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Speaker 1: Harrison and uh you know, I'm Hegma Harrison and uh
Speaker 1: joining me at the Desperate Usual. All my guys, d
Speaker 1: mac uh and my man BC is in the building.
Speaker 1: And fellas, fellas, fellas we are on the eve. We
Speaker 1: are on the eve of game day. And yes, new
Speaker 1: Newy Shrugs is out today. He is on a plane
Speaker 1: on his way to the fiestas. Yeah, Phoenix one one
Speaker 1: of them. A yea to you. He's trying to he
Speaker 1: gonna go get set up for the for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Got scout out. Oh yeah, get things ready for us.
Speaker 1: But guys, it's uh, it's on the eve of game day,
Speaker 1: and so we have the Players Lounge in the building. Uh.
Speaker 1: Today and we're gonna break down some things. But per usual,
Speaker 1: how I get things started is I check in with
Speaker 1: my guys just to see where y'all all, how your
Speaker 1: mentals doing, and d Mac, I'm gonna start with you, brother,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good man, you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm having a blast. The Christmas is over, thank thank god,
Speaker 1: Christmas is over. Okay, birthday, the simple birthdays. I got
Speaker 1: one left my bass, the nomally got New Years and
Speaker 1: then my pockets would be I'm gonna get my break.
Speaker 1: They need to replay it. But other than that, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of smiling faces in the mc gray household.
Speaker 1: So I'm okay, that's what I'm having a good time. Man.
Speaker 1: That is good to hear. Brother, what about you? BC?
Speaker 1: As usual? Things are going great, man, things are going great,
Speaker 1: extremely blessed out here. It's a beautiful day. It's warming up,
Speaker 1: so you know what that means for Menna be out
Speaker 1: there swinging them clubs here soon. So it's been a bloodsday.
Speaker 1: Family good, everybody's good. So you know, I can't complain, man,
Speaker 1: What about you, big dog man? You know what, it's
Speaker 1: been a holiday season and you know I'm always feel
Speaker 1: abundantly blessed during the holiday season. Man, having my children
Speaker 1: in town. My daughter came home from New York, so
Speaker 1: that was amazing. Just to be able to have, you know,
Speaker 1: all of my children under one roof, you know, for
Speaker 1: the holidays is awesome. Man. But you know, it just
Speaker 1: doesn't get any better, bro, doesn't get any better. Today.
Speaker 1: I will say this. Today is the twenty eight Today
Speaker 1: is the eleventh anniversary of my brother's passing. My brother,
Speaker 1: best friend and business partner, died eleven years ago, thirty
Speaker 1: nine years old, died of a massive heart attack. Man.
Speaker 1: And it hey, man, it was one of the hardest
Speaker 1: things I've ever had to get over in my life.
Speaker 1: And I say this and I share this with the
Speaker 1: people that's out there, man, because I want you to
Speaker 1: know as much as during this season, as we deal
Speaker 1: with everything as a family, uh, and during the holiday season,
Speaker 1: it's very important to always point out, man, that people
Speaker 1: are dealing with loss in grief, you know, during the
Speaker 1: holiday season. And so, man, this is one of those
Speaker 1: days it took me a long time to get past.
Speaker 1: But brother, I'm in the building and I'm in here
Speaker 1: and I'm rocking with y'all. So We're gonna do our
Speaker 1: thing to day. You feel what I'm saying, We're gonna
Speaker 1: do our thing that day. I got one question. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and they sell go bas at Walmart? Yeah they do.
Speaker 1: They don't know if they do. If they do, Heat
Speaker 1: don't Targets. We know what is it? Now? I gotta
Speaker 1: ask this question. Now? What is it about Target that everybody,
Speaker 1: like my little sister she won't shop. She has to
Speaker 1: go every day, and I'm like, man, you need to
Speaker 1: buy Target stock. Is it something that they Is it
Speaker 1: a pheromone that they spraying in the air. They got
Speaker 1: everybody going back and forth to tard J. I think
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, somebody put some marketing scheme out where,
Speaker 1: like for some reason, because when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: Target wasn't like the boogie stuff like it was just
Speaker 1: you know, it's the same as it bills everywhere else.
Speaker 1: For some real I don't know they caught a celebrity
Speaker 1: in there or what happened, but I feel like, like
Speaker 1: you said, people pronounce it. Now, what did this come from?
Speaker 1: I remember Jamie Fox did that, But I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's the same reason like you go to the mall
Speaker 1: and you see like the line outside of the Louis
Speaker 1: store and the Gucci store and all that stuff. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: why do people need to go spend that much money
Speaker 1: on the purse or wallet or whatever it is? Right,
Speaker 1: It's just because it makes you feel a little bit
Speaker 1: more rich. So when you pull up the Target and
Speaker 1: it's a status Walmart a crossed the street, You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm too rich for that. The buggies are better, cleaner,
Speaker 1: the clothes are better and the Target than they are
Speaker 1: and Walmart people feel like they got a little bit
Speaker 1: more better quality to them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that's why why why would I go that I
Speaker 1: could just cost street the Target, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm just a little bit more expensive. I feel better
Speaker 1: about Well, I'll tell you what. The t The Titans
Speaker 1: are not dealing with a targa at the quarterback position
Speaker 1: right now. They probably wish they could upgrade a lot
Speaker 1: of things right now. And this is interesting, man. This
Speaker 1: is an article I read from the Tennessee And about
Speaker 1: sixty two quarterbacks have started this year this season in
Speaker 1: the NFL, all right, And so that means there's only
Speaker 1: twelve teams in the NFL that has had their starting
Speaker 1: quarterbacks start for all seventeen weeks, so teams have been
Speaker 1: down to a second and third forty nine us. All right,
Speaker 1: you look around the league. Pittsburgh stillers back and forth
Speaker 1: with with with guys. There has been no continuity at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. It's weird to have such a year
Speaker 1: that they've had. I mean, the Cowboys Google Rush, I mean,
Speaker 1: so we know what this is all about. It sometimes
Speaker 1: most of the time when you have to go to
Speaker 1: your backup quarterback season down the drain. Malik Willis blessing. So, Okay,
Speaker 1: this brother has had it tough. Yeah, he's had it tough.
