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Speaker 1: Here we go. It's a Monday, It's Monday morning. Not
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Speaker 1: a lot of that here for the next forty five
Speaker 1: minutes on the players lads. Hello everybody. I'm Nu Scrugs,
Speaker 1: longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by two former Cowboys players. We
Speaker 1: got safety Barry Church at safety, Danny McCray, Players labs,
Speaker 1: got a whole lot of topics to get two fellas.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys go down on Sunday Night football to the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles rams By School of twenty to seven teen.
Speaker 1: Last Friday when we went on the air, Church, you
Speaker 1: had the Cowboys winning by twenty one. Danny, you had
Speaker 1: the Cowboys fall by thirteen. I had the Cowboys winning
Speaker 1: by five. All three of us were wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Speaker 1: I want to start with the defense because that's something
Speaker 1: we have stressed here on the players line. Just talking
Speaker 1: about defense. So many people were going after offense, offense offensive,
Speaker 1: talking boys, we had been talking about the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: and that being an area that was bothersome to us.
Speaker 1: I'm want to go of a couple of numbers for you,
Speaker 1: all right, fellas, let me throw this out here. Total
Speaker 1: offense for the Rams four hundred and twenty two yards.
Speaker 1: You guys know games are one on third down. And
Speaker 1: when it came to third down, Jared Golf and the
Speaker 1: Rams kept converting all night long, nine of seventeen on
Speaker 1: third downs when it comes at the time of possession.
Speaker 1: In this football game, this thing was won by the Rams.
Speaker 1: They held the ball for a total of thirty five
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty eight seconds, and they had an advantage
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. Their Cowboys defense on the field for
Speaker 1: eleven and eleven minutes in sixteen seconds more than the offense.
Speaker 1: So to me, the defense had issues. The Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: didn't help them out by keeping the off the field. Danny,
Speaker 1: you go, let me tell you something new. We talked
Speaker 1: about this. If you and I text you right after
Speaker 1: that first drive, if you cannot stop the run, you
Speaker 1: will not be able to do anything else. And the
Speaker 1: Rams came out and they ran the ball on us,
Speaker 1: and if you if you looked at it and you
Speaker 1: got to see something from the end zone view when
Speaker 1: they showed the replace man, our linebackers were catching our
Speaker 1: defensive line and the interior were getting pushed off the line.
Speaker 1: We were pretty much getting bullied in the run game.
Speaker 1: And that set us up for the rest of the
Speaker 1: for the rest of all the other stuff that happened. Right,
Speaker 1: So when you see us getting killed on third down,
Speaker 1: that's because we let them nickel and dive us. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, quick outs and get third shorts and then
Speaker 1: and then running and complete short passes to get those
Speaker 1: first down. So we did not earn the right to
Speaker 1: rush the path and that killed us in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you hit it right on the nail. D Mac. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest here with you, fella. Is this
Speaker 1: this is not the performance I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing week one from this defense. Um. And it has
Speaker 1: to come to the to the what I thought was
Speaker 1: going to be a strength of this defense, and that's
Speaker 1: the front seven. I mean, you got d Law, you
Speaker 1: got Poe and there you got Everson Griffin, Ty Crawford,
Speaker 1: and then you got the two linebackers in there. Now
Speaker 1: we know vander Esch went down with the collarbone injury,
Speaker 1: but you still had a strong front seven in there,
Speaker 1: and those guys were literally man handled from from the snap,
Speaker 1: from the very first play. I mean there was poles
Speaker 1: where Malcolm Brown and Cam Acres they weren't getting touched
Speaker 1: until they were at least six yards down the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. And you can't win that way. There's no
Speaker 1: way in the NFL you're able to win if you're
Speaker 1: allowing the running it back to just get five and
Speaker 1: six yards a pop. It just makes it way too easy.
Speaker 1: They made Jared Golf look like Ben Roethlisberger back there
Speaker 1: when it came to play action. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: an amazing to me. I think it was an amazing
Speaker 1: coaching display by McVeigh. I mean, he kept this defense
Speaker 1: off balance pretty much the whole entire game. If it
Speaker 1: wasn't with the tempo where they were going fast, or
Speaker 1: they were slowing it down a little bit then going
Speaker 1: back fast again, or if it was just the misdirection
Speaker 1: and counterplays they were using the Cowboys aggressiveness against him,
Speaker 1: I think it was a great coaching displayed by McVeigh.
Speaker 1: But the front seven, to me, it just didn't look
Speaker 1: good at all, and that's not what I was expecting.
Speaker 1: But there is a short, little little bright light, I
Speaker 1: guess you can say the two corners. I feel like
Speaker 1: they played pretty well out there. I think digs for
Speaker 1: I mean, he gave up a couple of plays, but
Speaker 1: he was scrappy out there, and he was in perfect coverage.
Speaker 1: The ball was just a little bit, you know better,
Speaker 1: it was better offense, But it was great defense by
Speaker 1: him on a couple of plays that he gave up.
Speaker 1: We saw a woozier with the interception. So there is
Speaker 1: a little line light there with the secondary. But that
Speaker 1: front seven, who was supposed to be a strength, they
Speaker 1: gotta pick it up. I mean, they were man handled
Speaker 1: all night. So go ahead, Danny, Go ahead, Danny. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, one Church, can you tell me what
Speaker 1: defense are you running? Is it a five two four
Speaker 1: or four three? What are you running? I thought it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a multiple look, you know, three four,
Speaker 1: four three, and looked like we were just simply in
Speaker 1: a I don't even know how they explained and maybe
Speaker 1: have five two mixed with the four three. But there
Speaker 1: was no movement at all, no movie. I think I
Speaker 1: think both of y'all will agree that it coached. I mean, Church,
Speaker 1: you said that it was a great coach and displayed
Speaker 1: by Sean McVay. This was the exact same stuff that
Speaker 1: the dude been running for the last four years. You know,
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is going to run a jet suite in
Speaker 1: almost almost every play, and then they're going to bootleg
Speaker 1: off of that eighty potent at the top, like it
Speaker 1: was the same stuff. And we sit there and did
Speaker 1: the same thing. And I was upset because I watched
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game and I was watching Todd Bows
Speaker 1: defense and how they made how they disrupted um Drew
Speaker 1: Brees when they got into those type formations by blitzing
Speaker 1: those linebackers the strength of their team, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing some of that. We didn't see
Speaker 1: any of that, none of them, and I was I
Speaker 1: was just shocked. I was just shocked to see it.
