WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: 09-09-24 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Cowboys. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.960 This is the Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.520 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Darry Church, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.840 Hecma Harrison, and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.200 It's Victory Monday from the Tajuva Hall of Football here 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.640 in the US WBC Mortgage Studios, from the Star, home 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.839 of your Dallas Cowboys. And raise your hand. Raise your 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.680 hand if you pick the Cowboys to win on Sunday. Oh, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.839 only the winners were speaking. Let'll tell ya you know 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.760 what it is. You're now rocket with the best. I'm 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.440 heck Ma Harrison alongside the player. E r my man, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:56.280 Barry Church. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.320 Is up there, and I am just merely the player. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:00.440 That's it. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.680 That's listen, man, I'm not gonna hate. I'm not gonna 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.000 see I'm not gonna do it. It's the first it's 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.120 the first week of the game. It's the first week 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.000 to week one week one. So I'm I'm gonna maintain 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.360 my cool. I'm gonna be humble, as the old people say, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.479 umble yourself. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:22.640 I'm humble myself. Who's but it feels so good. Though. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.080 It feels so good because they hated on us, they 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.920 doubted us, and man, we came away with this double BC. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.440 You know how I always start to show out that 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:35.800 I was get ready. I was getting ready to get 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.119 you before I get before I get to hype. I'm 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.920 gonna check your mentals. Man, How you doing. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.120 I'm doing amaze, I'm doing amazing you playing golf this weekend, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:45.520 not this weekend. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:46.440 Not this weekend. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.000 I was with the kids all weekend, so playing that 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.840 daddy duty role. So no off this weekend. But it 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.360 was a great time. I mean, whether it's cool and 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.920 off a little bit out there, so it feels good. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.000 You know, the boys got their w even though I 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:58.280 was on. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:01:59.360 The wrong side of that. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.800 But you know, it's neither here north there feeling great. Heckma, 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:03.600 what about yourself? 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:03.760 Man? 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.240 And I'm good man, blessed man. The family is good. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.320 Everybody's good. You know, it's just all weekend football. Nothing 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.760 else is happening in my life. In the falls, it's 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.079 all we do. So this is all we do. All right, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.639 We're gonna ride this all the way to the summertime. Man, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.600 But this, you know, amazing, man, everything is good in 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.639 my life, man. But I got to ask you BC 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.919 and served yesterday about ten o'clock your phone went off, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.919 but you was on air when it happened. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.000 Was you was on air yesterday when it happened? 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.640 You have to give me your reaction to Jerry Jones 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:41.720 basically hijacking the first week held Hi jacked the height 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.880 of week one by putting the issue, putting putting head 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.239 to bed on that that contract's contract and putting pin 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.679 to pad. Tell me how you felt about it. It 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.080 just did he not get the bag? First and foremost? 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.320 You talking about a bag? I mean that man got 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:03.360 a bag from North Park Mall, Galleria anyway Europe. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.040 Every type of bad you can think of, he got it. Man. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.640 It kudos to that, to that young fellow right there, 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.320 I mean not young anymore, year eight, but Dak Prescott. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.359 Man, you know he much deserved of it, much deserved 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:14.600 of it. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.920 But when you talk about getting ahead week one, you 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:19.160 know in. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.919 The National Football League it's week one. Everybody's hyped about 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.960 this that and the third. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.920 You know, my mass Jerry came through and just hit 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.880 him with the bombshell. Yeah, by the way, you know 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.120 we're gonna make Dak Prescott the highest paid football player 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.880 in National Football League history. Like, that's that's unbelievable. Two 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.720 hundred and I believe what thirty one guaranteed, the two 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.040 forty guaranteed. Might as well call it a fully guaranteed contract. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.400 But I mean that that was outstanding. And when it 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.680 first hit, I was thinking to myself, like, all right, well, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.400 that's two of your best offensive players locked in unison 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.800 for the foreseeable future. I'm talking about Ceedee Lamb and 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.880 Dak Prescott. So that's that's that's building block one. You 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.400 got that situated. But when you talk about a guy 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.280 getting his money, I mean, this is a and that 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.480 came in fourth round draft pick. You know, came in 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.760 the building under Tony Romo. People thought, Okay, this is 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.880 gonna be a you know, developmental guy. Let's just you know, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.880 stash him away here for a little bit. He had 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.360 to battle with that for that backup role with Jamill 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.760 Showers for a little bit of during camp, and then 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.240 that first preseason game in the Coliseum against the Rams. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.320 I mean that's pretty much when everybody on the squad 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.279 at least kind of figured okay, man, we got somebody, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.680 right here. He might not play this year, but we 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.320 got somebody here and then you know the story how 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.200 it goes. I mean, Romo gets hurt, he steps in, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.560 and he just goes from there on and becomes a 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.040 player he is today. But you got to get that 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.159 man signed. And knew he called it from the beginning, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.680 it's gonna happen. You know, you never lose an offensive 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.719 weapon like new he likes to call him, So we 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.599 knew he was gonna get signed. It wasn't you know 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.479 if it was more like a win. And to me, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.679 I was thinking, okay, well, if you don't get the number, 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.760 you thinking you might as well wait till you know 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.360 free agency so you can hit him over the head 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.560 for another ten to fifteen. But they came with the 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.800 number that I believe my man was head in the 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.520 back of his head because he got every penny and 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.360 he's definitely worth every penny of it. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:04:59.840 You'd love to see it. Man. I thought it was 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:01.000 a signing by the boys. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.640 I mean, Barry, I think what you're pointing out is 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.479 all of the leverage that Dak had going into this 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.640 into the season, and I think, and I thought, listen, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.520 sixty million dollars was probably what he had in his 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.160 head anyway, and he exceeded what some people thought was. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.560 You know, when you saw those Jordan Love fifty five 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.080 and guys hovering around there, you know that the next 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.359 step up, guys are trying to take it to sixty 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.680 sixty five. And those were the rumors that say, hey, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.680 if he makes it too free agency, that's what it's 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:28.000 going to be. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.000 To me, I'm just glad. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.840 That you avoid the distraction of having to answer the 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.240 question about Dak's contract each and every week, and just 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.680 backing up a little bit, man, when you pointed out 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.680 what he had to face coming into the league, being 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.279 a fourth round draft pick and also having to compete 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.360 just to be on the fifty three and then kind 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.400 of having that coming out party at the coliseum that 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.839 you've seen and it's been every year, and just starting 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.400 at twenty sixteen, when Dak emerging at thirteen to three season, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.640 that you're looking at a guy that you're like, man, 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.760 he is a leader, he is a baller. Obviously, if 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.680 you look at the top tier, everybody's going to argue, well, 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.960 he ain't top five and he's not top this, But 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.880 what all he does is go out there and ball 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.520 give you an opportunity lessen every week, that's all. And 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.600 so the coming off of what he did last season 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.440 and on a forty four thousand, five hundred and sixteen 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.200 thousand yard season, leading the league in touchdowns with thirty 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.240 six touchdowns and only nine interceptions, that's ball. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.960 Oh, that's a that's a for showballer. You're lying about that. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.360 When you look at Dak Prescott, you've got a guy 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.279 like you just mentioned, who gets better and better each year. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.400 And that's what you love to see from your quarterback position. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.040 If you look at it, I think it was what 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.159 two years ago, through a lot of interceptions, you know, pressing, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.640 he thought, okay man, maybe he's reached his ceiling. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.640 No, he came back last year and had the best 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:46.800 season of his career. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.159 He cut down on his interceptions by six, went from 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.640 fifteen to nine. He boosted his touchdown ratings for about 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.080 thirteen like thirteen tales, went from twenty three to thirty six. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:57.840 I mean, this is a guy who's a student of 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.520 the game and just continues to get better every year. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.400 And that's all you can ask for from a quarterback. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.600 And he was a homegrown talent. You know they wouldn't 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.599 drafted this guy in the fourth round, and you know 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.680 how this organization loves to keep their draft picks. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.320 Barry, since I since I known you, since I met you, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.080 all you do is keep it real, all right, And 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.560 you're very you know you have on this show in particular, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.800 you've been critical of back in situations going forward as 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.320 a teammate and being a guy that's played in the 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.920 NFL and on several teams. The contract, when you saw it, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.080 was it like this is this is where Dak needs 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.760 to be sixty million dollars a year. Did you say 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.280 to yourself or the team could have saved some money 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.400 or you know what? What was your credit? So what 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.200 did you think about the contract? Just the details of 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.840 it and just knowing that he is the highest paid 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.480 ever in the national football When it first dropped, I'm 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.160 thinking of man, that's a that's a massive band. Now 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.920 you got neighbors, you got I was like oha, But 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.280 I'm sitting there thinking to myself, I saw it enough. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.480 You know, four years, two hundred and forty million, and 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.040 I'm thinking to myself, man, that's a bag. But let 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.080 me see what you know what the guarantee Bills is 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.120 talking about that's the real fine print. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.240 And when I saw two thirty one, I said, oh my. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:12.880 Goodness, Oh, it was just like oh man. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.640 But that's one thing about the quarterback fraternity that they 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.520 have in the National Football League. And that's why these 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.000 guys just continue to get bag after bad because they 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:22.200 don't settle for us. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.400 It's not like, Okay, well. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.800 This guy, he may be the best quarterback in the 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.800 National Football League, but if your time is up and 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.440 you're a quarterback, oh, I want a number above his, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.120 even though you may not be. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.079 As good as that guy is. They're always leveling up. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.760 That way, the quarterbacks that are coming up behind them 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.520 will be able to get their bag as well. And 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.560 that's what I love about the quarterback position. But like 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:42.599 you said, I mean, this is a guy. When I 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.040 saw that number, man, it was just like wow, that's 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.360 what we're in basketball numbers now, we're in soccer numbers now, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:49.720 Like that's who. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:51.720 Two thirty one guaranteed. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.640 And obviously, just the criticism that I'm here and coming 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.440 down the line, and we've we've talked about this on 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.560 the show is playoff performance. Everybody wants to see, like, hey, 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.400 the numbers need to represent what you do. Also in 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.600 the playoffs, they don't judge other quarterbacks by that, but 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.400 they judged that and that's crazy because look a look 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.600 at ma Manson Jackson, but he became the highest paid 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:10.800 with one playoff win. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.400 Herb, that's my guy. You knows my guy. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.800 But he hasn't won anything when it comes to the postseason. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.760 But nobody really said nothing when he got his bags. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.120 But jack I mean, and that's what I'm saying about 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.520 dak In to the contrary of what other people have 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.680 said and what they judge him by. And so coming 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.160 into this season, obviously game one, you won't see this 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.320 cowboy offense come out and ball in that first half, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.880 they gave you all of that. They looked like him 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.080 and Ceedee Lamb looked like they hadn't missed any time 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:40.719 with each other. And we're going to get into other 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:45.720 parts of the start of the season on offense. But 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.920 the biggest question marks were surrounding the defense. There was 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.480 a lot of questions. It was a lot of questions 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.240 questions and the first question was how is zim going 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.679 to be different from dan Quinn? And then your estimation 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.080 and what you saw, how did you evaluate Week one. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.880 For the Cowboys defense? Defensively? 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.320 You know, that was one of the best performances you know, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.440 we've seen in a Week one because usually when you 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.680 come out in the regular season, the defense has slightly 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.800 there's slightly a little bit ahead of you know, offenses 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.000 out there. You know everybody, it's a moving part offensively, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.040 got to know everything. Defense is kind of you're reacting, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.920 so you kind of have to step up early on 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.320 in the season. Then we see offensive catch up whatever 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.840 the case may be. But this defense for the Dallas Cowboys, man, 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.720 they were playing like their hair was on fire. And 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.720 like you said, there were so many questions going into 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.040 this game. You know, what can we see from this 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.320 run defense? You're starting two well one one rookie started, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.640 which was Kaitlyn Carson, but you know overshown missed his 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.720 whole first season, so just basically his first action out there. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.800 You know, you're starting these young guys out there. What 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:42.920 can they do you under a new system? You got 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.360 Kendricks in there, is he still that linebacker that he 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:46.200 was Pro Bowl lot? 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:47.640 These are the questions that I had, you know, I 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.400 was going out there on the list. I'm not sure 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.080 I don't know what we're gonna see Diggs. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.680 We know what he was, but coming off in acl 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.360 can he still be that guy on the outside. I mean, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.120 there were so many questions in there, and a lot 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.440 of them got answered in my opinion. And when you 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.360 look at Cleveland, I was surprised that they went away 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.480 from the run so early. I mean, that's something that 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.000 it just kind of boggles my mind. When the Cowboys 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.120 go getst these teams, they go away from the run 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.000 super early. But whatever the case may be, they fell 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.720 right into that trap that dan Quinn had for this 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:18.560 defense last year. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.240 And now Mike Zim's doing the same thing. You get behind, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.520 they're gonna sick the dogs after you. And the missile 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.360 is that what it is now? But the missile? I 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.520 mean you talk about relentless motor. I mean there was 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:31.199 times when he. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.640 Was chipped double team, it didn't matter he was getting 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.439 He made life so hard for Watson or on Sunday, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.560 it was ridiculous. The man was running for his life 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.480 each and every time Oh diggi Zo would join the party. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.080 The Marcus lords turned the clock back like it was 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.240 twenty eighteen. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.240 That's where I was going. I was. I was. I 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.040 can't laugh. I was. 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.080 I was fibergasted because I thought there would be a 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.440 better performance offensively for the Cleveland Browns cause we talked 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.240 about the weapons on the outside, got Cooper, Jerry, Judy, Joeku. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.480 This is a physical team. Even though Chubb was hurt, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.200 Ford's no slouch in the backfield. That guy back and ball. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.040 So I'm sitting there thinking, man like man, eventually Cleveland's 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.360 gonna get it rolling. But it just never happened. That 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.120 past rush was immense and Russian cover was working together 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.719 because the young pup on the outside the. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.640 Corner killing Carson. Come on, he was playing now, he 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.720 was playing. He showed no fear when he got up 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:23.959 and started, you know, talking to talk. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.679 I said, okay, my man got that confidence roll roll 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.280 so defensively man, it was, it wasn't showing. And I 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.200 was impressed because I did not think that's what I 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:34.200 was going to see on Sunday. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:35.080 Well some of the things. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.000 And I asked you that question because I know you 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.000 had the questions about the linebacker room right away. Kendricks did, 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.280 as long as he's been in the NFL, and how 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:43.640 long are you going to have how effective. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.200 Is he going to be able to be with those years? 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.200 And also how would dig Digg's respond to the a 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.520 cl injury injury. One thing that I saw right off 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.720 the back that this defense was flying, right. That was 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.600 the one thing, like he's just sitting there watching it 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.320 and you're saying, like just doing a comparison between last 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.839 year and this year, and dan Quinn's defense was flying too, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.000 but the speed on the field was apparent. One of 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.360 the things you were worried about was the too high 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.760 safety look okay, and then you saw a lot of 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.800 times he t tinkered with especially played with watching with 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.439 I thought they was gonna be back the whole time, right, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.040 they moved and he did a lot of maneuver into that. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.840 But the one thing that I thought that was so 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.960 key and then matchup, and I thought the matchup would 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.079 be more against the safeties than it was the linebackers. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.680 But the linebacker's ability to play in space, that is 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.240 something that going back years past, especially last year, and 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.680 I mean, look not to say that Lady Vandersch was 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.640 not a good linebacker. He was, but just being able 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.880 to run out of space and being aware conscious keeping 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.360 the same leverage you saw that a lot from the 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.400 linebackers yesterday, you know, and then also being able to 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.040 get out into the flats. Now, my expectation with digs 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:51.720 was a little bit different. I thought they would play 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.000 more zone with digs than anything. And you saw them 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.240 change the coverage up a lot, and just the fact 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.520 that everybody was running to the ball. You saw the 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.120 pursuit angles that these guys were taking. And I'm like, look, 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.280 number one, every team that we faced week one, all 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.439 the way through eighteen, they have ran the ball at us. 