WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: It's All Coming Together 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:14.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.079 players Land broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:25.239 the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:33.840 NEWI scrugs. Here it is Players Laughs on a victory Monday. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:38.360 Hello everyone there scrubs joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.479 undrafted free agent safeties, talking about Danny McCray and Barry Church. Gentlemen, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.519 there should be no complaining for the fan base today, right, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.720 no complaints after a fifty six to fourteen win on 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:55.960 Sunday night football. Right, there shouldn't be any. There shouldn't 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.720 be any, But you know that somebody's gonna find the reason. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.600 To me, I'm happy offense back on tracks, special teams 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:08.000 playing well, and defense continuing to roll. So I'm awesomiles 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.280 on my side. Oh I lost out for a hot second? Man? 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.920 What was that again? Newly, I said there should be 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.560 no complaining amongst the fan base today after Oh, yeah, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.680 you're right about that. Man. You ain't gonna here no 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.920 type of complaining. I know I was a little bit 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.559 of a wrenched last time. We talked because I wasn't 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.320 sure about whether this can be the formula for success 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.160 or not. But man, these boys, man, I mean, words 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.360 can't even explain it, really, how dominating of a performance 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.720 they had out there on Sunday. I mean I figured 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.119 they would win the game, but not like that. Man, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.680 you got a special team's touchdown, a defensive touchdown. Dak 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.800 looked back to us always and I know we're gonna 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.360 break it all down in this in this version of 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.560 the players nouns. But man, I'm at a loss for 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.800 words right now. Well, to me, I look at it 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.600 simply as is the defense finally got some help, right, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.560 That's all I needed. There's a little bit of help 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:03.000 because the defense came out there and continued to ball 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.320 out like crazy. I mean, why Taylor Heidege decided to 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.359 go after tray Vall Dick. I don't know. I'm not 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.120 a quarterback. I don't know what he was thinking. But 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.799 there you got, there's one you go. I see, like, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.079 going into this game, they had it in their mind. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.679 Look as soon as the game jump off, we're going deep. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.000 We are taking a shot deep this first possession. That's 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.040 what we're gonna do. I understand that you want to 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.239 take your shot, But why I take it to that guy? 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.480 Like you got Anthony Brown? Don't over here, you got 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.280 all these other guys. You want to take a shot 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.359 at a man who has probably the best ball skills 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.680 out of any defensive back in the National Football League 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.919 right now, converted wide receiver, You want to take a 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.079 deep shot on that guy. It just goes to show 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.519 you Washington, Man, they didn't losing team. They didn't just 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:47.959 know what they just know how to lose games. And 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.840 they started it off just right. He was he was 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.760 setting the tone, man, He was setting the tone for 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.079 how the day was gonna go. Man, let me go 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.040 out here and go ahead and rick this game. And 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.960 you see right after that will fall off the Washington 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.720 football team. Right they started points put up on them 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.520 like crazy dudes on the sideline fight and get hit 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.079 with right right hooks because they get fingers put on 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.919 side of their face like the wheels literally fell off 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.799 after their second offensive play, which was which is absolutely 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.079 crazy because the game was more competitive a couple of 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.320 weeks ago, so you figured maybe they would put up, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.519 you know, a better fight, but they just had no 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.600 shot last night, and and that's what we're supposed to do. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.239 When when you go out there, you play a team 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.320 who's missing some of their key players, you supposed to 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.120 go out there and you're pupposed to stump them out 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.440 at the beginning of the game and ended before it 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:40.680 even gets started. Well, my initial thought process was maybe 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:45.000 heine kids trying to get Terry McLaurin off because Dick 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.600 erased him in the last football game and then mclauren 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.760 left to feel hurt. So maybe they thought, you know, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.560 when we're gonna go after this dude right away, we're 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.480 gonna show him we're boss. Bad idea, and Terry mclauren 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.080 once again basically shut down. He had three catches for 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.800 forty yards, and the three catches came to the competitive 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.640 football phase that the game was over. So Digs in 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.960 my opinion, guys, this we're not talking, you know, because 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.440 he's made the Pro Bowl. I'm talking All Pro now. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.880 He's got to be all the first team All Pro 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.400 list with eleven interceptions here that I mean, I don't 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.840 know who'll be the second corner, but Trey ba Dix 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.200 has got to be on the All Pro team. He's 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.440 got to be. You're you're one hundred percent right about that. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.440 I mean, look, I know, the guy's giving up the 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.120 most yards out of any corner in the National Football 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.720 League right now. But when you're talking about a guy 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:38.400 who's making game changing plays, game momentum, swinging, whatever you 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.960 want to call it, this dude is making splash plays 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.680 each in every week. Like this guy has his hands 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.480 on football's like he's a wide receiver out there, so 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.440 I can I mean, it's gonna be hard for me 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.600 to see two other corners ahead of him, especially when 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.680 you talk about the All Pro team. They might want 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:57.520 to throw in Jalen Ramsey because he's having a heck 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.400 of a season out there as well. But when you 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.560 talk about the main job of a defensive back, especially 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.920 a cornerback, this dude is doing it. He's getting the ball, 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.560 he's intercepting each and every chats that's thrown his way, 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.520 and if it's not intercepted, it's contested and what he's 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.880 doing a better job of that. Earlier in the season 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.440 we were kind of like, I don't know, is he 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.560 a leader not He's shadowing the best receiver and not 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.920 only is he shadowing, he's shutting them down. So this guy. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.080 I mean, he's just taking his game to the next 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.880 level after next level after next level. And you know, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.280 I know all pros already in Pro Bowl, All Pro 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.520 that's already in. We need to be talking about Defensive 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.760 Player of the Year as well. I mean, I know 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.680 Michael Parsons is getting a lot of a lot of 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.600 you know, adulation and celebration for him being in a 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.880 Defensive Player of the Year running. But this guy, Digs 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.119 he needs some of that as well. Man, Yeah, listen 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.600 and Digs's ball. And I thought it was crazy when 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.240 he was going through training camp and he was like, man, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.600 I had I got my hand on fourteen balls last season. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.320 I got to convert all those and it says that 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.520 I was like, but you didn't getting fourteen nothing ain't 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.560 no way. And he literally is all his way to 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.960 doing that. He's on pace, especially with some of the 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.200 quarterbacks that you that you figured that you're gonna play 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.240 Colin Murray hadn't been planned as well, then you got 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.719 wasn't Jamalen Hurst coming up? So you have a chance 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.360 to get to fourteen realistically, especially if they're going to 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.520 continue to come at you. My only question for Heineke 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.320 if we go back on the last subject, just why 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.240 don't they run the nobble like they literally just come 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.520 out and McLaurin just runs straight down the field. I'm like, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.440 you're not showing any respect for this dude. And he's 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.280 been intercepting passes from the beginning of the season at 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.840 an alarming rate. And that's the guy you decide to 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.600 go ahead. Treymund Diggs should be in the conversation for 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.720 all of the accolades, for Defensive Player of the Year, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.640 for All Pro Team, for everything. He should be in 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.800 that conversation because when you get less like church you 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:50.400 play defensive back, when you get eleven interceptions in the season, 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.520 that should be like, that's the end of the season. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.560 You might do that by week sixteen seventeen. This dude 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.920 still got games to play. Man, You talk about eleven 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.280 getting getting five interceptions is tucking in the league, Man, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.440 this dude is out here snagging them out only just 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.760 getting picks, but getting picks sixes. Man Like this, this 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.800 is ridiculous. And you know, I'm gonna go back to 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.520 Taylor Heineke one more time here. This dude needs to 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.600 be an all time backup, whether it's second string, third string, 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.600 whatever the case may need to be. He needs to 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.200 be an all time backup. I don't want to hear 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.160 nothing more about Taylor Heineke and his magical approach to 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.680 winning games and all this other stuff. First of all, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.320 the guy he was, he was playing like he was 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.520 in a press position. I'm talking about digs and at 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.240 the snap of the ball he turned his back so 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.560 and he's looking at the quarterback the whole time. So 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.920 you know he's playing some type of cover three, some 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.680 type of zone where he's all he's necessarily all he's 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.480 concerned about is the deep pass. And you still throw 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.440 the ball, and not only you throw the ball, you 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.000 don't give your receiver a chance. He threw that ball 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.640 all the way inside by the numbers. The safety almost 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.760 got to the ball. So I mean it's Taylor Heineke 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:58.280 man man worst Fitz magic gap. He didn't out the 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.520 game better? What the Tabor behind? Yeah, I mean that 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.280 was down like terrible. Double G looked better just showing 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.320 up on Thursday. Then he's been there all season. He goes, hen, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.000 we only heard about Double G and they shout out 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.440 to trade mounds. Is he is bawling? And what I 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.360 thought was unrealistic at the beginning of the season with 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.080 him saying he's gonna get fourteen interceptions. He's on his way, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.440 so shout out to him. I'm happy to be wrong. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.160 His son is his own point and he's only pretty 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.480 much every quarterback that he's playing against. And I'm just 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.600 confused with why they keep going at all. Like the 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.679 remember they said Brett Farr gave a straight hand that 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.400 last sat that like that. That's what I feel like 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.280 these quarterbacks is doing that, Like you know what, let 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.559 me try to get this man the record, Like, I 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.000 don't understand what's going on. Hey mccraig, what team were 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.840 you a part of? Like who had the most interceptions 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:50.760 on the squad that you were a part of ever, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:56.360 like in your whole career. Man, the entire time I 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.920 was there, you were there to church and we did 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.160 not have any defensive backs that we're getting interceptions like that, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.679 So I would probably say like two or three even 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.360 in Chicago. Weren't nobody getting no picks in Chicago like that. 