Speaker 1: And we just, you know, as a defense, we lined
Speaker 1: up in the same stuff the entire game and let
Speaker 1: them run the same stuff that they had been running
Speaker 1: for the last four years, and they ran into perfection
Speaker 1: and killed us the entire game. That that was very
Speaker 1: confusing to me from the from a coaching standpoint, and
Speaker 1: then our physicality is on the defensive standpoint. Both both
Speaker 1: of those were surprising and confusing. Hey then, Mac, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a quick question here, but I
Speaker 1: know we want to talk about this a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But are you hinting at the fact that McCarthy might
Speaker 1: have been out coached in his first game? Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying? Once we get the offense, I get
Speaker 1: on that. Defensively, I think we were. We were. We
Speaker 1: were definitely out coached. And and it's surprising because, like
Speaker 1: I said, they didn't running the same stuff. They've been
Speaker 1: running the same stuff newly. You listen, if you if
Speaker 1: you don't agree, then let me know. Has did the
Speaker 1: Rams offense scheme wise not look the same as they
Speaker 1: have been looking for the previous years with the same
Speaker 1: players doing the same stuff. A part of me thought
Speaker 1: I was watching the playoff game that I was at
Speaker 1: the LA Coliseum when the Rams had the two hundred
Speaker 1: yard running backs in that game, one them included Tie
Speaker 1: Gurley where they were just beating up the Cowboys right
Speaker 1: up the middle as though, they went back to that
Speaker 1: same thing to say, you know what, I guess what.
Speaker 1: We don't think you dudes are good up front and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys front lines. We spoke about this as well.
Speaker 1: The front lines for the Cowboys on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football were out playing and the Rams I thought
Speaker 1: were suspect on the offensive line, but they coached them
Speaker 1: up very well. Mike Nolan had no answers for Sean McVay.
Speaker 1: You're you're right, Danny. They bullied the Cowboys. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: got punched in the mouth so many times. I would say,
Speaker 1: all right, Jason Garret Don had these guys ready to play,
Speaker 1: and you know what, the Cowboys were not ready for
Speaker 1: what the Rams had to offer and the adjustments to
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, it didn't happen. I'm gonna sit up here,
Speaker 1: tell it like it is now. Okay. I can drink
Speaker 1: the koolaid all day long about Mike mc gonna be
Speaker 1: a true teller with the koolaid. Okay, because my hu
Speaker 1: has no alcohol in it, so it's just cigafree. This
Speaker 1: first batch of koole wasn't good. It didn't taste good.
Speaker 1: It was bitter, and they got to change some things here.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about this defense right now because this is
Speaker 1: the blueprint that anybody who's smart is gonna say. All right,
Speaker 1: you know what. The Cowboys are very good with Everson
Speaker 1: Griffin and Olden Smith and Tank Lawrence. Okay, they're gonna
Speaker 1: get out to the passer. But guess what, We're not
Speaker 1: gonna sit up here and do a five step drop.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be quick with it. We saw where Jared
Speaker 1: Goff dropped back quickly and as soon as he got
Speaker 1: the ball, he knew exactly where he was going with
Speaker 1: the ball, and they were quick drops. They didn't throw
Speaker 1: any deep passes out there, and yet the Cowboys DBS
Speaker 1: didn't try to get up on these on the cow
Speaker 1: on the Rams receivers in my opinion, so they got
Speaker 1: some answers. They gotta to fix our defense. Also, let's
Speaker 1: not forget and we spoke about this last week as well.
Speaker 1: How would these linebackers look. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: who needed to be breaking out this year. My two
Speaker 1: guys I was talking about Layton Vanderesh and Jaylens and
Speaker 1: those two guys yesterday did not look good. And now
Speaker 1: Lake Vanderesh is going to be missing some time with
Speaker 1: the broken collar ball talking about six to eight weeks here.
Speaker 1: That's a problem because Joe Thomas, who filled in for him.
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas is what he is. He's a backup linebacker.
Speaker 1: And the more they put Joe out there, I think
Speaker 1: the more he's going to get exposed. Church. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you one hundred percent. And then this is
Speaker 1: where that injury to Shaun Lee comes in hand. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who filled inadmirably for Vander Eshe
Speaker 1: last year, in the thirteen games that he started. This
Speaker 1: is where that depth is starting to lack a little bit. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, they threw Joe Thomas in there, and
Speaker 1: to me, Joe Thomas is a solid player. He's a solid,
Speaker 1: you know, backup guy who can come in and contribute,
Speaker 1: you know, every now and then, maybe on third down
Speaker 1: situations and a special team's good or a special teams player.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's the answer there for a
Speaker 1: full time starter. But what I want to say about
Speaker 1: this defense is I'm starting to sip the cool date
Speaker 1: a little bit on Aldon Smith. I know I had
Speaker 1: my reservations about him early in the season, but he
Speaker 1: for five years of absence. I mean he would. He
Speaker 1: was out there and he played pretty well. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start sipping the kool aid a little bit with
Speaker 1: neui on Adam Smith. Yeah, yeah, all the Smith was
Speaker 1: a bright spot definitely, And for everything I said about him,
Speaker 1: he came out there and he played very well, you know,
Speaker 1: for how we played overall on defense. One thing I
Speaker 1: would guarantee you, I will guarantee you this for the season.
Speaker 1: If we don't stop the run, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a long, disappointing season. And I say that following up
Speaker 1: with this, it is very hard for you to become
Speaker 1: a run stopping team after the start of the season. Usually,
Speaker 1: once you can't stop the run, that's just who you
Speaker 1: are as a team. So so I'm looking for this
Speaker 1: to be a pain point for us, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to figure out maybe go look at some of
Speaker 1: the Merideli film and start slanting and getting into some
Speaker 1: gaps because us trying to two gaps are just playing
Speaker 1: man and man in shade and have our allow breakers
Speaker 1: feel that is not gonna work for us. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you guys both a quick question here. What did
Speaker 1: you guys feel about Don Terry po out there, because
Speaker 1: for me, I just thought his performance was lackluster. I
Speaker 1: didn't really see that energy. I didn't see that pop.
