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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and NEWI scrugs.
Speaker 1: It's Monday and it's time for some Monday moaning. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys end up losing to Seattle. The best thing
Speaker 1: I can say about Monday is there's a hockey game
Speaker 1: to night and the Dallas Stars are trying to keep
Speaker 1: their Stanley Cup playoff hopes alive in Game six tonight
Speaker 1: on NBC. But yes, we will spend forty five minutes
Speaker 1: dissecting this Cowboys lost two. Yeah, we have a little
Speaker 1: settle Seahawks' news scrugs. This is the player's lounge right
Speaker 1: here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Barry Church, former Cowboys safety,
Speaker 1: joins me along with Danny mccraige. Cowboys. All right, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: we've got a we got a thirty eight thirty seven loss,
Speaker 1: and for me, it's all about the Cowboys secondary. All right,
Speaker 1: We're having a little bit of a little trouble with
Speaker 1: a news newies. Um communication thing right there. So we'll
Speaker 1: get back to Newis. But we brought the point of
Speaker 1: this troubles in the secondary that we that we were
Speaker 1: discussing here, and to me, the secondary play was just
Speaker 1: god awful out there. I mean, I'm sure Danny you
Speaker 1: can attest to this, but um, that secondary, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't have people running Scott free out there, and
Speaker 1: that DK metcalf twice was wide open in the back
Speaker 1: of the secondary. I'm not sure what the coverage was,
Speaker 1: but the safety seemed to have their eyes in the
Speaker 1: backfield a lot this game, giving up a lot of huge, huge,
Speaker 1: big time plays out there that day. They can't they
Speaker 1: just can't do You can't afford to do that. So Um,
Speaker 1: to me, this secondary played god awful. They did show
Speaker 1: a little bit of fight, you know, towards the end
Speaker 1: second half they tuned it up a little bit, but
Speaker 1: we just can't have starts like that. Man. What you
Speaker 1: think about that played, Danny? Yeah? Man, Um, just as
Speaker 1: soon as it happened, like for the third time, I
Speaker 1: sent I sent Neuillar Church the text verssions like what
Speaker 1: are these dudes looking at? Like, you know, we came
Speaker 1: in and we talked about like scheme and being confused
Speaker 1: and every other excuse in the book, And then we
Speaker 1: got into the game and I'm looking, I'm like, this
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with anything except you guys and
Speaker 1: your technique and having your eyes in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: You could have saved two or three touchdowns by just
Speaker 1: having your eyes in the correct place. So to me,
Speaker 1: it was it was glaring. It was so glaring that
Speaker 1: you know, you start wondering, like, what the hell are
Speaker 1: they doing that practice? That was It was absolutely crazy
Speaker 1: and how easy these things could have been fixed. But
Speaker 1: we are still in week three and still having these
Speaker 1: same mistakes. So the secondary was definitely was definitely a
Speaker 1: very big issue. Man. So I don't know where we go,
Speaker 1: you know, well, I guess we can only go up.
Speaker 1: But if we get up, we'll be home at December. Man.
Speaker 1: Be played in December and we'll be going on vacation
Speaker 1: in January. Yeah, and you talked about it, you can
Speaker 1: you hit it right on the nail. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of these touchdowns. Once they showed the replays we've seen,
Speaker 1: we see a lot of the secondary players with their
Speaker 1: eyes in the backfield. I mean, we knew on that
Speaker 1: goal line one to Tyler Lockett. They were in man
Speaker 1: to man and when they did the run fack, you
Speaker 1: saw digs who I'll give him credit. He did fight
Speaker 1: in the second half, but his eyes were just all
Speaker 1: in the back room in the corner. You can't do
Speaker 1: that as a corner. You gotta let that front seven,
Speaker 1: that defensive line, those linebackers, you gotta let them handle it.
Speaker 1: Your job, it's simply to just lock down those receivers
Speaker 1: and make sure nothing gets over your head. And we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of that these first couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And what I just can't understand is with Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: He's he's arguably one B to DK metcast one A,
Speaker 1: but he's already had two touchdowns in the first half,
Speaker 1: and that third one he's he's scott free. He's wide
Speaker 1: open in the back of the end zone, nobody around him.
Speaker 1: How are you letting a guy with that potential and
Speaker 1: that success early in this game just go scott free
Speaker 1: or running for your secondary. I just I just couldn't
Speaker 1: get it, and I just didn't understand it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because they're so young, or if it's
Speaker 1: because the scheme is too difficult, but we got to
Speaker 1: figure out something because we can't. We can't continue to
Speaker 1: survive this season. We'll give it where we're just trying
Speaker 1: to battle back and we're already giving up fourteen points
Speaker 1: to begin within the whole. I mean, people kill Garrett
Speaker 1: for having this team like that last year with the
Speaker 1: slow starts, and we're motivated to get out there and
Speaker 1: play early and always had to try to battle back
Speaker 1: to getting the game. So I think, I mean, we
Speaker 1: got to figure out something because he's slow starts and
Speaker 1: he's trying to battle back and race back into the game.
Speaker 1: It's just not going to be sustainable for the whole season.
Speaker 1: He put the might home. I got you here. It's
Speaker 1: Mike Malgly Okay, there's nobody else. There's nobody else to blame, right,
Speaker 1: because well, let's see, this is this is what happens.