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.000 Even nobody nobody's getting like bro, nobody gets picked not 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.800 like this. But yeah, we were we were a team 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.240 that were turning the ball over like we are now, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.240 you know, and shout out to the other guys who 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.000 are also getting picks and pick sixes. It's literally something 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.680 that you just won't see again for a long time, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.439 na and now your career. The most picks I've ever 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.839 seen was I think a j Boyer has six in 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.640 Jacksonville and that was unprecedented. I'm like, man, this dude's 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.520 ball behind of control. This guy almost doubled it with 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.800 three games leapt in the season. I mean, this is nuts, man, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.240 this is crazy. Cowboys haven't seen it forty years. Everson 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.800 Walls ended up with with having picks back in nineteen 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.679 eighty one. Something that's very interesting, and I'm gonna try 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.360 and look into this later on Danny about Dick's being 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.000 possible Defensive Player of the Year Stefan Dick, I mean 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.760 step on guild War ended up winning it a couple 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.880 of years ago with England. I need to go back 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.480 and see exactly what kind of year he had in 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.959 which he was able to capture that award and maybe 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.319 something along the lines maybe a Cowboys pr and needs 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.880 to probably get involved in is starting to look at 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.800 what has Digs done against some of these elite wide receivers. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.120 I mean, Justin Jefferson is elite as a receiver in 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.360 the National Football League. I think he held him the 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.840 two catches on the Halloween night, so you know, building 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.920 up that resume. Just okay, not only look at what 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.959 he's done, who's who has he done it against? Because 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.640 that also matters, and we just say, all right, hey, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.280 look you go over there, you go take that guy. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.599 That's when you're a different on a different level. And 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.559 that to me is when you're talking about, you know, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.400 a defensive back being NFL Defensive Player of the Year. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.599 That's the kind of resume. Those are the kind of 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.679 things you look at me and in the swag that 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.600 he's playing when you can see it, you can see 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.120 it driven off of them. When he's out there playing 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.439 the game, like I don't care. Every time he play 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.000 he's looking back to either the posting team sideline like 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.320 I don't understand why y'all trying this, or you're looking 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.040 to our side line like these dudes is crazy. Like 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.680 he's out there playing with nowhere. He has an ultimate 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.520 confidence and he continues to say it, and he continues 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.120 to play that way, and you can see it. Man, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.959 this is This is one of those years where I 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.319 wish that this is his contract year, because knew this 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.000 was it, he would be making a hundred million dollars, right. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.440 These are the type of years that you wish you'd 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.679 have in a contract year. Yeah, he's gonna break the 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.679 bank eventually. And you could tell he's out there with 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.679 so much saw, so much swash, so much drip, just 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.120 about his alignment, I mean the back. You understand this 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.600 when when when corners are out there, they're not even 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.760 like in the position. They're just out there walking around, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.840 standing straight up, you know, just looking around, seeing what's 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.319 going on. You don't even know if they're ready to 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.720 play if the snap. The snap can happen at any second, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.200 and you don't even know if they're ready to play. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:51.959 And he goes out there and make plays like that. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.599 I mean, the confidence right now for this dude is 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.760 on another level. I mean, he can God, he can. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.920 He can probably cover God right now if he stepped 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.600 on the field. I mean, this dude, whoa I don't 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.880 know about that. I was about to get Kelvin Joseph's 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.839 in love and church over and taking the church church over. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.280 Skills are unmatched right now. Man Man birthday twenty field 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.480 just fast you I can't talking about it. I ain't 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.560 talking about going on football. Y'all know that I got 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:28.800 a chill out with so dude bringing up a good point. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.120 Boss Man fat ends up getting to start, almost had 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.600 his hands on the ball that he had intercepted. Here, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.640 you guys have played in the league. How much is 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.040 a guy like Kelvin Joseph a rookie to this team? 