Speaker 1: And right now three stars, thirteen first downs, that is
Speaker 1: second to last in the NFL. And I remember me
Speaker 1: and Kyle called his game when he was at Liberty.
Speaker 1: Man Urpo specialists had a little touch on this ball.
Speaker 1: And I think that the promise that they had for
Speaker 1: Malik Willis coming out of the draft was probably a
Speaker 1: little bit over his head. But when I was watching
Speaker 1: him and just going back and just watching the film
Speaker 1: on him, I just cut it off. It's it's garbage,
Speaker 1: it's out. It's bad. It's like taking off the trash.
Speaker 1: It's bad. It's bad. No no no, that the type
Speaker 1: of no, no, no, because you know what my thing
Speaker 1: is and you know why I can't get over that,
Speaker 1: So don't do that to me. It's not even in
Speaker 1: the same building. Now, I come on, now, now you
Speaker 1: trying to take me all the way out to get it.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that. I'm telling you that Malik
Speaker 1: Willis as a quarterback is having his struggles. And you know,
Speaker 1: if we see Dobbs, who they just signed ten days ago,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me because Rabel is trying to find
Speaker 1: something on this office. But just starting with the Tennessee offense,
Speaker 1: what are you guys thinking about them? When you break
Speaker 1: down the tape, you take a look at them, and
Speaker 1: BC I start with you. I think you know, and
Speaker 1: it has been this way for the past, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of years, even with Ryan Tannehill being there here.
Speaker 1: I think their offense starts and stops with Derek Kennedy.
Speaker 1: I mean, they call m King Henry for a reason.
Speaker 1: The guy has been the best running back in the
Speaker 1: league for the past couple of seasons. This year he
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit, you know, fumbling the ball a
Speaker 1: lot out there, and he hasn't really gotten those yards
Speaker 1: that we've come accustomed to see him. But it still
Speaker 1: starts and stops with him. When you talk about Molique Willis,
Speaker 1: the guy is superbly athletic, Like the guy can run
Speaker 1: around anybody. He can create, you know, he can create
Speaker 1: extended time for his ride receivers to get open out there,
Speaker 1: So he has that bag. But I just don't think
Speaker 1: he's matured as a quarterback enough to go out there
Speaker 1: and do that. Like, I feel like if he's extending
Speaker 1: to play, he's looking to run, like he's not even
Speaker 1: looking down field. He's looking all the pass rushers here,
Speaker 1: Let me get out of here with my legs. So
Speaker 1: I don't think he's even looking to extend to play
Speaker 1: for his wide receivers out there. So I feel like
Speaker 1: as if the Cowboys can come in here, and if
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry even plays, like if he even plays, if
Speaker 1: you can contain him or kind of slow him down,
Speaker 1: then on the offensive it's shot. It's shot. Because if
Speaker 1: you look at Malik Willis what he does on tape,
Speaker 1: he hides the ball, he looks at his number one option.
Speaker 1: If that's not there, he's taking off. I mean does.
Speaker 1: He hasn't going through his progressions yet. He's not seeing
Speaker 1: what number two is doing, number three he's doing. He's
Speaker 1: not checking the ball down, he's using his legs or
Speaker 1: looking at that number one option. So if they can
Speaker 1: slow down Henry, it could get extremely ugly for the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. Comes at or come tomorrow actually, and Danny
Speaker 1: knowing that Malik Willis average pass yards are between you know,
Speaker 1: four and five yards. As a defense, are you licking
Speaker 1: your chops saying that, look, man, we can You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put all the pressure that we possibly can
Speaker 1: on this young man to make sure that we force
Speaker 1: him too into a mistake and also flush him out
Speaker 1: because we know he's a running Yeah, I mean knowing
Speaker 1: that if you're looking at the stats and the tape
Speaker 1: says the same thing about the routes that they're running.
Speaker 1: I imagine Trayvon Diggs and and dron Bland and they
Speaker 1: shown right to be sitting on every route, every route.
Speaker 1: You sit at the sticks, thirty six, sit at the sticks,
Speaker 1: thirty four, sit at the sticks because his average distance
Speaker 1: of throwing the ball pass pass attempt is that low
Speaker 1: to where you know that that's most likely where it's going.
Speaker 1: And if you're able to get that same type of
Speaker 1: pass rush that we had gotten three to four weeks ago,
Speaker 1: then the ball has to come out fast. But I
Speaker 1: think the issue with Malik is that it would work
Speaker 1: out for him if that guy in Philadelphia was still there.
