WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Winning Picks 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:11.640 Cowboys. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.400 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.880 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.080 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.080 Welcome to the Players Lounge sponsored by Toastedos. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.320 People want to see you. They want to see your face. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:41.479 Show them your face. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.360 The official chip and Dip of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.760 You are now rocking with the best. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:50.280 I'm Heck Maharrison and in studio, inst the studio and 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.600 at the desk with me per usual. It's my man 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.240 Danny McCrae, uh, former Dallas Cowboys safety and my man. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.120 BC in the place to be. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.560 I'm always here, been always they know. That's all all right, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:03.279 all right, you always somewhere. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.240 But he wasn't late. He was here before me. So 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.960 the last today he was he was not. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:14.720 So in the spirit of Barry Church being on time, sir, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.400 we're gonna do it like we always do. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.400 New Scruggs is on New Scrubs. What is new He's 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.760 doing on the side of sabbatical assignment is new scrugs. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.000 But man, football is back. It's back. It's back in 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.720 full swing. And I know, I know. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.679 Y'all was loving last night. But before I even address 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.240 any of that, y'all know what I do, man, I 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.280 always do the well to check mental check. How is 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.400 your mentals? Uh, Danny McCray, how you, sir? I feel good? 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.320 Man? Were at the weekend? 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.200 The weekend is zero unless you got a chance to, 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.000 you know, write this ship a little bit against I 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:45.600 think Grammy. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.040 We played this week, so you know, give you know, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.640 and the Cowboys play on Sunday night. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:54.520 So I got you gotta get you beat who they 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.000 put out there? Get back, get back Battle of the bands. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:02.320 Let's do that band from Tiger Hey with Grammy put 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.040 the mystery that's on the ground, and so we're gonna 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.400 lose that. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.120 It's up with See what's up with you? Brother? 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.640 Man? It's going good. It's one real good. It's hot 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.520 once again. Man, I thought for shoulder temperature going diper 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.240 just a little bit. But it's hot again. But who's 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:16.800 doing amazing? 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:17.679 Next week? 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.640 Next week your golf game gonna be so cool you're 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.880 gonna have to bust out the jacket to tell you what. Wait, 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.040 Tuesday seventy nine thsday hot seventy. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.119 Yeah, we're gonna. We're going to heaven is my goal. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.799 And but that rain's gonna come with it though it's 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.040 gonna being brown. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.880 I will I will take that to my grass train. 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:43.840 Now, hey, yard man has taking a break. This stuff 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.320 is dead out there. Boy, uh man, listen, I will 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.519 take for me. For me, I'm good. Uh my son, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.680 I took him to the doctor. My son's been dealing 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.880 with a hip injury. Fully one hundred percent good, ready 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:00.280 to go, so healing grace. Man, I'm so happy about that. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.200 But football is back, and y'all saw yesterday the matchup 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.639 we talked about a little big Kansas City, the defending 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.359 champions versus the Detroit Lions. Damn gonna start with you, man, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.040 what did you think about yesterday's matchup and just football 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:16.280 being back on television? 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.160 Man, I was excited. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.000 I watched the usually on Thursday night games because sometimes 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.840 the competition is don't be good, right, you fall asleep 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.600 ahead of time, you know, you'd be like, forget this. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.240 I watched that whole game. It was the Lions. I 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.000 was watching the food Lions because my former teammate Kelvin 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.680 Shepard is the linebackers coach there. I'll say this, something 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.120 got to get fixed, okay, because Hutchinson was getting cheated 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.040 all night because that right tackle was not lined up 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.120 in the formation at all, lined up all sides the 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.120 whole time. And it make you just wonder, like, how 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.880 many sacks, how much more pressure would they have gotten had. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.840 This dude not been lining up through us off the ball. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.280 And they didn't fix it the entire night. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.360 And even though that happened, your new Detroit Lions, like 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.680 we've been talking about, Hey, man, Dan Campbell gotten right. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:02.320 They came out. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.960 They was physical, old line was moving the point right, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.600 They dominated in the trenches and they got the dub. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:10.440 Man. I was excited. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.960 I'm excited because now you get to see the NFC North. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.080 It looks a little different up there, and that's gonna 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.240 be an exciting conference to watch now. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:18.680 Without a doubt. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.839 Man, I was super excited that the games were back 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.680 on Kansas City versus Detroit, and like you said, usually 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:24.599 them Thursday night games. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.479 Man, it's hit or miss. Either gonna be greater, they 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.119 gonna be just got off of the watch. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.479 Luckily we stumbled upon a good game and Detroit Man, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.960 we all kind of heard the hype this all season. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.880 Everybody the hype trained Detroit Man, bite kneecaps. They gonna 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.640 be ready, they're gonna be go out there and they're gonna roll. Hey, 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.640 we got the witness man this team. This team looks good. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.159 They got a lot of exciting pieces out there. I 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:49.440 was watching the kid from Alabama. I believe right man, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.400 the dude's explosive, explosive, He's physical, fast. And then Montgomery 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.960 as well, we were talking about it before the show. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.800 That man looked like he rejuvenized his career out there 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.440 running through cats. They got the best offensive lying in 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.479 the in football right now left by Swell out there. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.120 So to me, Detroit man, they look good. Kansas City, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:08.960 you know, my homes is gonna be my homes. I mean, 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.520 they're always going to be in the game if they 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:11.919 got fifteen under center. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.080 But you could tell they missed Kelsey bad. They missed Kelsey. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.479 Really bad because those guys, I mean those guys were 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.120 looking like, what's my man? 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:26.320 From the little Giants. Oh, they couldn't catch a cold 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:26.880 out there. Man. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:34.200 It was dropping everything. They was dropping everything. But man, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:35.920 I was a good game to watch. I'm just excited 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.000 football is back. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.760 No go ahead question for you, do they have a 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:46.880 top five receiver on their squad? The Lions cold Cold. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.960 Let me tell you something if if you didn't watch 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.840 the Lions last year, they started off I believe, one 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.479 and six and then they finished the season off on 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.599 a tear and one of the huge reasons for that 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:00.440 was was Brown. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:03.360 And you saw last night. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.560 It's one of those guys where you say, Okay, we're 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.040 gonna line them up and the defensive courd and that 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.960 they're gonna try to figure out how they can stop them, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.120 and no matter what happens, you ain't stopping them, right 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.600 And they go into the game knowing that, especially what 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.560 he did last year. And I'm looking at this guy saying, hey, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.240 he's gonna be making the case for one of the 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.320 best receivers in the league because Jared Golf was throwing 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.160 it to him and he's bawling no matter who's on 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.839 him and what defensive scheme they're running. 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.240 No, I agree with you completely. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.760 And this is a guy that came into the league 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.560 with a chip on his sholder, always talking about the 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.200 guys that were drafted ahead ahead of him, But you 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.200 saw last night Detroit is much improved that running game, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.240 and I think you were looking for Gibbs initially. When 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.160 they drafted Gibbs, I'm like, oh, man, he's gonna be 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.320 everything for them. But then comes in David Montgomery. He's 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.080 like the forgotten man. You forget that that Montgomery is 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.280 so good, especially in the red zone, but he's that 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.200 third down back and just trying to tie this into 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.400 the Dallas Cowboys. I'm sitting there thinking looking at both sides, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.120 especially for Kansas City. They get that tight end goals 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.359 out and I'm like, man, this offense don't look the same. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.239 And because before they. 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:05.719 Were, I would say they were more of a three 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:10.160 headed monster with Tarik Hill and Kelsey, they had more weapons, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.760 and I think they tried to go out there with 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.720 a bunch of Joe's thinking that that would get it done. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.600 And they didn't have any playmakers. They didn't have any 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.240 guys that can stretch the defense. They didn't have any 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:25.320 way to the running game was done. And the leading 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.920 rusher last night, Patrick was and I don't think anybody's 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.120 gonna be successful when Pat you're a leading rusher. But 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.960 like I said offensively, I'm looking at that and I'm like, man, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.640 the Cowboys offense, the running back specifically. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.440 You look at the Kansite Chiefs. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.000 And they're what they do well, and I think they 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.000 rely so heavily on the big play and they rely 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.240 heavily on taking away the interior of the field with 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.600 Kelsey didn't see any of that. But the Cowboys have 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.560 to do that. They have to be able to run 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.600 the ball, and they have to be able to stretch 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.680 teams in the middle of the field with a really 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.400 unproven tight end room. So, just switching over to the 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.960 Dallas Cowboys offense versus the New York Giants defense, do 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.920 you agree that even when you look at that, that 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.680 it's very important for teams to be able to one 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.400 get the attention of your defense with the running game 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.240 and also have those safety stay in place because there's 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:24.520 a threat in the middle of the field. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.160 Yeah, without a doubt, you got to have balance when 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.840 you're when you're on the offense. And you're talking about 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.160 the Dallas Cowboys, and that's what they've been good at 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.920 these past couple of years. They've been able to run 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.520 the football and then from running the football, they can 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.960 have that play action, they can have those deep crossers 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.680 in the middle. So I feel like, you know, I 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.160 don't want to say they're on the same level as 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.559 far as skill wise as you know, a fully healthy 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.440 Kansas City, but they're they're right there. They're right there 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.199 because you got you know, Ceedee Lamb, who can be 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:53.960 that jack of all trades guy. He can hit you 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.319 with the deep but he can also hit you with 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.000 that intermediate and shallow routes as well. And you got 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.400 Brandon Cooks, a healthy Brandon Cooks man. He's one of 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.280 the fastest guys I've ever seen on the field. He 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.440 can stretch the field and that should open up so 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.400 much more for not only Ceedee Lamb, but you're talking 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.000 about Ferguson as well. Hopefully Michael Gap is back in 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.880 his you know, his old ways where he can he 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.840 can stretch the field as well than do to some 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:14.920 of those intermediate routes. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.439 But overall, and if this team can stay. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.679 Healthy, if the Dallas Cowboys can stay healthy, which right 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.880 now it's kind of shaky talk every update, every update, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.520 every update is like, oh man, I don't know what's 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.640 gonna happen. But if they can stay healthy, they should 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.920 have one of the top offenses out there. But like 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.040 they say, man if I was a fifth, there be 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.240 a lot of guys out there, So we'll see what happens. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.000 Because that offensive line is still concerning for me. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.800 I'm gonna disagree with you on one point. They are better, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.120 im more talented than Kansas City's current offense, even with 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.880 Kelsey in the game. You're looking at Tony versus CD 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:52.240 Lamb or Brandon Cooks, or you say Brandon Cooks and 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:56.839 CD Lamb versus Tony and Kelsey. Maybe I'm hyping. I'm like, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.440 I'm putting too much up on my Tony Polar Cloude. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.280 It was a layer all right. You look at at 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:04.679 this point, you say, Duce a Cloude. It was a 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.679 layered I'm an uls. You got like, once we see 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.280 him get out there and play, you got to say, okay, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.120 which one of these guys are gonna play better? And 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.240 the flashes that we've seen from Deuce look better than 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:14.160 what we've seen from Clyde. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.360 It was a lair already. You know, he telling the truth. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.560 I mean, I'm just saying I think I think when 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:24.000 you look at the talent that we have offensively Okay, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.560 we haven't really seen a Schoolmaker be able to do 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.560 much yet because of his injury. But he was drafting 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.520 the second round for a reason, all right, so I imagine 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.760 that he's going to be utilized. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:33.960 You look Hindershot. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.120 First, we have some guys that in the tight end 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.600 room who who can put up some numbers. All right, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.800 They're not Travis Kelsey, but they're going to be effective 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.040 in the passing game. And then you got Brandon Cooks, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.480 you got Ceedee Lamb, and you got Tony Pollard. From 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.360 what we have seen of Tony Pollard, one of the 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.559 most explosive backs in the league. So when you look 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.640 at our skill across the board outside offensive line, you 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.800 look at our skill positions, I think we match up 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.440 with just about any team in the league on paper. Now, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.199 I love everything you're saying right here, But there's another 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.240 part of this. Because Wink Martindale, you know, is going 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.960 to come after this offense. You already have your questions 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.439 on the offensive line. Those have been stated. But yesterday 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.880 you said something about personnel, and you broke it down 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.840 just so that the average if you don't know what 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.440 twelve personnel means, but this is what could potentially protect 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.120 this offensive line. But if you do that and you're 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.200 keeping guys home, will that take away being able to 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.800 exploit the middle of the field in some of these matchups. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.079 I don't think so, because I think if you are 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.960 going to specialize and run a twelve personnel, the creativity 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.800 and the way that you line up is going to be, like, 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.560 you have to be super creative with it, right, So 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.480 you may see a tight end lined up at one 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.160 with a receiver lined up at two, and they're forcing 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.560 linebackers if you recover one to go out out of 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.360 the box the box, so you have to be really creative. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.200 Like I said, go back and look at when Aaron 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.640 Hernandez and Gronk were playing with New England, right, and 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.920 how creative they were where they forced you to stay 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.800 in your base in your base defense to where hey, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.760 if one of your linebackers is a pass rusher, well 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.280 he in base four to three. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:05.600 You can't even get. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.480 To those same looks as you can get to if 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.160 it was a nickel package that you were putting into 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.400 the game. So if we are going to specialize a 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.400 twelve to help that out, then Big Mike, who's been 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.840 in the lab is gonna have to get really creative 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.240 with his with his personnels and how he lines guys up, 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.080 which I think he can do. You got three tight ends, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.240 who you say, all right now, they should be able 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:23.600 to play. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.080 I just, man, I just don't know we're gonna specialize 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:26.679 in that twelve. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.000 I can't see it happening. I just can't see it happening. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.000 With all the skill position that we have out there. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.600 I could see them specializing in eleven. I mean, I 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.439 just even if you go back to his Green Bay 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.080 teams when he was back there with you know, Aaron 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.040 Rodgers and autumn, they had eleven personnel. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.560 They had some dogs at tight end. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.920 You look at Jermaine not your mame, Jermichael Finley, he 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.200 was out there killing the games, and they had some weapons. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.320 And I feel like this this Dallas Cowboys offense is 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:49.800 kind of similar to that as far as the weapons 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:50.439 on the perimeter. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.959 So I can't see them specializes in twelve. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.120 I can see them basically making their base package that 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.800 eleven personnel, which if you got to know health. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.360 The offici of line, that's no problem at all. Let's 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.560 get it. And that's the point. Specialize in the twelve if. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.040 Up. No, I don't think you go into the season saying, okay, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.200 we're specializing a twelve person Yes, but if you got 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.560 to find a way to make sure the defense isn't 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.720 able to come at you from all different ways because 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.560 you lined up in eleven and now they can put 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.760 any personnel they want to out there because they're not 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.360 really worried about the run. Then you have then you 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.520 got to do that, But no eleven personnel because you 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.200 got you're paying gallup enough. You're not gonna have you know, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:27.880 on the bench like that. Now you got, I mean 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.320 you got really created right there, twelve personnel splitting out 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.800 your tight end, moving the linebacker out there, but switching 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:37.079 over to the giant side of the ball a Shawn Robinson, Danster, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.040 Lawrence come on now, I mean Leonard Williams, hey Wan Tibodeau. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.199 That these matchups up front, I mean, before we get 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.360 to what's going on on the outside, these matchups up 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.960 front have got to be a big worry, uh for you, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:51.600 especially with that Ford I just named. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.640 Yeah, I mean you you talk about just imagine how 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:55.160 when we. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.360 Go up to Washington or Washington comes down here and 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.200 they got those two bad boys in the middle. How 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.319 much trouble they've given a fully healthy Cowboys offensive line. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.080 Now you're talking about that same thing in New York. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.760 Because I feel like Leonard Williams and Dexter Dexter Lawrence, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.959 they might not be as good as Allen in pain, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.600 but they're right there, one A, one B. They can 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.800 give this offense trouble because we understand as a quarterback, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.560 what you know troubles the most, and that's pressure coming 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:19.360 right out in your face. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:19.560 You know. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.200 I feel like Dak if you've got guys coming from 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.440 the outside, tipoea those guys, I feel like he's smart 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.320 enough and he's beending around this league enough that he 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:26.280 can step up in the pocket. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.040 He can make those shows. He's proven that he's been 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:28.760 able to do that. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.840 But when you get that upfront pressure like that, it 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.840 kind of just clouds everything. And those two guys up front, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.720 they can create that that interior rush and it can 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.880 stop the run. So to me, that that's gonna be 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.440 a Marque matchup. I understand, we've got guys on the perimeter, Waller, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.760 you got Barkley in the backfield. You gotta content, But 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.640 that right there, if they don't handle that part in 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.160 the middle. It's gonna be a long afternoon for the Cowboys, do. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.400 You think, because I think this will also be a 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.000 key to success for us throughout the season. It's that 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.440 more mobile this this season. Can Mike McCarthy call plays 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.640 to get him on the move and him feel comfortable 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.920 enough to be the deck that we've seen of old 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.120 before you had the leg injury, because don't forget how 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.680 much Dak Prescott ran the ball his first two to 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.480 three years in the league like he was on the move, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.480 and that's what made him so dynamic. Right third down, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.800 you get into the thirty five, all of a sudden, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.520 they playing man, the man covers, he can find a 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.560 gap and get up and get get that five yards 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.320 and demoralize your defense with getting that by getting that first. Now, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.240 but lately we haven't seen him be willing to do that, right, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.360 You've seen him be in the pocket and that pressure 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.400 comes up and then that's a sack. It's even more 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.840 comfortable now was it two years of move off of 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.920 that injury to where we see some of the old 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.120 flashes of Dak being able to say, you know what, 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.080 I am more mobile than I have been in the 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.760 last two years, and let me go out here and 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.720 show that I do have that that part of my 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:44.440 game as well. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.280 I would love for that happen. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.640 Us be able to run some boot legs, misdirection, get 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.120 him on the perimeter because he has that athletic ability 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:53.920 to be able. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.960 To pinpoint passes on the run. We've seen it in 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:56.640 the past. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.480 But to be honest with y'all, I don't think he 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.520 wants to be that guy anymore. And just from what 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.120 I've seen these last couple of years, I think he 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:03.920 wants to be that guy. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:04.280 Or word. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.280 Look, I could do this with my. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.480 Arm and I you know, I would love to see 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.320 him run just like you and you I would love 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.880 to see this guy incorporate his legs back into his game. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.880 But I'm not so sure he wants to be that 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.440 guy anymore. I don't know who. 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.320 Soo who still does that. I mean, even Aaron Rodgers 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.400 gets out on the edge. We see him from leading Russell, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.520 you know. So it's a part of the game. You 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.360 have to got to be able to get out on 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.840 the edge and be mobile to make those players. We 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.600 don't have those statues in the league anymore. The Tom 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.520 Brady's not in the league, pay Man and not in 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.320 the league. Most of the quarterbacks that are playing now 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.600 have the ability to get out on the edge and 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.040 then extend plays with their legs. You go Trevor Lawrence, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.080 you go Dak Prescott when he first got in the league. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.040 You got Russell Wilson. All these guys who we've seen 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.560 be successful are successful because they also have that dynamic, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.040 dynamic ability to run as well. It's two types of quarterback. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.160 Guys that run out of necessity and the guys that 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.520 that's just that's built in their game, like the Lamars, the. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.440 Jalen Hurts, that's a part of the game. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.400 I mean, if you take that away from him, you 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.480 almost change who he is as a quarterback. But that 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.800 just the willingness coming back from that injury. I think 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.760 it just he he just had hadn't been there, he 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.040 hadn't been willing to do it. And I think this 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.800 year he's in a position, especially when we talk about 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.280 all the stuff that's around him, he's in. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.880