WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Is This Team Good Enough? 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:18.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's level, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.720 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:29.400 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:40.120 It's Monday and it's time for some Monday moaning. Um. Yeah, 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:45.639 the Cowboys end up losing to Seattle. The best thing 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.599 I can say about Monday is there's a hockey game 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.040 to night and the Dallas Stars are trying to keep 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.360 their Stanley Cup playoff hopes alive in Game six tonight 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.080 on NBC. But yes, we will spend forty five minutes 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.760 dissecting this Cowboys lost two. Yeah, we have a little 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:05.840 settle Seahawks' news scrugs. This is the player's lounge right 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:10.919 here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Barry Church, former Cowboys safety, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.080 joins me along with Danny mccraige. Cowboys. All right, gentlemen, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.760 we've got a we got a thirty eight thirty seven loss, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:36.040 and for me, it's all about the Cowboys secondary. All right, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.640 We're having a little bit of a little trouble with 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.000 a news newies. Um communication thing right there. So we'll 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.640 get back to Newis. But we brought the point of 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.800 this troubles in the secondary that we that we were 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.320 discussing here, and to me, the secondary play was just 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.680 god awful out there. I mean, I'm sure Danny you 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.680 can attest to this, but um, that secondary, I mean, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.560 you can't have people running Scott free out there, and 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.520 that DK metcalf twice was wide open in the back 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.480 of the secondary. I'm not sure what the coverage was, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.680 but the safety seemed to have their eyes in the 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.280 backfield a lot this game, giving up a lot of huge, huge, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.000 big time plays out there that day. They can't they 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.320 just can't do You can't afford to do that. So Um, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.359 to me, this secondary played god awful. They did show 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:18.960 a little bit of fight, you know, towards the end 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.079 second half they tuned it up a little bit, but 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.120 we just can't have starts like that. Man. What you 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:28.600 think about that played, Danny? Yeah? Man, Um, just as 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.720 soon as it happened, like for the third time, I 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.960 sent I sent Neuillar Church the text verssions like what 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.000 are these dudes looking at? Like, you know, we came 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.200 in and we talked about like scheme and being confused 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.720 and every other excuse in the book, And then we 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.680 got into the game and I'm looking, I'm like, this 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.600 has nothing to do with anything except you guys and 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.720 your technique and having your eyes in the wrong place. 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.840 You could have saved two or three touchdowns by just 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.520 having your eyes in the correct place. So to me, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.840 it was it was glaring. It was so glaring that 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:57.880 you know, you start wondering, like, what the hell are 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.079 they doing that practice? That was It was absolutely crazy 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.440 and how easy these things could have been fixed. But 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.560 we are still in week three and still having these 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.760 same mistakes. So the secondary was definitely was definitely a 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.200 very big issue. Man. So I don't know where we go, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.280 you know, well, I guess we can only go up. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.919 But if we get up, we'll be home at December. Man. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.240 Be played in December and we'll be going on vacation 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.080 in January. Yeah, and you talked about it, you can 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.440 you hit it right on the nail. I mean a 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.880 lot of these touchdowns. Once they showed the replays we've seen, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.680 we see a lot of the secondary players with their 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.360 eyes in the backfield. I mean, we knew on that 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.720 goal line one to Tyler Lockett. They were in man 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.720 to man and when they did the run fack, you 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.560 saw digs who I'll give him credit. He did fight 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.960 in the second half, but his eyes were just all 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.760 in the back room in the corner. You can't do 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.760 that as a corner. You gotta let that front seven, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.400 that defensive line, those linebackers, you gotta let them handle it. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.360 Your job, it's simply to just lock down those receivers 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.640 and make sure nothing gets over your head. And we've 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.640 seen a lot of that these first couple of weeks. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.080 And what I just can't understand is with Tyler Lockett, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.600 He's he's arguably one B to DK metcast one A, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.640 but he's already had two touchdowns in the first half, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.480 and that third one he's he's scott free. He's wide 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.200 open in the back of the end zone, nobody around him. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.919 How are you letting a guy with that potential and 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.480 that success early in this game just go scott free 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.480 or running for your secondary. I just I just couldn't 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.039 get it, and I just didn't understand it. I don't 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.560 know if it's because they're so young, or if it's 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.800 because the scheme is too difficult, but we got to 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.320 figure out something because we can't. We can't continue to 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.400 survive this season. We'll give it where we're just trying 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.960 to battle back and we're already giving up fourteen points 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.320 to begin within the whole. I mean, people kill Garrett 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.080 for having this team like that last year with the 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.240 slow starts, and we're motivated to get out there and 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.240 play early and always had to try to battle back 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.280 to getting the game. So I think, I mean, we 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.479 got to figure out something because he's slow starts and 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.640 he's trying to battle back and race back into the game. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.440 It's just not going to be sustainable for the whole season. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.480 He put the might home. I got you here. It's 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:08.000 Mike Malgly Okay, there's nobody else. There's nobody else to blame, right, 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.279 because well, let's see, this is this is what happens. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.080 You're going you go into the game, right, and if 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.880 the first touchdown I believe was it looked like cover four, right, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.680 and they ran a two man route. So we had 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.040 four guys to cover two guys and we don't cover 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.440 them right. So that's to me, and I say this 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.599 from experience when when you're running cover four, what happened 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.280 sometimes it can get confusion between the corner and the 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.839 safety when you're running when they have a two man route, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.240 but es since you we're supposed to turn into a 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.520 double team. What happened on that was the odds were 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.279 in the backfield. You would think that they were running 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.400 read option, but it was just a regular, regular play fake, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.080 so the safety shouldn't even be up in there. So 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.359 and then and then the other ones. You know, somebody 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.560 was on Twitter talking. I was like, hey, man, look, man, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.680 the man is not confusing enough for us to be 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.000 looking like that. If you have a problem to where 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.600 you're running in and outs and you're trying to, you know, 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.040 get get these things figured out in these tight formations, 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.600 and you see this as an issue, you just tell them, hey, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.320 we're just going basic, old school man oh man, and 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.760 we'll live with the result. Instead, we just sat there 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.719 and did the same thing and just let them run 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.360 free and look confused in the secondary, like I said, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.480 very much like how we look when Rob Ryan was here, 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.520 confusing and they've got him out of here. Because the 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:22.360 word miscommunication. That that word, by the way, is what 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.760 we kept seeing and hearing over and over in the 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:30.400 Cowboys press conferences. This guy's talking about miscommunication. Miscommunication here, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.120 let me read from from Treybon Diggs. He said, it's 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.080 really on us, honestly, just communication. There are things we've 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.400 got to correct in practice, things like that. We're going 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.240 to get it right. It's just communication. That's it. It's 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.599 literally it. Xavier Wood says, we just have too We 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.039 left too many opportunities out there. We just didn't start fast. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.080 In the first half. We came out slow. They put 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:53.680 up too many points. It was just too big of 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.520 a deficit for us to come back. And the second 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.640 half we played better than you got. Jay Loob Smith 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.720 saying it's frustrating, but a learning experience what we must 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.560 do and for real, it's time. It's time that we 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:12.840 do what we need to do. I love this from 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.360 from Tank Lawrence. Tank Lawrence saying, I mean there's a 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.520 lot of quarterbacks in the league that move around like that. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.680 If you let him get outside of the pocket, they 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.280 become a force. Uh. They're pretty good at it. So 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.920 hats off to rust in them. They won the game, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.720 but we'll see them again. That's from Tank. Listen, listen, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.640 let let me tell you this, let me tell it, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.200 let me tell you Russell did not really kill them 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.800 outside of the pocket and two for digs. That ain't it. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.280 It ain't just it ain't just misterimun the case. All right, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.640 It's way more than that. It was. It was a 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.880 big issue, but that ain't it. So let's not act 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.600 like they can go into practice and say, hey, we 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.520 fix this man to man covers, you know, the end 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.040 and out and not let locket free all of a 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.640 sudden we be winning the game. That ain't It's it's 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.960 a lot more to it. So you know, I hope 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.960 he sees that. I know it's you know, the mind 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.040 is moving fast when you get that camera in your face. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.360 But I know he didn't meet what he said, especially 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.600 on today after they watched the film. It's a lot 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:14.440 more than that, Okay. So I just wanted to touch 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.200 on a couple of things from the secondary. You guys, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.800 tell me if I'm crazy here. The penalties were a 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.640 couple of things that really stood out to me. And 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.560 I go back to one touchdown drive by Seattle. It 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.480 was a third and ten at the Dallas forty six. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.800 Russell Wilson gets sat but then there's a flat and 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.120 it's Darryl Worley illegal contact. Then it's a second and nine, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.080 same drive. Second and nine at the Dallas twenty three, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.920 Worley makes an interception, but there's a flat pass interference 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.040 by Jordan Lewis. Now we've got a first intend at 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:49.720 the Dallas fifteen. A PI is called on Brandon Car 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.880 and then two plays later Seattle scores a touchdown to 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.440 make it sixteen and nine. That's eleven place, seventy one yards, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.400 and basically the Cowboys from the defensive backfield standpoint just 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.120 kept giving Seattle first downs with plays there. That was 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.320 early in the football game. Gentlemen, your thoughts on that, well, look, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.560 and uh that that drive in particular. You know what 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.839 I'm gonna say, I'm okay with that Darryl Worley where 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.400 it was a legal touching because that was kind of, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.080 you know, it was a ticky tacking. He didn't really 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.040 you know, push him or anything like that. He kind 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.600 of just kind of tried to hold his ground. So 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.920 you know, I can deal with that. And that one 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.520 in the back of the end zone with b Car 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.840 he was a little touchy on there, a little holdie. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.000 But once again, I mean, that's just going to be 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.280 a part of the game. He was going to get 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.240 to tight end bigger body. He tried to muscle him 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.040 a little bit. That's just a part of the game. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.839 But what I can't live with is the fact with 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.360 once again we're coming back to these dbs with their 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.520 eyes in the backfield, particularly Jordan Lewis on that on 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.160 that holding penalty. You know, he's supposed to reroute him 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.760 because I believe they were in cover three, so he's 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.760 supposed to reroute him. But if you can't get your 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.800 hands on him within five you kind of just got 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.720 a body rerounte him and let him go around you. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.400 But without having your eyes on the receiver, your eyes 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.600 are back at the quarterback. You're just reaching and grab 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.000 him for things. And he reached Grabber's arm held onto it, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.240 and we obviously sat there and seeing him obstruct him 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.959 from getting to the ball. So Daryl Worley can get 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.240 the interception. But those are things that I just can't 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.560 live with. I mean, he's played enough ball now to 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.839 where he knows that he can't just go off there 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.760 and reach and grab at that nickel position, especially going 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.199 against a guy like Lockett who's bettering who's Saddy who 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.280 can sell all that stuff, So you can't do that. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.960 The moral of the story here today is you can't 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.920 be caught with your eyes in the backfield as a 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.320 defensive back. And we've seen it killed this team time 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.800 and time again. Yes, same here. I think two other 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.640 three for me was, you know, they really were just 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.680 part of the game. The illegal contact that happens all 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.040 the time. Man, it's a dB and is a defensive 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.760 back coach. That's some stuff you just have to deal with. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.360 And then Brandon Card. You know, once they get to 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:47.800 the back of the end zone, you're supposed to turn 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.560 your back to him trying to push him out of bounds. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.160 You know, you just go back and forth with a 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.360 tight end. So to me, that really wasn't a big issue. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.319 That type of stuff like literally happens, you know. And 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.720 then George Lewis, Yeah, very confusing, right, You don't know 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.360 if he playing zoner man because you know zone, he 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.280 got his eyes in the backfield, he gets to a spot, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.520 you know, he's fine, But to me, it looked like 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.480 he was playing covered three. He was supposed to carry 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.280 the scene and the dude runs straight up the scene 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.200 right in his face and he doesn't realize that he's 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.599 there until he's on his toes because are in the backfield. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:18.880 And I'm just looking at it like like it's so 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.160 blatant that it doesn't you know, I want to blame 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.640 it on him, but this is across the entire secondary, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.600 besides probably Brandon Carr because he's a VET. So it's 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.840 something that they have going on with this coaching that 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.199 they're not getting across to these guys. So that's why 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:32.800 I have to put it on Mike Nolan because it's 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.200 not just one player. It's essentially the whole defense, included 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.840 in the linebackers because even when they run play action 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.079 and you see these guys over running stuff that meaning 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.760 their eyes a lot of times aren't in the correct play. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.319 So like the entire defense, as far as the linebackers 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.480 in secondary, they have they have a big issue, you know, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.440 and that comes from coaching and I think they've been 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.680 in training camp long enough and going through these games 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.000 there in week three and these are elementary problems that 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.240 we're having and it's getting the killed. So you know, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.440 I gotta put this on Nolan. Is Both Plans Lounge 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.800 brought to you by Hotels dot Com go ahead, Barry. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:13.320 Are we are we done with this the Darien Thompson experiment? 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.640 I mean, is this or my guy was getting roasted 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.880 and toasted you know all games? I mean in missing time. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.679 I just I just don't know. I'm gonna ask you, guys, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.800 are we done with this Darien Thompson experiment? Do we 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.280 need to bring in help from the outside. I'll answer 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.319 it from a Stephen Jones standpoint. He was asked today 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.600 on one oh five three, the fan of Cowboys radio 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.240 flagship station, are there any plans to go out and 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.440 go get some help? And he said no, He said 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:45.760 there's no plans. And I said on Twitter Twitter yesterday, um, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.679 Eric Reid needs a jersey and a number and a contract. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:56.240 It's with a contract. So apparently that's not what they 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.000 want to do. And Steven's talking about guys coming off 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:03.000 I R so assuming he saw speaking of Anthony Brown here, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.160 and I know Darren Thompson is getting lit up. I 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.040 get it. But I'll also say this in fairness to him. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.760 Should I be mad at him? Or should I be 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.559 mad at the people who hired him and put him 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.920 on out there and keep putting him out Because that 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.480 to me is the bigger thing. He is who he is. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.800 This is another guy who you know, this is the 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.400 first round draft picks. This dude who's on a done 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.400 the Giants. I mean, you tend to be taking Giants 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.960 Giants plays me. It's not all him. I mean, you know, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.960 ha ha. Clinton Dix was brought in here and they 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.800 found out, well, you know, this guy is the guy 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.320 who's been bouncing around here. So they haven't addressed as 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.640 a management team, and this is you know, it's easy 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:45.640 for us to jump onto players here, but Church you've 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.680 been here before. You see, they don't put resources back here. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.800 They don't want to pay for anybody. They don't want 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.600 to draft anybody in the first three rounds. So you 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.800 basically are getting what you're paying for. You go to 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.960 Dollar General, you're gonna get a dollar General generic safety. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.080 That's what they have. But I'm not mad at Darien 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.680 Thompson because he can only do what he can do. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.720 Nobody came into training camp thinking that's the guy. This 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.640 is the guy that's gonna be the guy. And now 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.280 he's back there as the guy. And Xavier Woods is 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.600 back there too, and he's getting exposed a little bit. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.320 But I'm looking at these safeties, I'm like, man, I 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.920 don't know if it's all the way I should put it. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.480 Beat them up as much as you ought to beat 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.840 up management and beat up the coaching staff, because it's 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.080 your job to cover up the wards. That's what coaching 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.840 is all about. How do I cover up the wards? 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.080 And they're not doing it right now. So that's my 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.000 take on the safeties. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.400 tell you why I'm not why I'm not putting it 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.520 on Daria Thompson because if you look at the second there, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.280 you tell me one that's playing well. So so we 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.760 can sit here and point out to be like, man, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.960 he ain't the guy if you gonna replace him, if 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.480 I'm him, I'm like, if you're gonna replace me, you 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.240 got to replace everybody that's starting. You got to replace 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.760 Digs because he's playing. You know, we watched them. He 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.320 made a hell of a play, but he got beat 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.280 like like a drum on that play. George lewis out 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.960 there with his eyes and backfield, we like, we're not 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.040 playing well across the board. So I can understand why 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.120 they say, you know, we're just gonna focus on our guys. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.200 Because if that's the case, if you're if you're being 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.080 you know, if you're management, you're being a fan of 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.480 all your players. You got to say none of y'all 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.000 playing right, So we need to be bringing in free 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.400 agents for each position and bring the card to be 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.880 starting because it just it just was agree with that, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.360 So you know, I like, I can't blame it on 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.520 dari and Thompson, Like I blamed it strictly on the 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.640 coaching because I think he has some talent and I 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.560 think they all do, but I think they're just not 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.360 being coach well enough for them to be successful. And 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.920 you like when you're odds in the backfield, you gotta 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.200 hammer that like this is something when you come back 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:38.840 to the sideline. You can't do the same thing the 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.960 next drive, Like we look about the new new in Church. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.880 We called time out before that play when Tyler Locke 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.040 was in the back of the end zone. We called 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.040 a timeout and we came out and were just as 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.960 confused as we were before the play started. Before we 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.520 called the time out. That doesn't make any sense. We 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.200 got to look at the formation and then we came 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:00.960 back to the sidelin the coach said, hey, this is 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.760 the formation they lined up in y'all look for this. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.640 And then we came out and you see these dudes 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.840 looking left and right and can't figure out who's supposed 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.600 to be covering who. It didn't make any sense, and 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.640 they do you to start branding half touchdowns wide open? 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.000 It's crazy. Cornerback? Where do you want to start? Where 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:21.640 do you want to start branding car? What position? The 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:29.160 dealer's choice? Dealer's choice, man, I'm gonna starting in a corner. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.200 That's just because it's natural position if you and you 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.040 just got to start plugging one hole at the time. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.880 So put him at put him where he's best at, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.400 and that's cornerback, where he has the most experience, and 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.960 then see how that works out, um, because you know, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.320 you throw him in that safety and then all of 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.600 a sudden, you put him at a position where everybody 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.160 else is confused, so he might be just as confused 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.240 as the rest of the squad. So put him at 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.080 corner letting places man and man, see what he got. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.800 That's why you brought him in here. He was still 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.160 productive at during that last season, so you know, put 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:55.920 him in there and just and just start with that 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.320 all right, Cowboys go down thirty eight thirty one Russell 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:05.040 Wilson with five touchdown passes. You are checking out the players. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.760 Lowns to do it every Monday through Friday to thirty 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.600 Central Time. I'm NEWI scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter. These two 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.480 guys are former Dallas Cowboys safety's Buried Church and Danny McCrae. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.119 Let's catch a break in here. There's a bunch of topics. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.399 We still got to get to the weak link on 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.080 the offensive line. Let's identify that player. How do they 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.960 go forward? What's the status ll Collins? 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