WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Need More Splash Players? 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:17.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:22.439 Lounge broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:28.120 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey Scrugs. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.320 Here we go on a Tuesday edition of the Players Lounge, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.559 brought to you by Hotels dot Com. Newis Scrugs, longtime 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.720 Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Dallas Cowboys safeties, Danny 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:47.240 mccraig and Barry Church. Okay, gentlemen, before we dive into 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.840 a whole lot of issues, not just the Cowboys around 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.240 the National Football League. I was watching Monday Night football 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.120 and I couldn't help but remember how Barry gave out 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.200 this great prediction before the game of a thirty one 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.600 twenty one, a ten point raven beat down that he 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.120 was expecting against. And Barry was telling us, how, you know, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.840 trust trust Church, You're gonna take us a church. And 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.399 I just surely hope nobody putting no cash on that 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.200 ten point. I don't know why, I don't know why 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:20.600 I follow Notre Damaso is a fraud like like like 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:25.240 I always say, man, with friends like y'all. Who needs enemy? 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.319 That's all I got to say. I'm just I mean, Barry. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.480 When you said it, I wrote it down. I was like, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.200 oh my gosh, when the last time we started beat 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.480 by ten points. I mean I had confidence. I had confidence, man, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.520 I mean I let my heart. I left my heart. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.120 I went with my heart into my head. Man. I 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.400 was going with my fantasy. I was hoping, you know, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.240 Baltimore would do something. But they let me down. Man, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.200 they let me down. But my thing was ten. I mean, 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.040 my homes beat by ten. I mean, I can't even 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.960 think of the last time these dudes got beat by 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.800 ten points. But I had a three point when I 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.400 Kansas City twenty four twenty one, and then thirty three 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.960 twenty seven is what Danny had. But you know, I 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.919 just want to make sure we let you. I'll be 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.880 as I'll be. You know, we got we got next 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.880 week predictions coming up, so I'll be a hopefully even 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.519 putting no diaper money on that game, you know, a 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.840 typer money. We're scraping by, man, we're scraping by over here. 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:35.840 Yeah yeah, yeah, all right. The Cowboys. Cowboys are one 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.000 and two. Cleveland is coming to town at two and one. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:44.520 But the bigger news, which affects two clubs today Tennessee 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.640 in Minnesota, but actually affects a whole lot of clubs 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.040 because the way the NFL and the nfl PA handled 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.440 the situation is going to be very interesting. In case 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.760 you have not heard, three Titans players have tested positive 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.720 for COVID nineteen with five staffers. Tennessee shut down their 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:05.160 whole facility until Saturday. They played the Vikings over the weekend. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.960 That game was held up in Minnesota. Minnesota closed its facilities. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.440 They have not had any positive tests. There's still awaiting results. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.960 Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the NFL wants to 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.240 play the Titan Steelers game on Sunday, and if they 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.000 have to move it into Monday, they will. That game 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.560 is expected to be in Nashville. So you guys were 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.679 in the players association and tell me how does a 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:35.680 situation like this work where the players have concerns and 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.760 they want those concerns relayed to the team. How does 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.600 the team rep go about this? For Tennessee in Minnesota 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.600 at this point in time, Barry dany Ill a little 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.600 bit start, go ahead, Ladie matt Oh well, at first, 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.120 I want to say, man, isn't an ironic right? Who 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.000 who was the quarterback that was talking about day worried 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.760 about COVID and all out of all this other stuff 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.200 and look the irony other sension. Way, boy, it's something else. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.120 You know. I just want to get that shout out 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.280 to you, Kirk Cousin, because y'all sucking this year anyways. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:10.880 Um nah, So you know, I imagine that you know, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.280 this was discussed, you know, before the season even started. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.359 They had to have some idea that something like this 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.520 will happen, to have some type of protocols in place 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.160 to where they will be able to handle the situation. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.320 So hopefully, um you know, the player of rep is 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.720 just reiterating, you know, what they originally told them before 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.480 the season started, and you know, and calming the players down. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.880 You know, they all have a right to be concerned, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.479 but they all you know, when they said yes to 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 go throughout the season, they all signed up and knew 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.880 that at some point that this will happen. So just 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.880 reiterating it and you know, and calming them down and 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.400 making sure that everybody's following all the rules and they 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.479 don't put anybody at risk. So this if this game 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.840 needs to be moved back, you know further than Monday 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.919 that you know, the NFL and NFLPA can agree to 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.520 do that, and if they feel safe with doing it 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.880 on Monday or Sunday and the players feel that way, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.480 then let them go out there and play. But you know, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.120 hopefully it's pushed back a little bit further because I 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.719 don't know, the quarantine period is like fourteen days, so 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.000 that's pretty quick. Yeah, I think that's really quick if 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.720 they if they went ahead and just push it just 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.280 a couple of days or just one day over the Monday. Um, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.560 just knowing how the protocols work and they make sure 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.719 everybody's out at least two weeks before they come back around. