WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: It's A New Day 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:18.799 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players Luge, 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.600 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:36.279 Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI Scrugs. Hi, everybody, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.400 it's Monday. That means it's time for Players Loves. Brought 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.880 to you by Hotels dot Com. I'm newis Scrugs, longtime 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.600 Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:49.520 McCray and Barry Church. All Right, the Cowboys showed fight, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.839 they showed some guts. They lose to the Steelers, but 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.920 it was all the way down to the last second 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.680 of the football game before it was decided. Cowboys lose 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.320 twenty four to nineteen. And let's go ahead and get 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.080 this on out the way. Barry Church seems to think 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.160 that that, you know, he really was, you know, so 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.600 close that he wants his kudos here. So let's give 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.280 it to Barry here. Church had it twenty four to 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.200 fourteen Steelers. I had it thirty eight thirteen. Pittsburgh DMAC 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.399 had a forty two to ten um Steels. So go ahead, Barry, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.160 go ahead, and kind of victory lap because you got 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.880 to spread, right man. I mean, look, I'm not gonna 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.120 gloat too much on this beautiful monday. Um. You know, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.720 the you know, the breeze is falling out there, the 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.959 sun's out. You know. I wish I would have got 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.280 on the golf course today. This was a perfect golf 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.000 course day. But it was it was a little hectic 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.399 morning in the church household. We had to go to 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.160 places and get passports and all this other stuff. So 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.480 we're moving and shaking a little bit this morning. But 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.160 you know, it's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.520 And knew you bring up no stra domins. You know, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.520 I wasn't gonna say nothing. I was just gonna, you know, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:02.280 let the show go. But but since you brought you know, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.160 since you brought up my superpowers I have, you know, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.080 I had to take it to the spread because usually, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.440 you know, I just guess the win losses. That's where 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.680 my powers end. But you know, mccraig and the captain 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.280 of the Haters Club knew we over there, they always 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.320 you know, talking about no, the spread, the spread, the spread. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:20.800 I was all right, you know what, let me go 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.079 ahead and take my powers to the spread. So I 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:24.640 did it. You know, I had to do what I 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.320 had to do. I knew what was going to happen 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.600 in this game. I knew that the quarterback was going 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.760 to be able to lead us to a close game. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.960 Now I had it wrong. I thought Cooper Rush was 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.600 gonna be the guy to lead us to a close game, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.840 but it ended up being Garrett Gilbert. And I wish 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.360 we had the playback of last week because what I said, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.280 And you guys both laughed at me. Y'all just said, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.399 I'll just dude's crazy. But I said, the only way 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:48.720 the Dallas Cowboys would have a chance is if they 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.440 spread these guys out all over the field and let 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.440 the quarterback throw the ball down the field, throw a 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.919 vertical and attack the secondary. Everybody laugh, Man, they can't 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.960 block that front. Man, you're crazy. They're gonna get this stray. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.200 You're talking about throwing the ball. I just said, okay, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.560 all right, you know we'll see what happens, and glow 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.160 and behold. Gary Gilbert went out there, executed the game playing, 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.520 executed the game plan precisely. I gotta get kudos to 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.799 my boy came more because he he came he came 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.000 to he came to play the other day. He dialed 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.200 it up nicely. He had a nice balance of running past. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.639 But overall, I mean it was it was. It was 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.520 a day for no Stredamas. You know, That's all I 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.160 got to say. Are you done? Are you done that? 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.120 How long did that go? Are you done? Let you're 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.320 talking about See, I wasn't even gonna bring it up. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.480 I was not gonna go ahead. I was gonna sit 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.800 here and just say, you know what, let me knock 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.520 it up. But you do you have your no Paan 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:47.720 Newy Yes, right, So so that handy dad out so 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.760 to that, to that, to that horrible record that church 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.480 has because since he's no Stredamins, just add a one 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.920 to the to the to the win column and see 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.920 if I didn't say anywhere near five hundred. But then 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.640 I did not just put him anywhere. Knew he did? 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.480 I say six and ten at the end of the season, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.360 Did you say six and ten? Let me go back 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.080 to the November nobber when we when we did, when 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.240 we did the reset, I believe I went six and 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.480 ten and y'all laughed at my record, and I gave 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.159 y'all the winds that we're gonna get. I gave y'all 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.280 the winds we're gonna hit, and y'all thought about y'alls 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.720 out there laughed at me. I'm telling you it's coming. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.520 I'm still laughing, Yared, Gilbert's coming. I'm still laughing. Gilbert, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:32.040 it's coming, laughing, double g, double g. He's coming. Man. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.360 Just just wait on it, just wait on it. Knew it, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.240 knew it, knew it. Remember remember remember remember as Church 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.600 is talking, what he specifically said was the only way 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.680 that we go six and ten is if Andy Dalton 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.000 is starting, if Gared Gilbert or Cooper Russ or any 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.120 of those other guys out there, then the betters off. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.279 That is exactly what I can't say. I said, I 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.760 was wrong about it, QUB. I said that at the beginning, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.440 at the beginning of my the beginning of my little speech, 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.400 I said, you know, I was wrong about the cute. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.080 I said, I was wrong. But you know that Gilbert 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.280 great keeps coming through. That's good old Guilbert. So you're 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.960 coming through, So you're changing. So you're changing your bet now, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.279 so you're changing, You're changing the whole, the whole thing. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.279 Because it's just like I understanding six and ten. I'm 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.800 just saying six and ten. That's all I'm saying. That's 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.880 all I'm saying. It's six and ten, good old Gilbert 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.680 coming through the Man Texas. He's coming through. It's six 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.600 and ten for for for Church, four and twelve for 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:35.480 d Mac. I'm sitting here at three and thirteen. Now, um, Barry, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.640 you did put a qualifier on all these, on all 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:44.159 on the six wins, and so now is the qualifier off? Okay, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:49.280 it's a qualifier. Let me all right, I'm gonna tell 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.560 ya what it's at right now. I got the feeling, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.440 you know, Gilbert is gonna go out there the rest 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.520 of it. Say you can't take this away from him, Nate, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.320 if they go out there. Look, I know what I 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.360 said about Andy Dalton, and I said, Andy Dunk gave 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.200 us a bet. But that's before. That's before I sat 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.160 there and looked at Gilbert the other day. That's before 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.440 I sat Gilbert. I told you I was wrong before 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:13.400 this last season, this message. He was out there on 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.560 the topic, all one topic. I backpedal and said, hey, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:24.520 I was wrong about the quarterback. That was it? Okay, Church, Church, Church, Wait, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.080 my bad New Church your backpedal. You reversed on the 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.680 kool a That that's a straight back pedal, all right. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.680 I went from seven to nine to six and ten. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.240 You started off the whole season with me and you 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:36.920 saying that the kool aid and knew we need to 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.799 get off the kool aid and don't make no sense. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.279 And then you backpedal, and then you sipped the kool aid. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.719 That was what happened. Me and Big Mike. Me and 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.520 Big Mike sat down and had a conversation, and you 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.240 know what. From that conversation, I said, you know what, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.120 we got a chance, and now we're gonna go. We're 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.360 gonna go six and ten. I don't know if it's 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.279 gonna win a division. I might be wrong about that, 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.080 but they're gonna go six and ten. So that's another 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:03.920 backped because I'm supposed to win it. I man, this guy, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.280 he just trying to switch. It's a new day. It's 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.760 a new day, all right, it's a new day. Let 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.240 me get Let me get my number three jersey. Ready. Man, 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:18.440 we did lose. It never felt so good to lose 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.000 and so good to be wrong. So I'm gonna take 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.320 that I was right about Gary Gilbert I did not 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.200 have confidence that Kelly Moore would come out and get 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.640 some quick passes out there and get everything started the 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.560 way he did. I don't I wouldn't say that he 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.200 you know, aired it out and threw it down the 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.200 field as much as Shirt said, but he got him 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.640 rolling with some quick passes. He was able to hit 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.840 the tight end. He was able to hit Amari Cooper 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.640 that got the ball into his hands, and you saw 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.080 the impact of what was going on when you did that. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.200 Zeke came out there. They fooled us a little bit 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.200 and making us thing that he wasn't gonna play, and 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:48.640 you know, he came out there and did what he 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.480 had to do. Tony Poler showed up, the defense showed up. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.800 These guys came out there and they played hard. And 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.440 I told you that you could eliminate a lot of 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.760 mistakes by by giving one percent effort, and they were 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.720 able to do that. So I was wrong. I am 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.720 happy about being wrong, and I'm not crowning us. You know, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.440 the NFC each chance based off this game, because I 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.440 still have some thoughts about what happened with the Steelers, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.480 but I am happy that this is how we're going 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.360 into the bye week and it's it's it's weird to 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:15.960 say that after a loss, but the way that this 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:21.120 season is going, I'll take it. Church. I give you 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.280 some breath news. You're ready for it. You're ready for it. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:28.160 It's on Garrett Gilbert. It's about Garrett Gilbert. Okay, you're ready. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.960 I'm waiting for it. Stephen Jonal said today on one 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.280 d five three one five three to Fame on his 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:40.640 radio show Andy Dawn's gonna start. Here we go, Man, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:46.480 here we go. Man, you got the man? I tell 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.880 you what. Man, Look, so you got this is another qualifier? 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.600 Is this is another qual This ain't no more qualifiers? Man, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.160 this ain't no more qualifies. I can't believe. Now you 0:08:55.200 --> 0:09:00.480 tell me. So if Andy Dalton starts, then all bets off. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.640 So no NFC Championship, No. Six and teen. Nah No, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.160 I'm saying with it. I'm staying with it because you 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.720 say that backpedal too much. You know, I'm saying I'm 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.120 staying with it. But man, man, you know I hate 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.360 the question. You know the top, But man, I'm telling 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.400 you what. You gotta ride that way. Man, did you 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.960 see when my boy was going out there? Gilbert was 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.560 out there. From snap one, it seemed like he just 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.559 had the confidence and just the command of this offense. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.079 I mean, we see it. I'm not I'm not saying 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.440 he's Dak Prescott. Let's not pump the break. I'm not 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.920 saying he's that sounds like, but the way he sounds like. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.120 But the way he was playing, But the way he 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.760 was playing, it seemed like he was elevating the rest 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.040 of his guys out there. I mean, his ball placement, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.000 it was only for the receivers out there, except for 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.640 that last play when he got hitting, you know, the 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.720 ball flew up in the air and Fitzpatrick Fictick. But 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.840 other than that, man, the guy was I feel like 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.199 he had the confidence and he passed the eye test. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.280 When we when we was talking about the Nucci the 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.600 other day, I mean, that's night and day. That is 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.200 night and day. We talked about the Duchie having more 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.960 career passes in a real game, all that stuff, but 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.120 that that, I mean, whatever my boy did down there 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.439 and with the Orlando Apoleums or whatever they are, we're 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.319 down there in the aff, it must have got him 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.319 ready because he came in there and he looked good. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.079 He looked polished. I just can't believe they're they're going 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.400 back to the red rifle. But I got I gotta 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:16.880 stick with the ship, man. I gotta go down. I 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.600 gotta go down with the ship if it's going down now. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.360 Gilbert was twenty one thirty eight two hundred forty three yards, 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.800 one touchdown, one interception with a QBR of sixty two 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:34.240 point three m. This is why the way I broke 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.760 it down last night on NBC five here in Dallas 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.760 Fort Worth, on my TV show, I said, Andy Dalton 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:46.319 will get the start, as he should, but but this 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:51.319 is November. Come December, as you start to see where 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.080 this thing goes when they are out of it, then 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.760 you need to be playing Garrett Gilbert because I feel 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.760 like Garrett Gilbert is the guy who can be on 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.320 this team in twenty twenty one. I believe Andy Dalton 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.320 will find himself a job somewhere as a starter in 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.880 the league, and that'll be you know, he'll be He'll 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.839 he won't be here. But I do think that Garrett 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.960 Gilbert showed you enough yesterday that he needs some more time. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.319 You need to look at him again and decide whether 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:19.880 or not you want to lock this guy up as 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.040 a backup quarterback here for you know, a two to 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.600 three year contract and get him at a million million five. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.120 That to me makes the most sense of how I 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.760 see this going. Because look, the Jones family has said 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.000 multiple times on their radio show they are still in this, 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.920 and they are still in this now. I think they're 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.400 going to win a division. I do not, but I 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.760 don't own the team. They do, and that's their thought process. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.920 So they're gonna go with Andy Dalton. But as soon 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.360 as this thing is over, I think you gotta go 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.040 play Garrett Gilbert and see exactly see see some more 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:59.360 of what you've got. You definitely do it. I mean 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.120 I feel like, you know, I feel like well Gilbert 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.080 did out there. I mean he put his audition tape 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.959 out there, he put his resume out there. I mean, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.520 this was for him, This was an opportunity of a lifetime. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:09.720 I mean, you get to come in here and you're 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.080 starting for the Dallas Cowboys. Look, I mean, you have 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.200 nothing else to lose. You're already in there, We're down 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.960 to our fourth quarterback. You know, all you have is 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.040 is upside. You go out there, you play a good game, 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.280 you put your resume out there, you say, you look 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:22.760 at the Cowboys and say, hey, you don't need to 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.600 go out there and get you a backup quarterback. You 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.520 already have what you need in the organization, organization in 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.560 me right here. And he went out there, and I 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.079 think he played good enough to prove that. Now, like you, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.120 you're right new, I think we need to see maybe 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.760 a game or two more before we go ahead and 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.760 give him the job as a backup next year. But 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.040 for me, overall, I think he played pretty good. And 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.600 if it's not here with the Cowboys, his audition tape, 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.280 his resume can go out there to all the other 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.560 thirty one NFL teams out there who's in need of 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.720 a backup quarterback. So for me, I think he did 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.400 his self justice last night on Sunday night. Listen, listen, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.679 I know, I listen. I know we're already to crown Gilbert. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.480 And he went out there and he looked much better 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.960 than the NU she did. And like I said, I 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.360 was happy to see it, but I just can't. I'm 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.400 not gonna give him like I feel like we're giving 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.599 him the MVP of the game, and the MVP of 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.640 the game was the defense. Like by far, they came 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.480 out and they and they stopped Pittsburgh and they and 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.040 they gave these guys a chance, you know, to make 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.280 those plays throughout the game, like the game could have 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.840 could have been out of hand killing Moore came through 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.280 and he controlled the clock. They went on long drives. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.360 The defense came out there and they made plays and 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.920 oh guess what, My MVP of the team, mister Goodwin, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.200 leading the special teams went out there and plays made 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.720 some plays that really changed the game. Special teams was 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.600 was all noticed this time, and it was for positive reason, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.120 not negative. So if you look at this entire game, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.480 this was a full team win, special teams, defense and offense. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.839 Gary Gilber, he did exactly what he needed to do 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.120 to keep us in the game. But in order for 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.120 us to you know, do what Church says and win 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.560 the division and six and ten, we have to play 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.240 a complete game every single game, because we lost and 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.320 we played almost perfectly in every every phase of the game. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.680 So it's gonna be a long role for us. But 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.320 we could continue to do that and be perfect everywhere, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.200 then we have a chance to do what Church said. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.160 But I mean, that's that's that's difficult to do. Yeah, 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.600 and I know we're gonna he said, full team win, Danny. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:22.920 I know you didn't meet it that way, but yes, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:28.080 it was a full team. Oh yeah, listen, yeah, you're right, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.640 You're right. I feel like we want I don't know 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.960 if that's why I said, I've never felt so good 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.160 after a loss. It feels like we won something. And 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.680 whoever says there's no such thing as a moral victory, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.520 they were absolutely wrong. World victories exist, and we just 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.840 got one. And we just got one. Nate Newton said 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.360 on Hanging with the Boys, he was addedly against these 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.080 moral victories. He doesn't buy into it. He doesn't believe it. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.880 And Nate Newton comes from that Jimmy Johnson school, which 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.080 produced two Super Bowl championships, and what Jimmy left, they 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.160 ended up winning a third with everything he built here. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:06.960 So I'll go go ahead inside with Nate Newton. Look 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.280 how far, Look how far the bar? Look how far 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.400 the bar has fallen? We're sitting up. I mean, look, look, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:21.520 I'm in the prost lost as well. But look, Dallas boy, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.600 that's my boy, Nate and everything. But man, he's wrong 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.520 on this one. I don't care what he got to say. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.040 We gotta ride this momentum. I mean, we gotta take 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.360 it whichever way we can, if it's in a losing effort. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.200 But we ended up being competitive and being respectable against 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.640 the number one team in the NFL. I'll take that. Man, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.600 Take that momentum and rat for the next week. Man, Church, Church, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.080 How are you guys sitting around here? I mean, this 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.760 is what they're paid to do. Jerry Jones is laid 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.400 out some very good dollars to people like Take Lords 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.720 who had a good game yesterday, Tyrone Crawford, who had 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.440 a good game yesterday. I mean, this is what you're 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.160 supposed to do. You're not supposed to allow a team 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.600 to come into your house and beat you down. You're 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.640 supposed to compete. You're supposed to do what they did. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:13.320 Oh hold on, yeah, no, no, no, it come out. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.200 Knew it KNEWI hold on, you're talking about you're talking 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.680 about going you're talking about going against one of the 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.400 number one teams in the NFL and we on a 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.480 fourth stream quarterback with a makeshift offensive line and the 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.240 defense that nobody thought could stop anybody, and they came 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.680 out there and did exactly that, And you like, yeah, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.400 this is what they paid to do. We've been watching 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.960 what they were supposed to be paid to do for 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.640 the entire season and it hadn't been getting done. So 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.360 now when they actually remember this, the defense played well 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.720 against well enough against Washington, they played well enough against 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.160 a Philly, and now that they are trending in the 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.680 right direction of getting better, I'm taking this. Keep making 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.760 those steps. Get you a quarterback in there and play 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.040 against somebody who's not undefeated, and I think if you could. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.960 But no, I don't, I don't. I don't know about that. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.440 Like I said, it was, it was one hundred percent effort. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.080 Look at there, Well what he but you rying act 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.000 like y'all going to Chucky Cheese and celebrate. That's what 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.119 I don't get. That's the thing. It ain't that, you 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:10.680 know what I'm saying. I'm just I'm I was just 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.880 excited because you know, no Shre Diamonds had came back. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.040 That's that. I was more exciting about Nore Diamonds. But 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.520 we're gonna we're gonna pump the brakes a little bit 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.240 on the boys. You know. It was definitely it was 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.640 a loss, but it was tell you something I don't 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.600 let me tell you something I don't. I don't think 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.560 this makes any sense. All right. We've been coming on 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.680 this show every week with feeling it absolutely horrible about everything, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.440 seeing effort and seeing how we're getting blown out all 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.600 this stuff, and then when you have something positive, all 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.960 being in a loss when we were driving on the 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.280 last player the game to score and that type of 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.040 loss happens to you. With what we've been seeing previously, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.800 this is a positive thing. We did not win the game, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.359 but if you're looking for something to move forward, like 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.240 you're looking for guys who're trying to save their jobs 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.840 special teams coach, defensive coordinator and all that stuff, this 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.000 is something positive where you could cut on the film 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.400 and you can say, hey, look, fellas, we are able 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.200 to compete with any team. If we come out here 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.560 and we don't make it make those mistakes and we 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.800 play up to our ability, we can play with these guys. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.720 This is something that you can turn on the tape 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.640 and you can have some confidence when you go into 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.679 the next weeks of the season versus coming out here 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.920 and getting beat by sixty and you're like, hey man, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.160 look let's throw the tape away, all right, you got 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.639 some stuff you can cut on right now. And you 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.239 got some stuff you can cut on right now going 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.879 into the bye week, and you say, if we fix this, this, that, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.240 and that, we got a chance to really be competitive 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.280 for the rest of the season. Yeah, we got a chance. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.960 Well check check out hanging. I told y'all with what 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:39.119 Nate Newton was saying today, it's along the line to 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.359 what you said, McRae. But at the end he says, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.960 I'm not going to celebrate moral victories. We've got to 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.200 take a break. Okay, We've got to take a break 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.800 when we come back. There was one play in the 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.280 game that people kept talking about over and over again, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.399 and it's been on all of our shows here on 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.080 Dallas Cowboys dot Com about the fourth and one where 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.119 Mike McCarthy signed to kick a field goal instead of 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.280 going for it. 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Let's 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:52.320 take a listen, Doctor pet Cream sodas he a new combone. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:21:01.040 Let's music to my years. Okay, Doctor at the time, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.920 Music to my ears and mouth, New Doctor Pepper and 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.800 Cream Soda. Delash. Just do back back to the players loud, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.760 Hey everybody. The Cowboys will be back at home at 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.679 at and T Stadium on Thanksgiving Day to take on 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.960 the Washington football team. Tickets start at eighty nine dollars 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.240 and they're on sale now. Get yours today at Dallas 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:33.840 Cowboys dot Com slash tickets. The Washington football team lost 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.040 at home to the Giants yesterday. Alex Smith comes off 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.560 the bench and he fills in for Kyle Allen, who 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.639 suffered a broken ankle. He's going to miss the rest 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:48.080 of the year. And what was telling about Ron Rivera 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.760 today when he spoke to the media, he says they 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:55.800 need to find a franchise quarterback. That basically tells me 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.280 all I need to know that the Dwayne Haskins era 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.800 is done. It's finished, it's over. He's not going back 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.960 to Haskins. He'll play this thing out with Alex Smith. Yeah, 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.439 it's a rap for my boy Haskins out there. I 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.879 mean when when they decided to go with Kyle Allen, 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.720 I mean they didn't just you know, bench Haskin. They 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.240 throw him up under the bench and I don't even 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:17.880 know if he came back next week to the game. 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.359 So I mean it's it's rough out here for him 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:21.960 right now. I mean, that's got to be a big 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.439 time confidence below. You went from a first round I 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.440 believe he was a top ten pick and supposed to 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.120 be the franchise guy to what a year later, he's 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.200 you know, he stirred on the depth chart behind the 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:34.680 guy who battled back from having a broken leg. So, 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.960 I mean, it's it's tough right now for my boy Haskins. 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.280 But we'll see. Maybe he'll get up out of Washington 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.520 and turn into a better quarterback. But who knows. Let 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.480 me tell you something. What Haskins right, The word I 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.280 don't askins is you know, the guy was lazy. He 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.479 wasn't doing what he's supposed to do as as as 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:53.200 the supposed franchise quarterback putting in that type of work. 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.040 And when when when the coach gives you that confidence 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.840 and they put their job on the line by putting 0:22:57.840 --> 0:22:59.680 you out there, and that's the type of stuff that 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.199 you get them in return by them being able to 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.639 figure it out and see that you're not studying and 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:06.520 picking this stuff and that's the reason why you're not 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:08.520 picking this stuff up. Yeah, they gotta put you far 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.680 back like that, man, because you didn't respect the positions 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.280 that they have, so they don't have to respect respect 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.919 the position that they tried to give you. So you know, 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.280 you lost the respect of the coaching staff. So I 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:21.640 mean it should be the end of the Dwayne Haskins era. There, 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:24.600 let me back up what you just said there, Danny 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:28.040 McCray here on the players Line spotty by Hotels dot Com. 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.080 Your head coach is out here getting cancer treatment. He's 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.560 putting his life on the line to be out here 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.720 at coach football for anybody to sit around here and say, hey, 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:39.840 Alex Smith is the first quarterback in the building and 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:42.199 not you, Dwayne Haskins. That's not good. So I hit 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.760 up a buddy of mine who covers the team, and 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:49.000 I said, he almost. I said, so Ron has no 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:51.639 time for Haskins anymore? He says, Nope, pretty obvious. Then 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:53.680 I hit him back, I said, almost, sounds like he's 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.679 offended by Haskins. Is his work ethic? That back? And 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.760 hits back. He says he doesn't listen, thinks criticism is 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:04.359 hate out. Okay, that's that you're out man. That's that 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:07.200 younger mentality man to it. Just you know, these younger 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:10.280 players coming in the league now, they's you know, feeling entitled, like, yeah, 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.200 I was a first round pixel. You know, I deserve 0:24:12.280 --> 0:24:14.160 every type of chance I need to get and this 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.000 is my team I'm eating. If you got to earn 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:18.439 the respect of your teammates, your coaches, and it's not 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:20.800 just what you do on the field, man. So that's 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:24.520 just the mentality that this younger generation has. Now, Yeah, 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:27.240 that's the type of attitude you can have if you 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:31.359 out there baller, if you out there singing it up. No, no, 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:34.080 serve because because they got they got, they got like 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:36.639 specific stuff that they could point out for reasons why 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:39.439 that you may be sucking, even if that's not the reason, 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:41.639 like they have to assume that that's what it is. 