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.000 How effective would we be in stopping the run? And 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.400 you saw right away nobody's talking about it. Mozzie Smith 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:24.000 had a good game. Mozzie Smith had a good game. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:30.600 He wasn't out there doing the hockey pok no White, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.640 That's what I'm saying. You saw Mozzie Smith and this 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.440 defensive line was holding their position and allowing the linebackers 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.720 to run. But also Barry pointing out what you said 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:47.160 about not only Tank but Micah. How was coach Zimmerman 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.400 going to use Michael Parsons And to me, he said, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.280 I'm not changing the recipe. I'm gonna move you around. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.440 I know exactly what kind of player you want to be. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:02.160 And like you said, he was absolutely relentless, but he 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.560 was so disruptive that at times. And I'm just going, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.040 I'm just just taking a simple size of the first 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.080 of the first half, twenty three plays, fifty three yards 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:12.760 in the total. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:13.480 That's wild. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.480 That is complete and utter domination. And look, first first 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.000 week of in the NFL. I understand, I'm not about 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:22.960 to jump out the kick yet, I'm on my way, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.280 but that to me was the tailtale sign that we 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.760 needed to see from this defense. That obviously, as you 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.920 go through the season and you look to the playoffs 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.680 and now you can't obviously you don't want to go 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.760 to the next week, but just based off of what 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:40.280 we saw last last year, they looked like the attention 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.640 to detail at stopping the run is there. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.720 Oh, it was there. And when you talk about, you know, the. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.440 Missile the Wazooka, when you talk about how does he 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.080 get to his game to the next level, because we 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.840 understand the pass rusher he is, He's a pass rush specialist. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.120 That guy gets after the quarterback like none other. But 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.960 did you see how he was against the run game 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.800 as well? I mean the guy was penaned trading and 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.960 making sure that everything wasn't just let me get the quarterback. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.920 Let me get the quarterback, let me affect the game 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.440 in other ways. He was able. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.680 He was an able and good run defender. Then you 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.440 look at the interception that Kendricks had. He didn't just 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.960 belining that straight at the quarterback. He was like, Okay, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.320 they left me unblocked for a reason. Let me put 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.600 the light bobs are turning it in there. Something's going on, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.640 quick pass. Let me get my hands up. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.320 Something may happen tip the ball in the air, creating 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:24.080 another turnover. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:25.000 For this defense. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.960 I loved every part of his game there, but as 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.080 a defense as a whole. Not only were they fast 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.280 because you saw the speed pop off the tape, but 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.960 you know how physical those guys were. I mean, they 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.360 were coming downhill like none other. I mean, and what 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.080 I love the most, and I know Rob, Mary and 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.400 Nelly would love this as well, is it wasn't just 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.600 let me tackle this guy to the ground. When you 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.560 hit the ground, there was about three or four different 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:47.480 hats jumping on you. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.320 Dlaw coming in there giving you something. Kendrick's come and 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.360 give you. The safety's coming down there and giving you something. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.760 The hitting was at an all time high. I love 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.600 the way they were finishing each and every place. You 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.360 saw how those Browns players were getting up slow. To man, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.600 that stuff hurt. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:02.440 That's hurt. 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.480 Well, you got guys just piling on You ain't just 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.000 one on one tackles out there. So to me, that 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.680 was a big aspect defensively, and the communication was key 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:10.080 out there. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:11.879 You didn't see any explosive plays. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.399 Wide receivers weren't running Scott free open deep in the 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.720 middle of the field. Everything was kept in front of 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.520 this defense, and that's what you love to see. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.160 That was winning football, right hey, man, and Donovan Wilson 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.800 made a tackle, I said, but it looked like. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:28.600 A young barriage. That's up, man. You love it, you 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.960 love it, you love hey. We got man, We got 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.120 more coming for you. Man. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.439 But we got to talk about these rookies. The Cowboys 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.320 started three rookies. 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But man, I 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.119 want to give out a game ball. I want to 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:44.920 give out a game ball today for one of three rookies. 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.000 And now it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.439 And I and I illustrated like this, I say it 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.760 like this, all right, for your for your offensive rookies. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:57.159 Your center Cooper bb had never played center. He was 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.160 hiking the ball to his mom on a lunch break. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.480 I seen, you know. And so he goes from hanging 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:05.880 the ball to his mama or lunch break to starting 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.760 in the NFL versus the number one defense. Okay, then 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.159 we're gonna go out to the left tackle, Tyler Guiton, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:17.400 rookie never played left tackle before. Okay, gets an opportunity 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.840 to play left tackle in the NFL. Oh blessings all around. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.920 But he's going up against Miles Garrett. 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.800 Who was he was defensive player there. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:29.840 I mean we all defensive player of the year, Miles 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:31.439 Garrett first game of the season. 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.480 Okay, not much to worry about. That won't keep you 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.200 up at night, right. But then on the other side. 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:40.119 Kayln Carson, a rookie, now has an opportunity to go 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:44.240 up against Jerry Judy and Amari Coop. So with the 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:48.320 with the performances that you saw on Sunday, if Barry 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:52.320 Church is handing out a game ball, who is Barry 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.600 Church handing that game ball out to man? 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.639 Look, I understand you know the two offensive line, and 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.960 they were dealing with a lot when you talk about ranking, 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.880 when you talk about Miles Garrett coming out the edge, 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:04.680 the way they move him around, both of those guys 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.520 BB and Guy and got their fair share of Miles 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:08.200 Garrett out there. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:09.359 But you know, I got to keep it on the 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:10.480 defensive side of the football. 