Speaker 1: And he was supposed to be a guy that if
Speaker 1: he's not getting to the quarterback, he can at least
Speaker 1: and hold up a gap and hold these offensive linemen
Speaker 1: off the linebackers. But it seemed to me like each
Speaker 1: and every down they ran the ball, these linemen were
Speaker 1: getting up to the second level, and he just had
Speaker 1: had no effect at all. I just want to know,
Speaker 1: you guess thoughts on him. I agree with I expected more,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I also could say this,
Speaker 1: you were hoping that Gerald McCoy was going to be
Speaker 1: the number one guy to plug the run, and then
Speaker 1: you thought Don Terry Poe, and then with Poe, you
Speaker 1: thought you maybe have a rotation of four, you know,
Speaker 1: four guys in there, and if anything, they knew exactly
Speaker 1: what to do. I mean, Sean McVeigh schemed up this team,
Speaker 1: and you know what, like so many other guys, they
Speaker 1: were not ready for the punching them out. They got
Speaker 1: punched in the mount and they kept getting punched them out,
Speaker 1: and nobody had an answer and fellas you guys played.
Speaker 1: You just hope that when the red light gets pointed
Speaker 1: on film that guys are embarrassed and ready to come
Speaker 1: out here against the Atlanta Falcons and give a better performance,
Speaker 1: because that was not the kind of performance that any
Speaker 1: of us expected from the Cowboys and Don Terry Pope
Speaker 1: and the whole Hot Boys, that whole thing there that
Speaker 1: that loom. Yeah, listen, listen. I thought I thought Don
Speaker 1: Terry Pope and Tristan Hill that was that was just
Speaker 1: not a good performance. And I would put it on
Speaker 1: the Hot Boys. And it may sound like I'm being biased,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you this. They did not get in
Speaker 1: a fair shape at being able to rush the passes because,
Speaker 1: like we said, they did not stop the run, and
Speaker 1: if you don't stop the run, you won't get any secks.
Speaker 1: That's what all the Smith got his won and that
Speaker 1: was the one opportunity that they had because they could
Speaker 1: not stop the run and they went third and short
Speaker 1: all night. So yeah, the three step drop was there
Speaker 1: all night. They didn't have to take time to do
Speaker 1: a five step drop to let Rolphs develop down the
Speaker 1: field because we never had them in a situation where
Speaker 1: they had to do that and like I said, you
Speaker 1: got Julio Jones and Todd Gurley coming in and if
Speaker 1: you don't stop the run, it is going to be
Speaker 1: a very very long day. What can Will McClay do
Speaker 1: in terms of finding some players here? Obviously, um, up
Speaker 1: the middle, they got issues. Uh did Snacks Harrison ever
Speaker 1: signed with anybody? Um? I think you're going on the
Speaker 1: market now, you know, so, so maybe that's something you do.
Speaker 1: You call some call hey Snacks hello, Um, and you
Speaker 1: need you need another linebacker here, you can call up
Speaker 1: Francis Bernard. But you know you've got you've got linebacker
Speaker 1: issues here. And as long as you're exposed up the middle,
Speaker 1: there's going to be some problems with this football team
Speaker 1: because now people know exactly what to do is say,
Speaker 1: we'll go up the middle and we don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about your guys coming from the edge here because
Speaker 1: we just go punch you right in the mouth until
Speaker 1: you can stop that. So this is where Will McClay
Speaker 1: is gonna make his money right now to see what
Speaker 1: adjustments they make. And Stephen Jones on one O five
Speaker 1: three the Fan today and he basically said, no, Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1: So for all those folks who are hoping to Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas is gonna get here. No, Isaiah Standback said on
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys, and he expected Earl Thomes to be a
Speaker 1: cowboy on Monday. It is uh what one forty three
Speaker 1: And that's that hasn't happened, and I don't see it
Speaker 1: happening there. They got to figure out how to get
Speaker 1: a differensive tackle. So I'm sitting there here now saying,
Speaker 1: Snacks Harrison, come on down, you know what him? And well,
Speaker 1: until recently, man, I hadn't I hadn't even realized that
Speaker 1: Eric Reed wasn't on the team. And we've been talking
Speaker 1: about Earl Thomas and and and you know, I think
Speaker 1: Colin Kaeferny put out a stat the man said, two
Speaker 1: franchise records last year, you know, and it was one
Speaker 1: of the best dvs in the league. And we've been
Speaker 1: talking about Earl Thomas. This dude was sitting on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: If you want a really productive safety, but you know,
Speaker 1: we know that's not gonna happen, but I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it out there is if you're looking for a guy
Speaker 1: and you really wanted to safety, you wanted one that
Speaker 1: bad that was gonna make some plays and especially coming
Speaker 1: here and help you stop the run. You got one
Speaker 1: look for Yeah, but yeah, I think that would I
Speaker 1: think that would be a great, a great choice now
Speaker 1: that you brung that up with Eric reib because I
Speaker 1: know I had, you know, I thought going into this
Speaker 1: game he would he would play decent. But my guy
Speaker 1: Darian Thompson, man, he just didn't show up yet yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether it was miss tackles or just not
Speaker 1: being in the right place at the right time, it
Speaker 1: was just not a good game for him. Now, I
Speaker 1: understand it was one game, but as a guy that's
Speaker 1: coming in, you're mean you were already blow on the
Speaker 1: totem Paul. You had a great camp and they elevated
Speaker 1: you into the starting position. You can't go out there
Speaker 1: and have games like this, especially you know, you weren't,
Speaker 1: like I have high draft pick or a high free
Speaker 1: agent value pick it up. So when you get these
Speaker 1: opportunities out there, you can't squander them like that. And
Speaker 1: he just let one go by the wayside. This past week,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defensive wards exposed by the Rams on Sunday
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Speaker 1: Cowboys end up taking that l to start the season
Speaker 1: twenty two seventeen. On third down, the offense for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys was three to twelve. That's not good. They took
Speaker 1: three sacks in the game. Dak Prescott was one for
Speaker 1: seven for eleven yards on third down. Fellas, that is
Speaker 1: not winning football. All right, I'm gonna give you the floor,
Speaker 1: Danny McCray on it cool because listen, for as much
Speaker 1: as we just talked about the defense, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, they only gave up twenty points. All right.
Speaker 1: If you go into the game with the offense that
Speaker 1: we have and you say our defense is given up
Speaker 1: twenty you would expect to win that game nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten. Now, just to start with this, shout
Speaker 1: out to Zeke. He had a hell of a game.