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:43.800 So you know, you get, you put that stuff out 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:45.480 there on film, and you put that stuff out there, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:47.280 you know, for people to see that you're not really 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:49.440 working hard, and you kind of got you know, what 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:53.920 was coming to you. So that's that's the latest from Washington. 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.800 The next Cowboys home getting Cowboys are on They by 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:58.760 next week, then after the bye week they head up 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:02.240 two minutesota. You are checking out the players laubaty by 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:05.200 Hotels dot com and we scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:08.800 by former Cowboys players Danny McCrae and Barry Church. We 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:13.960 are our SWBC Mortgage Virtual home Studios. So a big 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.080 topic of conversation happened at near the end of the 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:21.159 third quarter, not two seventeen left. Cowboys have a fourth 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.399 and one at the twenty two of the Steelers and 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.160 Mike McCarthy decides to kick a field goal. They make 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:29.800 the field goal, they go up nineteen to nine. I 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.520 had no issues with that call. At all. One of 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:37.000 the things that I said is, look, this is an 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:40.040 offensive line. This is not even the offensive line you 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.480 thought you were going to have. Sixty minutes before the 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:45.439 football game. You had your rookie center Tyler Padish go 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:47.560 out with a hamstring injury, and Stephen Jones says he's 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.320 going to miss a couple of weeks. So you got 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:53.479 an offensive line that I'm sorry, it's not the dudes 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:56.159 you've come to know and love with the Cowboys. You 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:59.199 got one guy out here who's a ball, who's a 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:03.200 legitimate pro or that is your right tackle, Zach Martin. 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.200 So when he said, man, I'm gonna go ahead and kicking, 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:07.679 I had no problems with it because I looked at 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:09.440 the offensive line and said, who, dom I. If I'm 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:10.720 going to bet right now, who am I going to 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:13.320 bet on the Steelers D line or the Cowboys old line, 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.080 I'd be I'd be going with the Cowboys. I mean, 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:17.960 I'd be going with the Steelers D line to stop me. 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.320 So I had no problems with the kicking that field goal. Mccraig, 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:24.600 what do you say, Yeah, I mean I thought it 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:26.399 made sense. I mean, you, if you look at the 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:28.679 other side of you know what you were going against. 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:31.880 You see why out there, and then you see Hayward 0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:34.320 who was who was having it having a time with 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:37.000 our offensive line. So I think it may sense you 0:26:37.000 --> 0:26:39.400 go about two scores. I mean, why not, Like you're 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:41.800 playing to win the game. Your defense is playing okay, 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:43.239 so you get them a chance to go out there, 0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:45.440 you know, and make some stops. I don't have any 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.440 problem with it. This is not one of the instances 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:49.400 where I would say that Mike McCarthy made a bad 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:51.199 cult of decision. I thought it was I thought it 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:55.080 was cool either way. Yeah for me. I look, we 0:26:55.080 --> 0:26:57.359 were talking about this in the in the studio before 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:59.600 the post game show, and we kind of talked about 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:01.280 this same thing. You know, would you have gone for 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:03.879 it or would you have kick the field goal? For me, 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:05.919 you know, I thought it was a good call. But 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:08.040 if I was on the sidelines coach, and if no 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:10.639 Shore Damas was out there, I would have went for it. 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:13.720 I mean, look, I understand, you know, your defense was 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:16.880 playing decent or pretty good against the against the Steelers, 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:18.600 and you can add points to add to that lead 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:20.719 and and all that good stuff. But to me, I 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:23.399 think you gotta go with you're all pro running back 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:25.280 and you go right behind your all pro guard and 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:27.480 Zach Martin and you try to salt this game away. 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:29.280 I mean, look, you know, at the end of the day, 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:32.280 was he wrong for the call. No, But I would 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:35.679 have tried to salt it away going behind, going behind 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:37.800 Zach Martin because look, even if you have a ten 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:39.919 point leading the fourth, I mean, you're not playing against 0:27:40.040 --> 0:27:42.240 Danny Diames back there at the quarterback. You're going against 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:44.840 Ben Roethlisberger, and this guy we've known can heat up 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:47.119 at any time with that explosive offense. So for me, 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:49.120 I would have tried to solve the game away. But 0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:52.000 I can understand why I kicked the field goal. Now. 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.320 Now I'm gonna throw this out here because I've heard 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:56.240 several people come back and hey, you got Zack Martin. 0:27:56.760 --> 0:27:58.680 I think they weren't gonna maybe throw cam Hey way 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:00.840 out there, so you think they were gonna say, hey, look, 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:03.359 we think they're gonna run behind this dude, let's load 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:05.600 up right here, because we don't believe they're gonn run 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:09.040 behind Carter Williams. Oh No. First of all, Carnor Williams 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:10.720 had one of the worst games I've ever seen. But 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:12.919 we'll get We'll get the Williams here in the So 0:28:13.000 --> 0:28:15.760 on your fourth game play, you say, run behind Zach, 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:17.840 And I'm telling you, if the Steelers are gonna sit 0:28:17.920 --> 0:28:20.359 up here and say yeah, they're gonna run, we're gonna 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:22.359 go ahead, and let's figure out a way to to 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:24.439 to plug up this whole long seventy. But this is 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:26.440 where we think they're gonna go. We think they're gonna 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:28.080 go over here to the right, not to the left. 0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:30.720 And and so I'm just saying I think the Steelers 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:33.439 would have stopped that thing. That's when you gotta have 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:35.520 belief in your players. I mean, you gotta all pro 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:37.600 guard right there. You got all pro running back. We 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:45.360 know he hasn't been, but he did. He believed in 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:47.920 his kicker, in his defense. He believed in his kicker 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:50.840 and his defense. And you know, and his defense defense 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:52.320 had earned that at this point in time of the 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:54.240 game too. They had earned that. They had they had 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:57.120 earned that. But but you're also going against Ben Roethlisberger too, 0:28:57.160 --> 0:28:59.240 Like you got a chance to salt this thing away. 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:04.560 I just don't think you get a chance. And it 0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:06.880 wasn't gonna be salt to the way. That's the thing. 