Speaker 1: You're going you go into the game, right, and if
Speaker 1: the first touchdown I believe was it looked like cover four, right,
Speaker 1: and they ran a two man route. So we had
Speaker 1: four guys to cover two guys and we don't cover
Speaker 1: them right. So that's to me, and I say this
Speaker 1: from experience when when you're running cover four, what happened
Speaker 1: sometimes it can get confusion between the corner and the
Speaker 1: safety when you're running when they have a two man route,
Speaker 1: but es since you we're supposed to turn into a
Speaker 1: double team. What happened on that was the odds were
Speaker 1: in the backfield. You would think that they were running
Speaker 1: read option, but it was just a regular, regular play fake,
Speaker 1: so the safety shouldn't even be up in there. So
Speaker 1: and then and then the other ones. You know, somebody
Speaker 1: was on Twitter talking. I was like, hey, man, look, man,
Speaker 1: the man is not confusing enough for us to be
Speaker 1: looking like that. If you have a problem to where
Speaker 1: you're running in and outs and you're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: get get these things figured out in these tight formations,
Speaker 1: and you see this as an issue, you just tell them, hey,
Speaker 1: we're just going basic, old school man oh man, and
Speaker 1: we'll live with the result. Instead, we just sat there
Speaker 1: and did the same thing and just let them run
Speaker 1: free and look confused in the secondary, like I said,
Speaker 1: very much like how we look when Rob Ryan was here,
Speaker 1: confusing and they've got him out of here. Because the
Speaker 1: word miscommunication. That that word, by the way, is what
Speaker 1: we kept seeing and hearing over and over in the
Speaker 1: Cowboys press conferences. This guy's talking about miscommunication. Miscommunication here,
Speaker 1: let me read from from Treybon Diggs. He said, it's
Speaker 1: really on us, honestly, just communication. There are things we've
Speaker 1: got to correct in practice, things like that. We're going
Speaker 1: to get it right. It's just communication. That's it. It's
Speaker 1: literally it. Xavier Wood says, we just have too We
Speaker 1: left too many opportunities out there. We just didn't start fast.
Speaker 1: In the first half. We came out slow. They put
Speaker 1: up too many points. It was just too big of
Speaker 1: a deficit for us to come back. And the second
Speaker 1: half we played better than you got. Jay Loob Smith
Speaker 1: saying it's frustrating, but a learning experience what we must
Speaker 1: do and for real, it's time. It's time that we
Speaker 1: do what we need to do. I love this from
Speaker 1: from Tank Lawrence. Tank Lawrence saying, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks in the league that move around like that.
Speaker 1: If you let him get outside of the pocket, they
Speaker 1: become a force. Uh. They're pretty good at it. So
Speaker 1: hats off to rust in them. They won the game,
Speaker 1: but we'll see them again. That's from Tank. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: let let me tell you this, let me tell it,
Speaker 1: let me tell you Russell did not really kill them
Speaker 1: outside of the pocket and two for digs. That ain't it.
Speaker 1: It ain't just it ain't just misterimun the case. All right,
Speaker 1: It's way more than that. It was. It was a
Speaker 1: big issue, but that ain't it. So let's not act
Speaker 1: like they can go into practice and say, hey, we
Speaker 1: fix this man to man covers, you know, the end
Speaker 1: and out and not let locket free all of a
Speaker 1: sudden we be winning the game. That ain't It's it's
Speaker 1: a lot more to it. So you know, I hope
Speaker 1: he sees that. I know it's you know, the mind
Speaker 1: is moving fast when you get that camera in your face.
Speaker 1: But I know he didn't meet what he said, especially
Speaker 1: on today after they watched the film. It's a lot
Speaker 1: more than that, Okay. So I just wanted to touch
Speaker 1: on a couple of things from the secondary. You guys,
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm crazy here. The penalties were a
Speaker 1: couple of things that really stood out to me. And
Speaker 1: I go back to one touchdown drive by Seattle. It
Speaker 1: was a third and ten at the Dallas forty six.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson gets sat but then there's a flat and
Speaker 1: it's Darryl Worley illegal contact. Then it's a second and nine,
Speaker 1: same drive. Second and nine at the Dallas twenty three,
Speaker 1: Worley makes an interception, but there's a flat pass interference
Speaker 1: by Jordan Lewis. Now we've got a first intend at
Speaker 1: the Dallas fifteen. A PI is called on Brandon Car
Speaker 1: and then two plays later Seattle scores a touchdown to
Speaker 1: make it sixteen and nine. That's eleven place, seventy one yards,
Speaker 1: and basically the Cowboys from the defensive backfield standpoint just
Speaker 1: kept giving Seattle first downs with plays there. That was
Speaker 1: early in the football game. Gentlemen, your thoughts on that, well, look,
Speaker 1: and uh that that drive in particular. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, I'm okay with that Darryl Worley where
Speaker 1: it was a legal touching because that was kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a ticky tacking. He didn't really
Speaker 1: you know, push him or anything like that. He kind
Speaker 1: of just kind of tried to hold his ground. So
Speaker 1: you know, I can deal with that. And that one
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone with b Car
Speaker 1: he was a little touchy on there, a little holdie.
Speaker 1: But once again, I mean, that's just going to be
Speaker 1: a part of the game. He was going to get
Speaker 1: to tight end bigger body. He tried to muscle him
Speaker 1: a little bit. That's just a part of the game.
Speaker 1: But what I can't live with is the fact with
Speaker 1: once again we're coming back to these dbs with their
Speaker 1: eyes in the backfield, particularly Jordan Lewis on that on
Speaker 1: that holding penalty. You know, he's supposed to reroute him
Speaker 1: because I believe they were in cover three, so he's
Speaker 1: supposed to reroute him. But if you can't get your
Speaker 1: hands on him within five you kind of just got
Speaker 1: a body rerounte him and let him go around you.
Speaker 1: But without having your eyes on the receiver, your eyes
Speaker 1: are back at the quarterback. You're just reaching and grab
Speaker 1: him for things. And he reached Grabber's arm held onto it,
Speaker 1: and we obviously sat there and seeing him obstruct him
Speaker 1: from getting to the ball. So Daryl Worley can get
Speaker 1: the interception. But those are things that I just can't
Speaker 1: live with. I mean, he's played enough ball now to
Speaker 1: where he knows that he can't just go off there
Speaker 1: and reach and grab at that nickel position, especially going
Speaker 1: against a guy like Lockett who's bettering who's Saddy who
Speaker 1: can sell all that stuff, So you can't do that.
Speaker 1: The moral of the story here today is you can't
Speaker 1: be caught with your eyes in the backfield as a
Speaker 1: defensive back. And we've seen it killed this team time
Speaker 1: and time again. Yes, same here. I think two other
Speaker 1: three for me was, you know, they really were just
Speaker 1: part of the game. The illegal contact that happens all
Speaker 1: the time. Man, it's a dB and is a defensive
Speaker 1: back coach. That's some stuff you just have to deal with.
