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Speaker 4: what it is. You're now rocket with the best. I'm
Speaker 4: heck Ma Harrison alongside the player. E r my man,
Speaker 4: Barry Church.
Speaker 2: Is up there, and I am just merely the player.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: That's listen, man, I'm not gonna hate. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: see I'm not gonna do it. It's the first it's
Speaker 4: the first week of the game. It's the first week
Speaker 4: to week one week one. So I'm I'm gonna maintain
Speaker 4: my cool. I'm gonna be humble, as the old people say,
Speaker 4: umble yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm humble myself. Who's but it feels so good. Though.
Speaker 4: It feels so good because they hated on us, they
Speaker 4: doubted us, and man, we came away with this double BC.
Speaker 4: You know how I always start to show out that
Speaker 4: I was get ready. I was getting ready to get
Speaker 4: you before I get before I get to hype. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna check your mentals. Man, How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm doing amaze, I'm doing amazing you playing golf this weekend,
Speaker 5: not this weekend.
Speaker 2: Not this weekend.
Speaker 5: I was with the kids all weekend, so playing that
Speaker 5: daddy duty role. So no off this weekend. But it
Speaker 5: was a great time. I mean, whether it's cool and
Speaker 5: off a little bit out there, so it feels good.
Speaker 5: You know, the boys got their w even though I
Speaker 5: was on.
Speaker 2: The wrong side of that.
Speaker 5: But you know, it's neither here north there feeling great. Heckma,
Speaker 5: what about yourself?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 4: And I'm good man, blessed man. The family is good.
Speaker 4: Everybody's good. You know, it's just all weekend football. Nothing
Speaker 4: else is happening in my life. In the falls, it's
Speaker 4: all we do. So this is all we do. All right,
Speaker 4: We're gonna ride this all the way to the summertime. Man,
Speaker 4: But this, you know, amazing, man, everything is good in
Speaker 4: my life, man. But I got to ask you BC
Speaker 4: and served yesterday about ten o'clock your phone went off,
Speaker 4: but you was on air when it happened.
Speaker 2: Was you was on air yesterday when it happened?
Speaker 4: You have to give me your reaction to Jerry Jones
Speaker 4: basically hijacking the first week held Hi jacked the height
Speaker 4: of week one by putting the issue, putting putting head
Speaker 4: to bed on that that contract's contract and putting pin
Speaker 4: to pad. Tell me how you felt about it. It
Speaker 4: just did he not get the bag? First and foremost?
Speaker 4: You talking about a bag? I mean that man got
Speaker 4: a bag from North Park Mall, Galleria anyway Europe.
Speaker 2: Every type of bad you can think of, he got it. Man.
Speaker 5: It kudos to that, to that young fellow right there,
Speaker 5: I mean not young anymore, year eight, but Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: Man, you know he much deserved of it, much deserved
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 5: But when you talk about getting ahead week one, you
Speaker 5: know in.
Speaker 2: The National Football League it's week one. Everybody's hyped about
Speaker 2: this that and the third.
Speaker 5: You know, my mass Jerry came through and just hit
Speaker 5: him with the bombshell. Yeah, by the way, you know
Speaker 5: we're gonna make Dak Prescott the highest paid football player
Speaker 5: in National Football League history. Like, that's that's unbelievable. Two
Speaker 5: hundred and I believe what thirty one guaranteed, the two
Speaker 5: forty guaranteed. Might as well call it a fully guaranteed contract.
Speaker 5: But I mean that that was outstanding. And when it
Speaker 5: first hit, I was thinking to myself, like, all right, well,
Speaker 5: that's two of your best offensive players locked in unison
Speaker 5: for the foreseeable future. I'm talking about Ceedee Lamb and
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott. So that's that's that's building block one. You
Speaker 5: got that situated. But when you talk about a guy
Speaker 5: getting his money, I mean, this is a and that
Speaker 5: came in fourth round draft pick. You know, came in
Speaker 5: the building under Tony Romo. People thought, Okay, this is
Speaker 5: gonna be a you know, developmental guy. Let's just you know,
Speaker 5: stash him away here for a little bit. He had
Speaker 5: to battle with that for that backup role with Jamill
Speaker 5: Showers for a little bit of during camp, and then
Speaker 5: that first preseason game in the Coliseum against the Rams.
Speaker 5: I mean that's pretty much when everybody on the squad
Speaker 5: at least kind of figured okay, man, we got somebody,
Speaker 5: right here. He might not play this year, but we
Speaker 5: got somebody here and then you know the story how
Speaker 5: it goes. I mean, Romo gets hurt, he steps in,
Speaker 5: and he just goes from there on and becomes a
Speaker 5: player he is today. But you got to get that
Speaker 5: man signed. And knew he called it from the beginning,
Speaker 5: it's gonna happen. You know, you never lose an offensive
Speaker 5: weapon like new he likes to call him, So we
Speaker 5: knew he was gonna get signed. It wasn't you know
Speaker 5: if it was more like a win. And to me,
Speaker 5: I was thinking, okay, well, if you don't get the number,
Speaker 5: you thinking you might as well wait till you know
Speaker 5: free agency so you can hit him over the head
Speaker 5: for another ten to fifteen. But they came with the
Speaker 5: number that I believe my man was head in the
Speaker 5: back of his head because he got every penny and
Speaker 5: he's definitely worth every penny of it.
Speaker 2: You'd love to see it. Man. I thought it was
Speaker 2: a signing by the boys.
Speaker 4: I mean, Barry, I think what you're pointing out is
Speaker 4: all of the leverage that Dak had going into this
Speaker 4: into the season, and I think, and I thought, listen,
Speaker 4: sixty million dollars was probably what he had in his
Speaker 4: head anyway, and he exceeded what some people thought was.
Speaker 4: You know, when you saw those Jordan Love fifty five
Speaker 4: and guys hovering around there, you know that the next
Speaker 4: step up, guys are trying to take it to sixty
Speaker 4: sixty five. And those were the rumors that say, hey,
Speaker 4: if he makes it too free agency, that's what it's
Speaker 4: going to be.
Speaker 2: To me, I'm just glad.
