WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Playoff Ready? 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.040 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:14.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:19.360 Players Lounge, broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:25.360 the Star. Now your hosts Darry Church, Danny mccraig, Heckma 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:34.800 Harrison and knew he Scrugs reported line from the SWBC 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.600 Mortgage Studios. You are now rocking with the vest. This 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.880 is the Players Lounge sponsored by Tostitos, the official chip 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.120 and dip of the Dallas Cowboys. And always in the 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.400 place to be with me number forty two BC Barry 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.320 Churches in the building and always positive, never with the 0:00:55.400 --> 0:01:03.760 twins of pessimism, My guy, ever with a twine of pessimism, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:09.640 My guy. Uh. Danny McCrae, former Dallas Cowboy in Chicago, 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.119 bear anybody else that get ready? No, that's it. That's 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.360 it in Chicago. Bear my man? Deep Mac is an't it? Perfect? 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:21.959 Attendis Mac? Yeah? Yeah, I'm here. Time ready, You're about 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:28.319 to get all this smoke marbecue outside. I got a brisket, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.720 you know, you know. I love days like this. I 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.560 love days like this. I'm surrounded. As soon as I 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.959 part and get out of everybody like he wait, he 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:44.360 waiting on you, secure in front, He wait, he waiting 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.760 on you. They already down then they already waited. Don't 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.720 you worry everybody, We got the green light, don't and 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.000 don't even have to use the badge. All the doors over, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.920 Come on in, come on in and sit down and 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.640 get this smoke. Yeah, I'm here for it. I ain't 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.600 ducking none of it. Show. You know, like we started 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.640 every show, it saw us the same. I ain't gonna 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.560 change fellas. I'm gonna start with you, Barry. How are 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.079 you today? Brother? Doing great? Man, doing great? Got a 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.120 nice little workout in this morning. So feeling good, y'all? 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.080 Brothers in the workout, yat. You gotta stay right, you 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.960 gotta stay right. But families blessed the man. Everything's going 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.160 good so far. Man, that's good. What about you, Danny? 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.480 I'm great man. I'm the champion in my fantasy football league. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.560 I am the champions. Okay, I'm the champion. I won. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.520 You made it out, Yes, I made it out. I 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.320 got a free meal coming up. I'm not sure when 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.359 it is, but I'll be even a free steak aside 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:41.240 possibly a selling and some wine awesomely, but you know 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.640 what I'm saying. And the family, the family is doing great, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.640 you know what I'm saying. So outside of that BS, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.960 I watched yesterday at three twenty five, I think my 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.760 life is My life is feeling pretty well. Yeah, well 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.520 I'll tell you what it's Uh what a night, what 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.960 a day? Yesterday? You know, I tried to start everything 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.160 out positive. Uh, got the family together, you know, or 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.320 shipping ball that stuff you know, do my day and 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.520 you try to get your day started for your your 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.560 football watching experience. And boy, that hope hoping them that hope. Um, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.080 you know, it was stick and it just started to 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.560 dissipate little by little, and I realized that my team 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.240 stayed in Dallas. I don't know who those guys, you 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.720 know what they're you know what they're reminding me up? 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.920 Whatever remind you? Man? That reminded me of Alonzo Man, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.639 that man on training day. He ain't hoping them all 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:38.920 day hoping m and the Washington Commanders was points staying 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.520 and snatched it right up out of the snatched yea, man, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.040 bro give me all those I need my money, Jake, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.120 I need my money. Take that's what you're gonna do 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.280 to me, it's just what you want to do. Shoot 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:57.320 program twenty four hour lockdown. Yeah, that was what guys. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.320 Let's get into it. Let's get involved before I must. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.000 Yesterday was ugly. I will say this, man with you know, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.640 you know I'm gonna try and spend it the best 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.360 I possibly can, and I just don't see no way 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.440 out today. That was a bad performance. That was a 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.200 bad performance that that was not what I was expecting, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.120 especially with everything that the team had to play for yesterday, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.880 I thought definitely would get a better effort. But that 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:25.560 team looked like they had no intention on plan yesterday period. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.040 And I think that's the one that is the one 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.040 disappointing thing. And I was really happy to hear Mike 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.359 McCarthy and his press conference after the game saying that 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.240 he was obviously disappointed. What else do you say after 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:41.320 performance like that. But you're twelve and five. You're twelve 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.560 and five. You still have everything to play for. Wait 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.600 a minute, Hold on, wait a minute, you're twelve and five. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.600 You still have everything to play for. And just like 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.359 I said for the Minnesota the Minnesota game, when you 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.359 went out and you dominated that game, that might be 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.680 a tape that you don't want to watch it. Burn it. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.200 Don't go back and watch that one. I'm gonna say 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.799 the same thing about this one. Burn it because your team, 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.640 our team obviously had no intention on winning that game. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.200 They played like they were not gonna win that game. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.760 Special special teams, misques, and the offense that was down 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.240 right awful. Yea, to be honest with yourself, BRO, the 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.200 last six you think about the last six games we 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.479 came in here every week. Yeah, after the game was 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.000 over with and it started off with sleepwalking, were not 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.440 really should the twelve o'clock game. The last six games, bro, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.880 go all the way to go and say indie, indie, Yeah, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.960 I think that's when it sparked it off. Indy. You 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.040 got you exploded in the fourth quarter, But the first 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.919 three it was tight. What was was a signal for 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.880 what was coming. For the next five weeks. You got 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.679 the Texans, you got the Jaguars, you got the Titans, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.479 you got the Washington Commanders, And every week we came 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.279 in and we were like, oh man, we just playing 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.200 down the competition. We just playing we don't know what 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.200 we do, na, Bro, that's not it. Four and two, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.200 four and two, over that stretch and um, yeah, I 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.919 mean it's not good. Do you want to me? I 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.280 have nothing positive for this other than you you played 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.920 Tampa Bay on Monday night. But we're gonna diagnose this 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.240 because we're here. Yeah, we're gonna dig getting into it. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.120 Let's let's get into it. Because Dak Prescott once and 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:24.359 again one more time offered up his services to the 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.799 other team and by way of a pick six, guys, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.680 this is a this is a problem, Danny you've talked 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.280 about and I'll let you lead off on this, man, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.560 But your thoughts on on Dak right now in his performance, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.159 the way that he's playing and how it's costing this team. Yeah, man, Dad, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.840 I don't know where you go. Um with the way 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.040 that he's been playing. When you think about like a 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.360 full game, right, you're not protecting the ball. I'm not 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.080 sure about the reads or or the accuracy or or 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.800 who you're throwing it too at the time, but we're 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.320 taking a lot of shots to nor Brown. When you 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.720 got see lamb out there, I'm just saying, you got 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.080 seed lamb out there, you got sho. You're trying to 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.320 get t Y Hill to integrate it into the offense. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.640 I think these are better options for you to test 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.680 out and letting nor Brown be what he's been one 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.719 of those guys who, hey, man, when things fall apart 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.200 and you need to find somebody, he's still somebody who 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.440 can who can get you a first down. But you 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.840 need to get these other guys involved in your offense. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.840 We're taking too many shots to the guy. I don't 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.680 know what's going on with Dak at this moment, but 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.000 he is not protecting the ball, and that is the 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.880 number one thing your quarterback has to do. You cannot 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.280 be leading the league of interceptions when you miss five games. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.480 You can't be. Your interceptions are not just interceptions, they 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.240 are pick sixes. You are giving points to the other 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.000 team like you that you cannot win football games like. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.800 They don't matter how good your defense is, how good 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.360 your special teams play. If you are giving the way 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.880 the ball at that rate and then also allowing it 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.400 to beat put them in scoring position, or just giving 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.680 them the touchdown, you ain't gonna win no games. You 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.000 ain't gonna win no games against Tom Brady. You might 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.080 not win a game against Baker. May feel like that 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.120 you just can't do it. Bro. You can't do your 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:00.480 your offense number one, all this other stuff. But it 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.600 ain't like that, all right. We feed off of what 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.360 our defense is able to do. And when you put 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.440 our defense in those bad situations where you already into 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.480 your own territory or you're not even letting them get 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.880 get on the field because you're giving up the touchdown, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.480 then you can't feed off of your defense. You can't 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.200 get ahead. The pass russ can't get going, you can't 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.480 get the turnovers because the other team doesn't have to 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.080 throw the ball as many times as they would have 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.640 had to if you were ahead. It's just a recipe 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.040 for disaster. We need Dak Prescott to take number one. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.480 Take care of it. Just that's it. Take care of us. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.480 Start there, take care of it, no doubt. Man. Look, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.800 look you hit on a lot of you know, important things, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.280 and the most important thing was, you know, Dak Presscott. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.480 Because you know, even though I believe the defense is 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.760 the strength of this team, I still don't feel like 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.000 they'll go as far as Dak Prescott takes him. You know. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.880 That's I think he's the catalyst of this whole thing, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.160 and he has to protect the football. I mean, that's 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:52.880 That's what it comes down to, as simple as that 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.560 he has to protect the football. Fifteen interceptions in the 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.800 amount of games that he's played is just not acceptable. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.120 I mean, even if you played a full round vorl 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.600 full season, fifteen interceptions, that's extremely high for a man 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.720 of his caliber and the quarterback of his caliber. So 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.679 he's gonna have to protect the football. But you know, 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.240 I'm not here to prow it all on that because 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.320 there's enough blame to go around all around if you 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.840 look at it. Let's start with this receiving corp right now. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.080 Let's start with it. You're going against a Washington defense 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.800 where I didn't see any you know, prime time out there. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.080 I didn't see you know, Peterson in in his prime 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.840 at the corner of position. I didn't see any of that. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.360 They got a lot of solid defenders. But what I 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.840 did see is no separation from Cedee Lamb all the 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.880 way down to Noah Brown. There was no separation. Each 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.440 and every one of those passes that dag through was 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.640 a contested whether it was cod or whether it wasn't, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.000 it was contested. There was no separation at all from 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.920 his receiving corps out there. So that's number one. And 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.480 then you also look at this offensive line, and I 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.559 understand they're dealing with some injuries out there, but when 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.719 you have a makeshift offensive line like that, people are 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:57.120 going to be in your quarterback's face each and every 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.000 time he dropped back the past. Somebody was in there. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.520 We saw big John Ridgeway looking like he was you know, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.320 me Joe bid or something like that. He was out 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.560 there dominating in it, and it just to me, it's just, man, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.680 you know, this is the first time where I really 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.120 looked at that offensive line as a whole, and I'm like, man, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.400 you know, some of their main pieces, some of their 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.720 cornerstone pieces out there kind of looked old, you know, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.679 and they kind of looked like they had some chink 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.440 in the armor out there. There was some pressure in 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.000 there that we usually don't see from the main guys. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.199 That's been a part of the I'm talking about that 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.960 offensive line. So to me, I mean, there's enough blame 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.560 to go around offensively, but Dad, you gotta take care 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.640 of the football. The receiving court, which we've been talking 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.280 about that naseum since the beginning of the season. They 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.600 gotta find a way to create some separation out there. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.160 I mean, ceedee lamb. The first four possessions of that 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.079 game didn't get one target. I mean, this is a 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.520 guy that's been on a tear for the past five 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.320 or six games, really coming into that number one role. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.079 He doesn't even get a target in the first four possessions. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.640 I mean, that's entirely too much. We already talked about 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.840 Noah Brown and how he was getting targeted out there 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.320 out the wazoo. But to me, offensively, they just don't 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.800 have an identity right now. They don't have an identity. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.280 We thought early on, you know, it could be the 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:06.960 running game. We thought, you know, let's lean on that 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.920 thunder lightning, let's lean on Tony Pollard and Zekiel Elliott. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.280 That didn't seem to be the case, and Dak Prescott 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.160 was just receiving corps. Right now, they're just not on 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.760 the same page. Whether it's timing, whether it's you know, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.080 whatever the case may be, they're just not on the 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.160 same page. So right now, this offense, they have got 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.120 to get an identity. They've got to take care of 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.040 the football first and foremost, or this looks like a 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.000 one and done football team. As talented as they are, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.400 it looks like it's going that way if they do 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.559 not get this thing going offensively. Fourteen of thirty seven 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.640 passing yesterday, one hundred and one hundred and twenty eight 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.079 yards a TD and an interception. That's bad. Those rookie 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.319 those are rookie numbers. All right? Uh did he get out? 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.599 Played by Sam? Him? We talk about the defensive we're 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.439 gonna go. We adopted saying didn't get it out? I'll 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.040 played by Sam? Oh? Yeah, it was. It was there. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.680 And here's here's the thing for me, because because I 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.679 think what you're talking about with the white receivers is 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.800 a common theme we've been talking about out this all season. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.480 No separation by the receiving call. We've been looking for 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.680 a steady number two. As now Ceedee Lamb has started 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.959 to emerge, there's still some space. And I'm sure you 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:10.240 can go back and look at that game and go, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.160 what the hell you know? Come on, guys, we had 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.600 drop balls all over the place and Guy's just really 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.719 kind of disappearing at a at a bad time. That 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.800 body language. I know, y'all saw no, no no, no, all 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.520 of that. Some of those bad habits. Again, a real 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.080 current theme is what we've been talking about all season, 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.160 especially when adversity strikes. But when it comes down to 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.360 Dak and just circling him right now, these these turnovers 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.439 are happening at the wrong time, and they're happening in bunches. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.640 All right, it's not this one is followed up by two. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.679 He kept this one the one, but it was a 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:50.920 pick six. It was dropped right before right before Payer, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.720 you dropped out. You know, let me get my change 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:01.760 man right right him and going back to him again. Now, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.840 you guys, seriously, as as former players, you have those 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.920 anecdotal stories about that quarterbacks that you played against that 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:15.920 you know are prone to chuck. Ain't gonna give it up, right. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.600 We played with Romo, okay love, Romo had the Rome time, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.640 he had bad timing sometimes when he came to the 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.960 interception and especially against Washington his pick six. So for 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.640 you guys right now, I mean, after evaluating the again, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.199 you took it from I believe the Indianapolis game the 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.840 last six games, but it's been his last seven games 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.400 that he's turned it over going into the playoffs. As 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.440 as defenders, as guys that played in this league, how 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.960 does that set you off in your mind? I'm talking 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.480 about for the other team. For what Tampa's thinking and 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.199 what this defense is thinking about Dak Prescott and his performance. Well, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.040 if you're talking about from a Tampa perspective, I'm telling 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.160 you right now, when you when you're in those meeting rooms, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.480 whether it's the full defense or whether it's just your 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.720 secondary coach one on one of y'all sitting there talking 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.720 their truth Dak Prescott right now, as though, like how 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.719 we used to do you know a Carson Wentz or 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.680 an Eli Manning or somebody like that, talented player, and 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.040 if he gets hot, he he has the capability he's 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.640 of tearing your defense up. But if you remain patient 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.120 and stick with the game plan, he gonna throw you one. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.520 He gonna throw you one. And I'm telling you that's 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.160 what they're talking about these beatings right now. Oh just wait, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.840 just way, just be patient, don't give up any cheap ones, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.160 make him go to long route, because eventually, in that 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.200 twelve game or that twelve play drive down the field, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.280 he's gonna eventually give you one. He's gonna turn the 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.360 ball over. So that's what they're talking about. Defensively on 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.880 the other side of the field, in your own locker room, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.120 you gotta continue to half faith because because you've seen 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.120 the guy pull you up from you know, just mediocrity. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.520 You've seen the guy, you know, all everything's down in 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.640 the dumps. Man, we need to drive, and we've seen 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.000 Dak Prescott be able to orchestrate one of those you know, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.520 amazing immaculate drives within the two minutes and all that 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.960 good stuff. So you gotta continue to have faith in 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.200 your guy. But I'm telling you, if it comes down 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.840 to a continuous three and out and you're turning the 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.840 football over and your defense is playing well enough to 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.040 keep you in the game, but the offense continues to 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.720 turn them football over, you're gonna start getting some side eyes. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.680 You're gonna start getting some guys coming to the sideline 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.880 looking like it, because I mean, this is this is 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.320 the playoffs. Man. This ain't we ain't we ain't in 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.560 training camp right now. Man like this, you don't get 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.840 the re up. You know what we need, We need 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.040 you the ball. So they're gonna continue to have faith 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.160 in him and hopefully he's able to get out of 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.760 this rut. But don't side eyes, man, if he continues 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.200 to throw them picks they're gonna start coming. I'm gonna 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.600 take it one still further. All right, this is what 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.080 you're gonna get from tie bowls. All right, you're gonna 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.920 get this, hey man, we are loading up the box. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.680 We are going to stop the run because what we 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.840 see from our offenses, if we can't run the ball, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.680 then we're putting it all in Dak Prescott's hands. And 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.120 you said our receivers can't get any separation. So if 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.040 I could put eight in the box and I know 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.040 that you can't get separations from my defensive backs, I'm 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.080 bringing pressure and I'm trying to force you to make 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.400 those mistakes. Hey, I think you're gonna see a lot 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.480 of man to man or a lot of that playing 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.320 at nine trying to get a three step read and 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.880 then breaking on the ball, kind of how you see 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.760 it from Washington. So I think I think that's gonna 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.040 have to throw us into a witness this week because 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.200 our running game, especially from Tennessee to now, just has 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.200 not been where we had hoped it would be. Because 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.960 during at the beginning of the season, we were leaning 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.120 on the run game. Tony, all of this zea, let's 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.360 do a third and short thunder lightning and for the 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.040 last few weeks just have been happening. When Tennessee was there, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.760 Tony Pauler was out. I think Zeke average two yards 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.240 to carry, and then we go into this game. We 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.800 can't get the running game going. So that's something that 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.480 we really need to focus on our notice because we 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.680 have problems on the offensive line, but that is like 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.840 a focal point of the week. We got. We don't 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.440 play until Monday. We need to be working on how 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.480 we can get creative in our run game to get 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.000 us going. Because we know our quarterback and struggling at 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.680 the moment. The quickest way to get them back on 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.200 track is to get some long drive going third and 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.480 short and get them some easy throws so we can 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.240 get out there and make some noise against him. Let 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.520 me ask you real quick, heck, I mean, I know, 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.800 you break down a lot of film. We need color analysts. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.840 You break down a lot of film. When you when 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.520 you're watching Dak Prescott out there and you see, you know, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.120 pre snap and all that good stuff, is it? You know, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.560 he's not like they're confusing him with the disguise and 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.040 then post snap he's he's you know, he's he's he's 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.879 locked in on one target. He's like, no matter what 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.360 the defense shows, I'm throwing that or like, what what 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.080 do you see out there in him? As far as 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.200 why he's throwing these balls into coverage, I mean, it's 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.080 not like, you know, he's throwing man, it was a 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.600 barble it. He's throwing it right into the coverage of 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.840 the flat corner was sitting right there. So in your 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.200 mind you're breaking down film, what do you see? Why 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.000 is he turning the ball over like this? You know, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.240 he played to me, he plays like a quarterback that's 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.920 getting touched a lot, you know. And when you see 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.560 a guy that's getting touched a lot, he tends to 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.240 harry in the pocket, happy, happy feet and then he 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.399 starts to pose because he doesn't trust what he's seeing. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.760 That so he's got two things working at the same time. Um, 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.200 I go back to the interceptions. I watch him all 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.679 he has to see, you know, all right, So who's fault? 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.720 Whatever is this? And it's a it's always a combination 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.280 of both. You know, either the ball is thrown behind 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.280 the receiver or it hits the receiver, bounces up in 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.160 the air and next thing you know there's a turnover 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.240 on the last one to one the two interceptions that 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.480 he threw in the one one was dropped. Um, I can't. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.240 I still can't decide. And I wish I could ask 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.239 no or Brown what kind of route was that? You 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.639 know what? Because of the angle that he took, I 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.800 thought it was a bad route, but it was equally 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.280 a bad ball. And so two things true at the 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:23.280 same time. And you you can't you can't throw that. Nah, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.280 you can't throw it, you know. And I see quarterbacks 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.400 from high school, the college level, pro level, it always 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.679 ends the same way. When you're late in a way, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.399 yea late in a way. It always it's going on 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:42.360 the way, d on head, behind the head. That guy's gone, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.800 the band stands up and starts playing. It's over with. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.680 And I don't know. Sometimes Dak is at the point 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.080 where he believes in his arm. I just don't know 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.159 if his arm is as strong as he thinks it is. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.160 Because the confidence to throw that knowing that the guy 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.359 is sitting back and can drive on that pass, it's like, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.639 damn you, you really think you got can't even know 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.040 if that's confidence. I think that's just a bad that's 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.320 just a bad, bad decision about the quarterback. Yeah, you 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.800 got other places to go with the ball, and you're 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.400 athletic enough to run it. If you don't have nothing there, 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.840 throw it away, get out the tackle box. You can't 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.720 be giving away pick sixes like that, bro. And you 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.320 should already have that scare, right. What happens when you 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.720 get that initial scare? Hey man, you're driving right, you 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.560