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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and new He Scrugs.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Victory Monday here on the Players Lounge. First
Speaker 1: whenever of the Mike McCarthy air. I'm Newies Scrugs, longtime
Speaker 1: Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny
Speaker 1: McCray Barry Church. All right, let's just get the particulars
Speaker 1: out of the way, gentlemen. We did our predictions on Friday,
Speaker 1: and I'll just go remind everybody exactly who said what Church? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do that. Let's go ahead and do that. You
Speaker 1: predicted a thirty eight thirty two Cowboys win. So you
Speaker 1: had the Cowboys winning by for the high scoring game,
Speaker 1: very close, very very close. I had a more lower
Speaker 1: scoring game. I had the Cowboys winning by two twenty
Speaker 1: three to twenty one. And um, somebody had picked the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons to win by three twenty four twenty one.
Speaker 1: That would be the man from Houston, Danny mccreg so
Speaker 1: places for you. Yes, you appreciate that, man, You know
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, just you know a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: I had to put my GM skills on there. I
Speaker 1: had my coaching skills and predict this. I knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a high scoring affair. Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: just listen to Church. That's it. That's all you gotta
Speaker 1: do on the it'll be you'll be be perfect if
Speaker 1: you do that. Mccraig, you can apologize. I think on him.
Speaker 1: I think that, I think that this. I think this
Speaker 1: is hilarious. I've never been so happy to be wrong.
Speaker 1: But as we get into this show, y'all can sit
Speaker 1: here and act like y'all thought this was gonna happen
Speaker 1: all y'all want to. But that first quarter opened and
Speaker 1: I was on y'all text line and we all had
Speaker 1: the same thought. This was ugly. I was right. I
Speaker 1: take that out. What I predicted Barry Church thirty eight
Speaker 1: thirty two Cowboys victory, a high scoring affair, and um, okay,
Speaker 1: you were four point. You picked a four point when
Speaker 1: I predicted a two point when in Church, Um, we're
Speaker 1: right there, You and I, You and I believed that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could come out and get this thing done
Speaker 1: and Dan even cray. I'm gonna tell you this all right.
Speaker 1: What I did do after the onside kick, I immediately
Speaker 1: because I'm sitting in the press box, I immediately went
Speaker 1: to Twitter and look back on every bad thing I
Speaker 1: said and deleted. I had what I always said, this
Speaker 1: is over over there. Then it was another one I
Speaker 1: put out there, like, oh the crop the crowd has
Speaker 1: done with this team. They know us, they know us,
Speaker 1: So I cover my track. Man, My boy knew he
Speaker 1: was tearing up all the receipts. Man, because I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I was looking for all right. I was, oh,
Speaker 1: a right, man, Hey, hey, your on your on your
Speaker 1: stuff new he come on, man, don't don't be that
Speaker 1: guy go in on that you said it said it
Speaker 1: on it that guy. That guy be that guy. It
Speaker 1: was rough man. It was rough U. Look the Cowboys
Speaker 1: um are now one and one and they're tied for
Speaker 1: first place. And that was an unpredictable scenario as we
Speaker 1: looked at the first quarter. So let's dive into this
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Speaker 1: Hotels dot Com. Uh. It was disgusting to see the
Speaker 1: way the Cowboys are shooting themselves in the foot with fumbles,
Speaker 1: fake punts. They did not come out ready to play.
Speaker 1: And I'll be the first guy that meant. I used
Speaker 1: to nail Jason Garrett all the time, but man, what's
Speaker 1: your team doing? Watch your team ready to play? The
Speaker 1: Cowboys were not ready to play here. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I couldn't wait to talk to you two about,
Speaker 1: because you guys made the Cowboys is undrive the free
Speaker 1: agents because you're on special teams. CJ's a good one.
Speaker 1: Is a guy first ever guess we had on the
Speaker 1: players lads last year. He was right there, slipped, could
Speaker 1: not catch the ball. And then Chris Jones, it was
Speaker 1: almost like he tried to aim the football there. So
Speaker 1: what goes into a fake pump? Call here and talk
Speaker 1: to me also about the second fake pump that they
Speaker 1: ran on the fourth and five? How did those things
Speaker 1: work on special teams? Start with you mccraig. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: so usually you know, the coach will watched the film
Speaker 1: and they'll see a certain way, Like on the one
Speaker 1: with CJ. Goodman where the past was short, you will
Speaker 1: watching and you will see the corner or the guy
Speaker 1: who was covering him bailing right, so you'll see him
Speaker 1: bill all the time before the ball was snapped, and
Speaker 1: you see that on film and you say, all right,
Speaker 1: this is a chance for us to get a fake
Speaker 1: pump because you know, no matter how he plays it,
Speaker 1: he's going to be five or six yards away from
Speaker 1: the receiver. And you know, they got the look that
Speaker 1: they wanted. And you know, unfortunately on that one, you know,
Speaker 1: Chris just short short of the short of the throat.
Speaker 1: On the second one, usually it's hey, it's the same
Speaker 1: as a defense right offense, you say, hey, if we
Speaker 1: got we got a box where we have more guys
Speaker 1: that can block that they have that can come make
Speaker 1: the tackle, then that that's a favorable look for us,
Speaker 1: so we'll running. You know, Unfortunately, on that one, I
Speaker 1: think the defense had more guys in the box than
Speaker 1: we had, you know that that we could block, So
Speaker 1: it didn't work out for us. But it's really just
Speaker 1: all based on looks that you see throughout you know,
Speaker 1: that coach's career or what they've done in the previous games,
Speaker 1: you know, to give you to give you the mindset
Speaker 1: to go in and run those plays. Yeah, these these
Speaker 1: both of these calls were headscratching calls for me. I mean, Danny,
Speaker 1: you put it right on and you put the nail
Speaker 1: right on the coffin when you said about the technique
Speaker 1: and how each play is pretty much developed and what
Speaker 1: makes them go for the call. But on both of
Speaker 1: these instances, if I'm not if I'm not, um, it's
Speaker 1: incorrect here they were both on the Cowboys side of
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line. So it was just kind of
Speaker 1: head scratching that you would make a gamble like that.
