WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: A Healthy Tyron? 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.360 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:13.319 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:18.560 player's label, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:23.800 the Star. Now your hosts Bury Church, Danny McCray and 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:30.880 Newe Scrugs. Here we are Players Lounge, Our last one 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.479 of the year of tomorrow is New Year's Eve. We 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:36.960 do not have a show, so we welcome you to 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.360 the last Players Lounge rockey By Hotels dot Com of 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.720 the year. I knew we Scrugs, joined by two former 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.680 Dallas Cowboys safeties, the Toledo Rocket himself Buried Church and 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:52.440 the Survivor so Survivor season forty one. He is Danny mccrai. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.760 If you have not seen him, please go over to 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.240 CBS dot com. They've got all the episodes there and 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.760 watch my man do his thing. Guy. It is one 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.039 more show. Here we will make our predictions as the 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.880 Cowboys take on the Arizona Cardinals in their final regular 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.520 season home game at Jerry World, and Tyrant Smith is 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:17.520 expected to play big the pro bowler back in here. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.720 Uh he practiced today. Mike McCarthy says he looks good, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.800 so it looks like Tyrant Smith is gonna be up 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.880 in there, barring any type of setback. Well, what type 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.200 of practice is they here today? I saw some helmets 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.760 out there. Yeah pass no, no, no, no no pads. I 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.520 don't see no pass, but they might. Oh that might 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.120 have just been the walk through that we was we 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.360 were seeing. Yeah, yeah, okay, listen. What I'm saying is 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.119 I'm glad my man's tiring is back. A healthy tyrant 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.319 is better than most of the left tackles in the league. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.440 A healthy tyrant. So I just want a healthy tyrant 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.000 to carry us into the playoffs. Not this in the 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.760 in the lineup, out of line up, in the lineup, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.920 out of line up, tear still playing left? Is this 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.600 shit like he'll be playing left? Do we need to 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.200 like that? That's what That's what's gonna hurt us right 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.600 going into the into the player So a healthy tyrant 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.680 that can get us through the playoffs and this deep 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.200 playoffs run, possibly to the super Bowl, that is what 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.480 I'm excited to see. Yeah, I hope that happens because 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.280 right now that they say he's healthy, but you know, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.399 they say a lot of things out there, So I'm 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.800 hoping my guys healthy, he can go out there and 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.520 get back to his dominating ways, because we're gonna definitely 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.720 need this guy, especially once the playoffs come around and 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.160 we play against some top tier talent. We're definitely gonna 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.119 need him on that side protecting Dak Prescott. But when 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.560 we talked to Looney a couple of weeks ago, when 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.840 he was on a player's lounge, he talked about how, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.840 you know, moving those pieces around, having Terrence still go 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.919 from right to left and bring it in Connor Williams 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.880 and then uh, Connor's the other yeah, Connor McGovern, you know, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.240 in and out like in and out of the lineup 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.240 like that. He talked about how that can affect you, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.440 as you know, affects your confidence out there, affects your 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.120 play style because you always want to want to feel 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.880 like that's your position, like this is this is my position. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.720 I can hold it down out there. But when they 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.320 move you around like that, it shows some you know, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.639 some vulnerabilities out there, and you're thinking, as a player 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.960 that coaches, man, did they really believe in me? I 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.000 don't know, And now I think that's what affected Terren 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.280 still moving that from right tackle to left tackle. But 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.720 all that aside. Hopefully t Smith can come in here 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.600 and hold it down stay healthy for this long run, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.120 because that, to me is the most important key health. No, no, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:20.320 we're not putting that aside. So y'all needed Joe Looney 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.320 to come in here and tell y'all that I told 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.840 y'all this every week. I just I literally told y'all 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:33.240 this every week, stated said. And then a former NFL 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:39.600 officsive lineman, he comes, he exact same thing. He verified it. Goodness, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.200 thank you, thank you Joe Looney. All right, thank you 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.640 for validating what I said and how I felt about 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.240 it and how Terrn still possibly feels about it. But 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.720 what makes you think these like why would I mean, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.200 I'm sure these coaches know the same. They know you know, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:54.680 all right, man, it's gonna be hard to kind of 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.440 get traction moving these pieces here and there. What made 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.680 you think, you know, for them to decide, let's move 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.800 these guys in left guard around, let's move this guy 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.760 from right tackle to left tackle. What made you to 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.080 get know that thought process? Because at that point you 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.800 had time, You had time. You gotta lead in the division. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.600 You need to have your strongest five going forward. If 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.880 you really plan on making a deep running to the playoffs. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.359 So if you're gonna, if you're gonna do it, that's 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:22.039 the top musical chairs on my guy. He knows, you know. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.840 Back in high school, they was around Lady mc guard 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.360 sent up tackle running back. He was pulling, pulling around 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:37.520 athletic Collins. Yeah, Collins before Collins out here, I'll see you. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.239 I'm just happy to know that the fat Bury Church 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.760 and I placed in Tyrann Smith has pretty much come 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.120 to pass because he did make the Pro Bowler. He did. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.040 He did do that. We called it. We could come back. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.800 You probably the only player who miss five. Get him 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.960 and Lamar Jackson. They're gonna break a record for the 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.000 people who played the less amount of games and made 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.800 the Pro Bowl. That's what That's what they gonna do. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.480 It just shows the doctors show the town that is 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.400 they were able to do when they're out on the 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.840 football field. Who ain't PF graded them more to the 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:20.680 highest Almost you, PFW, I'm just saying no, are you 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:26.000 personally okay already? But but they graded him as one 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.160 of the highest. I'm not saying he wasn't graded high. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.520 He played well when he was in the game. When 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.159 he was in the game, he played well, I'm just 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:37.320 saying he missed five, even five, twenty eleven times right now, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.240 all of a sudden, all of a sudden, layout gonna 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.360 be all today. He missed five too, So you know 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.160 it's five you miss You missed five or less, and 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.160 you can make the Pro Bowl. You gotta be a 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.159 different breath all Notice, you gotta be a different breathe. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.880 You know you gotta be established is that player already? 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.160 You got to be established as that player already. All 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.120 you know, fight, I didn't have you want to, but 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.880 my man is a pro bow, so fighting about that. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:12.559 Congratulates now. I do want to also make you feel 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.720 a little bit good, Danny. Okay, make you feel good though, Burying, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.720 I you know, Burying, I were correct about the Cowboys 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.880 going defense and taking Michael Parson. We were correct because 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.640 I don't know if you if you checked out that 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.400 if you check out that list I sent you from ESPNS, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.960 Will Barnwell when he came out with It's all protein, Oh, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:35.480 I wasn't able to check it out because you couldn't 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:36.880 check it out. So so break it down to us 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:41.760 the Newes. Okay, so since I paid for it. I'll 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.000 keep it the inside information. Um. Michael Parsons was first 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.159 team All Pro at the linebacker spot. In fact, the 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.719 Cowboys had Zack Martin at guard on the first on 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:58.000 his All Protein first team, Parsons linebacker, first team All Pro, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.080 Digs at cornerback first team All Pro, and Brian Anger 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:05.200 the puncher made second team. Now, where I do want 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.520 to go ahead and give Danny some some some credit 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.160 here the guy he called for, a Rashaw Slater on 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.760 this list was second team All Pro left tackle behind 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.880 Trick Williams of the forty nineties. So Rasha Slater's uh 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.320 had a really good rookie year and and and uh 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.640 so all this particular was like we're both we're both 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.800 correct tackle, second team. All it sounds like it's a wash. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.000 You know, we just right on Parsons. You know Slater, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.680 There's there's no wash because we talked about how this 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.880 defense needed needed some playmakers, needed a blue chip player, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.880 and they got one. Michael Parsons also today named the 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.920 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month for December, so second 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.760 straight month he's won the award. So Michael Parsons is 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.600 Michael Parsons beyond this. I expect this is this is 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.400 this is it. You need some help, But he's beyond 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.240 So this is what I'm talking about. This is what 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.640 I'm talking about. See, this is how he goes opposite 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.320 of how you guys think and how I think. Okay, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.680 Nui was on the same train as me that said 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.840 Mike Nolan was the problem. All right, he was the 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.080 issue you not so much. You said it was on 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.640 the players. My belief was that if you bring a 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.960 new defensive coordinator in here, those blue those blue chip 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.240 players that we that you thought we didn't have, all 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.160 of a sudden, we will have them because we would 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.840 have better coaching. Do we not have those blue blue 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.120 chip players on the score. So my belief is, hey, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.640 bring Dan Quinny. We don't have to do nothing extravagant. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.200 We don't have to do anything extravagant that in my mind, 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.360 we did not have to go spend at that time 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.760 a first round pick on the defensive player because I 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.160 really put all the onus on Nolan. So now you 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.960 come back this year, take out Michael Parsons. He's he's 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.320 a great I'm not I'm not saying that he's not 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.160 He's a great draft pick for us, all right, hindsight, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.280 d law back blue chip right, nevill got him more, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:59.320 playing better, not blue chip, but he's playing better. Trayvon Diggs, curse, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:01.920 what would you say about what would you say about 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.280 him on our team right now? He's playing well, playing 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.600 well like we had the players then quick could bring 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.960 those players in. He did a great job of getting 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.000 Michael Parsons and turn him into the player that he was. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.280 But that was my thought process at the time. The 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:19.080 players were playing bad because of the defensive coordinator. I 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.360 can't put it all on I mean, but you can 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.520 look at the proof of it now. Yeah, but you know, No. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.640 One didn't have a whole off season. He didn't have 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.760 many camp OTAs. He had an abbreviated training camp, no preseasons. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.920 I can't put it all. They couldn't play Cover three. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.280 They couldn't do that. I mean, they could play I 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.559 couldn't play Cover one either could. But look at the 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.120 pieces they had. He was getting burnt and Cover three 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.880 yesterday just said we had the same guys. He got 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.680 me on that. But I'm just saying I can't really 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.439 put it all on Nolan because he didn't have that 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.959 that off season to really, you know, put his program 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.120 to work like that. Now, was he the best defensive coordinator? 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:58.959 I don't think he was the best, but I think 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.640 it was a little bit of share both ways with 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.000 the players and Nolan. Last he tried to turn the 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.040 four three team into the three four. That's his first mistake. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.000 I don't care what type of program you got. When 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.480 you realize that you have a shortened training camp, short 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.360 the preseason, you have to find a way to adapt. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.840 Dan Quinn said, I'm going to create my defense when 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.080 I get there based off the players that I see 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.520 in their abilities. If Mike Nolan would have came in 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.760 what they saying believe, he wouldn't been running though three four. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.000 But you can't tell me because he's in the lab. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.280 De Law can't get to the quarterback standing up. No, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.480 we saw the last year. He can't make to the 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.200 quarterback standing up. They look like totally different players standing 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.360 up coming off the edge. D Law did not look 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.480 like the same players standing up coming up. I don't know, man, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:42.520 how many how do you play? Last year? He didn't 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.920 blame one standing up, hit me all of it. Go 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.240 ahead to it, Church and I Church and I were right. Okay, byline, 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.120 Church and I were right. They needed to go defense 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.400 in the first round. They went defense in the first round. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.240 We see the tremendous IMPACTAE there. We said, go another 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.360 year with tires, Schmid. The guys made the Pro Bowl. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.959 We were right. That's all you can do. The final 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:05.360 show here, you just say. You can say, Danny that 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.440 we were The only thing you was righty to do 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.520 was bring that chicken in here. Twice depends. That's the 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.560 only thing you was right to do was to bring 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.360 that Palmer chicken in here. So you can get a 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.120 reaction out of me for twenty twenty and beyond. That's 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.080 the only thing you would correct about. So take that. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.720 How about that? How about that? Shout out to shout 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.679 out to Slater being a great player, and shout out 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.240 to Michael Parsons being a great player equally they both 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:34.000 woun't know as okay, as in they both did what 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.360 they were supposed to do. His first round picks. And 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.280 if Slater was on our team, I think we're still 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.240 have a great squad. Michael Parkson on our team, we 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.719 have a great defense. Yeah, I can I can't tell 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.000 on that one. Michael Parson is a generational though. Man, 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:50.080 that dude. He only behind Trent Williams, who was a 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.800 generational talism. What can what can an offer? I mean, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:54.920 you know, I just feel like market Parsons can make 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.760 more of an impact. And then that's just a position 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.880 they play. You know, that's a position they play. But yeah, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.920 tell your quarterback get hit the back of the head again. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.440 I'm just saying, no, no, listen, don't don't don't don't 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.320 take don't take anything away from left tackles down. That 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.320 is that's the reason why they get paid so much 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.760 is because they do black. Their effect on the game 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.040 is huge as tiring. He knows because, like I said, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.199 that Atlanta game keeps two years ago reminds us all. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.440 So let me ask this question about Parsi's for you guys. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.560 In training camp, we started hearing some positive things, okay, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.160 a lot of positive notes and if people were talking 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.080 about sky high expectations. I mean, he came into the season. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.600 I think Vegas had him as as the odds unfavored 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.880 to win the Rookie of the Year on the defensive 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.280 side of the football here. So based on what he's 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.040 done so far and what you thought he could be 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.120 the high ceiling. Did he meet it? Surpass it? Where 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:57.439 did Parsons fall? Uh? For me, he exceeded it. Um listen, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.880 and I'll honestly if any one of you say that 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.680 he did not even seen your expectations, I won't believe you. 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.959 He ain't seen it expectations. He came in, he got sacks, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.679 he's he's reading, reading defenses, being able to play in 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.160 coverage and stop the run. The dude has exceeded all 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.360 of my expectations. So he deserves every accolade that he's getting. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.640 He deserved his first round drafting. He should have been 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.600 drafted earlier, and we redo it. Yeah, and they redo it. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.040 He's gonna be a top three he should have been 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.800 drafted earlier. But I would say this, I am absolutely 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.880 happy that Dan Quinn got his hands on Michael Parsons 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.120 because I've seen some coaches be able to ruin some 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.520 of these players by putting them in wrong in the 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.079 wrong situation show. I think it's a match made in heaven, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.480 and he deserves every accolade that he's getting. Yeah, Yeah, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.640 he definitely deserves every single one. I mean, just just 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.480 look at the impact that this guy has been able 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.679 to have as a rookie, and not only a rookie, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.280 a guy that didn't even play the previous year at 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.120 Penn State. He took the year off because of COVID. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.000 This guy's impact, Like I said before, I don't know 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.079 if it was as great as Das Bryant's his ar 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.079 rookie year, but now that I really I mean, he 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.160 succeeded that beyond. I mean the way he's been able 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.480 to transform this defense. I give half to Dad Quinn 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.320 and half to Michael Parsons, just the way that he's 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.720 been able to turn and juice get this whole defense. Juice. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.040 I mean, like you said last year, Delon Randy Gregory, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.400 they weren't playing this way. They get injured, they see 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.680 this guy, the young Lion, pretty much take over the defense. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.160 He's pretty much the main guy the defense. So when 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.200 they come back, they're sitting there like, we gotta step 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.480 our game up. We gotta be that guy. I want 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.040 people to think this is my defense. So he's forcing 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.960 these guys, he's veteran players, to step up their game. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.720 He's attacking offenses and forcing them to put their whole 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.320 game playing around. How are we gonna stop eleven. It's 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.400 not how are we gonna stop you know, this guy 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.160 over here, the Marcus Lawrence over there, Randy Gregor, it's 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.600 how do we stop Michael Parsons and stop him from 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.920 affecting the game. And they haven't been able to figure 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.520 it out because the guy has still been able to 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.760 get back there, get sacks, make splash plays each in 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.480 every Sunday out there. So to me, his impact, it's 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.640 by far the best I've seen out of any rookie. Now, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.320 this would not be a great last show even if 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.000 I don't push back on Church with this, with this 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.880 fifty fifty. Okay, listens, not fifty fifty. And I'm gonna 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.600 tell you why it's not fifty fifty because if you 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.600 don't give Trayvon Dick, if you don't listen before before 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.280 Michael Parsons got in there and started and started showing 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.760 what he could do, Trayvon dis came in here and 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.520 said he was going to catch fourteen interceptions this year. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.160 He man, So it's not because Michael Parsons is out there. 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.080 I said, it's not. He's not playing better because he's 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.080 trying to chase Michael Parsons. He had to He knew 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.680 this when he came in last year, had a rookie 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.680 year at a sucky coach, and he knew that if 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.680 he got his hands on those balls with in a 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.640 better position, with better coaching, he was gonna be able 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.400 to play better. He has. He has eleven and eleven interceptions, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.200 all right, So he he also has something to do 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.720 with this defense being able to be what they are, right, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.080 because if you can't take the ball away and all 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.800 you're doing is getting sexed, and you're you're you're a 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.080 different level than what we are now is and leading 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.040 the team, leading the league in scoring defense. Yeah, I 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.600 mean he's balling. I'll give it to Diggs. This ball 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.360 out of control. But I think a lot of that 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.640 has to deal with how a Levin is able to 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.400 get to these quarterbacks. I mean, we can't make we 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.320 all though this Russian cover work together sometimes because the 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.040 coverage will be locked down back there to give the 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.120 D line an extra tick to get there and fights first, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.800 and sometimes d line will get there quick when a 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.280 dB is burned. But I think a lot of what's 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.280 going on in this secondary, how they're able to play 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.880 so well together, it is because this pass rush is amazing, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.880 and I think it's led by Parsons and what he's 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.200 able to do to do put up? Who put this pass? Man? 