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Speaker 1: to the Players Lounge. It's twelve thirty on this beautiful Monday.
Speaker 1: Not really a victory Monday. You know, we didn't get
Speaker 1: to w in Kansas City like two of my co
Speaker 1: hosts thot we would. But if you're used to hearing
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Speaker 1: he's out. So it's just your average box safety Buried
Speaker 1: Church hosting today. I'm with the Ultimate Survivor, Danny mccraig
Speaker 1: and the ultimate winner of bets. Well, you know, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess you know, I guess y'all give you that.
Speaker 1: I'll give you up like we did. We did not
Speaker 1: bet on the game. You didn't you right right up.
Speaker 1: You ain't beat me in the bed. And I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if we would have, I would have
Speaker 1: came away with the devil. But I didn't, So you
Speaker 1: know what, let's just dive straight into this thing right now.
Speaker 1: Or the Cowboys went up to Kansas City arrow Heads
Speaker 1: Stadium three twenty five Game of the Week on Fox.
Speaker 1: We had Troy, we had John Bucking there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was hype. It was hyped. Everybody was hyping it up.
Speaker 1: They felt like this would be the game of the year.
Speaker 1: Going into this game, we thought it was gonna be
Speaker 1: a shootout, bang bang, bang, back and forth. But it
Speaker 1: didn't happen that way. Mccraig, what was your thoughts on
Speaker 1: the on Sunday's game. Well, let me clear it up,
Speaker 1: because Barry, I'm just saying I did not think it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a shootout. I thought our defense was
Speaker 1: going to play well and hold them to twenty four points,
Speaker 1: which is the NFL game is is that that's a
Speaker 1: that's a good point total. We held him to nineteen,
Speaker 1: but our offense did not get off the bus. The
Speaker 1: offense got left back here in Frisco. Buck, We could
Speaker 1: not get in rolling. We suffered more injuries in the game.
Speaker 1: We had Ceedee Lamb go out somewhere around the second half.
Speaker 1: We couldn't get an old line to figure out how
Speaker 1: how to block anyone. At that point, the noise was
Speaker 1: getting to us at the at the stated communication was off,
Speaker 1: so man, just all around offensively, it was just a
Speaker 1: bad performance by us. But bright spot, Okay, you text
Speaker 1: me early in the in the game you said, I
Speaker 1: said top ten defense. You was like, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, stop it. I can't and I'm like you
Speaker 1: just watch, you just watch and if you listen, the
Speaker 1: defense kept us in that game because there were so
Speaker 1: many times where I was like a man, we stopped
Speaker 1: them this many times. It was like five straight times
Speaker 1: that we had stopped five or six straight drifts and uh,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, but one of these, if we
Speaker 1: don't score some like offensive points, the next one is
Speaker 1: gonna be twenty three. It's gonna look like the defense
Speaker 1: played horrible. But they kept fighting. They did even even
Speaker 1: when the offense would give them the ball, and in
Speaker 1: our own territory of with horrible field positions, they figured
Speaker 1: out a way to stop them. Ben but don't break
Speaker 1: in make on kick field goals. Michael Parsons had another
Speaker 1: hell of a game. Agah, Yeah, we're gonna get on
Speaker 1: him a little bit later. That unbelievable, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm still really excited about our defense. Um, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna take everything away from the offenses we were getting
Speaker 1: into the injuries and and how hard it is to
Speaker 1: come back from some of the stuff that we had
Speaker 1: to deal with. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they're still a way for us to win that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had we had an opportunity. We definitely had an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Like you said, this game was hyped up. I was
Speaker 1: talking about earlier. This game was hyped up from the jump.
Speaker 1: It was Dak Prescott, you know, is he in that
Speaker 1: elite quarterback conversation. Then you got my Homes on the
Speaker 1: other side, who everybody considers him, you know, the greatest
Speaker 1: thing since sliced bread. So these two guys going at
Speaker 1: it for the first time in their careers. You know,
Speaker 1: my Homes being a Texas boy. So this game was
Speaker 1: hyped up. In my opinion, it didn't live up to
Speaker 1: that height. You know, I thought it was gonna come
Speaker 1: out here, shots were gonna be fired back and forth,
Speaker 1: big plays here and there, tyree getting getting loose on
Speaker 1: our defense. But that never happened. That never happened. And
Speaker 1: I'll give you credit for that the defense played its
Speaker 1: butt off. They kept this this high powered Kansas City
Speaker 1: offense pretty much in check. Like you called it. It It
Speaker 1: was a bend but don't break style of defense. When
Speaker 1: they got into the red zone, they were able to
Speaker 1: hold Kansas City to field goals and I think they
Speaker 1: had well that three or four field goals tech gals,
Speaker 1: two field goals, I believe exactly. And early on, early
Speaker 1: on in that game, those first three drives, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. Q just had to figure it out.
Speaker 1: That he had to figure it out. You saw him
Speaker 1: running the ball a little bit. They were completing some passes,
Speaker 1: and then it was like that wake up of like, okay,
Speaker 1: we see what they're trying to do. I liken it
Speaker 1: to like how Floyd maybe whether it is in the
Speaker 1: beginning right, Usually he get out there in the first
Speaker 1: couple of rounds he's like, oh, we don't know, we're
Speaker 1: not sure what's going on, Floyd. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you just pick it up and you saw it. Man.
Speaker 1: We started getting pressure, the defensive backs were locking down.
Speaker 1: They were playing some really good football, which is the
Speaker 1: most disappointing part about it, because you say, man, if
Speaker 1: your defense goes out there and holds Kansas City the
Speaker 1: nineteen you should be able to at least beat in
Speaker 1: the game, especially with the offense we got. We could
Speaker 1: we could not find a way to get in the game.
Speaker 1: And I think this was like the so it was
Speaker 1: like the Mahomes versus Dak thing, right, but this was
Speaker 1: the Mahomes. This was like last year when we saw
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the Super Bowl and this offensive line did
Speaker 1: not have all their pieces and they didn't play well.
