WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Trust Issues? 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.240 The following is the production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:10.280 Cowboys. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:17.000 This is the Players Lounge broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.480 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.439 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and new he. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:34.520 Scrugs Players Lounge coming your way, s WBC Podcast Center. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.680 Here at the Start, Frisco, the world headquarters of the 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:38.760 Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:39.440 You know the crew. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:45.559 Danny McCrae, l Shu Bingle, Tiger, Heckma Harrison is here 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.200 in the house getting things done. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.360 And we've got Barry Church, the. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.600 Toledo Rocket there trying trying to do well in the mac. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:52.800 Here. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.080 You, your head coach, could could be in play for 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.160 the Michigan state job. 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:01.480 Soy him an extra forty dollars stay. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:03.840 Price is probably gone up to. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.280 Back up back. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.720 I have knew he scrugs here players, I was about 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.520 to you buy tostitos. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:13.920 Well. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.640 Coordinators talked yesterday. I was trying to explain exactly what happened. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.839 Mike McCarthy trying to explain what happened here. Let's start 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.920 with defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, who said that there were 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.560 three players who played well in that loss against Arizona 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.600 Tank Lawrence, Malie Cooker, and Ron Blant. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:34.360 Don't start with you, Danny, you agree, Listen. I trust 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.959 dan Quinn. Okay, I trust dan Quinn. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.160 I said yesterday that DeMarcus Lawrence played a hell of 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:40.920 a football game. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.119 Okay. We did talk about Dron Blain a little bit. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:49.160 I'm assuming, I'm assuming that we are focusing on five 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.200 to six plays. He's focusing on the entirety of the 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.240 game and the situations that he put him in. We 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.360 don't know the schemes that he called, what his actual 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.800 job was on each place, so some plays we might 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.720 have them get beat. And dan Quinn was like, Hey, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.960 this is what they're running, and this is what I 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.520 want you to play, and then react to everything else. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.280 I haven't known dan Quinn and Mike MacArthur to get 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.760 out here and tell lives about players playing better than 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.160 what they've been playing. So I'm not gonna just all 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.040 of a sudden start believing it now. He said d 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.280 run Band played well. That mean he played with effort, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.040 intensity and he knew his technique. So I'm okay with it. Okay, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.680 So Drun blaying as we talked about yesterday is a 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.480 okay all right, and DeMarcus Lawrence is still saying, hey, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.120 follow me, play like I play, and then you know 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:31.200 what I'm saying, we'll have an effort. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.800 I think the biggest thing for me was he saw 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:34.800 the same thing we saw. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.440 Everybody didn't play with the same effort and intensity as 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:39.440 we usually play with. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:40.000 All right. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.280 It was something going on to where we just weren't 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.160 focused on the standard that we usually set as a 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 defense throughout those first two games and actually all of 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.560 last year. So that was the thing where I'm like, Okay, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.880 he sees it. He knows he needs to get out 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.359 there and make sure these guys are motivated because obviously, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.120 you know, you know, revisiting week five wasn't really a 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:04.120 thing is revisiting week three. So I'm I'm okay, man 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.200 shout out, shout out the Duran playing. Hey, Hey we're sorry, bro, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:08.880 we just saw a couple of players. You know that 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.280 that was off a little bit. But I trust dan Quinn. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.520 So Duran playing to be you know, singled out or 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.000 actually tripled out, whatever you call it. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:16.839 He played well. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.400 You love dan Quinn, Doggy, that is your love for 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.560 dan Quinn is a match. But we got to call 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.440 capricorn on that man the flag on the plane because 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.080 you watched the hunched the whole game, and I thought, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.119 I really did think that it was a confidence play 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.400 from dan Quinn, just basically saying, look, I got a 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.440 guy that got to start on Thursday. We went all week, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.400 all the way through the scheme and everything, and he 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.800 knew he was going to play in the nickel uh 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.200 with j Lou And next day, you know, we have 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.960 to thrust him into the starting lineup, even on the 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.920 side that he's not used to playing. So I mean, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:52.000 even as I dissected what he was talking about, I 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.800 thought it was more or less, Hey, this is a 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.240 guy in the last minute, had to go in and start, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.400 and he did a serviceable job. Obviously the penalties. He 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.800 even said he with some of those penalties, like, man, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.880 it's just a part of how we play and if 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.040 it's gonna be like that, we'll accept those things. But hey, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.920 guy playing in the last minute like he did, he 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.720 did he did it well. He did a good enough job. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.280 You're gonna come home in DQ. Hold on last year 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.120 when the cornerbacks went down, Okay, and we had to 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.960 see Darn Bland and Bossman Flat and they shun right 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:19.600 over there. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.360 Did dan Quinn lie about how they played? 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.080 Did he come out here and say, hey man, hey, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.000 everybody played bad except Kevin Joseph. Did he say that, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.280 Hey man, hey listen, they got some stuff they need 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.440 to learn. We're gonna get it figured out. That was 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.560 the conversation that he had. That was their confidence booster. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.960 Hey man, you didn't play horrible stuff to learn. He 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.039 didn't say that about d ron Blad. He could have 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.680 just said, hey, Darn Blair played bad, just like everybody 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.560 that he didn't say that. He's single them out as 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.120 one of those guys who actually played well. So that's 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.159 why I believe him. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.520 Man, I gotta go with heck on this. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.400 You know and like you, But you are right in 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.280 the same sense as well when you talk about dan 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.200 Quinn knowing more than on all of us as far 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.720 as it goes to his defense. But when we look 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.280 at it, it just looked like the man it was 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:05.280 a little lost out there. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.400 Now, you are right. I don't know the system like that. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.359 I don't know the play calls all one hundred percent 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.560 like that, So there could be some truth in there, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.640 but overall, I mean it was a small sample side 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.880 think it was his first time out there on the outside. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.880 I don't know how many snaps he got there last year, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.200 but I would you know, this year was his first 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.440 time on the outside. So we'll give him a little 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.160 bit of leeway and we'll see, you know, what happens 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:24.960 coming up here this week, because I'm sure dan Quinn 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.240 will throw some wrinkles in there to help him on 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.920 that outside. The only thing I'm kind of nervous about 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.120 with that is does it take away from the aggressiveness 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.080 of dan Quinn's defense, Like you got to dial it 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.160 back a little bit because you may be ailing a 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.040 little bit on one side during the second theary like 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.039 do you throw a safety over top over there? And 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.560 does that take away from usually you muddying you know, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.560 the inside of the field as far as the safeties 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.160 are concerned. So I'm interested to see how they play 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.560 out going forward. But I mean, hey, we all know 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.600 d Las played well. He went out there and he 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.000 did his thing versus the run in moleak hooker. Even 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.640 though there was a lot of big plays out there, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.960 he minimized a lot of it. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.039 Like that fourteen when he. 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.479 Was wide open on the car across her, across the 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.520 field or whatever, and he was about to score Malik 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.320 who did a great job sawing him down and making 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.480 sure you know, they stop here at the ten yard last. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.719 So those two guys did play well. Gotta go with 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:10.480 you when it comes. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.720 To dron Blad. But overall this defense needs to step 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.720 up coming up this week, Aldgainst, New England. I listen, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.599 you know, I just you know, because I do. I 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.640 think dan Quinn is the guy, okay, like I said, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.599 and I trust him. I just don't there are other guys. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.400 He could have singled out and said, if he wanted 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.120 to get him a confidence boost, Masui Smith, ain't got 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.239 no confidence boost. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.600 No, okay, you know you need even to go out 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:32.000 there and play. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.080 And nobody got out there and said that he played well, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.720 like just just so they can say, Michael West and 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.960 Michael Parsons said, well and if you trust okay, so 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.599 if the guy's in the locker room in the defensive room, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.080 trust dan Quinn. Right, and we out here and then 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.240 and there in there and dan Quinn said, you play well, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.760 you played well, You play well, and the whole meeting 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.480 room is like hold on twenty six, he played well, 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.040 like then you just lose a little bit about what 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.039 you feel about dan Quinn. That's why I don't, you know, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.720 that's why I don't. I don't believe even to be true. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.039 But what do we know? 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:02.880 We're not in there. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.840 You're calling Robert Solon, we're trying to sell out there, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.440 trying to sell sell his quarterback each week to his team. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:10.239 No. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.080 The look on his face says at all, okay, but 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.000 I'm not in in the mean room because you already 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.360 know we sitting there like hold on. You go back 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.840 on Monday or Sunday night and y'all having y'all drink 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.760 at the house or whatever we lost, and everybody. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.520 Like, hey man, what's called play like garbage? What we 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:25.280 gonna do about them? 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:26.680 And then you get in the meat room on Monday 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.960 and like you here, hey man, you playing great. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:31.920 That's exactly what's gonna happen in that meaning room. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.640 Boys gonna be looking like hold on, wait, he played 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.480 good and I didn't cause it used to be so mad. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.040 With Joe Banker was over the car. You ain't lying, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.840 but it could be the case. I gotta. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:48.239 Go it cout be on we don't know. My vote 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.000 is Dan Quinn is being honest with us and he's 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.800 telling us the truth and we'll see the one Durum 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.240 Blaine get better and better each week. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.080 Bring memories from a man like. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.960 Seventy five. He used to be upset about them. Love 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.560 was man like, we don't did that? 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.000 We some cast get caught out, but hey, no, but 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.760 everybody gets graded on the curve. And maybe that was 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.600 him grading him on the curve based off of what 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.520 happened this week. But I thought in the interview when 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.360 he was talking about the first half versus the second half, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.160 he was very honest, you know, and they asked him 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.840 a question about the defense and totally in him saying that, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.840 look this a warrior crew. I expect for these guys 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.200 to bounce back, and he just looked at it. He 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.920 looked at the whole game and basically chalked it up 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.280 to look, man, they got us. It wasn't really nothing 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.080 that you could say. And if you're looking for a 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.600 bright spot, and maybe one or two like. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:34.520 Two three. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.560 Said down quinns being honest about his assessment of the game, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.360 and the other one, say twenty six he was lying 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:43.600 on the. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.080 First half, five possessions, five scores for Arizona. So they 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.600 got out to a twenty one to ten lead. Here, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.559 so let's fast forward this thing. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.480 Hold on, wait, you didn't You didn't say nothing. Who 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:58.320 is he telling the truth? 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.440 Was? Or is he darn played well or dan quiz 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:03.880 just blow a smoke right now. 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.040 My untrained eye, I felt like he was trying to keep. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.200 The smoke off. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.800 I want to know, I'm not going to give you 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.400 people in the media the stick to go beat this 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.640 guy up, so that that's that. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:19.920 That's how I look. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.200 We know there's gonna be times, and this is across 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.439 sports from what I've covered, there were times when these 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.800 coaches are like, I'm not giving you people in the 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.760 media anything the right to get the guy down. My 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.760 job is to pick million him. You alright, it's okay, good, 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.719 you know, not to have you know, beat rod Aby's see. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.320 It sucks no good last year with the rod I 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.280 mean you know that's because there there are people in 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.520 the media waiting to do that. You know him, you know, 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:53.760 to educated brother for the bank's krem it's black. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:55.520 He was probably. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.400 I'm not starting. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:07.160 To be honest guy, Okay. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.360 Now I'll say this so so, Terry Francone is retiring 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.960 as the the manager of the Cleveland Browns. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.160 He won two World Series with the Red Sox, and. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.959 One time he was asked and he said, yes, I 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:20.920 lie to you guys all the time talking about the 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.880 beating because you just like, hey, look there are times 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.480 when what I need to do for me and my team, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.959 I don't need to let you all know exactly how, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.880 so do I say some things because I gotta go 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.520 back in that room and I gotta go get those 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:35.320 guys to play. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.120 So that's why I say. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.160 You know, my untrained eye, I can see him just saying, man, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.199 he was all right, man, don't you know, just because 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.880 he's not trying to give us anything, which which. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.800 He could have said that you know, he played alright. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.040 Oh he could have said, hey, everybody played away except 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.280 DeMarcus Lawrence, and you would have been just fine with that. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.240 Nobody could have tacked the run blind because you're gonna say, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.439 Stephen Gilmore is in there, Jordan Lewis is there who 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.000 we saw give up along play. I just know he 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.959 could have said plenty of things, but shout out to 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.760 twenty six. Okay, I got faith, think you dot, even 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.720 if these guys on the at the table don't have, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:16.480 I got faith. Okay, nobody said that, nobody, nobody, nobody plays. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.160 Seventeen great games. It's hard to do that. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.200 But moving it forward here, New England had one hundred 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.160 and fifty seven yards of rushing against the Jets on 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.600 forty attempts. So we just saw the whole blueprint going 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.319 way back to when the old head coach of Denver 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.199 Broncos Banjail, said this, this is the blueprint. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:34.560 Guys. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:39.079 Bill Belichick is going to go and attack the team 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.360 running the balls. If they got one fifty seven against 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:47.240 the Jets, they coming, As Dion said, He's coming. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.839 Mac Jones, Mac Jones, listen, Josh Dobbs ain't ain't the 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.560 nick like the most shifty quarterback of the fastest, but 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.320 he Mac Jones ain't even close to that, all right, So. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:58.679 Reid option ain't gonna be a thing. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:00.880 Quarterback count gonna be able to do some of that 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.160 stuff with Mac Jones unless it's him. You know, we 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.959 rushing up the field and he's scrambling, you know, getting 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:07.800 the first down or two. So I don't think it'll 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.640 be the same. But you will have to buckle up 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.560 your chin strap for Zeck and Stevenson. You're gonna You're 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.040 gonna have to because that's what you're gonna see all game. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.240 They it was it one game last year, they was 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.080 in the snow. They ran almost every since in the past, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:19.880 three times. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:21.880 This week. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.560 You can't stop, you can't stop it. They gonna keep 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.839 on coming with the just gonna keep it. Run, run, run, run, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.400 run until you figure out a way to stop it. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.040 So and I think that's a good test for us 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.040 because we need to know, we need to know, We 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.599 really need to know was this an anomaly or have 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.960 we really fixed uh, you know, our problems that we 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.760 had on front left for the last two years. Hey, y'all, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.640 remember when you used to be in high school and 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.320 the teacher you say, put your books away, it's pop 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:44.960 quiz time. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.719 It's gonna be like that. It's gonna be like that 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.959 every week, pop quiz every can. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.840 Y'all stop the run and until they prove that they 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.439 can stop the run, and until they prove that they 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.160 can stop teams in twelve personnel because we know Bill 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.920 Belichick is the twelve person specialist. He has won Super 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.040 Bowls with having two tight ends one two killers, one 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.400 literally and one figuratively. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.800 You know he can do that. You know he's a 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:15.040 kind of guy like this for real. I mean, but 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.079 you know that he has the kind of tight ends 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.000 that can get it done. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.120 And so when it comes down to the running game, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.880 when it comes down to the running game, it's gonna 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.559 be hey, like you said, buckle up your chest strap. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.199 It's gonna be buckling. You gotta have you gotta bummer 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.480 your chest strap, all right, because look, Bill Belichick, we 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.880 know defensively what he does, he tries to take away 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.280 you know, what your offense does best. And coming from 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.960 his offense, you know that's what they're gonna do. They're 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.240 gonna come straight downhill on the Dallas Cowboys. And you 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.040 said that twelve personnel, so it's gonna force the Cowboys 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.160 to be in a bigger personnel. You might not see 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.400 that big you know, three safety package that they usually 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.520 run out there. So to me, it's gonna be interesting 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.280 to see because Stevenson and zeg you're basically the same 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.000 type of back. They gonna run straight down here, one cut, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.160 straight down here, coming down in your face. So I 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.240 want to see if pause on it. I want to 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.840 see if Lvee the Moon Clark and those guys. Are 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.480 they gonna come to the point of attack and force 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.920 these guys back or they gonna do a lot of catching, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.280 because that's what we saw last. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:10.960 Week against Arizona. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.040 You saw James Connor falling forward three four extra yards 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.600 on there because guys are catching out there. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:16.880 So we'll see what happens. 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.600 But it's gonna be a big, big time game for 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.080 those two interior defensive tackles and those linebackers because they 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:23.240 gonna try to get to the second level. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:29.200 We'll see if Mizi Smiff and them boys can hold up. Okay, first, 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:30.560 it's a lot. It's a lot. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:36.640 Come on, I'm not I'm not addressing what you just said. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.320 Heck asked the question about how we feel about the linebackers, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:40.640 and you said it a little bit. I want to 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.240 say this, they were confused last week. It reminded me 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.840 it was it was a few years ago when we 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.840 played the Baltimore Ravens and we were seeing those clips 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.000 of the misdirection that was kind of getting them confused 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.720 and they slowed our linebackers down. I think we saw 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.880 that a couple of times like they were catching because 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.880 they were so far behind, then trying to fight off 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.760 a block four yards down. The feel from a lineman 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.280 because they weren't able to see where the ball was going. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.520 Read this way, pull across, and they're, you know, one 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.160 step behind. That means that linement is on you and 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.000 these hooking guys and all of a sudden you trying 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:11.320 to get out. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:12.840 We saw that a couple times during the game. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.160 I think Dan Quinn is gonna, you know, help them 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.640 buckle that up and it'll be a little different this 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:17.560 week against the Patriots. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.240 And let's squeeze our first break in here when we 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.160 come back. Little white teas play calling from Mike McCarthy. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.240 Dak possible issue in terms of throwing the white receivers 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.680 for touchdowns and the power rankings are out today, tell 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.600 you how far the Cowboys have fallen in the. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.320 Eyes of the national media. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.960 We'll discuss it next right here on the Players by 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.880 Tilts on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:43.960 I'm Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.080 And they snapped the fresh guy who looks right, it's 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:46.520 not there. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.200 He escaped flapped. He'll look for a first don. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.920 Just like football, when it comes to crypto, it's important 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.560 to have a team you can trust. 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By the way, let's 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:36.520 recap last night Monday Night thinks Philadelphia with a victory 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.280 of twenty five to eleven. Dmac you had Philly winning 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.040 thirty to twenty four. Hekma you had at twenty seven 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.199 to seventeen Philadelphia. Barry Church you had Philly winning twenty 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.840 four to seventeen, and I was all wrong. Had Tampa 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.879 Bay with an upset and that did not happen. The 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.480 other Monday night game we had the Rams at Cincinnati. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:03.040 The Rams lose nineteen to sixteen, Joe Burrow comes through. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.520 I was wrong again. I had LA winning twenty five 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.600 twenty one. Church you had LA as well, twenty seven 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.960 to fourteen. Heckman, you had LA winning twenty four to ten. 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.560 And Danny you had LA winning nineteen to thirteen. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:17.840 No, that hurt him. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.440 Nobody was smoking to Joe Burrow. 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.240 I'm glad to be wrong. I didn't think he was 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.120 gonna play, and he went out there with one leg. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:24.639 And I'm not even gonna give all the I'm not 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.479 even gonna give all the credit to Joe. They defense 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.919 is they defense is out standing. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:31.760 Henderson, He's like. 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.240 That, all right, Why would you help the man out? 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.120 That's what Hendridson has obviously beating this man asleep. Why 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.280 would you help it out? Help give some help. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.760 Pick him up, take him on his side. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.240 He's gonna play. Let's go put in chess green. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.000 No, it was getting every snap I want, and I 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:53.480 want you. I want to give my props later on 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.160 the season. How I just did that for you. Okay, 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.240 I'm not giving the credit to Joe Burrow for that. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.159 I'm giving it to Cincinnati's defense, all right, But. 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.640 I'm glad. I'm glad. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.160 I was wrong. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.440 I am glad I was wrong the Bengals to win. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.639 But I mean I'm picking with my with my mind, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:11.359 not with my heart. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.840 Well, we all lost out play calling for Mike McCarthy. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.440 Mike McCarthy said that he did not do a good 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.880 job in terms of getting his three offensive linemen who 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.560 got into the starting lineup enough practice time to you know, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.720 to prepare them. I should say so. Tyler Biadis, starting center, 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.439 was out. Left tackle Tyron Smith was out. He dressed, 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:32.080 but he did. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:32.840 Not play in the game. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.000 Zach Martin, you're all pro soon to be Hall of 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:40.280 Fame right guard did not play in the game. I 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.119 come into this and you guys let me know, and 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.119 I'll start with you first. Here heckman, the Cowboys had 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.960 eight drives in the game, five of them went into. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.040 The red zone. They only got one touchdown. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.200 So while we can disagree with some of the play 0:20:54.240 --> 0:21:00.320 calling and not getting in there, man if I and 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.760 this is called me crazy, but if you can do 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:04.520 this again this week it eight drives and go five 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.840 to the red zone, get fifty, you should be you 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:07.919 should have a better result. 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.760 Thought. A lot of media games being played yesterday, and 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.120 I love it. I mean, you don't want to throw 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.359 your offense under the bus. But Tony Pollard had twenty 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.679 three cares for one hundred and twenty two yards. I 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.840 mean they stuck with the run. And if you didn't 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.000 believe in your offensive line that would have you'd have 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:28.240 switched that up, even though Dak had forty passes in 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.800 the game. Like, red zone is a problem and there's 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.560 no other way to look to look at it. Red 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.080 zone is a problem, and a lot of people are 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:38.639 looking at last year when we had Keller Moore and 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.160 the improvement of what we had last season. They've got 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:43.720 to find a way to fix it. And I don't 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.560 know if it's communication. I don't know if it's what 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.919 it is, all right, but especially like on those scramble 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:50.480 trips when we see Dak trying to get out of 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.240 the pocket and looking too that he's not looking at anything. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:57.119 So and obviously, you guys know that red zone isn't 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.119 just goal line. It's twenty five thirty in you know 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.560 where you consider that to be the red zone. And 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.000 Dan Quinn even spoke about that, just how the field shortens, 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.560 and I think the decisions have to be quicker. But 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.280 New y'all agree with you. If you just clock in 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.720 fifty percent of those, that's that game. It's a tough game. 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.200 Everybody's looking at you like, man, you got you play 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.240 it that. The Cardinals play you tough, but at least 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.359 you win that and that made the difference in this game. Offensively, 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:26.439 they got so much stuff that they got to clean up. 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.359 And I don't know if that's not playing in the preseason. 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.000 I don't know if it's the lineman being out, but 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.240 either way, those little things with the offense between Dak 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:37.760 and Ceedee Lamb, they have to get those things together 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:39.000 and they have to fix it. I think they'll be 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:45.360 better for it as a season progresses. Oh listen, I'm 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:47.960 comfortable with the red zone. I was comfortable with the 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:49.439 red zone when we were getting down there. We were 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.920 playing great defense. We also said that there will come 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.480 a time when the defense doesn't show up how they 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:57.080 usually show up, and then we're gonna have to win 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:59.440 it on offense, and that is getting to the red zone. 0:22:59.480 --> 0:22:59.960 Score point. 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:03.080 All right, I am going to keep pointing out that 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.439 although we did not get into the end zone like 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.480 we were supposed to, we had opportunities, all right. We 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:12.520 had faeball to Michael Gallop at the end where could 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:14.320 have been a pass in afference, but a better places 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:17.560 ball there. That's a touchdown, all right. Some of the 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.400 stuff that we continue to run is not helping us out. 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:22.880 Like when you get into the red zone, if you're 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.280 able to force a defense to play man to man 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:27.720 for whatever reason, for whatever you're doing outside of the 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:29.360 red zone, you can force them to play man and man. 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.240 That's when you see offensive coordinators be able to get 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.240 creative pick routes, guys coming all the way across the 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.960 formation again wide opening an end zone. When you're not 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:40.159 and they're able to play zone, it makes it a 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:44.000 lot more difficult, especially you know, if you're having trouble 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.119 you know, reading defenses or figuring out whatever's going on 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.800 with Dak Prescott. But if you're not able to force 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:51.359 them into man and man, it's gonna make it more 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:53.080 difficult for your those boots. 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:54.160 That you try to run. 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.800 If you aren't forcing guys to step up and react 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.040 to the run and they're able to just turn and 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.240 boot out and cover those tight ends that are coming 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:04.439 across the field, it's nobody else what you've running out 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:06.480 of space because you're already cutting off half of the field. 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:08.159 So I think Michaelcarthy has to get a little bit 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:10.880 more creative to figure out how we can open things 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:12.360 up in the red zone because, like you said, it's 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:13.760 already a condensed situation. 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:15.840 Yeah, I think it'll get better. I think it'll better 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:16.359 get better. 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:18.640 You know, once that opficsive line gets more healthy, which 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.679 we all understand that could be you know, fifty to fifty. 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:23.760 But once that o officsive line gets a little more healthy, 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:25.879 I think you'll see more runs down there in the 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:27.840 red zone. They did a decent job this time, but 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:29.560 they weren't able to punch it in like we've seen 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:30.600 in years past. 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:31.680 So I think once they. 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:34.879 Can get that run game solid and consistent, then I 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:36.920 think it'll open up more things. You'll see teams running 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:38.240 more man in the man coverage because they got to 0:24:38.280 --> 0:24:39.800 have more guys in the box and stop the run, 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:40.760 and they'll be able. 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:41.640 To get more creative. 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:44.200 But when it comes down to play calling and decision making, 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:46.040 because they had that fourth I think it was fourth 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:47.600 and three right there, and you could have just you know, 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:50.159 took the kick or kicked the points, got that and 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:52.320 kept that momentum rolling you decided to go for it. 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:54.359 So I think there's two avenues there with play calling 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:56.119 and the red zone that they have to improve on. 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:57.560 But I want to ask you all three. 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.520 I mean, you know, after this small sample size and 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:03.240 this is the first time McCarthy actually got tested as 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:10.840 a coordinator out there, do y'all still believe Yeah? No, 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:13.800 I'm still sticking with it. I'm still sticking with it 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.679 because I'm not, like I said, I'm not sure what happened. 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.960 We usually kicked the ball play to our defense, and 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.360 I think that's still the recipe for success for us 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:24.320 versus what we're seeing out there in LA sometimes. All right, 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.199 So I think him playing to what he expects to 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:29.399 be the strength of our team throughout the game, it 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:30.680 just ended up not being that way. 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:33.720 Do we need to get better than the red zone? Absolutely? 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:37.560 I would like to address this offensive line thing because 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:39.560 you asked him. I didn't really get to talk about 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:43.480 it at any point through this season and last season. 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:46.040 If you don't have a backup left tackle ready to 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:48.359 go into the game, that you are not prepared well enough, 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:51.920 that you are not prepared well enough. And then also 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:55.880 also you should already have depth and know that a man. 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.400 We need to get some of these guys some one 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:00.600 reps anyways, but specifically on that left side. If you 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.679 if that guy should probably be splitting reps throughout the 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:05.240 week or. 0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:05.959 Keep him inside. 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.520 He played well, New York drafted someone to play the left. 