Speaker 1: When you're looking for your number one read and you
Speaker 1: got a J. Brown, Yeah right, Like that's that's the
Speaker 1: type of guy who that you need when you have
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback end. You need one of those guys
Speaker 1: who who they're gonna be open anyways, And I could
Speaker 1: just take that shot and throw to him, you see,
Speaker 1: And they don't have that. And then when you also
Speaker 1: don't have a Deck Henry playing in the game, or
Speaker 1: if he if he's having a bad Russian game. Now
Speaker 1: you don't have that number one receiver guy who's a
Speaker 1: superstar who you can throw it too. Dereck Henry's game
Speaker 1: isn't working. So yeah, it's his legs, right, Like you
Speaker 1: gotta play the what you know, and that's what it
Speaker 1: looks like. So if we stop the run, this should
Speaker 1: be a good game for us. This should be a
Speaker 1: good game for my fantasy team. This should be a
Speaker 1: good game for Cowboys. I hope your team win. They
Speaker 1: should have a good New Year's But you gotta stop
Speaker 1: the run. Man, you got you can't sleepwalk in here's
Speaker 1: the Thursday is Thursday game. Yeah, So you gotta come
Speaker 1: in here with your mind right, doing the right thing,
Speaker 1: stopping the day run. Because we're going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You have to stop the run. Whatever team you play,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to run the ball against you. So
Speaker 1: I'm hearing you schematically, you're saying that, Look, you know,
Speaker 1: crowd a line of scrimmage that needs to be number
Speaker 1: one because you're not as worried about Malik Willis trying
Speaker 1: to throw over the top. Now he does have weapons.
Speaker 1: The rookie also trailing Burkes. He's coming on. He has
Speaker 1: you know, he has Robert Woods and he also has
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper as his tight end. Not no, no, big difference,
Speaker 1: all right, big difference. Now, there's no comparison between that
Speaker 1: and the Tennessee Titans. Didn't do themselves any favor by
Speaker 1: trading away A J. Brown. I mean, well, they made
Speaker 1: the same mistake that they paid Ryan Tannehill. Before you
Speaker 1: pay Derreck Henry, then you trade away A J. Brown
Speaker 1: makes no sense. Yeah, no, it really is. Like it's
Speaker 1: one of those things that it really boggles the mind
Speaker 1: you try and find out what they're gonna do. And
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill has been nursing a ankle injury, I believe,
Speaker 1: and he's had his his his shortcomings also as a
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, he's had his shortcoms in they have
Speaker 1: been documented. But this is a team in Tennessee. They
Speaker 1: may not have to win this game in particular, but
Speaker 1: they are against the ropes. So this is a struggling team.
Speaker 1: And for me, I'm saying, this is a team that
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve to be on the same field with you.
Speaker 1: So the things that we've struggled with in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks is just take Philly out of that.
Speaker 1: Let's just say the Houston game, all right, where you
Speaker 1: can't come in playing with your food. Go ahead, you
Speaker 1: gotta step on them, you can't. I don't see them
Speaker 1: in the same vein as Jacksonville. And this that's the
Speaker 1: common opponent that we have in Jacksonville. And Jacksonville handled
Speaker 1: their business first, boy, I'm telling you, they handled their business.
Speaker 1: And so you talk about a team that's stopping the
Speaker 1: run and doing it. They kind of gave you the
Speaker 1: blueprint on how you do that. But switching over to
Speaker 1: the other side, Mike Vrabel is from the Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: school of defense. And some things never change, death taxes
Speaker 1: and they and the one thing that I think is
Speaker 1: really surprising about these guys is that their ability to
Speaker 1: shut you down with just four up front. They can
Speaker 1: do They can't get they create pressure. They don't blitz
Speaker 1: a lot. As we know, Dak Prescott is one of
Speaker 1: the better quarterbacks in the league when you under pressure.
Speaker 1: What is his Achilles hill is when you go after
Speaker 1: him with just four guys, you can leave all those
Speaker 1: guys in the back end. Talk to me, BC, and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, Jeffrey Simmons is a grown
Speaker 1: man in there. Yeah, that dude is a beast. Like
Speaker 1: I understand, there's Aaron Donald, but blutche below that is
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, right. That guy he eats double teams alive,
Speaker 1: and he can he can affect you both ways. He
Speaker 1: can stop the run and he can also get pressure
Speaker 1: up the gut against the quarterback. And as we've seen,
Speaker 1: you know that a lot of his pressure comes from
Speaker 1: the edges. You know, having that young you know Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith out there, you know, having a you know Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith coming back, you know, still a little bit russy.
Speaker 1: A lot of that pressure has come from the edge
Speaker 1: and he's been able to step up in the pocket
Speaker 1: and still make those throws down the field. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interested in this game because you got Bud the
Speaker 1: pre on the outside. You got Jeffrey Simmons who can
Speaker 1: force that pressure on the inside. So I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long afternoon for Connor mcgoverning out there
Speaker 1: because they're gonna try to get their best interior russer,
Speaker 1: which is Jeffrey Simmons on probably our worst interior guy,
Speaker 1: which is mcgoverny, because you know, not none against him,
Speaker 1: but he's knows Zach Martin. So they're not gonna have
Speaker 1: those two battle and all day. He's gonna try to
Speaker 1: take the weakest option, which is mcgoverny. You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to block this dude, because if you can't, we've
Speaker 1: seen this guy in the past be a game record
Speaker 1: like he can come in there and he can destroy
Speaker 1: the whole entire game for you. So they still got
Speaker 1: that man out there, and defensively as a whole. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not the greatest. You know, you're not a lot
Speaker 1: of household names outside of Jeffrey Simmons. But they play
Speaker 1: as a unit. If you see out there, they play
Speaker 1: off each others strength and weaknesses. They're fast out there,
Speaker 1: and they make you earn your yardagees like you're not
Speaker 1: just gonna give you something over the top. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit tougher for our offense, but overall,
Speaker 1: I still think we have the ability and the depth
Speaker 1: to handle this Tennessee defense. Yeah, in the piggyback of
Speaker 1: what you said, like the defenses that play that way,
Speaker 1: they make it really hard on offenses, especially offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: who want to take those big shots, who want to
Speaker 1: who want to Hey man, it's a five plays drive
Speaker 1: for eighty yards and then we score. We when we
Speaker 1: play defense, our defensive coordinators will usually say, hey man,
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a mistake, they're gonna get in patient,
Speaker 1: and at some point on a twelve play drive, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make a mistake. They're gonna get in patient, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, that's when you can make
Speaker 1: a big play, get your sack, get your force, fumbl
Speaker 1: your interception. This is the type of defense that they're playing.
