WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Soft In The Middle? 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.160 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:13.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.320 Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.479 the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.680 Newey Scrugs. Here we are. It is Tuesday. It is 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:36.040 the day after the day after the Cowboys lost in 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.279 surprising passion Wildcard game at home to the San Francisco 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.200 forty nine Ers. The players lunch about you by Hotels 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.680 dot Com, Newi Scrubs. We are joined as always by 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.320 the LSU Tiger himself, former national champion. He is Danny McCray. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.600 Thank you, And we have the three times Super Bowl 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.560 champion with the Dallas Cowboys and newest member of the 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.400 Black College Hall of Fame Florida A and Ms Nick 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.160 new Thank you for having me on y'all show man. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.039 I don't know what happened. They put me on y'all 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.440 man and put this award on y'all. But I'm here. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.480 We're buried. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't know 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:18.560 who he is. Oh so clean? This microphone off his headphone. Now, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.160 you don't know who you are Church, Church taking the 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.399 day off here and look in some ways, but why not? 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.720 I mean, you know, really, what what else can we 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:34.960 know about this? He told me doing the Polist game show. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.920 It's like it's over. It's over. I'm like, noa, we 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.840 got a few more podcasts, a few more obligations to 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.520 the team. You know, we are a team. You're like, man, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:48.680 forget the team. Man, I'm Church. I'm like, okay, okay, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.160 all right, Church, you for real, I see that. Sometimes 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.560 you gotta take care of yourself, you know, when you 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.360 when you get put on this emotional roller coaster, alright, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.800 and you talk about the team every day every week, 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.600 and then you go out there and you watch what 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.480 happened to us on Sunday. That's probably the feeling that 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.240 you're gonna get right, because, especially as a player, you 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.079 know what happened at when it's over with you come 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.440 you come in that next day, you see your friends 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.200 get cut, they put they are packing up things, they stuff. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.600 You had your last meetings with your coaches, and then 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.120 that's it. So Church, you know, he freshly out of 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.960 the league more and more like a four years. So 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:26.920 he's still Church going on vacation with the players, vacation 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.480 with the players. Uh Church though missed out on Smoothe King? 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.640 Okay did he missed out on the Smoothe King? Here 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.600 you always see the players getting on the plane each 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.239 game and get on with Smoothie King in hand. Um 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.160 and Smoothie King is also what you know the trainers 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.320 use serve team. Smoothie King cares about your health, the fitness, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.600 and they also made changes like no added sugar and 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.600 unlike so many other Smoothie brands, this is the right 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.600 kind of thing that's will support to the athletes. And 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.600 I know you go ahead, m craig. Lending goodness to 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.560 fuel your greatness. That's that's what I'm talking about. Man, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.680 Like I'm gonna get a work all right. So I've 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.480 got the gladiator. I've never had a lot of these. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.040 I just tasted them. Do they fill you up to 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.200 give me that fit? That full Philly if you get 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.680 one like this? Yeah, right now. They've got a wild 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.919 strawberry is sub wild you got you got the immune builder. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.040 You got the immune builders. So that's got your vitamin 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.400 C y you zink wild blueberry strawberry strawberries banana's real fruit. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.960 No syrups and nothing like that. Okay, well, okay, yeah, yeah, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.160 I'm gonna diabetic. This is gonna so the one I like, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.920 Am I gonna get full? Yeah? Now the one I 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.240 get here is this the strawberry Gladiator, right, forty five 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.720 grams of protein each serving, so right and low sugar. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.560 When you talk about being a diabetic, boom, this this 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.640 is the one that that helps you get rolling here. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:55.280 You were right, Danny mccraige, moving up the face the 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.120 forty nineties and stead of playing the Cardinals, watching the 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:02.280 Cardinals and laid down last night against Rams. I turned 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.000 it off. I'm watching the game. I turned it off 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.040 after the first half, like Billy mc craig. Mc craige 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:11.560 was hitting on point. Yeah, Arizona not ready for primetime 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.160 at all, not ready for the playoffs, and the Cowboys 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.640 face the forty nine styles make fights. The forty nine 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.279 ers style was not something the Cowboys who could play with. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.880 They ended up losing, and man, so you think we 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.040 would have had a better chance still after watching how 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.279 we performed on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, who we 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.280 had played Preva two weeks previously, and put up essentially 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.719 the same type of offensive performance. You think so, I 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.719 think so. I think so, I do I do? I 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.359 think so. That's just me and it's all for not 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.800 because the Cowboys ended up losing, losing his football game here. So, Nate, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.800 you and I haven't talked it. You know you haven't 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.839 talked to Danny and I. So give us your initial 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:54.120 thoughts on this team losing this type of game at 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:59.039 home three point favorite. So much going your way on 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.200 a twelve and five season and to have it ended. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:09.000 You know, I just knew Danny. I'm not excluding you, 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.080 but Danny, you could not have not told me as 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.600 a player, an ex player. That's why I'm going at 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:20.040 him like listen that I that my defense cannot get 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:25.280 up for one game and be physical and out hit 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.360 a team whose one dimensional Who told me all I'm 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.520 gonna do is run the ball I'm only gonna throw 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.560 out of necessity. You couldn't have told me that. We 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.400 couldn't have did that for one game. And not only 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.120 did we hand it to him, we said, hey, y'all, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.760 flip of a coin. We ain't going out there first. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.159 We send in our defense out there. You let the 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.400 bully do what it do best. Early in the game 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:55.159 and gave up seven points. What do you think the 0:05:55.200 --> 0:06:01.320 players was thinking? Now, Hi, game over, bro, game was over. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.320 I told him stand back, and I told her, I 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.760 said game over. So you gave him the game, So 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.719 so you But you think that that bled over into 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.360 the offensive mindset as well. That the thing is when 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.839 you got Bolsa and you got armed Stead and you 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:19.680 got Warner coming down hill now because they know your 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.760 offensive coordinator, or we'll do a we'll do a taken 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.279 run there. We're not gonna stay with this now they're 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:32.080 coming down hill. I've watched the film because I am 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.640 critical of myself, not to be critical on these players, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.039 but when you see starting with Bosa on my boy 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.320 Collins and he fighting for his life, not to protect 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.000 that but to protect himself. And when you see fifty two, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.120 the dude ran over him so bad to he grad 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.840 a dude to keep the dude from trampling him. That 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.000 was not nice. That was not when I saw that 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.560 right there to matter that, I say, coach, you got 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.760 to run the ball just to get these guys mindset 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.120 going in a different way because now we're backing up 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.880 and we're getting beat. Now you got to go forward. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.560 Say give them some momentum, coach call, They give them 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.400 no momentum. So so to your point though, because you 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.600 started talking about the defense, and it was it was 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.520 a rough start, especially the part of being physical. But 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.240 then you have an offense who's watching this happen to 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.680 your defense, right, And it's the same thing you say 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.040 about helping your offensive line out. When you don't come 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.720 out and throw the ball three times, you have to 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.480 put a drive together so your defense can have some 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.720 time to figure out what they need to do. Instead, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.040 you continue to put them out there back to back 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.680 because you are not able to establish the run and 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.160 play balanced football. Right, so you can say, hey, man, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.920 we've been are you're leaning on the defense to get 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.000 four turnovers here? For four turnovers there? All right, when 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.400 it's your turn to help out the defense, you got 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.720 to show up. Yeah. Now. And I asked this question, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.280 were we down more than ten points at any time 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:13.480 in the first half? Well, I'm asking the question. Thirteen 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.360 nothing in the first half. We get a field goal, right, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:23.880 so now it's we're only down by ten. We're only 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.560 down by ten. You're at home and for the most part, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.000 you have the crowd you can start running the ball 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.040 here and there, then your quarterback and then telling your 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:41.599 quarterback one to take off, one to take off, or 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.800 that what do they call it? Option pass? Where you look? 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:52.400 Look what happened? Man? What happened? You're only down by 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:57.440 ten points? You get the ball? You okay, maybe your 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:01.040 game playing work. You come out, you get the ball first. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.040 Better Still, we're gonna block. We're gonna rough the problem. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:10.320 We're gonna get you another shot. Nah run so nah 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.319 so listening to you, gentlemen, both right here on the 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.600 players brought to you by Hotels dot Com. You weren't 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.600 happy with the play calling from the play caller Kellen Moore. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.680 I can't be man, because I gotta feel for Lyo. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.800 I gotta feel for for my center. I gotta feel 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.480 for my left guard, and I gotta feel for Tyrone. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.880 He played injured all year. He came back trying to 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.320 play injured. It don't fall off that quick. Now, maybe 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.679 next year he'll be bad, but you don't fall off 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.360 from having a good year and all of a sudden 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.280 you just come back and get slammed by a guy 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.040 you don't even know. No, you've played, you tried to 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.280 play through this injury. Then it caught up with you. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.920 But your offensive coordinator did not give you all your 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.960 Your offensive line coach did not stand up on the 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.120 bench or threatened to go up there and say, man, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:02.000 we need to do something different because I gotta get 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.800 my guys going forward. These guys stayed on their heels 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.679 the whole I mean literally on their heels the whole game, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.160 and then all of a sudden, with with with two 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.560 minutes or something else. Now you're trying to roll forward. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.440 That's hard to do. That's I've been in there before 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.120 the fourth member the forty nine ers game went up there, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.840 they at us a live because we was going backwards 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.080 the whole while the second one. Yeah, well, this is 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.920 what happens when you go out there in Week one 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.080 and you decide not to run the ball because you 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.880 believe that your offensive line is going to be outmatched 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.120 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive line. And you set 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.520 that president of like, oh, you know, we actually played 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.360 a great game against Tampa. No we didn't. You went 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.160 out there and you let them turn you into a 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.559 one dimensional team, and then in your mind you said, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.760 when I throw the ball out there, it's on a 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.320 jailbreak screen. That's an extension of the run. That ain't 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.160 an extension of the run. Like for our offense, I 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.160 do not want to hear an extension of the run 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.440 again if you're not going to run the ball. And 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.679 that started in week one, and then we had like 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.120 maybe two games in between where it was like, okay, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.280 Parlor and Zeke actually had good games, but that wasn't 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.920 that weren't games where we said we came out and 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.600 said that this this is what we're gonna do. We're 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.760 gonna go our head bullet these guys and established a run. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.400 It was it was kind of just based off the 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.400 play call, like it's working, so let's let's go ahead 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:12.920 and do it. And then you get to the last 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.800 game of the season and you look in the same 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.280 way you look at in the first game, and you're 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.960 not able to run the ball, even when you realize 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:26.240 that this defensive line is giving you trouble. You know, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.439 you know, the guys on my show said they in 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.480 the Access a week ago, they at the season, end 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.560 of the day and the Cowboys lose that first playoff game, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.079 would you be okay? I said, yeah, I'll be okay. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.800 They say why, I say, because we have been a 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.040 good team all year. They have given the fans a 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.480 good show. Because I even though you hear me say 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.120 every year, I'm going seventeen and old, used to be 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:59.120 sixteen and old. But I always try to be very 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.079 objective and tell the truth during the week before I 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:08.840 set out on on Friday. You cannot, I repeat, you 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:14.880 can tell truth, man on the microphone. Might as well 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.960 tell the truth. I'm no, that's what that's what that is, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.679 what that is why we do the show. That's why 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.640 it's the play. This is the player's laue. You're a 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.520 players to play. This is where you need to tell 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:33.600 the truth. Now, I'm telling you know what, man, You 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.800 know we can't do it like this. We just can't 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:41.160 do it like this. You you you we had we 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.120 had too much talent, man, And I know they had 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.520 Nick Bosa. I know they had didn't in the second half, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.839 and I know you have Warner. There was a there 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:57.000 was a beast. But you cannot let three guys dictate 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.560 the game. You just you just you know what happened 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.439 when we ran the ball. We talked about this yesterday. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.640 When we ran the ball, you came out what's the drive? 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.840 We had six runs, we scored touchdown, We're running the ball, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.280 we're moving at the OFFICI line. Looks like they're getting 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.880 in the groove. Like, Man, I'm not on my heels 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.679 at this point. Now, I'm getting to establish my strength 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.200 and show these guys a little payback for what they've 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:21.920 been doing to us in the past. Right, and you 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.920 get six runs I'm talking about you moved down the 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.160 field quick, easy, smooth, and you only end up with 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:33.160 Zeke having twelve total. You had six rounds on one drive. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.760 Let me walk you through that drive. Okay, okay, okay. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.880 First and ten at the Dallas thirty three, Zekiel Elliott 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.960 five yards second and five of the dollars thirty eight 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.199 Zekiel Elliott five yards first and ten the Dallas forty three, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:53.959 Tony Pollard eight yards second and two forty nine yard line, 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:59.360 Cede Lamb five yards first and ten. San Francisco forty four, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:06.440 Tony Paul one yard second and nine. San Francisco forty three. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.960 Dak Prescott short left passed to Cedric Wilson eighteen yards 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.319 first and ten forty nine is twenty five Tony Pollard 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.960 five yards second to five nine twenty Tony Pollard no game, 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.560 third and five, San Francisco twenty, Mary Cooper twenty yard pass. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.600 So the drive was nine plays, sixty seven yards four 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.400 twenty seven and you had six runs. And I can 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.920 guarantee the next drive didn't sound like that. Let me 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:40.160 ask let me ask you guys this man, how do 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.480 you rate a Maari Cooper? I made it is can 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.600 he go to another team and be another team's number one? 