden Smith. Last year Tank had five, Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: had eleven and a half and he missed two games.
Speaker 1: So I mean, at some point in time, Fellas and
Speaker 1: you guys kind of got on me last year when
Speaker 1: I brought it up, But when do you start to
Speaker 1: get the return on investment? They paid Tank Lawrens after
Speaker 1: two fantastic seasons. He wanted his money, and I said
Speaker 1: he should get his money. But if you're making twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars a year, you gotta be there. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear people talk about well pressures and hurries.
Speaker 1: Nah man, you paid twenty million dollars for sacks. That's
Speaker 1: what you're paying for for defensive You want sacks, that's
Speaker 1: what you want. Just as when you pay Dion Sanders
Speaker 1: a bunch of money, you want him to get his
Speaker 1: hands on some footballs. You wanted I and Ts. You
Speaker 1: wanted the guy who can make turnovers. So that when
Speaker 1: do we how long do we give Tank this grace
Speaker 1: period because he hasn't had a sack McCray since Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: against the Bills, and I believe that was a half.
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew, I knew you has coming my way.
Speaker 1: So this this was what I'm gonna say. All Right,
Speaker 1: Yes he needs to step up, but at the rate
Speaker 1: we're going anybody and we got just making twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year is going to be underperforming, all right.
Speaker 1: We got we got Amari Cooper out there making twenty
Speaker 1: a year, who I think is underperformance, specifically because of
Speaker 1: the office of scheme. We got d Law who's out there,
Speaker 1: he's underperforming, you know, not getting many sacks. We got
Speaker 1: Zeke out here to me underperforming only because of the
Speaker 1: scheme where you come out and you don't even have
Speaker 1: the guy taking the first carriage of the game, and
Speaker 1: the next the next game you come out and throw
Speaker 1: six straight passes. So at this rate, we're going to
Speaker 1: be underperforming on all contracts. Go ahead, and now we
Speaker 1: go ahead, So let me throw this out here because
Speaker 1: you brought up Cooper, who's on your fantasy team. And
Speaker 1: I think you're harder on Coop because he's on your
Speaker 1: fantasy team. But let me just run this out. You
Speaker 1: got this note from the Cowboys PR says Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: caught nine passes for eighty eight yards against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Cooper now has twenty five receptions through the first three
Speaker 1: games of twenty twenty, the most through the first three
Speaker 1: games of any season by any player in Dallas Cowboys history.
Speaker 1: So first three games he called let me, let me finish. Okay, okay, man,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. First three games.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper twenty five catches two hundred and sixty seven yards,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns in twenty ten. Miles Austin twenty two catches
Speaker 1: three hundred eight yards, one touchdown. Lance Dunbar twenty two
Speaker 1: catches two hundred and fifteen yards, no touchdowns nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin twenty one catches three hundred ten yards, two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So those are your top ones there, now, go ahead
Speaker 1: and go man, go ahead. Man. I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: not with those stats. Man. You gotta watch the game.
Speaker 1: If the game is the Man against the Rams called
Speaker 1: like eight passes that they gave them on swants and
Speaker 1: stops and they got scooped on the last one. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, so so that's that's that's eight kids is
Speaker 1: to the stats. But they didn't they didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: This isn't twenty millie, like I said, watch DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: watch DeVante Adams. This is, in my opinion, what it
Speaker 1: should look like. And I'm blaming the half one on coop.
Speaker 1: Actually thirty percent on coop seventy percent on the staff.
Speaker 1: I think they just feel like they have too many
Speaker 1: weapons and they just don't know who the focus on.
Speaker 1: I told you earlier in the week, the focal points
Speaker 1: should be that Zeke and Coop and everybody else should
Speaker 1: be picking up the scraps, and we're just not doing that.
Speaker 1: And it's it's unfortunately, but I think that's the way
Speaker 1: we win. It's just I think what the thing is
Speaker 1: with these twenty million dollar man they're not making these
Speaker 1: splash plays, these huge plays. I mean, if you looking
Speaker 1: at the other guys that are making twenty million, the
Speaker 1: d line, the Leslie, Miles Garrett or Aaron Donald, they're
Speaker 1: making huge plays. I mean we've seen Aaron Donald that
Speaker 1: first game throws Zeke into dock. I mean he's getting sacks,
Speaker 1: force and fumbles. I mean the same with with Miles
Speaker 1: Garrett and with and with de Marcus Lawrence. We're just
Speaker 1: not seeing that. And then you go on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Mark Cooper, Yes, you know he's
Speaker 1: had those catches, he's had his yards, but it has
Speaker 1: did he do did he pass the eye test? When
Speaker 1: you look at it? He's he making game changing plays.