Speaker 1: And you say he's still Pat Mahomes. Man, I say
Speaker 1: he's still Dak Prescott. But Prescott in that offensive line,
Speaker 1: we just they struggled and that was I think that's
Speaker 1: the most they struggled all year. That was that was
Speaker 1: a bad outing for for our offensive line. Well, let's
Speaker 1: just dive straight into it then. I mean, we talked
Speaker 1: about the game a little bit, but let's focus on
Speaker 1: that offensive side of the ball. Let's focus on specifically
Speaker 1: that offensive line. I mean, we going in here, you
Speaker 1: know this week, you know the Cowboys are like, all right,
Speaker 1: we got to find a new solution at left guard.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams, you know, he struggled a lot when going
Speaker 1: against the bull rush, and he was the most penalized player.
Speaker 1: I'm not if it's either in the NFL or on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He's getting a lot of penalty. So they
Speaker 1: decided to make the move put you know, mc governing
Speaker 1: in there. Let's see what he got. He's done some
Speaker 1: full back work and for this offense. But let's see
Speaker 1: if he can go in there and establish that left
Speaker 1: guard position. Let's get it down pat. So they put
Speaker 1: him in there. They think they got their best five
Speaker 1: out there. You know, Tyren Smith didn't go. So we
Speaker 1: got Steel on the left side, and then we got
Speaker 1: Collins on the right side. I was the last struggle.
Speaker 1: What was your thoughts on that. I'm just listen, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just gonna go back to this, Okay, because
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a while. Okay, if you
Speaker 1: go back over the last three to four years, Okay,
Speaker 1: the most evident thing when when we're missing a player
Speaker 1: is that when we're missing Tyron Smith, yes, the game
Speaker 1: looks totally different. Like every time he's out for an
Speaker 1: extended period of time, we do not look like a
Speaker 1: team that can beat anyone offensively. Right. I went back
Speaker 1: to Atlanta a few years ago when Clayborne came out
Speaker 1: and then he had six sacks. Right, and then you
Speaker 1: watch last year, right, Tyren Smith's out, Layo's out, but
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith is the guy. He's out. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: everything's different this year. Now he's out two games one.
Speaker 1: You know, we hold up. Okay, this one it was,
Speaker 1: it was bad. And then you throw in a new
Speaker 1: guy right right next to Terren Still when you put
Speaker 1: them on the left side, and you saw, you saw
Speaker 1: players where the communication was so off that Still couldn't
Speaker 1: even hear the snap count. He didn't even know the
Speaker 1: ball was snapping. He's getting beat off the edge, right,
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna go back to this. Okay,
Speaker 1: I do think still at the right it's still our
Speaker 1: best option. And then you can you put Leo at
Speaker 1: the left and give him some help. Okay, at least
Speaker 1: you have McGovern over there with with the veteran player.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're able to play a little better. But if
Speaker 1: you have to show up at least one side of
Speaker 1: your offensive mind, you cannot have League Joan both. And
Speaker 1: what we know is if you put Terry Still on
Speaker 1: the right, based off what we've seen this year from him,
Speaker 1: he will be able to hold up on the right side.
Speaker 1: So at least you could depend on one thing, right
Speaker 1: You could depend on the sprint out, you could depend
Speaker 1: on some passes to whatever. You can find a way
Speaker 1: to work with that. But when you have both both
Speaker 1: edges under attack and the middle under attack, name you
Speaker 1: got no chance, Yeah you got you got no chance.
Speaker 1: And I'm with you on this one. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: everybody on the officive line struggled. Everybody. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: even Zach Martin. He got he got worked a little
Speaker 1: bit as well. So that to me, it's a little
Speaker 1: worrisome because you know, at least if everybody else, you know, fails.
Speaker 1: We got Zach Martin in there. He played his butt
Speaker 1: off and he had a pretty good game. But he
Speaker 1: gave up one but Chris Jones. Chris Jones, he had
Speaker 1: the game on that defensive line. I'm talking about. This
Speaker 1: guy went ham on anybody. Everybody could have got something.
Speaker 1: He gave it to be honest, he gave it to
Speaker 1: m McGovern, he gave it to steal on the outside.
Speaker 1: And then he said, you know what, I know this
Speaker 1: guy's going to the Hall of Fame. I know he's
Speaker 1: probably the best guard in the National Football League. But
Speaker 1: I'm feeling myself. I'm on fire right now. He can
Speaker 1: get it too. So he went over top of Zack Martin,
Speaker 1: gave him a one two steps, slapped him on by.
Speaker 1: Zach Martin's hand was all in the dirt, and he
Speaker 1: went and sacked Dak Prescott. So to me, Jones, Chris Jones,
Speaker 1: I mean, he played a hell of a game. He
Speaker 1: was just one of the most game wrecking performances I've
Speaker 1: seen in the wild since the Dominicans who played that
Speaker 1: Nebraska and he took over that big twelveth championship. I
Speaker 1: mean this was because he also tipped the ball that
Speaker 1: led to the game selling interception. So this guy was unstoppable.
Speaker 1: But overall, this officive line it got me worried because
Speaker 1: we don't know when Todd Smith is gonna get back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I gotta concede to you. You
Speaker 1: called it from the beginning, you said, you know what
Speaker 1: this guy, you know, he says he's back to form,
Speaker 1: and I was believing it. But we just don't know
Speaker 1: what burns bonespurs all that stuff. I've never had that
Speaker 1: type of injury, so I don't know how long. That's
Speaker 1: gonna last. But we're on a short week. We're on
Speaker 1: a short week against the Raiders, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna be able to play against them. We
Speaker 1: know we don't. We won't have him Mark Cooper because
Speaker 1: of the COVID protocols for unvaccinated people. He probably won't
Speaker 1: be back in time. But to me, the more significant
Speaker 1: injury was that Tyrn Smith because that offensive line to me,
Speaker 1: seemed like it fell apart. Well, I mean, look, this
Speaker 1: is gonna this is gonna sound like I'm going back
Speaker 1: to the draft and all that. I love. Listen because
Speaker 1: you say game, game wrecking performances, yil. On the opposite side,
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons had a game record, so he did him
Speaker 1: him like they Christian Christians. They went out there, bro
Speaker 1: and they really were like battling against each other to
Speaker 1: see who can have who can have the biggest impact defensively, right,
Speaker 1: and they both were shutting it down. Um, but when
Speaker 1: you when you get to Tyren Smith versus drafting Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: all right, I love I love Michael Parsons, Like dude,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from Michael Parsons, but you
Speaker 1: see no matter how good Michael Parsons plays, if we're
Speaker 1: missing and Tyren Smith on our offensive line, it does
Speaker 1: not matter. And the point is when you when you
Speaker 1: watch the Seattle it don't matter who was out there
Speaker 1: against Seattle when Tyren Smith was out. You could have
Speaker 1: had a Pro Bowl roster and missus Tyren Smith and
Speaker 1: Clayborne would have went out there and wrecked the game.