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.360 So you know, I don't I don't see this game 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.640 being pushed back to Monday. Hopefully they they make up 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.280 for it in a bye week or something. But um, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.880 like like you said, um D Smith and those boys, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.479 there was protocols going out to all the teams, so 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.159 I'm sure they'll go ahead and review those protocols and 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.680 how the players do as such. Um. But like when 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.200 Crais said, I mean all these players they pretty much 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.880 signed up for this. I mean, they had an opportunity 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.080 to opt out and they chose to keep going. So hopefully, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.880 you know, no bad ramifications comes from this outbreak, and 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.400 hopefully they can contain it in Tennessee because, um, like 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.400 you said, if if it's spread to Minnesota and then 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.760 who knows, you know, where those players are going after that. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.120 So hopefully they can just have it contained to that 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.560 one club. Intendant see and they'll push this game back 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.040 a little bit and we'll get it resolved a little 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.040 bit later. But as far as the protocols go, I'm 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.400 sure d Smiths reached out to both teams and all 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:11.000 teams throughout the NFL, and they're going through as such. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.360 Minnesota sent out a statement about four hours ago saying 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.599 they had no positive COVID tests. Judy Bautista of NFL 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.680 dot Com had an interesting tweak. She put this about 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.640 an hour ago. Let me read it. Says, I don't 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.360 know what the NFL will finally decide about Sunday's games, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.920 but remember that owners were told there could be competitive 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.280 inequities this season, and a committee of former players, coaches 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.240 gems was formed to advise Roger Goodell on these issues. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.600 Lots of moving parts, So that's that. And then also 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.599 Mike Garafolo of NFL dot Com says Titan coaches have 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.600 told players if they have to go to go without 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.800 any work until Saturday, they're gonna have a walkthrough, then 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.599 play the Steelers Sunday, and that's what they'll do, no excuses. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:05.280 So who it getting blasted and get and get ram rotted. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.320 I mean, you're telling me they're gonna go in there 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.559 with just walking through, the walking through what they got 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.200 for the Steelers on the whole man, the good luck 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.520 to you, I'm telling you good luck. That's just it 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:22.320 ain't gonna work. I hope, I hope, listen, I hope 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.520 this doesn't happen. But I'm just imagining the lou Will situation, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:30.400 trying to figure out, you know, where the first case 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.280 of this came from, and what that person was doing 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.080 to contract COVID, and hopefully he was he or she 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.720 was was not out doing something they weren't supposed to 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.200 be doing. And this just doesn't run rampant just because 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.200 somebody was breaking the rules. So hopefully that doesn't happen. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:46.960 But I just keep thinking of lou Will going to 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:51.600 the Strip club for chicken wings. Let Pepper lou Let 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.920 me be fair here too. Something I left out here. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.320 I should have said that all eight people with Tennessee 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:02.320 were asymptomatic. Okay, so the asymptomatic and we'll see exactly 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.160 what what goes on further there. But you bring up 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.680 a very interesting point there, guys, when you say that 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.440 if they go without work and they got to show 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.280 up and play the Steelers and they will get blasted. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.040 Let me go ahead and move James Conner up in 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:22.200 my fantasy lineup. Go ahead, lockdown James Connor, putting him 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:28.040 my number one running back to the Steelers. And that's 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.760 right there there. We go ahead, go ahead and set 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.000 that right there. So what's your so far? What's your 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.959 record so far? To one in two? One in two? 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.199 The first week I played the guy who who just 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.760 he had everybody rolling, He had he had everybody rolling. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.000 And then the second week is where I messed up 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.480 with the James Connor situation because I sat him and 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.840 had I played him by the one by four. Instead 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.760 I ended up losing. This week, we played James Connor again, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.960 and so we were rolling. We're rolling. So we're on 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.000 the CoA a you know, like Mike McCarthy. Like Mike McCarthy, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.560 I was making some mistakes. I had to correct a mistake. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.520 They were correctable mistakes, so I made my correct Yours 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.920 wouldn't half as bad as McCarthy's. But we you know, 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:19.000 we touched on that next week, probably touching on that 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.280 next week. I hopefully we're talking about a blowout of summer. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.960 We're sitting here with the same record at one and two. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.680 One of the things that we spoke about yesterday and 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.280 I was just kind of looking into today since we had, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.640 you know, some final statistic numbers because of the Monday 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.200 night game was in. I want to look at see 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.800 where Ezekiel Elliott was at here, and he is nintheen 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.680 yards right now, two hundred and nineteen yards. He is 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.040 third in the NFL and attempts with the fifty eight 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:48.200 he is ninth and average per game seventy three yards 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.600 per game, and he's tied for seventh with three touchdowns. 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:57.200 Um your thoughts, Church then, McCray on the usage of 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:02.000 Ezekiel Elliott three games into this season under McCarthy. Look, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.240 I think you know those three games he's getting his 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.320 touches as you see, I mean he's top tending some 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.559 of these touches in some of these areas, so I 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.360 think they're getting them the touches. And that's even with 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.760 last week's game, him not really getting that that good 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.040 users are getting that ball rolling for him. So I 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.040 feel like, so far, so good this year. I mean, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:19.400 they let him run the ball a little bit in 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.240 LA and then as we offous and we saw Atlanta, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.840 he was able to pound Atlanta's defense down and get 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.559 the get the engine rolling on that offense. So as 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.160 of right now, yes, I would like to see him 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.760 being run a little bit more, especially early on in 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.040 the game. They got away from that last week in Seattle. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.920 But um, so far, I mean, you know, I can't 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.959 I can't complain saying he needs a lot more, but 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.760 I think a little bit more running touches should should 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:47.800 provide well for this offense. Yeah, I honestly, I think 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.760 he's okay. But I don't even think it's, you know, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.520 necessarily about his touches. I think it's about him being 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.880 the focal point of the offense, like running off of 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.040 him and then if he isn't open, and then throw 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.240 it to somebody else or you know, just just just 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.400 make the play based off what happens to Ezekiel Elliott, 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.280 and I think that will help us get a little 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.920 bit more successful. Uh, you know, we keep falling behind, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.800 and I think that we can kind of negate that 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.319 if we get him going early and get some of 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.800 those long drives and get him rolling and punishing those 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.320 those defenders. Because when you get Ezekiel going early and 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.320 he's falling forward for four or five yards, that is 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.640 demoralizing to a defense. And I think that we can 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.840 get that done early in the game so we don't 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.160 end up being behind so you know, so quick and 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.280 then have to go to throwing them you know, flat 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.840 routes and screens when everybody already know it's gonna be passed, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.560 because that kind of takes away, you know, the element 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.400 of surprise or the element of creativity for getting Zeke 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:46.000 involved in the passing game. So they play the Browns 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.560 this week, and we know what they want to do 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.640 that they want to utilize their running backs. Nick Chubb 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.400 Kareem Hunt might arguably be the best one two combination 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.000 of running backs. Got two guys who both led the 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.680 NFL in rushing. Kareem did it his rookie Kansas City, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.000 and Chubb did it last year with this team. Here, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.719 they control the ball for thirty three minutes against Washington, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.960 and while Dwayne Haskins had his issues quarterback for Washington, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.000 I go back to this same thing that I've been 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.440 marching and talking about all season long. This Cowboys defense 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.680 is not good enough to be on the field for 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.920 thirty plus minutes. And I bring up Ezekiel Elliot and 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.000 I go back to this thing where once again last week, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.320 we saw the Cowboys defense on the field for thirty 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.120 three minutes and it's a loss. At some point in time, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.360 I need Kellen Moore of the offensive coordinator, Mike McCarthy, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.760 the head coach, to realize that, you know what, you 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.640 need to go out and control the line of scrimmage 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.080 and hold a football. You know, all these nice little plays, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.040 all that stuff and all this yard it's all that 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.480 stuff's nice, fine and dandy, and it looks good. And yes, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.840 dak is leading the NFL in passing yards. But if 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.320 they're gonna go where they want to go, you need 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.960 to control the football. Green Bay's defense is okay, okay, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.000 It's not at the level of the Steelers or some 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.000 other defense but it's okay. One reason why it is okay, 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.320 it's because Aaron Rodgers in the offense or keeping the football. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.480 And that's the thing that I need to see from 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.320 the Cowboys is they get in here to week number 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.520 four because if you don't, Cleveland's gonna run it down 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.760 your throat. They got a good offensive line, They're gonna 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.480 hold a football. And if this team is on the 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.360 foot on the field for thirty minutes, we could be 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.080 talking about a team that's one in three. I mean, 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.240 can't centipede and say hey, here comes Cleveland, let's go 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.480 right down to w You can't do that. This team's 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.280 not that good. That's why I was bringing up just 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.080 kind of this. That's that's kind of me getting to 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.320 my point of why am I bringing up Elliott? Guys, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.160 I'm still worried about the time of possession? Am I 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.120 wrong to think that way? Danny? Now, you're right, And 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.440 I feel like we are the only team, baby, besides 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.839 the Giants with Sacon Barkley that has a start running back. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.960 They can't figure out how how to control the clock 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.160 and get and get the player involved, you know, And 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.520 like you said, the way we play with our defense 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:57.679 and the way they want to come in here and 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.880 control the clock and you know, and how they can 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.680 attack our defensive backs because they do still have two 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.880 start receivers out there that's coming to town from Cleveland. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.800 So it could get ugly for us if we don't 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.680 for the whole season, if we don't figure out how 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.120 to control the clock and how to keep our defense 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.080 off the field. Yeah, we gotta we gotta figure out 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.200 some type of way to get this this engine rolling, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.520 which I think we should. But to the point which 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.720 you made earlier, knew this upcoming matchup, Man, it scares 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.680 me a little bit because like you said, they have 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.280 arguably the best one to punch and Hunt and Um 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.320 and Chubb in the backfield. I mean they're both they're 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.520 both downhill runners, Hunt who can be a dangerous weapon 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.200 outside of the backfield and catching, and we're already down 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.960 to I mean we got third linebacker in there. So 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.160 these are these are dangerous matchups looking forward to this 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.680 Cleveland game. And like you said, Danny, they got dangerous 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.600 weapons on the outside. Both of those LSU boys Landry 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.680 and Odell out there. They can do damage and they 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.880 got some speed at tight end. So we got we 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.160 got all work to a work cutout for us this week. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.200 It's not just gonna be let's just go ramp up 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.120 on the regular old Cleveland bound. So we gotta figure 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.640 out a way because if we turn the ball over 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.560 against this defense and that offense gets it for Cleveland, 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.960 our offense may not ever see the field. So what 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.240 happens this week? Cleveland with thirty seven rushes one hundred 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.840 and fifty eight yards against Washington, you see what they 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.400 want to do. They want to limit Baker Mayfield's touches, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.200 which I think is a smart thing to do because, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.440 like most quarterbacks, and more times you're throwing it, the 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.840 more opportunities you're gonna have to make mistakes. And Baker 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.800 Mayfield is not a proven quarterback in the league yet 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.520 in my opinion. So we see Stefanski, who was with 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.440 Minnesota last year and you saw what he was able 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.240 to do with Dalvin Cook. He's bringing this over to Cleveland. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.320 They're running the ball, So the Cowboys have got to 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.480 be able to stop the run on first down, and 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.360 they've got to buckle up and get ready to get 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.800 these dudes off the field on third down. That's another 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.360 problem too for this cowboy defense. You got to get 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.720 off the field on third down here, You've got to 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:53.920 stop the run this week. And Danny giving your opinion 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.920 right now when you're looking up front at the defensive 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.320 tackle position between Pole, Tristan Hill and Antoine Woods, are 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.760 you seeing guys doing enough here as they get ready 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.200 to face Hunting Chump. I think they did enough in 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.240 games two and three, just because you know, and I 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.400 think it's misleading because those aren't really running teams. The 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.000 running team that came in here was was La and 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.600 we kind of saw, you know what that was like. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.880 So you know, honestly, I don't I don't know if 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.040 we're gonna be able to stop these guys. I really 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.520 didn't feel like that against Atlanta and Atlanta you know 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.200 that they went out and made some dumb mistakes and 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.120 they got away for some stuff that they should have 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.680 done it and took us let us off the hook, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.600 and uh, same thing with Russ. So I think we're 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.640 gonna see this week how how our defense really plays 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.640 against a true running team. And unfortunately, you know, I 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.520 don't I don't think it's gonna go that well. But 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.440 you know, I'm here to be proven wrong. Man, you're 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.680 being nice over there. Man, I'll tell you right now, 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.680 step up this defensive line does next step up their play. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.520 Chubb and Hunt are gonna run all over the defense 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.280 and they're gonna keep them on the field for thirty 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.000 thirty five minutes. And that's just gonna limit the effect 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.160 that Dak Prescott and his offense has to master their 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.920 point total. So if these boys don't step up, I mean, 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.880 it's it's it could get extremely, extremely ugly Cleveland. When 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.840 they played Cincinnati in their second game of the year, 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.760 thirty five rush is two hundred and fifteen yards. They're 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.040 going to come ready to run the football. 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Another item I wanted 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:12.720 to check on and get into as the Cowboys get 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:14.520 ready to face the Cleveland Rounds, who were two in 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.080 one for the first time, they're over five hundred for 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.639 the first times. Its twenty fourteen is Alden Smith. Alden 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:25.119 Smith leads the NFL with four sacks through three games. 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.280 And I bring that up because we right here on 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.879 this show had a little spirited debate about Alden Smith 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:36.480 coming back here and what a pleasant surprise. Alden Smith 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:40.400 is basically everything the Cowboys have been hoping Randy Gregory 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:42.719 could be one day as a second round pick in 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.080 terms of being an impact player. Right now, he is 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.720 the best defensive player for the Dallas Cowboys in my opinion. 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:51.879 Three games in Church, Yeah, I mean, look, I was 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.440 one all one of those guys had my reservations about him. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.240 Wasn't really sold on on. I mean, how could he 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:01.320 come back after five years and play good and play 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:03.959 at the high level at such a premium position like that. 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.800 He's not playing a long snapper or or hunter or 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:12.760 anything that her positions after the quarterbacks. So for me, 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:18.560 it was not and I for me, I was just like, 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:23.439 I'm not having it. First three games and I was 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:28.720 dead that dude. I mean, his energy out there, I mean, 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:30.720 he just seems like he has a high motor and 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:32.879 he's able to get to the quarterback whenever, whenever he 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.120 wants to almost and it just seems amazing. I mean, 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.560 for him, it seemed like he just missed five games 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.160 instead of five years. I mean, this dude is doing 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.080 something that I didn't think was possible. So hat goes 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.000 off to him. I mean, hopefully he can continue this 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.840 rampant rage and hopefully we can get get more of 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:54.479 a pass rush from the rest of those guys out there. Yeah, he's, uh, 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:58.760 he's doing great. Um, actually, he's doing amazing. He's out 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.760 playing the rest of the dude and he's he's he's uh, 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.560 you know, creating pressure, getting sacks. You know, he's in there. 