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:12.760 You know, I got to keep it on the defensive 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.000 side of the football, and I gotta go with my man, Carson. 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.159 I mean, now you're out there, and cornerback is one 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:20.399 of the toughest positions in football. I mean, because you 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:22.880 understand you got help sometimes, but you're on the island 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:23.080 out there. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:24.639 If you mess up or if something goes over the 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.119 top of your head, the camera's on you. They zooming 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.080 in on that to one like this is him. They 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.439 following you from the play all the way to the 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:33.719 sideline like man, even on the bench, you sitting here, 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:34.600 they got the camera on you. 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:36.920 Like man, this dude got burnt. But to me, I 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.879 think he performed extremely well out there. I mean, giving 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.480 the circumstances you get thrown out there week one, like 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:44.240 you said, the weapons. 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.680 He was going against Jerry Jude. 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.920 Cooper, the boys out there, you going against all stars, 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:51.520 and he was able to go out there and not 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:53.959 only hold his own, but he held it down. I mean, 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.160 you look at it. The man was breaking on the football. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.080 He was getting contested passes. I think he had two 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:03.239 pass breakup. Sure interceptions, you got to come down with that, 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:07.560 But overall, man, I was I was surprised, pleasantly surprised 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:08.720 by his performance. 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:10.800 Out there filling in for Doron Bland. That's another thing. 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:12.800 You got big shoes to feel. Thern Blend is the 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.720 definition of a ball hocking corner. So to me, he 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.560 went out there held his own. You didn't see anything 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:19.120 over top of him. He was in position. 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:19.960 You know. 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:22.119 He helped his defense out immensely. So I got to 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.320 give my game ball because you know, love the defensive side. 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:25.800 Of the ball. Got to give it to Carson. 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:28.439 So I absolutely knew that's where you were going and 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:32.159 didn't need to be you know, I knew that you 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.080 yeah do it. And I'm telling you, I felt like 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.439 Al Harris was going to have Kayln Carson ready to go, 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.280 and so if anybody was going to have him prepared 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:42.159 and ready to go, it was going to be our hairs. 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:43.199 He knows that. 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.399 Look everything all day, all of the potential that Carson 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:48.720 had in him, the things that you saw during pregame, 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.640 during the preseason, and everything you saw from him out 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:54.200 in oxen Art, he just continued to just build upon 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:55.680 what you had already seen. 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:56.920 On the other side. 0:23:56.920 --> 0:23:59.639 Man, for those two offensive linemen, we hadn't seen a 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.399 lot and there was nothing really positive coming out. I 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:05.240 think we talked about Guidon. You guys said it all week. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.560 Gidan is gonna get help. They're gonna chip, they're gonna 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:09.440 bring tight ends, they're gonna do get him. He's not 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.359 gonna be man to man and solo in that area 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:13.640 with Miles Garrett. 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:17.600 So I want to applaud him for doing the job 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:18.160 that he did. 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:22.080 But to me, Cooper BBKA, I'm giving Cooper b b 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.760 a game ball because number one, the pressure is if 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:30.840 Dak doesn't get the snap, we can't do nothing. I mean, 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.000 you gotta give the guy that starts to party the 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.720 game ball because he did a good job of one 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.199 calling out the protections. He's calling out the protections, letting everybody. 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:41.520 I mean, he is the quarterback of the offensive line. 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:43.240 So he did that. If you pay attention to go 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.200 back and look at it all twenty two, my man 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:47.840 is getting to the second level. He is moving earth 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:50.480 when it comes down to double teams. I mean, look, 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:52.280 he was effective in every way. 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:54.720 Uh. And I think when you have a guy. 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:58.480 And we have been for years wanting this kind of 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:03.960 playmaker at the center a position since Frederick because and 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:06.760 to me, I think that Cooper BB's confidence as it 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:08.679 continues to grow as we get through the season. I'm 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:11.000 telling you, this is a guy that everybody's going to 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:13.560 be like, wow, how could you have seen that he 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:15.919 could move from the guard position to the center position. 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.720 So my game ball that I got, I'm going to 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:25.320 my KSE State email. Can action see knew he's not here, 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:29.840 but he would have called me. But I'm going I'm 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.639 going with BB And I thought from the rookie class, 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:35.600 I thought that he really showed his value and you know, 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.240 give shout out in balls to all of these guys 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.160 in the job that they did because I thought those 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:42.840 play outstanding. 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.680 But on the other side, on. 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.080 The other side, though, the running back room, which we 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:53.240 had questions about the running back room, this is true. 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:57.960 Are you still are you still in panic mode over 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:01.480 the running back room or did you see flashes from 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:04.000 the running back room that made you say, look, I 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.000 think we'll be okay if we're gonna go with this 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:07.119 recipe through the season. 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:11.560 I will say this, I liked, you know, the approach 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:14.199 they had in this game with the running backs. I mean, 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:16.040 you saw it was a running back room for a 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:18.720 running back by committee style the entire game. You know, 0:26:18.840 --> 0:26:21.520 Zeke had his carriers even deuce sliding there and got 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:24.400 a carrier too, did you had, you know, Ceedee Lamb, 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:25.960 you know, getting a reverse in there as well. 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.000 So yeah, coachs as well. 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:30.520 So I loved how you know, Mike McCarthy understood that 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:33.119 he doesn't have that extra dynamic guy it he can 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:34.880 just turn around and hand the football too, You're gonna 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:36.800 have to sprinkle in things here and there. I think 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:38.560 he did a great job calling that and keeping that 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:41.520 defense for the Browns, honest, So they couldn't just pin 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:43.359 their ears back and get after Dak Prescot because they 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:44.440 ran the ball, believe. 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:46.480 Twenty five times. They got a hundred yards sold. 