Speaker 1: Our game was wrecked. And it wasn't just a left
Speaker 1: tackle position, but that just messes up the whole flow.
Speaker 1: The one position that you need to trust is your
Speaker 1: left tackle position, and we and we did not have
Speaker 1: that and Sith get paid it and it was evident. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I love Michael Parsons, but when I'm
Speaker 1: looking at our left tackle position, or actually our old
Speaker 1: line as a whole, but our left tackle what Tyren
Speaker 1: Smith is that we have to have some some consistency, there,
Speaker 1: some some dependability of the fact that you're going to
Speaker 1: be able to play the entire season. And we have
Speaker 1: not seen it. Yeah, until we until we find it,
Speaker 1: You're always going to go into each week wondering which
Speaker 1: which which week is it gonna be that Tyre Smith
Speaker 1: is not gonna be able to play. You get into
Speaker 1: a playoff run all of a sudden and he's out
Speaker 1: three weeks. Yeah, well you only got one for sure.
Speaker 1: Saint Basketball got a game seven and only got one
Speaker 1: for sure. So it's yeah, it's it's it's worthsome. It
Speaker 1: is worries. Okay, so let me We're gonna stay on
Speaker 1: this old line for a little bit. But the crowd
Speaker 1: noise in Arrowhead. I played there twice, It gets loud.
Speaker 1: I took two els both both times playing an Arrowhead,
Speaker 1: It gets loud. Do you think that had a little
Speaker 1: bit to do with the offensive line struggles? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we got a young guys center with Bey Honest,
Speaker 1: she's supposed to be out there making all the calls
Speaker 1: and making sure the offensive lines on the same page.
Speaker 1: And for the most part this season, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: his play has been steller, but the communication along the
Speaker 1: offensive line, it's been okay, it's been right. It ain't
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick, but it's been all right. Do you think
Speaker 1: that played a little bit into the struggles of the
Speaker 1: offensive line yesterday? Yeah? Absolutely, That's something that you really
Speaker 1: can't simulate. Right. We used to try to put all
Speaker 1: the noise out there right and stuff. But then when
Speaker 1: you when you go through and you're playing home games
Speaker 1: or you're playing in Minnesota, it's not as loud as
Speaker 1: Arrowhead that there are people who say, man, it's Arrowhead
Speaker 1: and it's the Seattle Seall Stadium, right, who are the
Speaker 1: two loudest? And it was evident not only for the
Speaker 1: offensive line, this was for Dak talking to the receivers outside.
Speaker 1: You see plays where Dalton shows has no idea, where
Speaker 1: he's like, man, well, what were we talking about here?
Speaker 1: The Seaton's out there running the wrong playoff one of
Speaker 1: the screen routes. So there was the communication thing because
Speaker 1: of the crowd noise, and then also because of the situation,
Speaker 1: I think it affected us. I think that's something that
Speaker 1: we are going to have to work on because if
Speaker 1: we continue to slide, and we do, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: away game at Lambeau, which quite which is no quiet place.
Speaker 1: It's not at all same playoff season come around and
Speaker 1: and you know my thoughts on a on that crowd noise,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure you can do this because
Speaker 1: you know, in college they got the whole clap system
Speaker 1: and the silent count and all that good stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: not quite sure you could pull that off in the NFL,
Speaker 1: you know, because there's so much communication going on. I
Speaker 1: mean's do you think a silent count or something would
Speaker 1: have helped a little bit better. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 1: not sure we could have pulled that off, being as
Speaker 1: though there's so much communication when you're talking about an
Speaker 1: NFL off. Oh man, that's that's credited with Spagnola. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they came out there, they ran zero, they
Speaker 1: did some nickel blitzes. It was you never knew where
Speaker 1: it was from. And like their defense is a perfect
Speaker 1: example of what the coaches you should trying to get
Speaker 1: us to do as far as disguise. You never know
Speaker 1: what Tyran Matthew's gonna be at. Sometimes he's lined up
Speaker 1: in the A gap and then in the middle of
Speaker 1: the cadence you see him drop back to deep middle.
Speaker 1: And then sometimes they line up in a zero look
Speaker 1: and then they drop out. So it would be hard
Speaker 1: for them to go on a silent account without having
Speaker 1: to make that communication when you're seeing things switch so quickly,
Speaker 1: so you have to say, hey, man, hey, we need
Speaker 1: to make sure that we're here to block this up right,
Speaker 1: So we got to point it out to say it,
Speaker 1: and I think sometimes we got stuck on trying to
Speaker 1: do that with the offensive line because you got some
Speaker 1: new guys in there, new positions, right, So I think
Speaker 1: all that kind of just went into this this this
Speaker 1: down this downfall the offensive line. This game. It was
Speaker 1: it was it really was what cost us the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because to me, I know, the Broncos situation was bad.
Speaker 1: The Broncos game. I mean, you know, they caught us sleepwalking.
Speaker 1: You know, Dak was kind of running for his life
Speaker 1: in that situation. But to me, yesterday just felt a
Speaker 1: little bit different because it was like everybody was getting
Speaker 1: beaten along the offensive line. And it wasn't just you know,
Speaker 1: getting beat as far as Sacks concerned. They were stuffing
Speaker 1: on a run run And I'm surprised. That's where I
Speaker 1: gotta you know, I asked you this as well, But
Speaker 1: I was surprised that Kelly Moore went away from the
Speaker 1: run so quickly. I think Zeke only had maybe nine
Speaker 1: nine carries, Tony Pollard had maybe seven, and like, and
Speaker 1: you're in the game. It's not like the Chiefs were
Speaker 1: blowing us out and we had to up with the past.
