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Speaker 5: how y'all feeling today?
Speaker 6: Feeling good? Looking good?
Speaker 4: Got me a little workout in in between. You know,
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Speaker 2: Was that the mental check in right there? You know,
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Speaker 2: It's more parenthood. I understand. That's what it is. That's
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Speaker 2: Is amazing.
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Speaker 4: workout in great, right, you know something going on, but
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Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 7: What about you?
Speaker 5: Heck?
Speaker 2: How we doing over here?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 7: I'm good.
Speaker 5: I came in here in the suit because every Thursday,
Speaker 5: you like last Thursday, you came in here with it,
Speaker 5: you know, the light skin Obama walking off. I had
Speaker 5: to walk, So I said, I'm gonna come in here
Speaker 5: like I got some respect for myself. Yeah, but no, man,
Speaker 5: everything is good. Last night my son had a game,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna tell y'all. Man, when y'all you got
Speaker 5: a son, you're on your way to having one. Come on,
Speaker 5: put it, you know. But I'm telling y'all, man, when
Speaker 5: you have kids that play sports, it's the hardest thing
Speaker 5: in the world just to keep your patience, I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: So pray for me. I will pray for you.
Speaker 5: Uh man scored a touchdown last night with a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff going on with that, But I'm good hipp as,
Speaker 5: all right, yea, man, the boy is doing his thing.
Speaker 5: But let's talk about men. I got two defensive guys here,
Speaker 5: so we're gonna talk about defense.
Speaker 2: It's entire show today, all right.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna wrap this because I ain't like offensive
Speaker 5: line practices. Yeah, so I ain't gonna We're not gonna
Speaker 5: get to depressive content, all right, but let's talk about
Speaker 5: this Cowboys defenses versus the Patch offense. Obviously last week,
Speaker 5: not to bring up old stuff, the Cardinals pretty much
Speaker 5: had that weight with this defense. I mean, the running
Speaker 5: game was null and void two hundred and twenty two
Speaker 5: yards on the ground for the Cardinals. And everybody now
Speaker 5: is starting to question dan Quinn. But I know one
Speaker 5: man that still says, and dan Quinn, we trust. But
Speaker 5: when it comes to this running game, the defensive running
Speaker 5: games getting those stops. What does dan Quinn have to
Speaker 5: do stylistically schematically to get these to get the job
Speaker 5: done on Sunday, I mean, listen, without me knowing the
Speaker 5: full scheme, I don't want to see it act like
Speaker 5: I know everything dan Quinn doing. To me, what I've
Speaker 5: seen is, uh, you gotta be more technically sound. Okay,
Speaker 5: So if you're going to continue running D line stunts
Speaker 5: right where the guys are spiking in going into the
Speaker 5: gap and they line up on the gap outside, then
Speaker 5: go into the inside gap. You're gonna do that, then
Speaker 5: your linebackers have to be able to cover those guys
Speaker 5: when the linemens start to pull from the other side
Speaker 5: of the formation, so you can't be a step late.
Speaker 5: I imagine that's probably what they worked on for the
Speaker 5: entirety of this week and continue will continue to work
Speaker 5: on all the way through up through the game, because
Speaker 5: if you don't, there's gonna be a lot of power
Speaker 5: which has a pulling guard, a lot of trap, a
Speaker 5: lot of counter, a lot of that from Ezekiel, Ellie
Speaker 5: and Stevenson until you find out, until they find out
Speaker 5: you can stop it.
Speaker 7: Or not.
Speaker 2: And even when they find out if you can stop
Speaker 2: it or not, you can.
Speaker 5: Guarantee you gonna continue seeing it because when you play
Speaker 5: schemes like that, it only takes one person to be
Speaker 5: out of position for it to become a big play
Speaker 5: it right, and you saw it multiple times when we
Speaker 5: played against the Arizona Cardinals. It's just one guy who
Speaker 5: got reached and then all of a sudden, the gap
Speaker 5: is so big that it's just a safety and that
Speaker 5: runner one on one and if they missed that tackles
Speaker 5: a forty fifty yard game, possibly a touchdown.
Speaker 2: So I think that dan Quinn's gonna get right.
Speaker 5: I think some of the schemes that he runs it's
Speaker 5: going to help fix that out that we may see
Speaker 5: a little less, you know, I think you'll see a
Speaker 5: lot more. Hey man, hint, separate with your hands, play
Speaker 5: your gap, and then earn the right to rest the pass.
Speaker 5: Your pass on third and long. I think that's what
Speaker 5: we'll see this week.
Speaker 2: DC.
Speaker 4: I'm with Danny on this one. When you talk about
Speaker 4: the stunts and how the scheme is going. They got
Speaker 4: punch in the mouth. I mean that's playing as simple.
Speaker 4: Arizona punched this team dead in the mouth and they
Speaker 4: weren't able to respond.
Speaker 6: So hopefully this week they can respond.
Speaker 4: But to me, it kind of goes back to Rob
Speaker 4: mayor Nelly's days when we were when we were with
Speaker 4: Rob Manilly as our defensive coordinator.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you just got to play.
Speaker 4: Man or man, you know, bone on bone football pause.
Speaker 4: But you gotta do that sometimes. I mean, sometimes you
Speaker 4: just got to say, our guys are better than your gas.
Speaker 4: And I understand what we're going with with dan Quinn's
Speaker 4: defense and a lot of stunting, and it is pressed
Speaker 4: been beneficial. Don't get me wrong, Dad Quinn is still
Speaker 4: one of the best defensive minds international Football League. That's
Speaker 4: what makes his defense so special when you talk about
Speaker 4: getting after the passer or these stunts that they have
Speaker 4: going in like a Parsons flashing in and out. But
Speaker 4: sometimes when the team is just wanting to dominate you
Speaker 4: on the ground, sometimes you just gotta be like, hey,
Speaker 4: line up in your gap and whoop the opposing man
Speaker 4: across from you. They say, you know, run defense. It's
Speaker 4: not about scheme, it's about mindsetting.
Speaker 2: And I believe that.
Speaker 4: I believe that it's just about one on one football.
Speaker 4: You getting rid of that guy and going and making
Speaker 4: them play. And if they do decide to double team you,
Speaker 4: you don't have to get rid of the guy or
Speaker 4: shut the guy. Just stand your ground. Don't let those
Speaker 4: guys get up to the second level on your linebackers.
Speaker 4: So that's that's part of the problem that I had
Speaker 4: with this defense. And also we need those second level defenders, linebackers,
Speaker 4: safeties that are.