Speaker 1: He is he was the shotted star of our offense.
Speaker 1: Not to get to the negative goodness greatness, is this
Speaker 1: the office that we're gonna run that we would define
Speaker 1: as explosive? I mean, how many how many intermediate and
Speaker 1: short routes did we run last night versus how many
Speaker 1: times did we go deep? I'm confused on how you
Speaker 1: plan on having three one thousand yard receivers with the
Speaker 1: gameplay that we came up with, and in to you
Speaker 1: and Neui, hey man, I wonder bet Mark Cooper had
Speaker 1: like fourteen targets a way over what y'all talking about,
Speaker 1: but the one target that he should had was on
Speaker 1: fourth and three. This is the same thing that happened
Speaker 1: last year when the Mariy Cooper is not on the
Speaker 1: field on fourth down, and we all looking like, what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on? How do you not draw
Speaker 1: up the play? And at least if you're gonna run
Speaker 1: that route, put a Maray Cooper right there in the
Speaker 1: slot and run that route with him. Even if it's
Speaker 1: man to man. It's a pick play, so it's not
Speaker 1: like he having he's having to beat Jalen Ramsey or
Speaker 1: whoever's coming to one on one. This is a scheme play.
Speaker 1: Let him get out there and run it. This whole
Speaker 1: offensive scheme to me, besides getting the ball, as Zeke
Speaker 1: was very confusing, it was a letdown for us to
Speaker 1: have all this talent and score seventeen points. M M,
Speaker 1: I mean where do I start? Man, I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with the good. Let me let me start with the
Speaker 1: good man, all right. I gotta get like, like mccrai said,
Speaker 1: gotta give hats to Ezekiel Elliott and in obvious I
Speaker 1: gotta give a little bit of credit to telling Moore
Speaker 1: as well, because they schemed up a good way to
Speaker 1: get Ezekiel Elliott involved, and not only the Russian game,
Speaker 1: but the passing game as well. And last year we
Speaker 1: didn't see enough of that. We didn't see enough of
Speaker 1: Ezekiel out of the backfield catching the ball doing what
Speaker 1: he can do. He's one of the most talented backs
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so heights goes off to them for
Speaker 1: getting him involved in the past game. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I just cannot see any any greatness out of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, our offensive line, which was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a strength now maybe two or three years ago it
Speaker 1: was a strength, but now it's kind of dwindling a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean, there were so many instances where
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald just ragged off people out there. Now. I
Speaker 1: know he's one of the greatest defensive players in the
Speaker 1: NFL right now, maybe in the history, but for him
Speaker 1: to just go through your offensive lineman like a hot
Speaker 1: knife through butter, it just didn't make sense. I saw
Speaker 1: one play where he literally ran through Connor Williams, picked
Speaker 1: up Ezekiel Elliott, who is not a small man, and
Speaker 1: threw him into Dak Prescott. Now, you cannot let that
Speaker 1: happen if you're on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys and Tony's And to Danny's point,
Speaker 1: where he said, all we're doing is throwing you know,
Speaker 1: short yards, short yards. I understand why. I mean, they
Speaker 1: just couldn't get into your protection there. They had Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald having his way, they had Michael Brocker's having his
Speaker 1: way over there. And the guy from Chicago, I believe
Speaker 1: his name is Floyd, the defensive end, he had his
Speaker 1: way out there as well. Leonard Floyd had his way
Speaker 1: out there as well. So if you're Dak Prescott, this
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of that Houston game we saw
Speaker 1: on Thursday where Deshaun Watson was running for his life. Now,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that bad, but it was on par with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got every time he looked down the field,
Speaker 1: he had a hand in his face and somebody barreling
Speaker 1: down at him. So if I'm a part of this offense,
Speaker 1: I like what they did with Ezekiel Elliott, but they
Speaker 1: have to shore up the middle of this line. I
Speaker 1: know lyell Collins on the outside missed, but it will
Speaker 1: get him back in a couple of weeks. And they
Speaker 1: had Steel I believe, and they're replacing him. And he played.
Speaker 1: He didn't play too bad. He gave up one sack late,
Speaker 1: but other than that, he didn't play too bad. It
Speaker 1: was the interior part of this line that has concerns
Speaker 1: for me because that's the most veteran part of this
Speaker 1: line right now. So you know, they got to figure
Speaker 1: out something or they're not gonna win a lot of
Speaker 1: games with giving up pressure like that. Aaron Donald is
Speaker 1: putting up a Hall of Fame resume to go to Canton.
Speaker 1: And I've been to the Hall of Fame ceremonies many
Speaker 1: times and they show you know, they have your signature video.
Speaker 1: You know there's this one move that you have. You
Speaker 1: know it's Joe Montana throwing that that touchdown pass to
Speaker 1: John Taylor's troit Man, you know, putting up the number one.
Speaker 1: You know, at the Super Bowl twenty seven for Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: it will be him boolldozing Connor Williams, lifting up Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliot and throwing him down. You know that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the Aaron Donald. You know, that's the video that's gonna
Speaker 1: be for that here. Just also, I mean, look, he
Speaker 1: gave he gave Zach Martin to work here. I mean
Speaker 1: he went up and down between the Cowboys center and
Speaker 1: guards in this football game. And and Joe Philbin new
Speaker 1: offensive line coach of brother bro Hamm. Philadelphia is coming
Speaker 1: in here twice then taking on the Cowboys. You've got
Speaker 1: Washington who had eight sacks against Philadelphia yesterday. That defensive
Speaker 1: line is good. The old line here for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: whoa something's got to get better. Connor McGovern was inactive
Speaker 1: for this game, and we keep hearing that Connor mcgovernor
Speaker 1: is a strong guy. And at once Connor McGovern can
Speaker 1: get on you and lock you up, you're gonna be there.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is a guy that we've talked about not
Speaker 1: having enough strength. Do I look at it and just say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: that's just Aaron Donald. He is who he is. But
Speaker 1: I also know Fletcher Cox that the Eagles has come.