Speaker 4: That you avoid the distraction of having to answer the
Speaker 4: question about Dak's contract each and every week, and just
Speaker 4: backing up a little bit, man, when you pointed out
Speaker 4: what he had to face coming into the league, being
Speaker 4: a fourth round draft pick and also having to compete
Speaker 4: just to be on the fifty three and then kind
Speaker 4: of having that coming out party at the coliseum that
Speaker 4: you've seen and it's been every year, and just starting
Speaker 4: at twenty sixteen, when Dak emerging at thirteen to three season,
Speaker 4: that you're looking at a guy that you're like, man,
Speaker 4: he is a leader, he is a baller. Obviously, if
Speaker 4: you look at the top tier, everybody's going to argue, well,
Speaker 4: he ain't top five and he's not top this, But
Speaker 4: what all he does is go out there and ball
Speaker 4: give you an opportunity lessen every week, that's all. And
Speaker 4: so the coming off of what he did last season
Speaker 4: and on a forty four thousand, five hundred and sixteen
Speaker 4: thousand yard season, leading the league in touchdowns with thirty
Speaker 4: six touchdowns and only nine interceptions, that's ball.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a that's a for showballer. You're lying about that.
Speaker 4: When you look at Dak Prescott, you've got a guy
Speaker 4: like you just mentioned, who gets better and better each year.
Speaker 2: And that's what you love to see from your quarterback position.
Speaker 5: If you look at it, I think it was what
Speaker 5: two years ago, through a lot of interceptions, you know, pressing,
Speaker 5: he thought, okay man, maybe he's reached his ceiling.
Speaker 2: No, he came back last year and had the best
Speaker 2: season of his career.
Speaker 5: He cut down on his interceptions by six, went from
Speaker 5: fifteen to nine. He boosted his touchdown ratings for about
Speaker 5: thirteen like thirteen tales, went from twenty three to thirty six.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is a guy who's a student of
Speaker 5: the game and just continues to get better every year.
Speaker 5: And that's all you can ask for from a quarterback.
Speaker 5: And he was a homegrown talent. You know they wouldn't
Speaker 5: drafted this guy in the fourth round, and you know
Speaker 5: how this organization loves to keep their draft picks.
Speaker 4: Barry, since I since I known you, since I met you,
Speaker 4: all you do is keep it real, all right, And
Speaker 4: you're very you know you have on this show in particular,
Speaker 4: you've been critical of back in situations going forward as
Speaker 4: a teammate and being a guy that's played in the
Speaker 4: NFL and on several teams. The contract, when you saw it,
Speaker 4: was it like this is this is where Dak needs
Speaker 4: to be sixty million dollars a year. Did you say
Speaker 4: to yourself or the team could have saved some money
Speaker 4: or you know what? What was your credit? So what
Speaker 4: did you think about the contract? Just the details of
Speaker 4: it and just knowing that he is the highest paid
Speaker 4: ever in the national football When it first dropped, I'm
Speaker 4: thinking of man, that's a that's a massive band. Now
Speaker 4: you got neighbors, you got I was like oha, But
Speaker 4: I'm sitting there thinking to myself, I saw it enough.
Speaker 5: You know, four years, two hundred and forty million, and
Speaker 5: I'm thinking to myself, man, that's a bag. But let
Speaker 5: me see what you know what the guarantee Bills is
Speaker 5: talking about that's the real fine print.
Speaker 2: And when I saw two thirty one, I said, oh my.
Speaker 4: Goodness, Oh, it was just like oh man.
Speaker 5: But that's one thing about the quarterback fraternity that they
Speaker 5: have in the National Football League. And that's why these
Speaker 5: guys just continue to get bag after bad because they
Speaker 5: don't settle for us.
Speaker 2: It's not like, Okay, well.
Speaker 5: This guy, he may be the best quarterback in the
Speaker 5: National Football League, but if your time is up and
Speaker 5: you're a quarterback, oh, I want a number above his,
Speaker 5: even though you may not be.
Speaker 2: As good as that guy is. They're always leveling up.
Speaker 5: That way, the quarterbacks that are coming up behind them
Speaker 5: will be able to get their bag as well. And
Speaker 5: that's what I love about the quarterback position. But like
Speaker 5: you said, I mean, this is a guy. When I
Speaker 5: saw that number, man, it was just like wow, that's
Speaker 5: what we're in basketball numbers now, we're in soccer numbers now,
Speaker 5: Like that's who.
Speaker 2: Two thirty one guaranteed.
Speaker 4: And obviously, just the criticism that I'm here and coming
Speaker 4: down the line, and we've we've talked about this on
Speaker 4: the show is playoff performance. Everybody wants to see, like, hey,
Speaker 4: the numbers need to represent what you do. Also in
Speaker 4: the playoffs, they don't judge other quarterbacks by that, but
Speaker 4: they judged that and that's crazy because look a look
Speaker 4: at ma Manson Jackson, but he became the highest paid
Speaker 4: with one playoff win.
Speaker 2: Herb, that's my guy. You knows my guy.
Speaker 4: But he hasn't won anything when it comes to the postseason.
Speaker 4: But nobody really said nothing when he got his bags.
Speaker 4: But jack I mean, and that's what I'm saying about
Speaker 4: dak In to the contrary of what other people have
Speaker 4: said and what they judge him by. And so coming
Speaker 4: into this season, obviously game one, you won't see this
Speaker 4: cowboy offense come out and ball in that first half,
Speaker 4: they gave you all of that. They looked like him
Speaker 4: and Ceedee Lamb looked like they hadn't missed any time
Speaker 4: with each other. And we're going to get into other
Speaker 4: parts of the start of the season on offense. But
Speaker 4: the biggest question marks were surrounding the defense. There was
Speaker 4: a lot of questions. It was a lot of questions
Speaker 4: questions and the first question was how is zim going
Speaker 4: to be different from dan Quinn? And then your estimation
Speaker 4: and what you saw, how did you evaluate Week one.
Speaker 2: For the Cowboys defense? Defensively?