Speaker 2: In the box.
Speaker 6: You gotta get down here with it.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was too many times we saw on
Speaker 4: All twenty two where guys were sitting flat footed, and
Speaker 4: I think they were slowed down by the reeds they saw.
Speaker 4: You know, like you say before you see too much,
Speaker 4: you see a little, you see a little, you see
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I think that's what slowed them down a lot. These
Speaker 4: pulling guards. It was a great scheme by Arizona. Don't
Speaker 4: get me wrong, it was great. You gotta give them
Speaker 4: credit where credit is due. They slowed this defense down
Speaker 4: by giving them a lot to look at as far
Speaker 4: as motions, pulling guards where the counter is going.
Speaker 6: So it slowed those second level defenders down.
Speaker 4: But you gotta get down here at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, and when you arrive at the ball carrier,
Speaker 4: it can't be you know, let me catch this guy,
Speaker 4: you know, wrap them up in and let them drag
Speaker 4: me to the ground. Because we've seen it time and
Speaker 4: time again with James Connor, those leaky yardists.
Speaker 6: They add up when you fall forward for two to
Speaker 6: three cards, it ends up being second and five instead
Speaker 6: of second and eight.
Speaker 4: And that's a huge difference when you talk about the
Speaker 4: playbook because offensively you can do much more with second
Speaker 4: and five rather than second and eight. Second and eight,
Speaker 4: you've fallen right into Dallas's strength, which is the pass rush.
Speaker 4: So to me, when you arrive at the ball at
Speaker 4: the point of a contact, you gotta be strong. Drive
Speaker 4: that guy backwards. I understand it's not going to happen
Speaker 4: each and every time, but you can't let the majority
Speaker 4: of the time letting that running back fall forth.
Speaker 2: For actually, y'all tell me this.
Speaker 5: So if you are the offensive coordinator, right, and you're
Speaker 5: watching the dan Quinn defense, right and you see our
Speaker 5: down four lineman, what number are you running at? And
Speaker 5: if I see those down for a line, I'm running
Speaker 5: at ninety or run at eleven, I'm running eleven. So yeah,
Speaker 5: so until you find out. I think that's why we
Speaker 5: do a lot of those students stunts. When it comes
Speaker 5: to whatever side of Mike is on right, when he's
Speaker 5: lined up over the three technique stuff like that, it's
Speaker 5: harder for him to be able to do that. But
Speaker 5: if you're lined up at the end and he does that,
Speaker 5: it shortens the edge, and then that linebacker who's playing
Speaker 5: over there has to be very aware of how fast
Speaker 5: that ball and the lineman can get up on him
Speaker 5: because that essentially gives the tackle a free go up
Speaker 5: to the next level. So that's what makes it difficult,
Speaker 5: and I think we're going to see a lot of that.
Speaker 5: If Michael Parsons lines up at the right defensive end
Speaker 5: the offensive left, you're going to see a lot of
Speaker 5: runs go that way because ninety has been playing hell
Speaker 5: hell of great football.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to the run game and you.
Speaker 4: Made an examp, my bad, you made an example of it.
Speaker 4: I think it was last week or a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago. When you talk about that down down in
Speaker 4: the round. Okay, so that means a d tackle. The
Speaker 4: DM they stunting down one gap, they're going closer to
Speaker 4: the center. Then the de offensive end is going down
Speaker 4: to the guard and then you have to have that
Speaker 4: linebacker wrap around. That's extremely hard to do defensively. I mean,
Speaker 4: the only guy that I've seen really master that with
Speaker 4: Sean Lee. He was excellent at that. He saw that
Speaker 4: down down, Oh let me beat this offensive tackle. That's
Speaker 4: really hard to do, and I think that's slowing down
Speaker 4: the second level.
Speaker 5: But that's what I'm telling about the mont Clark was like,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be hard for him to be able to
Speaker 5: pick up on it like a Lee and it's essentially
Speaker 5: first year starting. Yeah, that's my and that's what brings
Speaker 5: me to my second point. When you turn on the
Speaker 5: All twenty two is it seemed to me like they
Speaker 5: were the Cardinals were capturing the edges. That's where a
Speaker 5: lot of those big yardists was coming from, not in
Speaker 5: the middle of our defense, but on.
Speaker 2: The outside of our defense.
Speaker 5: And do you attribute that solely to Michael because I mean,
Speaker 5: he wasn't you know, the kis of the defense when
Speaker 5: you when you saw these big runs on the outside.
Speaker 5: But it just seemed like that was something that the
Speaker 5: Cardinals had just found that, look, they cannot execute us
Speaker 5: not capturing the edge and getting to the outside. Well,
Speaker 5: when you run those stunts in short stage, it takes
Speaker 5: away the inside run. And then the running back now
Speaker 5: sees that these linemen, these defensive linemen are taking up
Speaker 5: the A and the B gap. So now the sea
Speaker 5: gap is naturally the next spot for you to go. Well,
Speaker 5: if the lineman is up on the linebacker, now the
Speaker 5: sea gap is walled off, right, and then you got
Speaker 5: a receiver coming in the crack that's giving you two
Speaker 5: way goes all over the place, right. So, which is
Speaker 5: why we continue to say, if you're going to run
Speaker 5: those type of stunts, your linebackers have to be ready
Speaker 5: to come over the top and meet those pulling linemen
Speaker 5: at the point of attack, not allowing them to get
Speaker 5: their shoulders upfield, because once they get there, you see,
Speaker 5: for us, if you see a Tyron Smith, Terrence Still
Speaker 5: or Zach Marty coming around.
Speaker 2: The corner and they square and they're square on you,
Speaker 2: it's over for me, it's over for you.
Speaker 5: Got to get them while they're coming horizontally, knock them
Speaker 5: off their path, and then you know, set the edge
Speaker 5: right there.
Speaker 4: And I will say this when we talk about second
Speaker 4: level defenders, I'm gonna to see a little bit more
Speaker 4: out of the safeties when we get this going.
Speaker 6: Because I understand corners, like you know, a man, they
Speaker 6: get paid to cover, you know, I get that, but
Speaker 6: the safeties do us too many times on those edges.
Speaker 4: You've seen they getting reached, and I think the problem
Speaker 4: is it's technicals technical where the coaches. I'm sure they'll
Speaker 4: get them right on this, but you've seen too many
Speaker 4: times where the safety is on the edge against the
Speaker 4: tight end, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 6: They got both arms engaged with them.