Speaker 1: And then Brandon Card. You know, once they get to
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, you're supposed to turn
Speaker 1: your back to him trying to push him out of bounds.
Speaker 1: You know, you just go back and forth with a
Speaker 1: tight end. So to me, that really wasn't a big issue.
Speaker 1: That type of stuff like literally happens, you know. And
Speaker 1: then George Lewis, Yeah, very confusing, right, You don't know
Speaker 1: if he playing zoner man because you know zone, he
Speaker 1: got his eyes in the backfield, he gets to a spot,
Speaker 1: you know, he's fine, But to me, it looked like
Speaker 1: he was playing covered three. He was supposed to carry
Speaker 1: the scene and the dude runs straight up the scene
Speaker 1: right in his face and he doesn't realize that he's
Speaker 1: there until he's on his toes because are in the backfield.
Speaker 1: And I'm just looking at it like like it's so
Speaker 1: blatant that it doesn't you know, I want to blame
Speaker 1: it on him, but this is across the entire secondary,
Speaker 1: besides probably Brandon Carr because he's a VET. So it's
Speaker 1: something that they have going on with this coaching that
Speaker 1: they're not getting across to these guys. So that's why
Speaker 1: I have to put it on Mike Nolan because it's
Speaker 1: not just one player. It's essentially the whole defense, included
Speaker 1: in the linebackers because even when they run play action
Speaker 1: and you see these guys over running stuff that meaning
Speaker 1: their eyes a lot of times aren't in the correct play.
Speaker 1: So like the entire defense, as far as the linebackers
Speaker 1: in secondary, they have they have a big issue, you know,
Speaker 1: and that comes from coaching and I think they've been
Speaker 1: in training camp long enough and going through these games
Speaker 1: there in week three and these are elementary problems that
Speaker 1: we're having and it's getting the killed. So you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta put this on Nolan. Is Both Plans Lounge
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Speaker 1: Are we are we done with this the Darien Thompson experiment?
Speaker 1: I mean, is this or my guy was getting roasted
Speaker 1: and toasted you know all games? I mean in missing time.
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know. I'm gonna ask you, guys,
Speaker 1: are we done with this Darien Thompson experiment? Do we
Speaker 1: need to bring in help from the outside. I'll answer
Speaker 1: it from a Stephen Jones standpoint. He was asked today
Speaker 1: on one oh five three, the fan of Cowboys radio
Speaker 1: flagship station, are there any plans to go out and
Speaker 1: go get some help? And he said no, He said
Speaker 1: there's no plans. And I said on Twitter Twitter yesterday, um,
Speaker 1: Eric Reid needs a jersey and a number and a contract.
Speaker 1: It's with a contract. So apparently that's not what they
Speaker 1: want to do. And Steven's talking about guys coming off
Speaker 1: I R so assuming he saw speaking of Anthony Brown here,
Speaker 1: and I know Darren Thompson is getting lit up. I
Speaker 1: get it. But I'll also say this in fairness to him.
Speaker 1: Should I be mad at him? Or should I be
Speaker 1: mad at the people who hired him and put him
Speaker 1: on out there and keep putting him out Because that
Speaker 1: to me is the bigger thing. He is who he is.
Speaker 1: This is another guy who you know, this is the
Speaker 1: first round draft picks. This dude who's on a done
Speaker 1: the Giants. I mean, you tend to be taking Giants
Speaker 1: Giants plays me. It's not all him. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: ha ha. Clinton Dix was brought in here and they
Speaker 1: found out, well, you know, this guy is the guy
Speaker 1: who's been bouncing around here. So they haven't addressed as
Speaker 1: a management team, and this is you know, it's easy
Speaker 1: for us to jump onto players here, but Church you've
Speaker 1: been here before. You see, they don't put resources back here.
Speaker 1: They don't want to pay for anybody. They don't want
Speaker 1: to draft anybody in the first three rounds. So you
Speaker 1: basically are getting what you're paying for. You go to
Speaker 1: Dollar General, you're gonna get a dollar General generic safety.
Speaker 1: That's what they have. But I'm not mad at Darien
Speaker 1: Thompson because he can only do what he can do.
Speaker 1: Nobody came into training camp thinking that's the guy. This
Speaker 1: is the guy that's gonna be the guy. And now
Speaker 1: he's back there as the guy. And Xavier Woods is
Speaker 1: back there too, and he's getting exposed a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at these safeties, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's all the way I should put it.
Speaker 1: Beat them up as much as you ought to beat
Speaker 1: up management and beat up the coaching staff, because it's
Speaker 1: your job to cover up the wards. That's what coaching
Speaker 1: is all about. How do I cover up the wards?
Speaker 1: And they're not doing it right now. So that's my
Speaker 1: take on the safeties. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why I'm not why I'm not putting it
Speaker 1: on Daria Thompson because if you look at the second there,
Speaker 1: you tell me one that's playing well. So so we
Speaker 1: can sit here and point out to be like, man,
Speaker 1: he ain't the guy if you gonna replace him, if
Speaker 1: I'm him, I'm like, if you're gonna replace me, you
Speaker 1: got to replace everybody that's starting. You got to replace
Speaker 1: Digs because he's playing. You know, we watched them. He
Speaker 1: made a hell of a play, but he got beat
Speaker 1: like like a drum on that play. George lewis out
Speaker 1: there with his eyes and backfield, we like, we're not
Speaker 1: playing well across the board. So I can understand why
Speaker 1: they say, you know, we're just gonna focus on our guys.
Speaker 1: Because if that's the case, if you're if you're being
Speaker 1: you know, if you're management, you're being a fan of
Speaker 1: all your players. You got to say none of y'all
Speaker 1: playing right, So we need to be bringing in free
Speaker 1: agents for each position and bring the card to be
Speaker 1: starting because it just it just was agree with that,
Speaker 1: So you know, I like, I can't blame it on
Speaker 1: dari and Thompson, Like I blamed it strictly on the
Speaker 1: coaching because I think he has some talent and I
Speaker 1: think they all do, but I think they're just not
Speaker 1: being coach well enough for them to be successful. And
Speaker 1: you like when you're odds in the backfield, you gotta
Speaker 1: hammer that like this is something when you come back
Speaker 1: to the sideline. You can't do the same thing the
Speaker 1: next drive, Like we look about the new new in Church.