Speaker 5: You know, that was one of the best performances you know,
Speaker 5: we've seen in a Week one because usually when you
Speaker 5: come out in the regular season, the defense has slightly
Speaker 5: there's slightly a little bit ahead of you know, offenses
Speaker 5: out there. You know everybody, it's a moving part offensively,
Speaker 5: got to know everything. Defense is kind of you're reacting,
Speaker 5: so you kind of have to step up early on
Speaker 5: in the season. Then we see offensive catch up whatever
Speaker 5: the case may be. But this defense for the Dallas Cowboys, man,
Speaker 5: they were playing like their hair was on fire. And
Speaker 5: like you said, there were so many questions going into
Speaker 5: this game. You know, what can we see from this
Speaker 5: run defense? You're starting two well one one rookie started,
Speaker 5: which was Kaitlyn Carson, but you know overshown missed his
Speaker 5: whole first season, so just basically his first action out there.
Speaker 5: You know, you're starting these young guys out there. What
Speaker 5: can they do you under a new system? You got
Speaker 5: Kendricks in there, is he still that linebacker that he
Speaker 5: was Pro Bowl lot?
Speaker 2: These are the questions that I had, you know, I
Speaker 2: was going out there on the list. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I don't know what we're gonna see Diggs.
Speaker 4: We know what he was, but coming off in acl
Speaker 4: can he still be that guy on the outside. I mean,
Speaker 4: there were so many questions in there, and a lot
Speaker 4: of them got answered in my opinion. And when you
Speaker 4: look at Cleveland, I was surprised that they went away
Speaker 4: from the run so early. I mean, that's something that
Speaker 4: it just kind of boggles my mind. When the Cowboys
Speaker 4: go getst these teams, they go away from the run
Speaker 4: super early. But whatever the case may be, they fell
Speaker 4: right into that trap that dan Quinn had for this
Speaker 4: defense last year.
Speaker 5: And now Mike Zim's doing the same thing. You get behind,
Speaker 5: they're gonna sick the dogs after you. And the missile
Speaker 5: is that what it is now? But the missile? I
Speaker 5: mean you talk about relentless motor. I mean there was
Speaker 5: times when he.
Speaker 4: Was chipped double team, it didn't matter he was getting
Speaker 4: He made life so hard for Watson or on Sunday,
Speaker 4: it was ridiculous. The man was running for his life
Speaker 4: each and every time Oh diggi Zo would join the party.
Speaker 4: The Marcus lords turned the clock back like it was
Speaker 4: twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: That's where I was going. I was. I was. I
Speaker 2: can't laugh. I was.
Speaker 5: I was fibergasted because I thought there would be a
Speaker 5: better performance offensively for the Cleveland Browns cause we talked
Speaker 5: about the weapons on the outside, got Cooper, Jerry, Judy, Joeku.
Speaker 5: This is a physical team. Even though Chubb was hurt,
Speaker 5: Ford's no slouch in the backfield. That guy back and ball.
Speaker 5: So I'm sitting there thinking, man like man, eventually Cleveland's
Speaker 5: gonna get it rolling. But it just never happened. That
Speaker 5: past rush was immense and Russian cover was working together
Speaker 5: because the young pup on the outside the.
Speaker 2: Corner killing Carson. Come on, he was playing now, he
Speaker 2: was playing. He showed no fear when he got up
Speaker 2: and started, you know, talking to talk.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, my man got that confidence roll roll
Speaker 5: so defensively man, it was, it wasn't showing. And I
Speaker 5: was impressed because I did not think that's what I
Speaker 5: was going to see on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Well some of the things.
Speaker 4: And I asked you that question because I know you
Speaker 4: had the questions about the linebacker room right away. Kendricks did,
Speaker 4: as long as he's been in the NFL, and how
Speaker 4: long are you going to have how effective.
Speaker 2: Is he going to be able to be with those years?
Speaker 4: And also how would dig Digg's respond to the a
Speaker 4: cl injury injury. One thing that I saw right off
Speaker 4: the back that this defense was flying, right. That was
Speaker 4: the one thing, like he's just sitting there watching it
Speaker 4: and you're saying, like just doing a comparison between last
Speaker 4: year and this year, and dan Quinn's defense was flying too,
Speaker 4: but the speed on the field was apparent. One of
Speaker 4: the things you were worried about was the too high
Speaker 4: safety look okay, and then you saw a lot of
Speaker 4: times he t tinkered with especially played with watching with
Speaker 4: I thought they was gonna be back the whole time, right,
Speaker 4: they moved and he did a lot of maneuver into that.
Speaker 4: But the one thing that I thought that was so
Speaker 4: key and then matchup, and I thought the matchup would
Speaker 4: be more against the safeties than it was the linebackers.
Speaker 4: But the linebacker's ability to play in space, that is
Speaker 4: something that going back years past, especially last year, and
Speaker 4: I mean, look not to say that Lady Vandersch was
Speaker 4: not a good linebacker. He was, but just being able
Speaker 4: to run out of space and being aware conscious keeping
Speaker 4: the same leverage you saw that a lot from the
Speaker 4: linebackers yesterday, you know, and then also being able to
Speaker 4: get out into the flats. Now, my expectation with digs
Speaker 4: was a little bit different. I thought they would play
Speaker 4: more zone with digs than anything. And you saw them
Speaker 4: change the coverage up a lot, and just the fact
Speaker 4: that everybody was running to the ball. You saw the
Speaker 4: pursuit angles that these guys were taking. And I'm like, look,
Speaker 4: number one, every team that we faced week one, all
Speaker 4: the way through eighteen, they have ran the ball at us.
Speaker 4: How effective would we be in stopping the run? And
Speaker 4: you saw right away nobody's talking about it. Mozzie Smith
Speaker 4: had a good game. Mozzie Smith had a good game.
Speaker 4: He wasn't out there doing the hockey pok no White,
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. You saw Mozzie Smith and this
Speaker 4: defensive line was holding their position and allowing the linebackers
Speaker 4: to run. But also Barry pointing out what you said
Speaker 4: about not only Tank but Micah. How was coach Zimmerman
Speaker 4: going to use Michael Parsons And to me, he said,
Speaker 4: I'm not changing the recipe. I'm gonna move you around.