Speaker 4: You know, they're trying to lock them out and trying
Speaker 4: to shut them, but you couldn't get Those guys are
Speaker 4: bigger than you.
Speaker 6: They're gonna swallow you up, Pauls. So what you gotta
Speaker 6: do is you gotta keep that one arm free.
Speaker 2: I mean, how many times have we seen it?
Speaker 6: Or Coach Bacon, all them guys, you gotta keep the
Speaker 6: outside on free.
Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, if you do
Speaker 4: get reached or whatever, it's gonna be a holding call
Speaker 4: because you got that one arm flailing out there. They're
Speaker 4: gonna have to be able to get more into that
Speaker 4: run support because last week just wasn't it.
Speaker 5: So when y'all go to when you look at this
Speaker 5: this Pat's offense and you look at their wide receivers,
Speaker 5: and we talked about Bland and.
Speaker 2: Defer to you.
Speaker 5: You're gonna defer to you because this is this is
Speaker 5: a matchup that when you look at the Pats offense
Speaker 5: in their wide receiver room, Juju Smith Schuster still born
Speaker 5: born man Born and you have tight ends and Hunter
Speaker 5: Henry uh you have Gooseki from Mike Gaseki from my
Speaker 5: you know, so obviously last week the wide receiver, when
Speaker 5: we talked about the wide receivers, nobody thought anything of
Speaker 5: the wide receivers. And next thing, you know, these guys
Speaker 5: are free down the field with big games. When you
Speaker 5: look at these wide receivers versus the Cowboys defense. Back
Speaker 5: to this second level that you're talking about, what do
Speaker 5: you think about this matchup and how do you prevent
Speaker 5: those big plays from happening.
Speaker 4: Well, when we look at the matchup with receivers, you know,
Speaker 4: Pat Patriots receiver versus Cowboys defense, I think this is
Speaker 4: a game where Gilmore should be able to shine as
Speaker 4: far as his one on one matchup. As we've seen,
Speaker 4: this isn't the twenty nineteen Gilmore. This isn't Defensive Player
Speaker 4: of the Year Gilmore. He's lost a little bit of
Speaker 4: a step and that there's nothing wrong with that. You're
Speaker 4: gonna have that with age, but he's still technically signed
Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage. I don't really see anybody
Speaker 4: for the Patriots off the top of my head. That's
Speaker 4: just a burner that's just gonna, you know, give you
Speaker 4: like Hollywood Brown was able to just run away from me.
Speaker 4: I don't see that, you know, style with the offense.
Speaker 4: You got a Juju Smith's new shuster now Bushet his
Speaker 4: last name, But he's.
Speaker 6: More of a possession guy.
Speaker 4: He's more of a guy that's going to hit you
Speaker 4: with that intermediate, that short and I think Gilmour can
Speaker 4: handle that. Born he's a little we got a little
Speaker 4: bit of speed over there. We saw him burn Diggs
Speaker 4: that last year on the double move. So that's the guy,
Speaker 4: you know, deep threat, That's the guy I would lean towards.
Speaker 4: But overall, I see this as a good matchup for
Speaker 4: the Dallas cowbch to get back on track secondary wise.
Speaker 6: But you can't give mac Jones too much time back there.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's not the most mobile guy, but he's
Speaker 4: accurate and he can pick it part of defense if
Speaker 4: you give him time.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna need that pass rush.
Speaker 4: From the first two weeks when they went against the
Speaker 4: New York teams, how they were all over harassing guys.
Speaker 4: But we all know in order to get that pass rush,
Speaker 4: you got to earn the right which is stopping to run,
Speaker 4: which is gonna be a feat this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 5: I don't feel of course, I don't feel as confident
Speaker 5: as I felt when Trayvon Diggs was in the game
Speaker 5: because you automatically just see how much stuff he covers up.
Speaker 5: And I'm not talking about running game. I'm just saying,
Speaker 5: a man, don't throw over the at seven because if
Speaker 5: you do it, he might take it back to the
Speaker 5: house and that'll be a score for our defense. Like
Speaker 5: you said, Stepan, I still feel that Duran Bland played
Speaker 5: the best of our dB group in that game, technique wise,
Speaker 5: when he's in the press technique because he gets his
Speaker 5: hands on them and he done, he disrupts their timing.
Speaker 5: So I enjoyed watching that. But I still think that
Speaker 5: this is gonna be a test for us, right. I
Speaker 5: think it's gonna be a test because I think we're
Speaker 5: gonna have to put a lot of effort into stopping
Speaker 5: the run, and that opens you up to play action
Speaker 5: and man and man coverage. Right then play action essentially
Speaker 5: by yourself unless we start running cover two and cover
Speaker 5: three that often and then.
Speaker 2: Man the man.
Speaker 5: It's just you and them and mac Jones can complete
Speaker 5: passes all right, So we're not I want to say
Speaker 5: that like we can't born. We know Juju can catch,
Speaker 5: can catch some balls. He's a serviceable wide receiver, and
Speaker 5: I think we have serviceable defensive backs back there. So
Speaker 5: I still think it's gonna be It's gonna be a
Speaker 5: nice matchup for us. We should win it if we
Speaker 5: do what we're supposed to do and stopping to run.
Speaker 5: But it's still gonna be interesting to watch to see
Speaker 5: how we want, how we respond from what happened to
Speaker 5: us last week anyways, So good to see what we
Speaker 5: have moving forward in the season. Do you think that
Speaker 5: offensive coordinators, now that they've seen and step Fank givemore
Speaker 5: hands lost that step are going to start to him
Speaker 5: a little bit more because now when you with Diggs,
Speaker 5: you had a tandem where, hey, if you wanted to
Speaker 5: travel a guy like digs you could and just allow
Speaker 5: for steph Under to do his thing. But now with
Speaker 5: what you're talking about with him and you guys being
Speaker 5: around the NFL as long as you have, does that
Speaker 5: worry you have any concern, especially on the other side
Speaker 5: when you have such an inexperienced guy. Yeah, No, Listen,
Speaker 5: I don't think people crazy enough to start going a
Speaker 5: steph up gilmore like that.
Speaker 2: He ain't lost that much of it, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It ain't that much of a doubt about.
Speaker 5: He's seen enough route concepts to where if you lose
Speaker 5: the step he could still jump dig ross, jump, come
Speaker 5: back rosse. They not finish try him like that. Just
Speaker 5: last year he was out there picking out Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 5: He ain't lost that much for them to be like,
Speaker 5: all right, this is the guy we're gonna go at.