Speaker 1: I understand that your defense wasn't stopping anybody all gang
Speaker 1: leading up to those points, but to give him a
Speaker 1: short field that was a little bit of head scratching
Speaker 1: to me. But for me, I'm surprised that Chris Jones
Speaker 1: wasn't able to make that throw. I mean, for those
Speaker 1: who do not know, Chris Jones was one of the
Speaker 1: most athletic guys on the team. I mean, he's always
Speaker 1: up for that, you know, offseason award for being able
Speaker 1: to stand it or be able to be a skilled
Speaker 1: position as a special teams player. So I was surprised
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to make that throw. But the most
Speaker 1: head scratching thing about at all, and Danny you can
Speaker 1: attest to this is that gut call up the middle
Speaker 1: where they run, where they snapped into the PP and
Speaker 1: he's up the middle. That's usually reserved for like a
Speaker 1: two to three yard you know, cloud in the dust
Speaker 1: type type situation. They had about four or five yards
Speaker 1: that they had to get here, and you're snapping it
Speaker 1: back to the PP, who's five yards and you're snapping
Speaker 1: it back to the PP who's already and for those
Speaker 1: who don't understand PP as a personal protector, yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's already eight yards back. So that to me, that
Speaker 1: was a bit of a head scratcher, Danny. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, you know just what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 1: I thought that that gut call should have been more
Speaker 1: of a two to three yard our fourth down conversion
Speaker 1: instead of a fourth and five. So that was they
Speaker 1: were both head scratchers to me. Yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't think they shouldn't run either one. I
Speaker 1: think they had more of a chance on the first one,
Speaker 1: you know, because it was earlier, and it was perfect, right,
Speaker 1: they lined up perfect, they read at that cornerback and
Speaker 1: he always did the same thing, and he did it
Speaker 1: on that snafter the play was just short after that,
Speaker 1: pack up your bags, man, and and all right, we
Speaker 1: tried it, you know, and let it ride. Right. You
Speaker 1: tried it, it didn't work. You come out there and
Speaker 1: do it again. I remember I text you guys, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, these coaches must be like, hey,
Speaker 1: they walked into mccarthur and be like, hey, I'm running
Speaker 1: a fake point right here, right cool? And then it
Speaker 1: didn't walk off because it doesn't sound like yeah, no, nothing.
Speaker 1: It was just like we were trying this on this
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what are we doing? But we get
Speaker 1: it too, But it was it was It was a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, head scratching calls and choices that
Speaker 1: were made from the coaching staff that we, luckily you know,
Speaker 1: overcame just by the talent and play of our quarterback
Speaker 1: and our skill bus position players. Stand on the point there.
Speaker 1: What you said, Danny was it was almost as though, hey,
Speaker 1: they're no bad ideas, guys, Fine you want to do
Speaker 1: let's do it again. Let's do it again. What was
Speaker 1: head scratching about the fourth and five? And I talked
Speaker 1: about it on NBC five last night is Jacques Taylor
Speaker 1: brought up a great point says, if you're gonna go
Speaker 1: for it with five yards to go, don't put a
Speaker 1: bunch of special teams guys out there. This is and
Speaker 1: give the ball to dari and Thompson. And this isn't
Speaker 1: what he does. Go give the ball to the sixteen
Speaker 1: million dollar running back, or give it to the thirty
Speaker 1: one million dollar quarterback, or throw it to the twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars receiver. You know, put it on the guys
Speaker 1: you are paying money to get these kinds of yards,
Speaker 1: not put it on these other guys here with a trick.
Speaker 1: So that was an interesting thing. And so Barry, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with you on this and Danny follow up.
Speaker 1: Has Mike McCarthy gun two overboards with the analytics here
Speaker 1: who we're looking at the fake punts, deciding the Rams
Speaker 1: game not to kick the field goal, deciding in this
Speaker 1: game against Atlanta to go for a two point conversion
Speaker 1: and leave your team down two scores. Has he gone overboard? Barry? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gone overboard. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: both of those scenarios where the fake punts and all
Speaker 1: that stuff was going down on fourth down, they were
Speaker 1: both in the Cowboys territory. So like, like like I
Speaker 1: said earlier, you're leaving this defense who's already shorthanded, they're
Speaker 1: down to their third middle linebacker. You're leaving them with
Speaker 1: a short field. I mean, I just didn't understand that,
Speaker 1: and I think they were getting a little bit too
Speaker 1: cute and deciding how to go for it. I think
Speaker 1: you you made a great point there. If you're fourth
Speaker 1: and five, don't leaving in the hands of like you said,
Speaker 1: special teams unit leading it, leaving in the hands of
Speaker 1: the guys who do that for a profession. You're quarterbacks
Speaker 1: to thirty one million dollars like you said, and down
Speaker 1: the line. Let those guys get that fourth and five
Speaker 1: for you. That's why you pay them, that's why you
Speaker 1: invest in them. But to get back to the point, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think McCarthy got a little bit too cute. I
Speaker 1: think he's going down the line of where he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be considered like a safe guy, like how
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett was who high fourth and inches. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I want to go that. So he's he's
Speaker 1: looking like he's want to be like a riverboat raw
Speaker 1: and type of guy and and go down swinging. But
Speaker 1: this could have cost this team in a long run
Speaker 1: for sure with these uh, these head scratching moments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lot to you. I think analytics was
Speaker 1: out the window. I saw a straight panic the game,
Speaker 1: the game was getting the game was getting ugly, and
Speaker 1: it was like, we got to do something to turn
Speaker 1: this around. And the first fake pump was was evidence
Speaker 1: of that, and it could have worked, you know. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes the good call is the good call les it
Speaker 1: goes wrong. And then we tried for the second one,
Speaker 1: so you know, I saw a panic and I thought
Speaker 1: it just didn't make sense because you already had your
Speaker 1: defense out there on you know which short feels, you know,
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the game, from the turnovers. And then,
Speaker 1: like we talked about with special teams, what you want
Speaker 1: from your special teams is okay, every once in a while, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can run a fake punp make that splash play,
Speaker 1: but you want it to be successful. But you want
Speaker 1: your special teams to put your offense or defense in
Speaker 1: position in the best position to have success, and giving
Speaker 1: them the ball in their own territory is not a
Speaker 1: good plan for success. And we did that twice and
Speaker 1: after the first time, I'm like, hey, man, just just
Speaker 1: move on, and we just we just didn't do it.