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.080 He's doing his thing in the ring game. And you 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:09.199 know the thing that I worried about him when my 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:13.800 reservations came from his off the field issues, right because 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.679 you know, without COVID, to me, without COVID, you know, 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:21.280 the pressure in a big city like Dallas and the 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.800 team like Dallas will be will be sky high. So 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:25.720 I think this is a perfect situation for him, and 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.879 he's capitalizing on every opportunity he got. And you know, 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:31.359 I'm happy for him. I had my reservations and and 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:33.960 he's proving me wrong, and and and thank goodness he is, 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.080 and I hope he goes out there he continues this 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.840 this big time play that he has going on. So 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:43.479 we're looking at four sacks right here, and if he 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:46.120 can stay healthy, I think we're looking safe to say 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:48.800 we're looking at a possible ten sacks season. As I say, 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.560 I say healthy because we're watching guys every week now 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:56.879 deal with soft tissue injuries and acls. So I'm just 0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:59.240 saying if we get ten, if there's ten sacks that 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.240 come from Olden Smith, I'm trying to see who could 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.440 actually beat him out for Comeback Player of the Year. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.440 When you start to think about if he come back 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:12.280 after five years and get ten sacks in this week, man, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:16.840 that's that's that's crazy. That's correct, that's special. That's special. Man. 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:19.120 I don't I don't know. I don't see anybody really 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:21.320 beating him out for that for that comeback Player of 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:23.920 the year, especially if he's able to get double digit sacks. 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.000 I mean then you're you're you're with America's team. I mean, 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:29.360 you're always in the spotlight. So I mean, I don't 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.760 see anybody beating him out for that one at all. Um. 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:35.159 But I mean, once again, this could be two years 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:37.960 back to back where a defensive end has come on 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:39.760 this team and left this team in sacks and pass 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.320 rushers and not you know, the main guy, the main 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:44.719 attraction on the other side. So I don't know. I mean, 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:46.760 it could be something, It could be something to worry about. 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:48.280 I mean, this is this is back to back years. 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:51.080 But you know, we shall see, we shall see. Listen, 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.960 I gave I gave, I gave d Law fourteen. I 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:55.879 gotta take take something away from him and give him 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:58.920 the Audi Smith and in those sacks that I've seen 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:02.520 d Law getting the game against Philly and Washington and 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:05.639 and and and the Giants. Uh, I think all the 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:07.480 spens are gonna take a lot of those, so I 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:09.280 can easily I can see him he usually getting ten 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.000 just just based off us playing those teams and seeing 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:14.320 how their offensive lines are performing and how other teams 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.000 are able to create pass rus against them, and with 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:19.399 him being being our one guy right now, I can 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:22.480 see him getting ten ten plus. I gotta I gotta 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:24.960 switch it up. And with d Laud and his knee injury, 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.840 it just makes it, it just makes it even even 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.120 clearer that Alten Smith, you know, will have a great 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:33.359 year as long as he stays healthy. I joked about 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:35.280 it when we were texting each other during the game, 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.320 but all jokes have a little bit of seriousness to him. 0:25:38.960 --> 0:25:42.560 He's the only guy who understands defense. I mean, that's 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:45.680 that's true. I mean, he's the one guy who understands 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:48.639 the defense. He's the one guy who's not defensive. Ender's 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:51.320 not complaining about standing up and putting his hand down. 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:53.800 I mean, he's he's been comfortable with it. So I 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.600 think definitely some of that plays into a part there. 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:01.679 So when do we start to turn the heat up 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:06.200 on the twenty million dollars a year defensive end for 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.720 the Dallas Cowboys, Tank Lawrens, Yes, he's got a knee injury. 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:12.520 They're paying you for sacks, and this could be the 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:15.639 second year in a row where you're not leading the 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:20.359 team in sacks. You're having somebody outperform you double digit 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:23.200 wise and sacks potentially, because right now it's ford to 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:28.359 nothing Alden Smith. Last year Tank had five, Robert Quinn 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:30.720 had eleven and a half and he missed two games. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:35.159 So I mean, at some point in time, Fellas and 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:37.119 you guys kind of got on me last year when 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.760 I brought it up, But when do you start to 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:42.960 get the return on investment? They paid Tank Lawrens after 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:45.520 two fantastic seasons. He wanted his money, and I said 0:26:45.520 --> 0:26:47.440 he should get his money. But if you're making twenty 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:50.280 million dollars a year, you gotta be there. And I 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:53.280 don't want to hear people talk about well pressures and hurries. 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:56.400 Nah man, you paid twenty million dollars for sacks. That's 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:59.240 what you're paying for for defensive You want sacks, that's 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:01.600 what you want. Just as when you pay Dion Sanders 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:02.920 a bunch of money, you want him to get his 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:04.840 hands on some footballs. You wanted I and Ts. You 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:07.840 wanted the guy who can make turnovers. So that when 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.560 do we how long do we give Tank this grace 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:14.560 period because he hasn't had a sack McCray since Thanksgiving 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:16.240 against the Bills, and I believe that was a half. 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:20.040 I knew, I knew, I knew you has coming my way. 0:27:20.080 --> 0:27:22.080 So this this was what I'm gonna say. All Right, 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:25.160 Yes he needs to step up, but at the rate 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:28.280 we're going anybody and we got just making twenty million 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:30.720 dollars a year is going to be underperforming, all right. 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:33.679 We got we got Amari Cooper out there making twenty 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:36.800 a year, who I think is underperformance, specifically because of 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.239 the office of scheme. We got d Law who's out there, 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:42.800 he's underperforming, you know, not getting many sacks. We got 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:45.800 Zeke out here to me underperforming only because of the 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:47.960 scheme where you come out and you don't even have 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.240 the guy taking the first carriage of the game, and 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:52.440 the next the next game you come out and throw 0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:55.560 six straight passes. So at this rate, we're going to 0:27:55.600 --> 0:28:01.560 be underperforming on all contracts. Go ahead, and now we 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:04.480 go ahead, So let me throw this out here because 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:07.119 you brought up Cooper, who's on your fantasy team. And 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:08.879 I think you're harder on Coop because he's on your 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:11.040 fantasy team. But let me just run this out. You 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:14.800 got this note from the Cowboys PR says Amari Cooper 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:17.800 caught nine passes for eighty eight yards against the Seahawks. 