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen one where there was in Atlanta
Speaker 1: where he had that deep one over the middle to
Speaker 1: field with one hand. But if you're looking at the
Speaker 1: if you compare him to the other guys, the Michael
Speaker 1: thomas is and the DeAndre Hopkins, well, Michael Thompson he
Speaker 1: ain't really been doing much this year, But DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: he's making super splash plays that are that are just flashy.
Speaker 1: And I think that's just the biggest difference in what
Speaker 1: we're looking at between these twenty million dollars men, Church,
Speaker 1: if you pay if you pay attention to the receivers
Speaker 1: that we have on our on our roster, they're they're
Speaker 1: making more splash plays than the Mark Cooper. Just I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm there with you. I mean, like you said, it's
Speaker 1: the truth, but I mean it's just he's not making
Speaker 1: no splashy plays, and that's what you expect from a
Speaker 1: guy making that much money. All right here, let me
Speaker 1: just go to that. I'm just gonna go since you
Speaker 1: guys are on Hopkins and and and Adams, so let
Speaker 1: me just go ahead and start to just just check
Speaker 1: up numbers here, all right. So week number one for
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, he has sixteen targets, caught fourteen passes. Then
Speaker 1: for Adams and his Week one, he has seventeen targets,
Speaker 1: caught fourteen fourteen footballs. That was week one, um week
Speaker 1: one for Cooper here we pull up his statistics in
Speaker 1: the box score. That's when they would play the Rams
Speaker 1: week one and he had fourteen targets. Week one, caught
Speaker 1: ten balls. So week one out the gate with the
Speaker 1: yards talking about Louis okay, for Cooper it was eighty
Speaker 1: one yards. Other dudes have board in a hunt. But
Speaker 1: you know you you you saw those balls. They they
Speaker 1: Coop was catching, they were they were significant. My boy
Speaker 1: was catching. They were come back and there was no
Speaker 1: yards a man, no yard, just splash blazing. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: So you guys were running down Tomar Cooper here before
Speaker 1: the break. Um, we ran down all the hot paper leffs,
Speaker 1: all the papers getting run down. No. I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is true, this is true. But I was trying
Speaker 1: to trying to give a brother a break here. But
Speaker 1: you guys were having none of it, none of it
Speaker 1: for Amari Cooper here. So um, look, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: They're trying to find, trying to spend. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: spend my way of it. This way, McCray, I think
Speaker 1: you're right. Scheme, the schemes got issues here man. Um
Speaker 1: oh now he's so yeah, give it. Yeah. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to fight, not trying to fight you brothers on this. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: all off the shoulder, man, Okay. I mean just like
Speaker 1: you guys lost Monday night football, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: just lose this O. There we go, here we go.
Speaker 1: You gotta bring something in, but you you you owing
Speaker 1: three on bits. So I mean I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about losing, you know it hey, hey,
Speaker 1: it is it is what it is. It is what
Speaker 1: it is here, Uh, Dak Prescott and I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up it was a column written by David Moore
Speaker 1: and we spoke about it earlier in the week where
Speaker 1: David Moore said, hey, look, if Dak wants to get
Speaker 1: paid like, you know, a top notch quarterback, he can
Speaker 1: start by beating Russell Wilson. This week didn't happen, and
Speaker 1: then he wrote the column that day to say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you may say it's unfair, but the fact is Dak
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. Dad needed to carry his football team,
Speaker 1: and instead of Dak Prescott doing it getting it done,
Speaker 1: he ends up making critical mistakes. He spoke about the
Speaker 1: fumble which led to a score, also talked about the
Speaker 1: interception that led to a score by Seattle, and his
Speaker 1: whole premise was Dak Prescott has to carry this football
Speaker 1: team and he can't afford any mistakes. It's not fair,
Speaker 1: but he's saying that's what he has to do. How
Speaker 1: did you guys sum up just kind of what he
Speaker 1: said right there about that? Go ahead, Dan oh, listen,
Speaker 1: this is football, right, People are gonna make mistakes. Interception
Speaker 1: is gonna get thrown, people are gonna fumble. It ain't
Speaker 1: about being fair, not that that's the name of the game.
