WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: What Do You Do Now? 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:16.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:22.200 Lane broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.880 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newey Scrugs. 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.600 Happy voting day everyone, Welcome to the Players Lounge, brought 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.760 to you by Hotels dot Com. Newi Scrugs, a long 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:41.080 time Cowboys broadcasters, joined by two guys who played for 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.680 the Cowboys former sactis, Barry Church and Danny McCray. Fellas, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:52.480 did we get our voting in already? You guys early voted? Right? Yeah? 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.520 I went. I went just so I can make sure 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.720 I didn't have any of those those issues with safety. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.240 I heard there was gonna be some stuff out there, 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.160 so we went on and got it out of the way. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:07.039 All right, Church, Church, he dropped off and he has 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:18.240 some technically Church. Uh gosh, Barry Spagnola again, can't get right. Listen, listen, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.320 we'll help you win. Put his vote in, man, it's 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.720 doing to David Helm. I think every show has that 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.600 one person, Am I wrong? Chris Bean? And every show 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.759 has the one person that can't get it right? Yeah, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.479 on the break. I mean he's like every show there's 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.840 one person that's got some issues at times with their 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:47.560 with their set up. There s WBC, Mortgage Holmes, Barry 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.680 Church is here called. But I'm back. We read the roll. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.400 We're good to go. You know you want to go 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:59.880 put your vote in? He said what I said? He 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.480 was asking if we want to go vote. I said, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.920 you want to go vote? Real quick? Yeah, you know. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:05.720 I had to do that real quick, and then I'm 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:11.200 right back there, ready for the players. Louds man Berry, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.840 did you vote today or did you already early vote? No? 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.760 I didn't not vote. I didn't not vote. Didn't that vote? 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.120 You didn't vote? You didn't vote? No, you got time, bro, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.400 you gotta tell I got time. Maybe I'll do it 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.280 after the show. Maybe I'll go ahead and slide it 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.760 in after the show. Well let me. I'm gonna ask 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.400 this question here, because this is this is really key. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.000 Are you registered? Yes? I am registered? I am registered. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.120 Then you need to go vote, all right, you know 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.200 I'll get it. I'll get there in a minute, Pops. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:48.560 You know I'll get it in a minute. Father, You 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.799 need to go vote. I'm gonna sing. I'm gonna send 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.240 you a picture during the break of why you need 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.079 to do it. Okay, during the break, I'm gonna send 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.720 you a picture. Let's talk about the Dollar Cowboys and 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.000 the hits just keep on coming. Because quarterback Andy Dalton 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.080 has been placed on the COVID nineteen list, so he 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.040 will not be the quarterback when the Dallas Cowboys face 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:14.840 the Pittsburgh Steelers. Andy Dalton didn't play on NBC Sunday 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.560 and Night Football because he was recovering from a concussion 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.919 from the cheap shot he got from Washington, So now 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.760 he will not play against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And one 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.080 one bright thing out of this is the Cowboys have 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.800 a buy after the Steelers, so it gets Andy Moore time. 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:36.400 Fellas your thoughts on Andy Dalton not playing this week 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.200 because he's on the COVID nineteen list. Church, oh man, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.720 this is eating into my my prediction of the NFC 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.640 east Man, I'm starting to I'm starting to question my 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.600 status as no Shodamus here man, because I didn't picture 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.120 going into this, this last, this last little race, this 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.840 last ditch effort to get into the playoffs without you know, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.360 without Dalton, without you know, Dad, I mean we're going 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.240 in there with with Benda Nucci and Cooper Rush. Now, 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:04.760 you know, I get it. It It was you know, it 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.760 was the Nucci's first start out there, and you know, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.880 you got some butterflies going on, and he didn't have OTAs, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.640 he didn't have preseason games. But I mean, just just 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.080 the eye test alone, just looking at it, it just 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.280 didn't look good out there. I just don't see how 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.000 this offense has could contend or could compete out there 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.839 with him behind the helm. So it's gonna be tough. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.599 It's gonna be tough going forward. I'm still I'm still 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.480 on the bandwagon. I'm still ride with us, but it's 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.640 getting harder and harder. Man, It's gonna be tough. It's 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.000 gonna be real tough. Yeah. I was about to say, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.239 you know I'm coming for you Church, because listen, didn't 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.640 you already you already picked Philly to beat us last week. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.800 I know you didn't pick Pittsburgh to lose, so you 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.760 should so you should still so you should still be 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.760 on track for us winning the NFC each no matter 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.360 what happened when Andy Balton this week. So so you 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.320 gotta stick with your kool a pet because this is irrelevant. Listen, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.080 we all saw the same thing, and I think I 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.960 think it's pretty clear, uh, you know what's going on, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.680 and you know inside the organization because Jerry Jones came 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.640 on today and said that he saw the same thing 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.440 that we saw. You know, it was too early. You know, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.520 we didn't do ourselves any favors about putting the Nuccie 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.120 out there under those circumstances, and you know, it was 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.400 a little bit too much for him. Same thing that 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.960 that that somebody on this show said, what happened? Happened? 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.680 You know, those other two guys out there on the 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.880 players nouns, they were excited to see the Nucci and 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.200 I think a lot of people were until until he 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.000 stepped foot on the field and you saw those that 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.839 he saw those bright lights. He saw those bright lights. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.320 And it was Sunday night. Man, give a break, man, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:43.840 it was Sunday night. I was excited. I was excited, drive, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:48.240 I was excited, and then the excitement fizzle and look, 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.920 he performed and the Cowboys performed just the way I thought. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.080 I thought they'd only scored ten points. They scored nine 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.240 points here, So this was what I thought they would 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.880 get out of it, So don't don't go sitting around here, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.440 you know, patting yourself too much on the back here, Danny, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.320 like how you have And look, I could be excited 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.200 about seeing the guy but being realistic at the same time. Okay, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:11.920 it was realistic now No no, no, no, absolutely not. Nope. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.160 Excited excited, excited, excited and we'll see what he's gonna 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.279 do when he get out there. That's two different things. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.160 What you expected from the Nucci was not double reverses 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.160 and screen passes for the entire first drive. And that's 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.840 why we can't put this all on the Nucci though, man, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.840 I mean, look, some of that play calling out there 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.279 was was was god awful out there. I mean, like 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.080 like I mentioned yesterday's episode, we see we were pounding 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:36.760 the ball on him. Zeke finally got out of that 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.760 funk a little bit, and we just haded to run 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.720 a double reverse that that's basically just warped all the 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.000 momentum we had. So as much as bad as the 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.080 Nucci played out there, he didn't get any help from 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.440 any of his supporting cast or his coaches on that 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.440 on that whole No, let me go ahead and answer 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.640 the question, what do I think about the Nucci being 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.240 the starter for this week. This is absolutely horrible. What 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.640 are we doing to this guy? How about that? Was 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.520 it like Nathan Nathan Peterman out there in Buffalo that 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.720 they kept going out there messing up his career? I 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:14.440 w church, Yeah, what's going on? Hold on and pump 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.640 the brakes. I want to go back to something yesterday 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.200 where you two shot me down. Didn't you see the 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:24.239 reports the Cowboys are discussing Cooper Rush starting this week. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:32.360 I spoke about yesterday. Okay, Rush, come on Russia, you're 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:39.239 talking about this gonna be rushing. No, you called COVID 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.720 you knew it. No, you're not listening. I said yesterday, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.680 if Dalton can't go, okay, I mentioned that, can't go 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.120 back and check the take. If Dalton can't go, if 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.680 he wasn't out of concussion protocol, just if he couldn't go, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:54.920 I had brought up Cooper Rush. No. I didn't say 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.040 it was gonna be COVID related, but I mentioned the 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.640 fact that Dalton it wasn't it given that he was 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:04.760 gonna play that something else we didn't know what, And 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.600 I brought up playing Cooper Rush. I brought up Cooper 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.600 Rusk and you all shot me down, and the organization 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.120 is sitting here thinking about it. Okay, that's all. I'm 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.240 gonna be honest. I'm look, I'm gonna be honest on this. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.800 I think Cooper Rush gives us a better chance out there. Yeah, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:25.640 I'm want you want that, I'm gonna be I just 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.520 think he gives us a better opportunity than Nucci, especially 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.640 with the player caller we got going on. I just 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.839 can't see it happening Church right right, what we'll say this, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.920 be honest with yourself. No matter who's out there, we 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.320 don't have a chance. All right. This is the defense 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.520 that we're going out there and playing. We got nigga 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.199 fish passion, we got why listen, it's it's going to 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.679 be a tough task no matter who's playing quarterback. It 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.440 would have been a tough task for Dak out there 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.240 playing quarterback, so let alone with with Cooper Rush or 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.680 out there. But look, I mean they could they can. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.800 You know, it could always happen to where Pittsburgh can 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.600 play down to the opponent's level. I mean, we saw 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.400 Philadelphia give this team a run out there, and you know, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.960 minus you know, de Nucci out there they we could 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.440 have had a shot against Philadelphia. So a look, I understand, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.800 pitt you know they might come in here, They're probably 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.040 gonna wreck shot. But I mean, you just never know. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.079 You never know what can happen. Oh, I know, I 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.079 know that I'm reaching. I'm reaching right now. Man. You 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.679 are you are? You are? You get falling off a 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:28.600 cliff reach? You are knee deep in that blue kool 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.079 Aid narcotic. Man, you got that narcotic down. Man, I'm 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.319 almost out of there. I'm almost out of here. It's 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.840 just I'm trying to hold on, hold on, man, I'm 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.040 trying to hold out over this. It's it's looking bad 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.599 right now. This is the second second week in a 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.040 roll without Dalton. We got my boy de Nucci in there. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.600 No Church, it don't matter, Bro, you did not pick 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:55.719 us to beat Pittsburgh with Andy Dalton anyway. So it's no, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.880 we have a better chance. But we have a better 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.040 chance with Dalt back there. That my boys, the Nucci 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.760 and who knows, maybe this defense gives another father around 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.120 you know what they did last week. Who knows. But 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.400 I mean with the new Chi in there, I mean, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.400 it's all kind of a mute point right now. It's 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.040 all kind of don't don't forget Dalton was the guy 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.240 who was out there against Washington, all right, don't don't 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.160 forget that. So you talk better chance here, better chance 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.959 that it wasn't like the Nucci started the whole and 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.880 played the whole game against Washington. We went out there 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.920 and got blew out and kicked the field goal, or 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.160 you know, for our trip and our infants to go 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.600 to DC. So let's letten, let'ten not do that. I'm 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.319 grasping for springs, man, I'm grasping for strings with Andy 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.640 the lifeline. Okay, with Anti Dalton out here, we need 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.520 to make We need to just make our early call 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.439 right here on the players line. You have already you 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.480 have three choices. Should it be Ben to Nucci, Garrett 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.520 Gilbert or Cooper Rush? Who would be York starting quarterback 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:59.800 for the Cowboys on Sunday, Danny McCrae, uh man, you know, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.640 I really can't even remember seeing Cooper Rush play. I 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.720 would stick with the Nucci and have Cooper Russia as 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.640 a backup and figure out a way to just survive 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.640 throughout this game. It's gonna be tough either way for 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.959 whoever's out there. But you're already trying to see what 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.120 the Nucci has. So I don't think it makes much 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.760 sense to give him that one game and uh, you 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.680 know and snatch him out of there, you know, let 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.439 him run through and let him see, let him see 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.560 how it goes playing against these the defense, see if 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.319 he could pick something up, and so you know what 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.559 you have at the end of the season, like we 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.400 talked about earlier. Look and for me, man, I, you know, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.319 I'm kind of bassed on this one because I want 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.439 to see him pull it out against all odds. But 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.680 you know, it's kind of hard to see that happening. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.520 But for me, I gotta think Cooper Russia gives us 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.160 the best opportunity to win. I know, I hate the 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.280 pile on the guy d Nucci, but I mean, he 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.719 just looked kind of scared out there, you know, last week, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.560 and and I just don't see that happening any different 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.720 against this Pittsburgh defensive line. It's Pittsburgh defense in general 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.240 that just heats up the quarterback no matter who's out there. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.559 And with the offensive line we got, you know, I 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.000 just you know, it's like the lesser of two Eaves. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.280 I gotta go with Cooper Rush on this one. All right, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.920 let me give you the official statistics for Cooper Rush 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.760 as a passer in the NFL. He's played in five games. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.960 He uh is thrown three passes completed one for two yards. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:22.079 Ben Ja Nucci has thrown three Rush so I just 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.560 want to make sure that. But at least Cooper Rush 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.199 had preseason games. Man, this is like, this is like, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.600 you know, the Nuccie, you know, and then you're going, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.840 I just looked so scared to me out there. Let 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.080 me let me tell you another reason why I think, uh, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.280 the Nucci has got to start. We might get into 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.280 it later, but if you listen to Jerry Jones talk 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.360 about playing young players and what the definition of taking 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.800 and how they wouldn't but they might, you know, try 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.920 to see when some guys have and all this other stuff, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.240 it just makes sense that he would he would start 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.839 the Nucci and have Cooper Russ as a backup, so, 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.719 you know, just just in case, because the likelihood of 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.880 him making it through the game is very low, so 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.120 you need to have a serviceable backup. What about what 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:12.200 about this you start Danucci with almost like in baseball, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.880 Danucci gets to start, but it's a short leash, and 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.480 you got Cooper Rush in the bullpen because this could 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.400 get out of hand. We've already established the fact that 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.480 we believe the Steelers are, you know this the undefeated 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.400 Pittsburgh Steelers here with a really good, wicked defense. So 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.560 you may end up playing both guys here on Sundays. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.280 What I'm saying, we could see. Yeah, and I agree 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.440 with you on that one. I mean, like you know, Denucci, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.680 if you do start him, I would go with Cooper Rush. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.880 But if you do start Danucci, I think you give 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.719 him a short leash because like you said, they could 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.520 get out of hand real quick, real fast. And then 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.240 you don't want to just you know, your defense is 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.880 already kind of building its confidence a little bit with 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.640 the game they played last week in Philadelphia. You don't 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.760 want to go out there and if the Nucci's stinking 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.559 to join up, you're giving Ben Roethlisberger possession after possession 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.040 after possession. I mean, I could terra parts your defensive 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.079 confidence and just say, hey man, why are we even 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.080 out here? So for me, you know, I gotta give 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:06.839 him a short lease, just you know, just in case 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.720 it gets too ugly out there, not saying Cooper Rush 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.160 is gonna come in here and make it any better. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.240 But I mean, sure, what can you do? Yeah? Well, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.679 so what is a short lease? Though? So? Is it? 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:18.800 Is it we give the nut a chance to go 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.200 out there and execute a real game plan where he's 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.280 throwing the ball down the field a little bit? Or 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.400 is it you know he's throwing the same passes and 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.840 we still running double reverses because it's not like he 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.880 went out there and through six interceptions and you know, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.600 it's not like they really gave him a chance to 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.160 So like when when when we say sticking up to joint, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.120 do we mean like it's he has to fumble three times? 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.600 Or are they just not able to open up the 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.920 playbook and eventually, you know, we're down by a lot 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.560 and once you start throwing it down the field and 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.320 you know, then we have to do something because I 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.800 think it's like go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, I'm just saying, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.040 I'm just saying visually, you know, he's you know, he 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.800 didn't do well, but I mean the game plan really 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.440 didn't allow for him to just go out there and 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.880 just cough the ball over, you know, a bunch of 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.440 times besides getting sacked force fumble. Yeah, I think you're 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.480 right on that one. And for me, I think if 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.920 it's sticking up the joint to me is you know, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.960 if he goes out there and like how how Danny 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.600 Downs was doing it last night, except for the good passes, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.320 like he was just you know, under the rest he 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.880 was just throwing him just making bone head decisions when 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.960 he's about to get sacked, just throwing the ball, getting 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.320 picks like that. If he's doing stuff out there like that, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.360 I mean, I think you gotta yank him. But I 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:28.640 mean we'll see. Sunday can't come fast enough to answer 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.200 your question. Fellas I look at it this way, you'll know, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.000 you know, you'll see it. That's really it. You know, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.560 I can't say what will get a pull, but I 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.280 think you'll know when you see it that. Okay, Hey, look, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.280 let's it's a lot coming at him, and and what 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.080 you don't want to do is ruining the kid um. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.960 And look this is there's a lot of games. We 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.000 got their games to go. We had the games to go, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.600 So bend Nucci is going to play some more, Okay, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.560 I mean at most I think we'll definitely see Ben 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.320 d Nucci in the season finale to the Giants, and 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.400 my buddy Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports said, Hey, they 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.200 need to go get Josh mccow. They need to do it. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.480 They should have done it two weeks ago. And I 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.360 say why, I mean at this point in time. 