WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Pollard’s Full Potential? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.000 Cowboys. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:16.680 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:22.200 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.840 Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:38.320 It's Victory Monday, Cowboy Nation, and welcome to the Players Lounge, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.239 sponsored by Tostitos, the official chip and dip of the 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.440 Dallas Cowboys. You were rocking with the best. I'm Heckmharrison. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.840 He's Danny McCrae. And that's forty two, yes, sir, forty 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:57.240 two Barry Church official too, Yeah, yeah, hey man, uh 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.480 seventy three, seventy three in here, seventy three up in here. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.000 It's victory Monday, man, and I'm feeling good. I'm not 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.080 gonna let the devil still my joy. Nobody is gonna 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.319 tell me that that victory didn't mean anything. So if 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.000 you came in here with that, y'all had the week off. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:21.080 I'm ready all smoked, smoked, So you're ready to come 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.479 in here and say that that that win it showed 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.600 you something what we won. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.959 And I'm asking you It showed me. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.200 It showed me one that Tony Pollard is ready to 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.360 grab the mantles and be that running back that you 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.319 needed to. You see that run by Tony Pollard. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:44.319 Josh, did you see that? I'm talking about block It's 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.680 at the ghost on Sorry, Barier, I'm telling you what 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.920 you know? Boy? Did you come on now? I said it? 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:53.960 I said it last week. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.600 I said, Look, we talked about ric o'dado, who needed 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.600 to show up in this game? Tony poll did it? 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.560 You come on, fell, don't do this. Don't be a 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:02.720 Debbie downer on victory. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.960 My dad. I'm not I'm not saying he played bad, bro. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.120 I'm just saying, yeah, I don't I think he runs 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:08.800 out all the time. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:09.359 I don't. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.280 I don't think he You know, he had an opportunity 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.000 to get through the hole. He made a big time play. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.000 But we had twelve carries. Twelve, I mean had like 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.399 four catch ups. Yeah catch What we talked about was, hey, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.600 is he going is he going to be that? Hey man, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.720 I'm going to carry the team twenty twenty five? Care 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.440 is there a possibility for him to get there? And 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.760 I said, I like him to twelve and fifteen? You 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.040 did twelve and fifteen cares. I think that is a 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.520 sweet spot for Tony Poler, and I think he's going 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.639 to have a lot of explosive plays if you keep 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.240 him in that twelve to fifteen ranging you saw you 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.320 know twelve carries big time run. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.440 Still, I still don't understand the you know series on 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.480 series off type deal. I mean, like, I still believe 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.120 that the man needs to be like, look, if I'm tired, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:52.680 I'm tapping out. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.600 Like I seen him the one time he was like Church, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.679 I saw him a few times or not. I saw 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.800 a huge chapter head. He was turn around, hed his 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:02.080 little hand, say. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:15.560 To him, you know the next thing, right, get a 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.400 little bit. I still though they're not. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.119 Using him to his full potential in my opinion. Yes, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:21.880 he ran some hard yards out there. You could tell 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.040 he was frustrated on that touchdown run, so he was like, nah, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.880 I can't, I gotta get in there. And he ran 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.600 through some casts, ran over Xavier Woods former Cowboy, dragged 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:29.399 him into the in Zoe. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.680 So it was a strong run. But I still feel 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.560 like they can get him the rock a little bit more. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:34.160 I mean in the. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.320 Passing game, like you can have plays where he's targeted, 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.000 not just like I'm running out of town. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.400 Let me dump it off the polyp. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.839 Exactly, like, there's some things you can do to still 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.400 have him out there explosive, because if we don't, if 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.120 we look at the game, I mean, it was seventeen 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.440 seventeen ten in the fourth in the fourth quarter, in 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.440 the fourth quar and that's and that's when the run happened. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.040 If this is why, this is why I'm confused though, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.880 why you come here talking about this game. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.520 Showed you so And I'm like, what what do you mean? 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.000 They showed me my show my come on, look at okay, 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.440 stop one thing at a time. I jumped out the case. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.880 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Let me let me go back rewind. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.000 How was your weekend? 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.360 Are good? Are you good? Are you good? And started? 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:14.200 I did start? 