Speaker 1: They got a good d line over there with Payne
Speaker 1: and company with with with Washington. So I'm wondering how
Speaker 1: long does this young man end up holding on to
Speaker 1: this job. It's just one game, but they've got to
Speaker 1: start to ask themselves. Do people think they might have
Speaker 1: some kind of book on the Cowboys? Because Joe Looney
Speaker 1: is a guy who's not Travis Frederick and yesterday they
Speaker 1: got abused. Man, that thing was sad to watch. I
Speaker 1: mean that that old line got abused right up the middle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and from the jump, I feel like we missed Frederick's
Speaker 1: presence in there. I mean, not only was he a
Speaker 1: great offensive lineman when it comes to strength and being
Speaker 1: able to understand what the defense is trying to do
Speaker 1: to him, but he was basically that quarterback of the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I mean, he got everybody situated where to go.
Speaker 1: Watch this stunt here, watch this DT stunt right there.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy knew pretty much the game like
Speaker 1: it was the back of his hand. And we missed
Speaker 1: him yesterday. As you saw that Joe Looney. He's a
Speaker 1: pretty good center, but I mean he's not on par
Speaker 1: with Travis Frederick right now. And I tell you another
Speaker 1: big loss, and I'm surprised they didn't take more advantage
Speaker 1: of this earlier in the game. But with Blake Jarmon
Speaker 1: going down with could be an aco and being out
Speaker 1: for the year, that could be a big time loss
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys because I think he was a mismatched nightmare.
Speaker 1: And I know it was a big time loss for
Speaker 1: my fantasy team because he gave me one point, so
Speaker 1: it was what was gonna do with that? I think
Speaker 1: I saw that it was a acl tear and it was.
Speaker 1: It was very disappointed to see shots coming in and
Speaker 1: drop everything they came his way. Yeah, it was that.
Speaker 1: That was not a good sign for what you have
Speaker 1: in tighten In. I'm sitting there watching, like, goodness, Grace,
Speaker 1: is this a drop off? This is this is what
Speaker 1: we have now? That was that was not good. But
Speaker 1: shout out to Blake jarman Man. You know, I hope
Speaker 1: he Hills are fast and it's ready to come back
Speaker 1: next year because that you know that that sucks for him.
Speaker 1: I tell you what it feels. From a personal standpoint,
Speaker 1: I like Dalton Shulton. I enjoyed talking to him, But
Speaker 1: from a players standpoint, I just I hadn't been that
Speaker 1: big on him. Now people were talking about what a
Speaker 1: great camp he had. But you get into the game.
Speaker 1: This is your opportunity and you're dropping balls. Looked out
Speaker 1: for Sean Tune, the big kid from number eighty four
Speaker 1: from Michigan. He can block better than Schultz, and let's
Speaker 1: see if he Let's see if he can perform better.
Speaker 1: And obviously Schultz will get a shot this week. But
Speaker 1: once again, Will mcclay's got to go out here on
Speaker 1: the market and start to find somebody because I do
Speaker 1: not think Dalton Schultz can be there number one tight end.
Speaker 1: I just don't see that happening, and neither can Blake Bell.
Speaker 1: So they've got to go out and find somebody as well.
Speaker 1: So Carl Snax Harrison find a tight end out there
Speaker 1: who can pass for something similar to what you got
Speaker 1: out of Blake Jarwin. But there is an issue right
Speaker 1: there at that position right now, because nobody on this
Speaker 1: team is close to being able to do what Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin did. They were backups for a reason, and it's
Speaker 1: another huge hole for the Cowboys as they get ready
Speaker 1: to face the Atlanta Falcons. They're going to have to
Speaker 1: score this Sunday at at and T Stadium, because even
Speaker 1: though the Falcons got drilled by Seattle, I mean they
Speaker 1: beat them up from jump, they still were able to
Speaker 1: throw the ball through in the air. I mean Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan had garbage, he had garbage yards, but they were
Speaker 1: four hundred twenty seven of them. Um, So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have got to fix this thing and try and try
Speaker 1: and make some changes here. So so so, because I
Speaker 1: haven't heard you guys really speak on it, Well, what
Speaker 1: do you guys think of the play selection. As far
Speaker 1: as the passing game, I mean, I know you say
Speaker 1: we were under pressure, we had some time to make
Speaker 1: some plays, but I played selection. To me, I just
Speaker 1: didn't see that where we had that many we took
Speaker 1: that many chances, and the one chance to take was
Speaker 1: on fourm down when we were down three. And you know,
Speaker 1: other than that, I didn't I didn't see much and
Speaker 1: what that one deep pass was at the end of gallop.
Speaker 1: And you know, other than that, we I don't feel
Speaker 1: like we tested them at all for the for the
Speaker 1: speed and the athletic ability and potential that we have
Speaker 1: at the receiver position. And even before Blake Jardon went down,
Speaker 1: I don't think we stretched the field enough or took
Speaker 1: any chances to make those deep defensive backs play on us.
Speaker 1: I look at this and I say, boy, um, new
Speaker 1: group of guys, all coaching together offensively and defensively. M
Speaker 1: not having an opportunity to have a preseason and see
Speaker 1: how things go, where they're going to react. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: and I would be hoping that if I were a
Speaker 1: Cowboys fan, that this Monday would be used for the
Speaker 1: coordinators and and everybody else on the staff to look
Speaker 1: at this game play and understand that they got handled,
Speaker 1: they were out coached, and how can they better serve
Speaker 1: and put their players in a better position to take
Speaker 1: on the Atlanta Falcons. I'm not going to burn the
Speaker 1: boat like so many people on Twitter want to, not
Speaker 1: gonna say that Kellen wore should be calling the plays
Speaker 1: like some people are saying on Twitter. You have to
Speaker 1: look at this tape and say, Okay, we were not
Speaker 1: where we needed to be. We had all this height,
Speaker 1: we've failed. How do we make sure we're not owing too?
Speaker 1: You got you gotta look at this tape and burn
Speaker 1: it and just know that Sean McVeigh and his and
Speaker 1: his crew out coached you. How do you get ready
Speaker 1: to face Dan Quinney Atlanta Falcons and get out here? Try?
Speaker 1: How many seventeen point games are you giving them before
Speaker 1: you snatched the play calling out of Kellen's hands? Because
Speaker 1: right now you watching Mike McCarthy fe on the sideline
Speaker 1: and I sit to your texts right now, Louis, you
Speaker 1: always talked about j G being with you know, he
Speaker 1: just sit there and just collapped. I didn't see much
Speaker 1: from Mike even all right, I didn't see much from
Speaker 1: he doesn't call offensive players, he doesn't call defensive players.