Speaker 1: We called time out before that play when Tyler Locke
Speaker 1: was in the back of the end zone. We called
Speaker 1: a timeout and we came out and were just as
Speaker 1: confused as we were before the play started. Before we
Speaker 1: called the time out. That doesn't make any sense. We
Speaker 1: got to look at the formation and then we came
Speaker 1: back to the sidelin the coach said, hey, this is
Speaker 1: the formation they lined up in y'all look for this.
Speaker 1: And then we came out and you see these dudes
Speaker 1: looking left and right and can't figure out who's supposed
Speaker 1: to be covering who. It didn't make any sense, and
Speaker 1: they do you to start branding half touchdowns wide open?
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Cornerback? Where do you want to start? Where
Speaker 1: do you want to start branding car? What position? The
Speaker 1: dealer's choice? Dealer's choice, man, I'm gonna starting in a corner.
Speaker 1: That's just because it's natural position if you and you
Speaker 1: just got to start plugging one hole at the time.
Speaker 1: So put him at put him where he's best at,
Speaker 1: and that's cornerback, where he has the most experience, and
Speaker 1: then see how that works out, um, because you know,
Speaker 1: you throw him in that safety and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you put him at a position where everybody
Speaker 1: else is confused, so he might be just as confused
Speaker 1: as the rest of the squad. So put him at
Speaker 1: corner letting places man and man, see what he got.
Speaker 1: That's why you brought him in here. He was still
Speaker 1: productive at during that last season, so you know, put
Speaker 1: him in there and just and just start with that
Speaker 1: all right, Cowboys go down thirty eight thirty one Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson with five touchdown passes. You are checking out the players.
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Speaker 1: Central Time. I'm NEWI scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter. These two
Speaker 1: guys are former Dallas Cowboys safety's Buried Church and Danny McCrae.
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Speaker 1: We still got to get to the weak link on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Let's identify that player. How do they
Speaker 1: go forward? What's the status ll Collins? I was pretty
Speaker 1: surprised at what I found out today about Collins possibly returning.
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Speaker 1: law with Barried Church and Danny mc create. Those guys
Speaker 1: are four Dallas Cowboys safeties. I'm a long time Cowboys reporter.
Speaker 1: All right. By the way, we all were correct on
Speaker 1: our pick. We all took Seattle. Um I had the
Speaker 1: Cowboys losing by five. Church, you had him losing by seven.
Speaker 1: D MAC you had him losing by three. So Church,
Speaker 1: you are nostre damas for the week. It was a
Speaker 1: seven point defeat for the Cowboys. So apparently you nothing,
Speaker 1: there's nothing news. It's nothing new man. You got those
Speaker 1: you got, I mean, there's nothing new man. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just how it goes. It is all right, this,
Speaker 1: uh this, This Cowboys offensive line has got issues and
Speaker 1: it hasn't been a whole to begin the season. And
Speaker 1: you've got Lell Collins missing another game here. He was
Speaker 1: on injured reserve, so that put him out three weeks,
Speaker 1: but it may be longer because Stephen Jones was on
Speaker 1: the radio today saying that Collins is not exactly where
Speaker 1: they want him to be. So fellas you could have
Speaker 1: Collins missing this game against the Cleveland Browns. Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: missed his second game. And I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: my opinion, the weakest link on the Cowboys offensive line,
Speaker 1: and it's not Terrence Steele, who started at right tackle
Speaker 1: the past two games, that was benched in the Seattle game.
Speaker 1: And here's why I'm not blaming Terrence Steele. He's an
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie. Okay, you know that's that's not you putting
Speaker 1: your best guy out there. They finally put a real
Speaker 1: replacement out there tackle. They moved all pro Zack Martin
Speaker 1: from guard to right tackle, and this guy was good.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of when Larry Allen got kicked out
Speaker 1: to tackle and you're just you're sitting there saying, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy could be Pro Bowl at tackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and thinking myself, Zack Martin is Ivory
Speaker 1: Larry Allen. He was so good yesterday and they may
Speaker 1: need to go ahead and keep him out there if
Speaker 1: Collins is not there, if Collins can't play on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Browns, then to me, you got to go
Speaker 1: ahead and make that change a put put Zach Martin
Speaker 1: out at right tackle, kick Joe Looney in the guard,
Speaker 1: and have Tyler Beyond the rookie play at center. And
Speaker 1: to me, that weak link on the offensive line is
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. It's just too many times you're watching Cornor
Speaker 1: Williams get pushed back here and I'm just surprised that
Speaker 1: a year number three, that Connor is not a better player,
Speaker 1: especially since they used the second round draft pick on him.
Speaker 1: Danny McCree, you go ahead and start, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: but with Connor, I see the same thing you see,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I just have to remember that
Speaker 1: it is week three, the guys coming off an injury,
Speaker 1: and he hadn't really had much time to to get
Speaker 1: back in the field of things, and it's really showing
Speaker 1: on the field. And uh, you know, so I think
Speaker 1: you're accurate with the pick, but I think that he
Speaker 1: might need he might need a little bit more time.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, the way that we've started the season, everything
Speaker 1: is so so glaring, you know, all the mistakes are
Speaker 1: or just out there, so you know, it's just so Obviously,
Speaker 1: if we were three and oh, I think it would
Speaker 1: be it wouldn't be as big of a deal. But
Speaker 1: since we are what we are, it is a big deal.
Speaker 1: So I feel, you know it, But I still think
Speaker 1: he needs a couple more weeks to, you know, to
Speaker 1: get back into the groove of things. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him a little bit more week or a couple
Speaker 1: more weeks just to get his groove. And he is
Speaker 1: coming off of an injury. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: this to me, this is kind of just like the
Speaker 1: secondary I mean, it's kind of like pick your poison.