Speaker 1: So to me, it didn't make sense. You know, how
Speaker 1: your defense is playing, you know, you've got some injuries.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got some young guys out there. Helped
Speaker 1: these guys out, and you know at that point in
Speaker 1: the game, special teams did not do that. I went
Speaker 1: and checked out the stats because I like to kind
Speaker 1: of pour over a couple of things after the games
Speaker 1: to see, Okay, hey, what certain certain stats can really
Speaker 1: tell the story of a game. And last week, one
Speaker 1: of the big statistics I thought that told the story
Speaker 1: of the football game for the Cowboys was in the
Speaker 1: red zone. You know, they were two for four and
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys needed to improve upon that. And so
Speaker 1: you look at the game and the stats where it
Speaker 1: goes in the red zone. Cowboys five or six in
Speaker 1: the red zone in Atlanta two or four, score more touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you win the football game. Cowboys win it by a
Speaker 1: point forty to thirty nine. And then looking at the
Speaker 1: second half possessions, the Falcons defense did not stop Dallas
Speaker 1: at Cowboys scored on five or six possessions and the
Speaker 1: only time they didn't score was on the when they
Speaker 1: turned the ball over all downs, but they were a machine.
Speaker 1: It was truly a tale of two halves. And to
Speaker 1: me once again that the Cowboys can figure out how
Speaker 1: to you know, make these stop kicking field goals and
Speaker 1: score touchdowns, they're going to have an opportunity to win games.
Speaker 1: Mccrack uh. You know, listen, we won, right and and
Speaker 1: and I'm happy that we won. And I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and say, look what we expected to happen
Speaker 1: with Atlanta's defense happened, all right. So yeah, if we
Speaker 1: could get it together and we could call some players
Speaker 1: and we're going down the field and we and we
Speaker 1: get it rolling. How we got a rolling against Atlanta. Oh,
Speaker 1: we can definitely win some games, but we gotta come
Speaker 1: out and we gotta start faster than we started this
Speaker 1: week and last week, because you know, the competition that
Speaker 1: we have coming up is if we start that way,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna get any wins. But I
Speaker 1: did like the way that the offense started rolling in
Speaker 1: the second half and we started getting some of our
Speaker 1: playmakers involved, and that was very positive to see because
Speaker 1: I've been on the play calling for while. So hopefully
Speaker 1: Hopefully we continue that and that just wasn't our. You know,
Speaker 1: we we have nothing to lose, so let's try to
Speaker 1: catch up and run everything we had got. Hopefully that
Speaker 1: is the game plan moving forward. Look, I will give credit.
Speaker 1: I have to give a little bit of credit to
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore and Mike McCarthy because they did not give
Speaker 1: up on the run. I mean, the twenty down twenty points.
Speaker 1: They could have simply said, you know what, thoo running
Speaker 1: back out the backyard, let's put this all on dak
Speaker 1: arm But they didn't do that at all. They kept
Speaker 1: with the run. They gave him twenty It wasn't flashy
Speaker 1: or anything like that. They gave him twenty two carries.
Speaker 1: I think he had around eighty nine or ninety yards.
Speaker 1: It wasn't too flashy. But what I think it did
Speaker 1: was he pounded and consistently pounded this Atlanta defense. And
Speaker 1: if you saw in the second half, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of mistackles on that Atlantic side, and I think
Speaker 1: a lot of that has to do with the pounding
Speaker 1: that Zeke was able to put on these guys. If
Speaker 1: you saw that that goal I run, I think it
Speaker 1: was like he ran smooth through Demante CAZy. He wanted
Speaker 1: no part of the rest of the game. I think
Speaker 1: after that, and I think his pounding to that defense
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with their second half success. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: question because I may have missed the beginning of the game,
Speaker 1: but I think did Tony Pauler start the first series
Speaker 1: the first two stories? They put them? Okay, they put
Speaker 1: a bull again, put the both of the game, and
Speaker 1: they gave Tony the first two carries and he fumbled.
Speaker 1: He fumbled the second. Yeah, yeah, okay, because because we
Speaker 1: were talking about head scratch and stuff. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to I'm just trying to, you know, level
Speaker 1: it all up, make sure I got it all listed out.
Speaker 1: Because I was watching the game and once again the
Speaker 1: dudes on my fants team, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: the is going on? It's another another one of those
Speaker 1: secretive things. Right. They probably showed that in practice, right,
Speaker 1: and they didn't want somebody's practice it, Like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come out and the way that we're really
Speaker 1: gonna fool Atlanta is we're gonna give TP the ball first,
Speaker 1: and look, I'm gonna give him some advice. Don't do
Speaker 1: that again, all right, Just that again. All right, listen
Speaker 1: to that again, rights, I just wanted to do that
Speaker 1: as you're praising killing more, I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure you remember that that that's what happened at the
Speaker 1: beginning of again and that's all yeah, yeah, Kelly, Man,
Speaker 1: look stay away from man and all right, I know
Speaker 1: that looks good and had you know the two backs
Speaker 1: out there you gotta receive. You gotta don't do that, man,
Speaker 1: Just stick with the gutta that can carry this offense. Man,
Speaker 1: oh man, that was a head strap of the shore man.