Speaker 1: So really he's just out there, you know. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many of these seventeen point or under twenty point
Speaker 1: games are you gonna give before you know, you sat
Speaker 1: to the playbook. You say, I'm the play caller. Now, now, look,
Speaker 1: I think he got he got one more game. They
Speaker 1: got one more game. If I'm Mike McCarthy, I'm night
Speaker 1: little man, I'm not. I'm not getting dragged in him
Speaker 1: up because you can't call him players. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: telling him, like little Bank, get your had together. You
Speaker 1: got about one more game. Man, Well look you got
Speaker 1: the Atlanta game, and the third game is gonna be
Speaker 1: a real good talent because you got the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: And I watched a lot of that Seahawks Atlanta game
Speaker 1: yesterday and they look good defensively. Man Day brought Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams off the end a few times. I mean, Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan just have a whole amount of time while Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley got a touchdown in the game the Atlantis. That
Speaker 1: Atlantis run game didn't get going at all. Here. So
Speaker 1: the next two games home against Atlanta and then going
Speaker 1: up to Seattle, the play calling better be they bet
Speaker 1: they need to be in the thirty point range. And
Speaker 1: here's my emphasis on that. It's got to be in
Speaker 1: the thirty point range because this defense is built for
Speaker 1: them to have a lead and then they can just
Speaker 1: go ahead and have their pass rushers tall. It doesn't work.
Speaker 1: You gotta protect them and you can't have another game
Speaker 1: where the other team has got the defense on the
Speaker 1: field for thirty five minutes. So this comes the heat
Speaker 1: starting to come on Kelly Moore and and he's got
Speaker 1: to be better because this, the way they played yesterday
Speaker 1: is not the way the Cowboys are going to be
Speaker 1: able to win the NFC East. In my opinion, they
Speaker 1: got to be scoring thirty points a game. Mike McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: that's what they were gonna go do. They didn't do
Speaker 1: it in game one. Let's see if they can go
Speaker 1: ahead and get it together for game two. Let's not
Speaker 1: overreact here too much. Okay, let's not overreact too much.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, my man, my man j
Speaker 1: G watched that for sixteen games straighter that got him
Speaker 1: put it on the part of here, all right, So
Speaker 1: you're telling this it's no more rookie season for Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: All right, we said the same thing last year about
Speaker 1: the slow starts and not being able to put up
Speaker 1: points until you too far behind. So all right, one game.
Speaker 1: It's cool if Mike McCarty sit here and watch us
Speaker 1: for sixteen. But lady knew it. Kool laid has gone
Speaker 1: and this is and that will be solely on Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy for allowing that to happen. Okay, okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: what else can you say here on the Monday other
Speaker 1: than you got improve you know, you got to get better.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, everywhere except specialties specialties Specialtiams look
Speaker 1: good last night. Now I give them that. I think
Speaker 1: they miss the field go. Other than that, their playoff
Speaker 1: covers was was good. All right, let's take another break
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Speaker 1: go into the personal. The p I call. All right,
Speaker 1: they're called pass interference. As Dak Prescott is trying to
Speaker 1: take the Cowboys down the field, he hits Michael Gallant
Speaker 1: there now in field goal territory, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the flag comes out. Jayalen Ramsey sells it very well,
Speaker 1: and they say that Michael Gallant pushed off. From my perspective,
Speaker 1: it looked like these guys were allowed to play all
Speaker 1: night long and till then you're both former defensive backs.
Speaker 1: Here was that offensive past interference? I'll start with you, McCray. Absolutely, listen.
Speaker 1: The thing is, if the shoe was on the other foot,
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans will be going nuts if that flag is
Speaker 1: not called. To me, this is obvious enough to see
Speaker 1: that he's pushing them back on a favor route, I
Speaker 1: mean on a on a nine route. It's obviously watching
Speaker 1: it right here on tape, and you gotta call it.
Speaker 1: If you don't call it, it should be challenging then
Speaker 1: and then overturned or whatever they should do. I think
Speaker 1: that's absolutely the right call, and it put us in
Speaker 1: a horrible situation. But you know, if you're the reference,
Speaker 1: you're seeing that, you gotta make that call. Don't hold
Speaker 1: the flag. Yeah. Look, I'm I'm a defensive back. I'm
Speaker 1: a defensive player by heart, and I mean that that
Speaker 1: was passing deference. I mean it was TICKI tag. It
Speaker 1: was a tickie tag. I mean they were both hand
Speaker 1: fighting and jostling the whole way down the line. But
Speaker 1: the one thing that got um gallup exposed right there
Speaker 1: was just the extension of the on. If he could
Speaker 1: have got away with just a little kind of a
Speaker 1: shoulder nudge or doing that old whitten where he used
Speaker 1: to push you off with the elbow, if he could
Speaker 1: do something like that, it would have been fine. But
Speaker 1: the full extension of the arm is just a it's
Speaker 1: a telltale sign right there. And they had to throw
Speaker 1: the flag. And then I got on social media and
Speaker 1: I heard all this. You know, if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: the flag, he would have won the game. And you
Speaker 1: can't if you're the Dallas Cowboys, you cannot let it
Speaker 1: get down to that point where it's in the ref's
Speaker 1: hands to make a decision or not. And obviously that
Speaker 1: flag was offset by the earlier flag that should have
Speaker 1: been thrown for the hands to the face on an
Speaker 1: interception of the Who's yet? So look, I mean the
Speaker 1: refs they're not perfect, but I think they did a
Speaker 1: great call right here. I mean, the arm was the
Speaker 1: arm was extended, Yes, Jalen Rams he sold it. He's
Speaker 1: a great artist or he's a great actor when it
Speaker 1: comes to that. His neck was all back like he
Speaker 1: was in a car accident, but he sold it well.
Speaker 1: But it was the right call. Gallop At cought with
Speaker 1: the extended arm. You can't do nothing about that. You
Speaker 1: just can't let it go down to the refs to
Speaker 1: make that type of decision. I hate when fans, but
Speaker 1: I hate when fans do that, like we ain't moved
Speaker 1: the ball all day, all of a sudden now so
Speaker 1: we're gonna score as soon as we get down there.
Speaker 1: Don't make no thing sense. My Badne. Just just frustrations,
Speaker 1: just frustrations. Just build a note. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: other other play in the game that and this is
Speaker 1: the one that's getting Mike McCarthy a whole lot of heat.
