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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI Scrugs. Hi, everybody,
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Speaker 1: Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny
Speaker 1: McCray and Barry Church. All Right, the Cowboys showed fight,
Speaker 1: they showed some guts. They lose to the Steelers, but
Speaker 1: it was all the way down to the last second
Speaker 1: of the football game before it was decided. Cowboys lose
Speaker 1: twenty four to nineteen. And let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: this on out the way. Barry Church seems to think
Speaker 1: that that, you know, he really was, you know, so
Speaker 1: close that he wants his kudos here. So let's give
Speaker 1: it to Barry here. Church had it twenty four to
Speaker 1: fourteen Steelers. I had it thirty eight thirteen. Pittsburgh DMAC
Speaker 1: had a forty two to ten um Steels. So go ahead, Barry,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and kind of victory lap because you got
Speaker 1: to spread, right man. I mean, look, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: gloat too much on this beautiful monday. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: the you know, the breeze is falling out there, the
Speaker 1: sun's out. You know. I wish I would have got
Speaker 1: on the golf course today. This was a perfect golf
Speaker 1: course day. But it was it was a little hectic
Speaker 1: morning in the church household. We had to go to
Speaker 1: places and get passports and all this other stuff. So
Speaker 1: we're moving and shaking a little bit this morning. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day.
Speaker 1: And knew you bring up no stra domins. You know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say nothing. I was just gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: let the show go. But but since you brought you know,
Speaker 1: since you brought up my superpowers I have, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to take it to the spread because usually,
Speaker 1: you know, I just guess the win losses. That's where
Speaker 1: my powers end. But you know, mccraig and the captain
Speaker 1: of the Haters Club knew we over there, they always
Speaker 1: you know, talking about no, the spread, the spread, the spread.
Speaker 1: I was all right, you know what, let me go
Speaker 1: ahead and take my powers to the spread. So I
Speaker 1: did it. You know, I had to do what I
Speaker 1: had to do. I knew what was going to happen
Speaker 1: in this game. I knew that the quarterback was going
Speaker 1: to be able to lead us to a close game.
Speaker 1: Now I had it wrong. I thought Cooper Rush was
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy to lead us to a close game,
Speaker 1: but it ended up being Garrett Gilbert. And I wish
Speaker 1: we had the playback of last week because what I said,
Speaker 1: And you guys both laughed at me. Y'all just said,
Speaker 1: I'll just dude's crazy. But I said, the only way
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys would have a chance is if they
Speaker 1: spread these guys out all over the field and let
Speaker 1: the quarterback throw the ball down the field, throw a
Speaker 1: vertical and attack the secondary. Everybody laugh, Man, they can't
Speaker 1: block that front. Man, you're crazy. They're gonna get this stray.
Speaker 1: You're talking about throwing the ball. I just said, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you know we'll see what happens, and glow
Speaker 1: and behold. Gary Gilbert went out there, executed the game playing,
Speaker 1: executed the game plan precisely. I gotta get kudos to
Speaker 1: my boy came more because he he came he came
Speaker 1: to he came to play the other day. He dialed
Speaker 1: it up nicely. He had a nice balance of running past.
Speaker 1: But overall, I mean it was it was. It was
Speaker 1: a day for no Stredamas. You know, That's all I
Speaker 1: got to say. Are you done? Are you done that?
Speaker 1: How long did that go? Are you done? Let you're
Speaker 1: talking about See, I wasn't even gonna bring it up.
Speaker 1: I was not gonna go ahead. I was gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and just say, you know what, let me knock
Speaker 1: it up. But you do you have your no Paan
Speaker 1: Newy Yes, right, So so that handy dad out so
Speaker 1: to that, to that, to that horrible record that church
Speaker 1: has because since he's no Stredamins, just add a one
Speaker 1: to the to the to the win column and see
Speaker 1: if I didn't say anywhere near five hundred. But then
Speaker 1: I did not just put him anywhere. Knew he did?
Speaker 1: I say six and ten at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: Did you say six and ten? Let me go back
Speaker 1: to the November nobber when we when we did, when
Speaker 1: we did the reset, I believe I went six and
Speaker 1: ten and y'all laughed at my record, and I gave
Speaker 1: y'all the winds that we're gonna get. I gave y'all
Speaker 1: the winds we're gonna hit, and y'all thought about y'alls
Speaker 1: out there laughed at me. I'm telling you it's coming.
Speaker 1: I'm still laughing, Yared, Gilbert's coming. I'm still laughing. Gilbert,
Speaker 1: it's coming, laughing, double g, double g. He's coming. Man.
Speaker 1: Just just wait on it, just wait on it. Knew it,
Speaker 1: knew it, knew it. Remember remember remember remember as Church
Speaker 1: is talking, what he specifically said was the only way
Speaker 1: that we go six and ten is if Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: is starting, if Gared Gilbert or Cooper Russ or any
Speaker 1: of those other guys out there, then the betters off.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what I can't say. I said, I
Speaker 1: was wrong about it, QUB. I said that at the beginning,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of my the beginning of my little speech,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I was wrong about the cute.
Speaker 1: I said, I was wrong. But you know that Gilbert
Speaker 1: great keeps coming through. That's good old Guilbert. So you're
Speaker 1: coming through, So you're changing. So you're changing your bet now,
Speaker 1: so you're changing, You're changing the whole, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Because it's just like I understanding six and ten. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying six and ten. That's all I'm saying. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. It's six and ten, good old Gilbert
Speaker 1: coming through the Man Texas. He's coming through. It's six
Speaker 1: and ten for for for Church, four and twelve for
Speaker 1: d Mac. I'm sitting here at three and thirteen. Now, um, Barry,
Speaker 1: you did put a qualifier on all these, on all
Speaker 1: on the six wins, and so now is the qualifier off? Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a qualifier. Let me all right, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: ya what it's at right now. I got the feeling,
Speaker 1: you know, Gilbert is gonna go out there the rest
Speaker 1: of it. Say you can't take this away from him, Nate,
Speaker 1: if they go out there. Look, I know what I
Speaker 1: said about Andy Dalton, and I said, Andy Dunk gave
Speaker 1: us a bet. But that's before. That's before I sat
Speaker 1: there and looked at Gilbert the other day. That's before
Speaker 1: I sat Gilbert. I told you I was wrong before
Speaker 1: this last season, this message. He was out there on
Speaker 1: the topic, all one topic. I backpedal and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I was wrong about the quarterback. That was it? Okay, Church, Church, Church, Wait,
Speaker 1: my bad New Church your backpedal. You reversed on the
Speaker 1: kool a That that's a straight back pedal, all right.