Speaker 1: Look um, the coaching decisions in this game, and overall,
Speaker 1: if we're giving the Cowboy coaching staff a grade Church,
Speaker 1: what grade are you giving them based on this Atlantic?
Speaker 1: What would you give it? Look? It was it was
Speaker 1: a like you said, man, it was a tailor two half.
Speaker 1: When you're looking up in a dictionary, this film should
Speaker 1: be this game's film should be on there. As terrible
Speaker 1: as they were in the first half. I gotta give
Speaker 1: this coaching staff a B minus. Man, I got to
Speaker 1: the catchwork. They had a patchwork offensive A B minus.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it, man, just because it was at
Speaker 1: the tailor two halves, just that first half it was atrocious.
Speaker 1: I mean it was the decision making. The decision making
Speaker 1: was downright awful. I understand that. But the way they
Speaker 1: were able to patchwork this offensive line together and get
Speaker 1: the second half rolling, I can't say that it was
Speaker 1: just all terrible. I mean, those three first quarter turnovers
Speaker 1: so terrible. I'm least giving them three nights. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Let me tell you something, full or
Speaker 1: y'all argument, the best thing that could have happened, for
Speaker 1: the best thing that could have happened for our old line.
Speaker 1: It is the injury towards attack that got hurt. But
Speaker 1: that that was the best thing that that had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with coaching. He was a waring the offensive
Speaker 1: lie out before he got They didn't fast together nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm giving them. Listen, d's get degrees, all right, so
Speaker 1: we got the win. So they're getting a straight D
Speaker 1: for me, all right? They getting the D. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, be a gambler do all this from
Speaker 1: bringing out all every single one almost of the kickoffs
Speaker 1: and get tackled inside of twenty five, to the fake
Speaker 1: punts to going for two to run and Tony polar
Speaker 1: at the beginning to it's a honey, things right that
Speaker 1: they could have cost us to lose the game. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: we were playing Atlanta twenty eight three and they're and
Speaker 1: they're known for this, and they gave us the game back,
Speaker 1: but they got to get a D for us. One man,
Speaker 1: it was just so many things that they did wrong,
Speaker 1: so many like just bad calls, like stuff that make
Speaker 1: you wonder, like where have you been? You know, like
Speaker 1: have you really been studying since you were off? It
Speaker 1: just I just didn't understand it from a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: from a super super Bowl coach. And of course, of
Speaker 1: course he's gonna get better. I mean, actually, let me
Speaker 1: not say that. We hope that he gets better, you know,
Speaker 1: in making these decisions, and he kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: tell these coordinators, you know, this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: And when they start saying, hey, we're gonna run a
Speaker 1: fake punt every time, tell them no. But they get
Speaker 1: a D for this one. And Atlanta saved us. And
Speaker 1: you know that played great. We came back, but Atlanta
Speaker 1: saved us. We got up too early. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got up on us too early. They took the foot
Speaker 1: off our throat and they and they couldn't put it
Speaker 1: back on after after we started rolling, I got to
Speaker 1: take a break out to hear that from your church.
Speaker 1: I gotta recover on on real quick, on on before
Speaker 1: you go, before you go, we got it, before you go,
Speaker 1: do it real quick, real quick, Cowboys Nation. Before y'all
Speaker 1: go ahead listening to new and listen to Dandy. These
Speaker 1: are the same two people that said Dak Prescott is
Speaker 1: not worth forty one forty two million dollars. If it
Speaker 1: was up to them, they would go ahead and sign
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton for a lesser deal and let him see
Speaker 1: what he can do with this talent. So before y'all
Speaker 1: go ahead, listen to what you guys remember backtrack a lot,
Speaker 1: they backtrack. That's all I'm saying. That's all. We gotta
Speaker 1: address this when we come back because Church been over
Speaker 1: there putting words in the mouth out of context all is.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't what I say it on Friday. That's
Speaker 1: not what I'm confused. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If we have we had to take a break here.
Speaker 1: We will set Barry Church straight because his listening skills
Speaker 1: are not right there. All points address this after the
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Speaker 1: and we bring in Danny McCray and Barry Church, two
Speaker 1: former Cowboys players. Now, let's pick up on the slander
Speaker 1: that Barry Church through at us last segment towards McCray
Speaker 1: and I talked to press. Okay, so so McCray, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you go ahead and an address Barry right
Speaker 1: here before. So so let's start off with what Barry
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's interpreting, misinterpreting because what we said
Speaker 1: was if that does not make a deep playoff run,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will likely not pay him over forty forty
Speaker 1: million dollars and they probably shouldn't if he doesn't make
Speaker 1: a deep playoff run, and they could go in another direction.
Speaker 1: Knew he said Andy Dunk could be an option. I said,
Speaker 1: we don't know who will be available, but if somebody
Speaker 1: else is available, for cheaper, like you know there's a
Speaker 1: quality quarterback, then yeah, they'll probably make that decision. We
Speaker 1: didn't say that. You know, that's what they should do today,
Speaker 1: all right, And to come on, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, Church. You you watched, you watched
Speaker 1: the same season as I did last year and you
Speaker 1: saw listen. As a matter of fact, as the first
Speaker 1: quarter was going on, I got a phone call and
Speaker 1: the dude who called me had Dak on his team,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, bro, don't worry. You know,
Speaker 1: Dak gonna get these trash yards anyway. All right, this
Speaker 1: is this is known. This is known. It's like if
Speaker 1: versus anybody else, those are trash yards and not a loss.
Speaker 1: Versus Atlanta, that's a hell of a comeback. And more
Speaker 1: credit to him for doing it because he does make
Speaker 1: it happen. But if you do that every game and
Speaker 1: you lose, and you and that comes with six thousand
Speaker 1: yards and forty touchdowns and you don't make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you ain't getting forty five million. I still believe that.