Speaker 1: They play solid defense, solid enough for you to where
Speaker 1: like you said, they have they force you to earn
Speaker 1: every yard. Got to work for it, right, So this
Speaker 1: is a killing more game. When trust becomes a thing, right,
Speaker 1: you have to be consistent and you have to make
Speaker 1: sure you're sticking with the run. Like Mike McCarthy praised
Speaker 1: you for last week and say, hey, no matter what happened,
Speaker 1: we still ran the ball. You still have to be
Speaker 1: able to do that and not not get out of source.
Speaker 1: If the running game isn't working at the beginning, or
Speaker 1: if you're not all of a sudden able to get
Speaker 1: those deep shots, you still got to be able to
Speaker 1: stay in some type of upflow and not let the
Speaker 1: defense dictate what you're trying to do, because that's all
Speaker 1: they want to do. They want to line up in
Speaker 1: whatever look disguise and try to force you to get
Speaker 1: into a running play or a favorable pass play to
Speaker 1: where they knew exactly what you're doing. So this is
Speaker 1: a killing This is this is killing more thing right.
Speaker 1: We talk about him possibly being in the running for
Speaker 1: head coach for the Denver Broncos. This is These are
Speaker 1: those games where you say, all right, man, it's on you.
Speaker 1: You show me what you can do. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think the thing for me coming out of the Philly
Speaker 1: game is this offense has some momentum to it. You know,
Speaker 1: this is multiple touchdown throws for Dak Prescott. And you
Speaker 1: talk about Tennessee and what they present, You're right, not
Speaker 1: a lot of household names, but bore that they play
Speaker 1: together and they run to the ball. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: let a lot of slippage happen. It's been because the
Speaker 1: offense had been setting them out to drive. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can. You can only go so many three and
Speaker 1: outs to your defense. That's what's been breaking the back
Speaker 1: because they get tired. But as far as an offensive
Speaker 1: game planning, you were breaking that down a little bit.
Speaker 1: Um you're saying heavy run game. No, I'm saying you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta be balanced. You gotta be balanced this time.
Speaker 1: So we have been talking about ceedee Lamb and hit
Speaker 1: him not arriving. How we thought that these show right, okay,
Speaker 1: And then the last couple of weeks we said, all right,
Speaker 1: this this is the guy. This is a guy. So
Speaker 1: if you have a game to where you say the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans don't deserve to be on the field with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. This is your chance to then continue that momentum,
Speaker 1: continue to get ceedee lamb rolling because you're gonna need
Speaker 1: them once you get into the playoffs. Make sure you
Speaker 1: get t t Y Hilton involved because you picked them up.
Speaker 1: You want them to be a part of the offense.
Speaker 1: So if they're taking away CD, tak it taking away
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, t Y Hilton, who hasn't played much. Now
Speaker 1: he's getting some he's getting some reps. And then you
Speaker 1: gotta continue to feed Z and you gotta continue to
Speaker 1: feed Tony Poler. So you gotta be balanced. But you
Speaker 1: want to use this as something to keep continue to
Speaker 1: help your game momentum going into the playoffs. Not just
Speaker 1: running running forty five times and make it a bland
Speaker 1: type of game plan. You need to make sure you
Speaker 1: mix it up because we need momentum. You need the
Speaker 1: offense to be clicking on all cylinders when we get
Speaker 1: into the players. And this is why I think it'll
Speaker 1: be a big game for Dalton Scholtz, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like this can be a big game where you're work
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field because from what we understand,
Speaker 1: you know, Tennessee, they love to run that two high
Speaker 1: safety system, which means they want to keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of them. So I don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, deep shots being had. You know, cd Land,
Speaker 1: he might be able to work that slide a little
Speaker 1: bit as well. But whoever's working in that middle of
Speaker 1: the field, it's gonna be a big day, and I
Speaker 1: think it'll be Dalton Shots against those linebackers out there.
Speaker 1: We've seen he has the ability to get open versus
Speaker 1: one on one cover rich as well as his own coverage.
Speaker 1: He's extremely smart. He's that security blanket. So I can
Speaker 1: see a big game for Sholts out there working on
Speaker 1: those linebackers because like I said, they're gonna make every
Speaker 1: everything you know, they're gonna make you earn it. And
Speaker 1: what we've seen, when they have to earn it, they
Speaker 1: go to Dalton, Sholtz, Dak and Shots have that connection.
Speaker 1: When they got to earn their yards, they have to
Speaker 1: make big plays. So look out for Shots having a
Speaker 1: big game this week. Fantasy team too, he got yeah, No,
Speaker 1: it's all about the fantasy team, man. When you pick
Speaker 1: up I'm like you, bro, I got Dak Prescott, I
Speaker 1: got Dalton Shoulton, I got the Cowboys defense. I'm heavy Cowboys. Well,
Speaker 1: when you look at the you look at the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans and you look at their linebackers, it is a
Speaker 1: queue next to everybody's name. They are hurting at the line, boy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are. They are hurting at the linebacker position. So
Speaker 1: you're right. Look for Dalton Sholtz, hinder shot Ferguson to
Speaker 1: have a big game. I think these guys go heavy
Speaker 1: run package against him. I do understand, believe in what
Speaker 1: you're saying and agree with you wholeheartedly. The balance that
Speaker 1: they have to have. It's going to be important. Last
Speaker 1: game thirty five thirty five passive tips to thirty one.