Speaker 1: I went from seven to nine to six and ten.
Speaker 1: You started off the whole season with me and you
Speaker 1: saying that the kool aid and knew we need to
Speaker 1: get off the kool aid and don't make no sense.
Speaker 1: And then you backpedal, and then you sipped the kool aid.
Speaker 1: That was what happened. Me and Big Mike. Me and
Speaker 1: Big Mike sat down and had a conversation, and you
Speaker 1: know what. From that conversation, I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: we got a chance, and now we're gonna go. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go six and ten. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna win a division. I might be wrong about that,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna go six and ten. So that's another
Speaker 1: backped because I'm supposed to win it. I man, this guy,
Speaker 1: he just trying to switch. It's a new day. It's
Speaker 1: a new day, all right, it's a new day. Let
Speaker 1: me get Let me get my number three jersey. Ready. Man,
Speaker 1: we did lose. It never felt so good to lose
Speaker 1: and so good to be wrong. So I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: that I was right about Gary Gilbert I did not
Speaker 1: have confidence that Kelly Moore would come out and get
Speaker 1: some quick passes out there and get everything started the
Speaker 1: way he did. I don't I wouldn't say that he
Speaker 1: you know, aired it out and threw it down the
Speaker 1: field as much as Shirt said, but he got him
Speaker 1: rolling with some quick passes. He was able to hit
Speaker 1: the tight end. He was able to hit Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: that got the ball into his hands, and you saw
Speaker 1: the impact of what was going on when you did that.
Speaker 1: Zeke came out there. They fooled us a little bit
Speaker 1: and making us thing that he wasn't gonna play, and
Speaker 1: you know, he came out there and did what he
Speaker 1: had to do. Tony Poler showed up, the defense showed up.
Speaker 1: These guys came out there and they played hard. And
Speaker 1: I told you that you could eliminate a lot of
Speaker 1: mistakes by by giving one percent effort, and they were
Speaker 1: able to do that. So I was wrong. I am
Speaker 1: happy about being wrong, and I'm not crowning us. You know,
Speaker 1: the NFC each chance based off this game, because I
Speaker 1: still have some thoughts about what happened with the Steelers,
Speaker 1: but I am happy that this is how we're going
Speaker 1: into the bye week and it's it's it's weird to
Speaker 1: say that after a loss, but the way that this
Speaker 1: season is going, I'll take it. Church. I give you
Speaker 1: some breath news. You're ready for it. You're ready for it.
Speaker 1: It's on Garrett Gilbert. It's about Garrett Gilbert. Okay, you're ready.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for it. Stephen Jonal said today on one
Speaker 1: d five three one five three to Fame on his
Speaker 1: radio show Andy Dawn's gonna start. Here we go, Man,
Speaker 1: here we go. Man, you got the man? I tell
Speaker 1: you what. Man, Look, so you got this is another qualifier?
Speaker 1: Is this is another qual This ain't no more qualifiers? Man,
Speaker 1: this ain't no more qualifies. I can't believe. Now you
Speaker 1: tell me. So if Andy Dalton starts, then all bets off.
Speaker 1: So no NFC Championship, No. Six and teen. Nah No,
Speaker 1: I'm saying with it. I'm staying with it because you
Speaker 1: say that backpedal too much. You know, I'm saying I'm
Speaker 1: staying with it. But man, man, you know I hate
Speaker 1: the question. You know the top, But man, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you what. You gotta ride that way. Man, did you
Speaker 1: see when my boy was going out there? Gilbert was
Speaker 1: out there. From snap one, it seemed like he just
Speaker 1: had the confidence and just the command of this offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, we see it. I'm not I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's Dak Prescott. Let's not pump the break. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's that sounds like, but the way he sounds like.
Speaker 1: But the way he was playing, But the way he
Speaker 1: was playing, it seemed like he was elevating the rest
Speaker 1: of his guys out there. I mean, his ball placement,
Speaker 1: it was only for the receivers out there, except for
Speaker 1: that last play when he got hitting, you know, the
Speaker 1: ball flew up in the air and Fitzpatrick Fictick. But
Speaker 1: other than that, man, the guy was I feel like
Speaker 1: he had the confidence and he passed the eye test.
Speaker 1: When we when we was talking about the Nucci the
Speaker 1: other day, I mean, that's night and day. That is
Speaker 1: night and day. We talked about the Duchie having more
Speaker 1: career passes in a real game, all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: that that, I mean, whatever my boy did down there
Speaker 1: and with the Orlando Apoleums or whatever they are, we're
Speaker 1: down there in the aff, it must have got him
Speaker 1: ready because he came in there and he looked good.
Speaker 1: He looked polished. I just can't believe they're they're going
Speaker 1: back to the red rifle. But I got I gotta
Speaker 1: stick with the ship, man. I gotta go down. I
Speaker 1: gotta go down with the ship if it's going down now.
Speaker 1: Gilbert was twenty one thirty eight two hundred forty three yards,
Speaker 1: one touchdown, one interception with a QBR of sixty two
Speaker 1: point three m. This is why the way I broke
Speaker 1: it down last night on NBC five here in Dallas
Speaker 1: Fort Worth, on my TV show, I said, Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: will get the start, as he should, but but this
Speaker 1: is November. Come December, as you start to see where
Speaker 1: this thing goes when they are out of it, then
Speaker 1: you need to be playing Garrett Gilbert because I feel
Speaker 1: like Garrett Gilbert is the guy who can be on
Speaker 1: this team in twenty twenty one. I believe Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: will find himself a job somewhere as a starter in
Speaker 1: the league, and that'll be you know, he'll be He'll
Speaker 1: he won't be here. But I do think that Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert showed you enough yesterday that he needs some more time.
Speaker 1: You need to look at him again and decide whether
Speaker 1: or not you want to lock this guy up as
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback here for you know, a two to
Speaker 1: three year contract and get him at a million million five.
