WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Booked and Busy 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:11.240 Boys. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:18.279 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.760 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.400 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison, and newly Scruggs. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.280 Welcome in savitaj Ma Hall of Football. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.680 It's the Players Lounge on the Star from the Star 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.680 in Brisco, and I'm a player with the players. Former 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.279 Dallas Cowboys safety my man BC in the place, there 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.279 by Danny McCrae, former special teams ACE and safety as 0:00:53.280 --> 0:01:02.760 well LSU national champion. And as we're doing the five, Hey, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.120 he's booked and he's busy. Speaking of booked and busy, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:13.200 newest Scrugs, it's getting his all change. Yeah, that's what 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.560 we called. But this is a player Slauds. Your your 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.920 favorite man crushed Monday, move to Thursday. So hey, we're 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.080 here at eleven o'clock. But guys, as I always start 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.040 to show, man, I check mentals right off the back. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.560 Make sure my fellows just straight. BC. I'll start with you, man, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.320 how are you? What's on your mind? Was good man? 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.920 Everything's going great, man, had a little little leak in 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.920 the sorry in the little leak in the master bedrooms. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.280 So underneath the floors there was a little wetness right there, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:36.880 dribbling up. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.000 And it got that all fixed this morning. So everything's 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:39.560 going great. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:39.839 Man. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.360 So little man's birthday today turned eight. Man, Man, that's 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.240 all crazy. Gotta love him man eight. They still in 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.880 that cute stage and in the birthday presence. Ain't bad legos, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:50.720 that's all he wanted. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:54.120 Legos. I'm straight, birthday don't cost you much. It don't 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:54.680 cost you much. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:55.280 Love it. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.360 Let's give me some legos the target and get you. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.320 You know what I mean. You step on them though, man, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.200 believe that the little helmets. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:03.000 Man. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.880 The thing is, do you help put them together? At 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.080 first I did this first couple. I helped to help 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.160 them put them together. But now he's so much Yeah, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:11.880 I'm like, I ain't. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 Got He's trying to build a death sto like you 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.600 gotta put the rotation. I'm like, man, I thought it 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.840 was just a wheel on there. I'm out, Man, d 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:22.880 MA was good with you. Lit'st before you get to me. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.680 I just want to ask Church, did you did you 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.160 do the construction the renovation yourself. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.480 Did you go to Lows and get. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.639 Talking about the floor. Yeah, you know the warranty, you 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.720 know the building. I told him like, hey man, you 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.280 know fixed this lead they came through. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.720 Come on now that you put your Dickey's over rolls 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.800 on and you run down and loads. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:42.360 I can't do it. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.160 It's trying to fil growing up too much. Manual label 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.359 for me what it is. I ain't messing with it. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:52.080 Man, I ain't doing good man, I'm doing outside. You 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.560 know the yard, I pulled a couple of you know, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.360 that's about too much. I ain't cutting no grass since 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.760 he got with the college. Yeah to twenty ten, twenty ten, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.720 well you about fourteen years's trying to get back on 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.640 the you freaking canalyized. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.160 The front shoulder was kind of tight this morning, man, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:13.239 shoulder was a little tight. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.960 Unbelieveful, man, take it all over. Everything good with you. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.000 Everything's good man, everything's good. Uh. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.000 We got the kids when they start getting sick. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.040 I'm still three, So they still go to school, get 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.960 the sickness and bring it on, and. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.880 The whole house is just stuffy. It's surcessful. Yeah great, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:32.480 they gotta wipe them down. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.560 How much hand sanitized. They play in the hands. Sometimes 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.040 they spread all over their face and everything. Still come home, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.120 see sniff, That's all I said. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.600 You've got a call. You know the sight. You know 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.880 it's coming. You know it's if you see kids play together. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.680 You already know that this is the germs are gonna 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.680 be everywhere. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:53.680 The way that they play. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.360 When you drop them off at the front door and 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.000 then you see one of the other little kids come 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.680 through and you see a little running you, Hey, come 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:01.200 on back home. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:07.160 Chris Bean knows two a thing or two about that. Man. