WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: How Special Was That? 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:17.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players Lounge, 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:22.079 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the start. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:27.640 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and new He Scrugs. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.400 Welcome to Victory Monday here on the Players Lounge. First 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.559 whenever of the Mike McCarthy air. I'm Newies Scrugs, longtime 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:44.040 Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:48.680 McCray Barry Church. All right, let's just get the particulars 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.960 out of the way, gentlemen. We did our predictions on Friday, 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:57.240 and I'll just go remind everybody exactly who said what Church? Yeah, yeah, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.120 let's do that. Let's go ahead and do that. You 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.800 predicted a thirty eight thirty two Cowboys win. So you 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.000 had the Cowboys winning by for the high scoring game, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.800 very close, very very close. I had a more lower 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.080 scoring game. I had the Cowboys winning by two twenty 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.800 three to twenty one. And um, somebody had picked the 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.520 Atlanta Falcons to win by three twenty four twenty one. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.000 That would be the man from Houston, Danny mccreg so 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.760 places for you. Yes, you appreciate that, man, You know 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.560 I appreciate it, just you know a little bit. You know, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.520 I had to put my GM skills on there. I 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.880 had my coaching skills and predict this. I knew it 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.760 was gonna be a high scoring affair. Um, and you know, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.920 just listen to Church. That's it. That's all you gotta 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.560 do on the it'll be you'll be be perfect if 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:51.640 you do that. Mccraig, you can apologize. I think on him. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.960 I think that, I think that this. I think this 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.279 is hilarious. I've never been so happy to be wrong. 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.040 But as we get into this show, y'all can sit 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.400 here and act like y'all thought this was gonna happen 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.400 all y'all want to. But that first quarter opened and 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.600 I was on y'all text line and we all had 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:15.200 the same thought. This was ugly. I was right. I 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:20.359 take that out. What I predicted Barry Church thirty eight 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.680 thirty two Cowboys victory, a high scoring affair, and um, okay, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.120 you were four point. You picked a four point when 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.639 I predicted a two point when in Church, Um, we're 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.799 right there, You and I, You and I believed that 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.799 the Cowboys could come out and get this thing done 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.800 and Dan even cray. I'm gonna tell you this all right. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.160 What I did do after the onside kick, I immediately 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.360 because I'm sitting in the press box, I immediately went 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.000 to Twitter and look back on every bad thing I 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:53.400 said and deleted. I had what I always said, this 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:58.679 is over over there. Then it was another one I 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.480 put out there, like, oh the crop the crowd has 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.320 done with this team. They know us, they know us, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.760 So I cover my track. Man, My boy knew he 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.000 was tearing up all the receipts. Man, because I'm telling 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.919 you I was looking for all right. I was, oh, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.000 a right, man, Hey, hey, your on your on your 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.120 stuff new he come on, man, don't don't be that 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.200 guy go in on that you said it said it 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.359 on it that guy. That guy be that guy. It 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.880 was rough man. It was rough U. Look the Cowboys 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.639 um are now one and one and they're tied for 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.080 first place. And that was an unpredictable scenario as we 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.600 looked at the first quarter. So let's dive into this 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.920 right here on the Players Lounge, brought to you by 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.880 Hotels dot Com. Uh. It was disgusting to see the 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.800 way the Cowboys are shooting themselves in the foot with fumbles, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.880 fake punts. They did not come out ready to play. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.400 And I'll be the first guy that meant. I used 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.680 to nail Jason Garrett all the time, but man, what's 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.840 your team doing? Watch your team ready to play? The 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.760 Cowboys were not ready to play here. And one of 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.720 the things I couldn't wait to talk to you two about, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.320 because you guys made the Cowboys is undrive the free 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.080 agents because you're on special teams. CJ's a good one. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.680 Is a guy first ever guess we had on the 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.240 players lads last year. He was right there, slipped, could 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.760 not catch the ball. And then Chris Jones, it was 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.280 almost like he tried to aim the football there. So 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.400 what goes into a fake pump? Call here and talk 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.440 to me also about the second fake pump that they 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.839 ran on the fourth and five? How did those things 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.360 work on special teams? Start with you mccraig. Yeah. So, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.920 so usually you know, the coach will watched the film 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.720 and they'll see a certain way, Like on the one 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.440 with CJ. Goodman where the past was short, you will 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.560 watching and you will see the corner or the guy 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.720 who was covering him bailing right, so you'll see him 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.040 bill all the time before the ball was snapped, and 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:51.919 you see that on film and you say, all right, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.240 this is a chance for us to get a fake 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.400 pump because you know, no matter how he plays it, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.120 he's going to be five or six yards away from 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.480 the receiver. And you know, they got the look that 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.960 they wanted. And you know, unfortunately on that one, you know, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.520 Chris just short short of the short of the throat. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.240 On the second one, usually it's hey, it's the same 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.680 as a defense right offense, you say, hey, if we 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.159 got we got a box where we have more guys 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.280 that can block that they have that can come make 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.680 the tackle, then that that's a favorable look for us, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.920 so we'll running. You know, Unfortunately, on that one, I 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.960 think the defense had more guys in the box than 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.040 we had, you know that that we could block, So 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.120 it didn't work out for us. But it's really just 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.640 all based on looks that you see throughout you know, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.400 that coach's career or what they've done in the previous games, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.000 you know, to give you to give you the mindset 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.240 to go in and run those plays. Yeah, these these 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.080 both of these calls were headscratching calls for me. I mean, Danny, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.880 you put it right on and you put the nail 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.800 right on the coffin when you said about the technique 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.800 and how each play is pretty much developed and what 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.960 makes them go for the call. But on both of 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.560 these instances, if I'm not if I'm not, um, it's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.040 incorrect here they were both on the Cowboys side of 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.200 the fifty yard line. So it was just kind of 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.120 head scratching that you would make a gamble like that. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.680 I understand that your defense wasn't stopping anybody all gang 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.880 leading up to those points, but to give him a 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.600 short field that was a little bit of head scratching 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.080 to me. But for me, I'm surprised that Chris Jones 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.200 wasn't able to make that throw. I mean, for those 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.160 who do not know, Chris Jones was one of the 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.640 most athletic guys on the team. I mean, he's always 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.280 up for that, you know, offseason award for being able 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.800 to stand it or be able to be a skilled 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.279 position as a special teams player. So I was surprised 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.560 he wasn't able to make that throw. But the most 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.800 head scratching thing about at all, and Danny you can 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.280 attest to this is that gut call up the middle 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.920 where they run, where they snapped into the PP and 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.320 he's up the middle. That's usually reserved for like a 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.279 two to three yard you know, cloud in the dust 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.000 type type situation. They had about four or five yards 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.840 that they had to get here, and you're snapping it 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.320 back to the PP, who's five yards and you're snapping 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.560 it back to the PP who's already and for those 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.200 who don't understand PP as a personal protector, yeah, and 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:52.920 he's already eight yards back. So that to me, that 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:54.880 was a bit of a head scratcher, Danny. I mean, 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.839 I know, you know just what I'm talking about here. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.919 I thought that that gut call should have been more 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.200 of a two to three yard our fourth down conversion 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.400 instead of a fourth and five. So that was they 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.000 were both head scratchers to me. Yeah, I don't, I don't. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.920 I honestly don't think they shouldn't run either one. I 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.840 think they had more of a chance on the first one, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.280 you know, because it was earlier, and it was perfect, right, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.280 they lined up perfect, they read at that cornerback and 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.200 he always did the same thing, and he did it 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.480 on that snafter the play was just short after that, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.120 pack up your bags, man, and and all right, we 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.040 tried it, you know, and let it ride. Right. You 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.080 tried it, it didn't work. You come out there and 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.640 do it again. I remember I text you guys, and 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.400 I was like, man, these coaches must be like, hey, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.000 they walked into mccarthur and be like, hey, I'm running 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.000 a fake point right here, right cool? And then it 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.960 didn't walk off because it doesn't sound like yeah, no, nothing. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.720 It was just like we were trying this on this 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:43.840 I'm like, well, what are we doing? But we get 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.560 it too, But it was it was It was a 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.360 lot of you know, head scratching calls and choices that 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.160 were made from the coaching staff that we, luckily you know, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.960 overcame just by the talent and play of our quarterback 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.880 and our skill bus position players. Stand on the point there. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.200 What you said, Danny was it was almost as though, hey, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.080 they're no bad ideas, guys, Fine you want to do 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.760 let's do it again. Let's do it again. What was 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.920 head scratching about the fourth and five? And I talked 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.560 about it on NBC five last night is Jacques Taylor 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.200 brought up a great point says, if you're gonna go 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.680 for it with five yards to go, don't put a 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.960 bunch of special teams guys out there. This is and 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.880 give the ball to dari and Thompson. And this isn't 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.440 what he does. Go give the ball to the sixteen 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.960 million dollar running back, or give it to the thirty 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.400 one million dollar quarterback, or throw it to the twenty 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.160 million dollars receiver. You know, put it on the guys 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.480 you are paying money to get these kinds of yards, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.240 not put it on these other guys here with a trick. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.160 So that was an interesting thing. And so Barry, I'm 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.400 gonna start with you on this and Danny follow up. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.520 Has Mike McCarthy gun two overboards with the analytics here 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.360 who we're looking at the fake punts, deciding the Rams 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.360 game not to kick the field goal, deciding in this 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.320 game against Atlanta to go for a two point conversion 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:04.000 and leave your team down two scores. Has he gone overboard? Barry? Yeah, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.520 I think he's gone overboard. I mean, like I said, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.280 both of those scenarios where the fake punts and all 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.160 that stuff was going down on fourth down, they were 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.120 both in the Cowboys territory. So like, like like I 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.320 said earlier, you're leaving this defense who's already shorthanded, they're 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.800 down to their third middle linebacker. You're leaving them with 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.319 a short field. I mean, I just didn't understand that, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.079 and I think they were getting a little bit too 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.800 cute and deciding how to go for it. I think 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.920 you you made a great point there. If you're fourth 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.319 and five, don't leaving in the hands of like you said, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.559 special teams unit leading it, leaving in the hands of 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.520 the guys who do that for a profession. You're quarterbacks 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.679 to thirty one million dollars like you said, and down 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.760 the line. Let those guys get that fourth and five 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.520 for you. That's why you pay them, that's why you 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.480 invest in them. But to get back to the point, yeah, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.360 I think McCarthy got a little bit too cute. I 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.640 think he's going down the line of where he doesn't 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.720 want to be considered like a safe guy, like how 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.760 Jason Garrett was who high fourth and inches. I don't 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.320 know if I want to go that. So he's he's 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.960 looking like he's want to be like a riverboat raw 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.000 and type of guy and and go down swinging. But 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.920 this could have cost