Speaker 5: The thing is they won't be scared to take that shot,
Speaker 5: but they won't be out in their scheming and say
Speaker 5: this is what we're gonna do to get to get
Speaker 5: a twenty one. I don't think. I don't think you're
Speaker 5: gonna see that happening because he's still he was another
Speaker 5: guy in there tackling filling holes, filling gaps, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, to make sure that the running gag
Speaker 5: was up as best as he could. And also the
Speaker 5: passes that we saw get caught on him, they were
Speaker 5: defended pretty well.
Speaker 7: He was.
Speaker 2: Touchdown. He was right like, yeah, you know, if I
Speaker 2: was coaching, I was sticking hand out here on swap.
Speaker 2: But that I mean, it was, it was, it was.
Speaker 5: It was. The past was so low. They're not They're
Speaker 5: not gonna be picking on the guy. He's still he's
Speaker 5: still a great cornerback. So I'm not I'm not worried
Speaker 5: about that. But I tell you what I want to
Speaker 5: talk about next, Mac Jones. Who Mac Jones? We got
Speaker 5: to talk about him because this defense has been feast
Speaker 5: of family. When it comes down to interceptions, we're gonna
Speaker 5: need to get some of these on Sunday and we'll
Speaker 5: talk about that next on the Players Lounge.
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Speaker 5: I don't know about y'all, but I beat here every Sunday.
Speaker 5: I got my cowboy gear on, you know, ready to roll.
Speaker 5: That's how I do my stuff. That's how you do
Speaker 5: it on Saturday. Saturday, Man, somebody we got old missus,
Speaker 5: miss miss I'll be watching. Hey, man, listen, y'all, y'all
Speaker 5: want to get on the bandwagon. I got T shirts
Speaker 5: for y'all, you know, little lanyards, you know, whatever y'all need.
Speaker 5: I'll take care of y'all. You bounce back real quick.
Speaker 5: But because after that Floorida State game, you had no
Speaker 5: grease for nobody, and now you back, y'all play, y'all.
Speaker 2: Say we put up seventy on Grand looking like Miami
Speaker 2: dollars out there.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. With a seventy on them,
Speaker 5: we beat Missippi State a class. We feel we feeling
Speaker 5: good about how we got.
Speaker 6: We're rolling right at the sec right.
Speaker 5: We showed we got BAM. We got Bam on the list.
Speaker 5: We am on the list. I feel about it right now.
Speaker 5: Bama is like, right now, hey, this is the worst
Speaker 5: we're gonna be, so you better get it now.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 5: Everybody's gonna take this. That's how they're looking right now.
Speaker 5: So I'm all right, I feel looking at that time.
Speaker 5: But but we meet Mama.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 5: Don't forget that we went to the SEC Championship. We
Speaker 5: got smoked by Georgia, but you know, Georgia was on
Speaker 5: the whole other level. So and that's Brian. It was
Speaker 5: a Brian Kelly first year. Yeah, I'm not saying I
Speaker 5: got confidence in a guy like that. Uns you got
Speaker 5: uns you got, but we just went accent.
Speaker 2: Come on, dog, what.
Speaker 5: We don't know you to take us down there? Man,
Speaker 5: I told you about this years years. Yeah, I said, no,
Speaker 5: you ain't booked it. You ain't going I'm just telling well,
Speaker 5: you got money, so kind. But we're gonna talk about
Speaker 5: mac Jones somebody else with some semessing money.
Speaker 2: Uh Mac Jones. Mac Jones is is uh. I don't know, man.
Speaker 5: He's one of those quarterbacks that he's like he's hot
Speaker 5: and cold like sometimes last year. Last season, he had
Speaker 5: his moments this year not getting off to a great start.
Speaker 5: But this Cowboys defense is it there at their best
Speaker 5: versus any quarterback when they are generating those turnovers.
Speaker 2: And getting sacks. Jason make Jones.
Speaker 5: You know what I see when I see mac Jones
Speaker 5: what you said, I see that Tom Brady left. Okay,
Speaker 5: Bill Belichie has been around the league for a long time.
Speaker 5: He was remembering, remembering Tom Brady, remembering Peyton Manning, and
Speaker 5: they went drafted a proto type when the rest of
Speaker 5: the league was out there going after Jayalen Hurst, Lamar
Speaker 5: Jackson athletic guys and he's one of the few, not none,
Speaker 5: athletic quarterbacks and him Kirk Cousins, you know, shop right there,
Speaker 5: and you stuck with a guy who's not as athletic
Speaker 5: as the rest of the league, and he's pretty much,
Speaker 5: you know, just in the pocket. He's a pocket guy,
Speaker 5: but he's not as great of a passer as those
Speaker 5: guys who who they had hoped that he would be.
Speaker 2: Like So for us, I'm like, okay, mac Jones is good.
Speaker 2: We should beat him.
Speaker 5: We seen that if you make a mistake like Treymon
Speaker 5: did last year on the double move, he'll make you pay.
Speaker 5: But as far as us being able to create some
Speaker 5: pressure and forcing him to do some stuff where you say,
Speaker 5: all right, this is a team, this is a team
Speaker 5: that we should get some interceptions off off if we
Speaker 5: force them to throw the ball mac Jones and the
Speaker 5: Patriots are them, Yeah, are them. But Bill Belichick is
Speaker 5: smart enough to say, we're gonna run a sixty times
Speaker 5: and let them and let them throw at four right,
Speaker 5: and those four times, we're gonna take a shot and
Speaker 5: if it works, it work, if not, if not, but
Speaker 5: if you don't make us throw it, we're not gonna
Speaker 5: throw the ball. So it's on us to you know,
Speaker 5: force them to put the games in mac.