Speaker 1: Russia attempts ballast and then and it was only that
Speaker 1: that way in passing because you had to make that
Speaker 1: drive at the end of the game and he was
Speaker 1: trying to fight back into exacting down ten at the beginning,
Speaker 1: or else it would have been more probably been spot
Speaker 1: on it. Well, I tell you what, we got a
Speaker 1: guy we need to talk about when we come back
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Speaker 1: in the locker room, man, and they interviewed him and
Speaker 1: was asked about the you know, only one sack in
Speaker 1: the last three games, and man, it sounds like to
Speaker 1: me that the pressure is starting to get to Michael
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I can see that happening. You know,
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Speaker 1: you've been around here, there's a lot of pressure when
Speaker 1: you got that on the side of your helmet, especially
Speaker 1: if you one of the best players on that said team.
Speaker 1: Like we understand how it works. Even even the ware,
Speaker 1: you know, Hall of Fame guy when he gets into it,
Speaker 1: he was getting scrutinized him. You know, if you're not
Speaker 1: making these players, are you still that good? Every time
Speaker 1: you step on the field and you got that star
Speaker 1: on your helmet, you're under a microscope from everybody. We
Speaker 1: all understand what it is. When when the Cowboys play,
Speaker 1: they could be playing Houston and y'all been there, so
Speaker 1: y'all already know what the pressure is to me. I
Speaker 1: wasn't one of them, you know, top flight guys or
Speaker 1: where they were. Every move was you know, under a microscope.
Speaker 1: But for him, you know, being a up for defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year, having that star in your helmet,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the thisism you go and get scrutinized
Speaker 1: for every little thing you do. Um, Look, he hasn't
Speaker 1: had those sack numbers. He's past a couple of games
Speaker 1: that we've you know, become accustomed to see him. But
Speaker 1: he's still affecting the game. The guy's still able to
Speaker 1: get pressure out there, he's still able to beat double teams,
Speaker 1: and he's still opening up things for the other you know,
Speaker 1: defensive lineman out there. It's just that you don't see
Speaker 1: those numbers on the stat sheet. And I can understand him.
Speaker 1: Being a younger player is frustrating. You know, you used
Speaker 1: to having your way out there. You used to you know,
Speaker 1: getting sacks and being that guy. And when people start
Speaker 1: to criticize you and say, I don't think he's fell off,
Speaker 1: you know, it gets to you a little bit. It
Speaker 1: hurts you a little bit. So I can understand where
Speaker 1: he's coming from. But you know, being a leader of
Speaker 1: that defense. Understanding where you guys are at this stage
Speaker 1: in your career and this stage in the season, you
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to do do big things. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about what the outside people say. Man, just go out
Speaker 1: there and keep doing your things. So hopefully he uh
Speaker 1: he takes that and you know, runs with him. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, first of all, leader, the defense is to
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence and curse and and I say this, and
Speaker 1: I say this because I remember having these conversations about
Speaker 1: d Law right, d law franchise twice getting fifteen sixteen sacks,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden he gets paid, and
Speaker 1: then people to scrutinize, oh man, you didn't get sixteen Again,
Speaker 1: you didn't get this because you ain't get that right. Right?
Speaker 1: One wasn't the same? What's it? The same attitude? Law
Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm worried about what I'm gonna do. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, they asked Mike McCarthy about the
Speaker 1: pass rush. He said, the only people who need to
Speaker 1: be worried about our pass rush is the people that
Speaker 1: we're going against. That's the only people want to talk
Speaker 1: about it with. Michael Parson, you're a great player. Bro,
Speaker 1: you're doing your thing. Keep on doing it. You are
Speaker 1: disrupting the game. But we got to keep that same
Speaker 1: energy though that you have for d Law. All Right,
Speaker 1: Law was out there. We get thirty sacks in the season.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, he still is effective in
Speaker 1: the run game. He's still getting presses. He's just not
Speaker 1: getting no sex. It's not showing up on the stat sheet.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, I don't know, man, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. So get you some sacks, big dog. He
Speaker 1: still got one, like thirteen twelve thirteen sacks. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: like he's still doing what. He has twenty seven sacks
Speaker 1: in two seasons. The only two players they ever do
Speaker 1: that is all the Smith and Reggie White. Yeah he
Speaker 1: needs some more r Yeah, he needs some more right.
Speaker 1: He's like, this is what we have come to expect
Speaker 1: out of Michael Parsons. So and he seems like a
Speaker 1: guy who wants to live up to the expectations or
Speaker 1: he always wants to be better. That's why you see
Speaker 1: him talking to to the to the Marcus were and
Speaker 1: going to seek out some of the best players in
Speaker 1: the world at whatever sport they're playing, because he wants
Speaker 1: to figure out how to be better. So he's holding
Speaker 1: himself to a high standard. That's cool, but don't take
Speaker 1: it personal. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, do
Speaker 1: you tell him like, come on, doll, pump your breaks?
Speaker 1: You know when, especially when I think the expectation is
Speaker 1: what really is starting to get to him because people
Speaker 1: start throwing around names like Lawrence Taylor, you know, Derrek Thomas,
Speaker 1: the greats of the game there start his name is
Speaker 1: starting to become synonymous with is that's what's throwing a
Speaker 1: young guy if you gotta think he's still what twenty
Speaker 1: three years old, he's a young guy, So like, do
Speaker 1: you believe like even with what you're seeing, Like when
Speaker 1: you watch him on film, are you are you saying
Speaker 1: to yourself, here's a guy that's pressing for those numbers.
Speaker 1: Are a guy that's playing within the system. He's getting better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's getting better. He's getting his past, moves are getting better.