Speaker 1: With eleven fifty to go in the fourth quarter, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: on a fourth and three decide to go for it.
Speaker 1: Could have easily kicked the field goal and tied the
Speaker 1: game at twenty. They run. They run a crossing route.
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb doesn't go deep enough in his route to
Speaker 1: get to the sticks. Dalton Schultz on his route. They
Speaker 1: don't think he ran it deep enough either. A lot
Speaker 1: of people are saying Mike McCarthy was wrong there. I
Speaker 1: was talking about it last night on TV, So I'll
Speaker 1: give you guys the floor here church your thoughts on
Speaker 1: that call. Should he kicked the field goal? No? To me,
Speaker 1: I think he went for it. He took a gamble.
Speaker 1: You know, it was still early in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like it was a last second gamble
Speaker 1: and they would have no time on the clock to
Speaker 1: come back. I think he just showed that, you know,
Speaker 1: he had trust in his offense. You know, were they
Speaker 1: struggling pretty much all game. Yeah, they were struggling a
Speaker 1: little bit, but he saw this as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: take reins, to take control of the game, and he
Speaker 1: believed in his offense, so he threw him out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen so many times where JG. Sorry
Speaker 1: to bring him up in this, but JG would get
Speaker 1: thrown under the bus in ridicule for not being to
Speaker 1: not being a gambler and playing it too safe. So
Speaker 1: you know, I have no problem with him. Get going
Speaker 1: forward right here. The thing I have is, you know
Speaker 1: they drew it up for CD Lamb. Like McCray pointed
Speaker 1: earlier in the podcast, why not draw it up for
Speaker 1: your best receiver Amari Cooper out there and maybe he'll
Speaker 1: be able to run it past the sticks and get
Speaker 1: a first down. But even though you gave it to
Speaker 1: Cede Lamb to get the first down, I thought this
Speaker 1: guy was supposed to be a magician after the balls
Speaker 1: in his hands. He's supposed to be this guy that
Speaker 1: can catch the ball and make amazing things happen after
Speaker 1: the catch, with the yards after the catch, and to me,
Speaker 1: every single time he caught the ball last night, he
Speaker 1: was getting thrown around like a rag doll. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a bigger body type player, but
Speaker 1: he seemed kind of frail out there, and that hit
Speaker 1: by the safety that it wasn't even that vicious, but
Speaker 1: he just went straight down. So hopefully next time when
Speaker 1: he gets the ball in his hands, he can make
Speaker 1: something creative happen. But I have no problem with the
Speaker 1: call right there. It was a he had, he had
Speaker 1: trusting in his team and then it just didn't didn't
Speaker 1: work out the way he wanted to. Yeah, same here.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with the call. I don't the reason.
Speaker 1: I don't think it made sensible because the stats that
Speaker 1: we put out earlier horrible. On third down, we hadn't
Speaker 1: really been moving the ball with the exception of that drive,
Speaker 1: So if we're doing analytics, the likelihood of us making
Speaker 1: that play is very low. Tie the game up. But
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go for it that, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: your right, right, go ahead and try to capitalize on that.
Speaker 1: But give the ball to your hundred million dollars I've
Speaker 1: been saying this for like three weeks now. The one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars man should be the focus like every
Speaker 1: other team. If you're watching Arizona, play. They running that
Speaker 1: play for DeAndre Hoppins. If you're watching Green Bay play,
Speaker 1: they running that play for Devontae Adams. Why why are
Speaker 1: we not doing the same thing. I do not get it?
Speaker 1: And uh And with that play on CD Lamb, the
Speaker 1: other guy also made a great play, right you. You
Speaker 1: would almost think that the Rams knew that play was
Speaker 1: coming because they played it perfect. If you look at it,
Speaker 1: nobody got picked and a Murray Cooper was covered. He
Speaker 1: ran a little sit down and the crosses were covered,
Speaker 1: so you would look at it say, man, they must
Speaker 1: have no that was covering because they played that perfectly.
Speaker 1: Church mccraig, you're both correct on this, and I'll back
Speaker 1: you as well. The execution of the play was the problem.
Speaker 1: That's what I said on TV last night. And I
Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with the play call. I understood
Speaker 1: what they were doing. Their defense hadn't been good all
Speaker 1: night long. You had a little bit juicing. You thought, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and go. CD Lamb is finding out
Speaker 1: a couple things here when he watches the film all Monday.
Speaker 1: One you gotta run to the stick. And two they
Speaker 1: when they tackle in the NFL this in Oklahoma well,
Speaker 1: you know you're catching the ball, you're just rushing these
Speaker 1: dudes off and you run it. I mean they hit
Speaker 1: you here and they go. And I thought the Rams
Speaker 1: DBS did a great job last night it being physical
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys receivers. They did not make anything easy
Speaker 1: at all. And that one play where the referee said
Speaker 1: that Cooper caught the ball and was a fumble, which
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I mean Ramsey just stuck it up in there.
Speaker 1: So they were physical. But this is a game where
Speaker 1: I think Cowboy fans are a kind of lying to
Speaker 1: themselves and not wanting to admit LA was better last night.
Speaker 1: They were more physical, they were ready to play. They
Speaker 1: were just better in every opportunity the Cowboys had in
Speaker 1: order to really kind kind of take control of the game.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do it. Even when they were up fourteen thirteen.
Speaker 1: You said in yourself, I don't know how they're doing
Speaker 1: it here. It's one to grow on, man. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm not going to trip out like so many people
Speaker 1: are here. There's a whole lot of mistakes here that
Speaker 1: we won't see. What happened last year when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: been three and old and everybody told about how good
Speaker 1: they were. It's about making a reservation with a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in Miami, and d even Da later on said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were snipping ourselves. Well, but he's snipping themselves today
Speaker 1: because they are stinking and everybody's going to look at
Speaker 1: that film and say that stunt, that stunt gotta work on.
Speaker 1: This play calling's gotta get better. Um, yes, yes, so
Speaker 1: there there's fifteen games to go. There's fifteen games to go.
