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Speaker 6: Got heck Ma Harrison is here, Danny McCrae's here, Barry
Speaker 6: Church is out this week doing things and uh in
Speaker 6: his favorite place, Mayor Christmaston Church Family.
Speaker 2: Family time.
Speaker 7: I'm glad you don't have to be here, you know,
Speaker 7: to deal with this foolishness that we have to watch yesterday.
Speaker 7: But you know we're talking about it like that, man,
Speaker 7: it was foolishness.
Speaker 6: Two hundred and sixty six yards of Russia, yes sir.
Speaker 6: That's that is the top story for me. The second
Speaker 6: thing is the penalties.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 6: They're the most penalized team the National Football League. It
Speaker 6: has stopped the penalties. They had extended drives. They were
Speaker 6: good yesterday Buffalo was they were good and you gave them,
Speaker 6: you know, gave more opportunities and they beat you solidly.
Speaker 5: This was a cream puff. Just beat them down.
Speaker 2: Beat.
Speaker 6: It was like Bud Crawford and we're gonna beat you up,
Speaker 6: beat you up, beat you up, send you home, beat up.
Speaker 6: And there's nothing that you can say, in my opinion,
Speaker 6: to make this thing look good.
Speaker 5: It was bad.
Speaker 7: It's bad, man, Daddy, Come on, man, it's gonna give me.
Speaker 7: You're gonna give me first hour. You're gonna let me
Speaker 7: get you know what you no lies told and everything
Speaker 7: that you said you started off last week when we
Speaker 7: went to what were our issues in this matchup, and
Speaker 7: that knew way you started with penalties. You didn't even
Speaker 7: talk about what you thought maybe our ace and a
Speaker 7: hole to get a win. It was we got to
Speaker 7: stop the penalties, and finally we saw on three particular drives,
Speaker 7: penalties extend drives and get us down twenty one to
Speaker 7: three in the first half. We dug we did ourselves
Speaker 7: no service in that matter. As far as the penalties,
Speaker 7: and it seems to be the same guys around the penalty.
Speaker 2: Flat every time.
Speaker 7: It's just it's crazy how that happens. Right, never in
Speaker 7: the accident, but always around the accident. Right, So call
Speaker 7: them kas of sat You a usual suspect, find you
Speaker 7: the It just happens that I don't know how, you know,
Speaker 7: but every time there's trouble, you get near it, and
Speaker 7: you know, I tell you what, man, you start to
Speaker 7: ask your self questions about this defense. And that's what
Speaker 7: for me that was the most shocking thing. The defense,
Speaker 7: not making tackles, defense making bonehead plays. The same thing
Speaker 7: that you were talking about last week, as far as
Speaker 7: the te stunts and the way that you played, and
Speaker 7: not leaving those gaping holes and on the back end
Speaker 7: open for running backs to run through. You go into
Speaker 7: the buffalo and you do the exact thing that you
Speaker 7: knew last.
Speaker 2: Week would get you beat. You do it this week.
Speaker 7: And we talked a lot about James Cook, and I
Speaker 7: don't think a lot of people really knew about James Cook,
Speaker 7: but you know his name now and it was gonna
Speaker 7: be on our linebackers. What were our linebackers gonna do?
Speaker 7: And Danny, I can't wait to hear you your take
Speaker 7: on guys that Marquis Bell and DeMont Clark because we
Speaker 7: knew that they were gonna have their work cutout for them.
Speaker 2: Set now, but you knew they were gonna have.
Speaker 7: Their work cutout for them, and you saw Buffalo game
Speaker 7: plan to put our linebackers in bad positions, and they
Speaker 7: did it the entire game. Yeah, it was a very
Speaker 7: tough game to watch and even even more difficult to
Speaker 7: rewatch from the end zone perspective, right because as I'm
Speaker 7: watching the game, I'm thinking, man, it's D line is struggling,
Speaker 7: like okay, because that's naturally when somebody's running the ball
Speaker 7: against you like that, and how the Cowboys have been
Speaker 7: set up? Right, you go draft the guy in the
Speaker 7: first round. D line has been struggling. We're trying to
Speaker 7: figure out a way to stap the stop the San
Speaker 7: Francisco type running attack.
Speaker 2: And you say, okay, man, a D line just not
Speaker 2: showing up.