this team in a long run 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.960 for sure with these uh, these head scratching moments. Yeah, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.160 I'm not gonna lot to you. I think analytics was 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.000 out the window. I saw a straight panic the game, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.120 the game was getting the game was getting ugly, and 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:18.679 it was like, we got to do something to turn 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.760 this around. And the first fake pump was was evidence 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.160 of that, and it could have worked, you know. You know, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.040 sometimes the good call is the good call les it 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.720 goes wrong. And then we tried for the second one, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.560 so you know, I saw a panic and I thought 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.880 it just didn't make sense because you already had your 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.120 defense out there on you know which short feels, you know, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.719 from the beginning of the game, from the turnovers. And then, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.520 like we talked about with special teams, what you want 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.280 from your special teams is okay, every once in a while, yeah, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:46.960 you can run a fake punp make that splash play, 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.120 but you want it to be successful. But you want 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.679 your special teams to put your offense or defense in 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.839 position in the best position to have success, and giving 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.480 them the ball in their own territory is not a 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.000 good plan for success. And we did that twice and 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.000 after the first time, I'm like, hey, man, just just 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.079 move on, and we just we just didn't do it. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.360 So to me, it didn't make sense. You know, how 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.280 your defense is playing, you know, you've got some injuries. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.000 You know, you've got some young guys out there. Helped 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.120 these guys out, and you know at that point in 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.839 the game, special teams did not do that. I went 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.800 and checked out the stats because I like to kind 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.360 of pour over a couple of things after the games 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.400 to see, Okay, hey, what certain certain stats can really 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.480 tell the story of a game. And last week, one 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.560 of the big statistics I thought that told the story 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.280 of the football game for the Cowboys was in the 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.719 red zone. You know, they were two for four and 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.480 that the Cowboys needed to improve upon that. And so 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.599 you look at the game and the stats where it 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.400 goes in the red zone. Cowboys five or six in 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:47.480 the red zone in Atlanta two or four, score more touchdowns, 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.839 you win the football game. Cowboys win it by a 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.400 point forty to thirty nine. And then looking at the 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.880 second half possessions, the Falcons defense did not stop Dallas 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.400 at Cowboys scored on five or six possessions and the 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.920 only time they didn't score was on the when they 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.320 turned the ball over all downs, but they were a machine. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.079 It was truly a tale of two halves. And to 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.200 me once again that the Cowboys can figure out how 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.679 to you know, make these stop kicking field goals and 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.480 score touchdowns, they're going to have an opportunity to win games. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:23.959 Mccrack uh. You know, listen, we won, right and and 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.480 and I'm happy that we won. And I'm still gonna 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.320 sit here and say, look what we expected to happen 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.079 with Atlanta's defense happened, all right. So yeah, if we 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.959 could get it together and we could call some players 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.360 and we're going down the field and we and we 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.840 get it rolling. How we got a rolling against Atlanta. Oh, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.679 we can definitely win some games, but we gotta come 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.079 out and we gotta start faster than we started this 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.959 week and last week, because you know, the competition that 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.439 we have coming up is if we start that way, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.160 you know, we're not gonna get any wins. But I 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.559 did like the way that the offense started rolling in 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.320 the second half and we started getting some of our 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.720 playmakers involved, and that was very positive to see because 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.800 I've been on the play calling for while. So hopefully 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.400 Hopefully we continue that and that just wasn't our. You know, 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.520 we we have nothing to lose, so let's try to 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.880 catch up and run everything we had got. Hopefully that 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.240 is the game plan moving forward. Look, I will give credit. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:13.760 I have to give a little bit of credit to 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.960 Kelly Moore and Mike McCarthy because they did not give 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.080 up on the run. I mean, the twenty down twenty points. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.240 They could have simply said, you know what, thoo running 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.760 back out the backyard, let's put this all on dak 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.040 arm But they didn't do that at all. They kept 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.360 with the run. They gave him twenty It wasn't flashy 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.320 or anything like that. They gave him twenty two carries. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.360 I think he had around eighty nine or ninety yards. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.520 It wasn't too flashy. But what I think it did 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.800 was he pounded and consistently pounded this Atlanta defense. And 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.679 if you saw in the second half, there was a 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.800 lot of mistackles on that Atlantic side, and I think 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.400 a lot of that has to do with the pounding 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.280 that Zeke was able to put on these guys. If 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.079 you saw that that goal I run, I think it 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:55.480 was like he ran smooth through Demante CAZy. He wanted 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.160 no part of the rest of the game. I think 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.880 after that, and I think his pounding to that defense 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.080 had a lot to do with their second half success. Hey, listen, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.839 question because I may have missed the beginning of the game, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.520 but I think did Tony Pauler start the first series 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.079 the first two stories? They put them? Okay, they put 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.880 a bull again, put the both of the game, and 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.920 they gave Tony the first two carries and he fumbled. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.320 He fumbled the second. Yeah, yeah, okay, because because we 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.200 were talking about head scratch and stuff. You know, I'm 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.800 just trying to I'm just trying to, you know, level 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.600 it all up, make sure I got it all listed out. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.760 Because I was watching the game and once again the 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.240 dudes on my fants team, and I was like, what 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.120 the is going on? It's another another one of those 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.880 secretive things. Right. They probably showed that in practice, right, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.360 and they didn't want somebody's practice it, Like, hey, hey, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.160 we're gonna come out and the way that we're really 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.680 gonna fool Atlanta is we're gonna give TP the ball first, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.840 and look, I'm gonna give him some advice. Don't do 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:51.520 that again, all right, Just that again. All right, listen 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.360 to that again, rights, I just wanted to do that 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.560 as you're praising killing more, I just wanted to make 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.320 sure you remember that that that's what happened at the 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.880 beginning of again and that's all yeah, yeah, Kelly, Man, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.080 look stay away from man and all right, I know 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.480 that looks good and had you know the two backs 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.920 out there you gotta receive. You gotta don't do that, man, 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.200 Just stick with the gutta that can carry this offense. Man, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.040 oh man, that was a head strap of the shore man. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.960 Look um, the coaching decisions in this game, and overall, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.480 if we're giving the Cowboy coaching staff a grade Church, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.480 what grade are you giving them based on this Atlantic? 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.480 What would you give it? Look? It was it was 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.600 a like you said, man, it was a tailor two half. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.920 When you're looking up in a dictionary, this film should 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.880 be this game's film should be on there. As terrible 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.360 as they were in the first half. I gotta give 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.680 this coaching staff a B minus. Man, I got to 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.520 the catchwork. They had a patchwork offensive A B minus. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.600 I gotta do it, man, just because it was at 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.520 the tailor two halves, just that first half it was atrocious. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.840 I mean it was the decision making. The decision making 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.280 was downright awful. I understand that. But the way they 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.760 were able to patchwork this offensive line together and get 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.880 the second half rolling, I can't say that it was 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.720 just all terrible. I mean, those three first quarter turnovers 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.000 so terrible. I'm least giving them three nights. Let me 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.520 tell you something. Let me tell you something, full or 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.160 y'all argument, the best thing that could have happened, for 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.600 the best thing that could have happened for our old line. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.080 It is the injury towards attack that got hurt. But 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.480 that that was the best thing that that had nothing 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.080 to do with coaching. He was a waring the offensive 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:38.320 lie out before he got They didn't fast together nothing. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.040 I'm giving them. Listen, d's get degrees, all right, so 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.880 we got the win. So they're getting a straight D 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.200 for me, all right? They getting the D. It was, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.960 you know, whatever, be a gambler do all this from 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.560 bringing out all every single one almost of the kickoffs 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.400 and get tackled inside of twenty five, to the fake 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.880 punts to going for two to run and Tony polar 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.879 at the beginning to it's a honey, things right that 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.520 they could have cost us to lose the game. Thankfully, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.840 we were playing Atlanta twenty eight three and they're and 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.760 they're known for this, and they gave us the game back, 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.000 but they got to get a D for us. One man, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.040 it was just so many things that they did wrong, 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.320 so many like just bad calls, like stuff that make 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.200 you wonder, like where have you been? You know, like 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.159 have you really been studying since you were off? It 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.640 just I just didn't understand it from a Super Bowl, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.960 from a super super Bowl coach. And of course, of 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.320 course he's gonna get better. I mean, actually, let me 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.440 not say that. We hope that he gets better, you know, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.879 in making these decisions, and he kind of, you know, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.600 tell these coordinators, you know, this is what we're gonna do. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.040 And when they start saying, hey, we're gonna run a 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.840 fake punt every time, tell them no. But they get 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.680 a D for this one. And Atlanta saved us. And 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.760 you know that played great. We came back, but Atlanta 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.919 saved us. We got up too early. I mean, they 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:56.480 got up on us too early. They took the foot 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.040 off our throat and they and they couldn't put it 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.080 back on after after we started rolling, I got to 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:02.880 take a break out to hear that from your church. 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.639 I gotta recover on on real quick, on on before 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.720 you go, before you go, we got it, before you go, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:14.760 do it real quick, real quick, Cowboys Nation. Before y'all 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.800 go ahead listening to new and listen to Dandy. These 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.159 are the same two people that said Dak Prescott is 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.920 not worth forty one forty two million dollars. If it 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.920 was up to them, they would go ahead and sign 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.200 Andy Dalton for a lesser deal and let him see 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.200 what he can do with this talent. So before y'all 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:33.000 go ahead, listen to what you guys remember backtrack a lot, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.320 they backtrack. That's all I'm saying. That's all. We gotta 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.080 address this when we come back because Church been over 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.720 there putting words in the mouth out of context all is. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.240 But that wasn't what I say it on Friday. That's 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.920 not what I'm confused. I don't know, I don't know. 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.120 If we have we had to take a break here. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.040 We will set Barry Church straight because his listening skills 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.040 are not right there. 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I was at the game last night, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.000 and we bring in Danny McCray and Barry Church, two 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.040 former Cowboys players. Now, let's pick up on the slander 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:50.320 that Barry Church through at us last segment towards McCray 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.160 and I talked to press. Okay, so so McCray, I'm 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:56.320 gonna let you go ahead and an address Barry right 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.920 here before. So so let's start off with what Barry 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.720 I don't know. It's interpreting, misinterpreting because what we said 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:07.320 was if that does not make a deep playoff run, 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.320 the Cowboys will likely not pay him over forty forty 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.840 million dollars and they probably shouldn't if he doesn't make 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.040 a deep playoff run, and they could go in another direction. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.200 Knew he said Andy Dunk could be an option. I said, 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.399 we don't know who will be available, but if somebody 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.600 else is available, for cheaper, like you know there's a 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.600 quality quarterback, then yeah, they'll probably make that decision. We 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.040 didn't say that. You know, that's what they should do today, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.240 all right, And to come on, come on, come on, 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:37.359 come on, come on, Church. You you watched, you watched 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:41.200 the same season as I did last year and you 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.920 saw listen. As a matter of fact, as the first 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.200 quarter was going on, I got a phone call and 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:48.840 the dude who called me had Dak on his team, 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:50.240 and I was like, hey, bro, don't worry. You know, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.040 Dak gonna get these trash yards anyway. All right, this 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:57.080 is this is known. This is known. It's like if 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.480 versus anybody else, those are trash yards and not a loss. 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.520 Versus Atlanta, that's a hell of a comeback. And more 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.439 credit to him for doing it because he does make 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.960 it happen. But if you do that every game and 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.359 you lose, and you and that comes with six thousand 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:12.680 yards and forty touchdowns and you don't make the playoffs, 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.320 you ain't getting forty five million. I still believe that. 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:18.680 So that that's why I met with that. It was 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.080 a great It was a great game. He played an 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.800 amazing game, amazing comeback taking nothing away from him, but 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:27.000 that playoff run is still necessary for him to get 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:33.240 the money that he wants. Okay, Okay, it's political season, 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.399 and what you just did in that last segment, Barry 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.240 is aching to you. Turning on the television and you 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:43.360 hear Nui and Danny hate Dak Prush Scott. They never 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.440 they don't want to play. In fact, exact, they want 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:53.000 Andy Dalton to get all the cash for funny Barry 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:58.359 Church in twenty he scored. That's that is what you 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:01.879 threw out there, miss representing the facts. And it's okay, 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.800 It's okay. My shouldiers are big enough to take it. Okay. 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:10.280 But what Danny said it's totally different than what you 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:15.040 interpret it. But that's okay, that's okay. What I am 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:17.080 happy for Dak Prescott. Let me make sure I run 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.400 off the numbers for the folks out there. Thirty four 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:21.760 forty seven, four hundred and fifty yards through the air, 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:25.280 one touchdown pass, three touchdown runs. First player in NFL 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.000 history have three touchdown runs and over four hundred yards 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:31.920 passing in this game. Dak Prescott, in my opinion, for 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:36.119 the second straight week, took the Cowboys down the field 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:40.359 where you wanted them too. Last week, that catch that 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:44.560 Michael Gallup made was nullified. Okay, but he went deep 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:47.200 may make that catch, and I know you two agreed 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:49.680 with the p I call. I didn't. But the Cowboys 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.200 are right there and arranged to kick a field goal 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:54.600 to take it to overtime, if not possibly try and 0:24:54.720 --> 0:24:56.480 throw to the end zone and win the game. And 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:59.639 then here he is again. Second half. He had a 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:01.760 fun by the way which led to an Atlanta touchdown 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.720 the first quarter, but the second half five or six touchdown, 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:08.080 five or six scoring drives for the Cowboys. He led 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:10.760 them to the win. He did what you want him 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.560 to do. He did what a guy who's asking for 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:16.960 and wants to have one of the better contracts out there. 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:20.280 And I tell you what, because we were all watching 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:23.479 the Cowboy game, and I was kind of peeking out 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:26.440 of my side eye watching the Rams game because I 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:29.960 had Tyler Higbee on my fantasy team. Did anybody look 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:37.240 at Carson Wentz. Carson Carson Wentz is the last thing 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:41.000 he is is a franchise quarterback. The way he's two 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:43.880 costly interceptions, one in the end zone, and how many 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.080 times I can't tell you how many times I do 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:50.560 these interviews with NBC Philadelphia during Cowboys during the Cowboy Week, 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:54.520 and it's always who's better quarterback? Dak? Who's better quarterback wins? 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:58.359 And I'm like, yo, you guys took this dude second 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:00.800 overall and made all that ALEI a trade up to 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:02.640 get him. You gave him one hundred and twenty seven 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:05.200 million dollars, and let's be honest, this is a guy 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.560 who's not played well since Frank Wright left the building. 0:26:09.040 --> 0:26:12.240 So many people or who picked Philadelphia this year, We're 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.880 putting it on Carson Wentz. Pete Prisco CBS Sports dot Com. 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:18.280 He said that Carson Wentz was going to have an 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:21.200 MVP like season this year, as he picked Philadelphia to 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:23.639 win the East. You didn't see anything in MVP the 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.240 past two games. This was a game in which the 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:28.720 Rams came out, beat him up over their head, Philly 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:30.840 made a comeback and Carson Wentz threw him out of 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:32.720 the game. Then I bring that up to say, you 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:35.440 go back and look at Dak Prescott. People said this 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:38.400 guy not worth the money after Game one. He put 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:41.320 on a performance and for some folks out here in 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:44.480 Cowboys Nation, you're still down on Dak Prescott t about 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:47.080 his empty calories that you know, hey, it was garbage toot. 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:50.600 He won the football game, he got the win. Nobody 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:52.920 called Tom Brady's went over the Atlanti Fils in Super 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.200 Bowl garbage yards. Nobody called it empty calories. You know 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:56.920 what they called it. They called it a victory, and 0:26:57.040 --> 0:26:59.240 they called it a Super Bowl win. This isn't a 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:01.600 super Bowl win, but they won, and they're now tied 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:03.920 for first place versus being oh and two getting ready 0:27:03.920 --> 0:27:07.600 to go to Seattle. Dak Prescott should be the NFL 0:27:07.720 --> 0:27:09.560 Offensive Player of the Week in my opinion, I don't 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.040 know how anybody else beat him for what he did. 