0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:12.360 It would not assaulted the way put it. It would 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:15.000 have put it out there. Though. The only thing I 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:20.240 say for you, Church, is because Ben Roethlisberger, Ben Roethlisberger 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:22.680 is out there and I and I and you know, 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:24.720 as much praise as I gave our defense, I think 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:26.880 one of the worst things that happened was us stopping 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:30.440 the run because, uh, you know, our pass defense was 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:33.600 put on notice last night again, Claypool was dropping all 0:29:33.680 --> 0:29:35.760 type of passes. Ben Roethlisberger was a little bit off, 0:29:36.000 --> 0:29:38.240 but when he came down to it, uh, and they 0:29:38.320 --> 0:29:39.960 really need to throw the ball, it was like they 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:43.320 couldn't miss. Uh. So I feel you, Church, you know, 0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:46.080 saying that Ben Roethlisberger was back there. You just had 0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:48.240 to watch the defense and seen the performance to say, 0:29:48.400 --> 0:29:51.240 at some point in time, be Ben Roethlisberger and Claypool 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:53.080 and all those guys, they were going to start connecting. 0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:55.040 So I can feel that, but I would still go 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:58.760 up two scores. And you know what, you know, I'll 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:00.360 give it to y'all because you know what you would 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:01.840 have had. And I'm sure we'll get We'll get to 0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:03.600 this after the break. But I'm sure we would have 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:06.120 had a stop right there hadn't it been for some 0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:09.680 of the dumbest penalties I've ever seen that live. 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But then there's a 0:33:21.720 --> 0:33:28.600 penalty on Jalen Smith here and boom there you go. 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:31.160 Next thing, you know, they end up going down the 0:33:31.160 --> 0:33:35.120 field and getting a touchdown. And remember the other play 0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:38.480 they had fumble. They had a fumble and then Jalen 0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:40.760 got a called for penalty there that led to point. 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:45.480 So Jalen's two penalties in this football game basically cost 0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:51.320 the Cowboys ten points. They led to ten. You're getting 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:53.440 off the feel on third down, getting off the feeld 0:33:53.480 --> 0:33:55.840 on third down, and then you had then you had 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:58.040 the hands in the face. Then you had vanderest with 0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:00.760 the stupid play. But but your defense. Yeah, here's the 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:03.200 guys that that Mike McCarthy said. You know what d 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:05.440 you guys from playing well? Is kick this and let's 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:07.800 see where we go. You'r d and two guys that 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:10.040 you were counting on here, one guy you just paid 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:12.160 sixty three million dollars. Another guy you made a first 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:15.520 round pick. Out of these two guys had plays in 0:34:15.560 --> 0:34:18.279 this football game which helped the Steelers. That was the 0:34:18.280 --> 0:34:20.880 one thing you couldn't do. You couldn't help them. The 0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:24.279 Cowboys d helped them despite doing all they could here. 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:25.719 And that's why a guy like Nate knew it was 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:28.480 about no moral victories because here the Cowboys still like 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:30.799 his shooting themselves in the foot. We didn't even got 0:34:30.800 --> 0:34:35.520 to the turnovers that the offense created in this football game. Yeah, 0:34:35.560 --> 0:34:37.759 this was this was a brutal one for me. I mean, 0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:41.120 you had them going. It seemed like Mike McCarthy had 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:43.800 made the right call, but kicking the field goal and 0:34:43.920 --> 0:34:46.000 relying on his defense, and it seemed like he did 0:34:46.080 --> 0:34:48.279 the right thing because his defense had showed up and 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:50.680 like you said, on that third down, they had got 0:34:50.719 --> 0:34:54.080 him off the field. But it's it's about situational awareness 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:56.200 and where you are on the field. Man, you gotta 0:34:56.239 --> 0:34:59.359 realize what down and distance is. My guy went in there, 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:02.680 Willie Nilly, throwing his hands up trying to block the past. 0:35:02.760 --> 0:35:04.520 I get it, you're putting that effort in there, but 0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:07.200 you just gotta understand where you are and you gotta 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:09.680 see everything around you. He hit him in the head 0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:11.680 with the hands to the face or whatever. It was 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:14.719 rough in the pastor that extended to play, and you 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.000 gotta know the rules. I mean, you're not a rookie 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:20.120 out here. You're a veteran, you're a captain that you're 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:22.160 a captain of this defense, supposed to be the leader, 0:35:22.520 --> 0:35:25.480 and then you get a cheap you know, pass an 0:35:25.480 --> 0:35:27.360 inference call. But you gotta know the rules. He was 0:35:27.400 --> 0:35:29.480 past five yards. You can't put your hands on a 0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:32.000 on a receiver. After that, you give him a chuck 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:34.080 trying to reroute him or something, and he ends up 0:35:34.120 --> 0:35:37.719 going down. It's costful, super costful for your defense and 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:39.399 your team. And if you want to go out there 0:35:39.640 --> 0:35:42.360 and beat these you know, number one ranked teams and 0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:44.279 all that other stuff, you gotta play a perfect game. 0:35:44.400 --> 0:35:46.120 You gotta play a sound game. You gotta play a 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.360 smart game. And that's just something that we didn't do 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:50.600 on the defensive side of the ball. McCray, I'll let 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:52.840 you hit that LPE one because that was that was 0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:56.880 just as dumb as this Jaylen Smith penalties. Yeah, listen 0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:59.960 and listen. I understand the frustration with the whole Jay 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:03.840 the Smith thing. Uh, sometimes those things happen, right, So 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:05.759 some of some of the best pass rushers and all that, 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.320 some are running there and you know, and they're giving effort, 0:36:08.440 --> 0:36:10.440 and you know sometimes that the hand hits the face 0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:12.680 masks and you know, they protecting the quarterback these days, 0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:15.120 sometimes that type of stuff happened out. You know at 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:18.000 the time, the timing was horrible, but I mean, I'm 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:19.640 not I'm not gonna kill Jay Leon Smith for that. 0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:22.080 And it's rerout penalty. You know, he was maybe a 0:36:22.160 --> 0:36:25.080 yard or so too far. You know, Claypool was off 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:27.720 balance and he fell and you know he drew the penalty. 0:36:27.920 --> 0:36:30.799 It was, it was. It was a bad thing to do, 0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:32.719 but I'm not gonna kill him for that. What either, 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:34.960 he was trying to to reroute the receiver to help 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:37.000 out the secondary. You know he shouldn't he shouldn't have 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:38.440 done it, but I'm not gonna kill him for that. 0:36:38.800 --> 0:36:41.040 I don't really just think it was that dumb and now, 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:45.080 compared to LVS, I did not understand that at all. 0:36:45.160 --> 0:36:48.080 You tackle the dude and he's trying to get you 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:50.759 off of them, you already know that you're pushing your 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:52.160 weight on him and you're not getting off him as 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:54.840 quickly as you need to. And he felt disrespected. The 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:57.560 dude pushed you and you pushed him in the helmet. 0:36:58.239 --> 0:37:00.600 It don't like it don't make no sense. It wasn't 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:03.759 It wasn't as bad as the dude from Chicago, but 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:06.520 it was it was almost as costly. Like you guys 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:08.520 are rolling at this point and then all of the 0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:10.680 stuff you start racking up penalties. This was not an 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.719 effort penalty like Jayals Smiths. This was not a technique 0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:16.560 penally like Jalen Smiths. This was just a dumb penalty. 0:37:16.719 --> 0:37:18.799 And that's why I think that one was worse than 0:37:19.160 --> 0:37:21.839 Jalen's as far as decision making. It just it's something 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:24.080 that you could have one hundred percent avoided and it 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:26.919 didn't have anything to do with the action will play 0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:28.759 on the field. So I think that that one was 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:31.080 worse than the two that Jalen did. But like you 0:37:31.080 --> 0:37:32.759 said in this press conference, he does have to come 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:35.400 in and take accountability for it because he's not coached 0:37:35.440 --> 0:37:36.880 up to do those type of things. Yeah, it was 0:37:36.880 --> 0:37:39.200 a mistake. You were playing harder and you and you 0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:42.680 made a mistake and you just got on it. You 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:45.080 can't help a team like the Steelers out, and in 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:47.320 the fourth quarter the Cowboys helped them. That's how the 0:37:47.360 --> 0:37:50.680 Steelers ended up scoring fifteen points and getting to win. 0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:52.680 I also want to flip it back over here to 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:56.680 the offense. The offense is still out here committing more 0:37:56.719 --> 0:37:59.640 turnovers than anyone in the National Football League. You had 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:02.400 a fumble by CD Lamb, and then you had the 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:05.160 Cowboys in the red zone and Garrett Gilbert throws a 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:07.919 interception to meet to meet a Fitzpatrick in the back 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:10.000 of the end zone and you simply can't do that. 0:38:10.440 --> 0:38:15.279 And you can say, well, maybe this was on Kelly Moore. 