WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Final Thoughts on 2020 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.600 From Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. No. Your 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:13.640 host's Ferry Church, Danny McCray and Knew He scrugs. Welcome 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.759 to the final players Lounge of twenty twenty How knew 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.800 he scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter Join by Ford, Dallas Cowboys Players, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.920 Barry Church and Danny McCray. All right, gentlemen, it's New 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.880 Year's Eve. What you're looking forward to as we end 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.800 this twenty twenty Hey, I'm just looking forward to getting 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.519 into twenty twenty one. I mean, look, twenty twenty has 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.040 been a it's been a roller coaster of a ride. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.040 I mean, ups and downs, pandemics. We've lost too many 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.920 people far too early. So for me, I'm just looking 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.839 forward to getting into twenty twenty one as fast as 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.120 I can. I might be sleep by nine pm tonight. Listen, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.440 I'm looking forward to something new. I have a little 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.920 conscious of reaching into twenty twenty one, just because the 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.960 first half of the year it is supposed to be, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.680 you know, even worse than than what it is now, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.160 as far as COVID and all that good stuff. So 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:12.080 I'm a little caustious, but listen, it can't be worse pleased. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.880 It can't be worse. So I'm just looking for something 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.080 better than we had at twenty twenty with the one 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.920 hundred percent here. I just can't believe what twenty twenty 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.040 did to this Dallas Cowboys team. Um. I think I 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.760 was at eleven and five when I picked for this 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.160 team this year, and you I could have never imagined 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.440 seeing this many injuries. And I go back to, you know, 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.720 my first year getting to cover the Cowboys when they 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.959 were Super Bowl twenty seven champions, were training down and 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.000 then Austin, and you know, I'd never seen anything with 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.640 this organization where this many injuries to so many key 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.040 players have have happened. This is just it's been a 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.200 wrecked season. And here are the Cowboys with an opportunity 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.240 to win the NFC East at seven and nine, with 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.840 a whole lot of help that they will need. So 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.440 real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick for the 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.760 fans out there, real quick, if you don't mind, if 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.600 you don't mind, who predicted the seven and nine and playoffs. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.120 I don't know who it could be. I don't know 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.040 who it could be, But if you don't mind just 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.880 telling the fans out there who predicted that but it 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.160 just lost my it lost my mind for a second. Okay, 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.359 hold hold on, let me going back here, because I 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.919 got I've got our redo. We did a redo, the 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.280 last redo, by the way, the last one with the 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:33.600 red the redo. I ain't talking about the redo you 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.799 did after it felt comfortable. Come on up in there, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.040 like I'm looking for it, right, I'm looking for it 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:47.680 right there? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.880 the one that locked you in. That's that's it. That's it, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.840 Thank you, Danny. What's the one that locked you into? 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.959 The whole? Nick and Sam's debate? Did deal? It was 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.160 six second ten and then what was the last part 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.440 of that six and ten? And okay, okay, I just 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.919 make sure I make sure I had predicted that weeks ago, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.840 to make sure that's it. You're still feeling that way 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.639 in twenty twenty It might, it might, it might lead 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.680 you over to that same type of stuff in twenty 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.120 twenty one. So be careful, all right, be careful. You 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.640 know what this years. That's it. That's it. Everyone on 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.880 this show's emotionals, all right, So be careful with feeling 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.520 so so high mighty about that. Thank you very much, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.800 thank you very much because here we are November six. Okay, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.080 it was November six when we did the readjust d 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.720 Mac four and twelve, Church six and ten Nui two 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.480 and fourteen. Then I went three. That's what we were 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.560 so so the church. I don't know about this whole 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.600 Saturday night that, but there you are. So hey, you know, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.480 I made my bad. I gotta lay in it. You know, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.920 weeks ago look like a grade. Now it's looking like 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.200 a sleep number. So hey, you know, I just gotta 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.640 layd what I predict, you know, yeah, man, yeah, so 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.440 I'm just I'm just just hey, look man, you know, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.960 I'm feeling good today. So I'm not gonna sit up 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.720 here and uh it beat you down on, beat you 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.320 down on. I appreciate that. I appreciate that, you know, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.680 thank you very much for that. New I was a 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.599 little disappointed Lebron James and Tiger Woods didn't call me 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.840 last night. You know, I was born on this day 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:25.840 before them young fellas came here and they can't get 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.680 a respect for them for the older guy here. But 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:33.480 you know, um, but it was, Yeah, I expect a 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.320 gift from you guys either. Yeah I didn't but hello, wait, hello, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.800 wait did you. Did you say it was your birthday yesterday? No? 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.680 I didn't. No, I didn't. There was no Yeah, there 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.760 was none of that. I was but happy belated birthday, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.440 by the way, Yes, belated birthday, bro. You just you 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.960 just do all that birthday talk yesterday and that's a 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.360 word about it. Getting your birthday. You turned thirty too, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:02.600 knew you. I remember when you look good, brother, brother. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:10.640 You know, here's what happened. Why I used to be 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:16.120 the king up there. Now. Ain't gonna lie, I gonna lie. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.320 The boy Clarence Hill was. You know, we said a 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.640 little crew now back in the day. I wanna name 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.159 some of the players, but you know we said a 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.920 little crew up there back in the day. I can 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.760 believe it, man, I told you, I told you being 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.479 very so. We used to see Clarence and somebody else. Yeah, 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:47.440 we saw Jop all the time. All the time. As 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.120 I said, if you wanted to get to know the 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.839 players back in the day, those was a great ways 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:58.640 to get to know the player. That's where trust was built. 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.680 I think we met him. I think we met We 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.559 saw him the same day we saw Cuban Gooding Junior 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:13.520 out there. De MC. I don't know that that's not 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:23.919 surprised that person. Rod Tidwell, you mean rod Tidwell Radio. 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:30.320 You know, all right, we're getting off the rails. Were 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:35.599 so we're so inside, We're way too inside football right now. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.479 We were we brought something up yesterday. So let me 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.320 get back to it about the defense. Who and where 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.320 do we give credit credit for the defensive turnaround. I've 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.000 got an depending on it, but I'll start with you 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.560 Church on this. For me. Look, I can't put it 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.120 on one specific player, because you know, inside the twenties, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.479 from the twenty to the twenty they're still getting destroyed. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.840 I mean teams were doing whatever whatever they want inside 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.599 the twenties to this Dallas Cowboys team. So I can't 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.360 point at one specific player or give credit to Mike 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.839 Nolan all like that. But to me, I think what's 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.440 changed would turn this defense around was their red zone defense, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.880 especially these last three games. I mean, during the regular season, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:19.160 they were giving up over sixty percent touchdown percentages to 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.680 the teams going into their red zone. The last three 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.680 games that went all the way down to thirty three 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.040 point three percent, so they almost cut that thing all 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:27.720 the way in half. And I think that has a 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.720 lot to do with with the defense. They're playing in 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.560 the red zone. They're being send you, they're playing this 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.400 bend but don't break type style, and it's working for them. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.880 I mean, teams are driving the ball, putting up monster yards, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.160 but they're not putting points together with that, I mean 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.760 they're settling for field goals instead of touchdowns. And when 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.120 you copulate that with taking the ball away from the 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.760 opposing teams, I think you got a winning formula there. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.600 So for me, the biggest difference in this defense from 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.080 the first what eleven games to now has to be 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.160 their red zone defense. They improved massively and then showing 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:02.600 in their record. Yeah, I agree with you on their improvements, 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.360 and I'm gonna go here. I have two I would 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.280 say people who I think are responsible for the improvements 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.320 on his defense. Number one, it's whoever decided to UH 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.320 to start firing guys and getting Downe Terry co out 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.520 of here and Warley and lighting the fire under the 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.280 rest of the team, letting them know that they still 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.640 need business no matter what the record is. And you've 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.360 seen the different type of hustle and effort every since then. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.960 So whoever made that decision, you did an amazing job. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.400 And then to whoever it's up there, you know, beagling 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.160 these streams against them for our opponents and putting us 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:42.280 against these the Jalen hurts and they're putting us in 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.760 San Francisco and they lose the top two running back. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.560 Whoever it's doing that, they are responsible for it, right, 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.920 But in all seriousness, like you said, Church, they are. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.080 They have been able to stop giving up as many 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.319 big plays as they had as they had been giving 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.280 for touchdowns and making teams have a complete nine and 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.200 ten play drives and making them make those mistakes. As 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.319 long as they keep continuing to do that, then they 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.120 have a chance to win game. But when you're giving 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.080 up sixty and seventy yards boss for touchdowns and not 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.360 making the office have to work and the office of 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.360 coordinator have to put together the methodical drives, then you 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:21.439 know that's a recipe for disaster. I'll go with turnovers 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.559 and the schedule maker. And that's so much of that 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.480 has been as you talked about there, d Matt, the 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.439 schedule played in their favor. You get Brandon Allen for Cincinnati, 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.720 you get Nick Mullins who got benched. You know, the 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.200 next game because he played so bad. And then you 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.200 get a rookie and Jalen Hurts and and I know 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.400 some Catholicans are all you just being negative here, but 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.520 they've beating bad teams, and that's what you're supposed to do, 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.480 you know, beat bad teams, and yes, their defenses. In 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.720 some ways, I feel like Mike Nolan finally started, you know, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.600 playing defense that you know suits and you know fits 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.360 these guys and who he has here. But they have 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.240 played some bad teams and they get to play other 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.560 