WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Get Right Game 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:14.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lounge, 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.600 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:26.200 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison and 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:27.840 Newie Scrugs. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:41.920 We in the Players Lounge, going owner zoo. They yeah, 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:43.080 you know what the camera is. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:49.320 You know your angle, all your drink up, you got 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:50.640 your your pinky figure up. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.720 This is a players Lounge. Just what I know, and 0:00:52.880 --> 0:01:01.080 that's what he knows. You know what it is. It's 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.240 the Players Lows. You are now rocking with the best. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.600 I'm Heck Maharrison and at the desk per usual are 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.319 my compadres, Danny McCrae with his l s U Alum 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.840 shirt on and my man Bury Church in the place 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.680 to be The Players Lown sponsored by Tostitos, the official 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.280 chip and dip of the Dallas Cowboys and fellas. We 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.480 got so much to get into. Man, it's gonna be 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.360 a shout, raise. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:36.320 Your head, you big cowboy as a wind. That's last week. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.039 Last week was National check on the Dallas Cowboy Fan Day. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:45.120 But it's different today though it's different. Look, I'm gonna 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.160 start this out like I always start this out. We're 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.000 gonna do the wellness check. I'm gonna tell you check 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.560 on your people. All right, y'all. Tell me what's going on, man, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.040 how you feeling? Tell me some good listen. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.000 That's how you know. I love y'all. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.200 Okay, because my daughter had a one o four last night. Okay, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.440 so we're up all night and then you couldn't go 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.680 to school to so I just I threw this song. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.640 I was like, I'm gonna go do the players. She's 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.000 feeling better right now. But then it just went back right. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.040 So I'm gonna walk back into a little show, you know, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.960 I get, I get a little time to step away, 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.760 come talk about the cowboys, and I'll make it. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.200 Well, We're gonna make it. Do it baby, the babies. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.720 We want the babies to be well. This is the season. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.639 I don't know what's in the air, on what's going on, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.600 but like the old people say, make sure you takeing 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:33.240 some castro. See what's up with you well first and foremost, 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.480 you know, hope feels better out there at the temperature. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.400 That's that's scary. When you deal the little ones out there, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.120 so hopefully she feels better. But from my standpoint, man, 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.160 mentals is good, just good right now. Man, it's a 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.560 beautiful day, not too hot on hoodie season as you 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:46.040 can see. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.280 So we're doing good. We're doing good out here our gravy. Man, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.959 I tell you what. I'm good. You know I'm good. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:55.120 I'm good. Listen. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.079 I'm as far as mentals is concerned. Man, Hey man, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.400 I'm living somebody. This is like, don't pinch me, all right, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.880 may me keep doing my thing. I'm telling you whatever. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.320 My ansence is afraid to thank you because it's all good. Listen, man, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.120 My cowboys yesterday they took care of business. They took 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.200 care of business. And you know, the days leading up 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.520 to the Monday night was cowboys. There's cowboys that yuk 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.240 yuk yuck ha ha ha. You know, the dak presscott, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.480 the defense, the whole nine. We needed to write the 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.320 ship and the vibes just from the beginning when I 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.639 saw fighting on the sidelines, we in the building. Somebody 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:43.680 out there with the oak Cliffe mentality. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:45.960 Smooth boy, I'm I'm just having it. Man to break 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.960 his hand. Yes, I'm telling you, I see too many 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:48.680 people do that. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.000 But man, the immediate reaction, I mean, it was a 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.200 nail biting game, wasn't as close, you know, as close 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.760 as I wanted to be. Mistakes were made, but when 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.080 you needed the Cowboys to create some separation, they finally did. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.360 We got so much to talk about this offense, defense, everything, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.520 but guys, I just want to know immediate reactions after 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:08.560 the game or during the game. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:08.800 BC. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.720 I started with you, well, all wait, you know, just 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.000 to get into the you know, coordinators and all that stuff, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.280 were gonna dive straight into what we saw out there 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.520 on Monday yesterday. Look, man, from just initial reaction going 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.120 into and looking at that game, I'm gonna be honest 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.240 to me, it boiled down to one thing. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:26.400 Usually it's not that. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.160 Usually, you know, you go in to football games, there's 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.640 a whole many different factors on what happened in this game. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.839 This is how that team won, There's all these different factors. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.080 But to me, this game was really simple and it 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:39.679 boiled down to one simple thing. Dak Prescott out playing 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.560 my boy Justin Herbert. That's what it came down to. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:43.120 In my opinion. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.560 I mean, when you look at it, I get on 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.560 Dak Prescott and rightfully. So the man last year through 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.480 fifteen interceptions, last week through three interceptions. So I get 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.600 on the man. But when credit is due, I gotta 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.359 give that man credit. He went out there and for 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.440 the first time and in the last two years, I 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.320 could say, at least in my opinion, that man put 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:02.960 this team on his shoulders. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:03.640 Simple is that. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.640 I don't care which how you want to break it down. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.520 When you look at what the Cowboys were able to 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.520 do offensively, it wasn't something where it was like this play, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.640 call this this, this just drew it up perfect for 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.080 Dak Prescott. All he has to do is throw the 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.800 football there and it's a completion. And that's how we're 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.920 going to move to football. If you look at all 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.799 the chunk plays that happened in that game Dallas Cowboys wise, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.279 they were made from Dak Prescott improvising using his legs 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.400 out there. The biggest play of the game, in my 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.919 opinion of Tony Pollard play what happened on that situation 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.560 the pocket collapsed, He could have been sacked in my 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.640 pa should probably should have been sacked. What did he 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.599 do Duck Dodds around, I don't know. He got it 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:43.040 there somehow scrambling saw Pollard, threw the ball across his 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.880 body to Pollard and pollow did the rest. But to me, 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.360 that's what Dak Prescott was doing all game. He put 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.880 this team on his shoulders, scrambling with the football, was 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.320 able to find receivers, extend plays out there. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.440 And to me, that was the difference. It was the 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:57.320 two quarterbacks. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.360 It came down to It was Mike get into the 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.320 play can a little bit later, but when it came 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.919 down to it, these two quarterbacks were a difference maker. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.200 Dak Prescott made the plays, made the throws, either with 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:09.880 the throws or his legs. He was able to do 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.920 that and Justin Herbert simply didn't able to do it. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.960 And that's my guy too, that's my guy I think. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.000 You know, I think very highly of Justin Herbert, but 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.560 he didn't come to play at all. And that's what 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.320 I was saying. When it comes to him, while he's 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.320 not in that upper echelon, it's because when it comes 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.120 down to clutch time, what Joe Burrow, what Mahomes, even 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.800 Josh Allen, I'll put him in that category. When they're 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.880 able to do in those clutch situations, separate them from 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.599 the rest of them. Herbert had that opportunity to go 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.280 out there two minutes left, one time out, to go 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:37.920 out there and at least get him a feel God right, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.800 you didn't even need a touchdown field goal range, and 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.840 he wasn't able to do that. He threw that interception, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.839 and that's squarely on Justin Herbert because he had options 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.960 out there. He had options out there, even that sack. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.400 When Parsons came in and took that sack on second down, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.000 I believe he had Eckler. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.320 Wide open over there. Scott Free. He didn't read the 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.159 play that was on him, in my opinion. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.640 So when you look at this game, the coordinators I 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.279 believe watched themselves out. When you talk about Keller then 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.320 Mike McCarthy, I think they both called a really good game. Defensively, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.960 dan Quinn put a wrinkling there that I thought would 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.680 get exposed when you put fourteen in there, but he 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.320 bought out. He did his day, Marku's Bell did his thing, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.200 and he basically neutralized Eckler out there. Anytime you saw 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.240 Eckler with the rock, fourteen was right there to get him. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.920 So I believe dan Quinn and even I got Staley, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.960 who usually would throw the game away somehow, someway, he 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.640 came to play defensively. I mean, they held this team 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.760 to twenty points when they've been giving up twenty five 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.520 for the entire season, so even they came to play. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.720 To me, what this boiled down to was the quarterbacks. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.520 And I got to give credit where credit is due. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.680 Dak Prescott went out there and he played himself. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.400 A hell of a game. D mag tell me something. Yeah, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:38.680 might's gonna be a lot shorter than that. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.120 Okay, because I'm with Barry, I think I think the 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.960 key and what I saw from this game was when 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.960 the Cowboys have a spark, right, they have something that 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.240 that entices them to say, all. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.840 Right, we have something to fight for. Then they are 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:54.560 a different team. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.640 Okay, you come out the first the first game of 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.120 the season, you got something to fight for. You got 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.920 a point to prove against the New York Giants, right, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.360 and you want to keep on rolling. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.120 You lose that fight, right when you lose to San Francisco. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.400 All right, you play on Monday, thankfully, and you get 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.120 to see that San Francisco and the Philadelphia Eagles lose 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.080 the game. So what do you say, all right, this 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.320 is not only a get right game, this is a 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.560 get back in the race game, all right, So now 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.480 you have more to go play for. And they came 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.600 out and they look like they had more to play for. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.440 One person specifically on offense, looked like they had something 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.680 to prove. Dak Prescott, and what we've been saying for 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:33.319 the last two years, the key to success for this 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.559 offense and Dak to be successful is to be able 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.920 to have confidence in using his legs, because if he doesn't, 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.880 then they don't look the same. He looks this game 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.280 out because I don't want to, you. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.040 Know, overreaction Tuesday and saying it's going to be this 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:49.720 way all the time. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.560 But we have seen him so far this season get 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.360 more and more comfortable using his legs, and that is 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.680 the only way for us to be successful. Is we 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.000 want to be on offense because that's what he's always 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.440 He's been an athletic quarterback who gets out on the 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.960 edge and it still plays and gets what guys the 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.480 balls and positions to where they can then go score 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.040 the football, all right, and Dak did that, so on 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:17.000 that side absolutely on great defensively, the guy who has 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.160 been the most consistent for us in the run game 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.800 is ninety. Yeah, the Marcus Lawrence is ninety. Who's the 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.760 tone center for you in the run game the Marcus Lawrence. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.640 And he is going to show up every time when 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.319 we talk about like getting out physical stuff like that 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.880 person I'm not talking about it in that situation is 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.680 the Marcus Lawrence because he always has showed up and 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.800 throughout this entire season, he went out there and set 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.559 the tone against them in the running game. A again, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.040 So what am I seeing? Two big time leaders who 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.720 have been here, done it before, stepping up when they 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.679 knew they had something to play for and ain't went 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.280 out there and got it done right. And I'm gonna 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.040 get this to day too. That man threw some big 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.120 time passes, not all caught because that. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.240 Score could have been way different than it was. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.480 But he came out this week and we talked about 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.679 the deep ball and he wasn't throwing it ride and 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.920 all that stuff. He came out this week and he 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.080 looked like a guy who was throwing for five thousand 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.800 yards and forty tonsdowns and he looked like that guy. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.440 So hopefully you can keep that up. We do know 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:15.960 that this was you know, just to put a little 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.120 tab on this was a bad defense on some content. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:20.959 No, no, no, just that. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:22.920 But I'm saying, but I'm saying, listen, if Dak uses 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.800 his legs, our defense plays that way where he can 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.440 get out in the stant plays and then give our 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.880 defense rest. I think that you are able to compete 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.600 with any team in the league. If you don't, then 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.520 you got a problem with nobody's been harder on Dak, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.800 or at least more critical of Dak in those times 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.080 where he hadn't risen to the occasion. And to see you, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.880 two two former players giving him his props on the 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.440 game that I feel the same way as you. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.480 Hec he put the team on the shoulders when he 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:47.920 needed to. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.960 You've been begging, You've been begging, asking for Dak to 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.960 do it with his legs. Got to You've been asking him, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.560 you know, don't be just a pocket passer, get out move. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:56.600 They need you to do more. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.960 Offensive line wise, we had so many guys playing musical chairs. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:01.640 How do you help this offensive line? 