Speaker 7: And then you go watch the ultimately two you watch
Speaker 7: from the en zone view and you say, wait, hold on,
Speaker 7: you know they like they didn't play great, But I'm
Speaker 7: looking at the linebackers in the safeties of hey, man,
Speaker 7: are we a gap sound defense? Because we like, As
Speaker 7: I'm watching it, I'm saying, all right, maybe we got bullied. Right,
Speaker 7: that's the thing, man. They came out here and they
Speaker 7: just ran up and down, up, up and down the field.
Speaker 7: They bullied you, right, you couldn't hold point whatever. And
Speaker 7: I'm watching the tape and I'm like, no, we just
Speaker 7: we're out of position so many times. The same problems
Speaker 7: that we had against San Francisco, pulling guards, pulling tackles,
Speaker 7: we're laid on reading those. Right, You're having two guys
Speaker 7: in the same gap multiple times. He if the guard pools,
Speaker 7: the A gap moves right. So now if you don't
Speaker 7: go over the top, it's two guys in the A
Speaker 7: gap and on the opposite side of the ball. You
Speaker 7: don't have enough. And you saw it over and over
Speaker 7: and over again. First quarter. They ran to the bubble
Speaker 7: the entire first quarter, which is where you have the
Speaker 7: B gap open. For those who don't know what the
Speaker 7: bubble is, they just continue just running straight to the bubble.
Speaker 7: Every time one four was over there. Michael Parsons over.
Speaker 7: It didn't matter. It just continue running to the bubble.
Speaker 7: And then dan Quinn tried to make some adjustments, and
Speaker 7: then they figured out a way to run away from
Speaker 7: the bubble to the bubble. They just started pulling guards
Speaker 7: and tackles and we couldn't find a way to fit it.
Speaker 7: And I think, to me, that was the story of
Speaker 7: the game for the defense. It was, hey, man, if
Speaker 7: you're not gonna show us that you figured out how
Speaker 7: to stop what San Francisco did to you, we're gonna
Speaker 7: come in here. We're just gonna make sure we do
Speaker 7: it over and over and over again. And all through
Speaker 7: the week, I talked to you all about Joe Brady
Speaker 7: right and calling this offense. Now he wants to run
Speaker 7: the football, and I just went back and I'm like,
Speaker 7: you know what, I remember watch LSU in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 7: I remember why Clyde it was Hilaire got drafted in
Speaker 7: the first round because he found ways to utilize this
Speaker 7: guy running the football and out of the backfield. And
Speaker 7: now you got Cook out here who's doing the exact
Speaker 7: same thing. That is the story of this defense. Safeties
Speaker 7: didn't play well. Linebackers did not play well, you didn't
Speaker 7: even give your secondary a chance to get out there
Speaker 7: and make any plays because they didn't have to. This
Speaker 7: is the second time we giving up two hundred yards rushing,
Speaker 7: Like we are building the team to stop teams like
Speaker 7: this in San Francisco from being able to put us
Speaker 7: out of the playoff race, and that game right there
Speaker 7: just makes you feel like we're not any not even
Speaker 7: a step closer to being able to handle that, specifically
Speaker 7: on the road.
Speaker 6: So San Francisco one hundred and seventy yards of rushing
Speaker 6: on the Cowboys, Arizona two hundred and twenty two yards
Speaker 6: of rushing on the Cowboys in Buffalo two hundred and
Speaker 6: sixty six yards. If you want to beat the Cowboys,
Speaker 6: do what you said run to just run right there,
Speaker 6: So that's one thing, and then watch them commit a
Speaker 6: bunch of penalties and shoot themselves in the foot there.
Speaker 7: And you saw, you know last weekend, you saw Nick
Speaker 7: Bosa in front of his locker telling Cowboy fans like, hey,
Speaker 7: you want to beat Philly, We're giving you the blueprint
Speaker 7: on how to do it. Nobody from Buffalo went out
Speaker 7: and said that, But like you just said, they're showing
Speaker 7: you they're giving you a blueprint on this is how
Speaker 7: you do it. In the same theme in that San
Speaker 7: Francisco game, same thing in an Arizona game is blockers
Speaker 7: being able to get to the second level our defensive line. Look,
Speaker 7: I don't know how big the Hankins injury is, but
Speaker 7: it looks significant yesterday. With the way that Monsie Smith
Speaker 7: was playing in the middle, we just we couldn't find
Speaker 7: an answer to them in the running game. Whether it's
Speaker 7: the bubble, whether it's the tackle coming all the way
Speaker 7: back backside and cracking back on these guys.