Speaker 1: That to me makes the most sense of how I
Speaker 1: see this going. Because look, the Jones family has said
Speaker 1: multiple times on their radio show they are still in this,
Speaker 1: and they are still in this now. I think they're
Speaker 1: going to win a division. I do not, but I
Speaker 1: don't own the team. They do, and that's their thought process.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna go with Andy Dalton. But as soon
Speaker 1: as this thing is over, I think you gotta go
Speaker 1: play Garrett Gilbert and see exactly see see some more
Speaker 1: of what you've got. You definitely do it. I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I feel like well Gilbert
Speaker 1: did out there. I mean he put his audition tape
Speaker 1: out there, he put his resume out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was for him, This was an opportunity of a lifetime.
Speaker 1: I mean, you get to come in here and you're
Speaker 1: starting for the Dallas Cowboys. Look, I mean, you have
Speaker 1: nothing else to lose. You're already in there, We're down
Speaker 1: to our fourth quarterback. You know, all you have is
Speaker 1: is upside. You go out there, you play a good game,
Speaker 1: you put your resume out there, you say, you look
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys and say, hey, you don't need to
Speaker 1: go out there and get you a backup quarterback. You
Speaker 1: already have what you need in the organization, organization in
Speaker 1: me right here. And he went out there, and I
Speaker 1: think he played good enough to prove that. Now, like you,
Speaker 1: you're right new, I think we need to see maybe
Speaker 1: a game or two more before we go ahead and
Speaker 1: give him the job as a backup next year. But
Speaker 1: for me, overall, I think he played pretty good. And
Speaker 1: if it's not here with the Cowboys, his audition tape,
Speaker 1: his resume can go out there to all the other
Speaker 1: thirty one NFL teams out there who's in need of
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. So for me, I think he did
Speaker 1: his self justice last night on Sunday night. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: I know, I listen. I know we're already to crown Gilbert.
Speaker 1: And he went out there and he looked much better
Speaker 1: than the NU she did. And like I said, I
Speaker 1: was happy to see it, but I just can't. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give him like I feel like we're giving
Speaker 1: him the MVP of the game, and the MVP of
Speaker 1: the game was the defense. Like by far, they came
Speaker 1: out and they and they stopped Pittsburgh and they and
Speaker 1: they gave these guys a chance, you know, to make
Speaker 1: those plays throughout the game, like the game could have
Speaker 1: could have been out of hand killing Moore came through
Speaker 1: and he controlled the clock. They went on long drives.
Speaker 1: The defense came out there and they made plays and
Speaker 1: oh guess what, My MVP of the team, mister Goodwin,
Speaker 1: leading the special teams went out there and plays made
Speaker 1: some plays that really changed the game. Special teams was
Speaker 1: was all noticed this time, and it was for positive reason,
Speaker 1: not negative. So if you look at this entire game,
Speaker 1: this was a full team win, special teams, defense and offense.
Speaker 1: Gary Gilber, he did exactly what he needed to do
Speaker 1: to keep us in the game. But in order for
Speaker 1: us to you know, do what Church says and win
Speaker 1: the division and six and ten, we have to play
Speaker 1: a complete game every single game, because we lost and
Speaker 1: we played almost perfectly in every every phase of the game.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a long role for us. But
Speaker 1: we could continue to do that and be perfect everywhere,
Speaker 1: then we have a chance to do what Church said.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's that's that's difficult to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know we're gonna he said, full team win, Danny.
Speaker 1: I know you didn't meet it that way, but yes,
Speaker 1: it was a full team. Oh yeah, listen, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: You're right. I feel like we want I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's why I said, I've never felt so good
Speaker 1: after a loss. It feels like we won something. And
Speaker 1: whoever says there's no such thing as a moral victory,
Speaker 1: they were absolutely wrong. World victories exist, and we just
Speaker 1: got one. And we just got one. Nate Newton said
Speaker 1: on Hanging with the Boys, he was addedly against these
Speaker 1: moral victories. He doesn't buy into it. He doesn't believe it.
Speaker 1: And Nate Newton comes from that Jimmy Johnson school, which
Speaker 1: produced two Super Bowl championships, and what Jimmy left, they
Speaker 1: ended up winning a third with everything he built here.
Speaker 1: So I'll go go ahead inside with Nate Newton. Look
Speaker 1: how far, Look how far the bar? Look how far
Speaker 1: the bar has fallen? We're sitting up. I mean, look, look,
Speaker 1: I'm in the prost lost as well. But look, Dallas boy,
Speaker 1: that's my boy, Nate and everything. But man, he's wrong
Speaker 1: on this one. I don't care what he got to say.
Speaker 1: We gotta ride this momentum. I mean, we gotta take
Speaker 1: it whichever way we can, if it's in a losing effort.
Speaker 1: But we ended up being competitive and being respectable against
Speaker 1: the number one team in the NFL. I'll take that. Man,
Speaker 1: Take that momentum and rat for the next week. Man, Church, Church,
Speaker 1: How are you guys sitting around here? I mean, this
Speaker 1: is what they're paid to do. Jerry Jones is laid
Speaker 1: out some very good dollars to people like Take Lords
Speaker 1: who had a good game yesterday, Tyrone Crawford, who had
Speaker 1: a good game yesterday. I mean, this is what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do. You're not supposed to allow a team
Speaker 1: to come into your house and beat you down. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to compete. You're supposed to do what they did.
Speaker 1: Oh hold on, yeah, no, no, no, it come out.
Speaker 1: Knew it KNEWI hold on, you're talking about you're talking
Speaker 1: about going you're talking about going against one of the
Speaker 1: number one teams in the NFL and we on a
Speaker 1: fourth stream quarterback with a makeshift offensive line and the
Speaker 1: defense that nobody thought could stop anybody, and they came
Speaker 1: out there and did exactly that, And you like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what they paid to do. We've been watching
Speaker 1: what they were supposed to be paid to do for
Speaker 1: the entire season and it hadn't been getting done. So
Speaker 1: now when they actually remember this, the defense played well
Speaker 1: against well enough against Washington, they played well enough against
Speaker 1: a Philly, and now that they are trending in the
Speaker 1: right direction of getting better, I'm taking this. Keep making
Speaker 1: those steps. Get you a quarterback in there and play
Speaker 1: against somebody who's not undefeated, and I think if you could.
