WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Worried About Zeke? 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.280 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:13.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:18.599 player's label, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:24.520 the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, heckm 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:31.440 Harrison and NEWI scrugs three of me go negros. Let's right, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.360 we're back, baby, play us launds. Brought to you by 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.320 Tisty Toes on a Wednesday hump day work day for 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.320 the Dallas Cowboys. Here Star, he's check Harrison. Here, there's 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.080 Barry Church from where Cowboys safety number four two and 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.360 I am New He's scrugs all right, just up the 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.760 locker room so it's open right now. We're in there, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.480 all right, tell us about it, first person available, Zi Yelli. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.520 So Mike McCarthy came out today and said, okay, he's 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.600 now practicing's got an issue. So he and go deep 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.360 into it, said got talk to the players if you 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.440 want to get more information about exactly what it is. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.360 Um here's the biggest takeaway from it. Zeke said, I'll 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.200 I'll go through the week and we'll make a decision 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.400 towards the end of the week about whether or not 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.520 I want I play because I want to play play 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.800 through pain. But yep, we'll see where we're at. I'll 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:24.240 sound good at night. And he was asked a very 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.679 good question, do you take this week off considering you've 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.560 got the bye week they should give you need two 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.479 weeks of rest, and he answered it in the player 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.440 type of way. I don't really think about that. We 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.160 will oper out that operate that way. I'm just gonna go, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.560 you know, through the process here and just see where 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:48.680 I'm at. But really that's the play, hey man. Because 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.320 McCarthy keeps talking about, you know, it's a long season. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.880 You're trying to get Zeke to the end. I'm worried 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:00.200 about the Bears. But if Zeke can't, you know, if 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.559 you want Zeke long, you know, come December, then maybe 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.000 this is the week you you sit him down, you 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:10.120 play Tony Pollard, um and you you go from there 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.440 and you bring up the other back. Yeah, you know, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.280 it doesn't sound so good. We'll get into you know, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.280 can Poler's shoulder to load and all that good stuff. 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.119 But as far as as far as Zeke is concerned 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.679 with this injury, um, you never want to hear a 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.760 player talking about, yeah, we gotta go through the process 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.320 or you know, I gotta I gotta see where we 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.640 react later on in the week. That usually means to 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.920 me that he's either in some pain or he doesn't. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.760 He's probably ninety eight percent short that he's not gonna play. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.240 I mean, we've heard him from Zeke and the four 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.680 before when he had that PCL injury. You know, he 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.400 was all, I'm a workhorse. I'm gonna go out there. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.600 I'm gonna do what I do. I'm gonna be there 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.640 for my teammates. But just a simple and he spoke 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.760 like that too, Okay, because you put a little bit 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.520 in there. Yes, yes, I want to be out there. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.200 But I just the more he spoke berries, the more 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.760 it's just it's more in doubt. Last year. I you 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.679 think about last year, the guy played in painted, what 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.560 did it give him? Criticized a lot, a lot of 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.040 criticis and it was unwarranted when you start to say, Okay, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.359 this guy was in true pain but decided tough it out. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.720 But people, you know, you know, they don't see that. Man. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.680 I mean you slow, you know, I mean, you're on 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.360 the field, you're healthy. This guy's out here. Let me 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.800 take this knee. Come on, let's go. I mean it's hard, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.919 it's hard, man, So I just I have to think 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.040 that stays in the back of his mind. Man, without 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.840 a doubt, without a doubt. You know, I'm curious about it. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.920 I want to know, and I'm sure, definitively they won't 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.480 tell us through the end of the week. We won't 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.760 know until game day. But just going based off of 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.720 Zeke's history dealing with injury, he is one tough son 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.120 of a gun. And I saw that play in super 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.680 slow mode and we are lucky that it did not 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.360 have more ramifications on his knee because it looked like 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.880 the way that it bent back, it didn't looked good, right. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.720 And the fact that he finished the game scored two touchdowns, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.720 that just again echoes the kind of toughness that we're 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.480 dealing with as a football player. He played with on 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.200 the PCL for a whole year. Okay, so we can't 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.240 doubt this man's toughness. We know where he is. But 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.000 you know, look, sometimes you get what you asked for, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.880 you get what you asked for. We've wanted this audition 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.240 from Tony Pollard, and maybe this is the one. Okay, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.799 I don't. I don't want that situation to happen simply 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.560 because Zeke's value on this on this offense is too faceted, right, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:26.039 It's toofold. He he's the tough yards, but he's also 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.960 your swing tackle. Okay, he's your best blocking back, he's 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.080 your sixth offensive lineman. And we're gonna get into your 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:39.200 guy Ebra flush and is go get loose, and you're 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.560 gonna need somebody in there to protect him. We talked 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.240 about Tony Pollard and I I chalked it up to 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.800 gamesmanship with having to have him in on passing downs 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.360 that you know you didn't want to basically tip your 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.919 hand to hell with gamesmanship. You better have somebody in 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.880 there that can block, because we got Dak backing. We 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.240 don't want to lose him again because somebody misses a block. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.120 All right, So let's let's put all these things in perspective. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.799 But also, I guess and even like bringing it, bringing 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.600 it a little bit higher on the whole Zeke thing. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.320 I think you know, Zeke has situational awareness. He understands 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.400 what's going on in the league with him where he 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.600 is in his career. Everything that's happening. If you are 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.440 aware of your situation, like Dalton Schultz was the other 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.800 day when he went back in on his knee. I 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.520 believe Zeke is in the same place, so he can't 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.919 miss any of this time. He knows how valuable this is. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.159 And so no matter what he's saying, I know that 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.440 he knows his value to this offense. Right now, Malik Davis, 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:42.720 get ready, because even if Zeke plays, you're gonna need 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.160 to have Davis to go along with Pollard because you 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.440 don't know how you know, you can't absolutely you can't 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.560 assume he can go the whole the whole way. So um, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.080 this is this is why you have depth on your 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.880 football team. This is why it all matters. I mean 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.560 it all, It all matters. Who's there, man, who's on 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.520 your practice squad? I mean you have to build parcelsa. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.960 You're constantly churning the bottom of your roster. Guys are 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.000 gonna have to play at some point in time. You 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.000 don't know who we're gonna win. I I was in 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.000 the locker room. I walked out and I almost stopped 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.880 to talk to him because nobody was talking Davis Cooper 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:25.440 Rush stop. I ain't nobody cameras all waiting on Hankins 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.600 down there. It was all good just a week ago. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.599 You gotta stop and get that exclusive NEWI so I 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.800 was gonna stop by, and I saw Nevil Gallen was like, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.680 you gotta you know, Nevils, you gotta wait right and 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.840 I gotta get I gotta get over here. So I 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.160 only got a limit of time, so I gotta go 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:52.240 to play blood Rush straight up. Haven't trying to have 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.040 a converse. I think Jalen Told was walking by. He 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.360 was just kind of he was just sitting the chilling man. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.680 He was just there, you know, there and then there's 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.320 something players there, you know, I mean like Tristan Hills there, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.599 this guy's there. Nobody was coming here. But I I 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.560 was a little I was going to go over and 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.720 talk to him, show um some love, man. But then 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.840 I saw I saw Nevill Gallimore. I was like, well 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.040 it was on the right, it was on the same side. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.320 You had to just buy past. My dog just kept 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.400 kept kept ket had to keep moving. Man. It's how 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.080 locker room is. Man't gotta make choices. We all know, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.120 and we all know, man, they are in the room. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.160 There are choices to be made, but I did. He 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.280 wasn't one of your choices. Uh man, it was a 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.760 Twitter hero on Sunday that certain people like, see he 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.560 did have made that throw doc over there and now 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.400 that the locker room a nobody to me, even Carey 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:48.160 was baby. You hate to see it. I think brand 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.480 Sham ended up stopping Davids to gonna get him sut 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:56.880 with Davids. Ain't nobody what cold world just sitting there 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.400 chilling man, you know cold world out here. Dak was 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.960 over the people around Dak and Zeke. Yeah, but but 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.520 Cooper was all and that little little park Man was 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.520 all alone. I'm all Aloney side locker room is man, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.840 you know two three weeks ago, couldn't wait it was 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.760 he got his own day was out there. I'm getting 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.240 pulled up by Aaron Andrews. Yeah, were walking up exclusive 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:23.000 that is man. This is so. Did you tell Neville that, 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.320 hey man, I said your name a couple of weeks 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:33.800 ago on that I tell him they know, they know. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.800 But Calvin Watkins was in the conversation with him about 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.480 the whole Instagram Twitter page, like did you take stuff 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.320 that He's like, I don't know what he's talking about 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.520 I've never really put a whole lot of stuff up there. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.040 Nothing's changed that what Galimore said. You know, nobody's told 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.199 me anything. I'm just getting ready to go focus on 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.560 the Bears this week. As he was putting on his 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.880 Jordans's just like, and it's a whole lot of stuff. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.840 I don't know what people talking about. So he's like, 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.920 I I don't I don't know. I don't know what 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:09.640 people talking about. Yeah, you know. So he's like, I'm 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.400 hearing somebody. I don't know. I don't know. I'm just 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.480 just how he knows. He knows what's happen. So I asked, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.240 I asked somebody here. He all right, He's like, why 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.600 would he be mad? He didn't play because medically he 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.840 had an issue, So saying he was hurt, that's that's 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.239 what person told me, said he he was hurt. McCarthy 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.319 says something that didn't sound a little different. So anyway, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.160 bottom line is the player says he's fine, he's just 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.319 ready to go. McCarthy today, when I asked about Neville 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.120 Gallimore's press conference, and you never have enough defensively mean, 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.679 they're not looking to move him. So Galimore is like, 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.360 I don't know anything about trade. I'm just here to 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.960 work to him. I think so. And let's be honest. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.720 Team that has got issues against the run twentieth in 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.480 the NFL. I don't think you'd be getting rid of 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.120 anybody right now. You're just trying to stack folks up 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.640 where you can. Now I'll be interested to see. It's 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.800 about activating Damon Clark could could play. That's what I got. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.800 Hankinson didn't come here not to play. Even though White 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.000 McCarthy said today this presscars. Hey, you know Kenny, practice first, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:16.120 like make that trade, Just grab grab a T shirt. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.080 So this is good though, this is good right, No, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:26.480 of course you know what. It's good though. I expect 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.200 that you know, the man I probably have a fantastic 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.240 week of practice and be ready to go better. Best 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.320 week of practice he's ever had. Hey, fire, fire has 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.240 been lit. We've been talking about this man since I've 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.400 been here. We talk about competition. You get the competition. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.600 You cannot look. They brought Carlos Walkings up and now 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.400 he's active. He's getting he'd get dressed out for the 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.680 last couple of weeks. Uh So I mean these this 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:55.080 defensive line to me, Uh going into this week versus Chicago. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.240 They know what the number one objective is, and that's 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.640 to stop the run. And I believe every defensive player 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.520 wakes up with that objective. We're going to stop the run, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.040 but we just there was more to be desired. I 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.559 think that your linebackers, as d Mac always talked about, man, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.320 our linebackers can play better now that you get that 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.000 beef up front. Hankins is going to be a He's 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.520 going to be grabbing bodies with him, all right, and 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.640 that's going to allow our guys to flow and be 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.719 that much better against a run game that honestly knew me. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:29.000 I'm not that intimidated by No, I'm not. I'm not. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.640 I'm not that intimidated by Chicago's run game. And I 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.680 feel as though, look, you can't be surprised about something 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.240 that you know is coming at you. You know that 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.360 you know what that they don't have anything else other 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.400 than the run game. I should, but that doesn't concern you. Know, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.640 the way they're able to go between them tackles the 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.800 athletic quarterback, you know what. I hope that Justin Fields 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.920 wakes up Sunday morning and believes that he can be 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.640 do his best Jalen Hurts impersonation, because I think you 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:01.880 get your wish on that RPO where you said, hey, y'all, y'all, first, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.360 I want to gay we need to get that ran 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.360 back again. We want to see them come in do 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:12.480 that same thing. Believe you can do that two hundred 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:18.760 and forty three yards against a well coached football team 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:24.160 in New England. I'm worried. You're worried. I'm worried, moving bodies, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.240 the legit. The Detroit Lions, well, you know, the turnovers 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.920 ended up killing them. They made it a football game 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.120 till the fourth quarter. You know they're running with their 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.640 backup guy. I'm worried. But Khalil Herbert coming in here, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.679 and I'm worried with Dave Montgomery. So I'm not saying 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.400 that I'm not picking the Bears to win, but at 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.400 this point in time, I'm more than saying, Okay, this 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.800 is not this is not ten and a half that 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.880 Vegas initially had up on Sunday. No, no, no, no, no, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.000 no no. Uh. This is gonna be a football game. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.760 It's gonna be a fight and them running the ball 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.400 until the Cowboys can show me they can stop. Hey, Heck, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.800 they went out made a trade for a reason. Okay, 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.800 if everything was all good in the hood, they wouldn't 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.400 have said. Hey. And the owner said, if he had 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:18.040 told everybody, no trade on trade me on do it? 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:29.400 Something's there. Heck, so all right, this players loss. What 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.640 I'm trying to understand, new it is that with the 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.760 same lips, teeth and tongue that you talk about DQ 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:39.800 being an immovable object as a coach, it worries you 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.000 that they that we're twentieth ranked in the Russian defense, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.600 but you don't point to the other things that makes 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.200 this defense and elite defense. So that I mean, you 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.319 can't have it both ways. So I don't understand you 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.280 know what I'm saying, You can sell me ocean front 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.200 property in Nebraska if you can sell me on both 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.120 of those things being true at the same time. Know 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.199 what I can say you ocean front property and myrtle 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.120 beat South Carolina and tell you, hey, it's really nice 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.240 to guess what it's hot as hell in July and August. Yeah, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.360 there can be drawbacks, there can be warts on anything. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.240 So your defense is really good, but it's not perfect. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.840 M But listen, but listen to how you how you 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.800 put that. It's not perfect, but yet we are the 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.480 other areas that you are saying that Chicago will have 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.520 no success if they do this. If Dan Quinn is 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.000 everything that you're saying that he is, this Chicago shouldn't 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:36.920 worry you. What have we seen? Um? What have we seen? 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.760 If you're going to beat the Cowboys, we need to 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.480 do and you gotta stick with the run. That's the 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.280 thing that teams haven't stuck with it. You know Detroit 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.720 had it going and what did they do second half? 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.840 Come out, Let's throw the ball deeper golf. I don't understand. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.320 I'm assuming you're like me. Did you think Bill Belichick's 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.520 a really good football coach? I do. I also also 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.080 saw Bill Belichick go out there with an offense that 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.880 has nothing, zero roll. They gave the ball back. The 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.880 turnover was a horrible turnover. Their office had not They 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.520 could not give their defense any reprieve. If you leave 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.560 your defense out to drive that many times, guess what 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.600 you will get scored on? True. If I wake up 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.560 Monday morning, I see that you rushed for two hundred 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.440 and forty three yards, I don't have to look at 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.880 the other other side. I will assume that you lost 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:24.120 that game, at least you took possession. Feel a time 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.640 of possession. Yeah, two hundred and forty three yards on 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:33.080 a Bill Belichick team, and they knew exactly what you 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.160 you know, Bill, what we're gonna stop you run the ball? 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.800 We know what we know what you're gonna do. Chicago 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.360 trying to run the ball. They could not stop it. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.920 And yes, their offense put them in bad positions and 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.920 shitting there, changing the quarterbacks they didn't help them. But 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.080 the fact that they ran for two hundred forty three yards, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.120 I'm concerned because this is a cowboy team, that's what. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.080 Given it wasn't one one seventeen or one oh seven 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.960 or the last four or five ball games right now, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.440 I mean, it's not good. And they made a trade 0:15:55.480 --> 0:16:00.160 this week because there they know it's not good. So 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.440 why why would that not worry? You're going to you're 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.160 sleep in the night, real good like worry about it. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:12.000 I got DQ, I think you've been you can't you 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.280 had DQ this long? And guess what they still do 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.480 a running? They still running right and running right up there. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:22.240 So so even they know we're not where we want 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.120 to be. Okay, that is a concern to me. That's 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.280 a concern if I'm a lawyer and I'm making my 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.720 case right now, I've got guys exhibit A dice. They're 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.400 gonna come after us right here, and our defense has 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.240 got how do we fix this medal? Right here? Every 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.880 team's got warts. Your job as a coach, he's a 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.640 cover up. The warts got that from Chuck Dailey, by 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.720 the way. Okay, come up the ward to come up 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.760 the wars. Okay, they got a ward right now by defense. Yes, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.240 in the league. You don't think it's wart. You ain't 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.480 top ten in the league's twenty. I'm going with it. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.880 I'm going with it. It's a ward. But I'm looking 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.880 at everything. But you can't be quiet as a church 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.800 mouse on the other things that get you to elite 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:06.960 status and did get sacked? Okay, talk about it? Amen, Amen, Hey, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.960 there you go, there you go. Don't forget about that either. Now. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.480 As a coach, okay, it's a coach. Much job is 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.280 to come up and I tell you, Barry Man, you 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.040 got to kill on the back end. That's great. I 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.760 expect you to keep doing that. But we got a 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.639 problem right here because when they when that all right, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.400 it's justin. Fields will come out bombs away. No run 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.159 he absolutely not, absolutely not come out run in. Okay, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.280 So there we go. Let's talk about that. We you 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.119 have any problem. This is if you're your blueprint against 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.080 the Cowboys and Vic Fangio left you shit, run the 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.320 ball on these dudes, run the ball on, control the clock, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.919 give your self opportunity to try and get some turnover, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.560 win the football game. And they're fixing it. And not 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.639 only traditional runs. It's it's the scrambles, it's the quarterbacks 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.199 ad living and let me go ahead and get up 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:53.960 out of here. We see what Daniel Jones was able 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.439 to do, Hurts, Jalen Hurts was able to do against 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.920 this Cowboys team. And I gotta say Fields, remember that. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.840 Ye look, let it go. I don't want to remember 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:07.520 Mitchell Ubisky. He did Josh Josh Allen that Thanksgiving game. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.399 Really Oh it's just Buffalo. Oh it was Buffalo running 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.480 the stampede right through. So so I'm just so I'm 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:20.159 saying I am concerned, worried. Address it. They've addressed it. 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.439 Let's see where you're going. Improved Cowboys will still get 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.800 the dub you know, It's just right. I don't know 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:26.600 to sit up here say all right, you know ten 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.240 and a half points. No, I wouldn't be going out. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.440 But not the way you put a you know, the 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.119 w you put on that worry was like I'm worried. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:39.040 I ain't worried. I ain't worried. It's not slightly concerned. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.199 I'm slightly concerned about the I want to see. We 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.200 saw the packers take that in, and I thought they should. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.120 I wrote down there my picks w you know, Tampa Bay, Carolina, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.760 w um, New England money that bear w You can't 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.960 get gotten. You can't get gotten if you've got a problem. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.080 You think, yeah, would be okay. I mean I did 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.800 not expect the Kansas City Chiefs to go out to 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.200 San Francisco and lay it on them like that. I 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.359 mean they laid it on them. I mean I thought, Tamiko, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.960 Ryan's doing a great job. Crock Um, it can happen. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.480 So what I don't want, especially the Cowboys get ready 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.160 to go into to the bye week, is to see 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.560 this run Chicago come up, he and roll up you know, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.840 one hundred fifty yards. So don't see that. I'm concerned, man. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:23.800 They gott jump out on and if they're going to win, 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.600 they're going to have to win. They're going to have 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.720 to run. If they don't run, they don't win. About Chicago, yes, yeah, yeah, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.880 they are so yeah, You're going to pass all over 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.399 the happening. You know. I'm that GM. I'm worried, worried. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.320 I'm worried, man. It's the owners were good one plus 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.719 one his fault. Mister Harrison is the owner. He's in 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.560 the box eating good, got his friends and guess and 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:56.080 everybody out here. They celebrate it. They would hope I'm 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:00.400 the gem in the box. Hey, man, I'm worried. I'm 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.440 saying I just saw your defense. I saw your defense 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.840 go out there, no No. De nine the Philadelphia Eagles 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.320 play bullyball, and we got took to the woods. I 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.120 got tasty, hey, like a tasty cake, a nasty tasty cake. 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:20.239 It was a disgusting no taste, Okay. But I think 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.040 you learn from that. I think it's a defense. You 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:23.760 have to learn from that, and I'm sure they are 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.800 waiting on the opportunity to redeem themselves from that. It's like, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.359 you know what Chicago brings to the table. 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