Speaker 2: They couldn't figure it out. And for some reason we.
Speaker 7: Dan Quinn has gotten away with it with playing Marquise
Speaker 7: Bell out of position because, look, he's a lot faster
Speaker 7: than people giving credit for it, and he can just
Speaker 7: kind of run around the block. But when he has
Speaker 7: pressure on him, there is nothing he can do. And
Speaker 7: Damon Clark, to me, it's like I never looked at
Speaker 7: him as being undersides. I know he's a big guy,
Speaker 7: but when you're just getting scooped out of the middle,
Speaker 7: you just getting scooped out of the middle. You're not
Speaker 7: giving yourself an opportunity either. But I just got to say,
Speaker 7: like when I see like a Jirrunk curse, there's a
Speaker 7: play James James Cook is coming to basically to that side,
Speaker 7: basically scream scream to that side, are basically sweep to
Speaker 7: the to the white side, and you see durrun curse,
Speaker 7: jerrun curse coming up. But at the same time he
Speaker 7: takes a bad angle. And you see that multiple times
Speaker 7: when you one on one safety with a running back,
Speaker 7: and that's going to open the flood gates every time.
Speaker 7: And like those are things that I'm one to you
Speaker 7: and asking like maybe Dad Quince schematically may be wrong,
Speaker 7: but he can't be drawing it up that bad where
Speaker 7: you have an opportunity to get to stop and you
Speaker 7: just take a bad angle over and over and over again. No,
Speaker 7: I'm telling you it's it's guys not being gap sound
Speaker 7: and I'm not I don't want to take anything because
Speaker 7: I don't know exactly how it is right, but I
Speaker 7: know if you're playing to run as a defender right,
Speaker 7: and dan Quinn's scheme may be okay, the first player
Speaker 7: that gets there has to hammer, which is they have
Speaker 7: to knock it back in and they have to make
Speaker 7: sure the ball doesn't get outside and outside, essentially setting
Speaker 7: the edge. Now, if the guy that's coming in to
Speaker 7: make the tackle on the inside is expecting you to
Speaker 7: set the edge and you don't, your angle is bad
Speaker 7: because now it has to change from you going inside
Speaker 7: shoulder to now having a bubble around to go outside.
Speaker 7: And you watch that film, it happened over and over
Speaker 7: and over again. We're talking about where somebody expected for
Speaker 7: you to hammer the ball back in and you were
Speaker 7: coming into the sea gap and then they stick their
Speaker 7: head in the sea gap. Now you have to try
Speaker 7: to replace it to the de gap is gone right,
Speaker 7: or or somebody's crack blocking you on your outside shoulder.
Speaker 7: You're supposed to stay inside of it with fight, but
Speaker 7: you stick your head on the outside. Now, now the
Speaker 7: sea gaps open and it's over and over and over again.
Speaker 7: If you cut the fens, I'm telling you, it is
Speaker 7: all over the tape. Great thing about it is, okay,
Speaker 7: there's a there's a chance for you to say, all right,
Speaker 7: all week, we're just gonna focus on run fence, because
Speaker 7: that is what killed us in this game. Horrible thing
Speaker 7: about it is you've been dealing with this for years
Speaker 7: and you haven't figured out a way to handle teams
Speaker 7: that are going to make sure that you are sound
Speaker 7: when you're pulling guards and pulling tackles. The problem that
Speaker 7: I seen with Dimont Clark and Marquis Bell is they
Speaker 7: just late. So Mark you, I won't say he's undersized,
Speaker 7: but if you're late in the in the a lineman
Speaker 7: has a chance to get in position and you're still
Speaker 7: trying to figure out where you're supposed to be at,
Speaker 7: you're gonna look like that all the time.
Speaker 2: You can't, can't, you can't be right. I'm seeing them.