Speaker 1: He's trying out new things. He's still causing pressure. He
Speaker 1: doesn't look like he's trying too hard. You see him
Speaker 1: chasing down quarterbacks after he makes spend move inside. He's
Speaker 1: still playing as hard as he can. He just isn't
Speaker 1: getting no sex at the moment, and then two games
Speaker 1: from now he'll get four, right, he can do like
Speaker 1: That's that's how that's the game of football. Man, it
Speaker 1: happens that way. The greats have been through three or
Speaker 1: four games where they got one second then they came
Speaker 1: in and got four. That's just how it happens. But
Speaker 1: the way that you handle it inside the locker room
Speaker 1: and the way that his DQ was talking to him say, man,
Speaker 1: don't worry about that. That's what he needs to listen to.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a big deal that he said.
Speaker 1: He seems like a guy who's gonna say what's on
Speaker 1: his mind anyway. You know. But he's I know when
Speaker 1: when he gets out there, he's still gonna be the
Speaker 1: same Michael Parkson. But you guys have played with some
Speaker 1: elead pass rushers being secondary players, but you've played with
Speaker 1: those guys that have had those high sacked numbers. What
Speaker 1: was there, you know, mentality? You know, going through those
Speaker 1: big numbers like that, I mean, just just staying consistent
Speaker 1: or just from your experience, we're playing with guys like that,
Speaker 1: like the guy the two biggest shack leaders that I've
Speaker 1: been around and had a chance to or pleasure to
Speaker 1: play with. Was the Marcus ware here, you know he
Speaker 1: was and it was prime to Marcus. He was doing work.
Speaker 1: And then Clay's Campbell down in Jacksonville. And what both
Speaker 1: of those guys had in common, at least in my opinion,
Speaker 1: is they went a hundred I'm talking about one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty percent once they got on them field, Like
Speaker 1: they don't make once you're get in between those two lines.
Speaker 1: They go on one hundred and fifty miles an hour
Speaker 1: and one hundred percent all the time. And to me,
Speaker 1: they didn't let any type of outside noise, you know,
Speaker 1: bothered them getting double team, you getting chip blocked. I
Speaker 1: mean we saw earlier in the season when when Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay was Chip bockling, um, who's your name? Parsons? They
Speaker 1: was Chip blocking Parsons and he was over there, oh man,
Speaker 1: as soon as yeah, I'm on Twitter. It is how
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. Not that they didn't worry about
Speaker 1: none of that. They were just like, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get double team, I'm gonna get triple team, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to affect the game no matter what.
Speaker 1: And both of those guys were able do that, and
Speaker 1: I believe Michael Parsons has that ability to do it
Speaker 1: as well. He just got to cancel out all that
Speaker 1: outside noise, focus on his job, his responsibility, what he's
Speaker 1: supposed to do out there. He'll be just fine. But
Speaker 1: you gotta block all that other stuff out and you
Speaker 1: can't worry about you know what guys in the media
Speaker 1: like us say about you just go out there and
Speaker 1: help your teammates do what they gotta do. Where it
Speaker 1: was a guy you just you never heard, especially not outside.
Speaker 1: He might come into the locker room be like, hey man,
Speaker 1: I like this is my time. I know I need
Speaker 1: to get some more, I need to do more or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I was it was never anything like that. You
Speaker 1: never heard. He just went out there and played Mike
Speaker 1: Vinck got four sacks. Just it just happened back to me.
Speaker 1: It's some of these things are starting to to wreak
Speaker 1: of immaturity. You know, yeah, he says, okay, see what
Speaker 1: he says some of them. No, it is it's just
Speaker 1: starting the reek of immaturity. And you know, a guy
Speaker 1: that has a bright future and you and you hope
Speaker 1: that there's someone in the locker room that he goes
Speaker 1: to that he can talk to like you guys have
Speaker 1: had and then and have talked about the leadership in
Speaker 1: the locker room and because he's a great football player.
Speaker 1: And to me, when I when I all that, when
Speaker 1: I saw that quote, I'm like, Michael, you don't need
Speaker 1: to get nobody because can't nobody feel your shoes. So
Speaker 1: you already know that you know, can't nobody play and
Speaker 1: do what you do. And so this defense going into
Speaker 1: this week, to me, I want we talked about momentum
Speaker 1: for the offense, momentum for the defense. Just as important
Speaker 1: the takeaways, being able to get to take the ball back.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times we were from last
Speaker 1: season to this season. Can we continue with the interceptions.
Speaker 1: That's a big ask, right and now you see a
Speaker 1: lot of the fumbles get taken just a whole other
Speaker 1: facet of this defense starting to take over for you guys.
Speaker 1: Look going over the next two games to end the season,
Speaker 1: what is your what is your big thing about this
Speaker 1: defense that you need to see, especially coming into this
Speaker 1: game with Tennessee that you know, the momentum that they
Speaker 1: can carry from the Philly game and all the other
Speaker 1: games that they've had to come out of this one
Speaker 1: with the victory as well. Oh man, that cornerback position,
Speaker 1: like we like, we're gonna get the reps there, but
Speaker 1: I want that to be a little bit more solid
Speaker 1: than it hash been. I want whoever's in there to
Speaker 1: have the confidence to be able to say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: if we play man to man, then DQ trust him
Speaker 1: enough to say that that's what we're gonna do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna play the we're gonna we're gonna try to stop
Speaker 1: the run because that leads me until my next one.
Speaker 1: We gotta figure out the way. We're not gonna get
Speaker 1: a whatever ton better and being able to stop the run,
Speaker 1: but we have to at least hold the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage a little bit better. At some point before we
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. We have to see a concerted
Speaker 1: effort of these guys and these coaches saying, hey man,
Speaker 1: the thing we have to do is stop the runs, okay,
Speaker 1: because we have to earn earn the right to rush
Speaker 1: the passer. And if we can't do that, that's how
Speaker 1: you get teams coming in here running from one fifty
Speaker 1: one ninety two. And that will be another thing that
Speaker 1: happens to you in the playoffs like you did last year.
