WEBVTT - John McClain previews Texans at Cowboys | Texans All Access 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.160 Hello, Texans, welcome to the program. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.200 As the Texans will take on the Cowboys on Monday night, 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.360 and it's Thursday. That means we have the General John 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.639 McClean with us. Of course, John Harris is with us. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:12.840 And it's a weird day because, as we've set you 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:17.239 up all week, four game week is different. Today is 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.400 a Wednesday in football land, but it's a Thursday for us, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.200 and that's why we have John in here. And we 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.800 just heard from CJ. Stroud earlier today, Tamiko Ryans. Anyway, 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:26.480 let's get to it. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.720 Let's sink our teeth into Texans Cowboys the next edition. 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.640 As I tweeted out earlier today, a picture of Billy 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.640 Miller crossing the goal line first touchdown in franchise history, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.960 which happened on the first drive of Texans history in general. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.199 Is that the prevailing image to you when you think 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.440 of Texans Cowboys or is it something else? 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.800 No, the prevailing image for me. And I'm writing about 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.280 this for Houston Texans dot com. It'll be up on 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.480 Sunday night or Monday morning. I asked to Miko about 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:06.320 it this afternoon. Was the Texans fans so loud at 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.080 Texas stadium, Tony Tony Roman had to go with the 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.920 silent count. That was the only time I've ever seen 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.679 that happen with Texans fans on the road. And yes, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.600 of course Billy Miller was important, the defining moment for 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.759 me for Texans Cowboys and this may be my lead. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.880 At the end of the game, I was on the sideline, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.839 was standing with Bob McNair and Chuck Watson, Chuck being 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:39.160 his major minor partner back then, and Chuck was all 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.080 excited talking about you know, remember don't remember the Alamo, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.759 Remember the Texans beat the Cowboys, and Bob sitting there 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.040 pretty quiet, and then all of a sudden we look 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.520 across the field and Jerry Jones has been over with 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.720 both hands on his knees. Dave Campo has bent over 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.360 with both ends on his knees because Jerry is and 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:05.040 right by, fans started chanting, thank you, Bob, thank you Bob, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.240 And all of a sudden, the section did it. And 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:11.320 then it just started to spread, fans chanting thank you Bob. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.240 And I looked at McNair and I said, do you 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.840 hear that? And he nodded, and tears were running down 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.840 his face and Chuck all of a sudden shut up 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.799 and had tears in his eyes, and I started getting 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.440 teary eyed listening to it spread until it was a crescendo, 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.919 and then all of a sudden, the TV's run over 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.520 there and get in front of Bob to shoot him, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.160 and I told him I got to get out of here. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.000 I can't let anybody see me getting teary eyed. But 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.880 to know everything that he went through, and to be 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.079 there with him from the get go, and to have spent 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.640 so much time talking to him. When I was on 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.760 the road, he called me about the NFL, What are 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.840 you hearing? And tell me what he was hearing because 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.840 he trusted me and knowing how much he put into it. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.160 And I remember two people told me in LA all 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.560 along Houston was going to get the team and I 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.000 never leave it because I know how much the NFL 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.760 wanted to go to LA. And one of them was 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.040 Rich McKay, whose brother JK was on the LA committee 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:14.320 and he was telling me that, and gosh, who was 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.520 the other one. My mind's gone, oh, Bruce Allen. And 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.160 Bruce Allen was saying that because he had sources on 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.040 that committee. And Bobby told me that too, because he 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.960 said he had sources on that committee, and he said 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.680 the reason was LA can't decide on how to finance 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.359 the stadium, where to put a stadium where we've got 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.160 all of our ducks in a row. And I was 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:39.080 so happy for him that they were able to win 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.480 that game because, and this is something else I'm writing, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.680 he told me numerous times how much Jerry Jones worked 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.280 to help him get the team. Now, you would have 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.960 thought Jerry wouldn't want another team in Houston, but Jerry did. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.480 He told me that there were two people of all 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.440 the people he talked to, two people told him the 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.520 truth all the time. One was Jerry Richardson, the late 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.760 owner owner of the Panthers, who was the head of 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.680 I think the expansion committee, and Jerry and Bob had 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.680 been friends for a long time. And then Jerry Jones. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.680 That's one reason when Bob died and had his tribute 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.840 here at the stadium, Jerry the McNair's invited him to 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:21.200 come down and speak about Bob first. And so I'll 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.120 always appreciate Jerry Jones for doing that because he's he 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.720 was influential in the NFL then too, he wasn't looked 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.760 on as much of a buffoon as he is now 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.120 because of the fate of the Cowboys, as bad as 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:43.280 they are. But i'd the rivalry. Texans need to win 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.720 this game, of course, and get on a roll. I 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.320 also have a Colin's gonna run tomorrow in Houston, Texan 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.600 dot Com. Looking at six four Texans last year, six 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.679 four Texans this year, how they got there. Last year's 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.320 team had a three game winning streak. This year's teams 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.800 lost three of four and came scored in the second half. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.279 And I'm looking at the offense, and the offense was 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.760 so much better at this stage last year than it 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.520 is now. And I think one of the reasons is 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.679 they didn't have all these protection issues last year. Wasn't 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.679 Strouds sacked thirty eight times and already's been sacked thirty 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.800 five and he's on the pace for like fifty eight. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.800 Nothing to see here, Yeah, well, there is something to 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.960 see there, and that's something they got to make a change. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.200 We'll get to that in a second. But okay, you guys 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.680 ready for a couple of numbers. Got our rays transit 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.120 have gotta be broken in one way or the other. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:33.400 All right? 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:39.279 How many primetime games. Have these two teams played general two? 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.440 Opening night and Sunday night football? And that's it. That's 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.839 it too, okay. So how many games have they played 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.280 at noon? Between these two teams? How many games have 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.920 played at noon or during the day. I think the 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.920 rest of them were new, all of them. Yeah, who 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.239 won the prime time games? 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.119 Texans born, both of them. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.520 Yes, who won the games they did? Yes, they went 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.479 all the day games, We went all the night games. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.800 This one's at night, this one's done. But on the 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.160 flip side, how many times have we ever won in Arlington? 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.159 None? None, But it's time to break that. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.680 It's time to break that and keep the prime time 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.440 streak alive and break the we never went in Arlington 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:19.000 sort of things. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.359 So general to do that? 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.880 What is the is the a number one thing, the 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.880 pass protection? Or is it something else? 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:28.760 You know? 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.800 You think the other day, if he had thrown that 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.240 ball quick or put more juice on it today, we 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.000 wouldn't be having all of this. They would have beaten 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.159 the line over correct the moon do when they get 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.360 down and juice, Scruggs says, old, and Shack Mason gives 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.040 up his sack. You know, things like that so as 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.800 bad as they were in the second half on offense, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.160 and I've got to look up. Maybe you guys can 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:52.960 tell me this so I don't have to look it up. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.159 How many consecutive possessions have they gone in the second 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.320 half without scoring a touchdown? Back to New England? Do 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.640 you know what i'f off your head? 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.080 I don't know how many possessions? 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.560 Well, I gotta look it up. I gotta look it 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.080 up because it's going to be part of my story 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:11.360 because it's four games worth, right, But I they almost 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.040 won that game as like It's like Stroud said, he 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.080 took the blame, but he said, we did go to 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.320 the wire with one of the best teams in the league. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:19.720 They did. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.160 You lose in Green Bay, Green Bay and Lambeau and 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.119 you lose on a field goal with no time left. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.760 Then you lose a field goal with no time left 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.920 to a brick salesman. You know, you close, And maybe 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.440 that should help them in this there's favorite six and 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.440 a half points and if they're ever going to beat 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.840 the Cowboys up there, this would have to be the time. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.040 Cowboys can't run the ball. Texans run defense is good. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.440 They did a great job against the Lions except for 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.760 one series in the fourth quarter when they got forty 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:56.600 seven of their yards. Great run defense, and you know, 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.600 I just I like, y'all, I'm just mind boggle that 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.040 intercept five passes, you don't win the game. They're plus 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.280 I think they're fourth or fifth in the league and 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.360 turnover differential, and if they keep that up, they're gonna 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.920 win yin. They should they should win this game. Give 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.600 them seven. They should sweep the Titans and the Jaguars. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.400 That'll be ten, and then you beat Miami maybe here 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.720 that would be eleven. I need it to beat I 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.600 needed to be eleven and six is that's what I 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.600 predicted and when the schedule came out on your website. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.320 And but they need to turn around. This is a 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:39.320 game that should be a reassurance game, to reassure everybody, fans, media, everybody, Okay, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.640 we're back on a winning track. We still have a 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.400 good team. No time to panic. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.400 But if you lose, who John the Cowboys are a 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.400 total mess right now. It's funny because sometimes we talk about, oh, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.720 this team's going to be really upset because they lost, well, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.880 they've lost four in a row and they continually lose players. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.839 Now they've got a couple of guys back Parsons's backland. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.559 I guess it's coming back. But still they've lost four 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.160 games in a row. Now the Texans have lost too 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.040 in a row. They're not going to overlook anybody. I 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.439 don't care who they're playing. They're playing Trinity, They're not 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.160 going to overlook them. But what about Dallas. What is 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.920 the biggest part of well, the biggest ingredient in this 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.640 spiral that they're in right now. I know Dak got hurt, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.480 but that wasn't that long ago. It was a couple 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.000 of weeks ago. And they can't run the ball. They 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.720 didn't fortify the running back position. Is it a salary 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.320 cap thing where they had to pay Dak? They had 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.600 to give c D money. There's no money left over 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:31.200 cop out. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:31.719 I don't know. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.160 I'm asking Jerry Jones saying he couldn't afford Garry Henry's 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.080 eight million a year. Of course he could look at 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.080 all these other teams to sign players. Forty nine ers 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.480 are given multi to you know, eighty million contracts to 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.079 cornerbacks and other players. I just think Jerry Jones and 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.079 every Cowboy fans say this it's passed his time being 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.920 a general manager, and now he doesn't make every decision himself. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.000 He listens to Stephen Jones, he listens to Will McClane, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.000 he listens to Mike McCarthy. Now McCarthy's gone, we know 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.160 he's gone. Does he want to go after Belichick? Does 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.040 he want to hire Mike Rabel, Does he want to 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.080 go after Ben Johnson or another hot assistant coach who 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.319 wants to go there? Now, of course people want to 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.120 go there. You got your quarterback, you got your number 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.839 one team, and the interest and value it's the Cowboys. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.480 But he's going to ask some tough decisions about who 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.240 he's going to hire to replace him. And they're going 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.280 to get a high draft pick and they need him. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.520 They need to three, four to five, a lot of positions. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.400 But right now, I think the Texans would lose. I 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.560 can't say this. I was going to say if they 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.439 lose the turnover differential, but it didn't make a bit 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.040 of difference Sunday night. But I still think let's Cowboys 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.760 score defensive touchdown or a special team's touchdown, or one 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.560 of them puts them down to the side the five 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.760 yard line. The Cowboys are not going to move the 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.760 ball on the Texans defense, and the Texans will score. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.400 I just wish Bobby Slowick. I think those early season 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.640 long field goals by fair Baron made him get more conservative. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.160 We get across midfield, now, let's be careful not to 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.959 turn it over because we know we got three. But 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.200 it's not fair to ask fair Bear to keep doing 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.280 that fifty six fifty eight yard field goals. Be more 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.480 aggressive when you cross midfield. If makes him stop for 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.360 nogate on first down, don't give it to him on 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.319 a second Now, I'll throw it to him because he's 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.880 such a good runner after he makes a catch. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.800 I was thinking, yeah, CJ. Stroud, I want the ball 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.439 in his hands one way or in the absolutely. But 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.120 also that's a tricky situation on third down and fourth 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.920 and four. Let's just say it's fourth and four and 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.360 you gotta kick it right there. You have fair Baron. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.800 You absolutely have to check that ball. But you're right you. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.440 Wanted it to be a lot closer because you cannot 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.920 guarantee fifty eight yards. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.480 I can't. There's no shame in missing that. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.920 Thisss the only time I've ever said this in fifteen 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.719 years I know it's coming. John Wikes had to have 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.320 a snap. I can no longer say he's never had 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.040 a bad snap in any time in his career because 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.599 it was high and he took the blame afterward. But 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.719 you shouldn't be in that situation where you have to 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.000 kick those all the time. And you notice when they 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.719 use the bunch formation and they put the receivers in 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:18.480 tight and then they load the box with eight and 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.959 they're running the ball and it's too obvious. So I 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.920 wish slow it would just, I don't know, be more aggressive. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.240 I mean, you know, with Nico back, you will. I 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.560 think on the first play of the game. If I'm 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.120 somewhere the first time i get around to thirty or forty, 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.400 I'm going damn to Nico just to show them we're 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:35.959 gonna do it. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.800 Well, that was gonna be my question, and that is 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.839 how do things change? Because we talk about and I 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.600 I think it can be one guy. How much does 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.439 Nico change the pass protection because Nico gets opened so 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.680 quickly things you want to get Nico the ball quickly because. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.280 So good after the catch. That helps your past protection. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.720 It helps you run game because you can't completely load 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.040 the box It helps everything. It helps your deep passing game. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.719 Just having him back. It's one guy, but general he 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.360 can have a significant impact. If he is in deep 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:13.240 back on Monday. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.560 Night, well he better be back on Monday night. They're 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.400 out there talking like he's coming back. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:17.920 You know. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.079 The fact is two people have to cover and that 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.240 takes away one from loading up the box when you 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:28.040 want to play the run. And just his presence. I'm 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.120 like you, I think first time, i'd want to throw 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.040 it to him. If you're say it to twenty of 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.080 the twenty five, throwing the slant, let him, let him 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.960 break some tackles. But boy, when you get up around 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.959 the thirty or the forty, launch it like well like 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.440 they did on the play got hurt? Was that sixty 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:45.080 seven yards? 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.719 Seven yards? And do it like that? 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.679 Cowboys know it's coming. You know he's and and you 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.120 know you still Tank has done really well. It dropped 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.480 a couple of passes, but and and Dalton Schultz got 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.480 involved in the passing game there at the end. They 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.080 got to get him involved in the in the uh 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.720 when they get in the red zone. He had five 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.959 touchdowns this time last year Tank had seven. And but 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.840 you think about if Niko have never been hurt, would 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.280 that have been a difference in two points to three 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:16.240 points in that game? 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.000 In the Green Bay game, getting hurt, you're winning at 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.600 least one. Absolutely, and me too, and maybe all of them. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.680 I don't know, but he's that valuable to this football team. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:27.840 But for both of you, guys. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:28.120 C J. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.640 Stroud, we all listened to him today and he was 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.160 talking about I've been kind of aiming. I'm paraphrasing here 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.480 him aiming can start it out. Yeah, now he wants 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.160 to just let it rip, he said, swing fastballs. Yeah, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.480 So what did you think of that? 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.400 Related to what he's been going through lately? 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.360 I think it's good. You know the touchdown pass. You 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.480 wish he'd had planted his foot and just rifled it 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:56.440 to Tank Dale And uh, but Carlton Davis man, you 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.400 talk about that kid got burned here last year for 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.720 three touches and then he has two interceptions. He made 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.520 a great play breaking on the ball, and I remember 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.320 last year once I think it was Carolina, CJ talked 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.440 about he wanted to throw the ball down the field more. Well, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.360 the problem with that is, unless it's three step dropping, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.400 you launch it. You need a little time, and he 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.040 hadn't done getting the time and the run blocking was awful. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.760 But a lot of that to me was the play 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.920 calls and the formations. But I think we're going to 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.920 see a different offense in this game. I think the 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.000 defense is going to shut down their run because they're terrible. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.360 They're next to last in running, like we all thought 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.160 that would be terrible. They're gonna shut it. Cooper Rush 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.200 is gonna have to pass. They're acting like they'll have 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.200 some formations for Trey Lance to come in. It wouldn't 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.160 surprise me if Trey Lance doesn't come in as a quarterback, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.240 because I think they'll do a good job against Rush. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.720 I think with CJ the point of him saying, yeah, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.520 it's not so much John Daily gripping, but there has 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.600 to be some of that kind of bravado as you 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.160 play that position. He knows that, and I think what 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.200 he would tell you, I'd like to know the throat 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.280 to tank that we've talked about. I've talked about it 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.160 a bunch. I think that play changes the entire game 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.480 course and that was one in which I don't know 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.280 why he didn't throw it sooner, and then when he 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.320 threw it. He did kind of look like he aimed 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:22.520 it in there. And that's one of the things that 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.920 you can see on a quarterback. And when he starts 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.680 aiming the football a quarterback, that's just CJ. You know 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.240 you've got him because he's trying to make that pinpoint 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.800 throw and he's like, God, that just finesses it, and 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.120 the like, No, you got to reach back and find 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.640 the fastball a little bit. Even the throw to metch You, Like, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.320 I've seen that throw of metch You a few times 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.520 and it was a great there's a great throw. There's 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.080 a great throw. But that's one that I think CJ 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.440 in the past would probably rip it a little bit more. Ok, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.400 that one seemed to have. That was more forefinger, that 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.000 was more for steamed fastball to do seam fastball, right, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.160 And I think he's saying, look, I got a two 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.200 seam fastball that's as good as anybody. I gotta throw it. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.960 He's right, He's definitely right. There's no doubt about that. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.080 So general, let's take that and transition into this question. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.720 There's a guy that probably has as good as you 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.200 seating fastball as there is anywhere that we've ever seen 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.320 in the NFL, but he got bench for a couple 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.600 of games. Now he's coming back. Anthony Richardson is back. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.120 What does it mean for the Colts doesn't matter. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.480 I don't think it matters. You know, Flacco was bad. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.880 People think he's finally hit the wall at thirty nine. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.320 And I'll wonder how much Jim Irsey was involved in 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.080 the original decision, how much he's involved in this decision, 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.000 or maybe they went back and said, if we're going 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.679 to lose, we got to be learning, and he's got 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.960 to be learning. So I don't think after two three 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.920 games off that he's going to have all of a 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.240 sudden it's going to be smooth sale. He's only started 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.160 ten games in NFL and thirteen in college. Bow Nick 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.440 started sixty in college, and so he's going to be 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.800 like a roller coaster up and down. And they just 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.800 got to learn to live with it, and hopefully next 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.960 year he'll show a lot of progress. Back to CJ. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.480 It's great that he wants to do all these things 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.119 and he would have been doing them, but the pass 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.320 protection is so bad, especially up the middle. You know, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.120 you want him to plan his foot and have perfect 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.120 mechanics and fire the ball, but you can't when people 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.080 are coming free up the middle. And hopefully the second 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.480 game Juice Scruggs plays at left guard, he won't have 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.080 two holding calls. Holdings were not problem for him at center. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.199 And Shaq Mason is giving up eight and a half sacks. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:33.440 Hopefully he'll improved. But you know he's he is cognizant 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.719 of where the pressure comes from. And if I'm if 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.080 I'm the Cowboys and I'm Mike Zimmer, I'm having Mike 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.480 Mike Coh Parsons rush up the middle, not coming off 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:43.960 the edge. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.960 Yeah, well he moves around and he's unpredictable that way. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.399 And as we say, grip it and rip it for CJ. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.800 Mike gut is and we'll talk more about this tomorrow. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.040 My gut is, just don't turn the ball over. What 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.960 was that game against Miami and the David Cully year 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.280 did the Texans game at five and the Dolphins got four? 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.960 Did we out nine? Yeah, you're right? 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.640 Nine turnover? Did we have one more takeaway than them? 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.520 And he said you can't. You can't win by turning 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.320 it over four times, even if you get fun or 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.960 something like that. That there was a quote like that 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.560 and it sounded silly. Yet I can say this. If 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.560 you're turning the ball over and it's ending drives for you, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.359 that obviously stinks. They just have to avoid that because 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:28.800 I don't think the Cowboys will be able to move 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.119 the ball on the Texans at all. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.680 Don't turn it over and you're in the field, turn 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:33.200 it over. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.000 Pawn and play. You know, they'll get the ball for you. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:38.320 Probably this defense will they'll be able to take the 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.560 ball away from the Cowboys and you'll get good field 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.600 position cash in from there. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.440 The big question, excuse me, is why can they not 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.320 score touchdowns in the second half five or six games 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.359 in four in a row. Why is that any issue? 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.359