Speaker 7: I'm seeing them dropping in the past, drops when it's
Speaker 7: a pulling guard and you're supposed to be going to
Speaker 7: the other side of the formation. Like that's how That's
Speaker 7: how off.
Speaker 2: They were in this game.
Speaker 7: And hopefully you can get that fixed because you got
Speaker 7: Miami and you got Detroit. And what we know about
Speaker 7: both of these teams is they can run the football.
Speaker 7: They can run the football and oh yeah, by the way,
Speaker 7: in the playoffs, you're gonna play teams possibly on the
Speaker 7: road they're specialized in running the football.
Speaker 2: So I mean, yeah, you got some work to do, man,
Speaker 2: got some work to do.
Speaker 5: Moster e cheam coming up in the South Florida. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a problem. Is it is a big problem.
Speaker 6: Coach Soul came from that Shanahan tree, so he's going
Speaker 6: to run the ball. They're committed to running the ball,
Speaker 6: and they have speed on the outside.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys have questions.
Speaker 6: They've got to get answered, and they've got to get
Speaker 6: some answers real quick, because getting on the plane to
Speaker 6: go down to South Florida on Christmas Eve is coming
Speaker 6: up real quick. By the way, we were all wrong
Speaker 6: about this game except Barry Church.
Speaker 2: And this is the day he's not here to glow
Speaker 2: about it, which is.
Speaker 6: Pick the Bills twenty eight to twenty four. I went
Speaker 6: Dallas twenty four to twenty three. Heckman, you went seventeen fourteen, Danny,
Speaker 6: you went Dallas twenty four to twenty one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, yeah, man.
Speaker 7: One thing about when he pick against the Cowboys, he
Speaker 7: usually be right.
Speaker 2: It's logic.
Speaker 5: It's logical.
Speaker 6: And you know, so when we left, when we left here,
Speaker 6: that was that was when I got the whole weather change.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be raining. I'm like, oh oh, because we
Speaker 5: were already off.
Speaker 6: There was it was in the media match that they
Speaker 6: were just in the locker room talking to the Bucky
Speaker 6: and about how he's got all the gear changing everything.
Speaker 6: It's like they it's going to be bad, Like oh boy,
Speaker 6: oh boy.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 7: Was it bad? From from watching it were like on TV?
Speaker 7: It just it didn't look bad like the Carolina, not
Speaker 7: at the start.
Speaker 6: But then once they you know, once they they put
Speaker 6: it in the second quarter started coming down and then
Speaker 6: it was just okay, you can't throw, you're behind, you
Speaker 6: can't throw. We know you have to throw. Its rainy,
Speaker 6: and it just it just wasn't fitting it. And look
Speaker 6: they it was. This was the the while. It wasn't
Speaker 6: the cold cold Buffalo wanted. This was just good. You
Speaker 6: know it's it's rainy weather. We got you down. You're
Speaker 6: shooting yourself in the foot. You can't stop the money
Speaker 6: we got you on the road.
Speaker 5: And and I.
Speaker 6: Don't know about you guys, but I felt like once
Speaker 6: that that third the personal file ledge was touched on it.
Speaker 6: They not only can you not beat them, you out
Speaker 6: here beating yourself. This is done, This is right, This
Speaker 6: is just done. You can't beat them and you're helping them.
Speaker 5: You can't win like this. It's for me, it's frustrating,
Speaker 5: just frustrating and and dog going it.
Speaker 2: Man, you know you was upset with Sam. Come on,
Speaker 2: come on, you was upset with Sam.
Speaker 5: But I think I think we're talking about the same name.
Speaker 2: But listen, but.
Speaker 7: Before we get the special teams, like, I just want
Speaker 7: to we all did sit in here, Okay, I think
Speaker 7: all of us did, or most of us. I'm not
Speaker 7: sure who didn't, and we said, hey, listen, the key
Speaker 7: to to victory in this game is you want to
Speaker 7: make sure that you put everything on Josh Allen. All Right,
Speaker 7: make Josh Allen beat you with his arm or whatever
Speaker 7: it is. Make sure it's Josh Allen. If you don't,
Speaker 7: this is the type of game you're gonna have. If
Speaker 7: you let these dudes come in here and run the
Speaker 7: football against you, you're going to have a very long day.
Speaker 2: Well, it definitely wasn't on Josh Allen because he was
Speaker 2: seven for fifty.