Speaker 1: If you don't figure out a way to share that up,
Speaker 1: what do you do. You play man to man and
Speaker 1: you put a lot a lot more guys in the box.
Speaker 1: You're putting guys on the line of scrimmage. We need
Speaker 1: to figure out a way for teams to fear just
Speaker 1: a little bit more when they say, hey man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna run the ball on this team all day.
Speaker 1: That's what I need to see in the next two
Speaker 1: weeks from from the Cowboys. Now, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: First you gotta stop the run, and then second you
Speaker 1: gotta earn the right you know, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: But to me, I need to see that swag abump
Speaker 1: the defensive line come back. You know, once you're able
Speaker 1: to stop the run, I gotta see these guys be
Speaker 1: able to pressure the quarterback. I mean, that was huge
Speaker 1: for this team and this defense, especially the first one
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen weeks of the season. They were able to
Speaker 1: throw waves upon waves upon waves of pass rushers at
Speaker 1: the quarterback. You know, from Parsons and d Laud and
Speaker 1: you got Armstrong and Fowler and all the guys in
Speaker 1: between there, they were able to hit you with fresh
Speaker 1: bodies and able to get after your quarterback out there.
Speaker 1: For the past I'm gonna say three weeks, it hasn't
Speaker 1: been that way. You know. I think they have one
Speaker 1: sack in these past three weeks, and I was against
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence early in the games quarter and the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, quarterbacks have had a clean pocket and
Speaker 1: they've been able to pick this defense apart. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you go back to the Houston game, there should
Speaker 1: be no way Inhale that Driscoll and Davis Mills were
Speaker 1: able to go back there and throw the ball like
Speaker 1: they were able to. Then you go to Jacksonville. Ill understand,
Speaker 1: they're extremely talented out there. They got a lot of
Speaker 1: weapons outside, but you shouldn't have had Trevor Lawrence out
Speaker 1: there looking like Peyton Manning. The guy was dicing the
Speaker 1: secondary apart. And with the injuries they have in the secondary,
Speaker 1: you gotta rely on that d line to get pressure
Speaker 1: on them. And then you fast forward the last week
Speaker 1: against Gardner Mischi, who hasn't played at all this season,
Speaker 1: he goes for over three bills on you, like it's
Speaker 1: you gotta get that swagger back alongst that defensive line.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's sending more people, making it
Speaker 1: more exotic, but they've got to be able to win
Speaker 1: their one on ones because that's what they were able
Speaker 1: to do earlier in the season and get pressure on
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. And if you're not able to get pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterbacks, when you get to the playoffs and
Speaker 1: you're going against a guy like you know whoever, even
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you give him a clean pocket, he's still
Speaker 1: able to dice you up. So I gotta see that
Speaker 1: swag amongst the d line back in there. How much
Speaker 1: do you guys consider or put into to play. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think everybody's hurt at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: Everybody's dealing with injuries, but the Cowboys have been decimated
Speaker 1: by injuries. And Jonathan Hankins and that was a I mean,
Speaker 1: he came in with a big question mark. People didn't
Speaker 1: really know who he was, but he came in he
Speaker 1: handled this business right. Jordan Lewis going out that that's
Speaker 1: a big miss and our defense. Anthony Brown, as much
Speaker 1: as people have been dragging him through the mud and
Speaker 1: talking about him, he has been sorely missed. In this
Speaker 1: secondary Does any of that come into consideration for you
Speaker 1: as you start talking about this Cowboys defense and where
Speaker 1: they are right now, I'm gonna Anthony Brown. Yeah, only
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown. Yeah, because you had durn Bland who came
Speaker 1: in secondary wise, I'm sorry, Anthony Brown to me is
Speaker 1: the biggest because you had durn Bland who who could
Speaker 1: come in and and and be serviceable. I think the
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph experiment kind of put you behind the eight
Speaker 1: ball a little bit. So hopefully nat shown right, can
Speaker 1: can be a little bit better. Hopefully it can't be worse.
Speaker 1: It can't be worse. Hey man, I've seen some yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've seen some of that. But I think that is
Speaker 1: going to be a focal point for other teams who
Speaker 1: play against us. Right, if you are able to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to stop the run, then you know
Speaker 1: the pressure is going to that left corner. They like,
Speaker 1: they out there, they looking for a guy who they
Speaker 1: can say I'm throwing at him every time. What type
Speaker 1: of scheme can I get to make sure that this
Speaker 1: guy ends up in one on one against whoever on
Speaker 1: my offense. And if we don't figure out a way
Speaker 1: to show that up, you have a hard time even
Speaker 1: if you do stop the run like we're asking for,
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be checked all day. He going Hey, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: the cut fade, whatever, whatever secret sign they got, you'll
Speaker 1: see that for the entire game, kind of like how
Speaker 1: you saw against Kelvin Joseph. Yeah. Yeah, I just don't
Speaker 1: believe Malik Willis has that in this wheelhouse anybody else? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, I'm not talking about for him. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about everybody else. Yes, no, absolutely, But hey, we're
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Speaker 1: of those games where you feel like you could go
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Speaker 1: You gotta approach this like, look, we got everything to
Speaker 1: play for and everything to lose, all at the same time.
Speaker 1: So that's where I am. But Dak Prescott again played
Speaker 1: his tail off on Saturday versus Philly and probably have
Speaker 1: one of his better games of the season going into
Speaker 1: this game, d Mac, what do you want to see
Speaker 1: from that? I need to see that protect the ball.
