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Speaker 2: Your head, you big cowboy as a wind. That's last week.
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Speaker 3: But it's different today though it's different. Look, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: I get, I get a little time to step away,
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Speaker 2: Well, We're gonna make it. Do it baby, the babies.
Speaker 2: We want the babies to be well. This is the season.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's in the air, on what's going on,
Speaker 3: but like the old people say, make sure you takeing
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Speaker 4: That's that's scary. When you deal the little ones out there,
Speaker 4: so hopefully she feels better. But from my standpoint, man,
Speaker 4: mentals is good, just good right now. Man, it's a
Speaker 4: beautiful day, not too hot on hoodie season as you
Speaker 4: can see.
Speaker 2: So we're doing good. We're doing good out here our gravy. Man,
Speaker 2: I tell you what. I'm good. You know I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Listen.
Speaker 3: I'm as far as mentals is concerned. Man, Hey man,
Speaker 3: I'm living somebody. This is like, don't pinch me, all right,
Speaker 3: may me keep doing my thing. I'm telling you whatever.
Speaker 3: My ansence is afraid to thank you because it's all good. Listen, man,
Speaker 3: My cowboys yesterday they took care of business. They took
Speaker 3: care of business. And you know, the days leading up
Speaker 3: to the Monday night was cowboys. There's cowboys that yuk
Speaker 3: yuk yuck ha ha ha. You know, the dak presscott,
Speaker 3: the defense, the whole nine. We needed to write the
Speaker 3: ship and the vibes just from the beginning when I
Speaker 3: saw fighting on the sidelines, we in the building. Somebody
Speaker 3: out there with the oak Cliffe mentality.
Speaker 2: Smooth boy, I'm I'm just having it. Man to break
Speaker 2: his hand. Yes, I'm telling you, I see too many
Speaker 2: people do that.
Speaker 3: But man, the immediate reaction, I mean, it was a
Speaker 3: nail biting game, wasn't as close, you know, as close
Speaker 3: as I wanted to be. Mistakes were made, but when
Speaker 3: you needed the Cowboys to create some separation, they finally did.
Speaker 3: We got so much to talk about this offense, defense, everything,
Speaker 3: but guys, I just want to know immediate reactions after
Speaker 3: the game or during the game.
Speaker 2: BC.
Speaker 4: I started with you, well, all wait, you know, just
Speaker 4: to get into the you know, coordinators and all that stuff,
Speaker 4: were gonna dive straight into what we saw out there
Speaker 4: on Monday yesterday. Look, man, from just initial reaction going
Speaker 4: into and looking at that game, I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 4: to me, it boiled down to one thing.
Speaker 2: Usually it's not that.
Speaker 4: Usually, you know, you go in to football games, there's
Speaker 4: a whole many different factors on what happened in this game.
Speaker 4: This is how that team won, There's all these different factors.
Speaker 4: But to me, this game was really simple and it
Speaker 4: boiled down to one simple thing. Dak Prescott out playing
Speaker 4: my boy Justin Herbert. That's what it came down to.
Speaker 2: In my opinion.
Speaker 4: I mean, when you look at it, I get on
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott and rightfully. So the man last year through
Speaker 4: fifteen interceptions, last week through three interceptions. So I get
Speaker 4: on the man. But when credit is due, I gotta
Speaker 4: give that man credit. He went out there and for
Speaker 4: the first time and in the last two years, I
Speaker 4: could say, at least in my opinion, that man put
Speaker 4: this team on his shoulders.
Speaker 2: Simple is that.
Speaker 4: I don't care which how you want to break it down.
Speaker 4: When you look at what the Cowboys were able to
Speaker 4: do offensively, it wasn't something where it was like this play,
Speaker 4: call this this, this just drew it up perfect for
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott. All he has to do is throw the
Speaker 4: football there and it's a completion. And that's how we're
Speaker 4: going to move to football. If you look at all
Speaker 4: the chunk plays that happened in that game Dallas Cowboys wise,
Speaker 4: they were made from Dak Prescott improvising using his legs
Speaker 4: out there. The biggest play of the game, in my
Speaker 4: opinion of Tony Pollard play what happened on that situation
Speaker 4: the pocket collapsed, He could have been sacked in my
Speaker 4: pa should probably should have been sacked. What did he
Speaker 4: do Duck Dodds around, I don't know. He got it
Speaker 4: there somehow scrambling saw Pollard, threw the ball across his
Speaker 4: body to Pollard and pollow did the rest. But to me,
Speaker 4: that's what Dak Prescott was doing all game. He put
Speaker 4: this team on his shoulders, scrambling with the football, was
Speaker 4: able to find receivers, extend plays out there.
Speaker 2: And to me, that was the difference. It was the
Speaker 2: two quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: It came down to It was Mike get into the
Speaker 4: play can a little bit later, but when it came
Speaker 4: down to it, these two quarterbacks were a difference maker.
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott made the plays, made the throws, either with
Speaker 4: the throws or his legs. He was able to do
Speaker 4: that and Justin Herbert simply didn't able to do it.
Speaker 4: And that's my guy too, that's my guy I think.
Speaker 4: You know, I think very highly of Justin Herbert, but
Speaker 4: he didn't come to play at all. And that's what
Speaker 4: I was saying. When it comes to him, while he's
Speaker 4: not in that upper echelon, it's because when it comes
Speaker 4: down to clutch time, what Joe Burrow, what Mahomes, even
Speaker 4: Josh Allen, I'll put him in that category. When they're
Speaker 4: able to do in those clutch situations, separate them from
Speaker 4: the rest of them. Herbert had that opportunity to go
Speaker 4: out there two minutes left, one time out, to go
Speaker 4: out there and at least get him a feel God right,
Speaker 4: you didn't even need a touchdown field goal range, and
Speaker 4: he wasn't able to do that. He threw that interception,
Speaker 4: and that's squarely on Justin Herbert because he had options
Speaker 4: out there. He had options out there, even that sack.
Speaker 4: When Parsons came in and took that sack on second down,
Speaker 4: I believe he had Eckler.
Speaker 2: Wide open over there. Scott Free. He didn't read the
Speaker 2: play that was on him, in my opinion.