Speaker 7: Got the game ball, got the game ball, dude, go
Speaker 7: out there and river for one seventy. You get a
Speaker 7: game out to the quarterback? Yeah you sure what he said?
Speaker 2: What he said? Listen on the video.
Speaker 5: It was like I felt like I passed it, got
Speaker 5: an A on a test. How didn't do nothing.
Speaker 2: He telling the truth.
Speaker 5: Yeah, why would you do?
Speaker 6: I didn't do anything to day. I just handed it
Speaker 6: off ran a couple of times, you know, I mean
Speaker 6: it was easy for him. This It was basically a
Speaker 6: laughers what joshaid, it was a laugher. And you know what,
Speaker 6: I'm fooled again.
Speaker 5: That's my fault. Fooled again, fooled again. I went back
Speaker 5: here to the sheet of integrity, back here.
Speaker 6: At the beginning of the year, I had as a loss,
Speaker 6: I had this, I had you know what, and this,
Speaker 6: This is what I had going down.
Speaker 5: I had a win against Philly. Then I had a
Speaker 5: loss at Buffalo.
Speaker 6: Then I had a loss at Miami, had a win
Speaker 6: against Washington and a win against the Detrouge. So I mean,
Speaker 6: right there, man, right there, I had to two l's
Speaker 6: had twelves.
Speaker 7: Man, I got to sit eleven and five, right, No,
Speaker 7: that's you must have six eleven and six. I had
Speaker 7: twelve and five, I think.
Speaker 5: And originally you went twelve and five.
Speaker 2: And then and then I think I switched that up.
Speaker 6: So originally you went twelve and five, hect whan you
Speaker 6: went thirteen and four and then Church and I were
Speaker 6: sitting here at ten and seven. That's what originally when
Speaker 6: the schedulings came out, that's what we were sitting at here.
Speaker 6: And then I had changed I changed mind to think
Speaker 6: I went twelve and five.
Speaker 5: But this this this game.
Speaker 6: The thoughts that I had before I should have stayed
Speaker 6: with it, which was this is a tough place to play.
Speaker 6: And then we went off there when I found when
Speaker 6: I heard about the rain, I was like, man, this
Speaker 6: is bad because this is it just it just didn't
Speaker 6: I didn't like that sense of just the elements because
Speaker 6: they like to throw.
Speaker 5: They're throwing team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well they did the same thing in Philadelphia, and
Speaker 7: look at the games that they played against Philly. It
Speaker 7: was a wet, rainy game and they still had a
Speaker 7: commitment to try and throw the ball. They tried to
Speaker 7: go with James Cook, and Philly did a better job
Speaker 7: of stopping James Cook than obviously we did. They didn't
Speaker 7: have to, they didn't have to change that game plan
Speaker 7: because of the weather. They had already saw Brady your
Speaker 7: what Brady the office coordinat he was just checking off, like, oh,
Speaker 7: y'all not stopping that backside check, y'all not stopping this
Speaker 7: outside run check.
Speaker 2: Oh oh you're not. You're not getting any help over
Speaker 2: here for number four to check.
Speaker 7: And as the game started to go, you just you
Speaker 7: started seeing certain things that they were doing where here
Speaker 7: get they're getting to the second level when nobody's evening them.
Speaker 7: He's getting he's getting on that last on that last
Speaker 7: TV run by James, the ugly one, the ugly one
Speaker 7: that that was like, that was the whole game in
Speaker 7: one play. We could do nothing, changing directions, head back
Speaker 7: the other way. There was nothing that we could do
Speaker 7: about them. And I'm telling you it's like one of
Speaker 7: those games that I'm sure that nobody is wanting to
Speaker 7: sit in film study and see that. Well you better,
Speaker 7: all right, you better. You know that's a bad place
Speaker 7: to be. You better cut that film on and say, hey,
Speaker 7: this is what happens when you do that.
Speaker 2: Stand in your gap. This is what happens when you
Speaker 2: are not gap sound.
Speaker 7: It makes it look like you and I think got
Speaker 7: punched in them out and essentially to me, you are
Speaker 7: just out of position, like you are not playing discipline football.