Speaker 6: Jones hands one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I mean they're gonna have to force him, you know,
Speaker 4: to talk them into interceptions like we've seen before when
Speaker 4: you get to mac Jones. But to me, like I've
Speaker 4: always said, you're gonna have to earn the right to
Speaker 4: do that. Like you said with Bill Pelijack, we know
Speaker 4: coming into this game, he's not gonna put it on
Speaker 4: mac jones shoulders out there at all. He understands that
Speaker 4: if you go you know, position, position, skill for skill,
Speaker 4: Dallas is the better team. They're the more talented team
Speaker 4: than the Patriots. But when you talk about scheme wise,
Speaker 4: Bill's gonna get the most out of those players. So
Speaker 4: it just depends on which Cowboys team is gonna come in.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna be that team that's gonna be hungry,
Speaker 4: hunting throughout the entire game, or is it gonna be
Speaker 4: that team that we saw last that kind of look
Speaker 4: confused when you talk about, you know, the running scheme
Speaker 4: and all that. So we know Bill Belichick has two
Speaker 4: downhill runners, Stevenson and Elliott, and you know we're gonna
Speaker 4: get the best version of Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, these
Speaker 4: past couple of years, he hasn't looked like the guy
Speaker 4: we've seen before. But coming back to Dallas, going against
Speaker 4: your old teammates, you're gonna get the best version of
Speaker 4: he And Steven said, we know another downhill got very
Speaker 4: similar to James Connor, which we played last week, and.
Speaker 6: We saw the success he was able to have. So
Speaker 6: to me, this is this is it's less.
Speaker 4: About Mac Jones out there than it is the defense
Speaker 4: earning the right to get after Mac Jones. I just,
Speaker 4: I just I don't want to see Mac Jones get
Speaker 4: comfortable back there and start slaying that thing all over
Speaker 4: the place, because we know once he gets his confidence up,
Speaker 4: he has that ability like he's not the greatest, but
Speaker 4: he has that ability to carve you up. And I
Speaker 4: don't want to get this team confidence at all, because
Speaker 4: because once they get confidence, they're gonna start rolling. Then
Speaker 4: you'll see Judo on on the other side, you'll see Gauzalees.
Speaker 4: You'll see those guys start rolling. So we gotta stop
Speaker 4: this team out quick fastening the hurts. You can't no confidence,
Speaker 4: but you can't change your spots for this defense.
Speaker 2: That's who you are.
Speaker 5: You play in aggressive style that you you want to
Speaker 5: generate sacks and turnovers. Mac Jones has been sacked six
Speaker 5: times this season. Okay, has thrown two interceptions. I'm looking
Speaker 5: at that sack to interception ratio. Not great, but not bad.
Speaker 2: And for your.
Speaker 5: Cowboys defense, this is a guy that obviously, if you
Speaker 5: make force him into some decisions, he'll pack the ball
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 2: He's not like Tom Brady. You know, Tom Brady's getting
Speaker 2: one one thousand and two.
Speaker 5: That thing's gone. So, I mean, you talk about earning
Speaker 5: the right to rush the passer, they gonna do that anyway.
Speaker 6: You know, That's what got him in trouble.
Speaker 5: All y'all about to say you're trying to rush the
Speaker 5: passer on on a rundown, and and and that's what happens,
Speaker 5: right when you like I said, when you see these
Speaker 5: guys running these spike techniques and they got their shoulder
Speaker 5: dip and because you think though you're Finnah, slide right
Speaker 5: past and you're gonna get you a little sack, it's
Speaker 5: not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: You're not not gonna happen. Football.
Speaker 7: And when you.
Speaker 2: Listen, they got they do have to earn the right.
Speaker 5: They do have to because I'm telling you, if not,
Speaker 5: it's going to be a lot of Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 5: Stevenson and they're gonna do it until the game is over.
Speaker 2: For you know what you're gonna be man.
Speaker 5: We had the about four times off the field because
Speaker 5: we set out there and let them get three four
Speaker 5: yards of carry, and they took it every every time
Speaker 5: three four yards boom boom. Mac Jones might throw up
Speaker 5: for five or six, you know what I'm saying, to
Speaker 5: get the first down. But other than that, they gonna
Speaker 5: they gonna put the game in Ezekiel Elliott, in Stevenson's
Speaker 5: hands and then depend on their defense because our office
Speaker 5: is not shown that we finish, get out there and
Speaker 5: be world beaters, and you know, and and and score
Speaker 5: forty points. Let me ask you Scott something. You guys
Speaker 5: have played at AT and T Stadium, and this is
Speaker 5: the fifteenth season. I believe at AT and T Stadium
Speaker 5: for the Dallas Cowboys Sunday could be their tenth home win,
Speaker 5: all right. And historically people have looked at AT and
Speaker 5: T Stadium, well, fans around the NFL have looked at
Speaker 5: AT and T Stadium as a destination place, not even
Speaker 5: like it longs to the Cowboys, like it's a tourist
Speaker 5: attraction you want to come in. And now the Cowboys
Speaker 5: are starting to have a little bit of a home
Speaker 5: field advantage.
Speaker 2: Feel at AT and T.
Speaker 5: How big do you guys think that is for this
Speaker 5: team specifically if they are able to kind of turn
Speaker 5: the tide with the crowd of AT and T Stadium
Speaker 5: and have that legit home field advantage, I think it
Speaker 5: would be it will be huge because I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: when when you got you know, the crowd on your back.
Speaker 4: And you got these guys, you're ah, go all crazy.
Speaker 4: It kind of pumps you up, especially defensive side of
Speaker 4: the football. When you get a big hitting dude, I mean,
Speaker 4: it pumps you up and it gets you adrenaline rolling.
Speaker 6: It's sometimes so loud in there.
Speaker 4: You see opposing quarterbacks kind of like going like this
Speaker 4: like I can't hear the audible.
Speaker 6: I can't, man.
Speaker 7: The team feeds into that.
Speaker 4: You see guys on the sideline waving the flags and
Speaker 4: waving the toils around offensively defensively, you feed into that.
Speaker 4: That's what you want to have when you have home
Speaker 4: field advantage out there. Early on in my career when
Speaker 4: we were playing at AT and T, it wasn't like that.
Speaker 4: It was more of like a club atmosphere, like you know,
Speaker 4: people was wearing you know, dresses and stuff that they
Speaker 4: wear to the club. People had their flyers fits on.
Speaker 4: It wasn't about the football game. It was more about
Speaker 4: a social atmosphere. So what we didn't really have that
Speaker 4: home field advantage. Now you see those whiteouts, you see
Speaker 4: the tows flying all over the place, and that's what
Speaker 4: you want from a from a home field advantage. So
Speaker 4: hopefully the Cowboys can keep rolling so this off, just
Speaker 4: this home field advantage can keep staying because they gonna
Speaker 4: need it.
Speaker 6: They're gonna need it.