Speaker 4: So when you look at this game, the coordinators I
Speaker 4: believe watched themselves out. When you talk about Keller then
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy, I think they both called a really good game. Defensively,
Speaker 4: dan Quinn put a wrinkling there that I thought would
Speaker 4: get exposed when you put fourteen in there, but he
Speaker 4: bought out. He did his day, Marku's Bell did his thing,
Speaker 4: and he basically neutralized Eckler out there. Anytime you saw
Speaker 4: Eckler with the rock, fourteen was right there to get him.
Speaker 4: So I believe dan Quinn and even I got Staley,
Speaker 4: who usually would throw the game away somehow, someway, he
Speaker 4: came to play defensively. I mean, they held this team
Speaker 4: to twenty points when they've been giving up twenty five
Speaker 4: for the entire season, so even they came to play.
Speaker 4: To me, what this boiled down to was the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: And I got to give credit where credit is due.
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott went out there and he played himself.
Speaker 2: A hell of a game. D mag tell me something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: might's gonna be a lot shorter than that.
Speaker 3: Okay, because I'm with Barry, I think I think the
Speaker 3: key and what I saw from this game was when
Speaker 3: the Cowboys have a spark, right, they have something that
Speaker 3: that entices them to say, all.
Speaker 2: Right, we have something to fight for. Then they are
Speaker 2: a different team.
Speaker 3: Okay, you come out the first the first game of
Speaker 3: the season, you got something to fight for. You got
Speaker 3: a point to prove against the New York Giants, right,
Speaker 3: and you want to keep on rolling.
Speaker 2: You lose that fight, right when you lose to San Francisco.
Speaker 3: All right, you play on Monday, thankfully, and you get
Speaker 3: to see that San Francisco and the Philadelphia Eagles lose
Speaker 3: the game. So what do you say, all right, this
Speaker 3: is not only a get right game, this is a
Speaker 3: get back in the race game, all right, So now
Speaker 3: you have more to go play for. And they came
Speaker 3: out and they look like they had more to play for.
Speaker 3: One person specifically on offense, looked like they had something
Speaker 3: to prove. Dak Prescott, and what we've been saying for
Speaker 3: the last two years, the key to success for this
Speaker 3: offense and Dak to be successful is to be able
Speaker 3: to have confidence in using his legs, because if he doesn't,
Speaker 3: then they don't look the same. He looks this game
Speaker 3: out because I don't want to, you.
Speaker 2: Know, overreaction Tuesday and saying it's going to be this
Speaker 2: way all the time.
Speaker 3: But we have seen him so far this season get
Speaker 3: more and more comfortable using his legs, and that is
Speaker 3: the only way for us to be successful. Is we
Speaker 3: want to be on offense because that's what he's always
Speaker 3: He's been an athletic quarterback who gets out on the
Speaker 3: edge and it still plays and gets what guys the
Speaker 3: balls and positions to where they can then go score
Speaker 3: the football, all right, and Dak did that, so on
Speaker 3: that side absolutely on great defensively, the guy who has
Speaker 3: been the most consistent for us in the run game
Speaker 3: is ninety. Yeah, the Marcus Lawrence is ninety. Who's the
Speaker 3: tone center for you in the run game the Marcus Lawrence.
Speaker 3: And he is going to show up every time when
Speaker 3: we talk about like getting out physical stuff like that
Speaker 3: person I'm not talking about it in that situation is
Speaker 3: the Marcus Lawrence because he always has showed up and
Speaker 3: throughout this entire season, he went out there and set
Speaker 3: the tone against them in the running game. A again,
Speaker 3: So what am I seeing? Two big time leaders who
Speaker 3: have been here, done it before, stepping up when they
Speaker 3: knew they had something to play for and ain't went
Speaker 3: out there and got it done right. And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get this to day too. That man threw some big
Speaker 3: time passes, not all caught because that.
Speaker 2: Score could have been way different than it was.
Speaker 3: But he came out this week and we talked about
Speaker 3: the deep ball and he wasn't throwing it ride and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. He came out this week and he
Speaker 3: looked like a guy who was throwing for five thousand
Speaker 3: yards and forty tonsdowns and he looked like that guy.
Speaker 3: So hopefully you can keep that up. We do know
Speaker 3: that this was you know, just to put a little
Speaker 3: tab on this was a bad defense on some content.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, just that.
Speaker 3: But I'm saying, but I'm saying, listen, if Dak uses
Speaker 3: his legs, our defense plays that way where he can
Speaker 3: get out in the stant plays and then give our
Speaker 3: defense rest. I think that you are able to compete
Speaker 3: with any team in the league. If you don't, then
Speaker 3: you got a problem with nobody's been harder on Dak,
Speaker 3: or at least more critical of Dak in those times
Speaker 3: where he hadn't risen to the occasion. And to see you,
Speaker 3: two two former players giving him his props on the
Speaker 3: game that I feel the same way as you.
Speaker 2: Hec he put the team on the shoulders when he
Speaker 2: needed to.
Speaker 3: You've been begging, You've been begging, asking for Dak to
Speaker 3: do it with his legs. Got to You've been asking him,
Speaker 3: you know, don't be just a pocket passer, get out move.
Speaker 2: They need you to do more.
Speaker 3: Offensive line wise, we had so many guys playing musical chairs.
Speaker 2: How do you help this offensive line?
Speaker 3: And he helped his own offensive line, even though he
Speaker 3: was sacked five times by getting out of space and
Speaker 3: creating with his legs and throwing that one to Pollard,
Speaker 3: the other one that he made to Cooks. But this
Speaker 3: is why I want to get to this wide receiver
Speaker 3: group because coming into this game, everybody wants to know
Speaker 3: where the hell is the wide receiver group. We saw
Speaker 3: the last game verse the forty nine of CD Lamb
Speaker 3: standing a wave from the whole team on the bench.
Speaker 2: We've been asking. I was asking where's Brandon Cooks?
Speaker 3: What's happening with Brandon Cooks because we hadn't seen the
Speaker 3: production there this game, I think you see it come
Speaker 3: full circle. Look for Cedee Lamb seven catches one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventeen yards. I mean, no tuddies, but still that's
Speaker 3: the big game that you expected him to have.
Speaker 2: D Mack.
Speaker 3: When you were watching the game and just the production
Speaker 3: that you got from the receiver skill position room, were
Speaker 3: you satisfied with that or was there still something left
Speaker 3: to be desired in your mind once the game in
Speaker 3: man Listen for me, I was satisfied just because of
Speaker 3: what we hadn't seen in the previous games. From what
Speaker 3: we know Brandon Cooks and Ceedee Lamb can do. I'm
Speaker 3: not satisfied because I know that Brandon Cooks can do
Speaker 3: more and when you throw him the ball, we see
Speaker 3: that he's going to make that type of stuff happen.