Speaker 1: I need the same thing Jerry wants, the same thing
Speaker 1: all the rest of Cowboy Nations want nation wants. We
Speaker 1: need to see him protect the ball. Interceptions, fumbles, We
Speaker 1: need to stay away from all that. We know it happens,
Speaker 1: but when it continues to happen every week and consistently,
Speaker 1: that's when we need to say, hey man, we need
Speaker 1: a game where it's none of that. All right. I
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Speaker 1: to do anything special, he don't have to have three
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Speaker 1: ball on his receivers. Get us accuracy right, because once again,
Speaker 1: we need that momentum going into the playoffs because we
Speaker 1: end the play but we need you to go into
Speaker 1: the playoffs with confidence because as we talk about, confidence
Speaker 1: and momentum are very important. It's whatever team is hot,
Speaker 1: and how can you get hot as a team? Have
Speaker 1: your quarterback hot ready to go? Yeah, and as you said,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right there to take care of the football.
Speaker 1: And I know that's been a you know, a tough
Speaker 1: thing for that since he's gotten back. I think he
Speaker 1: leads a league interception since he's been back. But we've
Speaker 1: seen he's a resilient player. He can respond to that situation.
Speaker 1: But we need him to take care of the football.
Speaker 1: That's that's all it comes down to. Because what we
Speaker 1: understand is the only reason Houston was able to stick
Speaker 1: around in that game a couple of weeks ago because
Speaker 1: we turned the football over. We don't turn the football over,
Speaker 1: we stomp on Houston. Same thing that comes here at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have the depth, they don't have
Speaker 1: the talent to be able to hang with this team.
Speaker 1: The only way they're able to stick around is if
Speaker 1: we turn the football over. So Dad, just keep you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't try to press for anything. You know, if
Speaker 1: your number one option ain't there, number two option ain't there,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid to check the football down to Tony Poller.
Speaker 1: We see what he can do in the open field.
Speaker 1: Heck the football down or just throw the football away
Speaker 1: and live to play another down. But take care of
Speaker 1: the football. You do that. This should be a no
Speaker 1: issue game. You know, I forgot one because like there's
Speaker 1: a fourth option in there. Run that thing like he
Speaker 1: was doing against us, take off. Do you realize what
Speaker 1: it does to a defense when you have that, When
Speaker 1: you have to worry about the quarterback scrambling and getting
Speaker 1: first downs with his legs. It's a whole new part
Speaker 1: that the defensive coordinators like, man, how do we stop this?
Speaker 1: Do we put a spy on him? Like how we
Speaker 1: can't play two man because everybody's turning their back and
Speaker 1: then he could just take off running. That brings a
Speaker 1: whole another facet to Dak Prescott's game. So I'd actually
Speaker 1: like to see him do that a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be crazy, but yeah, man, pull
Speaker 1: it down a little bit, man, sometimes a little bit.
Speaker 1: Oh right, now, he gonna catch you on that every time,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm with you. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: And I think he unveiled a part of his game
Speaker 1: that we've been clamoring for. We've been asking, come on, Dak,
Speaker 1: come on, man, we need to see you get out
Speaker 1: use your legs more. But man, I think the challenges
Speaker 1: to our offensive line as well as much as it
Speaker 1: is to that our offensive line has got to do
Speaker 1: a much better job. And I know that Philly's defensive
Speaker 1: line is like that, all right, But Tyron Smith making
Speaker 1: the adjustment over to the right tackle position hasn't been smooth.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot of people that don't want to
Speaker 1: criticize big number seventy seven because he's first ballot Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer, all of those, all those things, he's had
Speaker 1: to struggles, and I think if you look at him,
Speaker 1: you can say and even when a rookie, even even
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith played clean all the way up into that
Speaker 1: last to the last sack by sweat. Look, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a matchup and they're gonna come into a game
Speaker 1: this week tomorrow where the Tennessee doesn't do a lot
Speaker 1: of things well, but rush the pass or get after
Speaker 1: you is what they do. And so I want to
Speaker 1: see this offensive line clean things up. But I'm with you,
Speaker 1: Uh Danny, he can't turn the ball over. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just become a part of his game that he's
Speaker 1: got to get rid of. And it's like, I guess,
Speaker 1: get it over early. If you're gonna do it, you know,
Speaker 1: if don't do it, do it, do it. Do it
Speaker 1: like you did it last week. Get it out of
Speaker 1: the way that your first fast let it. You don't
Speaker 1: lit that bit. But you've got to eliminate that because
Speaker 1: those turnovers, and you know, in the playoff situation, man
Speaker 1: ain't gona do nothing but bury your team. And so
Speaker 1: we can't have him, can't allow it. And and for
Speaker 1: dak Man having them having his best game last week,
Speaker 1: he needs to come back this week and having an
Speaker 1: even better game. And I think the Tennessee Titans are
Speaker 1: going to uh give him plenty of opportunity to do it.
Speaker 1: So fellas we did it again. I like that. But
Speaker 1: he keep throwing these interceptions. Hes gonna be over the
Speaker 1: in tackling drills, all right, because all right, y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: just gonna gloss over the tacle, the tac tip all
Speaker 1: the way. I don't know what my brother check the
Speaker 1: shoe side or something, which thought he was gonna bodies
Speaker 1: lab buddy whatever that like all was got out of here. Man.
Speaker 1: Boy thought it was all touch. We always been almost
Speaker 1: what do you know, boy scooting? What did he think
Speaker 1: that was gonna stop? Tw me through that page? Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta go that boy was doing. But hey, but
Speaker 1: but that's it. That's it by a show and how
Speaker 1: we always ended on game day, Cowboy Nation. I hope
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