Speaker 1: We were right there at the majority part of the game,
Speaker 1: we were right there. I just feel like we abandoned
Speaker 1: the run game too quickly. I mean, it wasn't like
Speaker 1: Zeke was just getting out just getting smashed. I mean
Speaker 1: he was getting three yards in the cloud of dust.
Speaker 1: But we saw as as as a game goes on,
Speaker 1: that starts to wear a defense down, and we just
Speaker 1: didn't keep them off balance enough. They knew what we
Speaker 1: were going to We were passing the ball, so they
Speaker 1: were playing coverage. As far as defense, I just feel
Speaker 1: like we got away for the run too fast. What
Speaker 1: do you think about them? There are a few things
Speaker 1: that I did not like about us going away from
Speaker 1: the running. This has been from the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: right because I'm a firm believer of if you don't
Speaker 1: establish your team as being able to run the ball
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, then it's something that
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to say we're gonna lean
Speaker 1: on this one. It's time like when when we go
Speaker 1: through a situation like we went through yesterday, right, So
Speaker 1: so the confidence is saying, all right, look, pass game
Speaker 1: and working offensive line is struggling, let's re establish our
Speaker 1: ring game. It was. It wasn't there. And I also
Speaker 1: think that this was a lack of confidence and our
Speaker 1: ability as a defense to stop Kansas City because it
Speaker 1: felt like it was like, this is our last chance.
Speaker 1: We gotta put up, we gotta put something on the
Speaker 1: board because we don't. Then all of a sudden, they're
Speaker 1: gonna stretch this game out. And you're watching the game,
Speaker 1: you said, no, the defense is balling. Okay, keep them
Speaker 1: off the field a little bit. How about that, run
Speaker 1: the ball, run the ball, give them a break, change
Speaker 1: to play the field position game. And we got a
Speaker 1: ninety million dollars run, ninety million dollars run back, We
Speaker 1: got Tony Poler back there, and we cannot find out
Speaker 1: a way to get Zeke twenty carry. Last week was
Speaker 1: a Zeke twenty carre. I mean last yesterday was a
Speaker 1: Zeke twenty carry game. That's a twenty carry game. Force
Speaker 1: them to change the field position. Our defense is playing good.
Speaker 1: Help them out by putting them on the one like
Speaker 1: they did us with that at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: hit the ninety nine. I think if we don't find
Speaker 1: their way to establish a running game, there is no
Speaker 1: deep playoff run for us because we have not seen
Speaker 1: a game where we've been able to adjust once once
Speaker 1: once you once the defense is not on the hills,
Speaker 1: right because Keller Moore is great at getting the defense
Speaker 1: on the hills. But what happens when you're figured out
Speaker 1: You have to have something to lean all got to
Speaker 1: and usually it's the ring game. Gotta go on your wheel,
Speaker 1: and we we we haven't. We start to depend on
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay quick screens and the other version of
Speaker 1: the ring game about throwing it out, and that stuff
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Man. You have to help your old line
Speaker 1: out by getting them, getting them ready, move the offensive
Speaker 1: with the line of scrimmage. And we didn't do that
Speaker 1: yesterday because not only will the run game, you know,
Speaker 1: help the defense, say off the field, but that's when
Speaker 1: you know the Cowboys are at their peak powers, when
Speaker 1: they're at the best of their abilities. Offensively, we're extremely balanced,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a heavy run attack, heavy pass attack.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like we make the defense pick their
Speaker 1: poison out there. And yesterday I felt like kelling in
Speaker 1: this offense kind of just you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say dismissed the run game, but just kind of
Speaker 1: went away from it extremely too fast, So shouts goes
Speaker 1: out to Spagnol and that defense over there that you know,
Speaker 1: they held them in check for the most part. And
Speaker 1: this might be the first game you know, Keller Moore
Speaker 1: might got it all. Coach, well one more because this
Speaker 1: is what this is perplexing, perplexing about us not going
Speaker 1: to the run game. You're out there with all the
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper, yeah, and then you lose Cnee Lamb. The
Speaker 1: only two people who should be touching the ball at
Speaker 1: this point, it's Tony Pollard and Ezekiel Elli. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Because one, you see your receivers going,
Speaker 1: they're struggling out there. The guys Noah Brown come out
Speaker 1: there and they're coming out there and they're struggling. Helped
Speaker 1: them out, man, helped them out. And then open up
Speaker 1: the boot game, right, I even see that, see a
Speaker 1: lot of boots yesterday. If you don't establish the run,
Speaker 1: you can't do that though. The shows is our leading
Speaker 1: receiver yesterday. Yeah, and that shouldn't happen. And you know
Speaker 1: also what it helps your offensive line too, because instead
Speaker 1: of just pass blocking the whole time, kicking back and
Speaker 1: letting the defense take their anger out on you. If
Speaker 1: you establish that run game, you're given opportunity for guys
Speaker 1: like mcgoverning Terrence Steele, be honest, who are struggling to
Speaker 1: go ahead and put some aggression. I'll get some get
Speaker 1: some confidence about the game, and go out there and
Speaker 1: post your will on that defensive line. We didn't do that,
Speaker 1: So it's just it's a strike for my boy right there. Kelenn.
Speaker 1: He's usually he's been in his bag, but yesterday I think,
Speaker 1: you know, spac Nollack got the better of him. But
Speaker 1: last three, I don't know about the bag. Yeahs bag
Speaker 1: little empty right now. But all right, look we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our first break. It's twelve fifty. We're in a
Speaker 1: SWBC studios. This is the players Lounge. When we get back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit about that, just seeing
Speaker 1: how his game went. I mean, we know it wasn't
Speaker 1: the most successful game for him, but we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about his performance and our thoughts on that. So catch
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Speaker 1: gotta take our medicine. So look, I mean two of
Speaker 1: the last three games Broncos Atlanta and now Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Two of the last three, which I'm saying Bronchos in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Dak Prescott has not been his usual that
Speaker 1: we've seen so far this season. I mean, usually he's
Speaker 1: extremely efficient, he gets the ball out well. His past
Speaker 1: placement to the wide receivers is amazing. He's making great
Speaker 1: decisions out there. But two of these last three, it's
Speaker 1: been a little shaky. Now with the Broncos, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna chalk that up to being rusty a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, he was injured that calf was two weeks out.