Speaker 3: When you get Ceedee Lamb and the ball and he
Speaker 3: feels included in the game, you see what type of
Speaker 3: stuff he makes happen. Michael Gallup, I think he'll come
Speaker 3: on tell me.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: He has some opportunities to make some big time plays.
Speaker 3: Even though he did he did catch some balls, some
Speaker 3: footballs from deck. He has some opportunity to make some
Speaker 3: really big plays and set itself apart. Is possibly the
Speaker 3: number two guy and the number one deep third on
Speaker 3: this squad, and I don't think he took advantage of
Speaker 3: that opportunity, but he catches those passes. You continue to
Speaker 3: feed that Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks, then I'll be
Speaker 3: satisfied because I know what the result is gonna because
Speaker 3: all three of those dudes can ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you talk about satisfaction from that receiving core,
Speaker 4: I'm not quite there just yet. I'm not quite there
Speaker 4: here just yet, because even though you got to throw
Speaker 4: some context on it, that defense in that secondary is
Speaker 4: literally the worst in all the football I mean, I
Speaker 4: think they're ranked thirty second or thirty first against the past.
Speaker 4: So when you throw some context on it, you would
Speaker 4: like to see maybe a little bit more from those receivers,
Speaker 4: especially in the second half. But to me, overall this
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott got the most out of his receivers. I'll
Speaker 4: give him that much. I think Dak Prescott set himself
Speaker 4: aside from the rest of the squad as far as
Speaker 4: putting them on his shoulders and making sure they get
Speaker 4: the job done. But when you look at it, there
Speaker 4: were still plays in there where these receivers they the
Speaker 4: separation wasn't just there. I mean it took Dak Prescott
Speaker 4: out there extending the plays, running around back there in
Speaker 4: the pocket, buying time for those guys to get open
Speaker 4: out there, and he was feeding them the football. What
Speaker 4: I would like to see going forward, and maybe it's
Speaker 4: just nitpicking here and there, but I would like to
Speaker 4: see them drop back, five step drop, hit that fit
Speaker 4: on the back, release it. The receiver got separation right there.
Speaker 4: Not oh man, let me let me buy some time
Speaker 4: for these guys to go ahead and get open because
Speaker 4: they have the ability to do so, especially as cde Lamb,
Speaker 4: and I think it's more about the other receivers. I
Speaker 4: think Ceedee Lamb can get that separation. We saw it
Speaker 4: out there yesterday, and I think it's more about the
Speaker 4: secondary receivers getting those options as well. Talking about Beate
Speaker 4: Cooks and Gallup getting that separation out there.
Speaker 2: So for the most.
Speaker 4: Part that I like what I saw from this offense, yes,
Speaker 4: but I loved what I seen from Dak Prescott even more.
Speaker 3: You know, I think Brandon Cooks, going back to my
Speaker 3: critique last week, verse hit against him was just we
Speaker 3: came into the season expected so much from him. We
Speaker 3: were asking, we were saying, you were saying the one A,
Speaker 3: one B. As far as the number one receiver, we
Speaker 3: hadn't seen that. We hear Dak in the afterwards talking
Speaker 3: about Brandon Cooks and his leadership and how he's.
Speaker 2: Been from day one. Great locker room guy.
Speaker 3: But you want to see the production in the Dallas
Speaker 3: Cowboys offense needs a playmaker.
Speaker 2: They need a guy to be that.
Speaker 3: When the chips are down, we can go to you,
Speaker 3: all right, the whole stadium know you're about to get
Speaker 3: the ball, but you're gonna get the ball anyway. Finally,
Speaker 3: Cooks emerges as that reception receiver that can move the chains,
Speaker 3: and then you get you get my man, Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 3: who is then making bigger plays, stretching the field. Double
Speaker 3: triple Team. Michael Gallup. I'm just gonna say it. I
Speaker 3: don't know ACL. I've never had an a cl so
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is like. But I just
Speaker 3: don't see the speed that I've seen in him before. Okay,
Speaker 3: and maybe it's just gonna be one of those things
Speaker 3: that maybe he could be that piece for us, and
Speaker 3: as the season goes for further that he can start
Speaker 3: to be that.
Speaker 2: But the other.
Speaker 3: Disappointing thing for me, guys and y'all, I pounded the
Speaker 3: table for this tight end group. We're just not getting
Speaker 3: enough production from my tight end room. I say, we're
Speaker 3: not sitting here now. I hope you're listening. I don't
Speaker 3: care what nobody says. You can't tell me, and I'm
Speaker 3: not saying we should have paid to do fifteen sixteen
Speaker 3: whatever he was asking. My point is you're missing a
Speaker 3: guy like Dalton Schultz in the passing game RUNI Gay,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know about that. I think you
Speaker 3: could probably make him for it, though, But in the
Speaker 3: past game Dak Prescott not having that outlet when he's
Speaker 3: in trouble, and then also just having a guy that's
Speaker 3: able to read zones, get open in spots, run the
Speaker 3: scene and you're gonna automatically catch the ball, like you know,
Speaker 3: Doctor Show is gonna catch the ball and he's a
Speaker 3: red zone threat. It's no, it's no. There's no confusion
Speaker 3: here of the missing link. One of the big missing
Speaker 3: links of like why our Redson offense is not the
Speaker 3: way it used to be the two shows was a
Speaker 3: man in the red zone who you were gonna find
Speaker 3: and he was gonna score touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So you don't have it. We haven't been able to
Speaker 2: make up for that. Let me let me ask you that.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Barry, because we've talked about
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy's offense good, bad, ugly. It's a lot to
Speaker 3: digest because you don't know what it was gonna look
Speaker 3: like prior to the season. But now that you're getting
Speaker 3: an opportunity to look at it, some areas of it.
Speaker 2: That you're just like, okay, we're gonna work on.
Speaker 3: That, and it's some other areas of it that you're like, okay,
Speaker 3: I like that when you said then, now that this
Speaker 3: emphasize that you've had going into the bye week, and
Speaker 3: you look, you've seen Mike's offense. What are your initial
Speaker 3: thoughts man, and even going through the rest of the
Speaker 3: season with his offense.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're in trouble. I believe they're in trouble.