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:14.159 As his team was down twenty points, they come back 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:16.880 get the victory, so boom, yeah, Simi piece, yeah, it's 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:20.040 it's it's only garbage. It's only garbage yards if you 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:22.760 if you lose or if you're not playing Atlanta. You 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:25.280 know all last year that they were garbage yards. This 0:27:25.640 --> 0:27:28.160 this this one wasn't. And and like I said, shout 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.200 out to deck Man. He played his butt off and 0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:32.760 got him to win. One of the best comebacks I've 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:34.879 ever seen it my entire life. And I'm sure a 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:37.119 lot of people feel the same way. So I'm not 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:39.600 I'm not down on deck, but if he doesn't make 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:41.440 a playoff run with all this talent that he has, 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:45.439 it'll be some people that's down on him. Yeah, I mean, 0:27:45.600 --> 0:27:48.359 like I'm obviously I'm huge on deck right now. You 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:49.960 know the guy did. He went out there and played, 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:51.920 He played his hard on, led his team back into 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:54.840 the into the game. And it's to your point, knew 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:57.280 he with this division. I mean, I think it's it's 0:27:57.560 --> 0:27:59.200 between It was at the beginning of the year. I 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:00.880 thought it was a two race. I thought it would 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:03.719 be between Dallas and I thought it would be between Philly. Now, 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:05.480 the rash of the injuries the Philly faced on that 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:07.960 offensive line, you could tell right now it's it's starting 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.720 to rear its ugly head. But even with those guys healthy, 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:13.880 I'm looking at Carson Winston, I just don't know if 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:16.359 he has it right now. So to me, I'm thinking 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:18.840 Washington they even look better than Philly right now. Dwayne 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:20.879 Haskins looks like he's doing a little bit better of 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:22.879 a job than wins right now at the quarterback position. 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:25.359 And we can't sleep on Washington's defense at all, but 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:28.560 for right now, after week two, I'm saying, right now, 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:31.080 the division, it's kind of up in the air right now. 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:32.720 But I gotta give it to the Cowboys for a 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:35.440 slight edge over Washington. But Philly they just looked down 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:41.960 right disgusting right now. I got yeah, I got you. No, no, Danny, 0:28:42.000 --> 0:28:45.320 go ahead, no, no, I I still got us first 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:48.840 in Philly. Second. You know, they played the Rams who 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:52.000 played well against us last week, and then they ran 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:55.600 into the Washington you know front seven who will see 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:58.080 and we'll see, you know how good they really are. 0:28:58.120 --> 0:29:00.640 So I don't think they had you know, easy game 0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:02.960 so far. And what we do know about Carson Winson 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:05.160 the Eagles is they can start off whenever they want 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:07.240 too bad or good, but they know how to get 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:09.160 some gags rolling together. So I'm not gonna count them 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:10.680 out yet, but I do think that we are the 0:29:10.760 --> 0:29:15.840 team to be in the division. Philadelphia's talent, in my opinion, 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:20.160 has been a little bit overrated. They thought that, Okay, 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:22.200 we've got these weapons now because they were saying in 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:25.400 the off season, Okay, what you have to do is 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:30.400 get Carson some speed down the field. Okay, So Deshaun 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:33.320 Jackson's back after being hurt last year, they draft Jalen Rager. 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:37.680 I'm not seeing it right now, and I'm also not 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:40.720 seeing them control the line of scrimmage. The Rams came 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:43.920 out there basically did to Philly even worse what they 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:45.440 did in the Cowboys, and they punched him in the 0:29:45.520 --> 0:29:48.160 mouth with the run, and then they attacked them over 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:50.320 the middle of the defense. That's where Hippy was sitting 0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:52.240 up here making three touchdowns and living on it. So 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:54.520 Philly's got some words that they've got to cover up. 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:56.760 And then on as far as the outside goes, fine, 0:29:56.840 --> 0:29:58.960 you got Darius Slay who's good on the outside, but 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:01.840 they're in the middle. The middle area is soft and 0:30:01.960 --> 0:30:04.800 you can attack Philadelphia there. They've got some warts and 0:30:05.040 --> 0:30:07.680 we'll see if Doug Peterson can cover them up. But 0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:10.239 one of the biggest things Doug Peterson can't go out 0:30:10.320 --> 0:30:12.600 here play for Carson Wins. He's got to be better. 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.200 You cannot throw a pick in the end zone. You 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:17.520 just can't do it. And I think it was Fuller, 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:19.600 the kid that ended up making that play on CD lame. 0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:21.320 When the Cowboys went forward on fourth and three in 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:22.920 city kick in the field goal to make it a 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:26.440 twenty twenty game. He made another group another good play. 0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:27.760 I think he was the one who made the interception 0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:29.640 in the end zone. No, no, it was a different play. 0:30:29.680 --> 0:30:32.080 It was a different player. But look, the Rams are 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:34.800 playing good football, and maybe we wrote the Rams off 0:30:34.840 --> 0:30:38.360 too quick, and you start looking at that NFC West 0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:41.840 right now. I picked Seattle to win the division. They're 0:30:41.880 --> 0:30:44.040 two and oh. They get the Cowboys this week. The 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:48.880 forty nine good. Yeah, Arizona is two and o looking good. 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:50.640 They beat the forty nine ers week one, then they 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:54.479 beat Washington. Then you've got San Francisco who lost Week one. 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:57.520 Arizona they beat the Jets, but boy, they lose Nick 0:30:57.600 --> 0:31:01.360 Bosa to injury. Raheem Moster's gonna miss a couple of weeks. 0:31:01.360 --> 0:31:03.239 They're saying Bosa's probably gonna be out for the year. 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:05.760 Jimmy Garoppolo's got a high ankle sprain. They've already had 0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:08.560 some receivers here who are damned. So the forty nine 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:10.479 ers are gonna they're having some issues, like they had 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:12.600 to pass last year they didn't have any, but the 0:31:13.560 --> 0:31:17.000 previous two seasons before injuries really hurt them. So the 0:31:17.160 --> 0:31:19.840 Rams in Arizona and by the way, I picked Arizona 0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:21.640 and make the playoffs. The Rams and Arizona could be 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:23.640 in this thing, and who knows where the Niners fall 0:31:23.960 --> 0:31:26.600 depending on where they're going. So and we got another 0:31:26.680 --> 0:31:29.760 playoff team this year, so it's gonna be real interesting 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:34.120 on how that NFC West shakes out here. After two games, 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:38.480 the Cowboys look as though like last year in terms 0:31:38.520 --> 0:31:42.560 of if you do your part, you should win the division. 0:31:43.040 --> 0:31:46.520 They didn't do their part last year, but with everything 0:31:46.600 --> 0:31:49.360 that's going on here, they should. They should win this 0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:52.120 division if especially if they can get some guys healthy. 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:53.840 In my opinion, hey, let's take another break. 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You can 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:20.480 hit me at Danny dmc forty four on Twitter, and 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:23.040 then you can hit me at Danny Utterscore mccraig forty 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:28.600 on Instagram. All right, Um, three guys that to me 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:31.680 were unsung heroes. I mean, obviously we know about Dak 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:33.920 Prescott and what he did, but just you know, in 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:36.880 the course of a comeback like this, Um, there's guys 0:35:37.000 --> 0:35:40.000 doing some things and they're doing their part. Adalt Schultz 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:43.520 the tight End, set a single game and career best 0:35:43.600 --> 0:35:46.960 in receptions with nine receiving arts eighty eight, also recording 0:35:47.000 --> 0:35:50.279 his first ever touchdown reception late in the fourth quarter. 