WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: So What Do You Think Now? 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:13.399 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.599 Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.800 the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:30.800 Newe Scrugs. Here we are on a Monday. Hello everybody, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.760 Monday morning, New time here for the rest of the 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:39.240 non football season. Here on the Players Lounge, we have 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.720 two former players, two former Dallas Cowboys safeties. Barry Church 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.120 over here, Danny McCray over here. I'm merely, I am 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.720 merely Newe scrubs its football? Who do we just? Yeah? Okay, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.200 at least we got an early slot, early flat time 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:58.520 man ten o'clock football season, we can say about it. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.560 Since there's no Cowboys to talk about on a daily basis, 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.720 we are now going weekly and Monday's ten am is 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.680 our time slot. Lots to get into. Jerry Jones had 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.920 a bunch of comments. We'll dive into that later on. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:18.200 Because Jerry's unhappy, and he voiced on Friday. Being unhappy's 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.440 one thing, doing something another. We'll get into that. He 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.039 shouldn't have been happy watching the San Francisco forty nine 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:29.199 a game because I'm sorry, guys, watching the Niners play 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.280 and beat the Packers, all I could say to myself is, Dude, 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.119 this team's playing because the Cowboys simply didn't do their job, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.000 didn't do their part. With all due respect to the Niners, man, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.880 they earned it. Okay, Kyle Shanahan is a good football coach. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:47.880 Jamiko Ryans is an elite defensive coordinator, and somebody needs 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.120 to be given that man a job. And the special 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.280 teams coach for the forty nine ers, that guy is 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.760 a boss. Okay. They better been a game ball for 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.000 that man. Okay, better been a game ball for that man, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.000 because that one the game, both of them, both of them. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.800 We get the block because if you look at it 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.560 early in the game, I think it was before halftime. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.600 You know, Jimmy Ward, the safety, gets up a huge 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.480 bomb the Jones down the sidelines. He makes the tackle 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.200 and then they hold them to a field goal. And 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:13.400 you think, all right, if they get this field goal, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.480 it's gonna be thirteen to what it was a thirteen 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.120 ten at the time, or thirteen seven, thirteen seven, all right, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:19.520 they're gonna have some and they get the ball at 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.840 half Special Teams comes through with an immaculate block, an immaculate, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.079 huge block. Fast forward a little bit later. I'm sure 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.679 we'll dive into the intricate sees a little bit, but 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.080 I'm a fast forward a little bit to the to 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.679 the last little the block punt by number ninety four. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.320 This is why you gotta have a long snapper with 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.560 at least some bricks in his pocket. L PE wouldn't 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.799 let that happen. LP wouldn't. He ran straight through this 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.680 and there was like there was no resistance. My man 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.079 just walked them right back, put his glove up there. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.600 Made a hell of a block punt. Hell of a 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.239 block punt recovered by the rookie changed the whole game. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.959 Special Teams came down this whole weekend Special hole really 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.360 changed the entire game. In Special Teams, It's crazy listen, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.639 and you know I love it. I love it like 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.320 it was out there blocking field goals and punts. Special 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.720 Teams is a part of the game, right. You have 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.880 to make sure you put the correct resources to your 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.559 Special Teams players so you can get into those situations 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.840 and win games. Look at the Cincinnati game, they draft 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.440 a kicker money mcphers man like this. This is when 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.000 you know, like this is this is an important part 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:23.919 of the game. It's not just something that we can 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.640 just go pick up off the off the street and 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.360 say he gonna make a couple of four us. You 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.680 have to get a guy who is ready to make 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.160 those type of kicks. You have to get guys who 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.480 are blocked specialists. All right. Jerald cinci Ball was here. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.200 He blocked thirteen and fourteen in North Carolina. He is 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.400 a block special You have to have those guys on 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.800 your squad if you want to make plays like that. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.640 And it was amazing to watch, amazing to watch. And 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.920 shout out to the Cowboys. We did have a couple 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.000 of block puns down this year, but the games were 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.680 just just straight up amazing. Don't fool yourself into thinking 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.080 that the Cowboys would have one out there and did 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.520 the same thing to Green Bay. All right, well, they 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.800 they had to go to Tampa. But just the fact 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.000 that the Niners were playing was the thing I kept 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:11.720 coming They're playing and trying to be kind here, really, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.120 really I am. I'm trying to be kind here. Um, 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.960 Aaron Rodgers and company. You talk about having another playoff 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.479 game and what everybody, you don't want to go to 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.040 Green Bay and the man, this is two years in 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.000 a row. We have seen teams from Sunshine, he states, 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.119 roll up in the Green Bay and snatch a victory 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.480 from these guys. Just snatch a victory and what travels 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.279 defense in the in the run game? And you know 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.880 what her Green Bay? AJ Dillon. AJ Dillon goes out 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.000 there and the first drive he lets him know, listen, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.640 I'm going to punish yall. And then he gets like 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.440 a chess injury or something that everything changes. If you 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.840 cannot run the ball and you were going to get 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.039 in trouble against teams like San Francisco, who can run 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.360 the ball, who can play defense. I've seen Big Trent 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.160 Williams in motion coming around the d Boys athletic You 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.440 I'm just saying, you talk about being being creative in 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.240 the ring game. This is what we talked about for 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.760 the Cowboys. Be creative in the ring game. You put 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.839 your offensive linement at fullback. Man, hey, take a page 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.840 out of the the shandahead book. All right, make sure next 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.880 year if you're having the same type of issues that 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.440 you had this season, I want to see you know, mcgovernor, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.040 whoever it is on the coming. I'll tell you. I'm 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.599 gonna tell you the difference in all these games and 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.880 then boiled down to this one factor. And I wish 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.440 we would we had this factor when we played the 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.640 forty nine ers. But it came down to the trenches. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.200 That's all this thing came down to. Look at that 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.560 San Francisco game. Aaron Rodgers was getting pumbled the entire game. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.440 He was missing back the r I think they missed 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.920 their other right tackle as well. And then you look 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.680 at it wells the other games Cincinnati, I don't know 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.840 how they pulled out one sacks, nine sacks. The offensive 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.839 line give up nine sacks and he still was able 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.320 to pull it out. And then you look at the 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.640 game last night between the Bills and um in Kansas City. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.039 Those two running quarterbacks, they were getting pressure, but they 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.599 were able to make plays even though they were getting pressure. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.680 Sold to me, this came down to the trenches and 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.279 the offensive line. I mean, it's it's a premium, but 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.760 we took a premium. We spoke about that right here 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.800 on the players before that San Francisco Cowboy games. The 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.200 Cowboys gonna have to win in the trenches, and they didn't. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.680 They didn't win there. And I'm gonna take this from 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.479 y'all because I listened, I feel you, I understand the 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.520 bigger difference and what we saw from us, and what 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.359 we saw this weekend was quarterbacks making big time throws 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.800 in big time situations. And almost every single one of 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.320 those games that we watched this weekend, there was a 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.880 big time throw in a presser situation from the quarterback 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.880 of that team. No matter if you got Joe Burrow 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.159 getting sacked nine times, no matter if you got Jimmy 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.000 g making the throw a kittle when he has to 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.159 make a one hand catch over the top, there is 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.680 consistently a quarterback coming out and making a big time 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.920 play when when when this team needs it. I'm I'm 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.840 no shots at back. I'm just saying when we needed 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.919 that type of stuff to happen, it wasn't happening. And 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.320 you watch as you get further into the playoffs, these 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.479 quarterbacks that are playing, they are out here making those 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.680 types of players and look at La, look at La 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.680 and Tampa Bay. It came down. I mean, we for 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.479 sure am on masstaff for everything. Oh he ain't like that, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.040 he hain't big time situation, heed buckles, all that other stuff, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.800 and look what happened. Zero pressure to man through a 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.960 dying to Cooper cup, something that Jimmy Jim couldn't do 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.840 when they were in the Super Bowl. He had an opportunity. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.680 So you're right there. It comes down an offensive lineman 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.240 and elite quarterback play. It comes out of both. Yeah, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.000 oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, comes out of both. But 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.320 but you know, you you piggyback on something that and 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.080 this is just indisputable. You know, we just know to 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.040 get this far, you need you gotta have a difference maker. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.600 Your quarterback has to be in the difference maker. And 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.080 we saw it. But at the same time, too, we 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.760 saw Josh Allen doing doing his part and a coaching 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.160 mistake in what my opinion is what costs them. And 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.320 that goes back to Sean McDermott, who's not getting the 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.920 heat that I believe he should. You should have kicked 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.200 the ball off and made Kansas City bring it out 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.360 and burned some clock when you get the touchback, that 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.400 means say burned no time off the clock. Yeah, I 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.200 mean you need you needed to make them run some 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.200 of the clock. They made multiple mistakes on that dr 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:01.800 we're talking about him before we got on the show. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.320 This team got three timehouts. You out there guarding the sideline, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.560 like they can stop the clock three times, So you 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.240 can't just let them run up the middle of the 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.800 field because it's not gonna take that extra time off 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.800 the clock. As we've seen with Dallas, they can just 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.680 time out right and get another shot out there. Who's 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.360 their DC, leslie friend, he needs to get some heat. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.320 This was supposed to be the number one defense coming 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.400 into this game. You can't you can't allow for the 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.720 two points like that. Your head coach and your your 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.640 defensive coordinate. You know their their defensive gotten to look 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.400 and this is by the way, you're right, but this 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.400 is what happened. You got two quarterbacks who are slinging it. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:40.440 And when your quarterbacks started singing it and still your 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.559 quarterback for Buffalo, your quarterback did his job. Oh what 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.960 out of doubt did his job? You were in position 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.000 I thought they were about to win a game thirteen seconds, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.280 but he we're gonna do a touchback? Like what? What? What? 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.319 But no, make it makes sense? Yeah, this is guy. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.320 I've said this before. Your head coach can't be the 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.000 reason you lost the game. The head coach of the 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.960 Bills lost that football game because on something we special 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.559 teams matter. This was a special team's play, Danny, that 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.080 cost your team. But the commentas are saying, you gotta 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.240 squib it right, and even if they did, if they 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.000 did squibb it, whatever, let's just say they took off 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.640 some time. How do you defensively let up two forty 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.040 four yards in thirteen seconds? Just make a tackle? It's okay, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.400 ten seconds? What do we do? It's a different it's 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.080 a different mindset. If you get the squipt kick, they 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.480 have to run it back and then just what you're 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.520 doing versus all right, we got the ball twenty five 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.240 and we got our time. Not anyway, this is when 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:39.559 they what do you call self scout? What do you 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.840 guys do after after the season? The self scout on 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:46.080 this is gonna be very interesting because who gets to 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.200 the head coach to let him know this is what 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.800 needs to happen. Special teams coaches call me? How does that? 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.920 How does that work? The special teams coach is the 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.920 one who should be calling that place, like the head 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.440 coach really shouldn't even have any saying you to call 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.600 a kick left, kick right or squib kick? Hey cup, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.280 why are you squimming? We gotta runt some time at 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.160 the clock. It's simply at that And then your defensive coordinator, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.160 you know what's going on with the players at that point. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.000 If you're calling the play where they're guarding the sideline, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.160 your players in their mind are saying, all we gotta 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.200 do is make the tackle like that like it's in 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.319 their mind already versus not we got to play actual defense. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.480 So you can see why they're not making like why 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.079 they not hurry up and trying to make the tackle 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:25.920 because in their mind they just like, all we gotta 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.560 do is stopped them from getting out of bounce. Like 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.280 So you got guys out there who don't know how 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.280 many timeouts they got because of the play call that 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.840 that you have on defense, and you can see it. It 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.679 It was lack of days ago. Like the sideline they 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.559 were playing what we called what was it called back 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:44.600 when we play and you have a guy, you know, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.320 five yards or at the five yard mark, fifteen yard 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.280 market I think thirty yard mark, and they're all perimetering 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.719 the sidelines. But like you said, they had two or 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.880 three time outs at the time, So Why are you 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.640 trying to defend the sidline when they can stop the 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.240 clock and get a lot of yards up the middle. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.439 Exactly what they did. To me, It's just remarkable that 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.400 their best two players, Kill and Kelsey. How do you 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.760 not have somebody on those Those are the best two 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.360 players on that team, and what happened. He'll catches the 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.560 long the big chunk play in the middle. Games are 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.880 probably about extra twenty yards after the catch. And then 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.480 you give Kelsey, arguably the best tight end in the 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.880 National Football League, you give him a free release. You 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.280 don't even put hands on him, a free release middle 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.560 of the field. He keeps in another twenty yards during 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.559 field goal range stakes. It's just it's mind blowing. It's 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.520 how the other teams can get those players the ball, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:38.040 Kelsey getting the ball. I would like to see Jamar 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.440 Chase and Tarik Hill race because those two dudes have 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.640 a different They have a different when they catch the ball. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.200 It's like everybody else is running in space at running 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.560 in place. I'm just like, oh, you're serious. Had no 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.319 idea Chase had the gas, Like I know he was fast. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.240 I hadn't this dude got gass. I mean, for me, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.240 and you already know it because you're ls you got 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.240 as good as Jefferson was his rookie year. And the 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.960 way he was bawling, I was like, you know, he 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.679 was like the number two dude, he wasn't here. He 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.800 wasn't and it wasn't mean, it wasn't even close. It 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.880 was like, yo, you number two. You're good, You're really 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:18.000 really good. But but that's the dude. That was the 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.200 kind of thing about like, yeah, man, this guy's Paul, 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.280 he's good. And then I'll also say this and raise 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.679 my hand here. I was adamant that Cincinnati should have 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.480 taken a piney soul bluff tackle. I was wrong, and 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.160 it wasn't against Chase. It was your offensive line isn't good. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.920 But that's head. It's like he's still got sacked nine times, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.559 so you still could have been right, Like Jamar Tayson 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.079 is a crazy talent, but you're still watching your franchise 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.800 quarterback gets sacked nine times, so you're right until all 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.800 of a sudden, Joe Burrow get hurt and then you're wrong. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.520 This is to mean that's the number one. Probably already 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.959 en Nosten got to You've got to do everything you 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.199 can't all your resources need to be spent towards protecting 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.280 Joe Burrow. Um, I thought it last year they decided 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.400 to go to the receiver and and okay, you got 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.240 you got Chase. He's fantastic Pro Bowl guy. Now go protective. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.520 Imagine what they could do now next year. They should 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.080 be a much better football team now that the first 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.319 play schedule. But mine goodness graces, they should go out 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.200 there and get it done. And I didn't think. I 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.280 did not think Cincinnati win it. They win in nineteen 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.000 to sixty. I don't think they's gonna win it either. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.680 You did. I thought for so it was over. I've 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.560 never been a Ryan Tannehill believer, but I also didn't 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.400 believe he go ahad through three picks. And you couldn't 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.800 have told me that on a day where Tennessee ran 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.920 the ball for two twenty twenty seven times, one hundred 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.920 forty yards and a touchdown that they would lose it home. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.760 And they did. But if your quarterbacks gonna get the 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.160 ball away and go get the other team an opportunity, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:47.120 you're gonna get beat first snap of the game. Snap. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.160 So let me ask you all this question then, and 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.040 we've seen a lot of elite quarterback play this this round, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.920 a lot of it. Everybody either overcoming sacks or they're 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.079 making big time throws to win games. Do we still 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.240 think Dak is in that conversation five for an elite 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.560 quarterback based off what I've seen this season and in 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.520 the playoffs, if you're talking top five guys, Nah no, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.920 I watched my homes and Josh Allen looked like number 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.720 one and two. I've seen Stafford go out there and 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.120 do what he needs to do. You see Tom bur 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.240 You're already sitting at four. Now you you have to 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.240 throw Joe Burrow. So nah, no, no, no no. And 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.840 the AFC is like the quarterbacks over the That is crazy. Now, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.880 you didn't even need justin Herbert and the like. You're 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.440 justin Herbert. You're talking about Lamar Jackson's one of m 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.840 VP in this league. Stafford. So yeah, Kyler Murray, who's 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.640 going to the Pro Bowl this year? I mean, right now, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.240 what can't be disputed is Dak Prescott took a step 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.080 back this year. Now, I would agree, Okay, what you're expecting. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:48.160 He took a step back, And the questions going in 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.560 the next year are going to be fair when you say, 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.120 can you become an elite quarterback who carries your team 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.760 the way we're seeing these guys who took all their 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.960 teams to the final four. And for all the criticism 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:05.040 about Jimmy g and even how Kyle Shanahan has limited him, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.320 he didn't get a beat. He didn't get a beat. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.560 You know the guy. The guy is. It's a crazy thing. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:18.800 The guy sixty minutes away from the second Super Bowl screen. Okay, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.960 everybody's complaining about it all. We want Trey Lance, we 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:27.120 want you hey, look, look and aways Greener. He may 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.840 well not be the long term answer, whatever he might. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.880 You know, the guy. This is the potential of this 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.360 guy winning the Super Bowl and not being the quarterback 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.640 next year. I mean that that is there, but we 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.720 cannot dispute he has been the guy there and he 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.000 made sure they didn't get be He wasn't Ryan Tannehill 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.960 yesterday getting a beat. He wasn't Dak Prescott. And in 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.160 the game it gets in the wild card game, you 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.360 didn't get your part done. So the questions and the 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.920 criticisms that Dak is gonna get knowing you're making forty 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:00.120 million dollars and what It also means you can't do 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.360 because you're committing so much the salary cap, there's going 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.320 to be an expectation when you earned those dollars. I 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.000 talk about it with take twenty million dollars a year, 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.080 there's expectations to come with it. Mark Cooper earned twenty 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.960 million dollars year. There's expectations. You need a return on 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.360 your investment without a doubt, and if you're not getting 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.520 a return on investment, then everyone has a right to 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.720 say this isn't working out. There is a problem. What's 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.200 going on? When do you do your part? That's not 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.680 us jumping on him, that's not us picking on him. 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.800 That's just being real and telling it like it is. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.440 Because when you when you make that type of bread, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.360 when you make that type of money, you're supposed to 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.080 overcome things. I mean, look at Broke. He wasn't there 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.240 in his officive line, played terrible nine sacks, but he 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.360 was able to overcome that. You talk about Jimmy g 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.200 throwing those picks, but when it came down a nut 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.600 cutting time, he was able to overcome that. Even Brady, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.760 I know, he's the goat heat down twenty seven three, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.480 He's able to overcome that. And when you're making those 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.120 type of bills, that's what's expected of you. And so 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.000 when you look at Dak Prescott in his offense and 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.080 his team in general, there's really not a lot of 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.000 excuses you to trouble through that receiver that's unbelievable. Your 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:03.800 officive line ain't what it used to be, but it 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.080 ain't like the Cincinnati Bankers out there, and you gotta 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.959 running game back. You know, I wish we to use 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.000 it every now and then, but we don't. And there's 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.840 just so there's no taking the football away. There's really 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.639 no excuses. Especially when you're making that type of are 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.680 you're supposed to overcome things like that, and he wasn't 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.879 able to do that this year. That's a franchise me. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.880 When you say the word franchise, that's what you're expecting. Yeah, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.200 you've got I mean, you just look at the Cowboys. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.840 You got a first round receiver and Amari Cooper first 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.520 round receiver, and CD Lamber first round left tackle, and 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.880 Tyron Smith. You got a first round guard in Jack Martin. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.920 You got a first round running back in Ezekiel. Does 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.800 anybody else have that? It's playing right now and they 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.439 all look better than we did. Yeah, all, they all 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.840 look better than we did. Like like wave for the 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.600 guys that you listed, Like, we're gonna continue to say 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.800 this when you look at those other teams around the 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.159 league and you say the weapons that they have, I 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.760 am not putting our weapons above any of those teams 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.040 pretty much from from yesterday or maybe maybe Tampa because 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.120 they missing some guys and Antonio Brown's no longer there 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.440 and god one, but other than that, I'm saying, like 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.959 I'm going back to Tee Higgins and Jamar Tays all 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.440 of a sudden, I'm like, man, I don't wanna see 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.240 the and whatever. I don't know you're looking at you 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:18.920 can you looking at Debo and you're like, now, I 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.560 don't know Debo. Debo is the guy. So we gotta 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.639 find a way to make sure that these guys who 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.159 are we're saying or have this potential, that we're using 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.440 them to maximize that potential. Now, you bring up a 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.000 point that Jerry Jones talked about, but he basically told 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:36.800 one O five through the fan, I didn't watch us 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.600 waste some careers here? Why watch us waste some seasons, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.200 waste some talent and that comes to me. The whole 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:48.680 play calling, Deeal comes into it. Give Sean McVeigh all 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.280 the credit in the world. I have a quarterback who 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.560 won't allow me to do all the things I need 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.159 to do. I need to go get a quarterback. I 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.800 want Matt Stafford. They're sixty minutes away from a Super Bowl. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.920 Whether they get there or not. Sean McBay was proven 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.120 right and during that game. Here it is one more 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:11.000 time Cooper Cup catching pass after pass. Now you didn't 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:12.440 caught the game with a pass. Take it to the 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.760 NFC Championship game. Calling the right plays. I mean that 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.879 that Deebo Samuel run which put him in position to 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.560 go ahead and kick the game winning field goal. I 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:25.920