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:18.040 Run the football, take the points. But then again I 0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:19.640 laugh at that a little bit because I heard some 0:38:19.680 --> 0:38:21.799 people talking about that as well, saying, you know what, 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:23.800 you got to protect quarterback, don't sit around here and 0:38:23.840 --> 0:38:26.239 let him throw the ball. Well, if you're going to 0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:27.600 go for it on fourth and one and you want 0:38:27.640 --> 0:38:29.440 to be aggressive, what's the same. What's the difference here? 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:31.200 I mean, if you try to be aggressive, you'll be aggresive. 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:33.760 They try to be conservative, then they try to be aggressive. 0:38:33.800 --> 0:38:36.960 So so there you go. But the problem for Gilbert, 0:38:37.000 --> 0:38:38.640 and this is a young guy making his first start, 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:41.239 and you can't really beat him up. But your job 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:44.120 is to try to make sure you secure an opportunity 0:38:44.400 --> 0:38:46.879 to kick a field goal. If they kick that field goal, 0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:49.160 then that final possession is not about a touchdown. The 0:38:49.200 --> 0:38:52.480 final possessions about trying to get Greg's rline and arrange 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:54.799 to kick a field goal, and who knows, maybe they 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:57.240 end up winning that game. But at the same time, 0:38:57.520 --> 0:38:59.680 I come back to this, that's why the Steelers are 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:01.840 under feed it why the Cowboys are two and seven. 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:04.200 These are the reasons you don't do the things you 0:39:04.200 --> 0:39:06.359 need to do the other team does, and that's how 0:39:06.400 --> 0:39:08.960 that's how winning and losing is dictated the national football 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:14.520 You're completely right offensively. I mean, look, we had it 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:16.640 right there and we and we gave the game away. 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:20.440 I mean, look at the last time we played turnover 0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:23.160 free football on the offensive side of the ball was 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:25.680 Week one against the Los Angeles Rams, and that was 0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:27.560 the only game that we were kind of in in 0:39:27.760 --> 0:39:29.840 besides this game. That's the only game we were really in. 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:32.840 And we were playing turnover free football for a while 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:34.960 until you know, cdee Lamb you know, costed up and 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:37.440 even then we were still in the game until that 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:40.799 last turnover with Meka fix Patrick. So as as as 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:43.120 a team that's not you know, their minus all they're 0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:45.760 all pros, their minus this and that and all these injuries. 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:48.320 For the most part, you're gonna have to play perfect 0:39:48.320 --> 0:39:49.960 game and turning the ball over is not going to 0:39:50.040 --> 0:39:51.800 help that, and we ended up giving us one a 0:39:51.800 --> 0:39:56.480 way to Pittsburgh. Yeah, that it was tough because, like 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:59.359 I said, you know all three phases at one point 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:02.040 they were playing, they were playing outstanding, and they were 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:03.759 doing everything they needed to do to keep us in 0:40:03.800 --> 0:40:06.680 the game. Albeit, like I said, if this was the 0:40:06.719 --> 0:40:08.640 game for us to be the big time team Philly, 0:40:08.800 --> 0:40:11.640 I mean, the Stillers coming in here, you know, an 0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:14.040 undefeated record, trying to avoid a letdown and all that 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:15.799 stuff and all that planning took. This was the time 0:40:15.800 --> 0:40:17.680 for us to do it, and we did. Like I said, 0:40:17.680 --> 0:40:19.960 we played well, and I'm giving it the moral victory, 0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:22.160 but the fact that we could have actually won the game, 0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:25.000 it doesn't hurt as much as those ones in the past. 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.080 But like I said, I'm optimistic now because I know 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:30.920 that we can actually play better even with the guys 0:40:30.920 --> 0:40:32.719 that we have out there on the field. As long 0:40:32.760 --> 0:40:35.720 as Kelling calls the game, calls a good game, special 0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:37.799 teams good game, and defense good game. As long as 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:39.720 they called good games and put these guys in position 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:41.480 to make plays. We have a chance to go out 0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:44.359 there and at least at least do something to you know, 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:48.200 to stay competitive. It sounds like you're moving towards the 0:40:48.560 --> 0:40:50.880 six and ten round. Man, are you coming over here 0:40:50.920 --> 0:40:56.520 with your boy? No? No, no, absolutely absolutely not, because 0:40:56.520 --> 0:40:59.239 this is this is one game. This is one game 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.799 up the season where where we have been able to 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:04.680 say that, you know, all three phases, you know, for 0:41:04.800 --> 0:41:08.040 the most part, played played played well. You know, I said, 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:11.000 we still gave gave away two turnovers, you know, ceedee lamb, 0:41:11.120 --> 0:41:13.399 you know, and in the pick at the end. But 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:16.640 you know, outside of that, these guys played. They played outstanding, 0:41:16.800 --> 0:41:19.120 really and uh, I don't see that happening week and 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:21.879 hinding week out, but I hope it does. But uh, 0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:25.160 you know that it's tough. It's tough to duplicate that, especially, 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:27.560 you know, I'm sure they had a little little bit 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:29.239 extra going in there, knowing that they were playing against 0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:31.560 the Steelers undefeated team and they had had the chance 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:33.319 to knock those guys off. They won't be doing that 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:37.440 every week. I will say that, speaking speak speaking of 0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:41.600 somebody that played out of their mind. Um nevill Gallimore. 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:43.800 I don't know if you guys. I mean watch that. 0:41:43.960 --> 0:41:47.040 But he played an amazing game in that defensive line. 0:41:47.040 --> 0:41:49.719 I mean, I see like that that that pole done. 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:52.000 Terry Poe was like a cloud over. He just was. 0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:54.120 It was like a stopper for for Nevil Gallimore, just 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.480 keeping them under wraps. But now that he's gone, they 0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:58.959 shipped him on up out of here. Nevill Gallimore played 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:01.080 a heck of a game and he was going against 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.520 arguably one of the top centers in the National Football 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:06.720 League and Marquis Bouncy, and he was throwing him around 0:42:06.760 --> 0:42:09.120 like a ragdall out there. So if we can continue 0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:12.279 to get that effort from Neville Gallimore, maybe winning more 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:14.080 of his one on ones out there, opening things up 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:15.719 for d Law and the rest of the boys. I 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:17.920 didn't think I'd ever say that somebody else beside d 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:21.279 Law he lying, But I mean he played. He played 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:23.440 a phenomenal game out there, and hopefully he can keep 0:42:23.480 --> 0:42:26.719 that going for the rest of the season. Randy Gregory too, 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:28.759 But tell me this, are you are you about to 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:31.760 take the MVP from my dude, CJ after one game? 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:36.640 Because na, no, no, CJ. CJ has been playing lights 0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:39.400 out special teams wise, this whole season. We saw it. 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:42.239 Not only did he take that return back, but I 0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:44.440 mean he was making gunner plays out there left and right. 