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:12.960 Yeah, but I mean, but you didn't, and he's probably 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:16.240 not getting reps throughout the week. Let's he's probably didn't 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:19.080 get reps last week. I promise you he's getting reps 0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:22.439 this week. Just I mean, because like you said, like 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:26.120 you said, it's gonna happen. You know he's gonna miss 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:28.520 some time, so you prepare yourself for what you know 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:30.840 is already gonna be there. I was just about to 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:32.960 give you credit for growth, and then you double down 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:36.320 with the question. I like that though, because you insinuated 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.720 without actually saying what you want to say that. 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:44.720 We ain't goose just zone. 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:47.320 How many times they got in the Arizona I got 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:48.800 five out of eight times they got into the risk. 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:53.560 With BA with three with three backup off ofs of line. 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.800 Let me let me make sure, let me let. 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:01.520 Me get no excuse. No, no, he's not making excuse 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:04.399 for success. He said they were successful. Even though even. 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:05.919 With that, even with that, now let's go back to 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:07.240 your boy. Okay, I hear it. 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:11.000 So Brandon Staley has this great idea, let's go for 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:12.200 it on our twenty seven. 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:15.760 This is what Justin Herbert was doing. Youk about a. 0:27:15.760 --> 0:27:20.800 Guy dealing okay against the Vikings forty of forty seven 0:27:21.080 --> 0:27:21.920 that four. 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:23.280 Hundred yards three touchdowns. 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:26.440 So this current time he ain't missing right seven pack 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:29.760 your boy, as they have run the ball in the 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:32.639 game fifteen times for thirty yards. He gives it to 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:35.359 Joshua Kelly on a fullback guy and his dude had 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:36.800 eleven carries for twelve yards. 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:38.000 Is that smart play call? 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:39.439 That was not what it was not? 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.000 That's trigger that's trying to trick him. 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:43.359 In fourth and three was fourth and three in the 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:47.600 red zone. So you got the running back who was averagable? 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:48.679 Was Tony Pollard averaging? 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:51.720 And no, no, this dude, what you just to run. 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:57.200 Roll out with Da Prescott with no options in front point? 0:27:57.440 --> 0:27:58.160 We stayed on point. 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.359 You gave it an example, I'm giving it an exact it. 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:03.600 Listen, Okay, I listened, and I'm with you. But but 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:07.520 then the previous two weeks We've seen glaring examples of 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:11.280 killing Moore and for and too many drives to where 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:12.919 you like, bro, what is what is going on? 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:13.800 It's consistent. 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:15.840 I will say this though, there's a difference when you 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:18.320 talk about those First your man's is playing with a 0:28:18.440 --> 0:28:21.840 historically great defense. Well, he is literally playing with the 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:24.400 worst defense international football. And I'm not did I say 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:28.960 that was an excuse? It sounds like I didn't get that. 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:30.359 Sounds like they got it. 0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:31.720 They got some players over there on that d what 0:28:31.720 --> 0:28:34.639 you're talking about the quarter ain't do. But let's not 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:35.120 act like they. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:37.800 Have the worst defense. 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:41.120 That's not even The point is justin Herbert has gotten 0:28:41.120 --> 0:28:43.760 the ball with tom left on the clock and the 0:28:43.800 --> 0:28:46.080 opportunity to go win the game. And we've seen it 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:50.080 the first two weeks where not even where it's like man, 0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:52.440 it just he got said it was like what we 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:55.400 calling what is that? Put it in the ball in 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:59.080 his quarterback's hands, and then but then when he didn't 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:00.840 do it last week, it's a problem. 0:29:00.920 --> 0:29:01.680 See, I don't know. 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:04.240 Let me ask this, Let me ask this, Let me 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:06.640 ask this, because I think I think coming into coming 0:29:06.640 --> 0:29:09.640 into this season, our one thing about Mike McCarthy was 0:29:09.680 --> 0:29:12.120 trying to figure out what the identity of this offense 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:14.640 was gonna be, And in a very short time we 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:15.960 figured out that identity. 0:29:16.280 --> 0:29:18.120 We're gonna run the ball. 0:29:17.560 --> 0:29:19.600 And we're gonna run into a fault, and we're gonna 0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:21.560 keep on running it, and we're gonna get this offensive 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:24.000 rhythm and we're not gonna put Dak in a position 0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:27.720 where he's thrown across his body making these stupid plays. 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:30.040 And then I see on the other side of the Chargers, 0:29:30.320 --> 0:29:33.240 even with the way that Herbert is playing, which was like, 0:29:33.360 --> 0:29:36.640 those are crazy numbers, what is the identity of the 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:39.600 Chargers right now? And that's the thing that's following him 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:42.560 there because you don't what is it? 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:43.320 And I get it. 0:29:43.360 --> 0:29:47.120 But when you talk about identity, you just talked about identity, right, 0:29:47.400 --> 0:29:49.240 So what happens when you get tested? 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.800 You revert back to your identity? Boom? 0:29:52.120 --> 0:29:54.200 What did we see the Cowboys do throw the ball 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.400 forty times? When they're tested, You're going back to your daddy. 0:29:57.440 --> 0:30:00.000 So so what's the identity of the Dallas Cowboys? I mean, listen, 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.240 they threw it forty times, they rushed for how much? 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:06.320 I mean, it's not like they stop running the ball exactly. 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:09.920 You was killing? Why why why switch? 0:30:10.480 --> 0:30:12.120 Eventually you got to if you down like that, you 0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:15.520 gotta start throwing the ball. But again again I'm still 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:18.080 staying this throw the d ball right, all right? So 0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:20.200 you're watching the film, you say, man, we got we 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:22.560 got these guys and these could be big play opportunities. 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.400 We got to keep taking the shots because like it's open, 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:27.520 you have to keep trying to throw it, and you know, 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.560 we just haven't been able to capitalize on some of 0:30:30.560 --> 0:30:32.040 those those opportunities. 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:32.719 Unfortunately. 0:30:32.760 --> 0:30:35.280 Let's keep let's let's keep this going. Let's keep just 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:36.120 keep it going like that. 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:48.080 You start help Harrison Church strut up. 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Let's start with ESPN. 0:33:46.320 --> 0:33:50.600 They've got San Francisco at one, Miami at two, Philadelphia three, 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:54.120 Kansas City moves up to four, Buffalo at five, oh 0:33:54.360 --> 0:33:55.560 Dallas at six. 0:33:56.520 --> 0:33:57.960 NBC Pro Football Talk. 0:33:57.920 --> 0:34:01.960 Has the forty nine ers at Oneaammy at two, Philadelphia 0:34:02.000 --> 0:34:05.320 at three, Kansas City at four, and they have dropped 0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:07.600 the Cowboys, who were number one in their poll last week, 0:34:07.720 --> 0:34:12.680 to number five. NFL dot Com Dolphins number one. They've 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:16.959 got San Francisco ran two, Kansas City, three, Philadelphia, four, 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:18.560 Buffalo five. 0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:20.479 They've got the Cowboys at six. 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:28.040 USA today has San Francisco at one, Philadelphia two, Miami 0:34:28.120 --> 0:34:31.880 at three, Kansas City at four, Buffalo five. 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:35.960 Detroit at six, Pittsburgh at seven. 