Speaker 1: But no, I don't, I don't. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it was, it was one hundred percent effort.
Speaker 1: Look at there, Well what he but you rying act
Speaker 1: like y'all going to Chucky Cheese and celebrate. That's what
Speaker 1: I don't get. That's the thing. It ain't that, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm just I'm I was just
Speaker 1: excited because you know, no Shre Diamonds had came back.
Speaker 1: That's that. I was more exciting about Nore Diamonds. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna pump the brakes a little bit
Speaker 1: on the boys. You know. It was definitely it was
Speaker 1: a loss, but it was tell you something I don't
Speaker 1: let me tell you something I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: this makes any sense. All right. We've been coming on
Speaker 1: this show every week with feeling it absolutely horrible about everything,
Speaker 1: seeing effort and seeing how we're getting blown out all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and then when you have something positive, all
Speaker 1: being in a loss when we were driving on the
Speaker 1: last player the game to score and that type of
Speaker 1: loss happens to you. With what we've been seeing previously,
Speaker 1: this is a positive thing. We did not win the game,
Speaker 1: but if you're looking for something to move forward, like
Speaker 1: you're looking for guys who're trying to save their jobs
Speaker 1: special teams coach, defensive coordinator and all that stuff, this
Speaker 1: is something positive where you could cut on the film
Speaker 1: and you can say, hey, look, fellas, we are able
Speaker 1: to compete with any team. If we come out here
Speaker 1: and we don't make it make those mistakes and we
Speaker 1: play up to our ability, we can play with these guys.
Speaker 1: This is something that you can turn on the tape
Speaker 1: and you can have some confidence when you go into
Speaker 1: the next weeks of the season versus coming out here
Speaker 1: and getting beat by sixty and you're like, hey man,
Speaker 1: look let's throw the tape away, all right, you got
Speaker 1: some stuff you can cut on right now. And you
Speaker 1: got some stuff you can cut on right now going
Speaker 1: into the bye week, and you say, if we fix this, this, that,
Speaker 1: and that, we got a chance to really be competitive
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. Yeah, we got a chance.
Speaker 1: Well check check out hanging. I told y'all with what
Speaker 1: Nate Newton was saying today, it's along the line to
Speaker 1: what you said, McRae. But at the end he says,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to celebrate moral victories. We've got to
Speaker 1: take a break. Okay, We've got to take a break
Speaker 1: when we come back. There was one play in the
Speaker 1: game that people kept talking about over and over again,
Speaker 1: and it's been on all of our shows here on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com about the fourth and one where
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy signed to kick a field goal instead of
Speaker 1: going for it. Let's dive into that next on the
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Speaker 1: throw him up under the bench and I don't even
Speaker 1: know if he came back next week to the game.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's it's rough out here for him
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, that's got to be a big
Speaker 1: time confidence below. You went from a first round I
Speaker 1: believe he was a top ten pick and supposed to
Speaker 1: be the franchise guy to what a year later, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he stirred on the depth chart behind the
Speaker 1: guy who battled back from having a broken leg. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's tough right now for my boy Haskins.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. Maybe he'll get up out of Washington
Speaker 1: and turn into a better quarterback. But who knows. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. What Haskins right, The word I
Speaker 1: don't askins is you know, the guy was lazy. He
Speaker 1: wasn't doing what he's supposed to do as as as
Speaker 1: the supposed franchise quarterback putting in that type of work.
Speaker 1: And when when when the coach gives you that confidence
Speaker 1: and they put their job on the line by putting
Speaker 1: you out there, and that's the type of stuff that
Speaker 1: you get them in return by them being able to
Speaker 1: figure it out and see that you're not studying and
Speaker 1: picking this stuff and that's the reason why you're not
Speaker 1: picking this stuff up. Yeah, they gotta put you far
Speaker 1: back like that, man, because you didn't respect the positions
Speaker 1: that they have, so they don't have to respect respect
Speaker 1: the position that they tried to give you. So you know,
Speaker 1: you lost the respect of the coaching staff. So I
Speaker 1: mean it should be the end of the Dwayne Haskins era. There,
Speaker 1: let me back up what you just said there, Danny
Speaker 1: McCray here on the players Line spotty by Hotels dot Com.
Speaker 1: Your head coach is out here getting cancer treatment. He's
Speaker 1: putting his life on the line to be out here
Speaker 1: at coach football for anybody to sit around here and say, hey,
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is the first quarterback in the building and
Speaker 1: not you, Dwayne Haskins. That's not good. So I hit
Speaker 1: up a buddy of mine who covers the team, and
Speaker 1: I said, he almost. I said, so Ron has no
Speaker 1: time for Haskins anymore? He says, Nope, pretty obvious. Then
Speaker 1: I hit him back, I said, almost, sounds like he's
Speaker 1: offended by Haskins. Is his work ethic? That back? And
Speaker 1: hits back. He says he doesn't listen, thinks criticism is
Speaker 1: hate out. Okay, that's that you're out man. That's that
Speaker 1: younger mentality man to it. Just you know, these younger
Speaker 1: players coming in the league now, they's you know, feeling entitled, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a first round pixel. You know, I deserve
Speaker 1: every type of chance I need to get and this
Speaker 1: is my team I'm eating. If you got to earn
Speaker 1: the respect of your teammates, your coaches, and it's not
Speaker 1: just what you do on the field, man. So that's
Speaker 1: just the mentality that this younger generation has. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the type of attitude you can have if you
Speaker 1: out there baller, if you out there singing it up. No, no,
Speaker 1: serve because because they got they got, they got like
Speaker 1: specific stuff that they could point out for reasons why
Speaker 1: that you may be sucking, even if that's not the reason,
Speaker 1: like they have to assume that that's what it is.
Speaker 1: So you know, you get, you put that stuff out
Speaker 1: there on film, and you put that stuff out there,
Speaker 1: you know, for people to see that you're not really
Speaker 1: working hard, and you kind of got you know, what
Speaker 1: was coming to you. So that's that's the latest from Washington.
