WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: What Are We Running? 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:17.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:22.720 label broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:28.360 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newy Scrugs. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.519 Here we go. It's a Monday, It's Monday morning. Not 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.280 a victory Monday, but Monday morning. And we will do 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.760 a lot of that here for the next forty five 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.280 minutes on the players lads. Hello everybody. I'm Nu Scrugs, 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.920 longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Cowboys players. We 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.920 got safety Barry Church at safety, Danny McCray, Players labs, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.920 got a whole lot of topics to get two fellas. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.800 The Cowboys go down on Sunday Night football to the 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.480 Los Angeles rams By School of twenty to seven teen. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.160 Last Friday when we went on the air, Church, you 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.280 had the Cowboys winning by twenty one. Danny, you had 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.960 the Cowboys fall by thirteen. I had the Cowboys winning 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.759 by five. All three of us were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.000 I want to start with the defense because that's something 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.840 we have stressed here on the players line. Just talking 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:24.240 about defense. So many people were going after offense, offense offensive, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.680 talking boys, we had been talking about the Cowboys defense 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.920 and that being an area that was bothersome to us. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.360 I'm want to go of a couple of numbers for you, 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.160 all right, fellas, let me throw this out here. Total 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.320 offense for the Rams four hundred and twenty two yards. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.080 You guys know games are one on third down. And 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.200 when it came to third down, Jared Golf and the 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.360 Rams kept converting all night long, nine of seventeen on 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.880 third downs when it comes at the time of possession. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.800 In this football game, this thing was won by the Rams. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.600 They held the ball for a total of thirty five 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.040 minutes and thirty eight seconds, and they had an advantage 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.320 of the Cowboys. Their Cowboys defense on the field for 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:04.080 eleven and eleven minutes in sixteen seconds more than the offense. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.640 So to me, the defense had issues. The Cowboys offense 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.079 didn't help them out by keeping the off the field. Danny, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.040 you go, let me tell you something new. We talked 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.040 about this. If you and I text you right after 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.680 that first drive, if you cannot stop the run, you 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.280 will not be able to do anything else. And the 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.200 Rams came out and they ran the ball on us, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.280 and if you if you looked at it and you 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.040 got to see something from the end zone view when 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.359 they showed the replace man, our linebackers were catching our 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.600 defensive line and the interior were getting pushed off the line. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.600 We were pretty much getting bullied in the run game. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.120 And that set us up for the rest of the 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.360 for the rest of all the other stuff that happened. Right, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.560 So when you see us getting killed on third down, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.480 that's because we let them nickel and dive us. Uh, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.919 you know, quick outs and get third shorts and then 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.799 and then running and complete short passes to get those 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.359 first down. So we did not earn the right to 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.799 rush the path and that killed us in this game. Yeah, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.360 you hit it right on the nail. D Mac. I mean, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.400 I'm gonna be honest here with you, fella. Is this 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.320 this is not the performance I was looking forward to 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.200 seeing week one from this defense. Um. And it has 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.280 to come to the to the what I thought was 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.280 going to be a strength of this defense, and that's 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.880 the front seven. I mean, you got d Law, you 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.760 got Poe and there you got Everson Griffin, Ty Crawford, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.200 and then you got the two linebackers in there. Now 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.240 we know vander Esch went down with the collarbone injury, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.359 but you still had a strong front seven in there, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.640 and those guys were literally man handled from from the snap, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.000 from the very first play. I mean there was poles 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.680 where Malcolm Brown and Cam Acres they weren't getting touched 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.160 until they were at least six yards down the line 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.840 of scrimmage. And you can't win that way. There's no 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.080 way in the NFL you're able to win if you're 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:50.920 allowing the running it back to just get five and 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.960 six yards a pop. It just makes it way too easy. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.840 They made Jared Golf look like Ben Roethlisberger back there 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.040 when it came to play action. I mean, this was 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.240 an amazing to me. I think it was an amazing 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.600 coaching display by McVeigh. I mean, he kept this defense 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.480 off balance pretty much the whole entire game. If it 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.920 wasn't with the tempo where they were going fast, or 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.600 they were slowing it down a little bit then going 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.480 back fast again, or if it was just the misdirection 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.480 and counterplays they were using the Cowboys aggressiveness against him, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.479 I think it was a great coaching displayed by McVeigh. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.760 But the front seven, to me, it just didn't look 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.640 good at all, and that's not what I was expecting. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.120 But there is a short, little little bright light, I 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.400 guess you can say the two corners. I feel like 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.599 they played pretty well out there. I think digs for 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.280 I mean, he gave up a couple of plays, but 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.760 he was scrappy out there, and he was in perfect coverage. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.680 The ball was just a little bit, you know better, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.600 it was better offense, But it was great defense by 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.200 him on a couple of plays that he gave up. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.640 We saw a woozier with the interception. So there is 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.000 a little line light there with the secondary. But that 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:51.880 front seven, who was supposed to be a strength, they 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.560 gotta pick it up. I mean, they were man handled 0:04:53.600 --> 0:05:00.040 all night. So go ahead, Danny, Go ahead, Danny. I 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.560 was gonna say, one Church, can you tell me what 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.760 defense are you running? Is it a five two four 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.520 or four three? What are you running? I thought it 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.520 was supposed to be a multiple look, you know, three four, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.880 four three, and looked like we were just simply in 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.720 a I don't even know how they explained and maybe 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.440 have five two mixed with the four three. But there 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.200 was no movement at all, no movie. I think I 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:26.279 think both of y'all will agree that it coached. I mean, Church, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.000 you said that it was a great coach and displayed 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.720 by Sean McVay. This was the exact same stuff that 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.200 the dude been running for the last four years. You know, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.280 Robert Woods is going to run a jet suite in 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.600 almost almost every play, and then they're going to bootleg 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.680 off of that eighty potent at the top, like it 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.040 was the same stuff. And we sit there and did 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.559 the same thing. And I was upset because I watched 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.760 the Tampa Bay game and I was watching Todd Bows 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.560 defense and how they made how they disrupted um Drew 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.000 Brees when they got into those type formations by blitzing 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.520 those linebackers the strength of their team, and I was like, oh, yeah, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.880 we're gonna be doing some of that. We didn't see 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.560 any of that, none of them, and I was I 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.680 was just shocked. I was just shocked to see it. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.120 And we just, you know, as a defense, we lined 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.240 up in the same stuff the entire game and let 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.760 them run the same stuff that they had been running 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.800 for the last four years, and they ran into perfection 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.320 and killed us the entire game. That that was very 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.960 confusing to me from the from a coaching standpoint, and 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.200 then our physicality is on the defensive standpoint. Both both 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.000 of those were surprising and confusing. Hey then, Mac, I'm 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.280 I'm gonna ask you a quick question here, but I 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:31.680 know we want to talk about this a little bit later. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.359 But are you hinting at the fact that McCarthy might 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.880 have been out coached in his first game? Is that 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.960 what you're saying? Once we get the offense, I get 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.640 on that. Defensively, I think we were. We were. We 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.720 were definitely out coached. And and it's surprising because, like 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.240 I said, they didn't running the same stuff. They've been 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.360 running the same stuff newly. You listen, if you if 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.800 you don't agree, then let me know. Has did the 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.080 Rams offense scheme wise not look the same as they 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.440 have been looking for the previous years with the same 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.840 players doing the same stuff. A part of me thought 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.120 I was watching the playoff game that I was at 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.400 the LA Coliseum when the Rams had the two hundred 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.360 yard running backs in that game, one them included Tie 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.320 Gurley where they were just beating up the Cowboys right 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.800 up the middle as though, they went back to that 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.280 same thing to say, you know what, I guess what. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.280 We don't think you dudes are good up front and 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.800 the Cowboys front lines. We spoke about this as well. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.560 The front lines for the Cowboys on both sides of 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.280 the football were out playing and the Rams I thought 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.680 were suspect on the offensive line, but they coached them 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.000 up very well. Mike Nolan had no answers for Sean McVay. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.320 You're you're right, Danny. They bullied the Cowboys. The Cowboys 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.800 got punched in the mouth so many times. I would say, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.840 all right, Jason Garret Don had these guys ready to play, 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.680 and you know what, the Cowboys were not ready for 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.840 what the Rams had to offer and the adjustments to 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.560 do it. Okay, it didn't happen. I'm gonna sit up here, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.280 tell it like it is now. Okay. I can drink 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.920 the koolaid all day long about Mike mc gonna be 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.120 a true teller with the koolaid. Okay, because my hu 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:05.440 has no alcohol in it, so it's just cigafree. This 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.120 first batch of koole wasn't good. It didn't taste good. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.640 It was bitter, and they got to change some things here. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.760 I'm worried about this defense right now because this is 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.160 the blueprint that anybody who's smart is gonna say. All right, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.920 you know what. The Cowboys are very good with Everson 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.720 Griffin and Olden Smith and Tank Lawrence. Okay, they're gonna 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.280 get out to the passer. But guess what, We're not 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.640 gonna sit up here and do a five step drop. 