Speaker 1: I mean, outside of Zack Martin, all pro I mean,
Speaker 1: they all kind of had their struggles in these first
Speaker 1: three games. So for me, I liked what they did
Speaker 1: by putting Zach Martin out there at the tackle position
Speaker 1: because he was able to hold that down pretty well.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that you know, he could probably
Speaker 1: be an All Pro at all all five offensive linement positions.
Speaker 1: So I like what they did right there, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need them to do that next week because they
Speaker 1: got a guy coming in here by the name of
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett. And this guy, he's a beach. He's known
Speaker 1: for getting after quarterbacks. I think he has like three
Speaker 1: sacks so far this season. But he's a destructive force
Speaker 1: in the run game and in the past game. So
Speaker 1: maybe they want to move Zack Martin out there to
Speaker 1: tackle just to help Um solidify that pass rush. But
Speaker 1: for me, the most part is kind of just pick
Speaker 1: your poison, man. I mean, we we've struggled with this
Speaker 1: passwork offensive line right now. It's early in the early
Speaker 1: in the season, but we just need we just need
Speaker 1: the reinforcements to come in. We need Lyle Collins. But
Speaker 1: which it doesn't seem like we're going to get him
Speaker 1: back anytime soon. Hopefully Tyrn Smith Um they say he's
Speaker 1: day to day with that neck or that stinger injury,
Speaker 1: so hopefully he's able to come back and help us out.
Speaker 1: But we need the reinforcements, bad man. This this uh,
Speaker 1: this patchwork low funds. The line is just it's you know,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's his undrafted guys, his
Speaker 1: guys out of position, and they're trying to do their
Speaker 1: best to get a pass pass protection going. So, um,
Speaker 1: we just need the reinforcements in there. But I like
Speaker 1: Zack Martin at that tackle versus Miles Garrett, so hopefully
Speaker 1: we can get that next week as well. Good point
Speaker 1: by you. Miles Garrett is coming to town. Will be
Speaker 1: his first game at AT and T Stadium as a
Speaker 1: professional football player. He started Arlington Martin High School and
Speaker 1: ended up going to Texas A and M before becoming
Speaker 1: the first player drafted. And what has become a heck
Speaker 1: of a quarterback class, and it had Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Both of those guys were drafted after Mitchell
Speaker 1: Trubisky so but got bitched by the Bears yesterday. But
Speaker 1: people forget that Miles was the first player taken. So yes,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have got to figure out how to defend him.
Speaker 1: Another point of emphasis for me, and obviously we had
Speaker 1: you saw the offensive line issues, was that Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: only called fourteen rushes for Ezekiel Elliott in the football
Speaker 1: game and he had thirty four yards in one touchdown.
Speaker 1: To me, this is a problem. This is a defense
Speaker 1: that we talked about time and time again. They can't
Speaker 1: stay on the field for thirty minutes, and they were
Speaker 1: on the field for over thirty two minutes. They've got
Speaker 1: to try to run the football. Once again, I understand
Speaker 1: you got offensive line issues, but fifty seven dropbacks by
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, it's just not going to win many football games.
Speaker 1: I think when you start looking at guys who the
Speaker 1: ball fifty plus times, they're pretty much gonna be on
Speaker 1: the losing end of football games. And to me, fourteen
Speaker 1: rushes is just not enough of an attempt. It's not
Speaker 1: enough of a try to figure out how to establish
Speaker 1: the run. Ezekiel Elliott has to touch the football more
Speaker 1: than fourteen times running the ball in a football game.
Speaker 1: Danny mccraig, Am I crazy when I say that? Am
Speaker 1: I wrong when I say that? Let me tell you something. Listen,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Somebody anybody needs to walk
Speaker 1: in there with Kellen Moore. Is that with the contracts
Speaker 1: of the players on offense, and they need to show
Speaker 1: them to them. They need to show them that they
Speaker 1: have a very expensive running back. They need to show
Speaker 1: them that they have a very expensive receiver. And since
Speaker 1: they pay them this much money, they need to make
Speaker 1: sure that he gets them involved in the game. How
Speaker 1: do you not give Zeke the ball for the first
Speaker 1: at least the first six snaps of the game. This
Speaker 1: makes entirely no sense when everybody knows that the strength
Speaker 1: of the team and what we should be doing against
Speaker 1: Seattle is trying to run. We come out and trying
Speaker 1: to do it way too much. This is I don't
Speaker 1: understand it. I never will. Keller Moore to me should
Speaker 1: be done. Mike McCarthy should have. I've seen them with
Speaker 1: his play sheet in his hand, so I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how much he was involved in it. But if they
Speaker 1: don't find a way to fix this, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say McCarty should get fired, but they should find a
Speaker 1: replacement with Kelly Moore, because he just I tweet I said,
Speaker 1: hey man, what is the identity of our offense? If
Speaker 1: one of you can tell me, then then I would
Speaker 1: happily listen and accept it. But I just I can't
Speaker 1: see what the identity of our office is. What does
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator to come in and say, hey, we
Speaker 1: have to stop this, this is what the Cowboys want
Speaker 1: to do? Because I don't know, So I'll let one
Speaker 1: of y'all, you know, inform me on what that is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just as confused as you are. I always believe
Speaker 1: that Ezekiel Elliott is the is the engine for this
Speaker 1: offense and he kind of gets this thing rolling. But
Speaker 1: it was surprising to me, Like you pointed out, the
Speaker 1: first six players on the offense, he didn't get a
Speaker 1: touch at all, and then or they were even pass players.
Speaker 1: I believe. So. Uh, And we look back last week
Speaker 1: into Atlanta. What got them back into that game? What
Speaker 1: got them rolling again? And that's what they didn't give
Speaker 1: up on the run game. They kept feeding Ezekiel Elliot
Speaker 1: and he kept pounded on that defense. I mean, this
Speaker 1: this go around, like you said, fourteen touches are getting
Speaker 1: the run. That's just that's just not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna have him in that rhythm. That's gonna
Speaker 1: not gonna have him pounding down this defense and opening
Speaker 1: up the past game. So um, I agree with both
Speaker 1: of you on this one. It's confusing which way the
Speaker 1: offense is going right now. We don't know their identity,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you this, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win a lot of games with fifty seven drop
Speaker 1: backs with with Dak Prescott and only fourteen rushes for
Speaker 1: Ezekiel that. I just don't think that's a winning formula.