Speaker 1: You know, it was his first game back from that injury.
Speaker 1: So I'm chocked it up to a little bit of rust.
Speaker 1: But this game coming up, or this game that we
Speaker 1: just played, I understand he didn't have you know, right
Speaker 1: Cooper out there, but for the first half he had
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. He still has, said Wilson who who was
Speaker 1: bawling um this season so far? He had Gallup who
Speaker 1: last weeginning against Atlanta looked like he was fresh and
Speaker 1: ready to come back and ball and take over his responsibilities.
Speaker 1: He still has Zeek back there. What was your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Dak's performance against this Kansas City defense, who we
Speaker 1: knew going into the game wasn't the best defense overall. Listen,
Speaker 1: I would say this about Kansas City's defense. I think
Speaker 1: their last four they were giving up like twelve points
Speaker 1: a game, all right, so hictions so yeah, so so
Speaker 1: they had been playing better, I think. Um, So let
Speaker 1: me go back to where you said it was a
Speaker 1: rough thing with with the Denver Broncos not not buying it. Okay,
Speaker 1: he had off game, off game against the Broncos everybody
Speaker 1: had off game. We've seen him be out more more
Speaker 1: time than that and come back and look fresh. All right,
Speaker 1: Tampa game, all right, came out look fresh. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't when I'm looking at the Kanna City game,
Speaker 1: I think we've seen over the last few weeks his
Speaker 1: deep ball has been off. Sometimes it has the rock,
Speaker 1: you know. I see. I can remember a few to
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb where he's overthrowing them. Him and Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: usually have this connection to where they can complete the
Speaker 1: deep pass, and it didn't happen this game. So I
Speaker 1: think he just had another bad game. I think the
Speaker 1: offense in general had had another bad game. And I
Speaker 1: also think that we were pressing because, like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's lacking confidence in our defense
Speaker 1: or the fact that he was like, hey man, they
Speaker 1: didn't stopped them so many times. Eventually, they're gonna give
Speaker 1: up something that's gonna put this game away. So we
Speaker 1: have to try to figure out a way to get
Speaker 1: get some chunk yards. So I do think he was
Speaker 1: pressing a little bit. But it's hard for you to
Speaker 1: be able to really operate at your maximum potential when
Speaker 1: your offensive line is not giving you the time that
Speaker 1: you usually have that is usually in a clean pocket.
Speaker 1: He's usually able to get through some reads. And also
Speaker 1: he usually has his top three receivers all right, at
Speaker 1: least two of the least two of them two of them,
Speaker 1: so at least has two of them. He didn't have
Speaker 1: that yesterday. And I think moving forward, if we don't
Speaker 1: find a way to help him out by the ring
Speaker 1: game and opening up the boot passes and the waggles
Speaker 1: and getting in some manufactured deep deep shots instead of
Speaker 1: just hey man, we're gonna shotgun it. See if they
Speaker 1: can win outside one on one and just let it roll,
Speaker 1: then I think we're gonna we're gonna struggle. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: so we just need to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: help him out. We know the offensive line is lacking
Speaker 1: a little bit. We may be without Ceedee Lamb, and
Speaker 1: we already without Amari Cooper. So we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: find a way to make that ring game work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're definitely gonna have to. We're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: back to that to that balanced approach where you know,
Speaker 1: Zeke and Poler get their carries, Dack flows the ball.
Speaker 1: Maybe twenty to twenty five times around that rim. If
Speaker 1: we get to that, I think that's when we're at
Speaker 1: our best. But in this game, I was. I was
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised at his performance out there, and
Speaker 1: it started early. It started early when he had galloping,
Speaker 1: like you just said, him and gallop on the deep ball.
Speaker 1: The usually on that same wavelength. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's you know, because gallup missed so much time,
Speaker 1: but he had to get beat and they were playing
Speaker 1: some form of cover two or it was just an
Speaker 1: amazing break by the safety out of the middle of
Speaker 1: But he usually hits that, usually hits that gallop instride.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make a play. He might even score, because
Speaker 1: all he had to do was beat wan Thornhill right there,
Speaker 1: but he missed him, overshot him by mouth. I mean
Speaker 1: the other plays out there we were looking at. I
Speaker 1: mean that that deep ball interception to where when they
Speaker 1: when they got the interest that they got, I think
Speaker 1: it was cursed with the interception, or maybe it was
Speaker 1: a force pump up by Parsons, but we got it
Speaker 1: in Kansas City's territory were right there. We should have
Speaker 1: had at the very least walked out of there with
Speaker 1: three points. Going into halftime. But you know, one on
Speaker 1: want coverage and when you and that. I don't blame
Speaker 1: him for the decision to go to Ceedee Lamb, But
Speaker 1: to me, it was the ball placement. It was just
Speaker 1: too far inside. He gave his receiver no opportunity to
Speaker 1: at least back the ball down or trying to make
Speaker 1: a play for him. It was left inside and the
Speaker 1: arm strength just wasn't there. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was you know, maybe just fatigue or you know,
Speaker 1: he was just had like you just like you said,
Speaker 1: he just had an off day. I'll definitely give a
Speaker 1: little bit of blame to that, the offensive line for
Speaker 1: making him run around and basically run for his life
Speaker 1: that entire game. But I don't know. Do you think
Speaker 1: it was a little bit of the hype of this
Speaker 1: game getting too much for him as to this stack
Speaker 1: versus you know, Patrick Mahomes elite quarterback versus elite quarterback.