0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:54.120 And then I think about the tackle right tackle Tarrance Steal, 0:35:54.160 --> 0:35:56.719 the rookie making his second start for the Cowboys. And 0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:59.200 then on the other side, he had Brandon Knight starting 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:00.960 at left tackle for the first time the season in 0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:03.840 the in the second overall NFL start for him in 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:07.320 his second in his two years in the NFL. These guys, 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:10.319 especially once tack McKinley went out, were able to help 0:36:10.440 --> 0:36:14.000 keep Dak Prescott clean. They the Atlanta only had one 0:36:14.040 --> 0:36:17.200 sack and four quarterback pressures. So what those guys did 0:36:17.239 --> 0:36:20.240 on the offensive, lind I can't say enough of because 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:22.439 I remember what happened last year in the Jets game 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:25.080 when Lel Collins and Tyres Smith missed that game and 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.240 the Cowboys were not able to get themselves a victory. 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:30.120 They were able to get themselves a victory on Sunday. 0:36:30.200 --> 0:36:32.040 So I look at those three guys and I just say, hey, 0:36:32.520 --> 0:36:35.279 very good job, unsung heroes. As the Cowboys come back 0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:39.000 and win forty to thirty nine, who do you guys have? Yeah, 0:36:39.120 --> 0:36:41.160 I'm gonna go ahead and piggyback on that man, because 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:43.840 both Dalton Shots and those those two guys, I mean, 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:47.600 they played phenomenal. I'm gonna be honest. After that first 0:36:47.640 --> 0:36:49.839 fumble from Dalton Shots, man, I was the first one 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:52.319 out there talking about, oh, this guy's trash, get him 0:36:52.320 --> 0:36:54.000 off to Phil and he can't do nothing out there. 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:56.279 But I mean he showed up the plane. Like you said, 0:36:56.400 --> 0:36:59.680 nine receptions eighty eight yards and a touchdown. He showed. 0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:02.319 He showed that he had the same type of grit 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:04.960 and scrap that the rest of his team had. Especially 0:37:05.040 --> 0:37:07.600 with the injury to Blake Jarwin. I mean, we finally 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:09.840 had a tight end that can threaten the scenes, that 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:12.240 can be a mismatched nightmare. And then who was supposed 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:13.759 to be a big weapon for us this year, but 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:16.600 we lose him for the entire year. All Dalton Shows 0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:18.160 did was you know, the first game, man, he had 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:20.080 a couple drops and then he fumbled this one, so 0:37:20.160 --> 0:37:22.680 he could have easily mailed it in, but he went 0:37:22.719 --> 0:37:24.680 out there got nine catches eighty eight yards and the 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:26.560 TV and I think, if I'm not mistaken, he was 0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:28.680 one of the top three leaders in the receptions and 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:31.279 yards for that game. And then you mentioned the two 0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:33.560 tackles out there. The two young guys, I mean one 0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:35.200 making his second start and I think the other one 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:37.680 was making his first start, but earlier in that game, 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:39.319 I mean they could have mailed it in as well. 0:37:39.640 --> 0:37:42.040 The edges were under attack, I mean, tacking Achilley on 0:37:42.120 --> 0:37:44.640 one side, Dante Fowler on the other side. They were, 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:47.080 they were having Dak Prescott out there running for his life. 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:49.280 But like you said, it was a tail of two halves, 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:50.919 and in the second half they were able to bounce 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:54.080 back and pretty much short up that offensive line to 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:57.000 give Dak the ability to attack Atlanta downfield. So all 0:37:57.040 --> 0:37:58.480 three of those guys, I mean, they played heck of 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:00.360 the game. So hopefully they'll be able to get that 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:04.600 throughout the year. Yeah, and I agree with y'all. So 0:38:04.719 --> 0:38:06.279 I don't want to I don't want to say the 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:08.439 same people. So what I'm gonna do is I believe 0:38:08.480 --> 0:38:11.319 it was Neiah Brown with a big catch, catching run 0:38:12.120 --> 0:38:14.080 that was That was a big play. When your number 0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:16.799 is called, sometimes you just get one opportunity. He got 0:38:16.880 --> 0:38:18.719 his opportunity. He made the most of us, So I'm 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:22.600 gonna give him that. I also, man, listen, the defense 0:38:22.640 --> 0:38:26.080 gave up thirty nine points. But I think they played 0:38:26.239 --> 0:38:28.239 way better than they played last week. I think they 0:38:28.320 --> 0:38:30.920 made some huge plays. They stopped the run. I agree. Uh. 0:38:31.120 --> 0:38:33.440 You know these linebackers, they got in there and they 0:38:33.760 --> 0:38:35.440 did what they had to do. Jalen Smith made a 0:38:35.480 --> 0:38:38.040 good play in the past game. They did some stuff 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:39.680 you know that they didn't do that. They didn't show 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:41.160 the first week that they could build off of the 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:44.279 young secondary. You know, they battled, they fought, you know, 0:38:44.320 --> 0:38:46.600 they gave us some catchers, but they showed that they 0:38:46.640 --> 0:38:48.520 had no quit in them and they and they they'll fight. 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:51.920 Scratching claw and my third one, it's gonna go to 0:38:52.520 --> 0:38:55.239 the Great dan Quinn Man. He told Mike McCarthy, Hey, 0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:59.439 hold my beard. Hope you think you're doing something, Hold 0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:01.600 my beard. Let me let me show you how to 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:04.880 really do this. So he's an awesong because because what 0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:07.920 without him, what they say, Without him, none of this 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:14.080 would be possible. The Great dan Quinn Man, the ultimate 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:18.680 folder man. Dan Quinn was like, no, no, no, I'm 0:39:18.800 --> 0:39:21.640 special with this. This is what I do. This is 0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:24.480 what I do. Okay, let me show you. Let me 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:29.200 show me. And literally Jeff Jeff Schultz, who writes for 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:32.800 the Athletic Um down in Atlanta. He's covered Atlanta sports 0:39:32.840 --> 0:39:34.800 for a long time and he wrote a column and 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:37.560 the basic thing he wrote in the column is this 0:39:37.840 --> 0:39:42.080 feels like this is really the end. And and you're 0:39:42.160 --> 0:39:43.680 going back and looking at and you know what they've 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:46.759 done since the Super Bowl? He put their record out. 0:39:46.760 --> 0:39:48.600 I think it's like ten and twenty something. But the 0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:51.719 bottom line is dan Quinn is done much in the 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:53.920 same way that Mike Smith was done. You know, you 0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:56.319 reach this point, you get here, and once you don't 0:39:56.320 --> 0:39:58.640 break through, you just kind of keep on falling down. 0:39:58.920 --> 0:40:02.279 And so they were given the opportunity to come back 0:40:02.600 --> 0:40:05.799 and try and do it one more time. And look, 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:09.120 they can say all the platitudes and we've got to 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:11.360 just go back and do the work. But it's not working. 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:14.200 They're not going to be better this year than the Saints. 0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:16.120 They're not going to be better this year than Tampa. 0:40:16.400 --> 0:40:20.439 And Rich McKay, who's now overall, he's over the GM, Thomas, 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:22.960 Jimmy Troup and Dan Quinn. But McKay is gonna tell 0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:25.920 Arthur Blank fire him. So right now, I'm telling you 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:28.120 there's gonna be job opening in Atlanta, and it's gonna 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:30.680 be a job opening in Detroit because GM, Bob Quinn 0:40:30.760 --> 0:40:34.239 and Matt Patricia are terrible. He fired Jim Caldwell. Bob 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:36.759 Quinn said nine and seven is not good enough. Matt 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:40.080 Patricius now in his third season with Detroit, he's only 0:40:40.160 --> 0:40:42.840 won nine total games. They can't even get the nineties. 