Speaker 4: When you talk about making sure this offense can hold
Speaker 4: its own against the better teams in the National Football League,
Speaker 4: I mean, I just don't think or I haven't seen
Speaker 4: so far this season that they're able to do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen when they win.
Speaker 4: Against a good team and a good defense with the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers, what happened. They weren't able to move
Speaker 4: the ball at all, turn the football over.
Speaker 2: When you win against Arizona, who I'm not going to
Speaker 2: sit here and say they have.
Speaker 4: A great defense or anything like that, but when you
Speaker 4: got to the red zone, you weren't able to push
Speaker 4: it in here. Again, as I say this week, they
Speaker 4: were two and four in the red zone. To me,
Speaker 4: that's not going to get it cut going forward. So
Speaker 4: did he improve as far as creativity, Yes, I will
Speaker 4: say that because that readoption played for Dak's first touchdown,
Speaker 4: I got to give full credit to Mike McCarthy, he's
Speaker 4: the one that doubted up and called it in there.
Speaker 2: Dak made the play.
Speaker 4: Kudos to that that rail or that a wheel route
Speaker 4: for Tony Paula. That should have been a touchdown. You know,
Speaker 4: Dak missed him on the overthrow. That was a heck
Speaker 4: of a call. But outside of that, the majority of
Speaker 4: the production from this offense came from broken plays, and
Speaker 4: it came from Dak Prescott scrambling around, extending plays, making
Speaker 4: short his receivers had time to get open. If we're
Speaker 4: just gonna sit back and three step drop, five step truck,
Speaker 4: get the ball out, this offense ain't moving the football.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen that they're not moving the football.
Speaker 4: It's taking Dack to put the team on their shoulders
Speaker 4: as far as extending plays for them to have some
Speaker 4: offensive production. So in my man, I'm thinking I haven't
Speaker 4: seen it quite yet, but I believe they're in trouble
Speaker 4: going four and then I take what I said back
Speaker 4: about the wide receivers. Michael got ten targets, ten targets,
Speaker 4: you got three catches for twenty four yards.
Speaker 2: I take it back. I'm sitting there looking cooks. Okay.
Speaker 5: Four for four four targets, four catches, thirty six though,
Speaker 5: that's what that's what it's going to me. And I
Speaker 5: think it comes down to the play call. And that's
Speaker 5: why I say, you know, I believe they're in trouble.
Speaker 5: But yeah, those were receivers. I mean that's ridiculous. Ten targets. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and it ain't like you're going against Revis. You ain't
Speaker 5: going against Digs or somebody out there. This was the
Speaker 5: worst pass defense in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: I think to that tiding room, I think the issue
Speaker 3: that you're having is you ain't found nobody who can
Speaker 3: attack the SAMs yet, like it was, they gave it
Speaker 3: to a hindershot the schoolmaker dropped it and then Michael
Speaker 3: Gallup got out there. So you're still trying to find
Speaker 3: somebody who can attack the middle of the field. And
Speaker 3: I think that's a huge issue. If it's me, I'm
Speaker 3: no offensive coordinator. Brandon Cooks is running deep overs at
Speaker 3: least five or six times a game. How we've not
Speaker 3: seen it is he is clearing out the zone or
Speaker 3: the man. If it's man and man, I'm throwing it
Speaker 3: to him every time on the deep over route, I'm
Speaker 3: lining up and trips closed. He's lining up as a
Speaker 3: number three guy if he's running deep over ceedee, Lamb
Speaker 3: is running either the seam or dig And we're gonna
Speaker 3: find out if these guys are playing man and man,
Speaker 3: who can one keep up with these guys?
Speaker 2: And then you gotta also stop.
Speaker 3: Them for making the catch, Like I'm just putting that
Speaker 3: type of pressure on him, especially if.
Speaker 2: You need one of those trunk players.
Speaker 3: They he did draw it up to where there was
Speaker 3: some good opportunities to hit the scene routes. The route
Speaker 3: that he drew up for Cooks knowing that he had
Speaker 3: that speed to bring them all the way across and
Speaker 3: back perfect perfect, perfectly placed football. Touchdown was perfectly play football.
Speaker 3: But you take advantage of a guy like cook speed
Speaker 3: right and the ability to say, all right, even if
Speaker 3: he's still stepped the step with him, you put the ball,
Speaker 3: he's gonna catch you, all right, because he's proven that
Speaker 3: he can do that over over over his career. So
Speaker 3: I don't know, man about the gallup thing. Like I
Speaker 3: know you you have to continue to try to keep
Speaker 3: him in the game right and keep them involved, But
Speaker 3: I don't I think it's a little skewed of like, Okay,
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb should be getting the most number of targets,
Speaker 3: and then it should be Brandon Cooks and then gallup
Speaker 3: and the tight ends should be you know, in that
Speaker 3: in that next area. And I think that's how you
Speaker 3: are successful if not those ten targets to where you
Speaker 3: know dak is scrambling and all that because you're not
Speaker 3: utilizing Brandon cook speed and Ceedee Lamb's ability to run
Speaker 3: routes to catch ball. That's when you start to get
Speaker 3: yourself in trouble.
Speaker 2: Cowboy Nation, how y'all feel.
Speaker 3: But I'm not with Church though you said all the
Speaker 3: receivers are just that one. I said, you know about celebrations,
Speaker 3: so the resident, I'm still for Cooks. Okay, I'm just
Speaker 3: saying I'm still he was four four war and you
Speaker 3: throw the man foot It's proven though, Like this stuff
Speaker 3: is proven.
Speaker 2: He ain't coming off with no injury or nothing.
Speaker 3: If you throw him the ball, he's going to catch
Speaker 3: said football. Like there's nothing that proves otherwise when it
Speaker 3: comes to cook no matter what team he's been on.
Speaker 3: So I don't believe that him coming here all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, He's not that guy like I can't. If
Speaker 3: you you would be a fool to think that Amari
Speaker 3: Cooper was that guy when he was here. If you
Speaker 3: go out there and watch Cleveland, because he hain't that guy.
Speaker 3: Give him opportunity to get the ball. No, we're gonna see,
Speaker 3: but I'm not gonna miss an opportunity to talk about
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Speaker 3: Said, see gonna take off. First of all, this a
Speaker 3: rich person argument. Back in Actually here on the players
Speaker 3: now is Danny mccraig their church in the building. After victory,
Speaker 3: it was a lot said last week. It was a
Speaker 3: lot of said last week. Did we get a chance
Speaker 3: to address any of the elephants in the room. Justin Herbert,
Speaker 3: you know, I thought you was going another round because
Speaker 3: I know you're happy to know the other team lost
Speaker 3: in the division.
