WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Who Could Have Predicted 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.639 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:11.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:14.360 Cowboys. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:21.360 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:26.880 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.200 Hacma Harrison, and Uie Scruggs. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.560 Yeah, it's Thursday. Time for you to join the player's Lounge, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.280 brought to you by Aristocrat Gaming. And the player is 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.080 Barry Church, former. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:49.640 Dallas Cowboys, looking like Church Deacon. Yes, Sir, President Church. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.839 Passing around the plates, put the. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:58.639 Collection around one more time, more time, offering offering some help. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.959 To the Cowboys. That man, you're ready for Monday night 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.840 against the Houston Texas Tech Marson. See, I'm respecting. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:13.920 Youth, partner, youth. He so wholesome. Man. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.199 Yeah. Man, you're gonna say pray every team. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.400 Yeah, you know, I might break it down for him, man, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.680 you know, might break it down for him pregame or something. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:22.880 Man, we're gonna be at the stadium. We're gonna be 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.880 able to. That's gonna be live, man, Monday night, Yeah, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.920 that's gonna be live. Y'all. Did a good job the 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.920 other night man, the other day, Yeah, yeah, the other 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:31.520 day we had. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:33.000 It was cracking. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:33.479 Yeah. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.640 I was surprised though, I will say that I was 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:41.040 surprised at how many Eagles fans. It was like it was, man, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.920 it was. I tell you what took over the whole broadcast. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.360 I will tell you that on Monday, on Monday, the 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.560 people from the people coming from up forty five to 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:52.120 this one. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.480 They coming up forty five. It's gonna be and those 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.240 who already live here, already live here. Yeah, very vocal, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:04.040 very vocal. Yeah. You remember the first time the Cowboys 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.320 and Textans never played each other. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:12.079 It was that Cowboys stadium back no Houston. They took 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.880 that when I was like, Uncle, Way, that. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.600 Was what that was for the trophy you was asking 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.320 about the other day, Right, no longer exist. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.399 I gotta beat them twice, Phantom. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.480 Nothing, I ain't a trophy, no nothing. It's crazy. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.720 Probably something the owners have between each other, like the 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.720 Clark Hunt has they got the Preston Hollow trophy between 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.560 the Hunt family and the Jones and they just they 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.920 just go down the street, know nothing about it. At 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.920 the Highland Parks something like that. Something you know, something 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.359 high dollar weeks you know it is that. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.239 Just to be clear that wasn't Uncle Wade. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:54.400 That was camp Yes, two thousand, Yes, camp part of 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.639 those five and eleven runs, those three straight Campo five, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.680 three straight, five elevens. Yeah, man, he may I'll get 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.880 you about it. I mean, it looks some of it 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.400 wasn't Campo's fault. I mean, this was that salary cap 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.720 that had to pay for all that stuff. Man, it was. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.320 It was rough times, man. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.520 I know Campo will appreciate that coming from you. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.760 I liked it. I liked I like camp Campo was 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.720 a part of those Jimmy teams and won Super Bowls, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.240 and he was down at the University. Great person, dude, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.919 Yeah man, I mean you know since you know, no 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.320 one was really winning with those Rocks. Hey man, he's 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.200 Quincy Carter and Chad Hutchinson. And then he had Clint 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.160 Sterner starting games right leave started again. It was. It 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:39.920 was a hard time, Dustin Rose. It was a hard time. Roads. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.160 They were doing the family four packs out of Texas 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.440 and four four hot dogs and remember you remember them days, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.960 Chris Chris Bean, I mean doing hard times. Man, Salar 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.600 jacked up, bro. It was it wasn't pretty man. Then 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.600 Parcels came in and they brought some hope back. So 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:58.520 it was it was tough hope. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.120 It was the big thing about two was it was 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:03.280 going for the record that year. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.800 So that was basically what we had. Yes, the diamond 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.520 amongst trash quote, it came out there, move over sweetness. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.640 Oh no, sham on the call right every time? 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.720 Yes, sir, yes sir. Can we come out officially now 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.719 say this is a bad teams? 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:30.479 I yeah, look at it, walking right into that, walk 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.279 right into that, get the people what they want? Can 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.000 I start with Can I start with the question that 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.640 I asked a couple of weeks ago about thirty two 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.560 teams in the NFL, the great teams, the good teams, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.320 bad teams, and the basement dweller teams. We talked about those. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.919 Now after was it the week nine, Week ten in 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.479 the NFL? Can we say that there are no great teams? 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.160 And if even though Kansas City is undefeated, but as 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.800 we talk about great teams, but you can pare what 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.360 you say that they're a great team right now? Are 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.279 just really good team? That's tough, man. It ain't lost 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.359 in this Christmas right damn? Okay, but you saw the 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.520 Denver game, you saw them game, so there's some cracks 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.359 in their armor. And I only bring that up to 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.760 say that, you know, when you look around the NFL 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.640 right now, there are some teams that are showing that 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.359 they are good teams. But there are some bad teams, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.040 bottom of the basement teams. I would say that those 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:26.560 are your Carolinas. Those are your Carolinas. As your giants, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:28.800 they're your giants. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.560 And yeah, come around. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:32.920 No, it's just. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:44.120 Come around the court. But can look. I got them, everybody, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.200 I got them. Everybody, come on out, man, everybody, come on. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:58.880 Swear to God, dude, everybody step on out. Come on, man, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.760 take over there, bad out man, they got us all man. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:08.840 Miller like the hope you do, sir, the whole back 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:09.640 the hope you. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.440 Put it down level three narcotics and get coming out 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.320 coming out. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.120 Yeah stop, man, I. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:23.600 Don't coming out to the light. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.800 Yeah right, I swear God. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:30.080 Man. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:36.000 Look, I'm trying to plead my case, Fellows, my case fellas. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.160 I'm bad. I go back to something new. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.919 He always talks about, right, not the profit margin, the 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.719 point margin. I was thinking taking money the point margin. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.000 In the NFL. Teams are still winning about three and 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.720 a half, right, So so teams, and so these games 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:58.680 are close. But yeah, man, we were teetering. We're right there. Close. Man, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.920 We're starting to look like that team in the basement 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.320 yet not in the basement yet, but we were there, man, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.920 we were there the basement. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.000 This is a bad This is a bad this is 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.920 this is a bad team. When you can't when you 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:22.280 can't run the football, when you can't uh keep the 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.280 other team from running, you know, ten turnovers into the 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.840 last two home games. You can't win at home. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:30.640 I haven't won at. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.520 Home, you know, Yes, you haven't won at home in 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.960 the whole calendar year. This is a bad team, and 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.640 they are. There's more football to be played, but right. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.360 For weeks, it's a lot more, a lot of football, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:45.000 a lot of struggle in that. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.480 This right now is a bad team. I mean, dude, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.280 when Tony spend the class, lady called. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.280 Me out out of nowhere to what it does. But 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.960 it's kind of shocking that she knew that much. It's 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.480 kind of shocking, kind of puts you off. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.120 I still got I still have to work, Yeah, I 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.360 still have I still have to be out there. But 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:13.400 but it's a bad team. And that goes to the 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.280 next thing. That you talked about the pre show. Where 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.320 do we where do we lay this at right now? 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.120 That this is a bad team? 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:24.000 Ask him? 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.559 He the one bro I would have to say, Man, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.880 I would have to say, you know, everybody gets a 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.160 third in this and in everybody gets a third man. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.160 You gotta go the head guy. You know he's coming 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.199 to you. Gotta go to the head guy. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:39.679 You gotta go. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.560 Got McCarthy gotta have a piece in this, you know, 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.800 because he's in charge of the offense, and the offense 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:44.440 has been. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.360 Mighty pedestrian so far this year. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.760 You gotta go to the players as well, you know, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.640 because those are the guys that they're you know, pay 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.720 the Kings ransom to go out there and perform at 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.720 a high level, execute these game plans, and we haven't 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.960 seen it. The stars aren't starring all right, like you know, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.280 the Dak Prescott's of the world, the CD Lambs, you know, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.080 you know, on the defensive side of the football went 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.080 healthy because they were healthy at the beginning of the season. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.920 They just haven't been performing. And then you also got 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:07.960 to go all the way up to the top of 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.320 the management on this one. You know, those are the 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.240 guys that put this put this team together knowing that 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.240 you know, you were losing a lot of depth pieces 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.680 last year on the defensive line, you lost Armstrong, you 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.559 lost Fouler. You know, you put a lot of faith 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.200 in the guys that haven't shown you much since they've 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:24.920 been in the lineup. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.800 And I'm talking about a Misie Smith. I'm talking about 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.080 the old Diggy Zua. You know, there was warts on 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.800 this team before the season even started, and they weren't. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.600 They weren't you know, they weren't. I don't know whether 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.000 the word to describe it, but they didn't. They didn't 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.240 take care of where they needed to take. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.240 Care of the running game, which we all knew was 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.880 a problem back in spring, back in March April. We 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.800 knew that the run, the running game was going to 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.440 be a problem. You didn't you didn't take care of 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.439 that as well. And then you look at you know, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.840 receiver outside of Ceedee Lamb. You know, it's just it's 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.760 just a lot of issues that this team had going 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.200 into the season that that that weren't taken care of. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.160 And to me, you know that that's got to go 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.800 all the way up to the top and then it 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.600 works his way down so to me, I I'm giving 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.120 a third to everybody on that situation. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:12.199 But Church, go back your exact words, who's at most 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.920 to blame for this season? So you're trying to give 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.760 a third? Yeah, Now I want you to answer the 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:23.360 very question, you pros, who's at most to blame? So 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.880 you you asking the question, who's who's that most? Who's 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.320 the face the face of is who's that guy? 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.960 Man? You gotta go all the way up top. You 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.160 got to you gotta go all the way up top 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:36.920 on this situation. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.000 You know, when you talk about putting teams together and 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.280 you're losing you know, key pieces, all pros, people that 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.920 got this team three straight, twelve and five seasons, and 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.240 you don't replace them with something of value. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:49.800 You know, you know what you're getting. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:50.880 Into before the season starts. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.600 Yeah, so you know as much as you know I'm saying, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.440 you know, the stars gotta play better, which they do, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.840 and Mike McCarthy gotta come up with a better situation. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.280 But when the carpenter doesn't have his tools, you know, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.120 how much can you how much can you go out 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:02.640 there and really. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.720 Do Yeah, look, injuries and youth, can I put it 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.080 on injuries in youth. Can I say that? Can you? 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.320 Can you go to the fact that you going into 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.520 the season, you lost Sam Williams, who was going to 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.840 be your replacement for a guy like Darrence Armstrong. Can 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:17.880 I also say that you lost Tank who as a 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.400 guy that keeps you from being multiple in a lot 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.360 of your defensive sets. Yeah, you don't have your tools, 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.800 but you also don't have the other tools that made 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.560 you flexible on your defense to do any of the 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.920 things that you came into the season saying that you 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.120 would do. You have a rookie off I mean, you 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.520 have a rookie center, and you have a rookie left tackle, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.959 And I don't care what your predictions were for those guys. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.400 You couldn't have predicted they would struggle as mightily as 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.480 they did at the beginning of the season. Your offense 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.520 hadn't had any rhythm because your quarterback hasn't had any time. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.200 Your defense hadn't played well all season because of injuries 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.520 because different guys were missing at different parts of the season, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.560 even in your secondary. So look, I know everybody's going 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.480 to point the the finger at Jerry. It's going to 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.880 be your front office is the reason you didn't get 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.880 a lot, a lot of the talent that you could 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.199 have in free agency. I test that that when you 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.160 look at the wide receiver room, that was as fitting 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.000 of a room to say, look, I think we need 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.400 one more body in here beside the Jalens and you 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.439 know some of these the Brooks and some of these 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.480 other guys, right, you probably could have gotten better there, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.160 but no one could have predicted that this team would 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.120 be as hurt up as they were to begin the season. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.480 But also the youth and the inexperience showing up the 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.920 way that it did. You've just gotten steamrolled in games 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.800 and you haven't had an opportunity to respond because you're 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:36.160 not playing. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.920 You don't have enough talent or depth in your offensive line. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.679 We've been through those seasons where we've been playing musical 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.080 chairs at the offensive line position. Man, BB and Guy 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.320 and Guiden have struggled, and on top of that, still 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.320 has struggled. You know, first ballot Hall struggled. It's been 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.839 it's been all across the board, and so man, it's been. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.280 It's been ugly from the beginning. And on top of 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.720 the fact that your offensive coordinatord was number one in 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.040 the league last year, tops top five on offense. Then 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.680 it hadn't even looked similar to the team that it 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:09.520 was last season. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:18.000 This falls at the general manager and the owner of 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.640 the general manager of the same person, and he has 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.480 taken his hits, and he's owned up to the hits 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.280 when he's been asked, you know, the past couple of 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.040 shows on on one of five three the fan. I 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.960 go back into free agency and the Cowboys have not 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.400 been active in free agency for a number of years. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.920 Spreading car I think big one. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.040 And so while you weren't active, Dan Quinn gets hired 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.839 by Washington and he basically takes your middle class away. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:46.920 You know, I kind of think about you know, you 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.040 have those teams, You got your high dollar elites, working class, 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.120 right middle class, and then you got those right there, 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:58.120 that middle class of dudes, Armstrong, Fouler, those guys left 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.240 and you were well Sam was time for Sam to 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.800 go ahead and do his thing he's been wanting. But 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.440 in lat of he thought these it didn't happen. And 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.920 you can get food sometimes in a thinking your talent 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.199 is better than it is. Well, Steven would always say, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.840 we like our guys, the guys in the receiver room 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.480 haven't been good for a couple of years. You've gotten 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.480 away with it. Now you got Cooks hurt somebody there. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.600 Tolbert has not risen up the way you thought he 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.720 would as a third Rady go didn't happen. McCarthy's developed 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.400 some other receivers in Green Bay, but this wasn't one 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.640 of those guys. He didn't become a James Jones. He 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.000 didn't become a great Jennings up there. You know Tolbert 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.400 didn't do that. But this is what the owner has 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.200 given them. I think that they waited too long to 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.480 get Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb signed. If you signed 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.960 them earlier, then you've got a better idea of what 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.600 you need to do and what kind of money you 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:57.600 got that could have been done quicker because they kept saying, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.600 we're trying to get these guys signed. So while you 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.120 were trying to to sign them and you were waiting 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.280 to get something done, you didn't because you kept saying, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.680 we got to keep our money straight for them. Well 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.120 you kept it and you've paid Lamb. You've paid that. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.200 But what could you have done if you got some 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.040 of that stuff finished up early? 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:15.680 I got you some more free agents. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:21.320 The all in was not the all in. Fans thought 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.080 the guys you replaced. I mean, tell me one replacement 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:29.920 they've had from last year's team that you say that 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:30.760 was an upgrade. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:38.280 Eric Hendricks over over Marquis Bell, or over. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.360 Marquis Bell was starting because they had injuries. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.200 Over shown was hurt. Okay, I'm just saying, Eric Kendricks, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.720 I would say over the guy that uh lve who 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.720 retired obviously because of injuries. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.240 Okay, you asked me to say something. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:16:04.360 No, no, Tyrant goes down, Tyron Leaves, Guidan has not 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:05.040 been better than him. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.720 No, beyonddish Leaves. I raised my hands. Somebody said I 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.160 would have paid him, but not yet. But yeah, but 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:17.440 right now, right now, he hasn't Tony Pollard h he's 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.840 left running back. Wasn't it upgrade? 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.320 Nope? 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.880 Fowler Armstrong, you know that that that depth unit right 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.520 there that hasn't been replaced. No, it's it's just tough 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.640 to win, and you're now you're playing a first place schedule. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:36.800 That's the that's the key. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:38.920 You knew you was playing a first place schedule to 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.640 Thenion's higher off season. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.000 You knew he was going to get the best of 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.880 the best, and like. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.400 You just said, you didn't replace those key pieces with 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.520 at least the upgrade of somebody that's right there on 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:48.920 his poem. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.360 Par with these guys, it's it's tough, man, that's tough. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:53.960 But they put themselves in a situation. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.560 And so you lost your defensive coordinator and the scheme 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.440 he was running into players that he was using. You 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.560 brought it in. Other guy. He run into different scheme, 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:06.119 and you hear chatter that some folks aren't exactly in 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.960 love with what Mike Zimmer's doing, that didn't necessarily enjoy 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:14.760 all the changes. So you've got issues over there. The 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.200 offensive coordinator is not called good games this year. It's 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.880 been a struggle. I think we all say last week 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.119 was a hard week. But what was that? 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.119 Yeah, boys pulled the starters in the fourth quarter. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.480 Yes, yes, that's that's been a challenge. So when I 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.920 look at when you say who's the most I got 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.800 to go back to the general man, because that's your 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.320 job is to give give this team better talent. Their 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.119 talent right now. Thus we said they're bad team. You're 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.960 a bad team because you don't have. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.760 Talent and you hurt. You don't have talent and you're hurt. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.480 I'm look I guess newly. What what I look at 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.159 is looking at the league in total, at some of 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.399 your mediocre teams. So some of your teams right now 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.000 that are not looking very good. I mean, if you 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.000 look at the Iman Dolphins, if you look at the 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.600 Los Angeles Rams, these are teams that obviously don't have 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.760 those household names other than your quarterback and some of 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.040 the guys that are making themselves into pooking the cool 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.240 of guys like that. But on defense, who do they have? 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.320 Who are their guys? You're seeing guys step up and 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.520 in years passing the cowboys when they let go of 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.240 guys like Amari Cooper. Your question was who can step 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.120 up and give you the production? You have a star 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.760 receiver behind him. You give him that opportunity and he 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.040 rewards you. This is the league is all about the 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.399 guy next up. You can't sign guys, just like you 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.520 felt like you couldn't sign the center. It was time 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.600 to give Sam Williams that opportunity he shown you just 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.520 from being what he special teams, all those other things 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.359 situational that he could step in and you go up 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.520 and your recruit that's not recruit You draft the guy 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.800 in Marshall Kneeling, you expect for him to step in, 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.960 and these guys are hurt. You hadn't We hadn't seen 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.480 them since week two. We hadn't seen him Sam Williams 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.320 the whole entire season, but Marshall Kneeland hadn't seen him either. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.320 So look, injuries has decimated this team, and it looks 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.840 and you can stand back and say, yeah, Jerry made 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.159 a mistake. You lost your defensive coordinator. He took some 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.600 of your what did you come what you got? Middle class, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.760 middle class, working class guys. It took your working class 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.040 Guys's part of that. I don't and you know what, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.280 I will admit. I will admit darn. So I'm strong 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.320 it was one of those players just based off of production, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.840 just based off of the numbers. I saw how good 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.000 he was. But I mean to say that man, he 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.040 is the glue, the glue that held this whole defense together. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.080 Him leaving didn't feel like that to me, you know, 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.879 But but now, I mean, I'm like twenty twenty, like 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.399 I can look at it and say, damn, maybe you 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.400 should have kept one of those guys. 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.920 And so I understand what you say, Hey, when he left, 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.360 like man, you know he this wasn't a starting play. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.359 But in the course of seventeen games and injuries and 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.800 just and just running guys in and out, they dq 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.359 had a nice little system going where he was using guys. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.639 Except you don't notice the middle class people until they go. 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.359 On the whole your jags. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:00.199 I won't say jags because they put in word they day. 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:01.520 I mean, you know, you look at the SAC numbers 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.119 that Armstrong had. I know, I won't say they were jacks, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.040 just guys as parcels will call them. I just think 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.800 they were very integral to what they were doing. And 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.280 you know, okay, hey, you want to double mica. Next 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.920 thing you say here against loose four sac that kind 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:20.119 of thing that that's gone and what you thought was 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:24.080