Speaker 5: This is what I know, man, That's why they given
Speaker 5: Zeke's whatever they should be at the thing, because you're right,
Speaker 5: when we played were almost begging the fans to come
Speaker 5: out and get live. Please, Hey man, I'm talking about
Speaker 5: players are like, yea, hey, it's just not that loud
Speaker 5: in there. And we you know, oh man, our fans,
Speaker 5: you know, they just chilling and relaxing. And now the
Speaker 5: two one four, since the two one four jumping at
Speaker 5: the kettlebell, doing all that stuff. Now you got more
Speaker 5: of a college type atmosphere versus that professional you know,
Speaker 5: is expensive to come here, so the expensive people are
Speaker 5: gonna be here acting expensive. And now it's and now
Speaker 5: it's hey man, hey, hey, college atmosphere. Let's go get
Speaker 5: a beer, let's go crazy. You see people running through.
Speaker 5: They always got that video the people running through and
Speaker 5: they open the games. That's the college atmosphere, right. These
Speaker 5: people are ready to see the Cowboys playing. That's because
Speaker 5: they believe that there's a chance for these teams to
Speaker 5: win when we plays right. And then Zeke and them
Speaker 5: got here in its twelve and four, thirteen and three.
Speaker 5: When your fans believe that they're there and they're helping
Speaker 5: you win, what the possibility of going to Super Bowl,
Speaker 5: going to the playoffs, that's where you get that type
Speaker 5: of atmosphere and it's huge, man, Just like Church said,
Speaker 5: it is just to hear it right. You make them
Speaker 5: play personally, You make a play yourself. That gives you
Speaker 5: more confidence to be like, oh yeah, we hear now right?
Speaker 5: Are that first kickoff? Right?
Speaker 2: And they get real loud.
Speaker 5: You know that the fans are there to play, so
Speaker 5: now you owe it to them in your mind, Like,
Speaker 5: I gotta go out here and show out.
Speaker 2: What's the craziest stadium that you guys can think of?
Speaker 2: Thinks back on the NFL. Yeah, three hundred thousand over there.
Speaker 5: It's Seattle. Yeah, Seattle, Seattle. Man, they ain't lie by Seattle.
Speaker 5: Seattle is loud. Kansas City is loud too, But we
Speaker 5: played when Seattle was out there winning, so man that day.
Speaker 2: Man, it's the twelve Man. The twelve Man is real.
Speaker 2: It's legit. It's real.
Speaker 4: Like you feel like when you're out there, like the
Speaker 4: stadium's right on top of your head, Like it's just
Speaker 4: it's so loud you can't even hear yourself.
Speaker 6: You're looking at signals, You're like, wait, I can't I
Speaker 6: can't even see the signals.
Speaker 2: Because it's so loud. Is cooling?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: And then like they're Seattle to me is number one
Speaker 4: played in both spots, but Kansas City as well. That's
Speaker 4: another one when you when they finish that national anthem
Speaker 4: and it goes home with the Chiefs, like it's just
Speaker 4: the whole stadium is just rocket like. Man, that's that's
Speaker 4: a crazy atmosphere. Those are the two to me that
Speaker 4: are most resemblance of the of the college atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Nights out there from eight am.
Speaker 6: You driving in, you get you know, people throwing eggs
Speaker 6: at your bus. Like it's one of those atmospheres. Man,
Speaker 6: it's a cool place to play.
Speaker 2: Wait, well in the game all week that but when
Speaker 2: we ain't got nothing.
Speaker 5: New to the teeth playing home yet they've been drinking
Speaker 5: five am, it's going that tailgate off the team. What
Speaker 5: was it like going from from the Cowboys to Chicago
Speaker 5: Soldier Field? Uh, what was the difference between those two?
Speaker 5: You know, I say what it wasn't No, we were
Speaker 5: five and the leven Okay, bro After the first game though,
Speaker 5: after the first game, Bro, it was it was just no,
Speaker 5: it's just a normal thing. It's just like it wasn't
Speaker 5: anything special. But you know, as the season went on,
Speaker 5: they did we weren't winning no games, we was hoping
Speaker 5: they ran the clock. I'm not like, man, come on,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get out of here. I'm trying to
Speaker 5: move on back to Texas. Was it like a kick
Speaker 5: off this It wasn't even fool. They were still coming in,
Speaker 5: they were still cleaning, still coming there. They were still
Speaker 5: coming in and they was excited and we won. Okay,
Speaker 5: Jake Cuttler, Forte, Martella's al Sean Jeffrey, you know, they
Speaker 5: was yeah, they was they was they was hyped in.
Speaker 2: But us season went on, you could tell.
Speaker 6: That was that what about it was it was cool.
Speaker 6: Wasn't nothing like the atmosphere here in Dallas.
Speaker 4: But because early on the stadium wasn't even full kick off,
Speaker 4: they had to put the tarp up on the upper
Speaker 4: levels because they was like because the fans wasn't coming in,
Speaker 4: because they was like, I was gonna be another one
Speaker 4: of these seasons. But as we started winning, we started
Speaker 4: you know, putting the putting the beating on people. The
Speaker 4: fans start coming in and Tart went away. You know,
Speaker 4: they started doing shots at the upper stands and people
Speaker 4: going crazy. But there was still nothing compared to Dallas, though.
Speaker 4: Wasn't that du ball chain was real.
Speaker 5: I didn't know y'all had because I didn't any think
Speaker 5: about Jacksonville, and they say I never wanted to watch
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 2: And then one time I did see him, they had.
Speaker 4: A long, cozy cool I was taking long too, out
Speaker 4: there playing volleyball, looking up like.
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Speaker 5: t J Watt, it's getting real and I bet it
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Speaker 2: Garrett. It's gonna be a hell of a race, man,
Speaker 2: I mean it.
Speaker 6: I mean, if they all stay healthy knocking, they.
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Speaker 5: That lack in action here on the players lounge, Dan
Speaker 5: mcraidberry church over here, and look in this last segment.
Speaker 2: All we do, man, We picked on Thursdays. Then Friday,
Speaker 2: y'all get some trick bets in there, you know, and
Speaker 2: some not bad excuse me, no bets a little bit.
Speaker 5: That's what we do.
Speaker 2: But this third today's tonight's game is the Detroit Lions
Speaker 2: and the division. That's true.
Speaker 5: Green Bay coming off of victory versus Saints. They pulled
Speaker 5: it out. Yeah, James got hurt. I mean James got
Speaker 5: in the game, James ms James got the games. Who
Speaker 5: doesn't try to be funny I feel about this game tonight.
Speaker 6: I want to I just want to make this clear, Okay.