Speaker 1: And they got to figure out something soon. If I'm McCarthy,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, hey, you gotta get this offense going because
Speaker 1: I'm not going down because you're playing calling. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what goes on. But I think you've got to
Speaker 1: be the engine to this offense. Well one thing, one thing, listen,
Speaker 1: Keller Moore should go and look at the New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saints and how they play the game. All Right, they
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, he gets a lot of catches. They play,
Speaker 1: they pay Kamar he gets. If you watch the game
Speaker 1: last night, you see what the offense that's focused on
Speaker 1: their highest paid running back looks like. Like this is
Speaker 1: what the game should look like. They ran the entire
Speaker 1: game through Kamar, and they almost pulled it off, like
Speaker 1: this is what we should be doing. I don't get
Speaker 1: it should be Coop uh Ezekiel Ellett and Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and then everybody else should be you know, getting getting
Speaker 1: picking up the scraps. But that's what we should be doing,
Speaker 1: and we just don't seem to be focused on that.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Kamar killed last night and Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: well he's in the game killed and they and they're
Speaker 1: the focal pieces of the offense. Well, what you're talking
Speaker 1: about as an elite play caller, that's what sean. Sean
Speaker 1: Payton is an elite play caller, and he called He's
Speaker 1: called plays for two Super Bowl teams. His Saints team
Speaker 1: that won, and he ended up calling plays for a
Speaker 1: Giants team that lost to the Multimore Ravens. Um but
Speaker 1: I think it was Super thirty five. So that's where
Speaker 1: Sean is. And then you look at the last two
Speaker 1: um NFC winners, the guys that the teams that played
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl to represent the NFC. Kyle Shanahan with
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers last year. An elite play caller who,
Speaker 1: like Sean Payton, will mix the run and the past.
Speaker 1: The running backs are heavily used. And then before that
Speaker 1: with the La Rams and Sean McVay. I mean, you
Speaker 1: saw what he did with Todd Gurley and how they
Speaker 1: ran the football. In fact, the Cowboys lost to them
Speaker 1: that year they went to the Super Bowl. And then
Speaker 1: the first game of the season this year without Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: we saw Sean McVay established the run to them work
Speaker 1: off the pass. They are teams that run the football
Speaker 1: here and you guys are on point about Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: now former general manager Mike Lombardi. I was in Cleveland
Speaker 1: when Mike Lombardi and Belichick were there with the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: He has a podcast called the GM Shuffle, and in
Speaker 1: it he got on Mike McCarthy. He said, Mike, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You've made your bones as a guy
Speaker 1: who calls plays. Why are you not calling plays? And
Speaker 1: he jumped on Kellen Moore. He was saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: He said, Kellen Moore is just calling plays that he's
Speaker 1: not calling the plays that helped his football team, which is,
Speaker 1: you and your offense need to control the ball because
Speaker 1: your defense shouldn't be out there on the field. And
Speaker 1: he says, Kelling's looking in the bag, like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: call this player that's called that play instead of calling
Speaker 1: the plays and strategize and help your football team. And
Speaker 1: at some point in time, Lobarti is saying, basically what
Speaker 1: you're saying, Danny is snatch that play sheet away. Maybe
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones really wanted you to let Kelly Moore call
Speaker 1: plays and give him a shot. But if your football
Speaker 1: team is going to have an opportunity to play for
Speaker 1: some meaningful games in January, you may have to jump
Speaker 1: in there and say, hey, young fella, I'm calling these plays.
Speaker 1: You set up stuff during the week, but on game day,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call these plays because twenty one simply cannot
Speaker 1: only have fourteen carries in a football game. Don't don't
Speaker 1: let him. Don't let him set up none during the week.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see number wing tea or speed out.
Speaker 1: He got Tony poll Zeke on fourth and one, Like
Speaker 1: what line up in the our formation and show up
Speaker 1: what you're gonna do? And you got da they gonna
Speaker 1: pitch try. I'm like, bro, this is my bad turk.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm just upset. No, No, I'm good,
Speaker 1: Are you good? It just it just doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: he's playing, you know, the game with with with thinking
Speaker 1: of moves ahead. It just seems like, like you said, nude,
Speaker 1: like he's just picking out of the bag saying no,
Speaker 1: maybe just play of work. Maybe just play of work.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't seem like he's setting anything up. Like
Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you have a catalyst of a
Speaker 1: back like that in Zekiel Elliott in the backfield, let
Speaker 1: him run that day, let him pound it, even if
Speaker 1: it's only three to four yards in a cloud of dust.
Speaker 1: Each time he's touching it, you're setting something up. I mean,
Speaker 1: every time you hand the ball off to him, that defense,
Speaker 1: since he's that good of a runner, the defense are
Speaker 1: gonna have eyes in the backfield. They're gonna respect that
Speaker 1: play action. So for me, it's just a simple fact
Speaker 1: that he's not thinking, you know, two moves ahead. He's
Speaker 1: thinking just maybe there's will work, or maybe that'll work.
Speaker 1: You gotta set something up when you're going against defenses.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if you if you run it fourteen
Speaker 1: times in the fourth quarter, they're not gonna respect that
Speaker 1: play action, and you're just gonna they're gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: back there waiting for your receivers to come to them.
Speaker 1: So to me, I just think he needs to set
Speaker 1: up more things for this offense. But like you guys said,
Speaker 1: if I'm Mike McCarthy, I'm snatching that places sheet a satinly.
Speaker 1: I'm not going down with you on this one, big dog.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got another. We got to take another
Speaker 1: break here. Want to get into a Cowboys player who's
Speaker 1: being called dirty on Monday. Let's dive into his situation.