Speaker 1: Do you think that kind of got him pressing out
Speaker 1: there to try to make you know, big plays and
Speaker 1: big throws and that kind of threw him off his game.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the hype might have gotten
Speaker 1: to him a little bit. Yeah, I think he was
Speaker 1: pressing just just because you know, we were behind. The
Speaker 1: offense wasn't moving, and he was looking for that that
Speaker 1: momentum change, right that that like if that pass is completed,
Speaker 1: the entire momentum of the change. He was looking for that,
Speaker 1: which we should be at that point establishing a some
Speaker 1: type of long drive. At that point, mar our own
Speaker 1: territory defense just made a big play. We should be
Speaker 1: fine because I think if you look at some of
Speaker 1: these deep passes, a lot of those are happening on
Speaker 1: like first down, like first it's like first down chunking
Speaker 1: fitting and see what we got to see what happen.
Speaker 1: It's not behind the sticks, but it's behind the sticks
Speaker 1: when your office is not playing that, when your officsive
Speaker 1: line is not playing that well. You want to get
Speaker 1: into second and six and then manage you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You don't want to be a second and
Speaker 1: ten somebody second and ten and you just had to
Speaker 1: run the ball. You get three yards clouded up. Then
Speaker 1: you sit in third and seven and you gotta put
Speaker 1: the ball in the air. And that's when Kansas City
Speaker 1: came alive defensively, when they had him in those third
Speaker 1: and seven, third and tens. They knew they couldn't run
Speaker 1: the ball. So that's when spack Nolah started coming up
Speaker 1: with all these different type of disguises, and Chris Jones
Speaker 1: and Frank Clark they started eating because they all they
Speaker 1: had to do was like, look, they ain't gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball, Let's put our ears back and let's get
Speaker 1: after it. So I mean, Kansas City they definitely had
Speaker 1: a great combination because sometimes when Dak was back there,
Speaker 1: he had a lot of time, but Kansas City Secondary
Speaker 1: was covering deep or when he had a guy open,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones or Frank Clark was coming in quick. So
Speaker 1: I think the Russian cover worked well together. But I'm
Speaker 1: with you a little bit on this one. Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: to me, he I don't want to say, you know,
Speaker 1: he just you know, just toss it off as he
Speaker 1: had a bad game, because this is two out of
Speaker 1: the three, so I'm not worried yet. But if we
Speaker 1: go into this Raiders game without a Namari Cooper, without
Speaker 1: a cdee lamb, this guy's getting paid seventy five mills
Speaker 1: this year. He should be a leading to win these
Speaker 1: type of games. This one's gonna be tough coming into
Speaker 1: twit the Raiders without your top dogs out there, and
Speaker 1: if he can't come through for this team and get
Speaker 1: him a victory, I can see that snowball effect happening. Man, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll say this with that. I think it just depends
Speaker 1: on let's say we do lose the game, and all
Speaker 1: to me, it depends on how you lose the game,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, because if you go out like
Speaker 1: the Packers went out yesterday, I'm not blaming that on
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgerson Rodgers having a bad game. Your defense didn't
Speaker 1: find a way to make the play at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. So I think it depends on that.
Speaker 1: I am going to jump this up to listen back human,
Speaker 1: He's human. For the first one, five or six, the
Speaker 1: dude looked unreal coming back from injury. I mean looked unreal.
Speaker 1: All Right, he's gonna it's seventeen seventeen game season. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have a couple of bad ones, all right. I
Speaker 1: hope it's I hope it's behind us. I hope it's
Speaker 1: behind us. But I'm not worried about dak Man. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing, the most important thing for this
Speaker 1: Cowboys team is to get healthy. We are at this
Speaker 1: at this point right now, we were missing our two
Speaker 1: top receivers, we're missing our top offensive linemen, and we're
Speaker 1: missing top two defensive linemen on defense. We're listening Neville Gallimore,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. We're missing a lot of
Speaker 1: pieces at this point. And then it's unfortunate that we
Speaker 1: have three games in twelve eights. But I think once
Speaker 1: we get healthy, if we get healthy, I think that's
Speaker 1: when you can really look at this team and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: if we're not performing how we're supposed to, then then
Speaker 1: you should be worried. Right now when we're trying to patch,
Speaker 1: do patchwork and find find the right old line combination
Speaker 1: where you're putting new guys in. Now you got still
Speaker 1: next to the like it's right now. We're just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to get through these uh
Speaker 1: through these next two games. Not worried. I think we'll
Speaker 1: be okay. Hopefully. Kelly Moore is thinking the same way
Speaker 1: we're thinking of Hey, the best way to put our
Speaker 1: imprint on this game is to run the ball down
Speaker 1: Las Vegas' throat. You have to run the ball. If
Speaker 1: you don't you're gonna find yourself in situations where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be depending on Wilson's Brown to make some plays
Speaker 1: to change the game. And that's just not who we
Speaker 1: are exactly. That's not who we are. And look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on this one. I mean, because we're
Speaker 1: not gonna lose this division. I mean, I know the
Speaker 1: Eagles they've won too straight. I think Washington's won too
Speaker 1: straight as well. But they're not gonna catch it. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna tell you. Listen, you think, you know, you
Speaker 1: think it's a round. I think the thing that I think,
Speaker 1: the thing that stands in our way of winning this
Speaker 1: division is health. I think if we don't find a
Speaker 1: way to get healthy, we see this Tyrant Smith thing happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: when we played the Eagles last time, what was Hardgrave
Speaker 1: right on the right, right up in the middle. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: And whatever we say about the Washington football team defense,
Speaker 1: they hadn't played well. That's the same way we thought
Speaker 1: about Kansas City. Yeah. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: these teams in our division are picking up some dubs.
Speaker 1: We got New York Johns playing to night all right.
Speaker 1: The teams are starting to play better. So this is
Speaker 1: not a good time for us to say, hey man,
Speaker 1: we could just toss out two or three games, because
Speaker 1: we don't want it to be that interesting. At the end,
Speaker 1: who we are fighting against is the Arizona Cardinals and
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers to try to lock up the
Speaker 1: number one seat if we do not find a way
Speaker 1: to stay healthy, which is a lot is out of
Speaker 1: our control. But I think that's the one thing that
Speaker 1: can stop us from one in this division. All Right,
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Speaker 1: matchup that they just had on Sunday. And look, we
Speaker 1: broke down an offense. You know, we took the medicine.
Speaker 1: You know, the offensive line played terrible. That was a
Speaker 1: little rusty out there. Receivers dropping passes left and right,
Speaker 1: and you can't do that in no type of game.