0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:21.120 Cooper now has twenty five receptions through the first three 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:24.240 games of twenty twenty, the most through the first three 0:28:24.320 --> 0:28:28.520 games of any season by any player in Dallas Cowboys history. 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:35.600 So first three games he called let me, let me finish. Okay, okay, man, 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:39.520 go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. First three games. 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:43.000 Amari Cooper twenty five catches two hundred and sixty seven yards, 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:46.960 no touchdowns in twenty ten. Miles Austin twenty two catches 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:52.280 three hundred eight yards, one touchdown. Lance Dunbar twenty two 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:57.600 catches two hundred and fifteen yards, no touchdowns nineteen ninety five. 0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:01.760 Michael Irvin twenty one catches three hundred ten yards, two touchdowns. 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.920 So those are your top ones there, now, go ahead 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:07.240 and go man, go ahead. Man. I'm just I'm just 0:29:07.360 --> 0:29:09.520 not with those stats. Man. You gotta watch the game. 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.080 If the game is the Man against the Rams called 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:17.000 like eight passes that they gave them on swants and 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:19.200 stops and they got scooped on the last one. I 0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:21.840 mean yeah, so so that's that's that's eight kids is 0:29:21.880 --> 0:29:24.200 to the stats. But they didn't they didn't do anything. 0:29:24.520 --> 0:29:28.120 This isn't twenty millie, like I said, watch DeAndre Hopkins, 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:32.000 watch DeVante Adams. This is, in my opinion, what it 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:35.240 should look like. And I'm blaming the half one on coop. 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:38.560 Actually thirty percent on coop seventy percent on the staff. 0:29:38.560 --> 0:29:39.960 I think they just feel like they have too many 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:41.960 weapons and they just don't know who the focus on. 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:44.720 I told you earlier in the week, the focal points 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:47.440 should be that Zeke and Coop and everybody else should 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:49.640 be picking up the scraps, and we're just not doing that. 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:52.360 And it's it's unfortunately, but I think that's the way 0:29:52.400 --> 0:29:55.520 we win. It's just I think what the thing is 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:57.680 with these twenty million dollar man they're not making these 0:29:57.760 --> 0:30:00.280 splash plays, these huge plays. I mean, if you looking 0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:02.320 at the other guys that are making twenty million, the 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:05.720 d line, the Leslie, Miles Garrett or Aaron Donald, they're 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:08.240 making huge plays. I mean we've seen Aaron Donald that 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:11.560 first game throws Zeke into dock. I mean he's getting sacks, 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:14.000 force and fumbles. I mean the same with with Miles 0:30:14.080 --> 0:30:16.080 Garrett and with and with de Marcus Lawrence. We're just 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:18.120 not seeing that. And then you go on the offensive 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.320 side of the ball. Mark Cooper, Yes, you know he's 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:23.040 had those catches, he's had his yards, but it has 0:30:23.080 --> 0:30:24.840 did he do did he pass the eye test? When 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:27.320 you look at it? He's he making game changing plays. 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:29.680 I mean I've seen one where there was in Atlanta 0:30:29.720 --> 0:30:31.120 where he had that deep one over the middle to 0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:32.960 field with one hand. But if you're looking at the 0:30:33.120 --> 0:30:35.000 if you compare him to the other guys, the Michael 0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:38.200 thomas is and the DeAndre Hopkins, well, Michael Thompson he 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:40.680 ain't really been doing much this year, But DeAndre Hopkins 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:43.840 he's making super splash plays that are that are just flashy. 0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:45.800 And I think that's just the biggest difference in what 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:48.880 we're looking at between these twenty million dollars men, Church, 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:50.880 if you pay if you pay attention to the receivers 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:54.120 that we have on our on our roster, they're they're 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:57.640 making more splash plays than the Mark Cooper. Just I mean, 0:30:57.840 --> 0:31:00.760 I'm there with you. I mean, like you said, it's 0:31:00.800 --> 0:31:03.280 the truth, but I mean it's just he's not making 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.280 no splashy plays, and that's what you expect from a 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:09.720 guy making that much money. All right here, let me 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:11.600 just go to that. I'm just gonna go since you 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.720 guys are on Hopkins and and and Adams, so let 0:31:14.760 --> 0:31:16.400 me just go ahead and start to just just check 0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:19.720 up numbers here, all right. So week number one for 0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:24.080 DeAndre Hopkins, he has sixteen targets, caught fourteen passes. Then 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:28.480 for Adams and his Week one, he has seventeen targets, 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:33.520 caught fourteen fourteen footballs. That was week one, um week 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:37.440 one for Cooper here we pull up his statistics in 0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:39.880 the box score. That's when they would play the Rams 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:44.400 week one and he had fourteen targets. Week one, caught 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:50.880 ten balls. So week one out the gate with the 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:57.360 yards talking about Louis okay, for Cooper it was eighty 0:31:57.440 --> 0:32:03.920 one yards. Other dudes have board in a hunt. But 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:09.840 you know you you you saw those balls. They they 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:13.920 Coop was catching, they were they were significant. My boy 0:32:14.000 --> 0:32:16.800 was catching. They were come back and there was no 0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:23.960 yards a man, no yard, just splash blazing. Yeah, it's 0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:27.480 not twenty million dollars worth. It's time to take a break. 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.719 It's time to take a break. Brought to you by 0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:33.360 Hotels dot Com. We've got other things to talk about. 0:32:33.480 --> 0:32:36.440 We're moving off this topic. 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Find the fullest sort at your nearest Cowboys 0:35:11.560 --> 0:35:16.239 pro Shop and pro Shot dot Dallas Cowboys dot com. 