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.400 Or he just glorified two? I mean, really, man, give 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.320 me what you think about Amari Cooper. You first, I'll 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.040 start it. You have a number one in cd Land 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.760 got in the ball. Mark Cooper is a one, But 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.600 I don't feel that the play caller utilizes him in 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.400 such fashion. If he was in Arizona, Cliff Kingsbury would 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.240 use him in the way he uses DeAndre Hopkins. If 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.880 he was in Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers would get in 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.880 the ball. Cooper Cup, Okay, I think if you talk 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.640 about this talent as a receiver, I think Maria Cooper 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.360 is more talented than Cooper Cup. But Matthew Stafford, Show 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.760 McVay get Cooper Cup football. You are dealing with a player, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.920 in my opinion, who's underutilized. This is the same guy 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.560 when the Cowboys three to five they make the trade 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.480 for him. He is the difference maker and then making 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.200 the playoffs and Jason Garrett being able to save his 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.360 job because they got a playmaker there. But if I 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.320 don't get my playmaker the ball, you get what you're getting. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.120 In my opinion, yeah, I think him the same way 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.040 as I think of Zeke, same way I think of 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:52.560 CD Lamb. The offensive coordinator has to find a way 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.840 to get these guys the ball. Specifically, when you watch 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.320 a San Francisco forty nine a team, they are going 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.520 to get Deebo Samue the ball. They're gonna get I 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.160 used the ball they have. They have certain plays drawn 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.560 up for these guys where there's no other option. The 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.440 ball is gonna be in this dude's hand and we're 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.280 gonna see what he can do with it. When it 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.920 comes to our offense, it's exs and os and it's hey, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.680 if you look this way, this dude should be open 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.880 based off the coverage and instead of it being hey man, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.080 it's man on man at this point, all right, I'm 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.080 lining up in three by one, putting four strong. Amari 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.880 Cooper is gonna be on the backside man the man, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.480 and we're gonna call whatever route he likes the best, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.640 and we're gonna throw that route, and we lose. We 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.800 lost it, but we're gonna continue to do this. He's 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.360 gonna get this option ten to eleven times per game 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.120 because we believe that he is the best route runner 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.160 in the league. Is set around the league, right, not 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.000 just the Cowboys bias. Around the league. People are saying 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.680 that Mary's Cooper route running is second to none, and 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.480 we're not utilizing that at all. So that's why I 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.880 got quiet before, because I'm saying to myself, you have 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.680 let a dude that can set coverage stand out there 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.400 and they don't have to. They don't have to respect 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:07.200 him because you don't respect now, just just pointing this out, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:11.160 just just in fairness. Cooper had ten targets in the game. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.520 Ten targets. He had six catches. Win in the first series. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.800 I just got started the second third series. And what 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.520 about the last player of the game who you threw 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.520 the ball too? And and and he was the second 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.760 with hing Centric Wilson had ten targets and five catches. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:34.359 Ceedee Lamb had five targets, one catch. Um Dalton Schultz 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.520 with eight targets, seven catches. Here, when I'm looking at 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.919 who are the playmakers for the Cowboys and how they 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.800 got into the ball, um, that to me, if I'm 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.320 Jerry Jones, I'm not happy with Meanwhile, on the other side, uh, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.280 the leading receiver for the forty Niners, Brandon Iu. He 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.600 had six targets for Um five catches. Deebo Samuel had 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.720 three targets. And keep in mind they ain't throw the 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.119 ball back. Yeah, they only threw the ball twenty five times. 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.840 But Deebo did have twenty six yard touchdown run coming 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.800 out of the backfield. Yeah. Yeah, he had ten rushes 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:10.159 after the turnover, after turnover in your own territory, you know, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.920 change the position, get you like that. I'm not taking 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.040 them away from the defense, but you at this point, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.359 you have giving the ball over your own territory and 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.160 your defense. As much as they're getting bullied, they're giving 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.760 up field goals. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. They 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:28.040 had twenty three points. This is this This shouldn't you know. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.959 This ain't about no defense. This is not about no defense. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.760 This is not about that. This is about putting your 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.600 defense at a disadvantage over and over and over, and 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.080 you started by when they flipped that coin. Your offense 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.640 should have been what was walking out? If I'm dak, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.240 I just ran out of there with the offense. I 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.639 mean like, that's how we're gonna do that. Let's hit 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:56.119 a break. And since we have you here, Nate Newton, 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:01.400 we discussed the offensive line yesterday. What will be? What 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.040 do you do? What changes do you possibly make to 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.080 your offensive line for this season? Coming up? Nate Newton, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.760 Dative mcraneho Wescrictes. This is the players on BABA Hotels 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:14.000 dot com, Cowboys dot com dot com. 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