Speaker 1: The next Cowboys home getting Cowboys are on They by
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Speaker 1: by former Cowboys players Danny McCrae and Barry Church. We
Speaker 1: are our SWBC Mortgage Virtual home Studios. So a big
Speaker 1: topic of conversation happened at near the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, not two seventeen left. Cowboys have a fourth
Speaker 1: and one at the twenty two of the Steelers and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy decides to kick a field goal. They make
Speaker 1: the field goal, they go up nineteen to nine. I
Speaker 1: had no issues with that call. At all. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I said is, look, this is an
Speaker 1: offensive line. This is not even the offensive line you
Speaker 1: thought you were going to have. Sixty minutes before the
Speaker 1: football game. You had your rookie center Tyler Padish go
Speaker 1: out with a hamstring injury, and Stephen Jones says he's
Speaker 1: going to miss a couple of weeks. So you got
Speaker 1: an offensive line that I'm sorry, it's not the dudes
Speaker 1: you've come to know and love with the Cowboys. You
Speaker 1: got one guy out here who's a ball, who's a
Speaker 1: legitimate pro or that is your right tackle, Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: So when he said, man, I'm gonna go ahead and kicking,
Speaker 1: I had no problems with it because I looked at
Speaker 1: the offensive line and said, who, dom I. If I'm
Speaker 1: going to bet right now, who am I going to
Speaker 1: bet on the Steelers D line or the Cowboys old line,
Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be going with the Cowboys. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd be going with the Steelers D line to stop me.
Speaker 1: So I had no problems with the kicking that field goal. Mccraig,
Speaker 1: what do you say, Yeah, I mean I thought it
Speaker 1: made sense. I mean, you, if you look at the
Speaker 1: other side of you know what you were going against.
Speaker 1: You see why out there, and then you see Hayward
Speaker 1: who was who was having it having a time with
Speaker 1: our offensive line. So I think it may sense you
Speaker 1: go about two scores. I mean, why not, Like you're
Speaker 1: playing to win the game. Your defense is playing okay,
Speaker 1: so you get them a chance to go out there,
Speaker 1: you know, and make some stops. I don't have any
Speaker 1: problem with it. This is not one of the instances
Speaker 1: where I would say that Mike McCarthy made a bad
Speaker 1: cult of decision. I thought it was I thought it
Speaker 1: was cool either way. Yeah for me. I look, we
Speaker 1: were talking about this in the in the studio before
Speaker 1: the post game show, and we kind of talked about
Speaker 1: this same thing. You know, would you have gone for
Speaker 1: it or would you have kick the field goal? For me,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was a good call. But
Speaker 1: if I was on the sidelines coach, and if no
Speaker 1: Shore Damas was out there, I would have went for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I understand, you know, your defense was
Speaker 1: playing decent or pretty good against the against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and you can add points to add to that lead
Speaker 1: and and all that good stuff. But to me, I
Speaker 1: think you gotta go with you're all pro running back
Speaker 1: and you go right behind your all pro guard and
Speaker 1: Zach Martin and you try to salt this game away.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: was he wrong for the call. No, But I would
Speaker 1: have tried to salt it away going behind, going behind
Speaker 1: Zach Martin because look, even if you have a ten
Speaker 1: point leading the fourth, I mean, you're not playing against
Speaker 1: Danny Diames back there at the quarterback. You're going against
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, and this guy we've known can heat up
Speaker 1: at any time with that explosive offense. So for me,
Speaker 1: I would have tried to solve the game away. But
Speaker 1: I can understand why I kicked the field goal. Now.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna throw this out here because I've heard
Speaker 1: several people come back and hey, you got Zack Martin.
Speaker 1: I think they weren't gonna maybe throw cam Hey way
Speaker 1: out there, so you think they were gonna say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: we think they're gonna run behind this dude, let's load
Speaker 1: up right here, because we don't believe they're gonn run
Speaker 1: behind Carter Williams. Oh No. First of all, Carnor Williams
Speaker 1: had one of the worst games I've ever seen. But
Speaker 1: we'll get We'll get the Williams here in the So
Speaker 1: on your fourth game play, you say, run behind Zach,
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, if the Steelers are gonna sit
Speaker 1: up here and say yeah, they're gonna run, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead, and let's figure out a way to to
Speaker 1: to plug up this whole long seventy. But this is
Speaker 1: where we think they're gonna go. We think they're gonna
Speaker 1: go over here to the right, not to the left.
Speaker 1: And and so I'm just saying I think the Steelers
Speaker 1: would have stopped that thing. That's when you gotta have
Speaker 1: belief in your players. I mean, you gotta all pro
Speaker 1: guard right there. You got all pro running back. We
Speaker 1: know he hasn't been, but he did. He believed in
Speaker 1: his kicker, in his defense. He believed in his kicker
Speaker 1: and his defense. And you know, and his defense defense
Speaker 1: had earned that at this point in time of the
Speaker 1: game too. They had earned that. They had they had
Speaker 1: earned that. But but you're also going against Ben Roethlisberger too,
Speaker 1: Like you got a chance to salt this thing away.
Speaker 1: I just don't think you get a chance. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be salt to the way. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: It would not assaulted the way put it. It would
Speaker 1: have put it out there. Though. The only thing I
Speaker 1: say for you, Church, is because Ben Roethlisberger, Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: is out there and I and I and you know,
Speaker 1: as much praise as I gave our defense, I think
Speaker 1: one of the worst things that happened was us stopping
Speaker 1: the run because, uh, you know, our pass defense was
Speaker 1: put on notice last night again, Claypool was dropping all
Speaker 1: type of passes. Ben Roethlisberger was a little bit off,
Speaker 1: but when he came down to it, uh, and they
Speaker 1: really need to throw the ball, it was like they
Speaker 1: couldn't miss. Uh. So I feel you, Church, you know,
Speaker 1: saying that Ben Roethlisberger was back there. You just had
Speaker 1: to watch the defense and seen the performance to say,
Speaker 1: at some point in time, be Ben Roethlisberger and Claypool
Speaker 1: and all those guys, they were going to start connecting.
Speaker 1: So I can feel that, but I would still go
Speaker 1: up two scores. And you know what, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: give it to y'all because you know what you would
Speaker 1: have had. And I'm sure we'll get We'll get to
Speaker 1: this after the break. But I'm sure we would have
Speaker 1: had a stop right there hadn't it been for some
Speaker 1: of the dumbest penalties I've ever seen that live. But
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get We'll get to that after breaks.