0:40:43.600 --> 0:40:45.759 Lucky if they could get the seven and nine. So 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:48.920 there's gonna be some jobings. And you know what I'm 0:40:48.960 --> 0:40:50.279 gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna give you a 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:54.000 name of a guy who I could easily see being 0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:58.920 the head coach in Atlanta, Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett was 0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:03.120 offered the job from Arthur Blank, which he turned down 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:05.800 to stay with the Cowboys, and they ended up hiring 0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:08.959 Mike Smith for that job. So I think, if given 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:12.239 an opportunity, I think Jason Garrett could very well be 0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:15.000 the next head coach in Atlanta. He's already gone through 0:41:15.040 --> 0:41:18.279 the process with Rich McKay and Arthur Blank. So keep 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.120 in mind, you hurt it, you hurt it here, You 0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:24.640 hurt it here. First, baby, listen, question real quick. Let 0:41:24.680 --> 0:41:27.960 me ask you a question. So what what do y'all 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:29.880 think that says about the coach and staff. I mean, 0:41:29.960 --> 0:41:32.800 like there's two huge just comeback victories and then that 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:35.319 special teams that on side. How do you not jump 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:37.239 on the ball? I mean, I know the rules are 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:39.080 that you know, you got it has to go ten 0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:41.120 yards before the kicking team can jump on it. But 0:41:41.800 --> 0:41:43.919 what goes through their mind right there? Maybe Danny, maybe 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:45.759 you can attest that, But to why they wouldn't want 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:47.439 to jump on that, I just let it just blew 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:49.279 my man on that one. Yeah, So so let me 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:51.640 let me dissect that for y'all. Man, let me dissect 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:54.160 this onside kick, because this is this is the play 0:41:54.239 --> 0:41:56.359 that's worked on. It's worked on about once a week, 0:41:56.440 --> 0:41:58.239 right on Saturday. If you get out there and this 0:41:58.400 --> 0:41:59.960 is where you do the onside kick, you're bringing them 0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:02.280 out there and you're getting ready, right. So I'm blaming 0:42:02.360 --> 0:42:05.480 this The first person I'm blaming this song is Julio Jones. 0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:08.719 The second group of people and I'm blaming this song 0:42:08.960 --> 0:42:10.879 are the people who's supposed to be blocking for him. 0:42:11.360 --> 0:42:14.480 And if you look at it, we actually did everything 0:42:14.600 --> 0:42:17.759 wrong and so did the Falcons. Right. The people who 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:20.600 are who are on the line, what you're supposed to do. 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:22.960 This is why they call it the most dangerous playing football, right, 0:42:23.160 --> 0:42:26.000 because if you're the kicking team, you're supposed to go 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:28.920 take out everybody that's across from you and let a 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:31.600 guy run behind and kept and scoop the ball, right, 0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:34.000 So you supposed to eliminate everybody in front of him. 0:42:34.320 --> 0:42:37.600 We didn't touch a soul. If you're the other team, 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:40.680 you're supposed to clear the way for Julio Jones to 0:42:40.800 --> 0:42:43.640 be able to make a clear catch. So you're supposed 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:46.399 to run up and you're supposed to hit the opposing team, 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:49.040 clear the way and let Julio do what he does. 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:53.640 Neither team touched anybody, right. Everybody just kind of looked 0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:55.800 and CJ was the guy who was supposed to be 0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:58.960 going to battle with Julio, and CJ just be Julio. 0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:01.719 But Julio is just sitting there waiting like his main 0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:03.920 job because what you told the front line is don't 0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:06.120 worry about the ball. We got somebody with hands who's 0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:09.359 gonna sit back catch the ball, right, So Julio's only 0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:11.000 job was to scoop the ball, and the people in 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:13.080 front of him job was to go hit the people 0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:15.719 that played for the Cowboys. Nobody did any of that. 0:43:16.080 --> 0:43:18.320 And the reason they didn't get the ball is because 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:22.400 usually when that thing rolls like that, uh, it doesn't 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:24.279 go ten yards nine times out of ten when that 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:26.360 ball is rolling, it goes about seven and then it 0:43:26.480 --> 0:43:28.959 dies and the nation's an easy play. They were waiting 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:31.239 for that ball to die, and it never died, and 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:34.800 it bit about. That's what happened. May my boy HOULI 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:36.680 my boy, Julio, I can't put My boy made a 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:40.279 business decision, man. He was like, hold on my handstrains 0:43:40.320 --> 0:43:43.239 are already hurting. I got these line packers running at me, 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:45.960 running four fasts, running at me, about to blow me up. Man, Hey, 0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:48.600 y'all take care of that. Y'all handle that man. Church. 0:43:48.800 --> 0:43:51.799 But Church, you see, if you see our squad bro, 0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:54.320 we didn't want to touch nobody even Oh yeah, no, 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:58.080 Archie didn't do nothing. I think that was I don't 0:43:58.080 --> 0:44:01.360 know what number it was, but he screened past everybody 0:44:01.480 --> 0:44:04.600 the ball the Atlanta Front seven. Julio, he ain't touch 0:44:04.640 --> 0:44:06.359 a soul in there, and then turned around and look 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:08.279 that nobody had the ball yet. And he was just like, man, 0:44:08.560 --> 0:44:10.160 I guess I'll standing around with the rest of y'all. 0:44:10.200 --> 0:44:13.800 So that was terrible. I sack it was all it 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:15.959 was all wrong. It was all wrong on both sides. 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:18.399 It worked out for us, but we didn't touch a soul. 0:44:18.560 --> 0:44:20.399 They didn't touch a soul, We didn't clear the lane 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:22.600 for nobody, and we just ended up getting the ball first. 0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:25.400 It was It was bad, but it worked out for us. Somebody, 0:44:25.520 --> 0:44:28.280 somebody was sending that home with that Buffalo wild Wings button, 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:30.719 except it was they gonna keep hitting that button to 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:33.279 the Cowboys win. So they made they made the ball, 0:44:33.640 --> 0:44:35.799 you know, bounce a certain way. They made Atlanta dude 0:44:35.840 --> 0:44:38.040 dump stuff, and they just kept hitting the buttons to 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:41.120 the Cowboys one and we made it happen. So good 0:44:41.160 --> 0:44:46.480 for us, but that was horrible execution. I was one 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:49.080 of the luckiest games I've ever seen in my life. Man, 0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:51.080 for somebody to take I don't know if y'all Olympic, 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:53.319 but for somebody to get a curling you ever seen 0:44:53.360 --> 0:44:58.080 curling in the Olympics. How they shoot that, I don't 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:00.040 know how they made a football act like that, but 0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:02.160 it was the same thing. It was just slowly, just 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:04.759 matriculating this way until across the ten. Man, I've never 0:45:04.800 --> 0:45:09.200 seen anything like and you don't tell us. Listen, listen 0:45:09.200 --> 0:45:12.480 if Joe, if Joe d Commissa's in their room, everybody 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:15.880 cursed out. Everybody. If you cursed out, you just get 0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:19.399 called all type of week whatever, because your main goal 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:21.280 is to go out there and be a football player 0:45:21.520 --> 0:45:23.279 and hit the guy that you were siding to hit. 0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:27.080 And I didn't hear a pad smack at all that 0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:34.360 it was. I'm gonna in the show at this. It 0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:37.280 was a good point made by former Dallas Cowboys Scott 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:40.200 Brian brought us where he said the Cowboys were very 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:42.960 smart to make sure they kicked that ball towards their 0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:46.000 side of the field versus Atlantic side, where the Atlanta 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:49.000 coaches could have yelled at their own players, get on 0:45:49.080 --> 0:45:51.600 the ball, get on the ball. So that didn't happen. 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:56.600 So a bones fossil and greg'srline and special teams already, um, 0:45:56.920 --> 0:45:59.520 you know, making making two pretty good plays, uh, and 0:45:59.600 --> 0:46:01.880 then airline with the game winning field goal. Hey, that 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:05.360 is the players, lads here on a victory Monday. Danny 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:08.440 McCrae former Dallas Cowboys safety, Barry Church, former Dallas Cowboys 0:46:08.480 --> 0:46:11.120 safety and meet longtime Cowboy reporting new we Scholls. We 0:46:11.160 --> 0:46:14.200 appreciate you. We'll do it again tomorrow two thirty Central time, 0:46:14.280 --> 0:46:18.160 right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:21.040 been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:22.799 Dallas Cowboys Football Club.