Speaker 1: So that that's why I met with that. It was
Speaker 1: a great It was a great game. He played an
Speaker 1: amazing game, amazing comeback taking nothing away from him, but
Speaker 1: that playoff run is still necessary for him to get
Speaker 1: the money that he wants. Okay, Okay, it's political season,
Speaker 1: and what you just did in that last segment, Barry
Speaker 1: is aching to you. Turning on the television and you
Speaker 1: hear Nui and Danny hate Dak Prush Scott. They never
Speaker 1: they don't want to play. In fact, exact, they want
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to get all the cash for funny Barry
Speaker 1: Church in twenty he scored. That's that is what you
Speaker 1: threw out there, miss representing the facts. And it's okay,
Speaker 1: It's okay. My shouldiers are big enough to take it. Okay.
Speaker 1: But what Danny said it's totally different than what you
Speaker 1: interpret it. But that's okay, that's okay. What I am
Speaker 1: happy for Dak Prescott. Let me make sure I run
Speaker 1: off the numbers for the folks out there. Thirty four
Speaker 1: forty seven, four hundred and fifty yards through the air,
Speaker 1: one touchdown pass, three touchdown runs. First player in NFL
Speaker 1: history have three touchdown runs and over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: passing in this game. Dak Prescott, in my opinion, for
Speaker 1: the second straight week, took the Cowboys down the field
Speaker 1: where you wanted them too. Last week, that catch that
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup made was nullified. Okay, but he went deep
Speaker 1: may make that catch, and I know you two agreed
Speaker 1: with the p I call. I didn't. But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are right there and arranged to kick a field goal
Speaker 1: to take it to overtime, if not possibly try and
Speaker 1: throw to the end zone and win the game. And
Speaker 1: then here he is again. Second half. He had a
Speaker 1: fun by the way which led to an Atlanta touchdown
Speaker 1: the first quarter, but the second half five or six touchdown,
Speaker 1: five or six scoring drives for the Cowboys. He led
Speaker 1: them to the win. He did what you want him
Speaker 1: to do. He did what a guy who's asking for
Speaker 1: and wants to have one of the better contracts out there.
Speaker 1: And I tell you what, because we were all watching
Speaker 1: the Cowboy game, and I was kind of peeking out
Speaker 1: of my side eye watching the Rams game because I
Speaker 1: had Tyler Higbee on my fantasy team. Did anybody look
Speaker 1: at Carson Wentz. Carson Carson Wentz is the last thing
Speaker 1: he is is a franchise quarterback. The way he's two
Speaker 1: costly interceptions, one in the end zone, and how many
Speaker 1: times I can't tell you how many times I do
Speaker 1: these interviews with NBC Philadelphia during Cowboys during the Cowboy Week,
Speaker 1: and it's always who's better quarterback? Dak? Who's better quarterback wins?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yo, you guys took this dude second
Speaker 1: overall and made all that ALEI a trade up to
Speaker 1: get him. You gave him one hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: million dollars, and let's be honest, this is a guy
Speaker 1: who's not played well since Frank Wright left the building.
Speaker 1: So many people or who picked Philadelphia this year, We're
Speaker 1: putting it on Carson Wentz. Pete Prisco CBS Sports dot Com.
Speaker 1: He said that Carson Wentz was going to have an
Speaker 1: MVP like season this year, as he picked Philadelphia to
Speaker 1: win the East. You didn't see anything in MVP the
Speaker 1: past two games. This was a game in which the
Speaker 1: Rams came out, beat him up over their head, Philly
Speaker 1: made a comeback and Carson Wentz threw him out of
Speaker 1: the game. Then I bring that up to say, you
Speaker 1: go back and look at Dak Prescott. People said this
Speaker 1: guy not worth the money after Game one. He put
Speaker 1: on a performance and for some folks out here in
Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation, you're still down on Dak Prescott t about
Speaker 1: his empty calories that you know, hey, it was garbage toot.
Speaker 1: He won the football game, he got the win. Nobody
Speaker 1: called Tom Brady's went over the Atlanti Fils in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl garbage yards. Nobody called it empty calories. You know
Speaker 1: what they called it. They called it a victory, and
Speaker 1: they called it a Super Bowl win. This isn't a
Speaker 1: super Bowl win, but they won, and they're now tied
Speaker 1: for first place versus being oh and two getting ready
Speaker 1: to go to Seattle. Dak Prescott should be the NFL
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Week in my opinion, I don't
Speaker 1: know how anybody else beat him for what he did.
Speaker 1: As his team was down twenty points, they come back
Speaker 1: get the victory, so boom, yeah, Simi piece, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's only garbage. It's only garbage yards if you
Speaker 1: if you lose or if you're not playing Atlanta. You
Speaker 1: know all last year that they were garbage yards. This
Speaker 1: this this one wasn't. And and like I said, shout
Speaker 1: out to deck Man. He played his butt off and
Speaker 1: got him to win. One of the best comebacks I've
Speaker 1: ever seen it my entire life. And I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of people feel the same way. So I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not down on deck, but if he doesn't make
Speaker 1: a playoff run with all this talent that he has,
Speaker 1: it'll be some people that's down on him. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I'm obviously I'm huge on deck right now. You
Speaker 1: know the guy did. He went out there and played,
Speaker 1: He played his hard on, led his team back into
Speaker 1: the into the game. And it's to your point, knew
Speaker 1: he with this division. I mean, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: between It was at the beginning of the year. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a two race. I thought it would
Speaker 1: be between Dallas and I thought it would be between Philly. Now,
Speaker 1: the rash of the injuries the Philly faced on that
Speaker 1: offensive line, you could tell right now it's it's starting
Speaker 1: to rear its ugly head. But even with those guys healthy,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Carson Winston, I just don't know if
Speaker 1: he has it right now. So to me, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: Washington they even look better than Philly right now. Dwayne
Speaker 1: Haskins looks like he's doing a little bit better of
Speaker 1: a job than wins right now at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: And we can't sleep on Washington's defense at all, but
Speaker 1: for right now, after week two, I'm saying, right now,
Speaker 1: the division, it's kind of up in the air right now.