Speaker 5: I believe that Dan Campbell has done something spectacular over
Speaker 5: there in Detroit, because we remember Detroit was was was
Speaker 5: something with Calvin Johnson and uh Matthew Stafford, right, but
Speaker 5: you never really just believed that they was going to
Speaker 5: actually make no noise one of the division stuff like that,
Speaker 5: because you know the Packers over there this year, I
Speaker 5: feel like I wanted a division.
Speaker 2: You didn't. You didn't believe that. You didn't believe that
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 5: This year, at going into the season, I believe that
Speaker 5: Green Bay will not win the NFC North and it
Speaker 5: will go to Detroit. And also, my former college teammate,
Speaker 5: Kevin Sheppard is a linebacker coach. They might have seen
Speaker 5: them on hard Notch, you know my linebacker coach. So
Speaker 5: I got an extra reason to be pulling for the
Speaker 5: Detroit Lions, and I think they're gonna win the division.
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna they're going to beat Green Bay
Speaker 5: to night. It ain't gonna be close. Let's just go
Speaker 5: thirty one seventeen. Jerry Goff is gonna have a day
Speaker 5: in Green Bay. Gibbs will have a day. I need
Speaker 5: Gibbs have a dad. Yes, something, Sat He's gonna have
Speaker 5: a day?
Speaker 2: Is he playing today?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Hutchinson gonna have a day. Everybody. There's
Speaker 2: gonna be some days. Hey, they's gonna be that career day.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, they ain't no limb. They went
Speaker 5: out there to Kansas City and beat them at home opening.
Speaker 5: That's the team that beat them. Break it down.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead.
Speaker 4: And he's in Green Bay, right, brother Will, Brother Will
Speaker 4: over there, what's up. I'm gonna have to go with
Speaker 4: Detroit on this one. I like, you know, everything Danny
Speaker 4: said about them. They are hitting on all cylinders. But
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Detroit on this one. I'm gonna go Detroit.
Speaker 4: Even though Love has looked good, and you know, replacing
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, he.
Speaker 2: Has looked good.
Speaker 6: So defense looking good, defense looking good.
Speaker 2: Turn Garrett, he's what y'all thinking.
Speaker 6: I'm going Detroit twenty eight.
Speaker 5: You like to say all that positive stuff about the
Speaker 5: other teams just so we can tell them.
Speaker 4: Chop yeah, twenty eight to twenty seventeen, twenty eight, seventeen
Speaker 4: d twenty eight seventeen, both y'all going with seventeen? All right, basketball,
Speaker 4: So go ahead Pickgans. Do you believe in them because
Speaker 4: they played on Lambo?
Speaker 2: Leave all? They go ahead?
Speaker 6: You gotta make up some ground.
Speaker 5: I do? He watching them on TV too, I do.
Speaker 5: They pulled out the wheel. We're not watching it that defense.
Speaker 5: And now I'm going with Detroit on this one. Anybody
Speaker 5: stopped Detroit?
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 5: I'm going twenty one, twenty one ten Detroit, Yeah, twenty
Speaker 5: one ten on that one, man, twenty one ten. Make
Speaker 5: sure put this down for because we make sure it count. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you gotta count, see y'all. Hey man, y'all just threw
Speaker 5: that one out there. Don't come on. Let the people
Speaker 5: at home know what we're talking about. Everybody's talking about
Speaker 5: me picking Colorado and telling them that they're not believings.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna go back and rewind the tape because
Speaker 5: I could have swore it was just like, what do
Speaker 5: you think about? What's going on this weekend. It was
Speaker 5: one of those kind of things when you do this
Speaker 5: hand most.
Speaker 2: So I say, you.
Speaker 5: Go watch the table. I think we talked about DM
Speaker 5: for the first three weeks in the season. Okay, we
Speaker 5: all did our pick.
Speaker 2: So you would never actually on board anyway, Let's just
Speaker 2: say that you would never.
Speaker 5: A believer until the beginning. Y'all believe he gonna go undefeated.
Speaker 5: I believe you gonna make them better. Y'all.
Speaker 6: Y'all ain't saying nothing about this kool aid in about
Speaker 6: week no, I.
Speaker 2: Said, it's still sugar. I'm just making sure, y'alli.
Speaker 5: Zone.
Speaker 2: You know I scooped out a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, cool, because you know REIZONEI Zone took you
Speaker 5: because it was about four comps of sugar.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, saying that was about three and a half comes.
Speaker 2: So I gotta ask this. Keep it real with me, man.
Speaker 5: There are no must win situations week four of the
Speaker 5: NFL season, not for us, not yeah right, But I'm saying,
Speaker 5: because cousin, let's go, let's go lose verse win, especially
Speaker 5: with the forty nine ers next on the docket. How
Speaker 5: big is this game for the Cowboys win or lose
Speaker 5: it's big if you play on winning the division because
Speaker 5: you're gonna play San Francisco, will actually winning the number one.
Speaker 2: See you're gonna play San Francisco.
Speaker 5: You got the Eagles twice, they undefeated all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: You going to with two losses, right and going into
Speaker 5: San Francisco possibly.
Speaker 2: Getting number three.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you need to win if you want to keep
Speaker 5: pace with the other successful teams in the NFC. But
Speaker 5: it's not a muscle win. Like you lose this game,
Speaker 5: you still could make the playoffs. Everything is still ahead
Speaker 5: of you, but your chances are much slimmer if you
Speaker 5: find a way to lose to the Patriot hard and
Speaker 5: then have to go in with a pressure game against
Speaker 5: San Francisco in San franc.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not I wouldn't say it's a must
Speaker 4: win because, like y'all said, it's Week four, you still
Speaker 4: got a lot of games left out there. But what
Speaker 4: confidence wise I would I would expect the Cowboys to
Speaker 4: go out there and at least have a better performance
Speaker 4: than they did against the Cardinals. Like if they went
Speaker 4: out against the Cardinals and they lost to you know,
Speaker 4: seventeen to fourteen, game or something like that where one
Speaker 4: side of the football, excluding special teams, one side of
Speaker 4: the football really showed out.
Speaker 6: And I'd be like, you know, it happens. Those losses happen.
Speaker 4: But when you go against the Cardinals team and you
Speaker 4: lose the way they lost, where only the special teams
Speaker 4: had was the bright spot. You know, defensively two hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty two yards offensively, turn the football over, can't
Speaker 4: get it done in the red zone. Those are the
Speaker 4: type of losses where you look at it like, hold on, man,
Speaker 4: we gotta get we gotta get this changing together. So
Speaker 4: to me, this week is not a must win, but
Speaker 4: they got to play better. As far as the confidence
Speaker 4: is concerned.