Speaker 1: Stay there exactly right, because as much grief as people
Speaker 1: will give him McCarthy about the fourth and one, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you where I felt the game got away and
Speaker 1: how Ben Roethlisberger and company got on a roll. Will
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Speaker 1: joined by Barry Church and Danny mccraig. So, gentlemen, let's
Speaker 1: go back here. We were talking about the fourth and
Speaker 1: one where McCarthy decides to go up by two possessions
Speaker 1: and kick a field goal, making it nineteen to nine,
Speaker 1: so the Steelers get the football back. There is a
Speaker 1: third and ten at the Pittsburgh forty five yard line.
Speaker 1: Actually yes, and the Cowboys stop. But then there's a
Speaker 1: penalty on Jalen Smith here and boom there you go.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, they end up going down the
Speaker 1: field and getting a touchdown. And remember the other play
Speaker 1: they had fumble. They had a fumble and then Jalen
Speaker 1: got a called for penalty there that led to point.
Speaker 1: So Jalen's two penalties in this football game basically cost
Speaker 1: the Cowboys ten points. They led to ten. You're getting
Speaker 1: off the feel on third down, getting off the feeld
Speaker 1: on third down, and then you had then you had
Speaker 1: the hands in the face. Then you had vanderest with
Speaker 1: the stupid play. But but your defense. Yeah, here's the
Speaker 1: guys that that Mike McCarthy said. You know what d
Speaker 1: you guys from playing well? Is kick this and let's
Speaker 1: see where we go. You'r d and two guys that
Speaker 1: you were counting on here, one guy you just paid
Speaker 1: sixty three million dollars. Another guy you made a first
Speaker 1: round pick. Out of these two guys had plays in
Speaker 1: this football game which helped the Steelers. That was the
Speaker 1: one thing you couldn't do. You couldn't help them. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys d helped them despite doing all they could here.
Speaker 1: And that's why a guy like Nate knew it was
Speaker 1: about no moral victories because here the Cowboys still like
Speaker 1: his shooting themselves in the foot. We didn't even got
Speaker 1: to the turnovers that the offense created in this football game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was this was a brutal one for me. I mean,
Speaker 1: you had them going. It seemed like Mike McCarthy had
Speaker 1: made the right call, but kicking the field goal and
Speaker 1: relying on his defense, and it seemed like he did
Speaker 1: the right thing because his defense had showed up and
Speaker 1: like you said, on that third down, they had got
Speaker 1: him off the field. But it's it's about situational awareness
Speaker 1: and where you are on the field. Man, you gotta
Speaker 1: realize what down and distance is. My guy went in there,
Speaker 1: Willie Nilly, throwing his hands up trying to block the past.
Speaker 1: I get it, you're putting that effort in there, but
Speaker 1: you just gotta understand where you are and you gotta
Speaker 1: see everything around you. He hit him in the head
Speaker 1: with the hands to the face or whatever. It was
Speaker 1: rough in the pastor that extended to play, and you
Speaker 1: gotta know the rules. I mean, you're not a rookie
Speaker 1: out here. You're a veteran, you're a captain that you're
Speaker 1: a captain of this defense, supposed to be the leader,
Speaker 1: and then you get a cheap you know, pass an
Speaker 1: inference call. But you gotta know the rules. He was
Speaker 1: past five yards. You can't put your hands on a
Speaker 1: on a receiver. After that, you give him a chuck
Speaker 1: trying to reroute him or something, and he ends up
Speaker 1: going down. It's costful, super costful for your defense and
Speaker 1: your team. And if you want to go out there
Speaker 1: and beat these you know, number one ranked teams and
Speaker 1: all that other stuff, you gotta play a perfect game.
Speaker 1: You gotta play a sound game. You gotta play a
Speaker 1: smart game. And that's just something that we didn't do
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. McCray, I'll let
Speaker 1: you hit that LPE one because that was that was
Speaker 1: just as dumb as this Jaylen Smith penalties. Yeah, listen
Speaker 1: and listen. I understand the frustration with the whole Jay
Speaker 1: the Smith thing. Uh, sometimes those things happen, right, So
Speaker 1: some of some of the best pass rushers and all that,
Speaker 1: some are running there and you know, and they're giving effort,
Speaker 1: and you know sometimes that the hand hits the face
Speaker 1: masks and you know, they protecting the quarterback these days,
Speaker 1: sometimes that type of stuff happened out. You know at
Speaker 1: the time, the timing was horrible, but I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna kill Jay Leon Smith for that.
Speaker 1: And it's rerout penalty. You know, he was maybe a
Speaker 1: yard or so too far. You know, Claypool was off
Speaker 1: balance and he fell and you know he drew the penalty.
Speaker 1: It was, it was. It was a bad thing to do,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna kill him for that. What either,
Speaker 1: he was trying to to reroute the receiver to help
Speaker 1: out the secondary. You know he shouldn't he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: done it, but I'm not gonna kill him for that.
Speaker 1: I don't really just think it was that dumb and now,
Speaker 1: compared to LVS, I did not understand that at all.
Speaker 1: You tackle the dude and he's trying to get you
Speaker 1: off of them, you already know that you're pushing your
Speaker 1: weight on him and you're not getting off him as
Speaker 1: quickly as you need to. And he felt disrespected. The
Speaker 1: dude pushed you and you pushed him in the helmet.
Speaker 1: It don't like it don't make no sense. It wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't as bad as the dude from Chicago, but
Speaker 1: it was it was almost as costly. Like you guys
Speaker 1: are rolling at this point and then all of the
Speaker 1: stuff you start racking up penalties. This was not an
Speaker 1: effort penalty like Jayals Smiths. This was not a technique
Speaker 1: penally like Jalen Smiths. This was just a dumb penalty.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think that one was worse than
Speaker 1: Jalen's as far as decision making. It just it's something
Speaker 1: that you could have one hundred percent avoided and it
Speaker 1: didn't have anything to do with the action will play
Speaker 1: on the field. So I think that that one was
Speaker 1: worse than the two that Jalen did. But like you
Speaker 1: said in this press conference, he does have to come
Speaker 1: in and take accountability for it because he's not coached
Speaker 1: up to do those type of things. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a mistake. You were playing harder and you and you
Speaker 1: made a mistake and you just got on it. You
Speaker 1: can't help a team like the Steelers out, and in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter the Cowboys helped them. That's how the
Speaker 1: Steelers ended up scoring fifteen points and getting to win.