Speaker 1: But I gotta give it to the Cowboys for a
Speaker 1: slight edge over Washington. But Philly they just looked down
Speaker 1: right disgusting right now. I got yeah, I got you. No, no, Danny,
Speaker 1: go ahead, no, no, I I still got us first
Speaker 1: in Philly. Second. You know, they played the Rams who
Speaker 1: played well against us last week, and then they ran
Speaker 1: into the Washington you know front seven who will see
Speaker 1: and we'll see, you know how good they really are.
Speaker 1: So I don't think they had you know, easy game
Speaker 1: so far. And what we do know about Carson Winson
Speaker 1: the Eagles is they can start off whenever they want
Speaker 1: too bad or good, but they know how to get
Speaker 1: some gags rolling together. So I'm not gonna count them
Speaker 1: out yet, but I do think that we are the
Speaker 1: team to be in the division. Philadelphia's talent, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: has been a little bit overrated. They thought that, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've got these weapons now because they were saying in
Speaker 1: the off season, Okay, what you have to do is
Speaker 1: get Carson some speed down the field. Okay, So Deshaun
Speaker 1: Jackson's back after being hurt last year, they draft Jalen Rager.
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing it right now, and I'm also not
Speaker 1: seeing them control the line of scrimmage. The Rams came
Speaker 1: out there basically did to Philly even worse what they
Speaker 1: did in the Cowboys, and they punched him in the
Speaker 1: mouth with the run, and then they attacked them over
Speaker 1: the middle of the defense. That's where Hippy was sitting
Speaker 1: up here making three touchdowns and living on it. So
Speaker 1: Philly's got some words that they've got to cover up.
Speaker 1: And then on as far as the outside goes, fine,
Speaker 1: you got Darius Slay who's good on the outside, but
Speaker 1: they're in the middle. The middle area is soft and
Speaker 1: you can attack Philadelphia there. They've got some warts and
Speaker 1: we'll see if Doug Peterson can cover them up. But
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things Doug Peterson can't go out
Speaker 1: here play for Carson Wins. He's got to be better.
Speaker 1: You cannot throw a pick in the end zone. You
Speaker 1: just can't do it. And I think it was Fuller,
Speaker 1: the kid that ended up making that play on CD lame.
Speaker 1: When the Cowboys went forward on fourth and three in
Speaker 1: city kick in the field goal to make it a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty game. He made another group another good play.
Speaker 1: I think he was the one who made the interception
Speaker 1: in the end zone. No, no, it was a different play.
Speaker 1: It was a different player. But look, the Rams are
Speaker 1: playing good football, and maybe we wrote the Rams off
Speaker 1: too quick, and you start looking at that NFC West
Speaker 1: right now. I picked Seattle to win the division. They're
Speaker 1: two and oh. They get the Cowboys this week. The
Speaker 1: forty nine good. Yeah, Arizona is two and o looking good.
Speaker 1: They beat the forty nine ers week one, then they
Speaker 1: beat Washington. Then you've got San Francisco who lost Week one.
Speaker 1: Arizona they beat the Jets, but boy, they lose Nick
Speaker 1: Bosa to injury. Raheem Moster's gonna miss a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: They're saying Bosa's probably gonna be out for the year.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo's got a high ankle sprain. They've already had
Speaker 1: some receivers here who are damned. So the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers are gonna they're having some issues, like they had
Speaker 1: to pass last year they didn't have any, but the
Speaker 1: previous two seasons before injuries really hurt them. So the
Speaker 1: Rams in Arizona and by the way, I picked Arizona
Speaker 1: and make the playoffs. The Rams and Arizona could be
Speaker 1: in this thing, and who knows where the Niners fall
Speaker 1: depending on where they're going. So and we got another
Speaker 1: playoff team this year, so it's gonna be real interesting
Speaker 1: on how that NFC West shakes out here. After two games,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys look as though like last year in terms
Speaker 1: of if you do your part, you should win the division.
Speaker 1: They didn't do their part last year, but with everything
Speaker 1: that's going on here, they should. They should win this
Speaker 1: division if especially if they can get some guys healthy.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, hey, let's take another break. We'll take
Speaker 1: our final break here and want to get back into
Speaker 1: one of my unsung heroes of the game. I got
Speaker 1: three guys I want to talk about who I think
Speaker 1: are unsung heroes of this football game that we kind
Speaker 1: of didn't talk about that we need to and we'll
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Speaker 1: on Instagram. All right, Um, three guys that to me
Speaker 1: were unsung heroes. I mean, obviously we know about Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and what he did, but just you know, in
Speaker 1: the course of a comeback like this, Um, there's guys
Speaker 1: doing some things and they're doing their part. Adalt Schultz
Speaker 1: the tight End, set a single game and career best
Speaker 1: in receptions with nine receiving arts eighty eight, also recording
Speaker 1: his first ever touchdown reception late in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: And then I think about the tackle right tackle Tarrance Steal,
Speaker 1: the rookie making his second start for the Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: then on the other side, he had Brandon Knight starting
Speaker 1: at left tackle for the first time the season in
Speaker 1: the in the second overall NFL start for him in
Speaker 1: his second in his two years in the NFL. These guys,
Speaker 1: especially once tack McKinley went out, were able to help
Speaker 1: keep Dak Prescott clean. They the Atlanta only had one
Speaker 1: sack and four quarterback pressures. So what those guys did
Speaker 1: on the offensive, lind I can't say enough of because
Speaker 1: I remember what happened last year in the Jets game
Speaker 1: when Lel Collins and Tyres Smith missed that game and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were not able to get themselves a victory.
Speaker 1: They were able to get themselves a victory on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I look at those three guys and I just say, hey,
Speaker 1: very good job, unsung heroes. As the Cowboys come back
Speaker 1: and win forty to thirty nine, who do you guys have? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and piggyback on that man, because
Speaker 1: both Dalton Shots and those those two guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: they played phenomenal. I'm gonna be honest. After that first
Speaker 1: fumble from Dalton Shots, man, I was the first one
Speaker 1: out there talking about, oh, this guy's trash, get him
Speaker 1: off to Phil and he can't do nothing out there.