Speaker 2: Couldn't wait the other boy.
Speaker 3: That's the first thing I thought he was going.
Speaker 2: I thought that showed that was gonna be the first word.
Speaker 3: Wait ante hold on coming to the podium, my first
Speaker 3: this second, first installment of other boys.
Speaker 2: Danny M. Craig pleases brush the mic, don't I wasn't
Speaker 2: not even mess.
Speaker 3: I'm all right, but hey, Justin Herb, we came into this,
Speaker 3: came into this match staking to Herbert obviously would have
Speaker 3: a big day, needed to have a big day after
Speaker 3: a bye week with his injured hand. All of that,
Speaker 3: the Cowboys defense did a really good job up front
Speaker 3: containing the run and also, hey.
Speaker 2: It wasn't perfect.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a perfect effort, but also containing those wide
Speaker 3: receivers for the Chargers. Guys, y'all got to tell me.
Speaker 3: It's two former safeties in Dallas, Cowboy veterans. What did
Speaker 3: you guys think about the defensive performance? Ben we talk
Speaker 3: about this defense.
Speaker 4: If we're giving them a letter grade, I would give
Speaker 4: him a B plus. You know, I feel as though
Speaker 4: dan Quinn and those boys, they did a heck of
Speaker 4: a job out there. The wrinkles that he was able
Speaker 4: to throw in there against a high powered offense like
Speaker 4: the LA Chargers was immaculate.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at it.
Speaker 4: Marquis Bell, we talked about a little bit earlier, but
Speaker 4: he had to have a game out there. You talking
Speaker 4: about a guy where last week I was talking about
Speaker 4: when he came in the game, they looking at word's fourteen.
Speaker 4: He running straight at fourteen. That man had a great
Speaker 4: must have had a great week of practice and came
Speaker 4: in there ready to go. Because against the run and
Speaker 4: the past, he was on it. I mean they were
Speaker 4: he was on it. You see the run up the
Speaker 4: middle going straight at him. He's dipping blocks and getting
Speaker 4: in there making plays at the line of scrimmage or TfL.
Speaker 4: So the man was doing this thing. And when you
Speaker 4: talk about neutralizing Eckler, he was the sole cause of that.
Speaker 4: I mean that guy, hey, we saw that. How many
Speaker 4: times Eckler hit a screen plass or go out on
Speaker 4: the flat and he's taking it for sixty Marquis Bell
Speaker 4: did this thing out there. So in that regard, I
Speaker 4: gotta give big props to Dan Quinn putting that wrinkle
Speaker 4: in there and Marquis Bell doing his thing. Now, when
Speaker 4: you talk about Kellen Moore out there in this offense,
Speaker 4: I feel like Kellen Moore called a heck of a game.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be completely honest with you. I feel like
Speaker 4: he called a heck of a game when you look
Speaker 4: at it and you look at the ALL twenty two,
Speaker 4: not just looking at all, when you look at this,
Speaker 4: looking at the ALL twenty two, he was drawing up
Speaker 4: some things. Now he like I said earlier, it came
Speaker 4: down to the quarterback. And that's where I'm going to
Speaker 4: have this because that was the difference between both sides.
Speaker 4: When you look about the Cowboys and the Chargers, what
Speaker 4: was the difference. Dak was able to make those throws,
Speaker 4: was able to make those plays in big time situations.
Speaker 2: Herbert wasn't that simple as that.
Speaker 4: When you look at those plays that Kellen had drawn up,
Speaker 4: missed two wide open double moves from Keenan Allen, one
Speaker 4: of the first half and one in the second half.
Speaker 4: That's Herbert not making the throw. That That's that's all
Speaker 4: that comes down to. It ain't like he was getting
Speaker 4: pressured because you could look at the tape he was
Speaker 4: wide open.
Speaker 2: But Barry I watched enough enough of Herbert to have
Speaker 2: seen him not miss those throws.
Speaker 3: That's why I asked you the question off air, do
Speaker 3: you think even though it's his other hand, I'm not
Speaker 3: giving this man any excuses.
Speaker 2: Dan, I'm just telling you he don't miss wide open
Speaker 2: like that. Listen, this is game after game though.
Speaker 3: I know we don't want to put it on Killer
Speaker 3: or whatever, but there have been multiple games where in
Speaker 3: the last two minutes it's been on Herbert for not
Speaker 3: seeing the check or taking the sack, not seeing whatever
Speaker 3: it is. That still then falls on your offensive coordinator
Speaker 3: in your quarterback.
Speaker 2: Like this is this is a consistent thing from team
Speaker 2: to team.
Speaker 3: This is a consistent like we had this issue when
Speaker 3: Kellen was here as a officive coordinator with the same
Speaker 3: exact issues that are going on LA that Kellen was
Speaker 3: supposed to fix. So albeit justin Herbert did not play well,
Speaker 3: some of it still has to fall on Keller. He
Speaker 3: has always been great at calling plays, like We've never
Speaker 3: had an issue with him. Even when we would get
Speaker 3: on him about Dak, it was still Dak missing wide
Speaker 3: open guys against the blitz.
Speaker 2: Kellen Morri's gonna call him. That's why they call him,
Speaker 2: Boy Wonder.
Speaker 3: It's situational football to where, all right, if my quarterback
Speaker 3: has a history this year of not being able to
Speaker 3: hit certain throws and make the right decisions, what do
Speaker 3: I then call to make sure that this doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been able to connect with Justin Herbert and
Speaker 3: get him to do that, because the same thing happened
Speaker 3: to I think it was two games ago before they
Speaker 3: went intoday bye week where they on like the ten
Speaker 3: yard line, they got to go ninety or actually they
Speaker 3: got like fifty to get a field goal and they
Speaker 3: take two sacks. You come out this week, Michael Parsons
Speaker 3: closes the game out on you, the most important player
Speaker 3: on the squad closes the game out on you, our defense.
Speaker 3: I think it shows that that Kyle shanahan a scheme
Speaker 3: is a lot different than what you will see from
Speaker 3: the rest of the teams in the league.
Speaker 2: Fourteen.