Speaker 1: It's too big of a moment for you to go
Speaker 1: out there. We can't beat ourselves. We gotta go out
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Speaker 1: in the corner and let's go ahead and give this
Speaker 1: defense some flowers. I mean, look this, this team, this defense,
Speaker 1: who I thought for sure was gonna struggle without their
Speaker 1: two top dogs. You ain't have Randy Gregory, you didn't
Speaker 1: have the Marcus Lawrence out there, No Neville Gallamore. They
Speaker 1: had to find guys to go out there and make
Speaker 1: the pass rush and that is exactly what they did.
Speaker 1: Parsons coming off the edge. Basham went out there and
Speaker 1: got him a fumble recovery. Was playing well. Duran's armstrong
Speaker 1: who quietly has been playing with these past couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: getting pressure up the middle off the edge. He's like
Speaker 1: a Swiss Army knife out there. Man. I just can't
Speaker 1: say enough about this defense. They're finding ways to take
Speaker 1: the football away and get it back to their offense
Speaker 1: and letting them do what they do best and score points. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they weren't able to do that in Kansas City because
Speaker 1: they got the ball back for our offense twice in
Speaker 1: Kansas City territory, and all we were able to do
Speaker 1: was muster up three points. But Danny, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on this dan Quinn defense. I'm gonna give it
Speaker 1: to you because you've been calling it since March. We
Speaker 1: need to get this dude. He can make this defense
Speaker 1: do a one eighty. What are your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: game for Kansas City? Listen, listen, whatever happens, I know
Speaker 1: all the players are gonna say, listen, their defense played
Speaker 1: better than our hours because and we would have held
Speaker 1: them to eight points, we would have won the game.
Speaker 1: But but the reality of the situation is the defense
Speaker 1: played out standing out They played out standing like like
Speaker 1: we mentioned, there was a point in the game where
Speaker 1: they got five straight stops and the Cowboys office start
Speaker 1: going three and out. They might get six plays and
Speaker 1: the defenses right back there on the field stops. You
Speaker 1: get two turnovers. Right pick on Kelsey from what was
Speaker 1: being thrown to Kelsey, he bobbles it a little bit,
Speaker 1: tips and overthrows. I gotta get those. Michael Parsons comes
Speaker 1: in man shout, comes in there, and the speed is unreal.
Speaker 1: It's no way in the world. Patrick Homes like, ain't
Speaker 1: no way this dude catching me. Let me go for
Speaker 1: you know it? Sack force bumble on third down Cowboys
Speaker 1: Hill Kansas City four of twelve we have been top
Speaker 1: of the league, and third down last week was one
Speaker 1: of eleven four last entire year when you've been top
Speaker 1: of the league, last week we were a top fifteen defense.
Speaker 1: All right, if you look if this, I believe this firmly.
Speaker 1: If our offense comes to play, how they can't, how
Speaker 1: they know they can't, right, and we're playing from even
Speaker 1: or ahead, and we're forcing Kansas City to have to
Speaker 1: make some plays in order to win that game. I
Speaker 1: think the defense comes out and they put their foot
Speaker 1: on the neck of these guys and they make a
Speaker 1: statement and say, hey, we're here. We held them, dude
Speaker 1: to nineteen points in Kansas City, and you could tell
Speaker 1: that the Kansas City offense had no idea what to
Speaker 1: do with parsons. They had no idea what to do
Speaker 1: with our what our dbs. I will say the one
Speaker 1: weak point, which is is continuing to show up for
Speaker 1: our defenses the runs to the edge, specifically this game,
Speaker 1: the left edge it was, and it's just a simple
Speaker 1: thing that can be taught of. Hey, don't peek inside. Right,
Speaker 1: you're peeking inside too early to try to make a play. Wait,
Speaker 1: hero back he wrote ball and then you keep seeing
Speaker 1: guys st around the left edge. But I think overall,
Speaker 1: our entire defense played great. Two more turnovers for us,
Speaker 1: We held him, held him down on third down, We
Speaker 1: got stops when we needed to. We just could not
Speaker 1: find a way to put us together with the offense.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give d Q another shout out his
Speaker 1: old coaching staff and the players, but leaving in the
Speaker 1: process and get the hands leaving in the process, and
Speaker 1: like I said, they are continu you win because you know,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes last week had four hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 1: he did to us after us, everybody thought he was
Speaker 1: he was on his way, He's back, get back, and
Speaker 1: he ran into the Cowboys defense who was continued to
Speaker 1: get better and better each week. And if they continue
Speaker 1: to play that way and they continue to get healthy,
Speaker 1: watch out for this defense. This is something that you
Speaker 1: can lean on going into a playoff run and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we don't care what offense we're playing against. We know
Speaker 1: the our defense to come up and they even they
Speaker 1: give up points, they're gonna get some turnovers, they're gonna
Speaker 1: stop you on third down, and they're gonna make big
Speaker 1: plays when they need you to help our offense get
Speaker 1: back in the game. Well, I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you a guy that if he continues
Speaker 1: to play the way he's playing, this guy, this guy's
Speaker 1: a limit. And you know who I'm talking about. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Michael Parsons. So we're gonna get let's narrow
Speaker 1: this thing down. Yes, the defense played amazing as a
Speaker 1: whole entire group. The communication was great out there. The
Speaker 1: secondary put a top on everything. You didn't see Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill busting up the seams for seventy five yards or
Speaker 1: catching a bomb and you know, getting all these big plays.
Speaker 1: The defense did a great job out there of limiting
Speaker 1: those big plays to Kelsey and Tyreek Hill. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: gonna get there's a little bit here there. They mean,
Speaker 1: they get paid to the two of the best offensive
Speaker 1: players in the National Football League, So yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: get there is here and there. But overall, I think
Speaker 1: they did a great job of communicating and settling down
Speaker 1: and making sure they didn't give up the big play.
Speaker 1: But back to Michael Parsons, this guy, I said, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen the biggest bigger impact since DA's Brian. But
Speaker 1: when I'm telling this guy, he didn't even play football
Speaker 1: last year. He opted out of Penn State. He came
Speaker 1: in here and he's making it such a huge impact
Speaker 1: on both the linebacker the second level, and I would
Speaker 1: even argue that he's making a bigger impact on the
Speaker 1: defensive line. I mean, this guy, I thought, for sure, Okay,
Speaker 1: he'll come in for a little packages here and there.