Speaker 4: I know exactly what kind of player you want to be.
Speaker 4: And like you said, he was absolutely relentless, but he
Speaker 4: was so disruptive that at times. And I'm just going,
Speaker 4: I'm just just taking a simple size of the first
Speaker 4: of the first half, twenty three plays, fifty three yards
Speaker 4: in the total.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 4: That is complete and utter domination. And look, first first
Speaker 4: week of in the NFL. I understand, I'm not about
Speaker 4: to jump out the kick yet, I'm on my way,
Speaker 4: but that to me was the tailtale sign that we
Speaker 4: needed to see from this defense. That obviously, as you
Speaker 4: go through the season and you look to the playoffs
Speaker 4: and now you can't obviously you don't want to go
Speaker 4: to the next week, but just based off of what
Speaker 4: we saw last last year, they looked like the attention
Speaker 4: to detail at stopping the run is there.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was there. And when you talk about, you know, the.
Speaker 5: Missile the Wazooka, when you talk about how does he
Speaker 5: get to his game to the next level, because we
Speaker 5: understand the pass rusher he is, He's a pass rush specialist.
Speaker 5: That guy gets after the quarterback like none other. But
Speaker 5: did you see how he was against the run game
Speaker 5: as well? I mean the guy was penaned trading and
Speaker 5: making sure that everything wasn't just let me get the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Let me get the quarterback, let me affect the game
Speaker 2: in other ways. He was able.
Speaker 4: He was an able and good run defender. Then you
Speaker 4: look at the interception that Kendricks had. He didn't just
Speaker 4: belining that straight at the quarterback. He was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: they left me unblocked for a reason. Let me put
Speaker 4: the light bobs are turning it in there. Something's going on,
Speaker 4: quick pass. Let me get my hands up.
Speaker 5: Something may happen tip the ball in the air, creating
Speaker 5: another turnover.
Speaker 2: For this defense.
Speaker 5: I loved every part of his game there, but as
Speaker 5: a defense as a whole. Not only were they fast
Speaker 5: because you saw the speed pop off the tape, but
Speaker 5: you know how physical those guys were. I mean, they
Speaker 5: were coming downhill like none other. I mean, and what
Speaker 5: I love the most, and I know Rob, Mary and
Speaker 5: Nelly would love this as well, is it wasn't just
Speaker 5: let me tackle this guy to the ground. When you
Speaker 5: hit the ground, there was about three or four different
Speaker 5: hats jumping on you.
Speaker 4: Dlaw coming in there giving you something. Kendrick's come and
Speaker 4: give you. The safety's coming down there and giving you something.
Speaker 4: The hitting was at an all time high. I love
Speaker 4: the way they were finishing each and every place. You
Speaker 4: saw how those Browns players were getting up slow. To man,
Speaker 4: that stuff hurt.
Speaker 2: That's hurt.
Speaker 5: Well, you got guys just piling on You ain't just
Speaker 5: one on one tackles out there. So to me, that
Speaker 5: was a big aspect defensively, and the communication was key
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 2: You didn't see any explosive plays.
Speaker 5: Wide receivers weren't running Scott free open deep in the
Speaker 5: middle of the field. Everything was kept in front of
Speaker 5: this defense, and that's what you love to see.
Speaker 4: That was winning football, right hey, man, and Donovan Wilson
Speaker 4: made a tackle, I said, but it looked like.
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Speaker 2: love it, you love hey. We got man, We got
Speaker 2: more coming for you. Man.
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Speaker 4: started three rookies. Hadn't done that, I believe since twenty
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Speaker 4: want to give out a game ball. I want to
Speaker 4: give out a game ball today for one of three rookies.
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Speaker 4: in the NFL versus the number one defense. Okay, then
Speaker 4: we're gonna go out to the left tackle, Tyler Guiton,
Speaker 4: rookie never played left tackle before. Okay, gets an opportunity
Speaker 4: to play left tackle in the NFL. Oh blessings all around.
Speaker 4: But he's going up against Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: Who was he was defensive player there.
Speaker 4: I mean we all defensive player of the year, Miles
Speaker 4: Garrett first game of the season.
Speaker 2: Okay, not much to worry about. That won't keep you
Speaker 2: up at night, right. But then on the other side.
Speaker 4: Kayln Carson, a rookie, now has an opportunity to go
Speaker 4: up against Jerry Judy and Amari Coop. So with the
Speaker 4: with the performances that you saw on Sunday, if Barry
Speaker 4: Church is handing out a game ball, who is Barry
Speaker 4: Church handing that game ball out to man?
Speaker 5: Look, I understand you know the two offensive line, and
Speaker 5: they were dealing with a lot when you talk about ranking,
Speaker 5: when you talk about Miles Garrett coming out the edge,
Speaker 5: the way they move him around, both of those guys
Speaker 5: BB and Guy and got their fair share of Miles
Speaker 5: Garrett out there.
Speaker 2: But you know, I got to keep it on the
Speaker 2: defensive side of the football.
Speaker 5: You know, I got to keep it on the defensive
Speaker 5: side of the football, and I gotta go with my man, Carson.
Speaker 5: I mean, now you're out there, and cornerback is one
Speaker 5: of the toughest positions in football. I mean, because you
Speaker 5: understand you got help sometimes, but you're on the island
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 4: If you mess up or if something goes over the
Speaker 4: top of your head, the camera's on you. They zooming
Speaker 4: in on that to one like this is him. They
Speaker 4: following you from the play all the way to the
Speaker 4: sideline like man, even on the bench, you sitting here,
Speaker 4: they got the camera on you.
Speaker 5: Like man, this dude got burnt. But to me, I
Speaker 5: think he performed extremely well out there. I mean, giving
Speaker 5: the circumstances you get thrown out there week one, like
Speaker 5: you said, the weapons.
Speaker 2: He was going against Jerry Jude.
Speaker 5: Cooper, the boys out there, you going against all stars,
Speaker 5: and he was able to go out there and not
Speaker 5: only hold his own, but he held it down. I mean,
Speaker 5: you look at it. The man was breaking on the football.