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:49.600 You know, they're averaging about a four clip and to me, 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:50.600 that's winning football. 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:51.040 Now. 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:52.800 The question is when he comes to that, Oh, let 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:54.600 me get him some more flowers as well. Though, the 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.240 way they were able to pick up blitzes was outstanding. 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:00.560 Whether it's you know, Rico Zeke, those guys did an 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:03.320 amazing job picking up the blitzes because you know, Schwartze 0:27:03.440 --> 0:27:05.360 was sending them from all over the place, and Dak 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:07.960 Prescott looked pretty much for the entire day. 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:10.440 A couple you know instances here and there. 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:12.240 But he, you know, looked cool, calm and collected pretty 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:14.040 much the entire game. And I had a lot to 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:15.920 do with those running backs picking up those blitzeres. So 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:18.080 they did an amazing job in that regard as well. 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:24.360 But I'm not sure if this recipe can be sustainable, 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:27.679 Like if you can go out there and continuously, you know, 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:30.480 rotate these backs in there and clip out a hundred yards, 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:33.680 because there's gonna be games when you know that running 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:35.360 the attack, you might rush it for twenty five times, 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:37.520 but you might only be getting fifty yards as a whole. 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:40.239 And are they gonna revert back to what they did 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:42.640 last year when that running game isn't working that well, 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:44.760 which is throw the football more with Dak Prescott and 0:27:44.760 --> 0:27:47.359 rely more on his shoulders. I don't think that's a 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:50.120 recipe for success. I think that balance attack is always 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:52.800 the best option when you talk about Dallas Cowboys football. 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:56.000 But I'm not so sure that this can be sustainable. 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:57.800 It was great week one, but we'll see what they 0:27:57.880 --> 0:27:58.919 do going further on. 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:02.359 Look, when I was looking at the running game, we 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:06.120 talked about this all week and we's heading into week 0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:08.800 one about the balance that the Cowboys had to have 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:13.160 in order to stop this Mike Schwartz defense from pinning 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.399 their ears back and coming after that, you had to 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:18.000 be effective and picking up picking up first downs in 0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:20.080 the running game was what we had to do. You 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:21.840 have to move the chain third down, you have to 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:23.879 be big on Thursda down. You had to be able 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:27.680 to set to make those linebackers respect play actions all right, 0:28:27.760 --> 0:28:30.680 and you saw throughout the entire game that was what 0:28:31.400 --> 0:28:33.680 that was the setting that Mike McCarthy was, he was 0:28:33.760 --> 0:28:36.720 laying those seeds forward and they had to respect it. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:38.120 Now when it got to the point that they were 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:41.360 just like, look, we can't. We got to play our game, 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:44.640 and they reverted back into who they are and that's 0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:47.000 just we're gonna blitch. You were gonna have to come 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:50.520 after you, and we don't believe that there's no way 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:53.160 that you can find the open man. And to me, 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:56.680 as you talk about those blitz pick ups and packages 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:58.880 and that's what I was saying to you about laughed 0:28:58.920 --> 0:29:00.800 at me, but I was talking about when we let 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:02.640 go a Pollard and what we needed from Zeke because 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:04.520 you needed that guy to be able to feel that 0:29:04.600 --> 0:29:08.160 they gap on those double a gaps blitzes. But also 0:29:08.760 --> 0:29:11.479 you saw when they went cover zero down on their 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:13.239 pass to Cooks. Now, the hell of a play by 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:16.640 dak Man that come on. That was just so I 0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:19.000 think really a lot of times when people are watching football, 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:21.960 they don't realize what a pressure cooker moment that is 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:25.200 for a quarterback when you're facing cover zero. 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.040 Basically exactly when you looked at it, cover zero For 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:30.480 those who don't know, it's basically the defense is blitzing 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:32.080 one more gap that you can pick up. Like you 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:34.840 don't have enough offensive line or backs to block everybody 0:29:34.920 --> 0:29:37.120 that they had, so one person is going to be free. 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:39.840 And in that situation, I mean, you just saw what 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:42.200 makes Dak the quarterback he is because he had a 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:44.240 guy number fifty eight. I believe it was Jordan Hicks 0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:47.080 from the Browns, a linebacker screaming right down his face 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:48.520 he can't right through the B gap. 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:50.600 I mean they left, you know, I guess they picked up. 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:52.560 However, they wanted that protection to get picked up, and 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:54.240 he happened to be the guy that was Scott Free 0:29:54.280 --> 0:29:56.840 coming in there. And when you look at the play, 0:29:57.320 --> 0:30:00.160 Dak buys himself time by backpedaling a little bit, but 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:02.320 when he launches that ball into the area ended up 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:04.080 being a corner route to the back of pile line 0:30:04.160 --> 0:30:04.960 for Cooks. 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:07.840 When he threw the ball, Coach wasn't even in his break. 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:10.280 Coach was still, you know, looking at the dB, looking 0:30:10.280 --> 0:30:12.480 at whatever he had to do. He was getting to 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.440 the top of his route. He wasn't in his break 0:30:14.480 --> 0:30:15.760 looking back. Nothing like that. 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:19.080 The anticipation and accuracy in which Dak was able to 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:20.800 throw that pass, I mean, that was a hell of 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:22.160 a pass and the hell of a play overall. 0:30:22.560 --> 0:30:24.680 And that to me, just like you said, man, it 0:30:24.800 --> 0:30:27.560 showed that where Dak is at this point in his 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.160 career to be able to make that touch pass over 0:30:30.240 --> 0:30:33.440 the you know, to the corner like that and again 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:37.320 get your court catch your wide receiver en route before 0:30:37.360 --> 0:30:40.320 he even comes out of his break. It takes guys. 0:30:40.600 --> 0:30:42.400 It takes guys a lifetime. And when you see a 0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:47.080 guy do that in college, you're like, he's the number one. 0:30:45.960 --> 0:30:47.719 One because he absolutely could do it. 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:50.040 And those are like the little things that I think 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:53.520 for me when I'm I'm thinking about Mike McCarthy in 0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:56.760 his offense, the way that he has these guys prepared 0:30:56.960 --> 0:31:01.240 for moments like that, and just now seeing how cool 0:31:01.280 --> 0:31:04.120 and calm dak is used to be, and just from 0:31:04.120 --> 0:31:08.680 my experience, used to be a situation where time out, 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:10.240 we need to come back and talk about that. He's 0:31:10.280 --> 0:31:13.880 able to handle that, you know, make the prognosis on 0:31:13.920 --> 0:31:16.280 the fly and then find the open man. But to me, 0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:19.200 like I see where your questions is are on the 0:31:19.280 --> 0:31:23.040 running game as far as is this sustainable, But it's 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:25.200 also if it's going to be a running back by 0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:28.960 committee like this, and I'm only asking Zeke ten carries 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:33.440 forty yards, two catches nine yards, I'm asking Rico Dada 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:35.760 to come in for eight carres for twenty six yards, 0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:37.800 and we're going to distribute this all the way through 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:42.640 the wide receivers, tight ends, l Buggie. 