Speaker 3: Marky's bell looks totally different when you got to see
Speaker 3: the pullers and then recognize the jet sweep and do
Speaker 3: all that versus when you don't have all that I
Speaker 3: can then in front of you. You just got to
Speaker 3: go out there and play football, right, You don't have
Speaker 3: to think. And I think when you're playing with the
Speaker 3: dan Quinn defense and you got these young guys out here,
Speaker 3: you playing into their hands when you don't try to
Speaker 3: fool them with their responsibilities and a lot of ghost
Speaker 3: motions and stuff like that, just how to throw them
Speaker 3: off and slow them down the step. When you don't
Speaker 3: do that, this dan Quinn defense is pretty much unstoppable
Speaker 3: because they have the athletes to get out there and play,
Speaker 3: and he always puts them in the right position.
Speaker 2: Markue's Bell play on another team, you have no idea
Speaker 2: what he's gonna be.
Speaker 3: But dan Quinn can take guys like that and Jay Run,
Speaker 3: Curse and all those guys and put them in the
Speaker 3: perfect position for them to utilize all of their skills.
Speaker 3: So I'm impressed by watching it. But then we still
Speaker 3: have to figure out how when we do play those
Speaker 3: those physical teams and those teams at the misdirection, how
Speaker 3: we just don't disappear when we played them. But for
Speaker 3: this game, man, the whole that team is seventeen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a hell of a performance. Being with the injuries
Speaker 3: that you got. That's where That's where I met right
Speaker 3: there with the injuries, and I wanted to see how
Speaker 3: they lined up without Leyton vander esh who was going
Speaker 3: to be And so when I saw fourteen, I'm like.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, I got fourteen. Here's two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifteen pounds. What are we doing?
Speaker 3: You know I would DeMont Clark. I was thinking maybe
Speaker 3: he would assume that role. But Bell being the guy
Speaker 3: that was shooting the gap, I mean to me, that
Speaker 3: says what you said. The guy obviously has had a
Speaker 3: good week of practice. That's also dan Quinn reinforcing his
Speaker 3: belief in a guy like that. We laughed a little
Speaker 3: bit when he was reinforcing his belief in Bland, right well,
Speaker 3: he said, you went back and look at the all
Speaker 3: twenty two and said, now, Bland played pretty good. Bland
Speaker 3: also with somebody guys, he didn't. He didn't have the
Speaker 3: best out. Okay, that was that was a few plays
Speaker 3: that you could look at and gooo. If you know
Speaker 3: Herbert had connected there, then it would have been all
Speaker 3: one of the second year player. But other than that,
Speaker 3: he had a pretty decent game. Man, What did you
Speaker 3: think about d run Blane. Yeah, I think he has
Speaker 3: some rough moments against some really good receiver. Keenan Allen
Speaker 3: is top five in receivers right now, especially numbers wise,
Speaker 3: what he's able to do when he's the guy, all right.
Speaker 3: So d run Bland did struggle a little bit against him,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, he got his hands on
Speaker 3: two that I was like, Okay, he's about to get
Speaker 3: interceptions on these, so we know that he still has
Speaker 3: one that ability to get out there and forget those
Speaker 3: players where we saw him, because some of them were
Speaker 3: really bad. But as DB's you have to be able
Speaker 3: to forget that last play, get out there and play
Speaker 3: the next one. I think he'll continue to get better.
Speaker 3: We forget Bland. It was the first time starting that well,
Speaker 3: getting in the game last year, all right. So now
Speaker 3: he's all of a sudden assuming the starting position. He's
Speaker 3: looking at a guy like Keenan Allen. Keenan Allen's gonna
Speaker 3: win against some guys, and he did that against the
Speaker 3: run Blande. So I still have faith in the guy
Speaker 3: one where you always need somebody who could turn the
Speaker 3: ball over on your defense, you always need one of
Speaker 3: those guys, a ballhawking guy. And he's the number one
Speaker 3: ball honking out on our defense right now with treymont
Speaker 3: Diggs album.
Speaker 4: And that's why from what both of you guys said,
Speaker 4: that's why I can't put this one on kelling Moore.
Speaker 4: You guys both said. Basically, he hits Keenan Island on
Speaker 4: two separate occasions where he's wide open. We talk about
Speaker 4: there's no one within ten yards of kid. This ain't
Speaker 4: like he got to fit it in a tight window.
Speaker 4: There's no one within ten yards of Keenan Islan, no
Speaker 4: rush in your face, and you still don't make those strolls.
Speaker 4: Then we talk about the sack with Michael Parsons. Look,
Speaker 4: if you look at the tape, the main Austin Eckler
Speaker 4: is standing five yards in front of him with no
Speaker 4: one in sight, no one in sight.
Speaker 2: He decides to throw the football over there. Who Gilmore
Speaker 2: has that got strapped up? Now? Was it coming to
Speaker 2: the present? Maybe?
Speaker 4: But I can't put that on Keller Moore when he's
Speaker 4: drawn up plays and guys or Scott free. Because last
Speaker 4: year I didn't put it on Kellen Moore when he
Speaker 4: was drawing up plays and guys were Scott free.
Speaker 2: Yet the decision from the quarterback was made and who
Speaker 2: did I put that on? That's great?
Speaker 3: I don't know, But now it's like team the team
Speaker 3: because we saw back doing the same sub last year
Speaker 3: and it's like that doing and that's why it comes
Speaker 3: down to the quarterback. But now he took that same
Speaker 3: voodoo over in La we all, how can you put
Speaker 3: that on? I don't know what's going on with I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm just saying it's traveling from team to team
Speaker 3: where the mon stars seem to be getting in these guys.
Speaker 2: The same pages where you so.
Speaker 3: Like you're confused because you've seen Justin Herbert make these
Speaker 3: throws and make these right decisions.
Speaker 2: And now I was like, damn, I don't I don't
Speaker 2: get not the same guy.
Speaker 4: But he's Justin Herbert, like I said plenty of time before,
Speaker 4: he I believe, I believe him. He's a great quarterback
Speaker 4: or not great. He's a good quarterback. But we're not
Speaker 4: gonna act like the previous years without Keller Moore. He
Speaker 4: was just dicing boys up and he was just out
Speaker 4: there making all these clutch moments.
Speaker 3: That's not the case at all. Yes, yeah, that's what
Speaker 3: puts him in that elite status. That's why he topped
Speaker 3: five because we've seen him do it.