Speaker 1: Like this stuff happens, I don't I don't know any
Speaker 1: quarterbacks started quarterback they went the whole season when all
Speaker 1: a fumble, our interception. It just that that that's just
Speaker 1: not right. My whole thing with Dak is we just like,
Speaker 1: I feel like the way that the team plays in
Speaker 1: the same way, the same thing that happened last year
Speaker 1: when I said trash ards, this year there's not so
Speaker 1: much trash ards because they're getting close enough to actually
Speaker 1: come back and win the game. But we get down
Speaker 1: so early to where he has to throw these fifty
Speaker 1: and sixty passes and rack up all these yards, and
Speaker 1: then at the end of the at the end of
Speaker 1: the week or the end of the season, you say, well,
Speaker 1: Cowboys has the number one rank offense and we ate Nate. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because if you watch the actual game and you see
Speaker 1: that we were getting the brakes beat off of us
Speaker 1: at the beginning, and the only way that we could
Speaker 1: come back was if he threw for those type of yards,
Speaker 1: then then it makes sense to you, and I think
Speaker 1: that's where we're backing. It's half on how we're playing
Speaker 1: as a team, because you can't ask him to come
Speaker 1: come back from Uh, every every mistake that the special
Speaker 1: teams make, every mistake that the defense make, and then
Speaker 1: every mistake that the office making, then we're losing as
Speaker 1: his fault. That's not true. But once we get to
Speaker 1: where we can play a complete game, to where you
Speaker 1: can see him play a true quarterback position where it's
Speaker 1: close and he has to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: manage the game and then become a passer and control that,
Speaker 1: then I think you'll be able to say he can
Speaker 1: get paid. But right now, just see us getting down
Speaker 1: so early and those stats are just racking up, and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day you say, oh, he man,
Speaker 1: he had all these yards. Well watch the game. Of
Speaker 1: course of course he did. Because look how we like Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, I mean, football is the
Speaker 1: ultimate team sport. So can we put all the blame
Speaker 1: on Dak and how they they lost that game or
Speaker 1: the other or the first one? Now, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can put it all on him, but I think
Speaker 1: it has to do with a lot of different factors.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, he is making mistakes out there, he
Speaker 1: did throw interception you did to coumble away those balls
Speaker 1: in the previous game. So I think he has to
Speaker 1: play better as a whole in order for this offense
Speaker 1: to get going, in this team to get going as
Speaker 1: a whole. I mean, he is, you know, the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: He is the head of this team and the leader,
Speaker 1: and they can only go as far as he can
Speaker 1: take them. So I believe he'll have to play better
Speaker 1: in order for this offense to roll, and maybe he'll
Speaker 1: have to do a little bit more different play calling
Speaker 1: or whatever. But um, as far as him getting paid
Speaker 1: in that situation, like I was, I'm gonna admit I
Speaker 1: was kind of wrong earlier. I mean, we had this
Speaker 1: conversation a few weeks back, and I was talking about,
Speaker 1: h you know, Dak Prescott needs to get all this
Speaker 1: money and all this stuff, and you guys wanted Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton all this bullcrap. But um, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: I might have been a little a little I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know, I know I said I might have shot
Speaker 1: the gun a little bit. So I'm just gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hold my reservations till the end. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: he just I think he just needs to play better
Speaker 1: as a whole for this opense to get going. Let
Speaker 1: me correct you real quick before before you go listen,
Speaker 1: that is not the franchise quarterback. He's on a one
Speaker 1: year deal. All right, go ahead, and now he just
Speaker 1: wanted to I want to clear that up. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So you're saying, so you're saying he's not he's not
Speaker 1: going just right now or going forward. No, no, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm saying, technically, right now, he is not
Speaker 1: our franchise quarterback. He's playing on the one year deal.
Speaker 1: He did not get a franchise deal. I mean, technically
Speaker 1: you got a franchise deal. So also in More in
Speaker 1: David Moore's Peace in the Dallas More You News, he said, look,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson didn't make any mistakes, didn't throw any interceptions.
Speaker 1: You know, it allowed his team to win a game
Speaker 1: in which they needed all those points. And his premise
Speaker 1: of going back to Dak Prescott was, hey, look look
Speaker 1: at the mistakes that you made. Those mistakes led to points,
Speaker 1: and you have to be and rise even more so
Speaker 1: to another level because your team is making all these mistakes.
Speaker 1: You can't do it. What he didn't say. What he
Speaker 1: didn't say was what Dak did was basically a Romo
Speaker 1: special because we saw a lot of times where Tony
Speaker 1: Romo would do the same thing, where Tony wasn't the
Speaker 1: reason you lost, but he was a part of the
Speaker 1: reason you lost. And I go back to that excellent game.
Speaker 1: There were that duel between Tony Romo and Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: at Jerry World, and I think Tony threw five touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: but at the end when they needed it, Tony threw
Speaker 1: in a triple coverage. It was an interception Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: and the Broncos get the ball. They basically run down
Speaker 1: the clock, kicked the field goal, and they walk off
Speaker 1: and they end up losing the game. And I remember
Speaker 1: so many people saying it was the defense's fault. The
Speaker 1: defense wasn't any good. I was like, well, fellas, guess what.