0:31:42.920 --> 0:31:44.160 He did that sustainable? 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:46.000 You think z can come in here and give you 0:31:46.120 --> 0:31:48.280 ten for fifty every every game. 0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:50.920 It's hard for me. It's hard for me now to 0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:54.960 question whether he can't. And it you know, if I 0:31:54.960 --> 0:31:57.400 think if you're if your offensive line is giving you 0:31:57.440 --> 0:32:00.600 opportunities like this, and if you watch it all twenty two, Evenrecodell, 0:32:00.680 --> 0:32:02.560 I have some holds that he could have got through 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.920 the turf Monthster got him. But still I think it's 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:09.280 sustainable because you're gonna you're not facing the number one 0:32:09.320 --> 0:32:12.400 defense in the league each and every week. True, And 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:14.360 so if I'm not having to face that, then that 0:32:14.520 --> 0:32:18.080 gives me, gives me the hope, that hope that I 0:32:18.080 --> 0:32:20.920 can actually mail and hope that I can actually make 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:24.160 that happen. And to me, I don't need Zeke to 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:27.520 be one hundred and twenty five twenty five yards a game. 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.600 I think what I'm I'm asking Zike to do is 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:33.680 be fresh when his time is called. And that's exactly 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:36.120 what Mike was giving you. He's like, look, every time 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.600 I put one of these guys in, whatever the rotation 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:40.120 is going to be, they're going to be fresh each 0:32:40.160 --> 0:32:41.240 and every time I put them in. 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:43.960 Ye. And to me, that goes, you know, credit to 0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:45.680 the coach and staff the road, the way they rotating. 0:32:45.880 --> 0:32:48.760 They out coach Cleveland hundred percent in this game. 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:53.000 Because defensively, to me and who I'm out of question Schwartz, 0:32:53.040 --> 0:32:54.920 he's had, you know, number one defenses and all that, 0:32:54.960 --> 0:32:58.480 And I understand, but why are you leaving cities single? 0:32:58.560 --> 0:33:00.800 Like I understand you got faith in your corners, you know, 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.320 nuse war. Those guys are Pro bowlers and you got, 0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:03.520 you know. 0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:06.400 Faith in your guys. But on your see that they're 0:33:06.400 --> 0:33:09.400 getting wore out. I told you, what what are you doing? 0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:13.200 And that's to say, offensively, for the Browns, why are 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:13.760 we going away? 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:17.200 The game was what they seven or three? What are 0:33:17.200 --> 0:33:20.600 we doing? Fortally had twelve carries? It's like what are. 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:23.600 Sean Watson through the football forty five times? To me, 0:33:24.000 --> 0:33:25.479 that's just I'm like, what a why? 0:33:25.560 --> 0:33:28.080 Why are we? What are we thinking here? Like you, 0:33:27.720 --> 0:33:29.360 your formula is being. 0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:32.960 Physical and running the football right the coach, I don't 0:33:32.960 --> 0:33:35.200 know what happens, but it's just I don't know if 0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:37.080 they get to q Ford or you know, they got 0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:40.520 too much faith in what they're they're running here. But man, 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:43.040 like you got CD over there, you got a bunch 0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:44.680 of unproven talent on the other side. 0:33:45.560 --> 0:33:48.600 Man, make them beat you, right, you know what I'm saying. 0:33:48.640 --> 0:33:52.840 And then offensively, they pulled a Baltimore like last year. 0:33:53.640 --> 0:33:55.480 We're gonna spread it out and we're gonna throw the 0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:56.400 stag all over the yard. 0:33:56.440 --> 0:33:57.280 That's all right. 0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:59.280 You feed writing the head because he gonna send the 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:01.520 dogs after you say, we got some brand new for y'all. 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:03.200 We got something. 0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:07.560 Coordinators, get the I gotta show him I could do this, man, 0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:09.720 you better turn around the hand out football office. 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:11.799 How to see the look? How to see the look? 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:14.120 Did CD looked like there was any russ which is 0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:16.360 wild no to me, And that was surprising to me, Like, 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:17.920 you know, after a couple of players, he would you 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:21.319 see him him a little tired, but for him to 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:23.640 go out there and that connection still be what it is, 0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:25.920 I mean, the dot it was just dots. 0:34:26.120 --> 0:34:28.319 I mean, he was just he was. He looked unguardable. 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:30.600 He looked unguardable. And I'm sure it's just gonna get 0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:32.080 better and better as the season goes on. 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:34.120 But I mean that was ridiculous as well. 0:34:34.280 --> 0:34:37.399 And man, we're gonna take another break, but I got 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:41.080 to talk some more about this linebacker room. 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The offseason will so long, 0:37:55.640 --> 0:37:58.440 b see all the just the Cowboys not gonna make 0:37:58.440 --> 0:37:59.280 it to the playoffs. 0:37:59.360 --> 0:38:00.319 All the Dak's not. 0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:03.960 Worth the man, I'm telling you, y'all facing the number one, 0:38:04.120 --> 0:38:06.720 facing the number one defense, y'all about to go to Cleveland, 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:08.719 gets smacked, we out. 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:09.680 I'm telling you, I had. 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:11.239 That was one from my I thought they was gonna lose. 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:13.040 I had the yeah, I had them boys losing this game. 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:15.680 See sometimes, man, you just get caught up in the hype. 0:38:15.680 --> 0:38:17.359 Man I've been telling your boy, be trying to say, 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:19.799 y'all been trying to help you, man, But that's all. 0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:26.560 It's a long season, Cowboy Nation. We're gonna win them over. 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:30.040 So linebacker room is something we've been talking about because 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:33.439 you've been concerned about it. You really felt this though, Like, man, 0:38:33.719 --> 0:38:35.759 they bring in Eric Hendricks, and not that you hated 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:37.400 on Kendricks. It was just like, look, man, it's a 0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:41.640 guy that's long into two and how can he impact 0:38:42.080 --> 0:38:42.720 this room. 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.000 Let me tell you what I saw from fifty. Let 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:45.400 me hear it. 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:49.400 Fifty was sideline the sideline and he was running like 0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:52.120 he didn't have anyone on him. The other thing that 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:54.960 I loved about this linebacker group that's different from last year. 0:38:55.239 --> 0:39:00.280 They were taking on blocks coming downhill. I mean, picking 0:39:00.280 --> 0:39:02.520 these guys off. I saw one tackle I think it 0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:06.200 was overshone. Overshawn is scraping. He hits the tackle right 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:09.840 behind him comes Eric Kendricks underneath and makes the tackle. 0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:12.560 And I'm telling you, like, that's the beauty of playing defense. Man. 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:15.399 As you know, it's a link in the chain. All 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:18.320 things work together, right, And it's like when you start 0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:21.560 to see a defense working that way, It's like, man, 0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:25.759 it's hard to stop a defense and guys align the 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:28.760 way that the Cowboys was playing the lineman assignment football. 0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:31.440 But the linebacker room to me looked like it was revamped. 0:39:31.480 --> 0:39:32.160 It was redone. 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:34.480 Oh yeah, when you look at defenses, I mean, you 0:39:34.520 --> 0:39:36.239 know that's what hurt this team last year. You know, 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:38.440 you had a lot of guys going out there and 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:41.200 they were effective, but there was there was times when 0:39:41.320 --> 0:39:43.200 you know, if you had four so you have contained, 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:45.400 and you go on the inside and you lose contained, 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:48.000 you know, that's you know, that becomes a whole different ballgame. 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:50.360 But what you saw from this defense was, you know, 0:39:50.400 --> 0:39:51.640 everybody knew the role and what. 