Speaker 1: But I mean he showed up the plane. Like you said,
Speaker 1: nine receptions eighty eight yards and a touchdown. He showed.
Speaker 1: He showed that he had the same type of grit
Speaker 1: and scrap that the rest of his team had. Especially
Speaker 1: with the injury to Blake Jarwin. I mean, we finally
Speaker 1: had a tight end that can threaten the scenes, that
Speaker 1: can be a mismatched nightmare. And then who was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a big weapon for us this year, but
Speaker 1: we lose him for the entire year. All Dalton Shows
Speaker 1: did was you know, the first game, man, he had
Speaker 1: a couple drops and then he fumbled this one, so
Speaker 1: he could have easily mailed it in, but he went
Speaker 1: out there got nine catches eighty eight yards and the
Speaker 1: TV and I think, if I'm not mistaken, he was
Speaker 1: one of the top three leaders in the receptions and
Speaker 1: yards for that game. And then you mentioned the two
Speaker 1: tackles out there. The two young guys, I mean one
Speaker 1: making his second start and I think the other one
Speaker 1: was making his first start, but earlier in that game,
Speaker 1: I mean they could have mailed it in as well.
Speaker 1: The edges were under attack, I mean, tacking Achilley on
Speaker 1: one side, Dante Fowler on the other side. They were,
Speaker 1: they were having Dak Prescott out there running for his life.
Speaker 1: But like you said, it was a tail of two halves,
Speaker 1: and in the second half they were able to bounce
Speaker 1: back and pretty much short up that offensive line to
Speaker 1: give Dak the ability to attack Atlanta downfield. So all
Speaker 1: three of those guys, I mean, they played heck of
Speaker 1: the game. So hopefully they'll be able to get that
Speaker 1: throughout the year. Yeah, and I agree with y'all. So
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to say the
Speaker 1: same people. So what I'm gonna do is I believe
Speaker 1: it was Neiah Brown with a big catch, catching run
Speaker 1: that was That was a big play. When your number
Speaker 1: is called, sometimes you just get one opportunity. He got
Speaker 1: his opportunity. He made the most of us, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him that. I also, man, listen, the defense
Speaker 1: gave up thirty nine points. But I think they played
Speaker 1: way better than they played last week. I think they
Speaker 1: made some huge plays. They stopped the run. I agree. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know these linebackers, they got in there and they
Speaker 1: did what they had to do. Jalen Smith made a
Speaker 1: good play in the past game. They did some stuff
Speaker 1: you know that they didn't do that. They didn't show
Speaker 1: the first week that they could build off of the
Speaker 1: young secondary. You know, they battled, they fought, you know,
Speaker 1: they gave us some catchers, but they showed that they
Speaker 1: had no quit in them and they and they they'll fight.
Speaker 1: Scratching claw and my third one, it's gonna go to
Speaker 1: the Great dan Quinn Man. He told Mike McCarthy, Hey,
Speaker 1: hold my beard. Hope you think you're doing something, Hold
Speaker 1: my beard. Let me let me show you how to
Speaker 1: really do this. So he's an awesong because because what
Speaker 1: without him, what they say, Without him, none of this
Speaker 1: would be possible. The Great dan Quinn Man, the ultimate
Speaker 1: folder man. Dan Quinn was like, no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: special with this. This is what I do. This is
Speaker 1: what I do. Okay, let me show you. Let me
Speaker 1: show me. And literally Jeff Jeff Schultz, who writes for
Speaker 1: the Athletic Um down in Atlanta. He's covered Atlanta sports
Speaker 1: for a long time and he wrote a column and
Speaker 1: the basic thing he wrote in the column is this
Speaker 1: feels like this is really the end. And and you're
Speaker 1: going back and looking at and you know what they've
Speaker 1: done since the Super Bowl? He put their record out.
Speaker 1: I think it's like ten and twenty something. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line is dan Quinn is done much in the
Speaker 1: same way that Mike Smith was done. You know, you
Speaker 1: reach this point, you get here, and once you don't
Speaker 1: break through, you just kind of keep on falling down.
Speaker 1: And so they were given the opportunity to come back
Speaker 1: and try and do it one more time. And look,
Speaker 1: they can say all the platitudes and we've got to
Speaker 1: just go back and do the work. But it's not working.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be better this year than the Saints.
Speaker 1: They're not going to be better this year than Tampa.
Speaker 1: And Rich McKay, who's now overall, he's over the GM, Thomas,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Troup and Dan Quinn. But McKay is gonna tell
Speaker 1: Arthur Blank fire him. So right now, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: there's gonna be job opening in Atlanta, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a job opening in Detroit because GM, Bob Quinn
Speaker 1: and Matt Patricia are terrible. He fired Jim Caldwell. Bob
Speaker 1: Quinn said nine and seven is not good enough. Matt
Speaker 1: Patricius now in his third season with Detroit, he's only
Speaker 1: won nine total games. They can't even get the nineties.