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My buddy, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.639 Jonathan Jones with CBS Sports says they need to go 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:15.200 get Josh McCatty I've said new for who what fellas 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.320 two and fourteen is a possibility. As you start to 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.840 look at this Cowboys team with eight games left, they 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:28.120 will not be favored in anyone except possibly the New 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.720 York Giants, and from what I saw last night against 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.000 Tampa Bay, they may not be favored against the Giants 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.480 to end the season. The met life feet, if you're 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.120 going to have a bad season and not make the playoffs, 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.320 will make it as bad as you can. Go ahead 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.400 and get yourself out I and drafted as possibly can. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.959 And you know, it's interesting because if it's your if 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.840 it's your local NBA team, people get behind that. But 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.920 what's your local football team? People like, oh, I don't know, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.000 I don't know. I don't know. Now with the Jets, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.200 they're doing that Miami last year they were doing that. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.480 But but seriously, they're not gonna be favored in any game. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.480 So they still have Pittsburgh to play. Okay, this team's 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.080 got to go to Minnesota, they still have to go 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:13.520 to Washington. They've got the road game at the Giants 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.800 had got to play Philadelphia again. You get the San 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:17.840 Francisco forty nine ers, who are a banged up bunch. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.520 You get them on a Sunday night. You got the Bengals, 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.399 you got to go to to the Bengals, you got 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.119 to go to There's not a lot of w's here. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.320 So you've got an offensive line that's banged up, you 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.280 got young quarterbacks are out here. Man, go ahead and 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:40.840 take the take the Yes, listen one w because listen 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:46.200 that that Giants game. Listen, you remember we had that 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.639 at that Giants game that we ended up winning. All Right, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.119 we don't have that guy, you know, without that, we 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.040 might we might get blown out of that one as well, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.240 because we almost lost on the special team's play. So 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.600 I don't see us being favored in any game this 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.800 Sea unless a rash of injuries hits the opposite team. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.080 And that's not include of the forty nine is because 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:06.720 no matter who's hurt on they team, we know that 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.120 they can run the football well. As I said, Mike, 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.280 I said, Mike, and I and then I said to 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.639 you after watching them again, said I'm not sure that 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.360 would be the case because I actually see some improvement 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.400 from them, and you know there their their offense made 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.160 some plays when they even too, I got that thought 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.800 they got jobbed by the reps and and what will 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:28.920 be interesting to Danny and Barriers when you think about 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.200 that Giants game, this may be the incentive to not 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:34.640 only do we see Ben d Nucci, but everybody's sitting 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.119 around here playing as young a player as they can 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.200 to not win the game without telling everybody we don't 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:45.360 want to win the game. I don't know, maybe maybe yeah, 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.560 maybe it's just I don't know, maybe it's a competitor 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.440 in me or what. But you know, I just can't 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.960 see a scenario where these guys get behind, you know, 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.320 tanking and then just trying to trying to lose games. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:57.640 I mean, you know, talking about losing the locker room. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.720 I mean, he's all we already sitting there in question, 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.480 you know, or the players behind the coach's back right now. 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.159 But if we go into the tank and moan and 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:06.440 then and the players see that and they sense that, 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.440 I mean, that's a slippery slope to go down. I 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.159 don't even know if they'd be back to play with 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.240 them next year. There's a way to do this, though, Barry. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:16.360 There's a way to do this. I mean, first off, 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.800 and mcraie, we've already talked about it before, just based 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.080 on what you're doing with your personnel. You don't have 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.960 to quote unquote tank just go play, you know, just 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:34.040 go play. You know, the score will take care of itself. Now, 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.960 Doug Peterson called an awful football game. If anyone is smart, 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.520 like I believe the Steelers will be this week, there 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.320 will be so much James Connor and Binny Snell that 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:46.240 this will be a quick game. It'll be a quick 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.680 meth for the Cowboys because they'll just run the football 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.160 and Minnesota when they face Minnesota, they'll be a whole 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.120 bunch of Dalvin Cook, and there'll be a whole bunch 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.960 of Joe Mixon and Giovanni but Lard against the Bengals, 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.240 and I mean everyone should be running the football to 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.399 trying to throw it a whole lot the way Philadelphia did. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.280 And if you just run the football against this team, 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:08.639 he gonna have some success. So there's not gonna be 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:10.240 anybody Beary think we'll be able to bring in here 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.840 that's gonna change some stuff. Danny's talking about it so much. 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:15.640 This is this is true. I mean, I don't see 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.680 them bringing one person in here to try to fix 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:20.080 all these problems, especially on the defensive side. Of the ball. 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.040 But I mean, so you're just basically saying if you 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.159 go out there, who just go play? You just go 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.880 please throw the people out there that oh Man talk 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.879 about disrespect that you just say. She's saying, with the 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.200 team we have out there, we're already taking Huh. Yes, Church, 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.560 let Church. Let me reiterate what Jerry said today. He said, Listen, 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:41.639 I don't know anything about taking you know, the competitive sphere, 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:43.600 you know that type of stuff. I don't see our 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:46.160 guys being able to do that. But as far as 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:49.200 you know, talking talking about it in terms of playing 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:53.159 our younger guys and seeing what they have, insinuating that 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:55.320 they probably won't be able to win no more games 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:58.000 if they put those younger guys in anyways, that is 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:01.680 a form of taking all. And I think that can happen. 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:07.040 And Neui listen, listen, Benny Robinsburger is not Carson Wentz. 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:09.560 So it's hopeful. Listen, we are to see James Connor 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:11.760 and those guys and Snail come down there and run. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.200 I can see a pretty even balanced game when we 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.439 see them, and we will see a lot of Juju, 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.560 a lot of Claypool, and a lot of Washington I 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.399 think I think that this will be around the board 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:24.880 for us unless we unless we can find a way 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:26.960 to bust up something special, this would be around the board, 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:30.000 balanced game for the offense of the Pittsburgh Steels. So 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.119 y'all basically giving us no shot right here, y'all just 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.000 get you know shot. It's a rat from the jump. Yeah, 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.560 it's a rat from the jump. Absolutely, Barry, did you 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:43.520 not watch last week's game before I did? I did, okay, okay, 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:48.199 and it looked bad. Undefeated Baltimore team took out an 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:52.680 MVP quarterback and made him look bad. So um yeah, yeah, 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.199 And Danielle push back on you a little bit here 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:57.760 with the Robinsburger. I think this thing could get away 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:00.200 so early that what they'll do in that second app 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:02.040 it's just, you know, let's run out this clock here. 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:05.320 But I just think anybody who's who is a good 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:08.280 coordinator in this league is gonna look and say they 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:12.119 can't they can't stop the run. And you know, you 0:25:12.240 --> 0:25:14.520 may set it up where hey, here's Connor, here's Connor. 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:16.800 Then you go deep to Claypool. But you're going to 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:18.600 go ahead because you definitely are going to test the 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.040 Cowboys corners, but you're just trying to bang that thing 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.720 in there and throw when you have to. I think 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.920 Cleveland everybody should pull out the Cleveland tape. That that, 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:29.520 to me should be everyone's blueprint. And you guys know 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:32.080 better on how people come up with game plans and 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:34.920 how that all goes. But to me, if I'm playing 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:37.240 the Cowboys, I pull out the Cleveland tape and I 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:39.400 say to myself, what are the runs that can work? 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:41.879 And who can who can I go run at? You know, 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:44.400 people are running at don Terry Pop because they knew 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:45.720 this is where they could go ahead and get some 0:25:45.840 --> 0:25:48.320 yards inside. So today that's what you do here. And 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:51.200 this is not us trying to be unrealistic about the 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:54.159 Cowboys or people say, oh, you guys are just nagging. No, 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:56.600 this is just the truth where they're at. They've lost 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:59.560 a lot of good players and it is hard to 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:03.920 lead place good players in the NFL. They're trying. You know, 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.320 you can get out there with Terrence Steel if all 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:09.000 you lost was just LEL. Collins, But when you lose 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.360 Tyrant Smith and you have so many other issues, it's 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:15.600 hard to replace these guys. You can't replace Blake Jarwin 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:19.000 it's nice a player and effort is Dalton Schultz gives you. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.760 He's not as good as Blake Dak Prescott, as we've 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:25.480 all seen now covered up a lot of things. Man, 0:26:26.040 --> 0:26:30.800 he's not there. Oh yeah, and you out here rookie 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:34.840 against the Steelers and another dude and Cooper Rush, who's 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:36.960 thrown nowhere than three passes in this link against the 0:26:37.000 --> 0:26:42.680 Steelers Church Church. I mean, hey, hey, like I said, 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:45.080 I'm halfway off to drink, man, I'm halfway out to 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:47.800 cool a right now. You know I didn't see I 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:50.600 didn't see this happening, Like even a couple of ways ago. 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.040 I even told y'all I preface it it like, look, man, 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:55.200 if the new chie's in there, y'all gotta give me 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:57.680 a bone. Y'all gotta throw me a lifeline something. And 0:26:57.760 --> 0:26:59.560 it seems like we're going to the second Street week 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:01.240 in a row where the new che is gonna be 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:04.040 the quarterback. And you know, I'm grasping for strings right now. 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:06.359 I'm hoping that, you know, Pittsburgh comes down here and 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:09.160 they play down to the level of competition and somehow 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:13.000 we get somehow, we pull out a victory, somehow, someway 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:15.520 maybe Zeke gets out this funk. I don't know, man, 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:18.120 but I'm grasping for strings right now. It's it's tough. 0:27:18.240 --> 0:27:20.120 It's tough right now. It's tough being in the cool 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:24.800 right now. You listen, you speak, knew you were listening 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:27.920 players that we just can't replace. Goodness. Hey, we can't 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:31.280 replace Amark Cooper either. Can somebody get him involved in 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:34.119 the game. Like I said, I think these are the 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:38.760 only ways that we have an opportunity to be competitive. 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:42.440 By getting the ball in your playmaker's hands. They tried 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.280 it with Zeke running the wildcat. You have to try 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:47.920 to get the ball into Mark Cooper's in Kellen Moore, 0:27:48.280 --> 0:27:51.160 please find a way to get him involved in the game. 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:53.200 We've seen what he can do when he gets the 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.159 ball in his hand, and that's the only chance that 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:58.080 we have. The gallup is cool. He's not one of 0:27:58.160 --> 0:27:59.840 those guys when you throw the ball to it and 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:02.960 he runs seventy eighty yards. Ceedee Lamb could possibly do that, 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:05.359 but we know it's a proven fact that Amari Cooper 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:11.639 can do that. Get him the ball. Please, mmm. I 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:14.320 don't know if just Amari Cooper is gonna be enough, man. 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:17.240 I I don't know. I just haven't seen have you 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:19.240 seen that from him so far this year that he 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:21.800 can be that guy again? I mean, I haven't seen 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:23.680 it since the first trade. To be honest with you, 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:28.119 it was a good pie. It's solid. I think. I 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:30.520 think all of these things that without Dak, I think 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:34.040 all of these things are they're tougher to do. I mean, 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:37.600 that's why his price tag is going up. What you're saying, 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:41.360 Danny is correct, but it gets a lot tougher. And 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:44.840 then also, I you have me thinking more and more, 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:48.480 what's their commitment to trying to force feed nineteen? No, Dad, 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:51.520 in Arizona, they're getting de hoot the football and and 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:54.320 and that's you know, I don't know, man. These are 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.040 good questions, Listen. They gets twenty one in nineteen. These 0:28:57.080 --> 0:28:58.800 are good questions about what they're trying to do to 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:03.160 force feed these guys football. DeVante Adams is getting the ball, 0:29:04.600 --> 0:29:07.239 like you said, Hopkins is getting All these stars are 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.720 getting the ball. And like what we see Gallup getting 0:29:10.760 --> 0:29:13.080 those those catches, Those are what I expect to see 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:16.280 of Mark Cooper getting, not Michael Gallup, all respect to him, 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:18.720 he is a deep ball threat and He's like, that's 0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:21.000 what I see him doing when you have the opportunity 0:29:21.040 --> 0:29:23.200 to get the ball in your playmakers hands like other 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:27.240 teams do, like DeVante Adams will get five passes a 0:29:27.400 --> 0:29:29.920 game two yards beyond the line of scrimage, just so 0:29:29.960 --> 0:29:31.160 you can get the ball in his hands and see 0:29:31.200 --> 0:29:32.680 what he can do and make somebody missing, you know, 0:29:32.760 --> 0:29:35.120 im possibly get a touchdown. Why can't we do that 0:29:35.160 --> 0:29:37.200 with a Mark Cooper. I think he is still able 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:39.320 to do that when when we trade it for him, 0:29:39.480 --> 0:29:42.440 you see him making those plays. Albeit it wasn't five 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:44.440 yard hitches, but it was some quick slants. There was 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:46.720 some digs and he was taking those things seventy eighty 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:49.000 yards to the house. So I don't understand why we're 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:51.560 giving those to Gallup versus giving those to Coop. And 0:29:51.640 --> 0:29:53.320 oh yeah, he is making hond of me and Dass 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:54.840 to do that, and you're not letting him do it. 0:29:56.520 --> 0:30:00.840 All right, The trade deadline is upon us sweet five 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:06.240 four three two one. The trade deadline has passed. The 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:10.080 Cowboys made a trade. Let's discuss that in church. I'm 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:14.400 gonna give you some hope. 