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.480 You guys see all the trailers out there. The Country 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.560 Music Awards are tonight. Uh you wanted the guest presenters. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.200 I know your country music. You can have it on 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.560 the tube though, right, I'll be at home though. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.600 All right, Well, I'm good if you if anyone wants 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.360 to know you jump straight. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:37.839 Into man, put it on right, you know how I do, Man, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:38.520 I'm good, Man. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.040 Spring My son is in spring ball right now. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.919 Man, So you know that's we were full well like 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.720 full steam ahead with spring ball right now. So that's 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.719 the videos you'll be posted to jail. It's junior, junior, sophomore. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.880 So so we still got a ways to go. But hey, yesterday, 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.240 were you guys paying attention to the schedule release for 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.120 the time? 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:02.440 Boy? 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:03.400 You got to? 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.200 You got to. Man, I don't know about y'all. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.240 I mean this is this has become like they're raising 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.760 the bar each and every year for these schedule releases. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.719 If you look around the NFL and all the teams, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.200 the media departments that get involved to do, like, it's 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.480 very creative the process that they're going to. But the 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.600 Cowboys media department. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.840 Is just spanking, man, that's what they do. That's like 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.280 everybody right now. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.360 And man, I don't know, Like I went through it 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.279 the whole thing a couple of times. Man, it just 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.840 gets funnier and funnier every time. Man, what was your 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.719 reaction guys from the just the schedule release from the 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:37.359 media department. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.719 When I'm looking at it first, the videos were funny 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.120 for the release and things, it was funny. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.320 But when you're looking at. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.279 The schedule, I think it's tough. I think it is 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.880 a tough schedule. And look, this is a first place schedule, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.760 so you're going against all. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.040 The first place teams and all the other divisions. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.839 So I believe this team has their work cutout for 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.920 I mean, we'll go through what stretch we think is 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.080 hard and all that good stuff. It wrong, But just 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.320 a first glance at it, I mean, when you look 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.000 at it, Cleveland, you. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.560 Know what they love to do, run it. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.960 Chubb's coming back, what's the what's the what's the he's 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.280 coming back off of. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.960 But he has done it before, He's had a crazy injury. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:14.839 It came back even. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.440 Stronger before you got Chubb, you got Cleveland coming at you, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.599 I mean Baltimore those. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.800 First three weeks, it's not easy. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.440 You're going to get some defenses and you're going to 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.200 get some teams that love to run the football. So 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.640 I believe early on in this schedule it will be 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.440 a great test to see how Zimmer can get this 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.599 defense going in the right direction. Has he fixed those 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.200 problems when we talk about the run defense. But I 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.160 believe overall, it's an extremely tough schedule and that first chunk. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.359 Of it should be a little difficult for the Cowboys. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.920 Danny, Yeah, listen, first, just to start off with the video, listen, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.960 I watched it and as I was watching it, I 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.560 was like, I'm kind of out of the loop on 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.839 like who these like celebrities and people are. So I 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.719 watched it knowing that I probably should know who they are, 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.960 and knowing that they are probably famous, saying, oh, that's 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.680 that's a pretty good catch, even though who half of 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.640 the people are. So it was very creative how they 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.800 did it. I can't imagine Jerry like sitting there as 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:13.120 I opened up my FaceTime with Jerry and Mike, I 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:13.720 could imagine. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.360 I thought that was really cool. I thought that was yeah. Yeah. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:17.200 Then they always do. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.560 I mean even when they did it with Steve and 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.800 a they did a post malone like, they always find 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.040 a really creative way. And then also they always include Jerry. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.440 Harry is always in there. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.760 So that's why he's, you know, one of the best owners, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.640 and the Cowboys always going to be so big because 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.440 he knows how to do it. Media department, Derrek Eagleton, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.440 all of them. They did a really great job. I 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.360 agree with you on that one. My only thing is 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.520 you just know how the NFL is to where there 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.440 are teams that you expect to be really good based 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:44.960 off what. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.720 They did the prior years. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:47.960 And then they come out here and you like, hold on, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.920 that's man, that's not them. I thought they were gonna 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.200 be really good and then they just so happened not 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.240 to play as well as they did the previous year. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.600 And to me, I think that's probably the only thing 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.320 that may save us here because based off what you 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.400 just said with Cleveland, we know how they looked last year. 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.960 Another defense, Chubb, it's coming off of injury, so we 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.280 don't know how good it'll be, especially with that being 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.480 the first the first game of the season. The Saints, 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.560 you know, they don't have anything, so they're gonna run it. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.239 They're gonna try to run it. You got the Baltimore 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.280 Ravens with Derrick Henry. You know he's gonna try to 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.720 run it. So we're gonna be tested really quick, and 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.040 we're gonna know, hey, did we fix the things that 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.160 we haven't been able to fix over the last few years. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.600 We're being able to stop the run. With Mazzie Smith 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.840 in there saying he's gaining a little weight or or 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.719 is it some of the same old same boat. Hey man, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.200 we're gonna we're gonna beat depending on Dak Dak Prescott 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.880 and Brandon Kills and Ceedee Lamb to get out there 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.800 and just put up a bunch of yards because we're 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.120 not able to stop stop the run. So we're gonna 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.679 learn a lot in those first three weeks. We'll learn 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.800 a lot. So when I saw the schedule, that's the 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.840 first thing I thought. BC was like, Man, we're gonna 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.280 figure out what Mike Zimmer got going on these first 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.520 the first couple of weeks gonna be a test of 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.880 the season, will be a test. And I really loved Uh. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.439 I believe it was Patrick Walker that did the interview 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.480 with Mike Zimmer just talking about his play style and 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.240 in his scheme and how it's gonna scheme it up 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.480 and how it's gonna be much different from Dan Quinn. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.000 And I think when you talk about him as a 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.880 legendary as a coach basically, Uh, one of the things 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.200 that I thought was very unique about what he said 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.160 was when he's come into situations as a head coach 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.720 or even as a coordinator, it's been because the defense 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.520 is horrible. In this situation, I'm coming in on the 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.079 defense that already has you know, has some success. How 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.520 do you build on that? But it's not gonna be 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.960 the same scheme. But even when you look at these 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.920 first couple of weeks and you talk about a Cleveland, 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.520 even the New Orleans States and a Baltimore Ravens. Boy, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.240 those are that's like that's that button up your chin strap. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.000 You already know what they're gonna come with. Especially when 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.959 I got down to Baltimore. Yeah, you know, you already know, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.439 you already know that unless they do that Baltimore that 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:54.640 showed up in the playoff. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:55.480 Game, I mean. 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.480 That would be like trading play is identity crisis for 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.880 Baltimore if they did that. But I think for me, 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.720 like going and obviously we're not gonna pick anything without 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.040 you know, without We're not. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:09.960 Gonna let him get off. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.640 We're not gonna let Bernie made off with penwhipless you 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.760 know how extra set of books. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:17.520 Uh. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.160 But but also you go to this book, I want 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:25.440 to bring out the you know he got to After that, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.200 you get Detroit. You get Detroit, and then you get 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.400 a buy and then right after that San Francisco right behind. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.720 If you look at that all the way up until 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.760 San Francisco, all those squads outside of New York, then 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.120 they're gonna try to run that rock New York and 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.280 maybe the same they're gonna run they got Pittsburgh. You 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:49.880 at Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, all these teams exactly. All these 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.920 teams are like, look, we ain't got the quarterback option 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.600 outside of outside of Baltimore. So we're gonna run the rock, 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.560 We're gonna run the right and we're gonna see exactly 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.839 what Zimmer and this defense can do. Can Mozzie Smith 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.000 have that bounce back here? 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:02.400 You know? 