Speaker 1: I also want to flip it back over here to
Speaker 1: the offense. The offense is still out here committing more
Speaker 1: turnovers than anyone in the National Football League. You had
Speaker 1: a fumble by CD Lamb, and then you had the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the red zone and Garrett Gilbert throws a
Speaker 1: interception to meet to meet a Fitzpatrick in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone and you simply can't do that.
Speaker 1: And you can say, well, maybe this was on Kelly Moore.
Speaker 1: Run the football, take the points. But then again I
Speaker 1: laugh at that a little bit because I heard some
Speaker 1: people talking about that as well, saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: you got to protect quarterback, don't sit around here and
Speaker 1: let him throw the ball. Well, if you're going to
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth and one and you want
Speaker 1: to be aggressive, what's the same. What's the difference here?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you try to be aggressive, you'll be aggresive.
Speaker 1: They try to be conservative, then they try to be aggressive.
Speaker 1: So so there you go. But the problem for Gilbert,
Speaker 1: and this is a young guy making his first start,
Speaker 1: and you can't really beat him up. But your job
Speaker 1: is to try to make sure you secure an opportunity
Speaker 1: to kick a field goal. If they kick that field goal,
Speaker 1: then that final possession is not about a touchdown. The
Speaker 1: final possessions about trying to get Greg's rline and arrange
Speaker 1: to kick a field goal, and who knows, maybe they
Speaker 1: end up winning that game. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I come back to this, that's why the Steelers are
Speaker 1: under feed it why the Cowboys are two and seven.
Speaker 1: These are the reasons you don't do the things you
Speaker 1: need to do the other team does, and that's how
Speaker 1: that's how winning and losing is dictated the national football
Speaker 1: You're completely right offensively. I mean, look, we had it
Speaker 1: right there and we and we gave the game away.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the last time we played turnover
Speaker 1: free football on the offensive side of the ball was
Speaker 1: Week one against the Los Angeles Rams, and that was
Speaker 1: the only game that we were kind of in in
Speaker 1: besides this game. That's the only game we were really in.
Speaker 1: And we were playing turnover free football for a while
Speaker 1: until you know, cdee Lamb you know, costed up and
Speaker 1: even then we were still in the game until that
Speaker 1: last turnover with Meka fix Patrick. So as as as
Speaker 1: a team that's not you know, their minus all they're
Speaker 1: all pros, their minus this and that and all these injuries.
Speaker 1: For the most part, you're gonna have to play perfect
Speaker 1: game and turning the ball over is not going to
Speaker 1: help that, and we ended up giving us one a
Speaker 1: way to Pittsburgh. Yeah, that it was tough because, like
Speaker 1: I said, you know all three phases at one point
Speaker 1: they were playing, they were playing outstanding, and they were
Speaker 1: doing everything they needed to do to keep us in
Speaker 1: the game. Albeit, like I said, if this was the
Speaker 1: game for us to be the big time team Philly,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Stillers coming in here, you know, an
Speaker 1: undefeated record, trying to avoid a letdown and all that
Speaker 1: stuff and all that planning took. This was the time
Speaker 1: for us to do it, and we did. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we played well, and I'm giving it the moral victory,
Speaker 1: but the fact that we could have actually won the game,
Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt as much as those ones in the past.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I'm optimistic now because I know
Speaker 1: that we can actually play better even with the guys
Speaker 1: that we have out there on the field. As long
Speaker 1: as Kelling calls the game, calls a good game, special
Speaker 1: teams good game, and defense good game. As long as
Speaker 1: they called good games and put these guys in position
Speaker 1: to make plays. We have a chance to go out
Speaker 1: there and at least at least do something to you know,
Speaker 1: to stay competitive. It sounds like you're moving towards the
Speaker 1: six and ten round. Man, are you coming over here
Speaker 1: with your boy? No? No, no, absolutely absolutely not, because
Speaker 1: this is this is one game. This is one game
Speaker 1: up the season where where we have been able to
Speaker 1: say that, you know, all three phases, you know, for
Speaker 1: the most part, played played played well. You know, I said,
Speaker 1: we still gave gave away two turnovers, you know, ceedee lamb,
Speaker 1: you know, and in the pick at the end. But
Speaker 1: you know, outside of that, these guys played. They played outstanding,
Speaker 1: really and uh, I don't see that happening week and
Speaker 1: hinding week out, but I hope it does. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know that it's tough. It's tough to duplicate that, especially,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure they had a little little bit
Speaker 1: extra going in there, knowing that they were playing against
Speaker 1: the Steelers undefeated team and they had had the chance
Speaker 1: to knock those guys off. They won't be doing that
Speaker 1: every week. I will say that, speaking speak speaking of
Speaker 1: somebody that played out of their mind. Um nevill Gallimore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys. I mean watch that.
Speaker 1: But he played an amazing game in that defensive line.
Speaker 1: I mean, I see like that that that pole done.
Speaker 1: Terry Poe was like a cloud over. He just was.
Speaker 1: It was like a stopper for for Nevil Gallimore, just
Speaker 1: keeping them under wraps. But now that he's gone, they
Speaker 1: shipped him on up out of here. Nevill Gallimore played
Speaker 1: a heck of a game and he was going against
Speaker 1: arguably one of the top centers in the National Football
Speaker 1: League and Marquis Bouncy, and he was throwing him around
Speaker 1: like a ragdall out there. So if we can continue
Speaker 1: to get that effort from Neville Gallimore, maybe winning more
Speaker 1: of his one on ones out there, opening things up
Speaker 1: for d Law and the rest of the boys. I
Speaker 1: didn't think I'd ever say that somebody else beside d
Speaker 1: Law he lying, But I mean he played. He played
Speaker 1: a phenomenal game out there, and hopefully he can keep
Speaker 1: that going for the rest of the season. Randy Gregory too,
Speaker 1: But tell me this, are you are you about to
Speaker 1: take the MVP from my dude, CJ after one game?