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All right, 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:12.120 the trade deadline has passed. The Cowboys didn't make a trade. 0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:15.360 They made a trade on Monday. They got defensive tackle 0:33:16.360 --> 0:33:22.040 Eli Uncouth from Houston for a twenty twenty two seventh 0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:24.680 round draft pick. He's been in the NFL since twenty seventeen. 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:27.480 He's a six foot three, three hundred and twenty five 0:33:27.520 --> 0:33:32.640 pound nose tackle. He's played in Cleveland, Jacksonville, India, Indianapolis, 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:35.760 and Houston. He can practice starting on Thursday. So he 0:33:35.800 --> 0:33:38.920 played Jacksonville Church. What do you know about this guy? Yeah, 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:40.600 I mean he's he's a he's a good dude man. 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:42.920 You know, off the field, he's you know, he's just 0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:45.120 a good overall good dude. But when we talk about 0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:47.680 on the football field, I just don't see where he 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:50.080 can help us out. I mean unless he got you know, 0:33:50.440 --> 0:33:52.280 leaps and bounds better from when I was with him 0:33:52.320 --> 0:33:55.040 in Jacksonville. I just see him as another guy out there. 0:33:55.680 --> 0:33:57.960 You know, he might be able to I'm sure he'll 0:33:58.000 --> 0:33:59.920 be able to hustle and give us a better look 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:02.840 then then Poe did. But overall, I mean when I 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:04.760 was in jail, was there with him for two years, 0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:06.520 and he just didn't really stick out at all. He 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:08.279 didn't really do anything. That's just like, man, we got 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:10.480 to keep this guy so for me, and he was 0:34:10.520 --> 0:34:12.880 often injured as well, so for me. You know, I 0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:15.080 don't see see the see the see the reason we 0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:17.279 dragged or traded for this guy. But you know, maybe 0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:21.959 he'll go out there and peel for me wrong. Maybe 0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:23.840 Mike Nolan can get the most out of him. You 0:34:23.880 --> 0:34:26.280 know that maybe when when they could get out in Jacksonville. 0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:28.279 You never know, man, he never knows. He never knows, 0:34:28.680 --> 0:34:32.680 never know. He couldn't come out handball out. No, No, 0:34:33.000 --> 0:34:34.880 Nolan is the master of getting the most out of 0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:43.560 his players. Goodness, good, So, Church, here's where where I 0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:46.400 want you to actually entertain that thought of maybe a 0:34:46.600 --> 0:34:50.640 two and fourteen, three and thirteen season. Okay, we saw 0:34:50.880 --> 0:34:53.759 excellence out of the Golden State Warriors and then they 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:57.520 got hit with the injury buck big time. So last year, 0:34:57.640 --> 0:34:59.560 what did they do? They just spit the year. All right, 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:02.480 you know it's a problem. We're just gonna have to 0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:04.839 take this lump. Okay, this is just gonna be our 0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:08.600 year to take this l and they played a lot 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:11.200 of young guys. They're gonna have a high draft pick, 0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:13.520 and they're gonna be back in business. And I think 0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:16.000 that if you're the Cowboys, I believe that that that's 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:18.640 what you have to do. Now, Okay, you got eight 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:23.440 games against some real tough opponents. Here, play your young kids. 0:35:23.840 --> 0:35:26.440 Get yourself a high draft pick, Barrett, here's the beauty 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:28.400 of the highest draft pick you can get. It now, 0:35:28.520 --> 0:35:32.239 gives you options let's just say, for instance, they got 0:35:32.280 --> 0:35:35.200 the number two pick, the Jets go ahead, lock up 0:35:35.320 --> 0:35:36.800 number one to take Trevor Laud. If you had the 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:39.799 number two pick, there's Justin Fields, quarterback from Ohio State. 0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:43.120 You have serious options. You got some options. You could 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:45.560 trade that pick. You could go to Dak's h and 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:46.960 early and say, hey, man, look we need to get 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:48.400 a deal done. And if you don't want to get 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:50.240 a deal done right now, then we could take Justin Fields. 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:52.080 I mean there's a lot, you know, you could trade 0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:55.000 down for multiple picks. But having a high draft pick 0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:59.480 here gives you options. Man seven to nine, trying to 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:03.800 get for what? Hellok, I get it, I get it. 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:05.439 You can you know you can get you know, high 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:08.600 draft choice. You can trade that off and get multiple pigs. 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.719 And I know you knew. He see there's nothing there, 0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:14.040 you see, there's nothing more that this team can go by. 0:36:14.520 --> 0:36:16.920 But unlike the Golden State Warriors who were in the 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:21.520 Western Conference, who had exactly zero chance of doing anything 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:24.120 in that conference, the Cowboys are still just a game 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:27.880 and a half. Look, I know it seems bleak. I 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:31.440 know it seems bleak. And and look I know him 0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:33.960 against the against the wall right here. But there's still 0:36:34.320 --> 0:36:38.399 a shot, man, there's still an opportunity. I don't see 0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:40.800 them going forward and trying to tank and all that 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:43.440 other good stuff. Like I said, Golden State had I mean, 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:45.520 they had the Lakers ahead of them, they had Houston, 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:47.920 they had any of the litany of teams that were 0:36:47.960 --> 0:36:51.719 already mathematically in there. Golden State had nothing to fight for. Here, 0:36:51.800 --> 0:36:53.600 we're a game and a half back. There's still eight 0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:57.480 games left. There's still a shot. Man, Tell you're mathematically out, 0:36:57.600 --> 0:36:59.719 there's still a shot. I just don't see these guys 0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:03.360 take at all. Listen. I'm also I'm also listen, just 0:37:03.480 --> 0:37:06.440 to touch on that's what's the point of making the playoffs? 0:37:07.600 --> 0:37:13.200 Like you no no for us this year? Like, listen, 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:16.200 if you sipp intokool aid, then you really believe that 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:19.720 if we do make the playoffs at four and twelve, 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:22.279 that whoever comes here we will be able to beat 0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:23.920 them and then move on and move on and move on. 