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:20.719 So you guys were running down Tomar Cooper here before 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:25.160 the break. Um, we ran down all the hot paper leffs, 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:28.799 all the papers getting run down. No. I was, yeah, 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:31.279 this is true, this is true. But I was trying 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:32.800 to trying to give a brother a break here. But 0:35:33.080 --> 0:35:35.360 you guys were having none of it, none of it 0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:41.920 for Amari Cooper here. So um, look, I'll tell you this. 0:35:42.960 --> 0:35:44.880 They're trying to find, trying to spend. I'm trying to 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:47.239 spend my way of it. This way, McCray, I think 0:35:47.280 --> 0:35:53.560 you're right. Scheme, the schemes got issues here man. Um 0:35:53.800 --> 0:36:00.600 oh now he's so yeah, give it. Yeah. I'm not 0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:06.360 trying to fight, not trying to fight you brothers on this. Okay, fine, 0:36:07.080 --> 0:36:09.840 all off the shoulder, man, Okay. I mean just like 0:36:09.960 --> 0:36:12.040 you guys lost Monday night football, I'm gonna go ahead 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:16.360 just lose this O. There we go, here we go. 0:36:17.520 --> 0:36:19.479 You gotta bring something in, but you you you owing 0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:21.600 three on bits. So I mean I'm not worried about 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:25.319 I'm not worried about losing, you know it hey, hey, 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:27.920 it is it is what it is. It is what 0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:32.320 it is here, Uh, Dak Prescott and I wanted to 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:35.120 bring up it was a column written by David Moore 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:38.239 and we spoke about it earlier in the week where 0:36:38.480 --> 0:36:40.520 David Moore said, hey, look, if Dak wants to get 0:36:40.640 --> 0:36:44.160 paid like, you know, a top notch quarterback, he can 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:47.480 start by beating Russell Wilson. This week didn't happen, and 0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:49.839 then he wrote the column that day to say, hey, look, 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:52.239 you may say it's unfair, but the fact is Dak 0:36:52.280 --> 0:36:54.799 couldn't do it. Dad needed to carry his football team, 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:57.560 and instead of Dak Prescott doing it getting it done, 0:36:57.840 --> 0:37:00.840 he ends up making critical mistakes. He spoke about the 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:04.120 fumble which led to a score, also talked about the 0:37:04.160 --> 0:37:07.000 interception that led to a score by Seattle, and his 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:10.760 whole premise was Dak Prescott has to carry this football 0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:13.160 team and he can't afford any mistakes. It's not fair, 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:15.719 but he's saying that's what he has to do. How 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:18.440 did you guys sum up just kind of what he 0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:25.800 said right there about that? Go ahead, Dan oh, listen, 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:29.560 this is football, right, People are gonna make mistakes. Interception 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:32.640 is gonna get thrown, people are gonna fumble. It ain't 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:34.919 about being fair, not that that's the name of the game. 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:36.960 Like this stuff happens, I don't I don't know any 0:37:37.040 --> 0:37:39.920 quarterbacks started quarterback they went the whole season when all 0:37:40.200 --> 0:37:42.480 a fumble, our interception. It just that that that's just 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:47.040 not right. My whole thing with Dak is we just like, 0:37:47.840 --> 0:37:50.080 I feel like the way that the team plays in 0:37:50.160 --> 0:37:51.839 the same way, the same thing that happened last year 0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:53.759 when I said trash ards, this year there's not so 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:56.320 much trash ards because they're getting close enough to actually 0:37:56.440 --> 0:37:58.759 come back and win the game. But we get down 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:01.080 so early to where he has to throw these fifty 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.880 and sixty passes and rack up all these yards, and 0:38:03.920 --> 0:38:05.239 then at the end of the at the end of 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:06.839 the week or the end of the season, you say, well, 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:10.200 Cowboys has the number one rank offense and we ate Nate. Well, yeah, 0:38:10.239 --> 0:38:12.279 because if you watch the actual game and you see 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:13.719 that we were getting the brakes beat off of us 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:15.520 at the beginning, and the only way that we could 0:38:15.560 --> 0:38:18.439 come back was if he threw for those type of yards, 0:38:18.719 --> 0:38:20.319 then then it makes sense to you, and I think 0:38:20.640 --> 0:38:24.719 that's where we're backing. It's half on how we're playing 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:26.560 as a team, because you can't ask him to come 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:30.000 come back from Uh, every every mistake that the special 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:32.200 teams make, every mistake that the defense make, and then 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:34.600 every mistake that the office making, then we're losing as 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:36.840 his fault. That's not true. But once we get to 0:38:36.920 --> 0:38:39.040 where we can play a complete game, to where you 0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:41.600 can see him play a true quarterback position where it's 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:43.600 close and he has to figure out a way to 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:46.600 manage the game and then become a passer and control that, 0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:48.360 then I think you'll be able to say he can 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:50.719 get paid. But right now, just see us getting down 0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:53.640 so early and those stats are just racking up, and 0:38:53.680 --> 0:38:55.200 at the end of the day you say, oh, he man, 0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:57.800 he had all these yards. Well watch the game. Of 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:02.200 course of course he did. Because look how we like Yeah, 0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:04.480 I mean, like you said, I mean, football is the 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:07.399 ultimate team sport. So can we put all the blame 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:10.040 on Dak and how they they lost that game or 0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:11.680 the other or the first one? Now, I don't think 0:39:11.680 --> 0:39:13.879 you can put it all on him, but I think 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:15.760 it has to do with a lot of different factors. 0:39:15.840 --> 0:39:17.920 I mean, yes, he is making mistakes out there, he 0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:20.239 did throw interception you did to coumble away those balls 0:39:20.280 --> 0:39:22.600 in the previous game. So I think he has to 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:24.680 play better as a whole in order for this offense 0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:26.359 to get going, in this team to get going as 0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:28.960 a whole. I mean, he is, you know, the franchise quarterback. 0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:30.759 He is the head of this team and the leader, 0:39:30.800 --> 0:39:32.680 and they can only go as far as he can 0:39:32.719 --> 0:39:35.080 take them. So I believe he'll have to play better 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:37.600 in order for this offense to roll, and maybe he'll 0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:39.160 have to do a little bit more different play calling 0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:41.759 or whatever. But um, as far as him getting paid 0:39:41.800 --> 0:39:45.160 in that situation, like I was, I'm gonna admit I 0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:46.680 was kind of wrong earlier. I mean, we had this 0:39:46.800 --> 0:39:49.520 conversation a few weeks back, and I was talking about, 0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:51.600 h you know, Dak Prescott needs to get all this 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:53.640 money and all this stuff, and you guys wanted Andy 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:56.080 Dalton all this bullcrap. But um, I mean, I mean 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:59.120 I might have been a little a little I don't know. 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:01.879 I know, I know I said I might have shot 0:40:01.920 --> 0:40:04.440 the gun a little bit. So I'm just gonna I'm 0:40:04.440 --> 0:40:07.400 gonna hold my reservations till the end. But I don't know, 0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:08.680 he just I think he just needs to play better 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:11.560 as a whole for this opense to get going. Let 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:14.560 me correct you real quick before before you go listen, 0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:17.400 that is not the franchise quarterback. He's on a one 0:40:17.480 --> 0:40:18.640 year deal. All right, go ahead, and now he just 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:22.120 wanted to I want to clear that up. Okay, all right, 0:40:22.160 --> 0:40:24.200 So you're saying, so you're saying he's not he's not 0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:27.759 going just right now or going forward. No, no, I'm saying. 0:40:27.760 --> 0:40:30.640 I'm saying, I'm saying, technically, right now, he is not 0:40:30.760 --> 0:40:33.359 our franchise quarterback. He's playing on the one year deal. 0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:37.400 He did not get a franchise deal. I mean, technically 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:45.360 you got a franchise deal. So also in More in 0:40:45.480 --> 0:40:48.439 David Moore's Peace in the Dallas More You News, he said, look, 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:52.879 Russell Wilson didn't make any mistakes, didn't throw any interceptions. 