Speaker 5: What's most like, is it most important for us to
Speaker 5: show that we've gotten better at stopping to run. Like
Speaker 5: because as you go through the season, you say, okay,
Speaker 5: we're gonna play teams right, and if you play bad
Speaker 5: against the team, or you put something on tape that
Speaker 5: needs to be corrected and then you go into the
Speaker 5: next week and find out it's not corrected, then you
Speaker 5: start to believe, oh, well, you know what this is.
Speaker 2: This is who we are.
Speaker 5: So you go into this game and it is important
Speaker 5: to win, but it's very important for you to show
Speaker 5: that you've gotten better at whatever phases you say you're
Speaker 5: working on. That's red zone and that's run defense, right.
Speaker 5: So that's what I feel like is the most important here.
Speaker 5: Are we getting better in the and the things that
Speaker 5: we consider our weakness on the team.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna keep it real man like when you
Speaker 4: talk about stopping to run that interior, it's not all
Speaker 4: all Misy Smith, let me tell that it's not.
Speaker 2: All or all on the d line. You got the first.
Speaker 6: But at some point your first round I gotta.
Speaker 2: Show up, Okay, yes, at something.
Speaker 4: I mean we've gone down the line before, we've seen
Speaker 4: first round pick out the first round pick. The only
Speaker 4: one that didn't hit really was Taco Charlton. At some point,
Speaker 4: he's got to come in there and make an impact.
Speaker 4: That's what they got him here for, you know, for
Speaker 4: him to go up there and solidify that rush defense.
Speaker 4: So I'm not saying it's all on him, but I'd
Speaker 4: like to see the young man step up out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that.
Speaker 5: I mean, you got you definitely hit it when it
Speaker 5: comes down to the run game. That's something that the
Speaker 5: Cowboys have to get better at. But I think bigger
Speaker 5: than that, this red zone stuff has to get fixed.
Speaker 5: I mean, you got to fix that right now. It's
Speaker 5: it's not gonna be enough to run up and down
Speaker 5: the field if you're only trading field goals with teams.
Speaker 5: And man, the criticism that they're getting early is warranted
Speaker 5: because you look at what two of whatever it is
Speaker 5: in the red zone right now, it's eleven thirty whatever.
Speaker 2: It's a it's getting astronomical as you go.
Speaker 5: And when you start to exchange those field goals with teams,
Speaker 5: I mean they're gonna start playing a ben don't break
Speaker 5: style with which you started to see Arizona started to
Speaker 5: play two safeties high. We'll let you get all the
Speaker 5: way down there and then we just go swinging back
Speaker 5: down and then we're gonna start to stop the run.
Speaker 5: But man, I find a question for you guys. And
Speaker 5: as I was talking about the forty nine ers on
Speaker 5: looming here it on coaches always talking about this a
Speaker 5: week the week.
Speaker 2: Dang, we don't ever look ahead.
Speaker 5: But as players, do you ever start looking ahead to
Speaker 5: the next week when you're talking when you're looking at
Speaker 5: an opponent.
Speaker 2: Now that to get a stomped like that. They may
Speaker 2: have been last week.
Speaker 5: When you start off that way and you say, okay,
Speaker 5: the big dogs in the NFC are US Philly and
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers, and we got them coming up
Speaker 5: at their house and they beat us twice in the
Speaker 5: playoffs over the last two years, you could be But
Speaker 5: then after you go out there and lose to Arizona,
Speaker 5: then you kind of, you know, you're humbled and you're like,
Speaker 5: you know what, can't make that mistake again. If that
Speaker 5: was the case, because I think I think since we
Speaker 5: got our scheme that way and then the level of effort,
Speaker 5: I don't think you just you know, just slept walk.
Speaker 5: I think that there were some things that you needed
Speaker 5: to fix in order to be the team that you
Speaker 5: hope to be. So not they not looking, they're not
Speaker 5: I don't think we were ready for that yet. We
Speaker 5: need to go outare and make sure that our run
Speaker 5: game is right because CMC Christian McCaffrey, Oh they're gonna
Speaker 5: run it. Debo, Oh they're gonna run it.
Speaker 6: They coming to town man, And I'm with you.
Speaker 4: I think you know, it happens every year with you know, teams,
Speaker 4: you get to a point where you're thinking, oh, man,
Speaker 4: you know we got it. You know, you start feeling
Speaker 4: yourself just a little bit and then boom, you get
Speaker 4: that reality check. I mean, it's National Football League. You
Speaker 4: know these guys are good on the other side of
Speaker 4: the football. So I'm glad the reality check happened early
Speaker 4: in the season and not towards the end. And then
Speaker 4: we stumble into the play I was like, we have
Speaker 4: these past couple of years, So I'm glad it happened now.
Speaker 4: And hopefully dan Quinn, like we say, we all trusting
Speaker 4: dan Quinn, Hopefully he can get this thing right in
Speaker 4: the defense, can roll We.
Speaker 5: All trust, yeah, because you made him wait two years
Speaker 5: before you was like dan Quinn.
Speaker 6: Trusted Quinn, Yeah, he gonna run this thing right.
Speaker 5: But you know, the run defense, the run, the defense
Speaker 5: for me is starting to be a bugaboo. And especially
Speaker 5: and I ask you y'all about this, cause I can't
Speaker 5: lie to you. Man, I'm San Francisco's knocked U out
Speaker 5: of the playoffs two years in a row, and for me,
Speaker 5: I'm looking at that game like, how do we measure
Speaker 5: up going through? Because we know what Philly's gonna bring.
Speaker 5: We know the rest of the season and the type
Speaker 5: of running backs that we still have to face. So look, man,
Speaker 5: that's uh, I'm looking ahead.
Speaker 2: Let me just say that I was hoping, y'all. No,
Speaker 2: they better not be the bet I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with that. Uh man. We had a
Speaker 2: good shoulder Oh yeah, hey man, that was a good
Speaker 2: show today.
Speaker 6: If you want to fix these reds on issues, there's
Speaker 6: only one person. You got a call, y'all.
Speaker 2: West Man, just say you know what we're gonna watch.
Speaker 5: We're gonna watch the next week to everything was going
Speaker 5: Chris Beam in the back, man, thank you for doing
Speaker 5: your thing.
Speaker 2: Homeboy.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: Let me give a shout out to my hood o,
Speaker 2: Cliff Texas.
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