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.200 They lucked up and it got parts. And they don't 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.280 even want Parsons that they picked. They went that no party. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.720 Dan Quinn is a d line coach. Yeah, he was 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.360 smart enough to put Parsons up as a Russia, as 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.880 a Russian got hurt. Yea, when the injuries came, he 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.840 would have been We'd have never knew about Parsons being 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.600 being being the best pass rusher out there. If the 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.720 law ain't get hurt. I can't. I can't give that 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.960 Quinn all that. I can't. I can't give him all. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.440 He's the beast. They were playing good before Parsons was 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.600 playing Russia in Yeah, so let's not they were playing 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:07.119 eight points man. They got both US tournaments. This is 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.000 what I'm going to compare the conversation about Digs and 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:17.879 Parsons playing together in the twenty eleven NBA Finals, watching 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:24.080 the defense between d Wade and Lebron James when they 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.840 were facing the Mavericks. There were times out there, man, now, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.439 just I felt like I was watching two Doberman pinchers 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.119 it were just feeding off each other, and they were 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.360 just a pack working together, and they were doing some 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.959 pretty cool things out there on the court. And that 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.720 kind of even goes back to what we saw Jordan 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.119 pipping at times when they were out there together. Mean, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.000 they were just together doing this and a lot of 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:44.880 what Barry's talking about. I'm gonna give you credit because 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.080 Warren sapp Well also said that the backdoor work without 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.200 the front. They've worked together, and they've been tremendous. When 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.000 I go back and think of Michael Parsons, I go 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.240 back to our conversations with Will McClay that I had 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.320 with him. I said, is could he be Pat Swilling? 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.680 And you guys are too young to remember Pat Swilling, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.399 but he was a great linebacker in New Orleans when 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.440 they had the Dome Patrol, They had Ricky Jackson, they 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.080 had Sam Mills. Pat Swilling was coming off the edge. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.480 There was Lawrence Taylor at the time. Laurence Taylor was 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.639 the standard, and I mean it was Lawrence and then 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.000 everybody else was down below. Pat Swilling was kind of 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.800 that next guy down below. And what I mentioned Pat 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.840 Swilling that Will McClay his eyes lit up and he 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.800 said yes, he could be that, and let me tell you, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.120 he's blown past any of the numbers that Swilling put 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.520 up as in his first or second year combined in sacks. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.040 So he's been tremendous and the Cowboys have been blessed 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.639 to have him. They've been blessed that Dan Quinn has 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.399 put treyvon Digs in the right position and also allowed 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.760 treyvon Digs to go out here and travel with people. 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.480 You just really had a coach who took two really 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.560 good talents and put him in a fantastic position to excel. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.080 So props to both of those guys. This is just 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.320 one all pro list. We'll see exactly what other ones 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.280 come out here, but both of us should be first 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.439 team on all of it, and hopefully one of the 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.960 two guys is the defensive player of the year. I 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.560 love it if one of those guys was defensive player 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:08.960 of the year. And I know people are talking about 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.960 t J. Watt and Miles Garrett, but can you give 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.760 t J. Watt the defensive player of the Year on 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.840 a losing football team. I can't do it. I don't 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.080 know if I can. I mean, he has the sack numbers, 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.520 but it's not like Parsons is like five or six 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.960 sacks behind them, you know, I think Parsons is only 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:26.919 you know, maybe two right there, like two or three 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.800 sacks behind them. And then Parsons also eclipses him in 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.520 tackles by like thirty forced fumbles as well. I think 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.840 they're right there abound the same number. So would you 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.679 rather go with the guy on the team that's, you know, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.480 behind a little bit in sacks, but his team is 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.080 going to the playoffs, his team is going in the 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.720 right direction, or a guy that you know has one 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.239 category over somebody, but their team they're not gonna make 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.880 it to the playoffs. Yeah, I listen. I think it's 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.800