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:56.399 You know, it allowed his team to win a game 0:40:56.440 --> 0:40:59.480 in which they needed all those points. And his premise 0:40:59.560 --> 0:41:01.600 of going back to Dak Prescott was, hey, look look 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:04.240 at the mistakes that you made. Those mistakes led to points, 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:07.840 and you have to be and rise even more so 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:11.280 to another level because your team is making all these mistakes. 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:14.719 You can't do it. What he didn't say. What he 0:41:14.840 --> 0:41:20.399 didn't say was what Dak did was basically a Romo 0:41:20.520 --> 0:41:23.200 special because we saw a lot of times where Tony 0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:25.880 Romo would do the same thing, where Tony wasn't the 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:28.480 reason you lost, but he was a part of the 0:41:28.640 --> 0:41:32.560 reason you lost. And I go back to that excellent game. 0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:35.920 There were that duel between Tony Romo and Peyton Manning 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:42.400 at Jerry World, and I think Tony threw five touchdown passes, 0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:46.239 but at the end when they needed it, Tony threw 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:49.000 in a triple coverage. It was an interception Peyton Manning 0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:51.920 and the Broncos get the ball. They basically run down 0:41:51.960 --> 0:41:54.200 the clock, kicked the field goal, and they walk off 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:56.560 and they end up losing the game. And I remember 0:41:56.600 --> 0:41:58.480 so many people saying it was the defense's fault. The 0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:00.759 defense wasn't any good. I was like, well, fellas, guess what. 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:03.640 The Broncos defense wasn't good either. Nobody's defense was good 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:05.440 that day. It was going to come down almost like 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:07.880 a tennis match, who makes who makes an unforced air. 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:10.480 Tony made an unforced air. And when I look at 0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:13.320 Dak Prescott and the unforced airs that he made against Seattle. 0:42:13.719 --> 0:42:15.719 I say, you know what, those are things that he's 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:18.200 got to be better that he can't afford to have 0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:21.120 those kind of things. It's unfair, but that's what you 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:24.560 need out of him because right now this defense isn't 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:26.279 going to be able to help you much because they're 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:28.440 down dealing with injuries. They got their own issues here. 0:42:28.719 --> 0:42:30.080 So that's gonna be the thing that I look for 0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:33.480 against Cleveland from Dak Prescott is it still keep playing 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:35.279 at a high level, but do his best to make 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:39.160 sure they're no fumbles, they're no interceptions. Are you asking 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.680 the guy to be perfect here? Yeah, you kind of are. 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:45.719 Is it unfair? Probably so, But right now that's what 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:48.839 they need. Until this team defensively can get rolling, until 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:51.520 this offensive line can get itself going, you gotta have 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:57.200 your quarterback play really next level. He's gonna have to 0:42:57.239 --> 0:43:00.680 be the Lebron James of the Dallas Kyd Boys. I mean, 0:43:01.160 --> 0:43:03.480 like you said, we're facing multiple injuries on the defensive 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:06.120 side of the ball. We got a patchwork offensive linemen 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:08.600 right now, and from what the reports say, hopefully the 0:43:08.680 --> 0:43:12.000 reinforcements coming back soon, but who knows when when Loud 0:43:12.040 --> 0:43:13.839 Collins and and Tyron Smith are going to come back. 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:15.600 So to me, he's just gonna have to be that 0:43:15.719 --> 0:43:18.120 Lebron James. He's gonna have to carry this team and 0:43:18.760 --> 0:43:21.120 not make those mistakes, not make those those late game 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:24.400 errors that that people criticize a lot, because I mean, 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:26.160 like you said, I mean, he doesn't have all that 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:28.000 around him to help support, so he's just gonna have 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:31.440 to put him on his back. I listen, I just 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:35.080 I just he does. But I just don't agree, like 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:38.560 I take fairness out of this. This is the coaching staff. 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:42.720 He should not have to make up for special teams 0:43:43.080 --> 0:43:47.759 errors and defensive errors, right, some of the defense. Right, 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:49.160 you're gonna give us some points, and then you have 0:43:49.239 --> 0:43:51.000 to come back and all that stuff. But when all 0:43:51.040 --> 0:43:53.560 this stuff is just mounted against you, you you asked them, 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:58.279 the dude to do the impossible, like like last year, 0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:02.439 you give up a blot to limit those mistakes. Yeah, 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:04.399 well of course he does, but he doesn't make many 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:06.840 like like you know, he thought he thought an interception 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:08.560 and fumbled and we you know, it make it sound 0:44:08.600 --> 0:44:11.279 like he just out there being Jameis Winston. You know, 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:13.799 he made a couple of errors. He threw the ball 0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:16.799 like fifty times. I mean, what you expect me down, 0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:20.600 He's bound to make make a mistake and the last 0:44:20.640 --> 0:44:23.000 thing to me really it counts, but I mean he 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:25.719 was going forward. We just need to find a way 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:29.160 to play better as a full team and not make 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:31.600 him have to do all that. Man like stop finding 0:44:31.640 --> 0:44:33.080 a way to stop shooting yourself in the foot and 0:44:33.080 --> 0:44:35.839 getting down so early, and I guarantee you the game 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:41.080 will flow different and the outcomes will be different. I 0:44:41.160 --> 0:44:43.360 agree with you McCray from the standpoint from a coaching 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:45.719 From coaching, they've got to get they've got to get 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:48.440 the team overall off to a better start, and that's 0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:51.200 something that they haven't done. Jerry Jones did mention today 0:44:51.200 --> 0:44:53.960 about lell College. They're not expecting him back this week, 0:44:54.239 --> 0:44:56.640 they're not sure when they get him back, and he 0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:59.359 kind of danced a rather basically in his own way. 0:44:59.480 --> 0:45:02.640 Jerry said, look, we'd rather wait as long as we 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:06.760 can to activate him so he doesn't have another setback. 0:45:06.840 --> 0:45:09.240 That was as much as he could give us. Jerry's 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:12.640 really being coy now that Mike McCarthy's here, so we 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:16.480 could see Zach Martine at right tackle on Sunday, and 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:18.200 if we do, I don't have any issues with it 0:45:18.239 --> 0:45:21.080 because I thought that the ligne adjustments they made where 0:45:21.120 --> 0:45:24.160 they put in rookie BYARDA. Tyler Beyardish at center and 0:45:24.200 --> 0:45:26.359 they moved Looney over the guard, I thought they held 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:28.560 up pretty well. And we'd already start talked a little 0:45:28.560 --> 0:45:30.640 bit about this, and we'll talk about it even more tomorrow. 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.799 Cleveland's got some they got some pass rush, they got 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:35.640 some guys who can get after you, so they may 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:38.080 need to go with that. That's our time today. It 0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:42.680 is three fifteen. We do the Players Lounge two thirty 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:46.719 pm Monday through Friday right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:45:46.760 --> 0:45:50.080 I'm knew we scrugs longtime Cowboys reporter as Barry Church 0:45:50.719 --> 0:45:55.040 Danny mccraibore, both former Dallas Cowboys safeties. We'll get into tomorrow. 0:45:55.080 --> 0:45:57.359 We'll break down even more as the Cowboys get ready 0:45:57.360 --> 0:46:00.800 to face the Cleveland Browns Sunday at eighteen T Stadium. 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:04.000 Take care of everybody. 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