WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: What's Wrong With the Defense? 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:13.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:18.200 Player's Lane, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.480 the Star. No. Your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:30.400 Nui Scrugs. Hump day. Hello everybody. You are in the 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.360 players lunchbot to you by Hotels dot Com. The two 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.360 Amigos three Amigo negroes broken up today, but Barry Church 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.040 is out golfing on behalf of the Dallas Cowboys organization. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.239 And as we say that, he just faced timed us. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.280 He made a bet with me that he would shoot 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.159 par at least pear on any hole. He called me 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.120 and said he was shooting for Bertie. He missed the 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.400 next two shots and nw I said, don't count a 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.240 nice said did you you? And you heard it. He's 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.480 trying to say face from people. Okay, you're trying to 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.560 look good out there. You know, he's the celebrity out there, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.000 so he's trying to look good on the phone. Is 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.720 he talking about his golf game? You know? But I 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.000 don't want o Wood. I don't want you to be 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.080 on the fence though, did you hear him. Yes, okay, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.000 he missed it missed no longer Bertie he bogy? Okay 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:17.800 did he did he make it? Did he get the bogy? 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:22.000 Or I mean it didn't matter. I didn't. I don't know. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.200 I don't know. I mean quadruple book. I mean we 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.760 don't know if we don't know. Yeah, so you know 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.679 he was booked. Book about the Cow. You give book 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.559 Barry Church golfing Experience. You want to feel good about 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.160 your golf game called Berry Church. He'll come out here, Yankee, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.680 buzz all you sitting around here and feel good about yourself. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.600 Taking it to an NFL player. Uh, he is Danny McCray, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.720 long time uh NFL safety retired. Now he's a member 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:56.400 of Survivor forty one. It is airing tonight at seven o'clock, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.080 wearing his Team Danny gear. You two who can wear 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.840 the sweet gear. Tell everybody how they can get hooked up. 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Okay, so that is the thank you 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.600 neuis Yes, this is the rub we got the show tonight. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:05.320 I'llow you on your social media handles. This is the play. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.560 That's what we get our book Nui to help me. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.720 You have a platform through the Dallas Coupel true let 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.720 us use it. Do you have people who are like, oh, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.640 let me follow Danny so bams that's it. So every 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.400 day we need to be talking about that. So we're 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.120 trying to get get get the numbers up, and then 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.960 of course when people are there, then you get the merchandise. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.120 Come on, baby, I think speaking of some valued listeners 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.919 have ordered merch off of the website. So people are listening. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.880 Thank you everybody, who's ordered a shirt. Everybody who supported 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.320 me throughout the Survivor journey, thank you. It is very 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.000 much appreciated. So, um, this episode of Survivor, you can't 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.160 give us any details. That's a part of the contract. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.320 That's fun. But last time you went to you know, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.360 you got to go out there and everybody is sitting 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.320 to tribal and just you know, everybody get sliced up 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.880 and people try to make deals here. My name wasn't mentioned, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.160 It wasn't mentioned. But what was that like to sit 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.440 there just say, okay, someone's about to go home. I 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.560 mean I watched that for what twenty forty seasons at 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.839 that time at that point, right, and y'all putting myself 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.159 in that seat, and to try to wonder how I 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.960 will be able to handle it, right, because the nerves 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.880 are already going all over the place. You never really 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.360 know who's saying your name, who's not saying your name. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.400 Whatever plan you came in with, it's ninety nine percent 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.080 chance that that's not the plan that everybody else is 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.240 going with, right, So you have all this stuff going 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.080 through your mind. So it was it was nerve wrecking. Um, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.080 But I felt like, you know, I had played a 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.760 good enough game to to keep myself out of out 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.760 of harm's way, and it looked like it worked out 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.120 that way, all right. So tonight seven o'clock check out 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.719 Danny mccrai on Survivor. And if you miss it, I 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.120 tell people go to CBS dot com. You can pull 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.200 it up right there and just watch the show immediately. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.400 And you know, oh, by the way, go back if 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.359 you miss any of them. So let's talk about these 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.640 Dallas Cowboys. They get ready to face the Atlanta Falcons. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.159 This is Dan Quinn's old team. Dude. Quinn said a 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.000 lot of nice things, like, hey, time to go down 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:06.000 memory lane here, Matt Ryan has put together a nice season. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.320 And I say nice season because I didn't think it 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.760 would be a good football team. Losing Julio Jones, dan 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.279 Quinn's gone, you're bringing in a new coach. I didn't. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.160 I wasn't a fan of what I thought they had 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.000 the running backs in terms of like, hey, how are 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.719 you gonna depend on Mike Daves. So I just thought 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:20.960 they had a lot of holes. I didn't think they 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.920 would be I thought we were talking about a team 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.840 they may win four games. Well, they've already won four games, Yes, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.400 and at the halfway point, so they have hung in there. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:34.640 And so Vegas says, the Cowboys are nine point favorite 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.679 in the football game. And I'm just looking at this saying, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.240 you know what, No. No. Last week should show you 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.160 when they had the Cowboys is nine point favorite. This 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.080 is the National Football League. They get paid to. They 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.280 don't want to get embarrassed. They're going to face their 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.760 old coach. And let us not forget the last time 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.359 the Falcons were here Watermelon how that basically led to 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.080 the demise of dan Quinn getting fired. Big league good 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.560 game by Mannie Ice. They blow it on sidekick. Falcons 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.680 just basically sit there watch the watermelon kicks spin around, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.800 Nobody jumps on it. Cowboys get it and they go 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.360 win the football game that they ship probably should not go. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.080 What so are you saying that, uh, you know, you 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.760 would be more nervous if we have a lead in 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.680 the game at the end of the game versus it 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.320 being a close game that you know, based on how 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.280 the dan Quinn teams have been have been playing once 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.480 they have a lead all Super Bowl last year. Yeah, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:38.360 us against dan Quinn's defense, um like which which which 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:39.960 one would you rather see at the end of the game. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:46.800 I think last week was a great indicator of the 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.400 offense really has to do their part. They need to 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.680 play with lead. It helps your defense. Um, coming into 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:57.360 the season, I thought that you predicted the top ten defense. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.280 I did not predict the top ten defense. I feel 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.120 like this this defense is helped by the offense from 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.320 the scoring the offense does. Before this game, the Cowboys 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.040 averaging thirty five points a game at home over the 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.560 last almost the last year. So if you put thirty five, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.520 that puts pressure on the other team. If you're putting 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.960 up thirty five points, you're you're pretty much winning the 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.480 time of possession, which means you keep your defense off 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.880 the field. I don't think there's defenses at that point 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.600 in time yet that they can't have a little bit 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.760 of help. They need to have more help. I thought 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.360 they did a great job in Minnesota and charges um. Yes, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.520 and you know, third downs they won all day like crazy. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.800 They did not win the Cowboys different did not win 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.520 the third downs at all against Denver. So and I 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.839 also go back and think about how the offense didn't 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:43.800 do their parts in a couple of fourth down situations. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.840 You put your defense out. I mean, there's this offense 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.480 has to do its part, it has to help the defense. Well, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.920 I will say this though they do, but this was 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.839 probably one of the worst offensive performances that you could 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.000 put together, all right, So they do have to do 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.320 their part, which is score some points. I don't think 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.439 they have to score thirty five for our defense to 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.480 be able to be productive as they have been in 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.719 the past. But you gotta do you gotta be able 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.640 to do something. We've seen that sixteen seventeen points. Just 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.719 being able to control the ball a little bit and 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.240 not continuously putting them out their drive at the drive 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.520 with no points on the board and saying, hey, you 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.800 need to go stop them from scoring or we're going 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.480 to be in trouble. I think that'll help. But I 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.920 don't think they need to score thirty five for us 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.680 to be able to be productive moving forward throughout the season, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.760 because we've been able to turn the ball over, we've 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.880 been good on third down, we've been a bend, but 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.520 don't break. We've had some people miss some field goals 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:38.600 against us. So thirty five, I'll say somewhere between twenty 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.120 twenty twenty four will be will be really good for us. Okaya, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.079 stay there, because here comes my thought in terms of 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.920 just what we've seen with the Cowboys and just perception. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.200 Cowboys should up here, go on one of these seventy 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.679 five yard drives and they're hitting. Then that tells the 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.280 other team, Okay, look there there they're gon here CD 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.000 lamb catch and here here here's Coop catching some up. Now, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.199 now here's here's Zeke. Now they rolled out here, adult 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.040 shelter me. You start seeing that, and you just see 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.520 how Dak's moving around operating. You're the other team. Okay, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.640 we gotta we gotta respond, we gotta come back. We 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.000 we can't let them get rolling. So just that mentality 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.880 which they never got to against Denver outside of the 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.319 first ride where they tried to go down there and 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.000 go for it and then it failed. You know, those 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.960 first those first two drives, I thought the Cowboys had 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.480 something to go and they just couldn't finish it. Then 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.880 when Carthie's decided, no, we're not gonna kick a field goal, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.480 we're gonna and Denver took it person. So then they 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.559 got roll. They helped them kind of get rolled. I 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.959 just think for them against the Atlanta Falcons. What I'd 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.280 like to see is get back here, try to put 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.079 some offensive pressure on they're letting. You know, that makes 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.520 some Mattie Ice and company. Okay, we gotta respond. Um, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.880 we got we gotta we gotta get Cordell Pas and Roller. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.640 We've got to go out and do our thing. I 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.600 also think of this, and as if I'm a defender, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.880 I'll ask you this, and you played the league. If 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.640 you're a defender, how much do you want this game 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:01.280 for dan Quinn? Yeah? I mean if they love DQ 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.240 like I'm loving DQ, then all you want is this win. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.839 This is one that you circle, right because you know 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.760 dan Quinn's not gonna go out there until his team, Hey, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.960 this one means more to me than the rest of them, right, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.160 But they'll be able to tell as he's giving his 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.319 speeches and as he's going through the film session and 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.960 he's explaining, Hey, I know what these guys do best 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.240 and what they don't do as well. Yeah, they're picking 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:25.800 up on that. So they want to go win it 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.480 for their coach. And I think that's how that is 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.079 how you know you have good coaches. People probably want 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.600 to go out there and play good for Kelly Moore, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.559 the entire team at this point, I believe wants to 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.880 go out and get this win for dan Quinn, which 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.360 shows you how respected he is throughout the locker room. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.079 I remember Risk Besacha, He's that same kind of guy 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.480 Joe Decamilla, the same kind of guy where if you 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.120 win and you played a former team of there's where 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.760 they felt like they got done wrong and they felt 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.000 like they got fired and they shouldn't have, then yeah, 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.599 we got a little bit more fire under us to 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.000 make sure that we go out there and get that 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.000 win for them. Okay, And I'm glad you are, because 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.120 that was my feeling, is it. Hey, look, you're gonna 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.520 want to go out here and get this thing for DQ. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.400 This is gonna be a game you want to win, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.400 and you don't want two losses in a row at home, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.280 and you played so badly last week. So so there's 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.199 a lot of things I think that are going in 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.319 favor of the Cowboys to get a win. But I 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.040 just cautioned fans to not to get in the thought 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.559 process like we got into last week when we made 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.560 our own picks. Uh, anybody to come up here. Everybody 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.839 wiped them for off the Dee and that just you know, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.600 we could forget guess what doesn't happen the National Football League? 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.040 And it was that way that Sunday wasn't just the Cowboys, man, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.959 it was other teams that are good football teams taking 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.160 else And you just look at the Atlanta Falcons who 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.520 went into the Superdome in New Orleans and got a 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.040 w Yep, so I mean Trevis sim but it's cool. Yeah, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.400 but but they won the game. They won a game. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.640 They've been rolling. Maddie Ice has been playing well. Cardaro Pass, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.920 oh my goodness, the guy. We talked about it when 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.920 you so in the league, right there are a players 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.520 who hit their first team and then they just blossom 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.280 right there. They are exactly what you expected them to be. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.000 Then they're players who kind of slowly move along. They 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.240 might go from team to team before they're finding their 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.840 home and they yeah, and then they get a coach 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.360 or staff or a system that fits them. Patterson is 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.280 that guy. Sure he's been all around, he's been kickoff, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.560 return of the running back, receiver, and now he's doing 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.839 all of that with Atlanta, and he's doing it all 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.760 at a very high level. No longer can be called 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.520 an X factor. He is a player in the league 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.280 that you have to play in scheme for pretty much 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.040 on all phases, right, all phases of the offense. I 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.720 look at him and I think of what Devin Hester 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.640 could have been more of if people were willing to 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.240 use him in that fashion. About played with Devin Hester. Yeah, no, no, 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:47.920 I didn't play. I played against him. He wasn't there 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.600 when I was. He was already gone when I got there. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.160 But I played against them many times, and it was 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.360 it was that though, like because you the defensive coaches 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.000 had to play for him, and then we also had 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.840 to see him again when I went into the special teams, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.480 so you were getting ready for this guy. They have 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:07.480 this this this unreal type of ability to be elusive 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.439 and break tackles and see holes in a different way 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:14.679 because that's just that talent that was given to them. Yeah, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.240 he's an offensive pressure player, the same way I think 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.240 of Michael Parsons as a defensive pressure player. One of 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.480 the biggest misconceptions, and I blame myself for this, journing 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.360 the draft process. I just thought he's linebacker. He's not alive. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.400 He's pressure player, because what was Dame, what was Lawrence Taylor, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.720 he was a pressure player. Linebacker just doesn't do justice 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.520 to what that guy did on the field. And I 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.480 feel like with Michael Parsons, doesn't do justice Junior sayout, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.760 So there's another one. Just didn't do justice to all 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.720 he brought you to the football field. Well I don't, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.800 I don't listen. And as you look at the Hall 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.880 of Fame ballot, sometimes I don't think that's even fair, 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.480 right because de Marcus Ware is labeled as a what linebacker? 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.840 What do you look at? DeMarcus Ware? Is pressure as pressuring, pressure, 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.920 pleasure player. So I think I think the label as 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.280 the game is as has gone to different directions and 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.440 defensive coaches have been able to come up with different 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.240 schemes in different ways to maximize the potential of certain players. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.680 I think that the label has been kind of remove. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.400 De Marcus word to me is a pressure player. Game 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.520 changers Russia for the most part. And one of the 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.720 beauties for a guy like where is he has the 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.120 statistics on his side of the sacks, top ten in 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.920 NFL history in sacks, super Bowl winner. That's going to 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.800 be a check mark for him, which gets him into Canton. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.800 The question is when right, this year's the first ballot, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.800 They're going to be several voters who do not consider 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.760 him a first ballot guy. It's just how it is. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.280 I'm sorry. People may not like that. Well, if he's 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.760 a you know, why if he's good enough this time, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.160 why is he good I'm sorry, It's just how some 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.360 people go. But it is just a matter of when 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.720 for DeMarcus where. Also, what I have not done in 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.320 terms of looking at his ballot yet is who else 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.600 is there? Because some times there's this pecking arright, go 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.480 back to about six seven years ago when they had 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.800 this receiver log g in uh Andre Reid, Chris Carter, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.920 Michael Irving, Tim Brown. It was this thing and I 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.360 think Tim was the last one to get in, which 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.800 was hard on him. Yeah, I mean what made that 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.440 got so? So? I mean we saw Drew Pierson, we 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.920 saw this. We saw this with Drew. So I don't 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.960 know if there are any defensive players that may be 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.040 on this ballot coming up that people look to say, Okay, 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.760 this one needs to get in. Just miss the last time. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.000 All that kind of stuff does factor in in a class, 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.920 and I don't know who else is up. The names 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.520 that I can remember. I was the top of my 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.360 head because like I was, I was around playing against 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.840 those guys were I think like Tequillo Spics is on there, 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.880 Patrick Willis is on there is Uh. I'm not gonna 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.120 say say I can't remember, but it's it's it's some 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:00.240 like really true linebackers. As I saw Sean Leader today 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.120 as a matter of fact, as he's coming here to 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.480 review the film of the linebackers, and he did a 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.640 good job of differentiating what they were. Right. So DeMarcus 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.840 where linebacker, he said, Michael Parsons is probably one of 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.520 the best stack linebackers that he's seen play as far 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.000 as be able to line up behind the defensive line 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.120 and read the pulling guards or read the tackles. He's 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.239 a stack linebacker who can also rush the passer, who 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.080 can also blitz, but also is able to play that 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.120 second level of the defense. So he's a stack linebacker. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.720 De Marcus Where to me, in my eyes, is more 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.800 of a rushing rushing type of linebacker and a guy 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.560 that you have in three four years and a guy 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.200 that you have on the outside here. So it's it's 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:41.880 just a lot that goes in there. And I'd also 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.840 there's gonna be five. There's basical gonna be five modern 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.800 day players who get in into the hall issue. And 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.359 what can hurt you at times is when you have 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.640 the sure fire guy, for instance, spread fire Frett Farve 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.760 comes up. That's four spots because Farve's getting one. And 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.000 then it's harder on defense of guys to get into. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:06.040 You're normally gonna get at least one in and sometimes 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.280 two threes a lot. But it just comes that thing 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.240 of just this whole who else is around you? You 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.159 just want a lot of cowboy fans and look like, hey, 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:14.520 look man, the guy was a Hall of Fame player. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.239 Just put him in. I'd like to tell you it's 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.000 that simple, but it's really a complicated process, and some 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:20.680 of it's just unfair and some of it makes you 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:21.960 want to pull your head out. But this is what 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:23.920 it is. It's like trying to pass a build through Congress. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.120 It's a whole lot of stuff you gotta get to. Hey, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.399 something else I want to get to right here is 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.640 what does this defense need to do to rebound this week? 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.640 What do you need to see from Dak Prescott? Also, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.000 we got the power rankings that are starting to come 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.080 in here. The Cowboys were three and two and certain 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.800 power rankings last week. Tumbling time, twmbling time. Let's get 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.600 into it with Danny McCrae, former Cowboys safety. 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