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.360 Seeing everything that's happening start, he starts to feed into 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.240 and buying into. This is the program, this is how 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.400 it works, and this is the level of play I 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.040 need to be at if I'm gonna be out here 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:56.800 contributing on the football field. Yeah, listen, like like we 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.840 said last week, when you watch these guys and how 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.559 hustle on how they play, especially the starters. When you 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.920 see Tank making a hundred million, but he's out there 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.600 hustling like he's a rookie. When you see Randy Gregory 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.160 out there doing the same thing, Michael Parsons being the 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.800 man getting all the pub and he's still out there 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.640 busting his ass every time he's running through. You know 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.120 that they're showing the young guys that you have to 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.520 come in and play this way if you want to 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.280 be a part of our defense. And you can see 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.160 that on defense, and you can see that on special 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.440 teams when you see guys coming in here and they're 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.800 given everything they got to block these punts right because 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.040 they know that is the standard. And we know the 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.520 same standards set like that in office because the Dak 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.760 Prescott is the leader of that group and they're gonna 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.800 follow him, so they're always gonna play hard. But defensively, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.840 last year what you saw was guys not hustling, guys loafing, 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.080 and then that kind of trickling down to other guys 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.079 on the squad. And this year it is literally a 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.640 one eight, like if you step on the field, you 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.520 have to play up to this level or get off 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.040 of it right. And you can see that that that's 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.559 what's going on on our defense without a doubt. And 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.000 what I'm gonna have to I'm gonna, you know, two 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.160 two people credit on this one. You know, I gotta 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.080 give two people credit. One is Dan Quinn. I mean, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.120 he he made his defense flip a complete one eighty, 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.120 not only on the field, but just the culture around 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.160 the organization. Defensively, just knowing that. You know, yet they 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:16.800 can be the strength of this team because for so 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.440 many years it was, you know, all the defenses holding 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.400 his back and all the offense got to do so 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.160 much for this defense to even be successful. But now 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.520 they're able to switch that whole time around, and he 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.960 has these guys flying around. So I gotta give credit 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.840 to Dan Quinn for that big turnaround defensively, and also 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.640 Michael Parsons. I mean, this guy, this rookie, his energy 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.120 out there, it's contagious, and you can tell by going 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.080 out there. You've seen the law talking about, Man, I 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.640 gotta get back out there. I gotta get back on 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.640 this field. This young guy, he's doing too much damage. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.320 I gotta get piece of that. He's making everybody else 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.600 step their game up, whether it's on the defensive line, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.440 whether it's the linebackers, the secondary. He has that just 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.160 contagious juice about him that gets everybody flowing. Just that 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.840 youthful experience out there that gets everybody just wanting to 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.440 play football and having fun. And these guys are doing that. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.080 They're having fun out theaters. They're not letting the pressure 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.280 get to them, at least, you know, on on the 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.520 surface of things. They're not letting the pressure get to them. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.960 They're flying around there. They're playing for each other and 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.680 I'm just glad these guys are having fun with it. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:17.880 And defensively, man, they're flying around. They are flying around. Man, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.800 he is he earning that twenty man t Tank is 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.400 setting the tone like crazy when you think about it. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.760 Diggs gets the first offensive possession. Cowboys don't get anything done. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.000 So first play, Washington goes to Diggs, he makes the pick. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.480 Then they go out and convert a touchdown. It's seven 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.240 to nothing. You got a fourteen nothing league. Tank with 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.360 the interception returns at forty yards. Unbelievable play. The kind 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.120 of play you see at a high school leveling. It's 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.320 not the kind of play to see in the National 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.040 Football League, made by by a big man like that. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.880 So Tank Lawrence is in my opinion, I thought that 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.840 was the backbreaking play. To me, when I saw that, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.840 I thought, okay, now this is this is done the deep. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.680 The defense is continuing to set the tone. The offense 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.840 has come to do their part here. This is not 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.640 going to be the Washington football team's day. And Tak 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.840 Lawrence is the undisputed leader in my opinion of this defense, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.520 he's he is that alpha dog here. And while he 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.600 won't make the make a Pro Bowl because of the 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.800 time he missed, he's back to being a blue chip player. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.960 He wasn't a blue chip player in the last two years. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.560 He's a blue chip player. Micah Parson is a blue 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.600 chip player. Trayvond Diggs is a blue chip player. You 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.240 get three players on all three levels of the blue 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.160 chips like this man, you could do something like they 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.360 did in a fifty six to fourteen win. And then 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.520 Randy Gregory is playing an outstanding football here, so I 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:53.480 curse out standing. Yes, he has outstanding football Sacking the quarterback, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.960 getting that secondary lined up. I mean, they're gonna be 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.320 a tough out, man, They're gonna be a tough about 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.760 especially if this offense is rolling or getting back to 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.600 what it was doing at the beginning of the season. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.080 It's gonna be a tough out for anybody in these playoffs. Yeah. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.520 I mean, what Tank Lawrence did yesterday, in my opinion, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.200 he basically broke Washington. I thought that play right there 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.639 just said so much and you saw the way the 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.080 stadium was rocking sidelines. I mean that just that just 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.159 took everything to the next level. And obviously we'll take 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:24.800 a break here, we'll come back and we'll talk about 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.280 the slump that Dak Prescott was in. Okay, he says 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.520 he wasn't, but he was. 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