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:26.719 If you sip into kol a, right, if you sipp 0:37:26.760 --> 0:37:31.240 intokool ai, but realistically making the playoffs versus being able 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:34.120 to get those top picks, the weight of that, to me, 0:37:34.280 --> 0:37:36.520 it makes more sense to play the young guys and 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:40.240 not necessarily taint, but just you know, let whatever's happened 0:37:40.400 --> 0:37:43.360 happening now, go ahead and finish that out. And you 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:45.840 would pick like you said in trade back, and and 0:37:46.000 --> 0:37:49.319 and so you wouldn't want to me, you wouldn't want 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:51.360 to make if you let's just say they made it. 0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:54.200 You wouldn't rather have a shot in my playoffs, not 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:58.879 at the detriment of the future of my team, which 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:02.480 is which is where we all man, So you tell 0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:07.640 four and twelve is not Listen, I'm not talking about 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:10.160 as a player, bro, I'm talking about as as as 0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:13.880 an owner and as an organization risk it my like 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:16.680 what we have from for our future, which is being 0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:19.560 able to you know, negotiate with that top draft pick, 0:38:19.600 --> 0:38:22.080 possibly get more picks and more players so to help 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:24.640 us out on defense and offense, versus saying, all right, 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:27.240 forget those picks, We'll go four and twelve get stumped 0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:29.080 out in the beginning of the playoffs and then and 0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:31.440 now we lost all that. I think when when you 0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:33.080 try to when you weigh that out, it makes more 0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:35.360 sense to do what new He's saying and let the 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:37.320 season play out as it is. You don't have to 0:38:37.440 --> 0:38:39.200 do much to get the next pick. I mean, to 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:41.080 get get a top pick, because it's not like we're 0:38:41.560 --> 0:38:44.120 really being that competitive and winning that many games anyways. 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:46.640 So let the season playout, Let the guys play hard, 0:38:46.920 --> 0:38:48.600 you know, let the news you get out there. You know, 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:50.960 we get our top pick and then make the most 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:53.759 out of it in the draft. Look, I can see, Look, 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.440 our playoffs chances are slim to none. I give you 0:38:56.520 --> 0:38:58.239 that one were if we four and twelve, there's no 0:38:58.320 --> 0:39:00.279 way four and twelve's going to make it to the plays. 0:39:00.320 --> 0:39:02.040 I mean, I phil he'll probably do it by that time. 0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:06.120 But I guarantee you there's no way Jerry would not 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:09.400 go for a chance, a chance at a Lombardi. Then 0:39:09.480 --> 0:39:11.600 go ahead and stock up for the for future picks. 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.480 I mean, look, we haven't won a super Bowl like 0:39:13.560 --> 0:39:16.319 twenty some years. I guarantee you he would rather want 0:39:16.360 --> 0:39:18.640 a shot. Then let's stock up and wait for the future. 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:20.839 I mean, I just don't see that happening. I mean, 0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:23.960 but like our playoffs chances or swim to none anyway, 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:27.680 so it ain't it's not looking good anyway. So we'll 0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:32.960 see super bowls, a playoff, I know, I'm just saying, 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:36.320 there's not as super Bowl we were talking about. We 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:38.760 were talking about giving a chance to get into the playoffs. 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:41.560 What we were talking about. But like I said, like 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:43.680 I preface it, we barely have a chance to get there. 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:45.880 But if we did, I'm sure he'd rather take that 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:49.439 opportunity in the stock up. And you said super Bowl, 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:53.400 it's got a guy on the team, a quarterback on 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:55.840 the team. Got a quarterback on the team, because what 0:39:55.960 --> 0:39:58.719 a playoff game. And you jumped up into Lombardi talk. 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:02.680 I see that you put the words and my mom, 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:06.080 all I said was all I said, if we had 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:08.640 a chance to get to the playoffs, if we had 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:10.719 a chance to get to the playoffs, I think he 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.799 would rather take that than stock up. That's all I said. 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:19.879 Put that, you know, what you're saying was look, Church, Church. 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:22.600 What you said was Jerry Jones somehow believes that if 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:24.400 we make it to the playoffs, there's a chance for 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:25.880 us to make it to the super Bowl with this 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:28.919 team that we have right now, which makes absolutely no sense. 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:31.239 If we got to the playos that I told me, 0:40:31.320 --> 0:40:33.840 they have a chancet. I know we don't have it. 0:40:33.920 --> 0:40:35.759 You don't have a big We don't have a great 0:40:36.080 --> 0:40:38.360 opportunity to make to the playoffs. I understand that, but 0:40:38.440 --> 0:40:42.040 we're saying hypothetically, if we ended up getting there, we 0:40:42.080 --> 0:40:43.960 wouldn't have a chance to get to the super Bowl. 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:50.359 Is no chance? Please list the teams that you think 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:51.960 that would make the playoffs, that you think that we 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:54.919 could beat if we got in there. I'm just saying 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:56.759 we can make a run. I mean, look, look what 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:59.240 that look with teams against something that had no chance 0:41:00.360 --> 0:41:03.440 against who against who? I'm saying, list one that you 0:41:03.560 --> 0:41:05.640 think that like it would be. It would be the 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:08.800 most likely matchup for you. If you said, listen to 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:11.040 the first round playoff game, who are we play in 0:41:11.080 --> 0:41:14.839 the first round? I means that we'd have out there. 0:41:15.040 --> 0:41:17.160 I mean, if we got to that point, we were 0:41:17.239 --> 0:41:19.239 still have a chance. That's all I'm saying. But I 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:23.320 do I think, no, I don't think we're gonna it. 0:41:23.719 --> 0:41:27.520 Hypothetically we'd have a chance. So so barry for me, 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:31.600 And this is this is you know, looking, we're gonna 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.120 play the young play the young guys. Okay, they play 0:41:34.160 --> 0:41:37.439 the young guys. They do what they can. You're talking about. 0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:39.759 Let's just say you end up with a top five pick. 0:41:40.800 --> 0:41:44.720 Imagine having a top five pick in every single round 0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:48.000 in a year where the salary cap is going to 0:41:48.080 --> 0:41:50.360 be dramatically reduced and you're going to be able to 0:41:50.480 --> 0:41:53.960 find some great bargains. If they want to sign Dak 0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:56.520 Prescott to a long term deal, you're going to need 0:41:56.600 --> 0:42:00.200 some more financial flexibility. And how do you how do 0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:02.880 you retool a team? How do you do that with 0:42:02.960 --> 0:42:06.040 a lower, lower payroll? You do it with draft picks, 0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:08.879 and by having a top five pick in every round, 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:13.160 you've got the ability to trade down and if you 0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:16.560 want to. So when I think about the future of 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:19.560 the Cowboys, it's not anyone's fault. Okay, nobody was not 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:21.800 trying to win this year, but to lose all that 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:25.160 you've lost, I'm not sitting around here trying to Hey, 0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:27.040 let's go try to win the East and get smoked 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:30.319 in the first round. Like Danny said, the East. If 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:33.040 it's Philadelphia, they're getting smoked in the first round. Whoever 0:42:33.200 --> 0:42:35.080 leaves this thing is getting smoked in the front. This 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:37.640 is basically equivalent of when you go to the NCAA 0:42:37.719 --> 0:42:40.800 tournament and you want to swack. You're going down. Everybody 0:42:40.840 --> 0:42:42.920 know you ain't gonna win that man going a tournament. 