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:46.879 So I mean CJ to me is still the MVP man. 0:42:48.320 --> 0:42:52.439 Galimore had that hit on Ben Roethlisberger that ended up, Yeah, 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:54.280 he had to go to the locker room because his knee. 0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:57.240 His knee had took a lick out there. So Gallimore 0:42:57.280 --> 0:42:59.640 was showing the fight that you want, Randy Gregory showing 0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:02.359 the fight that you want. But Church six and ten 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:04.840 is not going to happen as long as the Cowboys 0:43:04.920 --> 0:43:08.000 keep going into these football games and giving the ball away. 0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:10.720 I mean, you just simply cannot do this. And nobody 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:13.399 in the NFL right now gives it away more than 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:17.319 the Cowboys. And also I'll flip onto this. Yesterday that 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:20.279 game between the Steelers and the Cowboys, it came down 0:43:20.320 --> 0:43:23.400 to the red zone. The Steelers converted two of three, 0:43:23.600 --> 0:43:27.239 Dallas was over two. And my boy Nate always has 0:43:27.239 --> 0:43:28.960 that saying the more field goals you kick, the more 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:31.840 opportunities you're going to have to lose. And the Cowboys 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:35.480 have got to start getting those red zone conversions and 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:39.880 just stop giving the football away. And if that doesn't happen. 0:43:40.480 --> 0:43:43.000 They can't beat Minnesota. You're not gonna be able to 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:45.640 beat Baltimore or Cincinnati or other teams on your schedule 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:49.160 because you're allowing teams to hang in there and you're 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:51.600 giving teams possessions, and you just can't do that in 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:55.279 this league, especially when your football team is down the 0:43:55.400 --> 0:43:59.640 significant Pro Bowl players like the Cowboys offer. You know, 0:43:59.840 --> 0:44:01.960 you're all right about that. I will say we do 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:04.040 have to do a better job of taking care of 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:06.480 the football. I mean, we know defensively we're not going 0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:08.080 to go out there and take the ball away all 0:44:08.120 --> 0:44:10.279 like that, so as an offense, we gotta take better 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:12.399 care of it. And you're also right about the red zone. 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:14.360 I mean, we're walking too many times we've gotten to 0:44:14.520 --> 0:44:16.600 that red zone and we're walking away with field goals 0:44:16.760 --> 0:44:19.480 instead of touchdowns. And against teams like Pittsburgh, you can't 0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:21.120 do that. You're gonna have to go up there and 0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:24.440 match touchdowns for touchdowns. But I will say this, offensively, 0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:26.480 we were better on third down. I believe we were 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:29.000 eight of seventeen, so almost fifty percent on third down, 0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:31.280 which is a good number. That means that we're extending 0:44:31.280 --> 0:44:33.440 these drives and keeping our defense off the field. So 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:36.040 if we can keep doing that, hopefully these red zone 0:44:36.120 --> 0:44:38.799 numbers turn around and hey, you never know, six and ten, 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:41.960 it's looking like it's on the horizon. It's right over there. 0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:45.520 It's reachable. It's reachable. I'm telling I'm gonna repeat. I'm 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:47.120 gonna repeat this, and I'm gonna repeat this for the 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:51.839 entirety of the season. There are two people on the 0:44:51.880 --> 0:44:55.040 field that you have to get the ball in their hands. 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:57.759 I'm sure you guys know this by now. One of 0:44:57.800 --> 0:45:00.160 them is named of Mary Cooper and one number his 0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:02.720 name is Ezekiel Elliot. Get the ball in their hands 0:45:02.840 --> 0:45:05.479 the whole I think, the whole game play. Everything changed. 0:45:05.520 --> 0:45:07.680 When you can get the ball in nineteens hands. The 0:45:07.719 --> 0:45:09.520 defense has to play different. And when they see that 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:12.320 he's involved, he actually goes out there and makes plays, 0:45:12.360 --> 0:45:14.440 opens it up for other people. And I see that 0:45:14.440 --> 0:45:16.000 they put him in the slide, got him a good 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:19.080 matchup that he wanted and get you know, and Gilbert 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:21.680 delivered a good ball. And once I saw that, I 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:24.520 figured that we had a chance to do something offensively. 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:26.759 And I hope they continue to do so, because when 0:45:26.800 --> 0:45:31.080 you don't have them involved. Our offense is anning. Let 0:45:31.239 --> 0:45:33.799 let me ask you a quick question, real quick question, 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:35.600 real quick. I know we got short on time there, 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:39.319 But do y'all believe that Tony Pollard earned the right 0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:46.200 to scrape a couple carries off of Ezekiel Elliot's work level? No, 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:51.080 I don't. I think. I think, I think, I think. 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:53.440 See this is what happens, right, because if if you 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:55.640 look at any team that plays, you can see watch 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:58.000 the Minnesota Vikings and then Dalwin Cooker going there and 0:45:58.040 --> 0:46:00.920 get stuffed on second down, and that Madison to come 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:02.799 in and break off a twelve yard run. That does 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:05.680 not mean that Madison is better than Dalvin cook Sometimes 0:46:05.680 --> 0:46:07.839 the play just doesn't open up like that. Poler did 0:46:07.840 --> 0:46:09.759 exactly what he was supposed to do, and it's and 0:46:09.760 --> 0:46:12.319 it's uh when he got the opportunity to. But he 0:46:12.400 --> 0:46:15.120 not Ezekiel Elliott, you know. So, I mean, I would 0:46:15.120 --> 0:46:16.879 continue to do the same thing that they've been doing. 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:19.520 But I want to see Ezekiel Elloby feature much more 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:23.040 than I want to see Tony Pollo. I agree with 0:46:23.160 --> 0:46:26.800 what you said, McCray. I'll add this, I know, doctor, 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:29.200 I haven't had a chance to ask Ezekil Elliot this, 0:46:29.360 --> 0:46:32.480 But I do wonder could there be some effects from 0:46:32.520 --> 0:46:36.640 having COVID nineteen. Could there be because we're seeing a 0:46:36.680 --> 0:46:39.279 guy who's not performing at the level we thought. I'm 0:46:39.280 --> 0:46:41.680 looking at Cam Newton once Cam Newton had come back 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:44.320 from from COVID nineteen. I'm not seeing a player perform 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:46.760 at the level we thought. And you just hear average 0:46:46.760 --> 0:46:49.719 citizens tell you how it affects them. Well, how the 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:52.560 heck is it affecting professional athletes and you're trying to 0:46:52.560 --> 0:46:54.080 go out here and compete in the NFL at the 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:58.120 highest level. I wonder. I'm no doctor, I just do 0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:01.640 wonder because we've seen the Ziegel Elliott play at a 0:47:01.760 --> 0:47:03.719 much better rate. There are times where we're seeing him 0:47:03.719 --> 0:47:06.680 block and guys are blasting Zeke. That's not the guy 0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:08.959 that we've seen in the National Football League this year. 0:47:09.600 --> 0:47:15.160 Just my just he looked faster yesterday, even with the 0:47:15.160 --> 0:47:17.560 hamstring thing. Sometimes I thought he was Tony Paula out there. 0:47:17.560 --> 0:47:19.400 He looked, he looked quicker, he looked faster, him like 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:21.080 he was hitting the holes. And maybe it was the 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:22.440 way that they were spreading them out and it was 0:47:22.480 --> 0:47:25.239 a little easier for them to read, but he didn't 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:28.160 look like he was injury yesterday, so I mean, hopefully 0:47:28.000 --> 0:47:30.319 the bye week helps him. They pick it up coming 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:35.279 in playing against Minnesota and keep this up, all right, gentlemen. Um, So, 0:47:35.480 --> 0:47:39.960 according to the bossman, Derek Eagleton, the head Omega in charge, 0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:42.600 we are not going to do this show with each 0:47:42.640 --> 0:47:45.759 other the rest of the week. So we're going through 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:48.520 how many how many days are we doing the show 0:47:48.560 --> 0:47:52.080 this week? Now? This church, it's just Tuesday Wednesday. I 0:47:52.120 --> 0:47:56.600 think it's just day Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, okay. So the 0:47:56.680 --> 0:47:59.600 players lounge on the next two days will be with 0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:03.759 Jess See Holly and Everson Walls. Somebody please help good 0:48:03.840 --> 0:48:09.040 Luck his internet ever sit out here talking and say 0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:10.879 he can't hear nobody hes to go go ahead and talk, 0:48:10.960 --> 0:48:14.640 So somebody help Everson with the Internet. Jesse, Jesse's gonna 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:16.680 come in here and tell me how good his ribs 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:20.720 are that he makes in a crock pot versus real. So, 0:48:20.719 --> 0:48:23.640 so that's what the players lives will be over the 0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:26.279 next two days. Where can where can everybody find you? 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:28.879 Two guys, which shows will you be? I'll be, Um, 0:48:29.160 --> 0:48:33.919 I believe I'm on the break. Um. Derek's main show, 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:35.640 I believe. So I'll be on there at eleven thirty, 0:48:35.680 --> 0:48:38.520 I believe, and right after that I'll be on Hanging 0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:43.200 with the Boys with Shannon, Robert and bar Okay, all right, 0:48:43.920 --> 0:48:46.160 so I'm definitely tune in to his Players lounges over. 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:55.920 That's gonna be funny. Y'all. Be nice, Be nice, our producer, 0:48:56.560 --> 0:49:01.359 we appreciate you, Chris Bean, Jesse, Jesse, Jesse, Holly at 0:49:01.400 --> 0:49:06.040 Everson Walls tomorrow. Danny McCray buried Church on Barious Shows. 0:49:06.040 --> 0:49:11.040 So so hang with us. We'll be back together on Monday. Okay, 0:49:11.040 --> 0:49:13.320 So next Monday, we'll be back here on the Players 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:16.680 Lost see tomorrow two thirty. Everybody, have a great day. 0:49:16.719 --> 0:49:19.600 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:21.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.