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.240 That's what I messed it up. I messed it up? 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.360 Are you good? Let let me be clear about how 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.360 my weekend went. Okay, okay, both my fantasy football teams 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:28.000 won this weekend. Okay, uh the Bayu Jake, I don't 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.200 care if they was playing Georgia State, Georgis, whoever it was. Okay, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.200 he pressed man went out there and did wear eight 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.280 touchdown seven, touchdown five. He went out there and had 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.560 to day Cowboys one. Family time was had. So my 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.400 weekend was great. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:42.840 There you go. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.520 Didn't even say nothing about that was bad. Cowboys win 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.159 unless you did that thing. Toledo top twenty five in 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.320 the country right now, you might get this forty two dollars, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:58.240 but cowboys what it was a good weekend. Good weekend. Now, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:04:59.200 both my schools won. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:05.880 There we go, yeah school and my team was like, yeah, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:06.920 we're good, but it's not. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.799 You gotta watch the game to night to see. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.120 How your how your whole okay, because I know what 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.400 you really want to happen. I know what you want 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.919 to happen, and that can spoil your weekend. Eavens, go 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.599 out there and pull out a win against the Cats. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.359 Any team that's gonna spoil your weekend, I picked it. No, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.679 you picked them because you picking with your with your. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.200 Head in your heart. It's about the third time you 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.799 done did this this year, young boys. I don't know, 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.920 ye so yeah when I do, when I do, what 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.640 is your other? Boys? Now? Now, he'd picked him every 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.600 every time this season. I don't know. Let's pump breaks here. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.440 It's time to pump some breaks. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.840 What I did in the off season, I said, I 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.360 can't go through a whole season like that. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:48.799 I gotta be practical. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.760 Man, Emmy winners, ex players, all of that. I gotta 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.800 think these things through Otherwise people think I'm crazy. So hey, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.880 I've been doing pretty pretty good on my on my 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.560 doing pretty good on my eagle trick. But y'all not 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.760 gonna talk about them. We're not gonna talk about them yet. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.960 What we're gonna do is we're gonna break down this offense. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.159 We're gonna break down this defense. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:14.520 And I won. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.520 First of all, it's great weekend of football, as you 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.880 guys just said. But on Sunday in Carolina, Cowboys take 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.440 the field heavily favored. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.040 Even announced that. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.080 Jimmy Johnson going tell the bring up all the listen go. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.200 That's meaning we will talk about that as well. But 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.440 the offense, guys, if y'all have to admit it got 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.640 off to a slow start, hit it. Yeah, it was 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:36.760 a slow day, all right. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.520 But all in all, you did not get. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.360 The same results from Ceedee Lamb. But I thought it 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.720 was a conservative effort to try and get guys the ball. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:52.359 Tob just make a plain seeing as you continue speaking, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.640 all right now, now you can kind of this is 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.880 why I'm feeling the way that I'm and we'll. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:57.120 Get to it. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.240 But that it don't make no sense. It don't it 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.440 don't it don't make it, don't make no sense. But 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.600 I mean, yeah, go ahead, sorry, So I mean, but 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.160 that being said, it was an overall effort. It took 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.800 parts of it, took every part of this team to 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.480 pull out this victory. And you saw some splashes definitely 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.360 on defense with the sack trip, you saw your man. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.760 I don't know how you keep getting this right, but 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.560 n Bland did his day once and again. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.840 But offensively for Dak Prescott, no turnovers. You can't ask 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.600 for anything more than that. Nah, you're right about that. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:30.840 I mean, that's what it comes down to. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.200 Like we all understand, you know, if the cliche goes, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.760 anything can happen on any given Sunday, all that good stuff. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.960 But offensively, when you look at it, that defense, I 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.120 feel like they should have shredded them apart, like they 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.000 actually had one of those games like he did against 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.840 the Giants. But you know, it happened and they were 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.760 able to play a little bit better than I thought 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.960 they would. But offensively, Dak took care of the football 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.440 two touchdowns out there. You rarely saw the ball in 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.360 Harm's way, which is a good sign for the Dallas 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.240 Cowboys going forward because you know, if you got that 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:57.840 defense on the other side, if you take care of 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.440 the football, you always gonna have an opportunity to games 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:00.760 out there. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.320 So I like that part of it, CD Lamb. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.280 He spread the ball around all the receivers, even a 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.800 tight end, So like you said, it was a concerned 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.320 effort out there and running the football. Wise, I think 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.480 they what they ended up total with over there, over 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.440 one hundred combined with him, and yes it was one 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.960 o seven. Like I said, I would still like to 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.640 see Pollard, you know, getting a little bit more involved, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.560 not just you know, running the football, but you know, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.640 just have some screenplays up for him so he can 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.800 get to get going that way. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.720 But to me, man, when you look at it, I 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:29.600 don't know where I want to. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.840 Put this this you know, this win, Like I'm glad 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.680 it was a good win overall, but I don't know 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.560 where I want to put it as far as my 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.880 concern do. I still feel like they're the top dogs 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.440 in the NFC when you put them in that tier 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.560 with San Francisco. We'll talk about that a little bit later, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.560 but it was a good win overall. I mean, the 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.800 penalties were down and Carolina did what losing teams do. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.720 I mean, when you talk about the penalties out there 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.640 that extended these drives, especially in a rins, what are 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:51.960 you doing? 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.320 You remember ninety six for the for the Panthers. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:59.760 Mann Turvice, Yes, something was chilling, not even involved you 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:01.760 just out of nowhere, let me get this extra shove 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.840 in here, and then act surprised when the flag went up. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.240 I mean, so losing teams do things to lose games. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.199 That exactly what Carolina did, and the Cowboys were able 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:08.840 to take advantage. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:09.480 Yeah. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.120 Listen, it was seventeen to teen going into the fourth, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.760 so you know, coming into the game. The conversation was 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:22.439 okay when they played New York, but we expected to happen. Happened, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.439 all right, and it wouldn't make me feel any better 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.520 about it because we knew what New York was and 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.160 what they were going through at the time. Okay, we 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.520 watched Carolina play against Chicago the week before, No, it 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.240 was Chicago beat them then, and it helped them get 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:38.240 a better draft pick. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:38.559 Right. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.040 We watched the Chicago without justin Right, So we watched 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.719 that game, right, so when we come into the week, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.480 I'm like, you know what, all right, we should we 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.720 should do the same thing to the squad, no matter 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.880 how good they played. Right, if we come out and 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.120 we played the game that we're supposed to play, this 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.840 game shouldn't be close, all right. And we were coming 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.640 off a week where Brandon Cooks had all the targets, 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.680 all the catches. We saw Ceedee Lamb on one fifty 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.280 for the third game straight. We saw all these things 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.000 and we said, well, I said, I need to see 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.360 this continuously throughout the season, through the rest of the 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.800 season for me to feel comfortable about us going into 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.800 the playoffs. Because what happens when we get into playing 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.240 those real teams, the real competition, is our offense gets stagnant. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.559 They get stagnant. Right, You don't see the explosive plays. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.720 You see a lot of short throws. You can't figure 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.360 out a way to get into the end zone. And 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.080 then sometimes when the defense isn't playing from ahead right 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.080 and not able to get those sacks, that's when that 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.160 becomes an issue. And I still need to see more 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.720 in order to believe that that is no longer an issue, 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.200 because right now I don't all right. We went out, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.160 we were efficient, we ran the ball Tony Pollard, you know, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.839 he had a big time run. He had sixty one 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.800 total yards. Brandon Cooks had another three targets. He had 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.480 less targets than Jayaln Tober. Now, I've seen Jalen Tober 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.080 getting targeted in one on one like way too many 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.640 times for me to feel comfortable with what we will 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.760 possible in the future moving throughout the season. So yes, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.360 we got to win, Like, even if we blew them 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.240 out wasn't gonna make me feel that much better about it. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.000 It's about how we won and then who we got 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.640 involved in the game. I don't feel like we did 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.040 enough to get our big time players involved and continue 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.760 the momentum that we had last week against the Giants. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:18.760 So tell me if I'm wrong. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.520 If good teams are supposed to go in and handle 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.800 their business against bad. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.079 Teams, you get it how you get it? 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.240 All right, it's by one whatever, But you go in 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.920 and you handle your business versus the bad teams, and 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.680 the Cowboys have shown you as of late. Obviously we 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.120 ran into the arizonas of the world, but the two 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.040 big teams that we ran into obviously what you're talking, 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.920 that's what you're talking from that standpoint. If you can't 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.240 when you play the upper echelon guys, you can't be 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.920 two or four in the red zone. You got to 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.800 you gotta execute, you gotta score when it's there for you. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.360 Limited the limit the penalties, which we did in this game, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.320 but the distribution of the ball. For me, what I 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.160 was watching was the cause that Mike McCarthy was making. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.520 They were safe. We didn't see a lot of stretching, 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.400 stretching the field, but at the same time, Dak. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.160 Was taking what the defense was given. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.840 We never, to me, I never felt like we were 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.960 in any danger of losing this game. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.000 Man, Am I wrong? You? 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.800 Did you ever feel like, Okay, there's a momentum shift 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.600 happening in this No, I didn't feel that. But I 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.760 watched the Texans game last year when Houston came here, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.040 and it was one of those games where it was like, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.440 it's dangerously close, right, we know we better than this squad, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.440 but it's dangerously close, and Dak had to come out 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.240 at the end of the game and make a game 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.280 win and drive and going into the fourth quarter would 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.360 have been seventeen to ten without Carolina going out there 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.920 having all these crazy penalties. It's a lot closer than 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.080 it should have been for Carolina team where I think 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.600 we should have went out there and stumped them out, 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.520 all right, but we didn't, and it happens we've been 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:48.040 on the run. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:48.559 We won. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.840 I don't want to sound so we ain't apologizing for 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.240 winning the game. I just know what's coming for us, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.160 like up in with our upcoming schedule, right, I know 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.080 that December is gonna be tough. I know that even Thursday. However, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:06.439 the Commanders look, it is a divisional game, and the 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.640 Seattle Seahawks found that out this week when they played 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.080 against the Rams. It's divisionally. It don't matter who you are. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.600 You just got to go in there and you know, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.079 put your best before. So I just want to see 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.280 more because I know that our schedule is getting tougher 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:18.720 moving through the end of thee. And let's let's flip 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.440 over to the other side of the ball, because I 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.199 think that you you can look at it two ways. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.520 For the defense, defense dominated the line of scrimmage. As 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.239 far as getting to the passer, all right, seven seven sacks, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:38.720 a pick six. They picked another another pick six chosen 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.240 by you know, it's only one person in here on 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.200 this podcast when we did the pod picks that picked 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.120 the Ron Bland to be the guy to be the 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.839 guy who gets the first defensive touchdowns. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:53.840 Danny. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.000 I got lifkey too, by the way, so you know 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.240 the Nostra domins over there, and took all the. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.560 Way to go out on the limb, way to go 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.200 out on the limb because you did. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.240 Yeah, I went playing the hot No you mad because 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.160 you did not. Congratulations to you and you get a 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.000 sack strip that's right. I mean as a defense other 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.840 than those, I'm obviously you're gonna point to the rushing 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.320 yards and say that the Carolina Panthers got way too 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.640 much on the ground. But it was a ben don't 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.480 break style of defense. They didn't allow a rushing touchdown either. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.120 But that's the version of your defense that you want 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.040 to see. As far as being able to pass rush, yeah, no, 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.760 they were getting after that. They were getting after those guys. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.040 You got a big bazookah come on once again. He 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.040 came back in three sacks. I believe he had two 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.840 and a half to they gave that half the curve. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.480 They did two and a half but okay, but not all. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.880 But he played his butt off out there, Like you said, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.000 two and a half sacks. The defense as a whole, Yeah, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.520 they got a little bit gas. You wouldn't like to 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.160 see that, especially against the Carolina Panthers going against you know, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.000 Miles Sanders and True Behover, you know, combining those two 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:02.880 weren't doing anything all season long, so to come in 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.720 this game and they had a little bit of success 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.640 against the Dallas Kyleboy, you don't like to see that, 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.040 because you know those teams that the Dallas Kybos are 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:10.400 gonna have to play going in. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.520 The future, they're going to try to exploit that. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.480 That's one thing I don't understand about teams when they 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.000 go against the Cowboys, Like why you give up on 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:17.880 the run so quick? 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:19.200 I just don't understand that. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.200 And they put the ball back in Bryce Young's hands 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.120 over there, and that fell right into dan Quinn's lap, 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.320 because that's what you love to see when you're dan Quinn. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.040 Third and eights, third and tens. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.960 The first half, what made it close was offensively the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.240 Carolina Panthers. There was a lot of third manageables. They 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.680 was turned three, third and two's, fourth and ones, moorph 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.600 and twos and was able to kill on those COVID routes. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.440 And you saw that they were able to take advantage 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.720 by getting the ball out of Bryce's hands quick. When 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.200 you go to the second half and you're in those 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.920 third eights, now third and tens, third and twelves, it 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.680 feeds right into this defensive lap because those guys feed 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.360 off of those one on one opportunities that Parsons is 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.200 creating for those guys. In the first half he went 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.040 off and then they started double teaming them. Then here 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.200 comes the law, here comes during something trying to filer 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.080 the crew. So they got to eat off of that 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.880 and made life a living, you know what for Bryce 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.560 Young back there in the pocket. So defense did a 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.160 great job. We talked about darn Bland. I mean, the 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.920 guy's arguably a top three corner and now I'm talking. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.360 About this year. I ain't talking about body of work, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.760 but this year he's a sact. We're going to talk 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:16.000 about it. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.360 Talking about the second I want to break him down 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.920 for sure, but just all overall, anybody else in that secondary. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.960 Besides dr blaying that that that stuck out to you, I. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.440 Think everybody else's did a solid job, you know, safeties. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.120 I feel like they did a good job covering, coming 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.120 down and run support. In the second half, they were 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.800 able to kind of get things going out there. Gilmore 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.720 didn't really see his name at alls. That's a good 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.680 thing for a corner knowing that you ain't really getting 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:39.320 targeted like that. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:40.600 So how to thing? Overall? 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.320 They played well, but it was hard to grade the secondary. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.960 When Bryce Young's back there one two, What am I 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.600 going to do? Oh man, I'm going down like there 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.840 was no opportunity for him to do that. But that's 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.760 why Russian cover worked together so well. And that's what 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.280 the Cowboys do defensively. Amazing. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.280 But you think about the defense, listen, I mean the 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.160 four point eight to carry five point seven O carry 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.680 about you you're you know, it's disappointed. And this is 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.360 all because I'm looking forward into the season. If I'm 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.000 looking at just this game, I don't care. Our defense 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.280 went out there. We played when you play with the lead, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.520 they did exactly what they were supposed to do. They 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.639 let the dogs out okay, and Micah came out there 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.399 shout out to that C four school that he was 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:26.520 taking out there because it worked. His get off was crazy. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.480 But the guy the announcer was says, and man, looks 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.000 like he's drinking jet few. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:35.520 He was. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.040 I'm telling I was taking that uh that pre workout 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.240 stuff before. And you kissed the wrong one, they'd be 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:41.200 having your hands out. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.119 Juice. I'm talking about amped up. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.680 And you could tell he was amped up, man, I'm 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.400 talking about His get off was crazy, and he went 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.280 out there and he made sure that they put his 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.040 name back into the defensive player to your conversation, but 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.960 we will talk about who may who may need to 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.320