Speaker 1: He's not big enough to go there and be defensive
Speaker 1: end the whole time, he's gonna get worn down. But
Speaker 1: the guy has been out there and he's just too
Speaker 1: quick for these people out there. You see the quick
Speaker 1: twitch emotional. We talked about it earlier when the guy
Speaker 1: was able to bend the corner and chase down my Homes.
Speaker 1: I mean, my Homes isn't the fastest, but he can
Speaker 1: run a little bit. You're run away. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: run away. We've seen it happened before, but this guy
Speaker 1: tracked him down. And not only did he track him down,
Speaker 1: you could just tell how much of a playmaker this
Speaker 1: guy is. And I credit Dware a little bit because
Speaker 1: he was working with Dware in the offseason. He's seen
Speaker 1: the guy. He didn't go in there and just make
Speaker 1: the regular sack. He went and didn't go in there
Speaker 1: and just try to trip up the feet of Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He went in there knowing lee he had the ball
Speaker 1: on his right side, and he chopped at that thing,
Speaker 1: chopped it down, got the ball out. Huge play for
Speaker 1: the defense because it got the ball back for the
Speaker 1: for the offense. I'm not sure if that was a
Speaker 1: takeaway they got three points or not, but this guy
Speaker 1: has been playing it lights out. I'm gonna say, defensive
Speaker 1: rookie of the Year, that's a lot. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that's a lot for him. Can you see the
Speaker 1: absolute player of the year. Maybe absolutely, I mean why
Speaker 1: why not? When you think about like I said, I
Speaker 1: talked to Sean Lee when I saw him up here,
Speaker 1: and he said, he's never seen a stack linebacker be
Speaker 1: able to do the things that Michael Parcels is doing.
Speaker 1: All right, and Sean Lee studies linebacker. Yeah, he's seen
Speaker 1: He's seen a lot of guys. And then you like,
Speaker 1: at this point, you're like, man, when is this dude
Speaker 1: gonna hit the rookie wall. That's what I'm I don't
Speaker 1: see a wall come. It seems like he comes into
Speaker 1: each and every game with more energy like this, like
Speaker 1: he's a grown man, but he's like a kid out there,
Speaker 1: like he's just like he's a kid on Christmas when
Speaker 1: when the gas kicked off, he's like, yeah, football, football,
Speaker 1: And I thought he was gonna I thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna want up it because if you remember, I said,
Speaker 1: I was out there watching practice. I saw the guy
Speaker 1: on pump on punt return and he almost like this dude,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that like they like, you know what
Speaker 1: part we need a playoffs go ahead and the kid
Speaker 1: almost blocked the punt. Man. Listen, the guys playing great also,
Speaker 1: and you know, to accompany him the rest of the
Speaker 1: guys when they say next man up. This is a
Speaker 1: next man up type of d without a doubt. And
Speaker 1: fortunately the next man up at some point are gonna
Speaker 1: be Take Lawrence and they're gonna be Randy Gregor without
Speaker 1: and imagine those two with Michael Parsons daring something strong
Speaker 1: like this this man. Imagine those guys at the same
Speaker 1: time playing. When you get a total game, it's just
Speaker 1: I just got going back to our offense, man, because
Speaker 1: I just really want our defense to beat top ten,
Speaker 1: and our offense has to play. You have to. You
Speaker 1: have to at least play. Because the top of possession
Speaker 1: was almost even, which shows which shows that we still
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to get some things going. We could
Speaker 1: have random ball a little bit one of the time position,
Speaker 1: keep our defens off the field and let them make
Speaker 1: those big plays and get it dumb, let's seek play it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna stay on it all week, y'all
Speaker 1: hear from ya all week. I'm glad I'm glad we
Speaker 1: get to get this taste out of our mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: real quire days, three days and we run a low
Speaker 1: on time. But I gotta get this in real quick
Speaker 1: because you know the game's coming real quick. Three games,
Speaker 1: like you said, fast turnaround Thursday against the Raiders. But
Speaker 1: with all these injuries, I mean it's probably what you
Speaker 1: would say, like a ninety percent chance Cooper doesn't play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say that about ninety percent chance Cooper doesn't play.
Speaker 1: Tai Smith, We're not sure. You know, we thought he
Speaker 1: might be able to play this game. You know it
Speaker 1: didn't happen. I don't know about burns, spurs or bones spurs.
Speaker 1: I'm not a trainer or anything like that. I'm sure Brown,
Speaker 1: Jim Mayer and those guys are gonna get him right.
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't play either. Are you worried about
Speaker 1: this Raiders game and taking an ellen with what it
Speaker 1: can do to the season. Yeah, I mean you would
Speaker 1: be dumb not to be worried about this game because
Speaker 1: the health of our players. Two is because two out
Speaker 1: of last three we have not looked like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season now, so we need
Speaker 1: to find a way to consistently get this thing back rolling.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this man, if tyred Smith comes back,
Speaker 1: who's playing right tackle? Because don't struggle tune. So it's like,
Speaker 1: who I want you to think about what we're talking
Speaker 1: about it tomorrow. Yeah, but I'm just saying it's not
Speaker 1: as clear as as as everybody thinks it should be.
Speaker 1: They can say whoever is better than whatever? Turn the
Speaker 1: film on. Look at how Terrence still played when he
Speaker 1: was at right tackle, and look at how my man
Speaker 1: LC is playing right now. We're struggling overall, but I
Speaker 1: have a picture in my mind of Terrence still playing.
Speaker 1: Really damn good, A right to five game straight. All right,
Speaker 1: it was great, another great day another you know, it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful day in the metro play. So it's a
Speaker 1: great day on the here on the players lounge. They
Speaker 1: got Mike shots coming up next. I'm along with you
Speaker 1: on the Raiders game though, because they got some pass
Speaker 1: rushers Yannick and Gockway Crosby on the side. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're gonna definitely test whoever those tackles are on the outside.
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