Speaker 1: Go Aheadmocrat. I know, I know you're not worried, right,
Speaker 1: because all these things can be fixed. What should worry
Speaker 1: you is in game time crunch time situation. We just
Speaker 1: watched the Last Dance, whose numbers getting called at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. On Last Dance, Michael Jordan when
Speaker 1: he wasn't there, Scottie Pipple was upset because they didn't
Speaker 1: call his number. Give me the numbers that should be
Speaker 1: called in big time situations for the Cowboys on offense
Speaker 1: twenty one nineteen right and four twenty one nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: four should beat up. That should be the only numbers
Speaker 1: that should be getting called. Yeah, when I say nineteen,
Speaker 1: obviously you're taking it for I'm you know, I'm putting
Speaker 1: right there. But to me, you know, if I'm talking
Speaker 1: about who am my playmakers? Who am I gonna live
Speaker 1: and die with? Yes, it should be twenty one and nineteen,
Speaker 1: that's where you need to go. Um, So look, so,
Speaker 1: so what are we doing that has to be addressed.
Speaker 1: That's where Mike m This is where Mike McCarthy steps
Speaker 1: in here. Guys, this is where Mike McCarthy steps in here.
Speaker 1: This is where you have to This is where you
Speaker 1: have to say to yourself. Okay, Um, former Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winning KT coach who decided to allow somebody else to
Speaker 1: call the plays, Get on a play caller, Get on
Speaker 1: a play caller, get in him and say what were
Speaker 1: you seeing? What are you doing? And this is what
Speaker 1: I need to see. So so the I think that
Speaker 1: this is correctable, Danny, I don't think it's the end
Speaker 1: of the world. Heam listen. It should not have to be.
Speaker 1: It's two hundred million dollars worth of talent out there.
Speaker 1: You out there, any thoughts and now one of them
Speaker 1: get out look at say any million from sea churns.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead ahead. I'm not I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you got you got two hundy, you got you got
Speaker 1: thirty out the quarterback, which also I'm gonna lean on
Speaker 1: and say this is probably why he did not get paid,
Speaker 1: like like we thought he should get paid because he's
Speaker 1: going he's on a play it out year, he's getting thirty,
Speaker 1: Zeke getting over seventy, and then you got Coop getting
Speaker 1: the hunted all right, and you don't think it's any
Speaker 1: one of those like come on, man, give them the ball.
Speaker 1: This don't make no sense. Yeah, I mean offensively. Offensively,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried. I mean, you got it just too
Speaker 1: immensely talented to not get some type of success going
Speaker 1: on towards this season. To me, it's defensively and it's
Speaker 1: in the trenches. I mean, that was Mono Imano football
Speaker 1: right there. There was no you know, you know, trick
Speaker 1: them up here and we're gonna, you know, do this
Speaker 1: or do that. It was Mono Imano and their offsive
Speaker 1: line literally blew our defensive line off the ball. Man
Speaker 1: to man that there's there's no excuse for that. I
Speaker 1: mean there's no type of scheming or nothing like that.
Speaker 1: They just got bloom off the ball. And for me,
Speaker 1: that's worries. I'm going into the season. This you guys
Speaker 1: have played. You know what Monday is like here after
Speaker 1: a loss like this, This is where we're gonna see
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy as a head coach can do. And
Speaker 1: last year you had all off season to play with
Speaker 1: the analytic and be in the basement. Here. Let's see
Speaker 1: how your team reacts. Let's see if they're ready to
Speaker 1: play the Atlanta Falcons as your home opener coming up
Speaker 1: on Sunday, And then can you get ready after that
Speaker 1: they get on a plane and go up to Seattle.
Speaker 1: The next two football games to me are going to
Speaker 1: be very critical because you don't want to start oh
Speaker 1: and three you can't. I don't think you can start
Speaker 1: one and two. You've you've kind of figured this thing
Speaker 1: out here really quick here, and I think that it's
Speaker 1: it's doable. And oh, by the way, Will McClay is
Speaker 1: going to have to figure out how do you feel
Speaker 1: a hole of Lake Vanderesh linebacker? And how do you
Speaker 1: get better up the up front of the defensive line.
Speaker 1: They they've got to figure out how to bring some
Speaker 1: more help into the middle. And that's why I brought
Speaker 1: up Snacks Harrison as a guy that the Cowboys need
Speaker 1: to be thinking about especially since they've got some money
Speaker 1: under the cap, and bring that guy in here, because
Speaker 1: they could be a long season if they can't stop
Speaker 1: the run. When you start thinking about two games against Washington,
Speaker 1: two games against Philadelphia, they're pretty good. Cleveland's got a
Speaker 1: good defensive front as well, so they can't be half
Speaker 1: stepping around here on this. They got to play Baltimore,
Speaker 1: by the way, Calais Campbell got, you know, Danny a
Speaker 1: buried church when you play with I mean, this could
Speaker 1: be an issue, man, this could be an issue, a
Speaker 1: huge I mean, look what they got. Look what they
Speaker 1: got in Washington. I mean they weren't got eight sacks yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean Chase Young he had a sack and a half,
Speaker 1: and he got Carrigan out there. I mean his division
Speaker 1: it ain't. I mean, I thought it was just a
Speaker 1: two man race turned into a one man race. But now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know that the book is out for me right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not even looking that far ahead. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this, Atlanta has historically been bad on defense. If
Speaker 1: we don't come out they showed it. We could play
Speaker 1: some offense again against Atlanta. You can scrap the rest
Speaker 1: of that stuff. All right. If we can't put up
Speaker 1: points on Atlanta, we can't run the ball and get
Speaker 1: some passers completely against Atlanta, we are some serious trouble. Yes,
Speaker 1: they must control the clock. They need to win on
Speaker 1: third downs. All right, that's it for the Monday moaning. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've been moaning for forty five minutes about the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: But Tuesday we'll have all the fantasy number is in here,
Speaker 1: Church and McCray. We'll see how you guys they will
Speaker 1: dive into that, and hopefully Wednesday we can can check
Speaker 1: in with Will McClay and see exactly you know what
Speaker 1: moves the Cowboys are making to try to prove this
Speaker 1: club as they get into the Sunday game against the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Lake Vandaresh gonna miss six to eight weeks minimum,
Speaker 1: that we're told right now with that broken colar bone
Speaker 1: and tight end Dalton Schultz, I mean Dalton, but tight
Speaker 1: end Blake Jarr went out for the year with ACL
Speaker 1: with Dalton Schultz now being the Cowboys number one tight end,
Speaker 1: So there are issues to discuss We'll do it all
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