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:52.600 The responsibility was. 0:39:52.680 --> 0:39:54.239 If you were supposed to go out there and make 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:56.359 sure that running back cuts inside of you to where 0:39:56.360 --> 0:39:58.400 all your helps from him coming from, that's exactly what 0:39:58.480 --> 0:39:58.799 they did. 0:39:58.840 --> 0:40:01.440 There was nobody going in and doing their own thing. 0:40:01.480 --> 0:40:03.319 Everybody was kind of like you said, Lincoln Chain, this 0:40:03.360 --> 0:40:05.360 guy's gonna have the force. He's gonna come in and 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:07.200 make a tackle, or he's gonna go ahead and spill 0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:09.360 and go inside force the back on the outside, and 0:40:09.360 --> 0:40:11.600 there's gonna be somebody waiting for him, so they were 0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:13.640 all lockeding step together, and I think that had a 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:17.279 lot to do with Kendricks and his communicating abilities out there. 0:40:17.320 --> 0:40:19.319 He's the quarterback of this defense. That's what I was saying, 0:40:19.360 --> 0:40:21.239 you know, pretty much all offseason. This is the guy 0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:23.720 who's gonna be the quarterback of your defenses. He's able 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:26.200 to remain healthy and he can go through the entire 0:40:26.320 --> 0:40:29.280 seventeen game season or whatever. He's gonna be a big 0:40:29.320 --> 0:40:32.600 time contributor to what this defense has. Now to me, 0:40:32.719 --> 0:40:34.480 you got a lot of young pups underneath him. You 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:38.040 got Leah File, you got over shown who was outstanding 0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:41.000 in that game. And that's why I believe they cannot 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:44.720 lose Kendricks like he has to be there the entirety 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.000 of the season, and I hope he is because he's 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:49.120 that quarterback. He got those guys lined up in the 0:40:49.200 --> 0:40:51.719 right situation to where they weren't doing too much think 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:53.160 and it was you know what, you see ball, you 0:40:53.200 --> 0:40:53.759 go get ball. 0:40:53.800 --> 0:40:55.480 They were flying one hundred miles an hour. 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:58.200 And that's what he can do for that defense in there, 0:40:58.400 --> 0:41:01.040 not only with his play and stopping run making players 0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:04.080 out there getting interceptions, but lining people up to where 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:06.120 all they have to do is I know my responsibility, 0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:07.480 let me go ahead and get after it. 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:08.960 And that's what he brings to the table. And he 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:10.319 had an outstanding the game. Man. 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:15.080 My first thought was, that's a linebacker. Yeah, that's a linebacker. 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:17.520 And you saw I mean, he maneuver, moved and did 0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:20.919 everything and operated as a linebacker. And as Barry Church 0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:22.360 is letting you know, I mean, and that's why I 0:41:22.440 --> 0:41:25.440 think it's so good when you get this, get the 0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:27.480 feedback from the players and guys that have been in 0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:30.160 the heat of that moment that understand how defense work. 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:32.320 And I think anybody thinking you could just plug and 0:41:32.360 --> 0:41:34.839 play guys, you know, my key's bell to his credit, 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:36.239 I mean, and I'm not trying to hate on them. 0:41:36.239 --> 0:41:38.600 I'm he did the best he could do. But he 0:41:38.640 --> 0:41:42.319 was completely out of position. It's a different read, it's 0:41:42.360 --> 0:41:44.440 a different look being that closer to the line of 0:41:44.440 --> 0:41:47.080 scrimmage that he's used to seeing from his safety position. 0:41:47.560 --> 0:41:49.080 And I think a lot of time he was just 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:50.799 out over his skis. There's nothing that he could do 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:53.279 about it. But when you see Eric Kendricks in his 0:41:53.360 --> 0:41:56.480 communication that he's having getting guys, getting guys lined up 0:41:56.760 --> 0:41:59.080 maneuver of Michael Parsons and telling him what even the 0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:03.399 communication after bad plays. That kind of leadership you've been 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:05.600 craving for. That You're not out there with a guy 0:42:05.640 --> 0:42:07.560 that's not sure of himself. He's been in the league 0:42:07.600 --> 0:42:09.799 for a long time. He knows what it takes to 0:42:09.800 --> 0:42:11.520 get it done. But on the other side, for me, 0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:15.279 overshown and this is a guy that, right, I'm going 0:42:15.360 --> 0:42:17.719 to say this, like you hear things and you see 0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:20.439 little splashes and you're like, oh, yeah, that's that's that's good. 0:42:20.600 --> 0:42:22.640 You know, I like that. You know he did. 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:26.680 I No, that stuffed the tape man. Yes he did. 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:28.520 And that and that's when I and that's exactly what 0:42:28.520 --> 0:42:30.439 I'm talking about. A guy that makes a splash play 0:42:30.760 --> 0:42:33.160 on the sack that we were just talking about him 0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:35.400 and Micah running at an angle and then all of 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:37.640 a sudden, it just looked like he went in hyperdrive. 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.719 He did take off. He take off and that kind 0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:44.440 and that kind of speed. I just really I think 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:47.600 you see it from special players like Micah, but you 0:42:47.640 --> 0:42:50.040 know everybody else you're looking to see ken they have 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:53.880 that kind of I'm coming downhill effect on defense, and 0:42:53.920 --> 0:42:55.200 he showed that yesterday and. 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:56.239 Not to me. 0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:58.560 And it goes back and not to take away from 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:01.080 over showing audims as they balled out, but this is 0:43:01.160 --> 0:43:02.200 to me why. 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:04.320 I couldn't understand the approach to this game. 0:43:04.800 --> 0:43:06.600 You got a young line back in there, you got 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:09.040 a young core on the inside with Mazie and those 0:43:09.080 --> 0:43:10.839 young boys, you got kneeling on now side. 0:43:11.239 --> 0:43:14.520 Why they are The Browns usually have. 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:18.040 One of the most physical, complex running games International Football League. 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:21.959 Guys pulling this way, counters, traps, wearing blocks, you're gonna 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:23.880 get it all. Usually when you go against the FANSKI 0:43:23.960 --> 0:43:25.560 in that you know Brown's offense. 0:43:25.600 --> 0:43:28.680 But they went away from it completely and you had 0:43:28.719 --> 0:43:31.080 two young pupps in there on the inside. 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:32.880 I didn't understand it. 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:35.000 But kudos to the Dallas Cowboys and Zimver being ready 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:36.520 for anything and they took advantage of it. 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:38.520 Look, I'm gonna go ahead and say Paul's early, but 0:43:38.560 --> 0:43:41.440 they came in with the beef package with Livald Joseph 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:46.240 and Jordan Phillips, and I'm telling you, in the second 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:49.279 half they made life miserable for man. I mean, you 0:43:49.400 --> 0:43:53.759 got two guys six five, six four, three hundred and 0:43:53.800 --> 0:43:55.600 thirty five pounds a piece. 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:02.160 Right there. 0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:06.800 You know what I'm saying, come in with that beef 0:44:06.920 --> 0:44:09.839 package he got. He can't do nothing about that. And 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:11.640 I'll tell you I loved it. I loved it. And 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:17.280 also honorable mention, Honorable mention, Mark Shawn Kneeland. Marshawn Kneeland 0:44:17.400 --> 0:44:21.279 came out and balled. Hey, the rookie. The rookie came, 0:44:22.080 --> 0:44:24.239 he did his thingment he didn't lose contain. And this 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:25.800 is a game that I was thinking, I'm like, damn, 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:28.960 Sam Williams not even playing. Think about the I mean 0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:31.279 Sam Williams in his development that he's had as an 0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:33.640 edge rusher. And guy I said, we didn't even see 0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:37.279 him at Marshawn Kneeland steps in and he gets those sacks. Man, 0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:39.759 this guy's like him Osa Diggy Zoo as you said it. 0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:44.000 Man joined the party. Everybody came out and baughd Jay Lou. 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:47.759 He's gonna he's fisty man. You know he gonna he 0:44:47.880 --> 0:44:52.719 gonna chop. He gonna chop yep every time. Man surprising. 0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:56.680 I just can't bad. Look we did, I think we did. 0:44:56.680 --> 0:44:59.200 I think we're gonna be We're gonna be back. We're 0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:01.480 gonna be back to tomorrow at two o'clock. 0:45:01.800 --> 0:45:03.920 Know you'll be right here. I'll be over there. 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