Speaker 1: Lucky if they could get the seven and nine. So
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some jobings. And you know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 1: name of a guy who I could easily see being
Speaker 1: the head coach in Atlanta, Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett was
Speaker 1: offered the job from Arthur Blank, which he turned down
Speaker 1: to stay with the Cowboys, and they ended up hiring
Speaker 1: Mike Smith for that job. So I think, if given
Speaker 1: an opportunity, I think Jason Garrett could very well be
Speaker 1: the next head coach in Atlanta. He's already gone through
Speaker 1: the process with Rich McKay and Arthur Blank. So keep
Speaker 1: in mind, you hurt it, you hurt it here, You
Speaker 1: hurt it here. First, baby, listen, question real quick. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. So what what do y'all
Speaker 1: think that says about the coach and staff. I mean,
Speaker 1: like there's two huge just comeback victories and then that
Speaker 1: special teams that on side. How do you not jump
Speaker 1: on the ball? I mean, I know the rules are
Speaker 1: that you know, you got it has to go ten
Speaker 1: yards before the kicking team can jump on it. But
Speaker 1: what goes through their mind right there? Maybe Danny, maybe
Speaker 1: you can attest that, But to why they wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to jump on that, I just let it just blew
Speaker 1: my man on that one. Yeah, So so let me
Speaker 1: let me dissect that for y'all. Man, let me dissect
Speaker 1: this onside kick, because this is this is the play
Speaker 1: that's worked on. It's worked on about once a week,
Speaker 1: right on Saturday. If you get out there and this
Speaker 1: is where you do the onside kick, you're bringing them
Speaker 1: out there and you're getting ready, right. So I'm blaming
Speaker 1: this The first person I'm blaming this song is Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: The second group of people and I'm blaming this song
Speaker 1: are the people who's supposed to be blocking for him.
Speaker 1: And if you look at it, we actually did everything
Speaker 1: wrong and so did the Falcons. Right. The people who
Speaker 1: are who are on the line, what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: This is why they call it the most dangerous playing football, right,
Speaker 1: because if you're the kicking team, you're supposed to go
Speaker 1: take out everybody that's across from you and let a
Speaker 1: guy run behind and kept and scoop the ball, right,
Speaker 1: So you supposed to eliminate everybody in front of him.
Speaker 1: We didn't touch a soul. If you're the other team,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to clear the way for Julio Jones to
Speaker 1: be able to make a clear catch. So you're supposed
Speaker 1: to run up and you're supposed to hit the opposing team,
Speaker 1: clear the way and let Julio do what he does.
Speaker 1: Neither team touched anybody, right. Everybody just kind of looked
Speaker 1: and CJ was the guy who was supposed to be
Speaker 1: going to battle with Julio, and CJ just be Julio.
Speaker 1: But Julio is just sitting there waiting like his main
Speaker 1: job because what you told the front line is don't
Speaker 1: worry about the ball. We got somebody with hands who's
Speaker 1: gonna sit back catch the ball, right, So Julio's only
Speaker 1: job was to scoop the ball, and the people in
Speaker 1: front of him job was to go hit the people
Speaker 1: that played for the Cowboys. Nobody did any of that.
Speaker 1: And the reason they didn't get the ball is because
Speaker 1: usually when that thing rolls like that, uh, it doesn't
Speaker 1: go ten yards nine times out of ten when that
Speaker 1: ball is rolling, it goes about seven and then it
Speaker 1: dies and the nation's an easy play. They were waiting
Speaker 1: for that ball to die, and it never died, and
Speaker 1: it bit about. That's what happened. May my boy HOULI
Speaker 1: my boy, Julio, I can't put My boy made a
Speaker 1: business decision, man. He was like, hold on my handstrains
Speaker 1: are already hurting. I got these line packers running at me,
Speaker 1: running four fasts, running at me, about to blow me up. Man, Hey,
Speaker 1: y'all take care of that. Y'all handle that man. Church.
Speaker 1: But Church, you see, if you see our squad bro,
Speaker 1: we didn't want to touch nobody even Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 1: Archie didn't do nothing. I think that was I don't
Speaker 1: know what number it was, but he screened past everybody
Speaker 1: the ball the Atlanta Front seven. Julio, he ain't touch
Speaker 1: a soul in there, and then turned around and look
Speaker 1: that nobody had the ball yet. And he was just like, man,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll standing around with the rest of y'all.
Speaker 1: So that was terrible. I sack it was all it
Speaker 1: was all wrong. It was all wrong on both sides.
Speaker 1: It worked out for us, but we didn't touch a soul.
Speaker 1: They didn't touch a soul, We didn't clear the lane
Speaker 1: for nobody, and we just ended up getting the ball first.
Speaker 1: It was It was bad, but it worked out for us. Somebody,
Speaker 1: somebody was sending that home with that Buffalo wild Wings button,
Speaker 1: except it was they gonna keep hitting that button to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win. So they made they made the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, bounce a certain way. They made Atlanta dude
Speaker 1: dump stuff, and they just kept hitting the buttons to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys one and we made it happen. So good
Speaker 1: for us, but that was horrible execution. I was one
Speaker 1: of the luckiest games I've ever seen in my life. Man,
Speaker 1: for somebody to take I don't know if y'all Olympic,
Speaker 1: but for somebody to get a curling you ever seen
Speaker 1: curling in the Olympics. How they shoot that, I don't
Speaker 1: know how they made a football act like that, but
Speaker 1: it was the same thing. It was just slowly, just
Speaker 1: matriculating this way until across the ten. Man, I've never
Speaker 1: seen anything like and you don't tell us. Listen, listen
Speaker 1: if Joe, if Joe d Commissa's in their room, everybody
Speaker 1: cursed out. Everybody. If you cursed out, you just get
Speaker 1: called all type of week whatever, because your main goal
Speaker 1: is to go out there and be a football player
Speaker 1: and hit the guy that you were siding to hit.
Speaker 1: And I didn't hear a pad smack at all that
Speaker 1: it was. I'm gonna in the show at this. It
Speaker 1: was a good point made by former Dallas Cowboys Scott
Speaker 1: Brian brought us where he said the Cowboys were very
Speaker 1: smart to make sure they kicked that ball towards their
Speaker 1: side of the field versus Atlantic side, where the Atlanta
Speaker 1: coaches could have yelled at their own players, get on
Speaker 1: the ball, get on the ball. So that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So a bones fossil and greg'srline and special teams already, um,
Speaker 1: you know, making making two pretty good plays, uh, and
Speaker 1: then airline with the game winning field goal. Hey, that
Speaker 1: is the players, lads here on a victory Monday. Danny
Speaker 1: McCrae former Dallas Cowboys safety, Barry Church, former Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: safety and meet longtime Cowboy reporting new we Scholls. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you. We'll do it again tomorrow two thirty Central time,
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