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Speaker 1: slash safe Stadium for details. Pete Carroll has a Monday
Speaker 1: morning radio show he does up in Seattle, and he
Speaker 1: said he was quote pitch about the play that Tristan
Speaker 1: Hill made on running back Chris Carson where he gay
Speaker 1: or Roll tackled him in his leg and Carson had
Speaker 1: to go out. Um, he's uh, he's not going to
Speaker 1: he doesn't have an ACL team, but he may end
Speaker 1: up missing some time here. He's definitely got hurt on
Speaker 1: the football play. And then Tristan Hill on the Seattle
Speaker 1: two point conversion in which Seattle didn't convert, but Hill
Speaker 1: doesn't head to head hit on Russell Wilson, thus giving
Speaker 1: the Seahawks another shot at two point conversion. They convert.
Speaker 1: So Tristan Hill being called dirty all across social media.
Speaker 1: So Barry Church, what you see from Hill? And is
Speaker 1: he dirty? I don't know. Contrary to to most belief
Speaker 1: about the you know, the Twitter world, they're going out
Speaker 1: there saying, I just don't think, you know, he's a
Speaker 1: dirty player. Um, I don't think. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: that savvy like I don't. I wouldn't give him that
Speaker 1: you know, that Bill Romanowski type all. He's out there
Speaker 1: to hurt people. I don't think that the tackle that
Speaker 1: he did do it was like it was a gator role.
Speaker 1: And Danny you can attest to this. You know, every
Speaker 1: every coach that we've that we've had, and when you
Speaker 1: have tackling drills, there's two type of tackles they drilled.
Speaker 1: There's the forum tackle and then there's that gator role tackle,
Speaker 1: and every single time a coach is talking about that,
Speaker 1: defensive coaches they always say, come up with a body part,
Speaker 1: come up with a body part. And if he got
Speaker 1: to hold on for dear life and roll over to
Speaker 1: get the guy down, I mean, it's football. You're gonna
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do to get him down. And
Speaker 1: I think he was just going through what the coach
Speaker 1: is saying. I mean they always say when you do
Speaker 1: that gator roll, come up with a body part to
Speaker 1: make sure that guy isn't you know, spun out of
Speaker 1: that tackle and got off. So I don't think he's
Speaker 1: on that. You know, that that dirty player that Bill
Speaker 1: Romanowski that you know, Ron Harrison, the safety back in
Speaker 1: the days, I don't say. I don't see him as
Speaker 1: that type of guy. But um, I just think they
Speaker 1: were the play with Russell Wilson, I just think that
Speaker 1: was a stupid play. I just think you know, he
Speaker 1: got rid of the ball. You know, he just put
Speaker 1: a little push on him. I just don't think he's
Speaker 1: doing these things purposefully. So I'm not gonna call him
Speaker 1: a dirty player. I'm just saying, you know, hey, he
Speaker 1: was a young dude and he was doing a gator
Speaker 1: roll tackle, and that's what the coaches tell you to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know him personally, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's a dirty player or not, but I know that
Speaker 1: those two players definitely don't make him a dirty player.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, when you got when you when you're in
Speaker 1: the league, you and you got a running back who's
Speaker 1: known for breaking tackles and getting yard at the contact.
Speaker 1: What you do is you grab a body part and
Speaker 1: then you hold on into the whistle blows. Because we've
Speaker 1: seen many times guys like Kamar and Zeke you will
Speaker 1: think they're down and they not, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you get in the film room and you're like, man, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I just wasn't trying to hurt you, dude, and then
Speaker 1: then you cut. So I think he was doing what
Speaker 1: he had to do, and you know, he was making
Speaker 1: a play, and Pete Carroll is right for taking up
Speaker 1: for his player, especially since he did get injured, and
Speaker 1: that's just that's just a part of the game. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it was dirty. And we've seen actually
Speaker 1: I saw that same gator roll in a couple of
Speaker 1: games yesterday, and the guy didn't get hurt and there
Speaker 1: was there was no fuss about it. And to hit
Speaker 1: on Russell Wilson. We see that each week throughout the
Speaker 1: league as well, and it's just it's just one of
Speaker 1: those things that's hard not to do, especially when you're
Speaker 1: so close to a guy and you got to pull off,
Speaker 1: so it happens. I don't think he's dirty. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: save the best for last year as we end the
Speaker 1: show special teams. Um, did somebody, can you guys explain
Speaker 1: to me what Tony Poller was doing out there on
Speaker 1: the kickoff? No head? D Mac? You got this at
Speaker 1: the at the one? Uh yeah. D Mac helped me understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what he was about to do was messing up. That's
Speaker 1: what he was doing. No, listen, this is what he did,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was just somebody that he dropped
Speaker 1: the ball and then he had a little indecision. He
Speaker 1: was trying to wonder if he could still get it
Speaker 1: in for a touchback, and that little indecision got us
Speaker 1: put on the one, you know for safety. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's made some to me, some pretty big mistakes
Speaker 1: out there. Um, And I know I know a lot
Speaker 1: of it is coaching because previous games where he was
Speaker 1: taking it out seven yards deep and having us start,
Speaker 1: you know, on the twenty and the twenty two instead
Speaker 1: of being that automatic twenty five. I think those were mistakes.
Speaker 1: And then he also made a mistake here on kickoff
Speaker 1: for turn you know, uh, we're putting us on a
Speaker 1: one yard and casting us to safety. So this, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this goes right back to coaching again. These are some
Speaker 1: things that should be being coached and he should he
Speaker 1: should know what he should do when he gets centimity situations,
Speaker 1: and he obviously doesn't, and his special teams minus the
Speaker 1: onside kick is hurting us. Danny cannot let me ask
Speaker 1: this question here. The NFL changed the rules and touch
Speaker 1: back it starts at the twenty five pretty much. They
Speaker 1: and Dave Hellman talked about this on own when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys podcast earlier. It's good. They pretty much don't want
Speaker 1: you to run the ball back. They want you to
Speaker 1: just go ahead and all right, boom, they touchback and
Speaker 1: started the twenty five. They're trying to kind of eliminate
Speaker 1: that the play the kickoff play. So so what's Polar
Speaker 1: doing and considering the fact you're starting at the one,
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna run twenty five yards against those dudes.
Speaker 1: I don't get it helped me understand the thinking. Then
Speaker 1: he's if he catches the he's fine on that one.
Speaker 1: If you if you catch it on the one and
Speaker 1: you catch it on the goal, that is perfectly fine. Right.