Speaker 5: He was getting contested passes. I think he had two
Speaker 5: pass breakup. Sure interceptions, you got to come down with that,
Speaker 5: But overall, man, I was I was surprised, pleasantly surprised
Speaker 5: by his performance.
Speaker 2: Out there filling in for Doron Bland. That's another thing.
Speaker 5: You got big shoes to feel. Thern Blend is the
Speaker 5: definition of a ball hocking corner. So to me, he
Speaker 5: went out there held his own. You didn't see anything
Speaker 5: over top of him. He was in position.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: He helped his defense out immensely. So I got to
Speaker 5: give my game ball because you know, love the defensive side.
Speaker 2: Of the ball. Got to give it to Carson.
Speaker 4: So I absolutely knew that's where you were going and
Speaker 4: didn't need to be you know, I knew that you
Speaker 4: yeah do it. And I'm telling you, I felt like
Speaker 4: Al Harris was going to have Kayln Carson ready to go,
Speaker 4: and so if anybody was going to have him prepared
Speaker 4: and ready to go, it was going to be our hairs.
Speaker 2: He knows that.
Speaker 4: Look everything all day, all of the potential that Carson
Speaker 4: had in him, the things that you saw during pregame,
Speaker 4: during the preseason, and everything you saw from him out
Speaker 4: in oxen Art, he just continued to just build upon
Speaker 4: what you had already seen.
Speaker 2: On the other side.
Speaker 4: Man, for those two offensive linemen, we hadn't seen a
Speaker 4: lot and there was nothing really positive coming out. I
Speaker 4: think we talked about Guidon. You guys said it all week.
Speaker 4: Gidan is gonna get help. They're gonna chip, they're gonna
Speaker 4: bring tight ends, they're gonna do get him. He's not
Speaker 4: gonna be man to man and solo in that area
Speaker 4: with Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: So I want to applaud him for doing the job
Speaker 2: that he did.
Speaker 4: But to me, Cooper BBKA, I'm giving Cooper b b
Speaker 4: a game ball because number one, the pressure is if
Speaker 4: Dak doesn't get the snap, we can't do nothing. I mean,
Speaker 4: you gotta give the guy that starts to party the
Speaker 4: game ball because he did a good job of one
Speaker 4: calling out the protections. He's calling out the protections, letting everybody.
Speaker 4: I mean, he is the quarterback of the offensive line.
Speaker 4: So he did that. If you pay attention to go
Speaker 4: back and look at it all twenty two, my man
Speaker 4: is getting to the second level. He is moving earth
Speaker 4: when it comes down to double teams. I mean, look,
Speaker 4: he was effective in every way.
Speaker 2: Uh. And I think when you have a guy.
Speaker 4: And we have been for years wanting this kind of
Speaker 4: playmaker at the center a position since Frederick because and
Speaker 4: to me, I think that Cooper BB's confidence as it
Speaker 4: continues to grow as we get through the season. I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, this is a guy that everybody's going to
Speaker 4: be like, wow, how could you have seen that he
Speaker 4: could move from the guard position to the center position.
Speaker 4: So my game ball that I got, I'm going to
Speaker 4: my KSE State email. Can action see knew he's not here,
Speaker 4: but he would have called me. But I'm going I'm
Speaker 4: going with BB And I thought from the rookie class,
Speaker 4: I thought that he really showed his value and you know,
Speaker 4: give shout out in balls to all of these guys
Speaker 4: in the job that they did because I thought those
Speaker 4: play outstanding.
Speaker 2: But on the other side, on.
Speaker 4: The other side, though, the running back room, which we
Speaker 4: had questions about the running back room, this is true.
Speaker 4: Are you still are you still in panic mode over
Speaker 4: the running back room or did you see flashes from
Speaker 4: the running back room that made you say, look, I
Speaker 4: think we'll be okay if we're gonna go with this
Speaker 4: recipe through the season.
Speaker 5: I will say this, I liked, you know, the approach
Speaker 5: they had in this game with the running backs. I mean,
Speaker 5: you saw it was a running back room for a
Speaker 5: running back by committee style the entire game. You know,
Speaker 5: Zeke had his carriers even deuce sliding there and got
Speaker 5: a carrier too, did you had, you know, Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 5: you know, getting a reverse in there as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, coachs as well.
Speaker 5: So I loved how you know, Mike McCarthy understood that
Speaker 5: he doesn't have that extra dynamic guy it he can
Speaker 5: just turn around and hand the football too, You're gonna
Speaker 5: have to sprinkle in things here and there. I think
Speaker 5: he did a great job calling that and keeping that
Speaker 5: defense for the Browns, honest, So they couldn't just pin
Speaker 5: their ears back and get after Dak Prescot because they
Speaker 5: ran the ball, believe.
Speaker 2: Twenty five times. They got a hundred yards sold.
Speaker 5: You know, they're averaging about a four clip and to me,
Speaker 5: that's winning football.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: The question is when he comes to that, Oh, let
Speaker 5: me get him some more flowers as well. Though, the
Speaker 5: way they were able to pick up blitzes was outstanding.
Speaker 5: Whether it's you know, Rico Zeke, those guys did an
Speaker 5: amazing job picking up the blitzes because you know, Schwartze
Speaker 5: was sending them from all over the place, and Dak
Speaker 5: Prescott looked pretty much for the entire day.
Speaker 2: A couple you know instances here and there.
Speaker 5: But he, you know, looked cool, calm and collected pretty
Speaker 5: much the entire game. And I had a lot to
Speaker 5: do with those running backs picking up those blitzeres. So
Speaker 5: they did an amazing job in that regard as well.
Speaker 5: But I'm not sure if this recipe can be sustainable,
Speaker 5: Like if you can go out there and continuously, you know,
Speaker 5: rotate these backs in there and clip out a hundred yards,
Speaker 5: because there's gonna be games when you know that running
Speaker 5: the attack, you might rush it for twenty five times,
Speaker 5: but you might only be getting fifty yards as a whole.