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.160 Do we have the three tech and the one tech 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.160 in there to solve these problems? Are linebackers gonna be 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.760 able to work like we think they're going to be 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.480 able to work? It's gonna be a great test these 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.559 first come And that's why I'm and that's why I'm 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.400 going with my question for you because I think even 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:21.360 before the draft, your your concern was linebackers. And post draft, 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.400 do you feel like you know the linebacker they got 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.360 from Notre Dame bringing in Kendricks and company and already 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.120 what we already have. Now that you look at the schedule, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.960 you know what you're going to be coming up against, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.000 especially that first quarter of the season. Did we get 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.040 better at linebacker to be able to take on some 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:39.760 of your concerns? 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.600 So you got better? You got better because you got 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:42.160 some guys. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.040 I think last year, depth was a huge problems when 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.000 you have Marquise Bell stepping in to play the linebacker position. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.960 So we got some guys, we have a veteran guy 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.240 and Kendricks that that you know can probably get those 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.160 guys lined up and ready to go. And you got 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.400 some young guys in there. But I think I think 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.880 you're you're better at the position. What words me still 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.880 is the defensive line. And I heard the defensive the 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.200 new defensive line coach say that Monzie Smith playing last 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.240 year was a lot of get up feel and he's 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.160 going to play more to the stress of being able 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.880 to read blocks and play in the blocks. I gotta 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.600 see that. I have to see it. But the thing 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.080 is we won't see it because he's not gonna be 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.760 there until training camp. So he's like, he's not going 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.520 to be able to work on any of that stuff, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.320 and we're not going to see if he's better at 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.360 doing that than what dan Quinn had him doing, if 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.480 there was really truly a difference. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.400 So where y'all like, were you confused. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.280 At all about that about the Minsie Smith getting up 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:35.600 the field talk excited? 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.040 I didn't so what he was So from what I 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.360 just I got from it was he was more focused 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.120 on getting that early penetration through the defense or through 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.800 the offensive line and getting after the quarterback, which a 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.360 lot of the defensive line in Quinn system, that was 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.240 their first mentality, that gotta get up to the quarterback. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.840 And that's what to me. You didn't have enough guys 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.600 that were anchored that were like, you know what I mean, 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.280 you know, if the quarterback comes my way out, be 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:58.760 all right, but I'm gonna sit in this gap and 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.040 makes round get moved. I don't think there was enough 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.320 of that on the defensive line. I think it was 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.400 always we gotta get up field, we gotta get up field. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.000 And as you see throughout the season, guys were playing, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.440 we're running counters on us. Let these guys get up field. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:10.880 Were gonna let them get right past us. And here 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.600 comes a running back right at that hole where they've 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.800 just left. So I think, you know, hopefully the you 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.839 know that hope them again hopefully you know, the scheme 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.120 this year with the defensive line, especially the interior guys, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.960 is more get those concrete blocks that we talked about 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.559 all this foot and just just sit there, let them run. Linebackers, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.520 let those guys run all over the field and chase 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.600 down bloss Just make sure you don't get moved out 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.480 of your out of your block, or out of your gap. 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.360 But you know, a lot easier said than that. I 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:35.719 think that's that's the thing. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.040 Like it's the Jecko and how the kind of good 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.800 and the bad that goes with the defense that that 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.920 Dan Quinn Quinn runs where you're trying to get these 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.240 guys in one on one, especially guys like Michael Parsons. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.800 Sometimes the linebackers to where you have to run these 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.320 stunts with the defensive line and these ets so often 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.400 and these other stunts that you see so that the 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.319 linebackers can play off of it, and it doesn't sometimes 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.600 it doesn't give the defensive line interior one technique knows 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.760 technique the opportunity to really, hey man, this is where 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.640 I'm locked in that I'm playing the double here and 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.240 this is and this is this is just my one 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.760 job versus wait. I read his step and he has 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.720 to do this, and I got Michael Parsons coming behind me, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.240 So now I gotta figure out how to make these 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.120 things work. I think this is gonna be one of 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.679 those Hey man, we're playing base defense, you line up 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.840 here at the nose, you line up here at the three, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.040 and if there's a double team, you playing to them, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:22.600 and everybody else is gonna have to play off of 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.840 y'all versus the opposite. So I think you'll see a 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.960 lot less of probably the et stunts and the spikes 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.480 into the b gap. I think you see a lot 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.280 less of that and more of, hey man, we hold 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.680 a point. We need guys who can whole point and 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.440 make sure that those those linemen stay off our linebackers. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.520 It reminds me a lot of that that Marinelli system, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.360 you know, when I was playing coming up with because 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.760 we didn't know, we didn't have a great names or 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.040 anything like that, but we had guys that were like, look, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.600 I'm gonna sit this a gap. I'm gonna sit in 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.920 this big gap, and we're gonna be good against the run. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.880 And we were through those stretches with Maryonelli. We're good 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.760 against the run. Granted, you know, we had on the 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.240 other side of the bar offensively a prime ezeque El 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.200 Elliott taking all the time of possession. We had the 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.680 Marco Murray taking all the time of possession. So teams 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.680 really couldn't get into that that run system. But I 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.040 believe if you have a you know, a group of 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.960 guys understanding their role, not playing hero ball, sit in 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.080 that gap, let those other guys do what they gotta. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.520 Do, that I think you have a better defense overall. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.440 Now, integrity wise, when you have the difference between what 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.040 Quinn is doing and what Zimmer is doing, because historically 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.520 Zimmer is one of those guys that believes in gap responsibility, alignment, assignment. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.720 Where you were just talking about those stunts. Now, does 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.400 that take away from what you have on the outside 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.000 with Michael Parsons. Does that take away from the DeMarcus 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.560 Lawrences to be able to do what they do best? 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.840 I think less so on DeMarcus Lawrence and more so 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.520 on Michael Parsons just based off what we've seen them 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.680 be successful. Let with Dan Quinn. Can't Michael Parsons line 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.560 up at defensive end and continue to make plays. I 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.960 believe that he can, Like I believe he can get 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.960 that done. We will have to see him probably do 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.400 it more times now this season. We've had to see 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.160 him do it in the previous seasons. Especially if you're 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.920 playing that hey man one technique, knows technique and the 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.120 three or whatever that is interior and they're gonna stay 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.360 there and just do that. Then yeah, you're gonna have 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.360 to see Michael Parsons be probably more stationary than you've 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.160 seen them in the past. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.640 What hurts me, or what got me a little bit 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.240 a little nervous, is that. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.440 That you know that all that you know early penetration 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.400 et stunts and all those great blizzes Quinn was running. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.880 You know, against the running might not have been that great, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.000 but against the past, they were getting after the quarterback 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.800 and that helped that secondary in the back end tremendously. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.960 When you talk about being able to take the football away, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.440 sitting all routes, intercepting things, not having to cover that 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.240 long because you knew that pass rus was gonna get 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.760 there with this Zimmerar system and you know, I still 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.600 don't know all the ins and outs of it, but 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.480 if you're playing that base where it's like, all right, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.080 we're gonna be hunkered down right here, that secondary they're 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.760 gonna have to cover, They're gonna have You're gonna have 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.560 to You're gonna be covering a lot longer than you 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.240 were in years past. So that makes me slightly nervous. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.160 But you got two great corners on the outside and 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.120 blanding digs. You got safeties, reliable safeties back there. So 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.160 as long as they can, you know, work off of 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:50.720 each other, I think they'll be good. But that makes 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.560 me a little nervous when talking about the past coverage. Man, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.440 we're getting off to a hot start. We're gonna take 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.960 a break and lick Chris being pay the bills. Is 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.360 BC watches golf. He's playing double. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.240 Duty right now, and then we'll be right back here 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.200 on the players lounge. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:03.720 How do you do that? Man? I leave. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.280 It's the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.360 Jack Black, and right now, Cowboys fans can get fifteen 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.520