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:40.000 Cleveland at eight, the Dallas Cowboys at nine, and the 0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:40.879 Ravens at tenth. 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:44.040 Hold on, hold on, now, look why y'all make all 0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:49.360 that noise at Detroit? Who did Detroit beat? Who did 0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:54.440 Detroit beat? It be Kansas City. I'm just saying, did 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:55.399 they beat Kansas City? 0:34:55.520 --> 0:34:57.759 The team? And nobody shook their head when they said 0:34:57.800 --> 0:34:59.840 Kansas City was ranked the book, so Detroit. 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:01.439 Then they go to Kansas City? 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:01.920 They did? 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:05.279 Somebody? No, It's like, are you believe you? 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:10.160 Listen, listen, We've been talking about Dad Campbell Detroit. The 0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:12.839 Detroit lines looked like a totally different team. They look 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:14.600 like a different team. I'm not I'm not shocked that 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:16.840 somebody would would rank them and hit us after the 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:19.040 performance that we put on last week. That was not 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:24.920 a good performance. No offensively, defensively, specialty, you know, it 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:26.640 is what it is. But yeah, that it wasn't a 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:29.960 good performance all around. I don't the first two like 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:33.120 the Buffalo Cowboys. I mean, you can mixmatch those guys. 0:35:33.120 --> 0:35:34.600 I'm good with that, except for the one that they 0:35:34.640 --> 0:35:36.640 had their walk away eleventh was it on the one 0:35:36.719 --> 0:35:38.719 list or eleventh? I long degree with that one. But 0:35:39.080 --> 0:35:40.719 when you look at those other lists. I mean, what 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.040 teams would you take out, you know, to put the 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:45.960 Cowboys in there? I mean, Miami, Kansas City, they bawling. 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:50.239 He saw Philadelphia last night. So outside of the one 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:51.759 of their way back there, I gotta agree with the 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:53.400 first two. It's a lot of those teams in the 0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:55.360 AFC don't look the same to me. Can't City is 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:58.240 one of them. That offense is starting to struggle. Mahomes 0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:00.359 is like he got he's locked in on eight seven 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:03.640 for everything. But I would I would put Miami at 0:36:03.719 --> 0:36:05.920 number one right now. I mean that's just that's just it. 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:08.600 And they're talking about that Miami offense, but not enough 0:36:08.680 --> 0:36:11.360 people talking about the Miami defense. Miami defense is balling. 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:14.399 That's what's carrying without j Brown. Come on, man, that's 0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:15.239 what's carrying. 0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:15.480 A lot of it. 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:18.120 But you know, this is gonna be week the week 0:36:18.200 --> 0:36:20.400 with us, man, it's gonna be week the week with us, 0:36:20.480 --> 0:36:25.520 and so I expected, but the Buffalo Buffalo, they come on, 0:36:26.080 --> 0:36:28.440 I know what you're gonna say. We lost by twelve 0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:31.760 to the Cardinals, they lost to the Jets. They didn't 0:36:31.760 --> 0:36:33.000 have Aaron Rodgers. 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:37.399 M So heck, just get back to what you said 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:40.520 about Miami. So ESPN has them number two with San 0:36:40.520 --> 0:36:47.560 Francisco in front, and then Pro Football talking, but she's 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:49.600 got got Miami too, with San Francisco in front of them, 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:53.000 and then NFL dot COM's got them number one, and 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:56.160 then USA today has Miami three with Philadelphia and San 0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:57.960 Francisco in front of the many issues. 0:36:57.680 --> 0:36:59.919 With that at all, just in front of them, I don't. 0:37:00.320 --> 0:37:01.920 I just think you know, one two, you can't be 0:37:02.000 --> 0:37:04.879 wrong on that because of San Francisco's defense. I think 0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:06.680 they're gonna always get the benefit of the doubt that 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:08.760 I think. What thirteen game winning streak in the regular 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:12.480 season right now, it's crazy. But Miami, to me, they're 0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:15.920 the hottest team in the NFL. And so this whatever 0:37:15.960 --> 0:37:18.680 they got going on with your soul brother number one, 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:22.239 it's man, they working it, see, and that's type stuff happening. 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:23.600 It after you go out there and put up seventy 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:26.480 on Denver, Like we forgot about Denver. We watched them 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:28.880 for all last season, and then Sean Payton got there 0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:30.600 and we were like, oh, it might be a little different. 0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:32.880 They got seventy put up on them, and if you 0:37:33.000 --> 0:37:35.600 watch the tax they stop. If you watch the take. 0:37:35.640 --> 0:37:38.719 Them boys aren't play no defense. When you get beat, 0:37:38.840 --> 0:37:41.600 you getting beat by fifty to twenty, I'm telling you, 0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:44.400 you like April, run the clock and you and that's 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:45.920 sitting them players head Like, bro, we got to get 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:46.360 up out of here. 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:48.239 But I'm not trying to taste start reheal around here. 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:53.480 What's up with these AFC West defensive coordinators? Got your boys? Stalley, Hey, 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:55.799 let's go one on one with with Hill and now 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:59.920 let's ride come into town, bobs up. 0:38:00.200 --> 0:38:03.520 I think they score with seven red red zone seven 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:04.560 red zone trips and. 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:10.360 Yeah, the Rats look bad. I'm like, man, listen, they tripping. 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:14.399 Who's ahead of us on that last list? Where where 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:16.279 like you said, like eleven. 0:38:16.680 --> 0:38:17.080 They're nine? 0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:19.040 Four? 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:19.839 Like up to five? 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:23.880 Okay, up to Buffalo's of five, then Detroit six, Pittsburgh seven, 0:38:24.040 --> 0:38:27.680 Cleveland eight than Dallas No way, I mean. 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:33.040 Come on, Cleveland? Is that an argument? Cleveland? I don't know. 0:38:33.400 --> 0:38:36.560 I mean, Cleveland is a hall of a defense. A defense. 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:39.120 Ain't this in the defense. But I'm just like Watson, 0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:42.360 it's a hell it's a hell of defense. I'm just 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.560 I'm just watching what we did and who we played. 0:38:45.760 --> 0:38:47.080 You know what, I'm saying because you like the Buffalo, 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:50.040 Buffalo lost to New York without Anon Rodgers and we 0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:52.719 beat them. I mean, but it's still New York without 0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:54.920 Aaron Rodgers, Like, it's still it is what it is. 0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:56.479 And they just looking at the teams that they play, 0:38:56.960 --> 0:39:01.440 and you know, the haburg I don't know, Pittsburgh. 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:02.440 I don't know. They got to continue to get better. 0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:05.000 But by time, like you said, I'm not apologized the winner, 0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:07.319 and they keep finding ways to go out there and win. 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:11.200 So so let me switch this in our last few 0:39:11.280 --> 0:39:16.600 moments of the show to Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott is 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:19.200 not throwing a touchdown to a wide receiver since the 0:39:19.320 --> 0:39:22.760 Tampa Bay playoff win. So in San Francisco the touchdown 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:26.400 pass was to tight end Dalton Schultz. Then they season 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:30.080 ended Giants this year, no touchdowns from Dak at all. 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:34.600 The Jets game he threw two touchdown passes, those were 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:38.200 two tight ends, and then in the Arizona game it 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:40.880 was a rico' daddle touchdown. 0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:41.439 The running back. 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:51.239 So thoughts about a wide receiver league now, Boots, He's 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:52.280 had opportunities. 0:39:52.520 --> 0:39:55.120 I mean, we've seen it in there, especially against Arizona 0:39:55.880 --> 0:39:57.439 he just got to put that thing on the money. 