Speaker 5: And are they gonna revert back to what they did
Speaker 5: last year when that running game isn't working that well,
Speaker 5: which is throw the football more with Dak Prescott and
Speaker 5: rely more on his shoulders. I don't think that's a
Speaker 5: recipe for success. I think that balance attack is always
Speaker 5: the best option when you talk about Dallas Cowboys football.
Speaker 5: But I'm not so sure that this can be sustainable.
Speaker 5: It was great week one, but we'll see what they
Speaker 5: do going further on.
Speaker 4: Look, when I was looking at the running game, we
Speaker 4: talked about this all week and we's heading into week
Speaker 4: one about the balance that the Cowboys had to have
Speaker 4: in order to stop this Mike Schwartz defense from pinning
Speaker 4: their ears back and coming after that, you had to
Speaker 4: be effective and picking up picking up first downs in
Speaker 4: the running game was what we had to do. You
Speaker 4: have to move the chain third down, you have to
Speaker 4: be big on Thursda down. You had to be able
Speaker 4: to set to make those linebackers respect play actions all right,
Speaker 4: and you saw throughout the entire game that was what
Speaker 4: that was the setting that Mike McCarthy was, he was
Speaker 4: laying those seeds forward and they had to respect it.
Speaker 4: Now when it got to the point that they were
Speaker 4: just like, look, we can't. We got to play our game,
Speaker 4: and they reverted back into who they are and that's
Speaker 4: just we're gonna blitch. You were gonna have to come
Speaker 4: after you, and we don't believe that there's no way
Speaker 4: that you can find the open man. And to me,
Speaker 4: as you talk about those blitz pick ups and packages
Speaker 4: and that's what I was saying to you about laughed
Speaker 4: at me, but I was talking about when we let
Speaker 4: go a Pollard and what we needed from Zeke because
Speaker 4: you needed that guy to be able to feel that
Speaker 4: they gap on those double a gaps blitzes. But also
Speaker 4: you saw when they went cover zero down on their
Speaker 4: pass to Cooks. Now, the hell of a play by
Speaker 4: dak Man that come on. That was just so I
Speaker 4: think really a lot of times when people are watching football,
Speaker 4: they don't realize what a pressure cooker moment that is
Speaker 4: for a quarterback when you're facing cover zero.
Speaker 5: Basically exactly when you looked at it, cover zero For
Speaker 5: those who don't know, it's basically the defense is blitzing
Speaker 5: one more gap that you can pick up. Like you
Speaker 5: don't have enough offensive line or backs to block everybody
Speaker 5: that they had, so one person is going to be free.
Speaker 5: And in that situation, I mean, you just saw what
Speaker 5: makes Dak the quarterback he is because he had a
Speaker 5: guy number fifty eight. I believe it was Jordan Hicks
Speaker 5: from the Browns, a linebacker screaming right down his face
Speaker 5: he can't right through the B gap.
Speaker 2: I mean they left, you know, I guess they picked up.
Speaker 5: However, they wanted that protection to get picked up, and
Speaker 5: he happened to be the guy that was Scott Free
Speaker 5: coming in there. And when you look at the play,
Speaker 5: Dak buys himself time by backpedaling a little bit, but
Speaker 5: when he launches that ball into the area ended up
Speaker 5: being a corner route to the back of pile line
Speaker 5: for Cooks.
Speaker 4: When he threw the ball, Coach wasn't even in his break.
Speaker 4: Coach was still, you know, looking at the dB, looking
Speaker 4: at whatever he had to do. He was getting to
Speaker 4: the top of his route. He wasn't in his break
Speaker 4: looking back. Nothing like that.
Speaker 5: The anticipation and accuracy in which Dak was able to
Speaker 5: throw that pass, I mean, that was a hell of
Speaker 5: a pass and the hell of a play overall.
Speaker 4: And that to me, just like you said, man, it
Speaker 4: showed that where Dak is at this point in his
Speaker 4: career to be able to make that touch pass over
Speaker 4: the you know, to the corner like that and again
Speaker 4: get your court catch your wide receiver en route before
Speaker 4: he even comes out of his break. It takes guys.
Speaker 4: It takes guys a lifetime. And when you see a
Speaker 4: guy do that in college, you're like, he's the number one.
Speaker 2: One because he absolutely could do it.
Speaker 4: And those are like the little things that I think
Speaker 4: for me when I'm I'm thinking about Mike McCarthy in
Speaker 4: his offense, the way that he has these guys prepared
Speaker 4: for moments like that, and just now seeing how cool
Speaker 4: and calm dak is used to be, and just from
Speaker 4: my experience, used to be a situation where time out,
Speaker 4: we need to come back and talk about that. He's
Speaker 4: able to handle that, you know, make the prognosis on
Speaker 4: the fly and then find the open man. But to me,
Speaker 4: like I see where your questions is are on the
Speaker 4: running game as far as is this sustainable, But it's
Speaker 4: also if it's going to be a running back by
Speaker 4: committee like this, and I'm only asking Zeke ten carries
Speaker 4: forty yards, two catches nine yards, I'm asking Rico Dada
Speaker 4: to come in for eight carres for twenty six yards,
Speaker 4: and we're going to distribute this all the way through
Speaker 4: the wide receivers, tight ends, l Buggie.
Speaker 2: He did that sustainable?
Speaker 5: You think z can come in here and give you
Speaker 5: ten for fifty every every game.
Speaker 4: It's hard for me. It's hard for me now to
Speaker 4: question whether he can't. And it you know, if I
Speaker 4: think if you're if your offensive line is giving you
Speaker 4: opportunities like this, and if you watch it all twenty two, Evenrecodell,
Speaker 4: I have some holds that he could have got through
Speaker 4: the turf Monthster got him. But still I think it's
Speaker 4: sustainable because you're gonna you're not facing the number one
Speaker 4: defense in the league each and every week. True, And
Speaker 4: so if I'm not having to face that, then that
Speaker 4: gives me, gives me the hope, that hope that I
Speaker 4: can actually mail and hope that I can actually make
Speaker 4: that happen. And to me, I don't need Zeke to
Speaker 4: be one hundred and twenty five twenty five yards a game.