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:45.759 But we're from the Swack. We're from you know, we're 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:48.160 from the Trump from the sun Belt. You're going home 0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:51.360 real quick, man, going home real quick. So why not 0:42:52.160 --> 0:42:56.719 try by just playing your young guys, get as good 0:42:56.800 --> 0:42:59.200 draft pick as you can and been buried. I'm telling 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.840 you right now, and Danny, I'll say it to you 0:43:01.920 --> 0:43:07.239 as well. I'm very concerned about a possible contract negotiation 0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:12.399 with Todd France again Dak's agent. Okay, it didn't go well, 0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:17.280 and if it's as contentious as I've heard behind the scenes, 0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:21.160 who's to say this thing gets done? Because they're talking 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:25.759 about Dak not being ready for offseason activities until late 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:29.600 April early May. If I'm Jerry, I want to have 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:31.480 a deal done before I go into the draft so 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:34.120 I know what to do with my draft pick. So 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:38.879 a higher draft pick in an ability to possibly take 0:43:38.920 --> 0:43:41.480 adjustin fields, Mike help them get a deal done with 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:43.960 Dak Prescott if that's what they want to do. And 0:43:44.080 --> 0:43:46.280 maybe because Dak is hurt and he's lost some leverage, 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:48.160 he wants to get a deal done. But I'm just 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:50.160 telling you right now, I want to have as many 0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:53.880 options as I can to make a better roster in 0:43:53.960 --> 0:43:56.279 twenty twenty one. And I believe at this point in time, 0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:58.680 of eight games left to go against the competition they're 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:01.360 gonna face, might as well just go ahead, man and 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:04.920 get him to finish with the bad record. As you 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:08.920 possibly can't say, we don't need to We don't need 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:10.839 to change anything else. We just need to throw them 0:44:10.880 --> 0:44:13.040 boys that they got out there, and we'll be taking 0:44:13.200 --> 0:44:15.319 you know, as it is, So it might as well 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:18.160 just Church the team we got out there, right, Church, Church, 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.160 I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna leave you with this 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:27.600 Church to playoff teams for the NFC New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Seattle, Arizona, 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:31.719 Green Bay, Chicago. It is probably your best bet if 0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:33.920 they come here that you might have a chance, But 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.439 other than that, you get stumped in the first round. 0:44:36.560 --> 0:44:38.600 So listen, I mean, it doesn't even make make a 0:44:38.680 --> 0:44:41.480 sister risk all that, just just so you can go 0:44:41.560 --> 0:44:43.280 out there and get beat by one of those teams 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:45.440 at home in your own stadium. Better leave it just 0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:47.200 a nasty taste in your mouth, and now your fans 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:49.480 looking at you like we could have had a hot 0:44:49.600 --> 0:44:51.400 draft pick. But instead you wanted us to come and 0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:54.000 watch this at home. Doesn't make money. So let's just 0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:55.839 let's just give it up. I mean, just go ahead, 0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:59.919 tell the plans. It's not it's not. It's not giving 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.080 it up. Church. You are the only one who has 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:04.560 the optimism to think that we still gonna win the 0:45:04.640 --> 0:45:06.919 easting and can make all this stuff happen. I'm just saying, 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:09.359 let the season play out as it is. Still, keep 0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:11.759 calling the same plays, put the same players out there. 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:14.520 Let let let's Zeke run out there, Let Coop run 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:16.600 out there, let all the players run out there, because 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:18.799 the season has been playing out as it is already. Bro, 0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:21.320 we're two and six. It's not like we've been winning. 0:45:21.560 --> 0:45:24.000 So it's not like you to do anything special to 0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:28.359 get a top draft pick. Church. I mean, y'all said, 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:33.759 just throw them out there. Man, yeah, man, season, Man, 0:45:34.560 --> 0:45:37.920 are you a fan of Luka Don He's all right, 0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:42.960 he's all right, he's all right. Let me tell you 0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:50.600 how you got the Mavericks got him by executing this 0:45:50.719 --> 0:45:53.440 plan we're talking about. Play about these young guys and 0:45:53.560 --> 0:45:55.080 go ahead, let's go and get on in there. But 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:57.800 what young guys are you talking about playing like what 0:45:57.960 --> 0:46:03.920 like you're saying like, ye young, Yeah, that's not what 0:46:04.040 --> 0:46:06.160 young guys. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying. I'm 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:08.360 I'm saying, let the season go on as it is. 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:10.319 You might put the young guy in like a young 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:12.000 d tackle somewhere. Let it go on as it is, 0:46:12.040 --> 0:46:13.560 because we're not I don't think we're going to win 0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:16.640 any games anyways. That's what I'm saying. Not Tank, Yes, 0:46:17.080 --> 0:46:19.560 that's that's it. But that's it. By playing these young 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:22.960 like a tyrant steal, that's what you're doing. You're playing guys. 0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:25.480 You're you're keeping the digs out here in the starting role. 0:46:25.520 --> 0:46:27.200 You're not sitting around here and saying, all right, Leo, 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:30.360 we want Cheeto and George Lewis to have more snaps 0:46:30.400 --> 0:46:32.279 and didn't. Now that's what I'm saying, play these young guys. 0:46:32.600 --> 0:46:34.359 See what you've got. And by playing these young guys 0:46:34.360 --> 0:46:35.560 and the way you're at right now and you can't 0:46:35.560 --> 0:46:37.680 stop anybody on the run, it's gonna be just a problem. 0:46:37.760 --> 0:46:39.719 That it is. So that that that's what I'm saying. 0:46:40.080 --> 0:46:42.480 You don't have to quote unquote Tank and but that's 0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:44.000 what the mask said. They played a bunch of their 0:46:44.040 --> 0:46:46.800 young guys, Like, we're playing younger guys here, and just 0:46:47.000 --> 0:46:49.600 by the fact that you're putting it out there, they're learning, 0:46:49.840 --> 0:46:51.719 you're seeing what they have. At the same time, the 0:46:51.800 --> 0:46:53.520 losses are coming with it, so it's kind of like 0:46:53.600 --> 0:46:56.760 this whole thing. You got evaluation going on, you're losing 0:46:56.800 --> 0:46:59.879 the games, and at the end of the day, you're 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.600 you're taking these hits for a brighter future. They did 0:47:02.680 --> 0:47:04.920 it with Jimmy Johnson. It one, it's fifteen. It's a 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:07.839 little bit different because they weren't trying to win at 0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:09.799 the season. They having these Super Bowl aspirations. But now 0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:13.040 that you're here, man, just go all the way. Why 0:47:13.160 --> 0:47:16.320 take a half measure, take a full mature baby, go 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:19.200 ahead and let's get ready for twenty twenty one and 0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:21.239 go ahead, get to some good picks and get up 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:26.160 in here and gold, get in gold. Yeah, twenty twenty one. 0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:29.160 I hope, I hope. I never want to do these 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:33.360 team and any type of sporting activity. Tennis, no nothing, 0:47:34.280 --> 0:47:36.239 We down to nothing, man, Let's let's go. Let's go 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:40.160 ahead and pack it up. Man, I gotta we gotta go. Man, 0:47:40.239 --> 0:47:42.200 Let's let's go ahead and pack it up man, I 0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:45.960 hope the team. If you're down two to six, you 0:47:46.080 --> 0:47:47.319 might want to pack it up and get up out 0:47:47.320 --> 0:47:51.560 of the up. We gotta make it back, to make 0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:53.040 it back for this news man. We gotta make it 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:55.680 back with Pittsburgh coming to town. With Pittsburgh coming to 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:58.839 town too, I mean get own. I mean, I'm trying 0:47:58.880 --> 0:48:01.120 to help Mike McCarthy because this is a big thing. 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:03.279 I'm trying to help Mike Nolan long term, maybe because 0:48:03.480 --> 0:48:05.360 maybe you get some good players from Mike Nolan here 0:48:05.400 --> 0:48:07.520 who can actually run this defense that he won, so 0:48:07.640 --> 0:48:10.960 that they'll actually fit in the scheme here. All right, gentlemen, 0:48:11.000 --> 0:48:14.040 this was fun. We still are going to talk about 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:17.040 this Cowboys defense and the effort they gave against Philadelphia, 0:48:17.200 --> 0:48:18.880 and we talked about guys getting off the middle car. 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:20.920 But we had some of this breaking news today that 0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:24.719 Andy Dalton is gonna miss this week's game against the 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:27.680 Steamers because he's in COVID nineteen protocol that possibly Cooper 0:48:27.760 --> 0:48:30.239 Rush could be the starter had have been Dducci. The 0:48:30.280 --> 0:48:32.880 Cowboys didting practice on Tuesday. They'll get back to a Wednesday, 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:35.160 and then maybe Mike McCarthy, they head coach who've shied 0:48:35.239 --> 0:48:39.200 some more light on what's going on there. That's Dandy mccraye, 0:48:39.280 --> 0:48:42.960 Burry Church, former Cowboys safeties I'm Newish scrugs, longtime Cowboys 0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:45.239 report our man Chris Beam as our producer, help and 0:48:45.320 --> 0:48:47.440 make it happen. We'll be back tomorrow two thirty Central 0:48:47.480 --> 0:48:50.360 time for another edition of the Players Latch right here 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:54.160 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a 0:48:54.239 --> 0:48:57.800 production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys 0:48:57.880 --> 0:48:58.560 Football Club.