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.640 And he helped his own offensive line, even though he 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.000 was sacked five times by getting out of space and 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.120 creating with his legs and throwing that one to Pollard, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.040 the other one that he made to Cooks. But this 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.120 is why I want to get to this wide receiver 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.320 group because coming into this game, everybody wants to know 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.840 where the hell is the wide receiver group. We saw 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.080 the last game verse the forty nine of CD Lamb 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.120 standing a wave from the whole team on the bench. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.640 We've been asking. I was asking where's Brandon Cooks? 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.600 What's happening with Brandon Cooks because we hadn't seen the 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.559 production there this game, I think you see it come 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.440 full circle. Look for Cedee Lamb seven catches one hundred 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.680 and seventeen yards. I mean, no tuddies, but still that's 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.760 the big game that you expected him to have. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:45.839 D Mack. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:47.680 When you were watching the game and just the production 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.600 that you got from the receiver skill position room, were 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.480 you satisfied with that or was there still something left 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.719 to be desired in your mind once the game in 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.720 man Listen for me, I was satisfied just because of 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.600 what we hadn't seen in the previous games. From what 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.600 we know Brandon Cooks and Ceedee Lamb can do. I'm 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.040 not satisfied because I know that Brandon Cooks can do 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.200 more and when you throw him the ball, we see 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.040 that he's going to make that type of stuff happen. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.040 When you get Ceedee Lamb and the ball and he 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.480 feels included in the game, you see what type of 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.800 stuff he makes happen. Michael Gallup, I think he'll come 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:22.439 on tell me. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.400 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.800 He has some opportunities to make some big time plays. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.760 Even though he did he did catch some balls, some 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.240 footballs from deck. He has some opportunity to make some 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.200 really big plays and set itself apart. Is possibly the 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.640 number two guy and the number one deep third on 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.800 this squad, and I don't think he took advantage of 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.160 that opportunity, but he catches those passes. You continue to 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.160 feed that Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks, then I'll be 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.520 satisfied because I know what the result is gonna because 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:49.840 all three of those dudes can ball. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.319 Yeah, when you talk about satisfaction from that receiving core, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.719 I'm not quite there just yet. I'm not quite there 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.760 here just yet, because even though you got to throw 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.640 some context on it, that defense in that secondary is 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.319 literally the worst in all the football I mean, I 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.079 think they're ranked thirty second or thirty first against the past. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.319 So when you throw some context on it, you would 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.520 like to see maybe a little bit more from those receivers, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.040 especially in the second half. But to me, overall this 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.400 Dak Prescott got the most out of his receivers. I'll 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.439 give him that much. I think Dak Prescott set himself 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:23.840 aside from the rest of the squad as far as 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.600 putting them on his shoulders and making sure they get 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.520 the job done. But when you look at it, there 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.200 were still plays in there where these receivers they the 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.720 separation wasn't just there. I mean it took Dak Prescott 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.400 out there extending the plays, running around back there in 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.920 the pocket, buying time for those guys to get open 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.360 out there, and he was feeding them the football. What 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.640 I would like to see going forward, and maybe it's 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.720 just nitpicking here and there, but I would like to 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.160 see them drop back, five step drop, hit that fit 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.240 on the back, release it. The receiver got separation right there. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:55.920 Not oh man, let me let me buy some time 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.360 for these guys to go ahead and get open because 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.800 they have the ability to do so, especially as cde Lamb, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.199 and I think it's more about the other receivers. I 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.080 think Ceedee Lamb can get that separation. We saw it 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.040 out there yesterday, and I think it's more about the 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.559 secondary receivers getting those options as well. Talking about Beate 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.120 Cooks and Gallup getting that separation out there. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.280 So for the most. 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.800 Part that I like what I saw from this offense, yes, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.640 but I loved what I seen from Dak Prescott even more. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.280 You know, I think Brandon Cooks, going back to my 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.200 critique last week, verse hit against him was just we 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.680 came into the season expected so much from him. We 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.080 were asking, we were saying, you were saying the one A, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.080 one B. As far as the number one receiver, we 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:36.240 hadn't seen that. We hear Dak in the afterwards talking 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.720 about Brandon Cooks and his leadership and how he's. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.960 Been from day one. Great locker room guy. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.720 But you want to see the production in the Dallas 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.000 Cowboys offense needs a playmaker. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.280 They need a guy to be that. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.920 When the chips are down, we can go to you, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.960 all right, the whole stadium know you're about to get 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.200 the ball, but you're gonna get the ball anyway. Finally, 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.400 Cooks emerges as that reception receiver that can move the chains, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.400 and then you get you get my man, Ceedee Lamb, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.840 who is then making bigger plays, stretching the field. Double 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:16.000 triple Team. Michael Gallup. I'm just gonna say it. I 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.560 don't know ACL. I've never had an a cl so 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.160 I don't know what that is like. But I just 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.680 don't see the speed that I've seen in him before. Okay, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.520 and maybe it's just gonna be one of those things 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.200 that maybe he could be that piece for us, and 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.000 as the season goes for further that he can start 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:31.400 to be that. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:32.400 But the other. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.000 Disappointing thing for me, guys and y'all, I pounded the 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.320 table for this tight end group. We're just not getting 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.080 enough production from my tight end room. I say, we're 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.800 not sitting here now. I hope you're listening. I don't 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.240 care what nobody says. You can't tell me, and I'm 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.240 not saying we should have paid to do fifteen sixteen 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.680 whatever he was asking. My point is you're missing a 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.560 guy like Dalton Schultz in the passing game RUNI Gay, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.840 you know, I don't know about that. I think you 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.680 could probably make him for it, though, But in the 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.080 past game Dak Prescott not having that outlet when he's 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.280 in trouble, and then also just having a guy that's 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.360 able to read zones, get open in spots, run the 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.000 scene and you're gonna automatically catch the ball, like you know, 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:13.800 Doctor Show is gonna catch the ball and he's a 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:18.560 red zone threat. It's no, it's no. There's no confusion 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.720 here of the missing link. One of the big missing 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.120 links of like why our Redson offense is not the 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.800 way it used to be the two shows was a 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.280 man in the red zone who you were gonna find 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:30.360 and he was gonna score touchdowns. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:31.680 So you don't have it. We haven't been able to 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.360 make up for that. Let me let me ask you that. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.160 Let me ask you this, Barry, because we've talked about 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:42.360 Mike McCarthy's offense good, bad, ugly. It's a lot to 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.560 digest because you don't know what it was gonna look 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.600 like prior to the season. But now that you're getting 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.040 an opportunity to look at it, some areas of it. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.720 That you're just like, okay, we're gonna work on. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.960 That, and it's some other areas of it that you're like, okay, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.280 I like that when you said then, now that this 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.520 emphasize that you've had going into the bye week, and 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.800 you look, you've seen Mike's offense. What are your initial 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.240 thoughts man, and even going through the rest of the 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:06.199 season with his offense. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.520 Oh, they're in trouble. I believe they're in trouble. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.720 When you talk about making sure this offense can hold 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.320 its own against the better teams in the National Football League, 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.040 I mean, I just don't think or I haven't seen 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.080 so far this season that they're able to do that. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:20.359 I mean, we've seen when they win. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.080 Against a good team and a good defense with the 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.879 forty nine ers, what happened. They weren't able to move 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.440 the ball at all, turn the football over. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.520 When you win against Arizona, who I'm not going to 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:29.440 sit here and say they have. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.879 A great defense or anything like that, but when you 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.600 got to the red zone, you weren't able to push 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.760 it in here. Again, as I say this week, they 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.439 were two and four in the red zone. To me, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.960 that's not going to get it cut going forward. So 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.800 did he improve as far as creativity, Yes, I will 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.400 say that because that readoption played for Dak's first touchdown, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.200 I got to give full credit to Mike McCarthy, he's 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:50.760 the one that doubted up and called it in there. 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:51.640 Dak made the play. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.280 Kudos to that that rail or that a wheel route 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.040 for Tony Paula. That should have been a touchdown. You know, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.800 Dak missed him on the overthrow. That was a heck 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.280 of a call. But outside of that, the majority of 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.359 the production from this offense came from broken plays, and 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.520