Speaker 4: I think what I'm I'm asking Zike to do is
Speaker 4: be fresh when his time is called. And that's exactly
Speaker 4: what Mike was giving you. He's like, look, every time
Speaker 4: I put one of these guys in, whatever the rotation
Speaker 4: is going to be, they're going to be fresh each
Speaker 4: and every time I put them in.
Speaker 5: Ye. And to me, that goes, you know, credit to
Speaker 5: the coach and staff the road, the way they rotating.
Speaker 2: They out coach Cleveland hundred percent in this game.
Speaker 5: Because defensively, to me and who I'm out of question Schwartz,
Speaker 5: he's had, you know, number one defenses and all that,
Speaker 5: And I understand, but why are you leaving cities single?
Speaker 5: Like I understand you got faith in your corners, you know,
Speaker 5: nuse war. Those guys are Pro bowlers and you got,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: Faith in your guys. But on your see that they're
Speaker 4: getting wore out. I told you, what what are you doing?
Speaker 4: And that's to say, offensively, for the Browns, why are
Speaker 4: we going away?
Speaker 2: The game was what they seven or three? What are
Speaker 2: we doing? Fortally had twelve carries? It's like what are.
Speaker 4: Sean Watson through the football forty five times? To me,
Speaker 4: that's just I'm like, what a why?
Speaker 2: Why are we? What are we thinking here? Like you,
Speaker 2: your formula is being.
Speaker 5: Physical and running the football right the coach, I don't
Speaker 5: know what happens, but it's just I don't know if
Speaker 5: they get to q Ford or you know, they got
Speaker 5: too much faith in what they're they're running here. But man,
Speaker 5: like you got CD over there, you got a bunch
Speaker 5: of unproven talent on the other side.
Speaker 2: Man, make them beat you, right, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And then offensively, they pulled a Baltimore like last year.
Speaker 4: We're gonna spread it out and we're gonna throw the
Speaker 4: stag all over the yard.
Speaker 2: That's all right.
Speaker 4: You feed writing the head because he gonna send the
Speaker 4: dogs after you say, we got some brand new for y'all.
Speaker 2: We got something.
Speaker 5: Coordinators, get the I gotta show him I could do this, man,
Speaker 5: you better turn around the hand out football office.
Speaker 2: How to see the look? How to see the look?
Speaker 4: Did CD looked like there was any russ which is
Speaker 4: wild no to me, And that was surprising to me, Like,
Speaker 4: you know, after a couple of players, he would you
Speaker 4: see him him a little tired, but for him to
Speaker 4: go out there and that connection still be what it is,
Speaker 4: I mean, the dot it was just dots.
Speaker 5: I mean, he was just he was. He looked unguardable.
Speaker 5: He looked unguardable. And I'm sure it's just gonna get
Speaker 5: better and better as the season goes on.
Speaker 2: But I mean that was ridiculous as well.
Speaker 4: And man, we're gonna take another break, but I got
Speaker 4: to talk some more about this linebacker room. Friday the thirteenth,
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Speaker 4: y'all all forty five of these minutes today on a
Speaker 4: victory Monday. So good to be back and then get
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Speaker 4: b see all the just the Cowboys not gonna make
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I had.
Speaker 5: That was one from my I thought they was gonna lose.
Speaker 5: I had the yeah, I had them boys losing this game.
Speaker 5: See sometimes, man, you just get caught up in the hype.
Speaker 4: Man I've been telling your boy, be trying to say,
Speaker 4: y'all been trying to help you, man, But that's all.
Speaker 2: It's a long season, Cowboy Nation. We're gonna win them over.
Speaker 4: So linebacker room is something we've been talking about because
Speaker 4: you've been concerned about it. You really felt this though, Like, man,
Speaker 4: they bring in Eric Hendricks, and not that you hated
Speaker 4: on Kendricks. It was just like, look, man, it's a
Speaker 4: guy that's long into two and how can he impact
Speaker 4: this room.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you what I saw from fifty. Let
Speaker 2: me hear it.
Speaker 4: Fifty was sideline the sideline and he was running like
Speaker 4: he didn't have anyone on him. The other thing that
Speaker 4: I loved about this linebacker group that's different from last year.
Speaker 4: They were taking on blocks coming downhill. I mean, picking
Speaker 4: these guys off. I saw one tackle I think it
Speaker 4: was overshone. Overshawn is scraping. He hits the tackle right
Speaker 4: behind him comes Eric Kendricks underneath and makes the tackle.
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you, like, that's the beauty of playing defense. Man.
Speaker 4: As you know, it's a link in the chain. All
Speaker 4: things work together, right, And it's like when you start
Speaker 4: to see a defense working that way, It's like, man,
Speaker 4: it's hard to stop a defense and guys align the
Speaker 4: way that the Cowboys was playing the lineman assignment football.
Speaker 4: But the linebacker room to me looked like it was revamped.
Speaker 4: It was redone.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, when you look at defenses, I mean, you
Speaker 5: know that's what hurt this team last year. You know,
Speaker 5: you had a lot of guys going out there and
Speaker 5: they were effective, but there was there was times when
Speaker 5: you know, if you had four so you have contained,
Speaker 5: and you go on the inside and you lose contained,
Speaker 5: you know, that's you know, that becomes a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 5: But what you saw from this defense was, you know,
Speaker 5: everybody knew the role and what.
Speaker 2: The responsibility was.
Speaker 5: If you were supposed to go out there and make
Speaker 5: sure that running back cuts inside of you to where
Speaker 5: all your helps from him coming from, that's exactly what
Speaker 5: they did.
Speaker 2: There was nobody going in and doing their own thing.
Speaker 5: Everybody was kind of like you said, Lincoln Chain, this
Speaker 5: guy's gonna have the force. He's gonna come in and
Speaker 5: make a tackle, or he's gonna go ahead and spill
Speaker 5: and go inside force the back on the outside, and
Speaker 5: there's gonna be somebody waiting for him, so they were
Speaker 5: all lockeding step together, and I think that had a
Speaker 5: lot to do with Kendricks and his communicating abilities out there.