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.600 We're gonna be quick with it. We saw where Jared 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.959 Goff dropped back quickly and as soon as he got 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.800 the ball, he knew exactly where he was going with 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.880 the ball, and they were quick drops. They didn't throw 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.079 any deep passes out there, and yet the Cowboys DBS 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.839 didn't try to get up on these on the cow 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.640 on the Rams receivers in my opinion, so they got 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.640 some answers. They gotta to fix our defense. Also, let's 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.480 not forget and we spoke about this last week as well. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.400 How would these linebackers look. You know, we talked about 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.199 who needed to be breaking out this year. My two 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.360 guys I was talking about Layton Vanderesh and Jaylens and 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.160 those two guys yesterday did not look good. And now 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.920 Lake Vanderesh is going to be missing some time with 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.960 the broken collar ball talking about six to eight weeks here. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.360 That's a problem because Joe Thomas, who filled in for him. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.680 Joe Thomas is what he is. He's a backup linebacker. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.240 And the more they put Joe out there, I think 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.599 the more he's going to get exposed. Church. Yeah, I 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.679 agree with you one hundred percent. And then this is 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.280 where that injury to Shaun Lee comes in hand. I mean, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.920 this is a guy who filled inadmirably for Vander Eshe 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.160 last year, in the thirteen games that he started. This 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.400 is where that depth is starting to lack a little bit. So, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.199 like you said, they threw Joe Thomas in there, and 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.960 to me, Joe Thomas is a solid player. He's a solid, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.359 you know, backup guy who can come in and contribute, 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.319 you know, every now and then, maybe on third down 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.240 situations and a special team's good or a special teams player. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.400 But I don't think he's the answer there for a 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.160 full time starter. But what I want to say about 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.040 this defense is I'm starting to sip the cool date 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.120 a little bit on Aldon Smith. I know I had 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.240 my reservations about him early in the season, but he 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.959 for five years of absence. I mean he would. He 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.839 was out there and he played pretty well. So I'm 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.439 gonna start sipping the kool aid a little bit with 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.839 neui on Adam Smith. Yeah, yeah, all the Smith was 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.840 a bright spot definitely, And for everything I said about him, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.679 he came out there and he played very well, you know, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.599 for how we played overall on defense. One thing I 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.679 would guarantee you, I will guarantee you this for the season. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.319 If we don't stop the run, it's going to be 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:35.040 a long, disappointing season. And I say that following up 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.959 with this, it is very hard for you to become 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.880 a run stopping team after the start of the season. Usually, 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.240 once you can't stop the run, that's just who you 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.839 are as a team. So so I'm looking for this 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.920 to be a pain point for us, and we're gonna 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.319 have to figure out maybe go look at some of 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.199 the Merideli film and start slanting and getting into some 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.839 gaps because us trying to two gaps are just playing 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.319 man and man in shade and have our allow breakers 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.400 feel that is not gonna work for us. Let me 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.760 ask you guys both a quick question here. What did 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.600 you guys feel about Don Terry po out there, because 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.719 for me, I just thought his performance was lackluster. I 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.920 didn't really see that energy. I didn't see that pop. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:15.920 And he was supposed to be a guy that if 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.040 he's not getting to the quarterback, he can at least 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.319 and hold up a gap and hold these offensive linemen 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.679 off the linebackers. But it seemed to me like each 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.520 and every down they ran the ball, these linemen were 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.480 getting up to the second level, and he just had 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.400 had no effect at all. I just want to know, 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:35.320 you guess thoughts on him. I agree with I expected more, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.599 But at the same time, I also could say this, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.439 you were hoping that Gerald McCoy was going to be 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.240 the number one guy to plug the run, and then 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.640 you thought Don Terry Poe, and then with Poe, you 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.520 thought you maybe have a rotation of four, you know, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.880 four guys in there, and if anything, they knew exactly 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.240 what to do. I mean, Sean McVeigh schemed up this team, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.320 and you know what, like so many other guys, they 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.280 were not ready for the punching them out. They got 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.560 punched in the mount and they kept getting punched them out, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.040 and nobody had an answer and fellas you guys played. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.880 You just hope that when the red light gets pointed 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.360 on film that guys are embarrassed and ready to come 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.920 out here against the Atlanta Falcons and give a better performance, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.080 because that was not the kind of performance that any 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.760 of us expected from the Cowboys and Don Terry Pope 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.240 and the whole Hot Boys, that whole thing there that 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:29.160 that loom. Yeah, listen, listen. I thought I thought Don 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.160 Terry Pope and Tristan Hill that was that was just 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.719 not a good performance. And I would put it on 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.360 the Hot Boys. And it may sound like I'm being biased, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.559 but I'm telling you this. They did not get in 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.240 a fair shape at being able to rush the passes because, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.160 like we said, they did not stop the run, and 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.440 if you don't stop the run, you won't get any secks. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.319 That's what all the Smith got his won and that 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.400 was the one opportunity that they had because they could 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.120 not stop the run and they went third and short 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.320 all night. So yeah, the three step drop was there 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.240 all night. They didn't have to take time to do 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.640 a five step drop to let Rolphs develop down the 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.360 field because we never had them in a situation where 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.000 they had to do that and like I said, you 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.920 got Julio Jones and Todd Gurley coming in and if 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.199 you don't stop the run, it is going to be 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:20.360 a very very long day. What can Will McClay do 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:26.200 in terms of finding some players here? Obviously, um, up 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.880 the middle, they got issues. Uh did Snacks Harrison ever 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.319 signed with anybody? Um? I think you're going on the 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.520 market now, you know, so, so maybe that's something you do. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:40.880 You call some call hey Snacks hello, Um, and you 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.160 need you need another linebacker here, you can call up 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.000 Francis Bernard. But you know you've got you've got linebacker 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.240 issues here. And as long as you're exposed up the middle, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.280 there's going to be some problems with this football team 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.079 because now people know exactly what to do is say, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:55.719 we'll go up the middle and we don't have to 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.840 worry about your guys coming from the edge here because 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.720 we just go punch you right in the mouth until 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.280 you can stop that. So this is where Will McClay 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.760 is gonna make his money right now to see what 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.600 adjustments they make. And Stephen Jones on one O five 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.240 three the Fan today and he basically said, no, Earl Thomas. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.959 So for all those folks who are hoping to Earl 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.599 Thomas is gonna get here. No, Isaiah Standback said on 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.679 Talking Cowboys, and he expected Earl Thomes to be a 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.360 cowboy on Monday. It is uh what one forty three 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.000 And that's that hasn't happened, and I don't see it 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.880 happening there. They got to figure out how to get 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.360 a differensive tackle. So I'm sitting there here now saying, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:32.040 Snacks Harrison, come on down, you know what him? And well, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.880 until recently, man, I hadn't I hadn't even realized that 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.800 Eric Reed wasn't on the team. And we've been talking 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.240 about Earl Thomas and and and you know, I think 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.040 Colin Kaeferny put out a stat the man said, two 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.560 franchise records last year, you know, and it was one 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.320 of the best dvs in the league. And we've been 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.880 talking about Earl Thomas. This dude was sitting on the sidelines. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.200 If you want a really productive safety, but you know, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.560 we know that's not gonna happen, but I'm gonna put 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.440 it out there is if you're looking for a guy 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.400 and you really wanted to safety, you wanted one that 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.960 bad that was gonna make some plays and especially coming 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.960 here and help you stop the run. You got one 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.440 look for Yeah, but yeah, I think that would I 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.160 think that would be a great, a great choice now 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.600 that you brung that up with Eric reib because I 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.840 know I had, you know, I thought going into this 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.400 game he would he would play decent. But my guy 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.200 Darian Thompson, man, he just didn't show up yet yesterday. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.160 I mean, whether it was miss tackles or just not 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.040 being in the right place at the right time, it 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.080 was just not a good game for him. Now, I 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.720 understand it was one game, but as a guy that's 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.560 coming in, you're mean you were already blow on the 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.680 totem Paul. You had a great camp and they elevated 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.840 you into the starting position. You can't go out there 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.280 and have games like this, especially you know, you weren't, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.120 like I have high draft pick or a high free 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.360 agent value pick it up. So when you get these 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.920 opportunities out there, you can't squander them like that. 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So let's dive into that offense as the 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.000 Cowboys end up taking that l to start the season 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.600 twenty two seventeen. On third down, the offense for the 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.360 Cowboys was three to twelve. That's not good. They took 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.399 three sacks in the game. Dak Prescott was one for 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.200 seven for eleven yards on third down. Fellas, that is 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.400 not winning football. All right, I'm gonna give you the floor, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:33.080 Danny McCray on it cool because listen, for as much 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.080 as we just talked about the defense, at the end 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.520 of the day, they only gave up twenty points. All right. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.399 If you go into the game with the offense that 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.000 we have and you say our defense is given up 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.200 twenty you would expect to win that game nine times 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.720 out of ten. Now, just to start with this, shout 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.760 out to Zeke. He had a hell of a game. 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.280 He is he was the shotted star of our offense. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.440 Not to get to the negative goodness greatness, is this 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.119