Speaker 1: The Broncos defense wasn't good either. Nobody's defense was good
Speaker 1: that day. It was going to come down almost like
Speaker 1: a tennis match, who makes who makes an unforced air.
Speaker 1: Tony made an unforced air. And when I look at
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and the unforced airs that he made against Seattle.
Speaker 1: I say, you know what, those are things that he's
Speaker 1: got to be better that he can't afford to have
Speaker 1: those kind of things. It's unfair, but that's what you
Speaker 1: need out of him because right now this defense isn't
Speaker 1: going to be able to help you much because they're
Speaker 1: down dealing with injuries. They got their own issues here.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be the thing that I look for
Speaker 1: against Cleveland from Dak Prescott is it still keep playing
Speaker 1: at a high level, but do his best to make
Speaker 1: sure they're no fumbles, they're no interceptions. Are you asking
Speaker 1: the guy to be perfect here? Yeah, you kind of are.
Speaker 1: Is it unfair? Probably so, But right now that's what
Speaker 1: they need. Until this team defensively can get rolling, until
Speaker 1: this offensive line can get itself going, you gotta have
Speaker 1: your quarterback play really next level. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be the Lebron James of the Dallas Kyd Boys. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you said, we're facing multiple injuries on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. We got a patchwork offensive linemen
Speaker 1: right now, and from what the reports say, hopefully the
Speaker 1: reinforcements coming back soon, but who knows when when Loud
Speaker 1: Collins and and Tyron Smith are going to come back.
Speaker 1: So to me, he's just gonna have to be that
Speaker 1: Lebron James. He's gonna have to carry this team and
Speaker 1: not make those mistakes, not make those those late game
Speaker 1: errors that that people criticize a lot, because I mean,
Speaker 1: like you said, I mean, he doesn't have all that
Speaker 1: around him to help support, so he's just gonna have
Speaker 1: to put him on his back. I listen, I just
Speaker 1: I just he does. But I just don't agree, like
Speaker 1: I take fairness out of this. This is the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: He should not have to make up for special teams
Speaker 1: errors and defensive errors, right, some of the defense. Right,
Speaker 1: you're gonna give us some points, and then you have
Speaker 1: to come back and all that stuff. But when all
Speaker 1: this stuff is just mounted against you, you you asked them,
Speaker 1: the dude to do the impossible, like like last year,
Speaker 1: you give up a blot to limit those mistakes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well of course he does, but he doesn't make many
Speaker 1: like like you know, he thought he thought an interception
Speaker 1: and fumbled and we you know, it make it sound
Speaker 1: like he just out there being Jameis Winston. You know,
Speaker 1: he made a couple of errors. He threw the ball
Speaker 1: like fifty times. I mean, what you expect me down,
Speaker 1: He's bound to make make a mistake and the last
Speaker 1: thing to me really it counts, but I mean he
Speaker 1: was going forward. We just need to find a way
Speaker 1: to play better as a full team and not make
Speaker 1: him have to do all that. Man like stop finding
Speaker 1: a way to stop shooting yourself in the foot and
Speaker 1: getting down so early, and I guarantee you the game
Speaker 1: will flow different and the outcomes will be different. I
Speaker 1: agree with you McCray from the standpoint from a coaching
Speaker 1: From coaching, they've got to get they've got to get
Speaker 1: the team overall off to a better start, and that's
Speaker 1: something that they haven't done. Jerry Jones did mention today
Speaker 1: about lell College. They're not expecting him back this week,
Speaker 1: they're not sure when they get him back, and he
Speaker 1: kind of danced a rather basically in his own way.
Speaker 1: Jerry said, look, we'd rather wait as long as we
Speaker 1: can to activate him so he doesn't have another setback.
Speaker 1: That was as much as he could give us. Jerry's
Speaker 1: really being coy now that Mike McCarthy's here, so we
Speaker 1: could see Zach Martine at right tackle on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: if we do, I don't have any issues with it
Speaker 1: because I thought that the ligne adjustments they made where
Speaker 1: they put in rookie BYARDA. Tyler Beyardish at center and
Speaker 1: they moved Looney over the guard, I thought they held
Speaker 1: up pretty well. And we'd already start talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about this, and we'll talk about it even more tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Cleveland's got some they got some pass rush, they got
Speaker 1: some guys who can get after you, so they may
Speaker 1: need to go with that. That's our time today. It
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