Speaker 1: You take the chance and you go out there and
Speaker 1: you try to make a play that like the guys
Speaker 1: that are out there blocking for you are getting paid.
Speaker 1: This is still a phase of the football game. You
Speaker 1: can still try to do that. The ones where I'm
Speaker 1: confused on him, he's six and seven yards deep and
Speaker 1: then you gotta run thirty yards just to get it
Speaker 1: to where you would have been if you left an end,
Speaker 1: which makes no sense. And then you dropped the ball,
Speaker 1: which is a mistake. But then don't compound that to
Speaker 1: putting your team on the one by being indecisive and
Speaker 1: not picking the ball up and going for a run
Speaker 1: like get him to the ten, you know, save as
Speaker 1: much as you can. And he didn't do any one
Speaker 1: of those things. And like I said, I take that
Speaker 1: back to coaching. But these are things that he should know,
Speaker 1: and it just points back to how he's being coached.
Speaker 1: You know, up there at the four cements who that
Speaker 1: was ugly because it led to a safety by Seattle.
Speaker 1: And then of course you had two extra points missed
Speaker 1: in the football game, and just there were just too many,
Speaker 1: too many swings with the Cowboys shooting themselves in the
Speaker 1: foot here, and it's uh, you know, driving fans crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm out here drinking his blue juice from Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: sitting if he's singing his praises. I mean, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about how hey man, he's he bringing in his special
Speaker 1: team's coach Fossil. He's good, it's gonna happen. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Special Team like, well, I mean this this we
Speaker 1: can had Keith o quinn back for this. I mean
Speaker 1: just uh yeah, Well it's worse because these we were
Speaker 1: told they were the answer. We were told the emphasis
Speaker 1: were going to be here. That's the part that they
Speaker 1: really just chapters. Heyway, you're supposed to better, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you miss an extra point? Userline? I mean
Speaker 1: one of them was blocked, that's not his fault, but
Speaker 1: but you just missed one. You got some point five
Speaker 1: million dollars, but you got to make these things and
Speaker 1: they're not good enough to overcome their mistakes. And that's
Speaker 1: so much of watching cowboy football right now and too,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's not only you making mistakes. You're making mistakes
Speaker 1: which you're giving away points. And you're just not good
Speaker 1: enough defensively to give points away to anybody. And that's
Speaker 1: that that part of it is frustrating here. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's in talking about Monday that football. Kansas
Speaker 1: City Baltimore. Two former MVPs get after it. Kansas City
Speaker 1: super Bowl champion at Baltimore. Who you got tonight, guys?
Speaker 1: I got Uh. I got Baltimore. And for the simple
Speaker 1: fact that I need him in fantasy, man, I need him.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm going against the guy that I got.
Speaker 1: He got Tyrick Hill on one side, he got Um.
Speaker 1: He got the kicker for Baltimore, So I don't need
Speaker 1: him to kill him that much. I just need him
Speaker 1: to beat him low. But I'm going with Baltimore. Man.
Speaker 1: I think they look good so far. They're running it.
Speaker 1: The rushing attack looks amazing. Um the guy from Ohio State,
Speaker 1: j JK. Dobbins, I mean that does real. That dud's
Speaker 1: a real business. So um Lamar Jackson and that crew.
Speaker 1: I think there'll be a little bit too much for
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs this this uh, this afternoon. But
Speaker 1: I'm going thirty one, thirty one, twenty one Baltimore, ten
Speaker 1: point from my homes. Wow, now you know who you're
Speaker 1: talking to right now, you're talking to No Stredamins man.
Speaker 1: Listen to you write that down. I'm going with I'm
Speaker 1: going with Baltimore as well, specifically because Kansas City has
Speaker 1: been looking a little off for the last few weeks
Speaker 1: and I don't see them being able to come back
Speaker 1: on the team like Baltimore, especially during the regular season,
Speaker 1: because as we should be doing. They can run the ball,
Speaker 1: they have good coaches, and they know how to if
Speaker 1: they get a lead, they know what to do. They
Speaker 1: have Lamar Jackson, they got JK. Dobbins, they have Ingram,
Speaker 1: they have guys back there that can keep the ball
Speaker 1: away from the homes and I think they'll play that
Speaker 1: keepaway game and we should watch it and take notes.
Speaker 1: So I'm taking Baltimore by six twenty thirty three, twenty seven. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Um, Kansas City wins. So there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm gone short and sweet. Um, yeah, I think they'll
Speaker 1: they'll I just like Holmes, I like what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I think they're better football team than they were last year.
Speaker 1: And and um, they went up to LA and had
Speaker 1: some issues with the Charge Chargers played him tougher than
Speaker 1: we thought. But the Charges played everybody pretty tough here,
Speaker 1: and so I think that I think they get this one.
Speaker 1: So it'll be, it'll be. It'll be fun to watch
Speaker 1: this game here, And so hopefully Danny mccraig, are you
Speaker 1: watching a fantasy game? Am I watching? No? I'm not,
Speaker 1: Uh Game six, So I missed the NBA this weekend
Speaker 1: watching the Stars. Um, and so I'm gonna miss Monday
Speaker 1: Night football tonight. My fantasy game's already done. I've already won,
Speaker 1: so I don't need to watch, so I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 1: But the Stars have to win tonight. If they don't,
Speaker 1: they end up losing Stanley Cup in six games. So
Speaker 1: that double overtime game in game five to get it
Speaker 1: to six. So yeah, I'll be watching the hockey game tonight.
Speaker 1: Rare is it that we get a Dallas Fort Worth
Speaker 1: team playing in a championship round? So it's um, it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool, So I'm definitely gonna put my put my
Speaker 1: eyeballs on this and then look Tuesday, we've got a
Speaker 1: whole lot more work to get into. We'll start thinking
Speaker 1: about the Cleveland Browns and what Dallas has to do
Speaker 1: to try and slow down that receiving core. If you're
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, you got to be licking your chops watching
Speaker 1: video this week of what the Cowboys are doing. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if they make any additions to this Cowboys secondary.
Speaker 1: But a whole lot of work to get through all
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