bad team this weekend. I mean, the Giants are a 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:07.520 bad football club. Jason Garrett's offense doesn't score points. They 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.040 lost Saint Quon Barkley. When you lost Saint Quon Barkley, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.760 I mean that you basically lost the team because Daniel 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.560 Jones is not a quarterback that's gonna go out here 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:22.480 when you're some football games. So um, huh, okay put 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.679 up yeah yeah, and and okay, um, I'll say this, 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.880 I don't think that football team is I think they 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.640 were playing better than than they are now that this 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.560 football team has been struggling here, especially with Daniel Jones 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.240 being injured. So it's uh, it's it's it's been a 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:42.640 rough one for this team, and they just let's clear 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.200 let's clear up the bad team thing, right, because let 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.240 you do it. Sometimes it does sound like you being 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.160 we're not. We continue to say that it's hard to 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.959 win games and the NFL, no matter who you're playing. Right, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.800 take a look at Los Angeles rum legets, take a 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.240 look at the Cleveland round losing to the Jets, Like, 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.640 you can go out there and get beaten no matter 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.120 who you're playing, because everybody in the NFL is getting 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.640 paid and they have the ability to beat you as 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.120 long as they don't end up beating themselves making mistakes. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.440 So you still have to go out there, strap up 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.760 the shoulder, pattern the helmet, and go out there and 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.720 beat these teams. So it's still all credits to account 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.560 mush will beating the people that are out there in 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.120 front of them. We're just saying that, you know, they 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.720 were of lesser talent and they did what they're supposed 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.240 to do, especially from the expectations that we had for 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.640 them from the beginning of the year. Well, and once 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.520 again let me go back to the schedule now, and 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.640 this is not being negative, This is just you know, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.920 this is just the absolute truth. All right, look at 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.559 the schedule maker for a while when you had to 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.760 sit up here and face you know, you had the Steelers. Now, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.439 so you had the Eagles. Let me think about you 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.040 face the Eagles, we be a fourth string quarterback. You 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.079 go Eagles, then you go Pittsburgh. Though they played well 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.800 with your man double g um. Yes, Minnesota, they ended 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.720 up ended up winning that game. But the schedule, you know, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.439 the schedule here was you know, it was you face 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.040 some tougher teams here, and it got you. I know 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.319 a lot of people thought that that Cleveland would be 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.040 an easy win this year. But you know, you look 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.040 at that schedule when you hit the Seattle Seahawks, you 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.400 hit Cleveland, and then next thing, you know, with the 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.240 Giant game, which the Cowboys won, and then he had Arizona. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.360 You know, does a stretching games right there with those teams, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.760 and you look at it. You know, Seattle's in the playoffs, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.559 Cleveland's in the playoffs. The Giants won't be well, actually, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.640 the Giants have a shot to be in the playoffs. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.520 They got a shot. Cowboys if they don't beat him 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.520 into Washington loses. The Giants are gonna win the division, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.520 and then he got Arizona, who's got a shot, and 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.920 then he got Washington the game after that. So you're 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.360 sitting here the schedule, does you know, you get some 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.200 tough you get some tough stretches, you get some easy 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.679 stretches here. But that has played a part into it. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.199 And for me, I'll tell you my end game. I'm 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.040 talking about the schedule is I hope that Jerry and 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:49.280 Stephen Jones factor that into how this season ends and 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.360 why they need to make a change in the defensive 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.680 coordinated position. Okay, now you win seven, you know, you 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.560 go seventy nine, win four in a row here. I 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.480 don't want them to think that. Okay, but Mike Nolan's 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.040 gotta figure this guy's good. I don't think Mike Nolan's good. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.920 I think they need to go on different directions here. Yeah, okay, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.280 you beat some teams to cut some fool's gold here. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.360 So that's that's that's my thing on that church go ahead. Yeah, 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.839 without a doubt. They can't sit here and say, you know, hey, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.640 we went on a little stretch. We got you know, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.000 ten or eleven takeaways these pastory games. Maybe they figured 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.200 out Mike Nolan's defense and maybe we got our guy. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.880 I hope and I pray that they don't they don't 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.520 find that as reality as we see when I talked 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.400 about in between the twenties, I think I think the 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.200 Philadelphia Eagles went over four hundred yards in total offense. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.920 I mean, if they would have stuck to the run, 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.880 we wouldn't be having it and I wouldn't be having 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.719 this conversation right now, and I wouldn't be sipping on 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.600 kool ai right now because we would have probably lost 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.079 that game. So for me, I just hope that they 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.040 don't realize that, or they do realize that Mike Nolan's 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.439 defense is not the answer to us right now. We 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.800 can't go up there and give up four hundred yards 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.640 and just pray that we take the ball away from 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.160 a team and expect to be a successful defense or 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.760 a successful team going forward. We have got to make 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.000 sure our defense overall is a lot better next year 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.439 than it is this year. And I think getting rid 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.160 of Mike Nolan will help that defense. Is cause I'm 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.760 I'm with you one hundred percent, and the Cowboys um 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.760 are going to get a couple of good things out 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.400 of this season here, you're gonna be able to see 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.480 some younger players. You know, having Terence still on your 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.200 team next year is going to be a good thing. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.000 Having Brandy Night on your team's gonna be a good thing. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.800 Connor mcgovernor, Um, you know, there's that's a good thing. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.520 I think that they really need to take a look. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.680 I've talked about it before. With the way Connor mc 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.800 governor's played, I think Connor could be a starting guard. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.080 Feed Why not start Connor mcgovernor at left at left guard, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.680 and then to take about putting Connor Williams your current 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.680 left guard. I mean, you you know your current guard. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.880 Maybe you make him to swing tackle me. They've started 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.640 to me it was playing some of these younger guys, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.400 especially on offense. I think they're gonna have options. Dalton 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.400 Shelton now comes back, and you know, here's a great thing. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.920 Do we pencil Blake jar with it as the guy 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:56.720 or is this more of a competition or do you 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.880 run some two tight insights? I mean, I think there's 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.040 some really think good that you're getting out of what 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.880 the Cowboys are doing here at the end. You're seeing 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.000 some stuff happen and maybe they could keep the turnovers 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.520 going in and next year and the next coordinator can 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.800 fix some things and add some more defensive line help. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.320 And you gotta get a Tristan Hill back here. I 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.120 think they got to add one or two more guys 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.720 on that at the defensive tackle spot here. So there's 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.240 some positives to it. But I just don't want the 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:25.640 Cowboys management to get too full and say, hey, look, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.760 you know, look at how we won these games, and 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:29.480 we won four in a row. But you know who 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.360 were you beating along the way. I think you have 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.520 to factor that in, and you got to be able 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.440 to look at the glass and say it's half empty, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.320 as much as you want to say that it's half full. 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.880 It's that delicate balance that you gotta have as you're 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.800 looking at your football team. But I give Mike McCarthy credit, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.320 And this is why I want to share. I didn't 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.000 say I want to give Mike McCarthy credit for making 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.880 sure that guys just decide to go mail it in 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.400 and quit that That to me, says a whole lot 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.920 about him as a head coach. And I'll let me 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.640 give Jason Garrett credit. I remember when they were three 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.800 and five, a couple of years ago, and I thought, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.040 and this, this guy's lost this team, and you know 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.160 they ended up turning around and had a fantastic year, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.920 made playoffs. Um. I think that says something about being 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.960 able to lead is the keep guys um involved and 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.600 when it looks like it's going downhill. So, uh, let's 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.400 take a break. We still have our predictions to do. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.760 It's our last show, Players Lounge, brought to you by 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.800 Hotels dot Com Show of the Year. We're gonna take 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.960 Friday off. It's New Year's Day. 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And I remember the last 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.719 time Notre Dame came up here to at and T Stadium, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.000 who was against Clipson and the college Football playoff and 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.560 Trevor Lawrence and company dusted them up. So we'll see 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.480 how that goes. M And by the way, shame on 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.080 you Florida fans getting on these kids who opted out 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.679 talking about they needed to show loyalty to the school 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:54.000 that was those players would have got hurt. If those 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.359 players would have got hurt and lost millions in draft stock, 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.680 I mean, people would have just looked other directionally. It's 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.280 for that kid man tough, break like man. They did 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.080 the right thing by opting up. Listen and listen, what 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.760 is my man from Knowing Dame talking about talking about 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.480 they got nothing to prove. They've been getting smacked up 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.440 in bowl games since I was in college, right, so 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.040 I don't know what he's talking about. They don't have nothing. Yes, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.080 they need to come in and show that they deserve 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.480 to be voted into these championship tournaments because if they 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.480 not and they go herein't get embarrassed again. Who cares 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:28.359 what they do in the regular season, because we know 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.400 exactly what's going to happen to them once they get 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.880 in the tournament. And I'm tired of these Big twelve 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.800 schools beating the SEC school in the bowl game and 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:38.800 then all of a sudden talking about their back and 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.040 all this other crazy stuff. And then I saw a man, 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.480 Darren going there talking about the SEC only play this 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.879 and blah blah blah, and I was like, hey, come on, man, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.359 look I remember when there was I think it was 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.240 a stretch of like five or six years where four 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.919 to five different SEC teams had won the national championship. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.159 And you're talking about Auburn, You're talking about Florida, you 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.880 talked about Ellis, you talking about Alabama. This was all 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.359