Speaker 2: We've seen you've seen him do it. Yeah, he has moment, bro,
Speaker 2: I mean with all the yard, I mean with all
Speaker 2: the yards. Hey, that's your boy, somebody what I did today?
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Speaker 2: You're right? He throwing them money the bustle Saint killing boy.
Speaker 2: Let's let's keep it a hundred on it. Whose fault
Speaker 2: was it for that l for the for the Chargers.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm telling you, I'm gonna put that keep it.
Speaker 2: Listen to listen.
Speaker 3: I think Herbert did miss some throws. My My whole
Speaker 3: thing with Killing is gonna always stay the same when
Speaker 3: it whatever team he's on or being the officer coordinator
Speaker 3: for when it comes down to those type of moments,
Speaker 3: they are not moments where.
Speaker 4: What you expect them to do under two minutes one
Speaker 4: time out. They haven't sniffed it on the ground all game.
Speaker 4: He tried twenty five times. They haven't snipped on the
Speaker 4: ground all game. So you want him to turn around
Speaker 4: under two minutes but one time out handed off to.
Speaker 2: Eckler for I don't know what. Killer gotta be.
Speaker 4: Able to open up the playbook and throw the ball,
Speaker 4: put the trust in your best player offensively, which is Herbert,
Speaker 4: And that's exactly what the coordinator.
Speaker 3: But every team's mo isn't to abandon the run in
Speaker 3: the two minutes. And even though even though again he
Speaker 3: had two minutes ago he conserve your best plays, it
Speaker 3: seemed like in that second half period they were just like,
Speaker 3: we can't we can't get the ball, we can't run
Speaker 3: the ball, so we're not gonna run the ball. Well,
Speaker 3: that's that. That is also a killing thing, though killing,
Speaker 3: killing will go away from So we're passing out blame.
Speaker 3: We're passing out blaming with the second in the second
Speaker 3: half though. No absolutely, I'm not even all like they
Speaker 3: just grew skunk in the second No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that
Speaker 3: that was if it's fifty to fifty, I'm gonna say
Speaker 3: sixty forty, okay, six, I'm okay with that. I'm sixty
Speaker 3: four with Herbert, sixty killing forty. And it may be
Speaker 3: with him abandoning a lot of them, I'm actually I'm okay,
Speaker 3: I'm okay, I'm okay with fifty five forty five. I'm
Speaker 3: just not okay with one hundred percent Herbert zero percent
Speaker 3: killing one maybe thirty seventy I'm okay with that too.
Speaker 2: From my point of view, it sounds like, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: all on her Oh yeah, you gotta get some of
Speaker 2: it something. I'm right with that.
Speaker 3: I thought he was saying all like, hey, Kelling, now
Speaker 3: Kellen did great Herbert, and he switched.
Speaker 2: This around when we defended your I'm just look at it.
Speaker 4: When you look at it the touchdowns at they score,
Speaker 4: was it something immaculate that Herbert did, Like in Dak
Speaker 4: Prescott situation, that was him. That wasn't the play called drawn.
Speaker 4: That was him making those plays when when they had
Speaker 4: the score. Was it Herbert or was it a drawing
Speaker 4: up play? Because if you see that you watched both
Speaker 4: of those scores, that was an offensive play.
Speaker 3: Was in his back, as he usually is in the
Speaker 3: first part of the first PA always has been who
Speaker 3: can call these type of plays? We're gonna take our
Speaker 3: last break because I'm so confused.
Speaker 2: I'm so confused. I don't know how you just flipped
Speaker 2: that around, but you did that around, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: take our last break and be right back. He on
Speaker 2: the players lounds, what I'm.
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Speaker 3: Offensive lines are just saying what we're gonna do. We're
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Speaker 2: We only had one sack last night on.
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert, and that was as good as the defensive
Speaker 3: line plays shutting down the run and supporting the back.
Speaker 3: I just felt like, man, more guys should have been
Speaker 3: involved and got more pressure. Did y'all see the same
Speaker 3: thing or was it just a virtual also performance?
Speaker 4: So now I want you you know guys are paying
Speaker 4: a little bit more attention. Well, they've been paying a
Speaker 4: lot of attention to the big bazooka. But I feel
Speaker 4: like in this instance, with this game, stats didn't really
Speaker 4: the picture of the entire situation. So because when you
Speaker 4: look at it, they stifled that run game. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think it was twenty five attempts only fifty yards
Speaker 4: fifty three yards, So they stifled.
Speaker 2: That run game. And then if you look at it,
Speaker 2: they might not have gotten those sacks.
Speaker 4: But there was pressure on Herbert pretty much the entire night,
Speaker 4: and whether he was holding along or not whatever the
Speaker 4: case may be, there was pressure out there. So to me,
Speaker 4: I think those guys are winning their one on ones
Speaker 4: out there, and the stat sheets just didn't display that
Speaker 4: because you didn't see a whole bunch of sacks out there.
Speaker 4: Big Mazuka did his thing with one sack, but he
Speaker 4: was relatively quiet the rest of the night. To me,
Speaker 4: the rest of those guys, they did their job winning,
Speaker 4: especially d Law when we talked about stopping a run
Speaker 4: out there, did their job.
Speaker 2: It just didn't reflect on the stat sheet mapinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I think, just based off what Church has
Speaker 3: been talking about when we talk about Herbert.
Speaker 2: They affected the quarterback.
Speaker 3: Did they affect a good quarterback, a good quality quarterback
Speaker 3: who people expected to be in the MVP race? They
Speaker 3: affected him and some of those throws were uncharacteristic because
Speaker 3: of the defense. He's worried about, Hey man, I got
Speaker 3: to get the ball out of my hands quick because
Speaker 3: I might get sacked, or I might get here, I
Speaker 3: might get pressured. And you saw that affect him even
Speaker 3: before they got into the game. Obviously that he knew
Speaker 3: a man this might be one of them. So I
Speaker 3: think they did their job. I think some games you
Speaker 3: have where you might not. You might not hit the
Speaker 3: stat sheet like that, right, you might you might not.
Speaker 3: You started off the year and you you was wreaking
Speaker 3: havoc and then now you might have hit that little
Speaker 3: slump where okay, now we need to play more sound defensively,
Speaker 3: so where if we're not getting those type of plays,
Speaker 3: can we still sustain? And they show that they can
Speaker 3: do that, and those sacks and turnos they always come
Speaker 3: in bunches, so once they start rolling again, it'll be
Speaker 3: three for Micah, two for Old Diggie Zoo, two for
Speaker 3: d Long and then it'll be going crazy. I'm not
Speaker 3: worried about that.