Speaker 1: Because na, no, no, CJ. CJ has been playing lights
Speaker 1: out special teams wise, this whole season. We saw it.
Speaker 1: Not only did he take that return back, but I
Speaker 1: mean he was making gunner plays out there left and right.
Speaker 1: So I mean CJ to me is still the MVP man.
Speaker 1: Galimore had that hit on Ben Roethlisberger that ended up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had to go to the locker room because his knee.
Speaker 1: His knee had took a lick out there. So Gallimore
Speaker 1: was showing the fight that you want, Randy Gregory showing
Speaker 1: the fight that you want. But Church six and ten
Speaker 1: is not going to happen as long as the Cowboys
Speaker 1: keep going into these football games and giving the ball away.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just simply cannot do this. And nobody
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now gives it away more than
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And also I'll flip onto this. Yesterday that
Speaker 1: game between the Steelers and the Cowboys, it came down
Speaker 1: to the red zone. The Steelers converted two of three,
Speaker 1: Dallas was over two. And my boy Nate always has
Speaker 1: that saying the more field goals you kick, the more
Speaker 1: opportunities you're going to have to lose. And the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have got to start getting those red zone conversions and
Speaker 1: just stop giving the football away. And if that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: They can't beat Minnesota. You're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: beat Baltimore or Cincinnati or other teams on your schedule
Speaker 1: because you're allowing teams to hang in there and you're
Speaker 1: giving teams possessions, and you just can't do that in
Speaker 1: this league, especially when your football team is down the
Speaker 1: significant Pro Bowl players like the Cowboys offer. You know,
Speaker 1: you're all right about that. I will say we do
Speaker 1: have to do a better job of taking care of
Speaker 1: the football. I mean, we know defensively we're not going
Speaker 1: to go out there and take the ball away all
Speaker 1: like that, so as an offense, we gotta take better
Speaker 1: care of it. And you're also right about the red zone.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're walking too many times we've gotten to
Speaker 1: that red zone and we're walking away with field goals
Speaker 1: instead of touchdowns. And against teams like Pittsburgh, you can't
Speaker 1: do that. You're gonna have to go up there and
Speaker 1: match touchdowns for touchdowns. But I will say this, offensively,
Speaker 1: we were better on third down. I believe we were
Speaker 1: eight of seventeen, so almost fifty percent on third down,
Speaker 1: which is a good number. That means that we're extending
Speaker 1: these drives and keeping our defense off the field. So
Speaker 1: if we can keep doing that, hopefully these red zone
Speaker 1: numbers turn around and hey, you never know, six and ten,
Speaker 1: it's looking like it's on the horizon. It's right over there.
Speaker 1: It's reachable. It's reachable. I'm telling I'm gonna repeat. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna repeat this, and I'm gonna repeat this for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the season. There are two people on the
Speaker 1: field that you have to get the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys know this by now. One of
Speaker 1: them is named of Mary Cooper and one number his
Speaker 1: name is Ezekiel Elliot. Get the ball in their hands
Speaker 1: the whole I think, the whole game play. Everything changed.
Speaker 1: When you can get the ball in nineteens hands. The
Speaker 1: defense has to play different. And when they see that
Speaker 1: he's involved, he actually goes out there and makes plays,
Speaker 1: opens it up for other people. And I see that
Speaker 1: they put him in the slide, got him a good
Speaker 1: matchup that he wanted and get you know, and Gilbert
Speaker 1: delivered a good ball. And once I saw that, I
Speaker 1: figured that we had a chance to do something offensively.
Speaker 1: And I hope they continue to do so, because when
Speaker 1: you don't have them involved. Our offense is anning. Let
Speaker 1: let me ask you a quick question, real quick question,
Speaker 1: real quick. I know we got short on time there,
Speaker 1: But do y'all believe that Tony Pollard earned the right
Speaker 1: to scrape a couple carries off of Ezekiel Elliot's work level? No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think. I think, I think, I think.
Speaker 1: See this is what happens, right, because if if you
Speaker 1: look at any team that plays, you can see watch
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings and then Dalwin Cooker going there and
Speaker 1: get stuffed on second down, and that Madison to come
Speaker 1: in and break off a twelve yard run. That does
Speaker 1: not mean that Madison is better than Dalvin cook Sometimes
Speaker 1: the play just doesn't open up like that. Poler did
Speaker 1: exactly what he was supposed to do, and it's and
Speaker 1: it's uh when he got the opportunity to. But he
Speaker 1: not Ezekiel Elliott, you know. So, I mean, I would
Speaker 1: continue to do the same thing that they've been doing.
Speaker 1: But I want to see Ezekiel Elloby feature much more
Speaker 1: than I want to see Tony Pollo. I agree with
Speaker 1: what you said, McCray. I'll add this, I know, doctor,
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to ask Ezekil Elliot this,
Speaker 1: But I do wonder could there be some effects from
Speaker 1: having COVID nineteen. Could there be because we're seeing a
Speaker 1: guy who's not performing at the level we thought. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Cam Newton once Cam Newton had come back
Speaker 1: from from COVID nineteen. I'm not seeing a player perform
Speaker 1: at the level we thought. And you just hear average
Speaker 1: citizens tell you how it affects them. Well, how the
Speaker 1: heck is it affecting professional athletes and you're trying to
Speaker 1: go out here and compete in the NFL at the
Speaker 1: highest level. I wonder. I'm no doctor, I just do
Speaker 1: wonder because we've seen the Ziegel Elliott play at a
Speaker 1: much better rate. There are times where we're seeing him
Speaker 1: block and guys are blasting Zeke. That's not the guy
Speaker 1: that we've seen in the National Football League this year.
Speaker 1: Just my just he looked faster yesterday, even with the
Speaker 1: hamstring thing. Sometimes I thought he was Tony Paula out there.
Speaker 1: He looked, he looked quicker, he looked faster, him like
Speaker 1: he was hitting the holes. And maybe it was the
Speaker 1: way that they were spreading them out and it was
Speaker 1: a little easier for them to read, but he didn't
Speaker 1: look like he was injury yesterday, so I mean, hopefully
Speaker 1: the bye week helps him. They pick it up coming
Speaker 1: in playing against Minnesota and keep this up, all right, gentlemen. Um, So,
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