Speaker 5: He's the quarterback of this defense. That's what I was saying,
Speaker 5: you know, pretty much all offseason. This is the guy
Speaker 5: who's gonna be the quarterback of your defenses. He's able
Speaker 5: to remain healthy and he can go through the entire
Speaker 5: seventeen game season or whatever. He's gonna be a big
Speaker 5: time contributor to what this defense has. Now to me,
Speaker 5: you got a lot of young pups underneath him. You
Speaker 5: got Leah File, you got over shown who was outstanding
Speaker 5: in that game. And that's why I believe they cannot
Speaker 5: lose Kendricks like he has to be there the entirety
Speaker 5: of the season, and I hope he is because he's
Speaker 5: that quarterback. He got those guys lined up in the
Speaker 5: right situation to where they weren't doing too much think
Speaker 5: and it was you know what, you see ball, you
Speaker 5: go get ball.
Speaker 2: They were flying one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 5: And that's what he can do for that defense in there,
Speaker 5: not only with his play and stopping run making players
Speaker 5: out there getting interceptions, but lining people up to where
Speaker 5: all they have to do is I know my responsibility,
Speaker 5: let me go ahead and get after it.
Speaker 2: And that's what he brings to the table. And he
Speaker 2: had an outstanding the game. Man.
Speaker 4: My first thought was, that's a linebacker. Yeah, that's a linebacker.
Speaker 4: And you saw I mean, he maneuver, moved and did
Speaker 4: everything and operated as a linebacker. And as Barry Church
Speaker 4: is letting you know, I mean, and that's why I
Speaker 4: think it's so good when you get this, get the
Speaker 4: feedback from the players and guys that have been in
Speaker 4: the heat of that moment that understand how defense work.
Speaker 4: And I think anybody thinking you could just plug and
Speaker 4: play guys, you know, my key's bell to his credit,
Speaker 4: I mean, and I'm not trying to hate on them.
Speaker 4: I'm he did the best he could do. But he
Speaker 4: was completely out of position. It's a different read, it's
Speaker 4: a different look being that closer to the line of
Speaker 4: scrimmage that he's used to seeing from his safety position.
Speaker 4: And I think a lot of time he was just
Speaker 4: out over his skis. There's nothing that he could do
Speaker 4: about it. But when you see Eric Kendricks in his
Speaker 4: communication that he's having getting guys, getting guys lined up
Speaker 4: maneuver of Michael Parsons and telling him what even the
Speaker 4: communication after bad plays. That kind of leadership you've been
Speaker 4: craving for. That You're not out there with a guy
Speaker 4: that's not sure of himself. He's been in the league
Speaker 4: for a long time. He knows what it takes to
Speaker 4: get it done. But on the other side, for me,
Speaker 4: overshown and this is a guy that, right, I'm going
Speaker 4: to say this, like you hear things and you see
Speaker 4: little splashes and you're like, oh, yeah, that's that's that's good.
Speaker 4: You know, I like that. You know he did.
Speaker 2: I No, that stuffed the tape man. Yes he did.
Speaker 4: And that and that's when I and that's exactly what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about. A guy that makes a splash play
Speaker 4: on the sack that we were just talking about him
Speaker 4: and Micah running at an angle and then all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, it just looked like he went in hyperdrive.
Speaker 4: He did take off. He take off and that kind
Speaker 4: and that kind of speed. I just really I think
Speaker 4: you see it from special players like Micah, but you
Speaker 4: know everybody else you're looking to see ken they have
Speaker 4: that kind of I'm coming downhill effect on defense, and
Speaker 4: he showed that yesterday and.
Speaker 6: Not to me.
Speaker 5: And it goes back and not to take away from
Speaker 5: over showing audims as they balled out, but this is
Speaker 5: to me why.
Speaker 2: I couldn't understand the approach to this game.
Speaker 5: You got a young line back in there, you got
Speaker 5: a young core on the inside with Mazie and those
Speaker 5: young boys, you got kneeling on now side.
Speaker 2: Why they are The Browns usually have.
Speaker 5: One of the most physical, complex running games International Football League.
Speaker 5: Guys pulling this way, counters, traps, wearing blocks, you're gonna
Speaker 5: get it all. Usually when you go against the FANSKI
Speaker 5: in that you know Brown's offense.
Speaker 4: But they went away from it completely and you had
Speaker 4: two young pupps in there on the inside.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand it.
Speaker 5: But kudos to the Dallas Cowboys and Zimver being ready
Speaker 5: for anything and they took advantage of it.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm gonna go ahead and say Paul's early, but
Speaker 4: they came in with the beef package with Livald Joseph
Speaker 4: and Jordan Phillips, and I'm telling you, in the second
Speaker 4: half they made life miserable for man. I mean, you
Speaker 4: got two guys six five, six four, three hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty five pounds a piece.
Speaker 2: Right there.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, come in with that beef
Speaker 4: package he got. He can't do nothing about that. And
Speaker 4: I'll tell you I loved it. I loved it. And
Speaker 4: also honorable mention, Honorable mention, Mark Shawn Kneeland. Marshawn Kneeland
Speaker 4: came out and balled. Hey, the rookie. The rookie came,
Speaker 4: he did his thingment he didn't lose contain. And this
Speaker 4: is a game that I was thinking, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 4: Sam Williams not even playing. Think about the I mean
Speaker 4: Sam Williams in his development that he's had as an
Speaker 4: edge rusher. And guy I said, we didn't even see
Speaker 4: him at Marshawn Kneeland steps in and he gets those sacks. Man,
Speaker 4: this guy's like him Osa Diggy Zoo as you said it.
Speaker 4: Man joined the party. Everybody came out and baughd Jay Lou.
Speaker 5: He's gonna he's fisty man. You know he gonna he
Speaker 5: gonna chop. He gonna chop yep every time. Man surprising.
Speaker 5: I just can't bad. Look we did, I think we did.
Speaker 5: I think we're gonna be We're gonna be back. We're
Speaker 5: gonna be back to tomorrow at two o'clock.
Speaker 2: Know you'll be right here. I'll be over there. But
Speaker 2: no matter what, this is gonna be the.
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