Speaker 2: Real quick, now that I think about it.
Speaker 4: And I'm looking at the game over here behind me,
Speaker 4: and I'm sitting there taking in my head. Man, as
Speaker 4: of right now, look Joe Barrow better than Herbert. Yes,
Speaker 4: because I'm looking at it. I'm sitting here and I'm
Speaker 4: sitting there and I'm like, man, it's not even to
Speaker 4: hold Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: I mean Herbert.
Speaker 4: He looked like at deer in headlights out there, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: I mean were you talking. He just looked like like
Speaker 4: when the moment was was too big for him out there.
Speaker 4: It just seemed like he didn't know what to do
Speaker 4: with it, and that, to me, that's frustrating, because you know,
Speaker 4: I believe in Herbert, but that that's frustrated. I do
Speaker 4: think he'll get back, you know, he'll get back into
Speaker 4: that upper echelon one of these days. But as of
Speaker 4: right now, nah, he's a dearren headlights.
Speaker 3: I gotta give my defense a lot of credit, though,
Speaker 3: And that's why I bring that question up, because I
Speaker 3: felt like they should have had more sacks, and it
Speaker 3: was justin Herbert moving up and I'm he's six six,
Speaker 3: two hundred whatever, he is here and he could throw
Speaker 3: that rock. Okay, first of all, and I've seen a
Speaker 3: little bit more mobility, But I think that our defense
Speaker 3: was just.
Speaker 2: All over him. I think he didn't have anywhere to go.
Speaker 3: And when the opportunity presented itself and he didn't make
Speaker 3: the play, that's what surprised me. That's where that's where
Speaker 3: I was like, well, wait a minute, dog, I'm what
Speaker 3: y'all do you know? You know, like what's going on?
Speaker 3: Because he will make that play one hundred times out
Speaker 3: of one hundred. That's the only thing to me that
Speaker 3: what that was a takeaway, and I gotta give the
Speaker 3: defense credit.
Speaker 2: But on the other end, because I know.
Speaker 3: You guys, man, y'all gonna talk about, Okay, we got
Speaker 3: this win, Calm down, he let's talk about the upper
Speaker 3: echelon teams because we got some big teams coming up
Speaker 3: on the docket. And so for y'all, when I take this,
Speaker 3: when I take this victory, and I know we're not
Speaker 3: changing our picks until we get through the bye week,
Speaker 3: but does this okay, does this victory, does this defense
Speaker 3: and just the improvement coming back from that San Francisco loss?
Speaker 3: Do you guys look at that now and say, all right,
Speaker 3: this may be the team that I expected or I
Speaker 3: thought they were gonna be. Or does that doubt that
Speaker 3: came out after the San Francisco for the Niners game?
Speaker 3: Still Lincoln? Now, I'm still I might, I might switch
Speaker 3: on my wins to losses. Still, as we moved through
Speaker 3: the season, I still need to see more. I will
Speaker 3: say this. I am happy that Big Mike went ahead
Speaker 3: and did what he said he was gonna do and
Speaker 3: play to this defense and kicked that field goal on
Speaker 3: fourth down instead of instead of going forward because we
Speaker 3: saw a previous game where he was like, I'm going
Speaker 3: for about that. I'm so happy. I'm like, oh, thank you, bro,
Speaker 3: do what you said this because it helped you win
Speaker 3: the game. About you were not opposed. You wasn't opposed
Speaker 3: to look at the vice versa, Staley took the damn points.
Speaker 3: But so now, like I still need to see more,
Speaker 3: all right, I need to see more the upper echelon
Speaker 3: team that we played specifically, what though, when you say
Speaker 3: I need to see I want to see more. Offensively,
Speaker 3: I want to see Brandon Cooks and CD Lamb be
Speaker 3: a focal point of this offense on a consistent basis,
Speaker 3: not one of these ones where Brandon Cooks call a touchdown,
Speaker 3: didn't really have that many yards, but he called it
Speaker 3: to and all of a sudden he's there. Now, Brandon
Speaker 3: Cooks is a Hundy yard guy, Like I need to
Speaker 3: see him be that Huney yard guy. And that's when
Speaker 3: I know that Dak Prescott and his receivers are clicking
Speaker 3: on all cinemas and that's how we're going to then
Speaker 3: be able to move forward in the playoffs. You lost her,
Speaker 3: you lost hope, and focus on your board number ten.
Speaker 3: I'm shot. Yeah, it's something something to want to go
Speaker 3: by what you see. But some cats on the show
Speaker 3: you they like the front run. But you know, hey,
Speaker 3: I only go about what I see, about what I see.
Speaker 3: I know the body we agreed as a podcast asked
Speaker 3: that we would change in our picks till after the
Speaker 3: five weeks. So seeing the Cowboys get into the winning
Speaker 3: column here before the bid, does that.
Speaker 2: Change your mind on anything? Or you still I got
Speaker 2: big question marks? No, I got question marks.
Speaker 4: I'm still eleven and six. I want to see what
Speaker 4: they do. And I hate saying that because you can
Speaker 4: only play who's on your schedule. But I got to
Speaker 4: see what they do against some more complete team. You know,
Speaker 4: when you look at the Chargers, yes they're explosive offensively,
Speaker 4: but defensively, you know, the dead last in the entire
Speaker 4: National Football League, giving up twenty five points a game.
Speaker 4: So I got to see them going agains some more
Speaker 4: complete length team. But this was a sign in the
Speaker 4: right direction. When you talk about Dak Prescott putting the
Speaker 4: team on the shoulders.
Speaker 2: Man, it's so easy to do a show man when
Speaker 2: you win, it's so cool'll y'all so cool?
Speaker 3: You know? And then y'all owned it, though, you know
Speaker 3: I should have put a taste to kick on it. Listen,
Speaker 3: I did, I didn't, but I know they come in
Speaker 3: it ain't It ain't my fault that that happened. Is
Speaker 3: the cowboys fault for going out to look at how
Speaker 3: they looked against forty niners.
Speaker 2: That that made me take my mind because I had them.
Speaker 2: I was the same with you. What thirteen five twelve,
Speaker 2: I mean thirteen to four, yeah, seven five something another. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I was with you and then they
Speaker 2: went out there and got stumped.
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