0:39:57.440 --> 0:39:59.200 I mean, we've seen one the CD, We've seen one 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:01.640 of Michael Gallup. You know, they just got to get 0:40:01.640 --> 0:40:03.960 it on the same page. So I see more you know, 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:06.400 touchdowns for the wide receivers in the future. But you know, 0:40:06.520 --> 0:40:08.080 as of right now, it just seems like him and 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:09.960 his wide receivers just on on the same page. 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:12.839 For whatever reason. Who not on the same page? 0:40:13.000 --> 0:40:15.400 Him or the wide receiver are both the connection between 0:40:16.880 --> 0:40:18.439 Listen them dudes is getting open. 0:40:19.160 --> 0:40:19.879 That's what I've seen. 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:20.120 Them. 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:23.319 Dudes are getting open and the catches are made more 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:26.640 difficult by whatever ball is being thrown. Couldn't have been 0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:29.640 passing the fears, Yes, couldn't that have been totally avoided 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:31.320 because he was way ahead of the guy and you 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:32.719 just you know, put in the back of the end 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:34.200 zone and let him catch the ball. 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:34.919 Yes. 0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:38.400 I think those tight ends that are catching these passes, 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:42.279 which is why when you see Arizona and you're rolling 0:40:42.360 --> 0:40:45.040 out cutting off half the field, those are the ones 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:49.160 that are usually going for touchdowns, who come out easy 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:51.640 touchdown By throwing it to a wild open tight end, 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:53.640 he kind of got it in in the tight window 0:40:53.680 --> 0:40:56.279 in the previous game to the tight end. But those 0:40:56.320 --> 0:40:58.120 windows are getting closed up because people know that's what 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:00.520 you're running, that's how you scoring. What are the Cowboys 0:41:00.560 --> 0:41:02.400 going to do to get a touchdown in the rezon? 0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:05.479 And that's what the defensive coordinators looking at saying, oh, hey, listen, 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:08.480 make sure you're paying attention because one of these players 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:09.880 is going to be a boot. 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.719 So what are they insinuating with this? You know, it's 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:18.759 like if the Cowboys won, would we have this conversation? No, 0:41:19.120 --> 0:41:19.759 we wouldn't have it. 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:21.520 Now it's gonna be all they's go on the left hand, 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:25.120 but I come on, man, come on now. Eleven we 0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:27.200 go to the Jets. Ceedee Lamb had eleven catch for 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:30.560 one forty three. All right, didn't score any touchdowns? Okay, 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:33.799 but he's targeting this man, he's getting him the ball. 0:41:33.880 --> 0:41:37.080 He's he's the numbers are there. He threw his first interception. 0:41:37.360 --> 0:41:39.600 Are we not looking around the NFL at anybody else's 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:40.759 interceptions besides that? 0:41:41.120 --> 0:41:42.480 But then we're gonna say, oh, he had had a 0:41:42.520 --> 0:41:45.160 touchdown to a wide receiver. Word we two in one? 0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:46.000 Oh? 0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:48.200 Come on, man, we ain't owing three miss that we're 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:49.160 doing today I'm. 0:41:49.000 --> 0:41:51.200 Starting to see this on all the TV shows everywhere. 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:57.919 Now everybody's a dack apologist. Now talk about like talking 0:41:57.920 --> 0:42:01.720 about and then you can't come here and say nothing 0:42:01.800 --> 0:42:02.560 about what about it? 0:42:03.160 --> 0:42:03.600 What about it? 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:08.960 So I can't say nothing about to do This is 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:09.520 what I'm saying. 0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:13.160 We spent all off seasons saying, you know what, wide 0:42:13.200 --> 0:42:15.879 receiving corpse not good, you need to improve it. Here 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:19.520 comes Brandon Cooks. Now we're saying, Michael Gallop is back 0:42:19.520 --> 0:42:22.920 one hundred, ready to go. Ceedee, Lamb's gotten better out 0:42:22.960 --> 0:42:25.279 of good training camp. They were good at training camp. 0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:30.000 So now you're into three games and there's yet to 0:42:30.080 --> 0:42:32.480 be a wide receiver to catch a touchdown pass in 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:35.560 a wide receiver league, and you can't ask the question, 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:38.000 all right. 0:42:38.160 --> 0:42:40.480 So we're just gonna insinuate that what So what are 0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:42.279 we saying that that we need to We need to 0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:45.279 get our receivers and back on the same page in 0:42:45.320 --> 0:42:46.960 the red zone because that is the way to score. 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:49.319 Okay, but when you. 0:42:49.360 --> 0:42:51.360 Saw eleven for one three, you didn't think that, oh, 0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:53.399 there's a connection between him and CD. When they played 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:56.800 against played against were talking about the red zone. The 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.360 question wasn't about the he said, he said to the 0:42:59.480 --> 0:43:01.200 what did you say to the WI he had thrown 0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:03.680 a touchdown to a wide receiver not in the red zone? 0:43:03.719 --> 0:43:05.280 Have we been talking about red zone woes? 0:43:05.480 --> 0:43:10.120 We've been talking about red zone And I spoke about 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:13.960 the fact that there has not been a DAC touchdown 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:17.680 to a wide receiver since the Tampa Bay playoff. 0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:21.000 Game, so they've been thrown to And then I listed 0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:22.000 who got caught? 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:24.839 Where do you think they called him from the red zone? 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:31.200 We're just talking about throwing moms and all that. Come 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:33.680 on now, and that's what we're saying. They're not being 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.000 They're not thrown far enough for them to even make 0:43:36.080 --> 0:43:37.400 the fifty sixty yard touchdown. 0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:40.800 I was like a little bit more. I'm not I'm not. 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:43.120 I'm not beating up that presscott. I think that is. 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:44.640 I think that's that's the point that. 0:43:46.160 --> 0:43:48.440 Rico Donald was a fifteen yard That was a fifteen 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:52.120 yard pass, uh touchdown and he ran in school. 0:43:51.840 --> 0:43:54.279 Man, that's a running back, the running back, but he 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:56.560 threw it to him. That was fifteen yards. 0:43:57.239 --> 0:43:58.680 It was it was a will. 0:43:59.320 --> 0:44:04.279 Yeah, the scoonmaker was that was a quick but you yourself, bro, 0:44:04.560 --> 0:44:06.600 I like that bro, but like, I'm not going to 0:44:06.680 --> 0:44:08.279 say it, say, I can't say nothing, b I like, 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:08.920 I can't. 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:10.360 Nothing bad about that. 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:15.839 So and like anything people say, is it a trend? 0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:16.080 Now? 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:18.080 When you start, that's that and that was how it 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:18.960 was approached. 0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:20.000 Is this a trend? 0:44:20.360 --> 0:44:20.640 Okay? 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:24.120 And so when your quarterback is making this kind of money, 0:44:24.360 --> 0:44:26.799 when your quarterback has been given the weapons and it's 0:44:26.800 --> 0:44:28.880 supposed to be an improvement, and we saw in training 0:44:28.960 --> 0:44:31.600 camp where they were actively working on this and you're 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:33.200 not seeing a payoff. 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:36.759 It is legitimate to ask the question, to bring it 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:37.480 up as a topic. 0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:38.279 We get that. 0:44:38.360 --> 0:44:40.160 We're gonna give you three more weeks before you because 0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:42.400 yesterday you was real light and you ain't want to 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:42.920 say nothing. 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:56.000 I told y'all says week one. So god, it's just 0:44:56.080 --> 0:45:03.239 week one. It's just weak. It's here we are. 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:09.120 We're gonna leave this as a discussion, which was robust. 0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:11.880 Here at the end of the show, Very Church was 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:13.120 a hack Ma Harrison, Danny M. 0:45:13.160 --> 0:45:17.480 Crane players lines brought to you by Tostinos thanks to Jazz, 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:19.319 Josh and everybody who is a part of the show 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:21.760 today right here on Dallas Cowboys dot com Media. 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:26.000 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:45:26.239 --> 0:45:28.279 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.