Speaker 7: As far as hey man, we gotta we have to
Speaker 7: earn the right to rush the passer. It looks like
Speaker 7: you are past rushing on rundown. You know that they
Speaker 7: want to run the ball. They got one hundred and
Speaker 7: fifty on you already.
Speaker 2: And gods to run the right by the right back.
Speaker 7: Ain't no more pass rush. Like it's over, It's no
Speaker 7: more pass rush. So I just put your head in
Speaker 7: your gap and make sure that the ball comes to you.
Speaker 7: You there to make the play. They just couldn't figure
Speaker 7: out a way to get that done, which is like,
Speaker 7: are you just hard hited or it's something that you're
Speaker 7: just not gonna be able to change, because if not,
Speaker 7: you're finna have a rough next next two games.
Speaker 2: Because the two teams that.
Speaker 7: You were about to play specialize, okay, and being able
Speaker 7: to run the football, and they both got two big
Speaker 7: time weapons to be able to do it both up
Speaker 7: Man got two, but Detroit got too.
Speaker 2: They got Gibbs in Montgomery. Yeah, they don't run the ball.
Speaker 7: Oh oh, by the way, they also have a top
Speaker 7: five receivers on each one of those squads. Yes, Oh,
Speaker 7: and don't forget the tight end. I mean, I mean
Speaker 7: easier you just like I understand you saying, hey man,
Speaker 7: you feel a way about it because the weather and
Speaker 7: how it may be. No, I did not expect us
Speaker 7: to come out and give up two hundred yards plus
Speaker 7: rushing and one seventy plus the one player. Yeah, the
Speaker 7: offense could come out and be a little shaky, but
Speaker 7: then I'm figuring, okay, both teams are trying to step
Speaker 7: up on defense and play play a little bit better.
Speaker 7: I never would have expected our defense to come out
Speaker 7: and get that type of running performance up to.
Speaker 2: Cook, we trusted him.
Speaker 7: I know, I still trust dan Quinn, but I mean, goodness,
Speaker 7: that like that, that's something that you we've been trying
Speaker 7: to figure it out. That's trust, right, that's trust right there,
Speaker 7: you you dug ya. I mean, listen, listen. The percentage
Speaker 7: of games that the defense is played, well, it's still
Speaker 7: higher the percentage that they've not been able to play
Speaker 7: as well. Even in the playoffs, we haven't played. Blamed
Speaker 7: it on the defense not being able to do something
Speaker 7: against the forty nine ers. We're like, hey, where's the
Speaker 7: offense at this time? You hold the forty nine ers
Speaker 7: to twenty one twenty four points, you assume that this
Speaker 7: is still going to be a close game because the
Speaker 7: defense kept you in it. So I'm still gonna trust
Speaker 7: dan Quinn in that aspect of like he it hasn't.
Speaker 7: It hasn't been the reason that we came out of
Speaker 7: it saying, oh man, well yeah, we don't have no shot.
Speaker 7: It's it's the other side of the ball. Who've I've
Speaker 7: been looking at and saying, Okay, in the big time games,
Speaker 7: we need Dag and Tony Pollard and the cd lam
Speaker 7: to be able to show up in those situations and
Speaker 7: make those big time plays.
Speaker 2: So I still trust them. But it was that's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's a rough go man.
Speaker 7: Two hundred plus rushing man multiple times in the season
Speaker 7: and then a little under two hundred against US A
Speaker 7: Frand you're trending, he's trending, and you look at the
Speaker 7: games that you just said it the games that we
Speaker 7: lost is a common theme there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, runner, let's take a break.
Speaker 5: Let's take a break.
Speaker 2: Let's do it now. We get special teams and all
Speaker 2: of that, and.
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott the MVP race, let's get some thoughts on that.
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Speaker 5: All right, is your time of the year, Daddy Craig
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Speaker 2: Yeah, go to a brunch place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've done it.
Speaker 6: Too, done it too, Dak Prescott tw they one to
Speaker 6: thirty four, one thirty four yards and interception touchdown passes
Speaker 6: yesterday as the Cowboys go down thirty one to ten
Speaker 6: in Buffalo. There now in second place with a ten
Speaker 6: and four mark. Philadelphia takes on Seattle tonight on Monday
Speaker 6: Night Football.
Speaker 2: I'm on Seattle.
Speaker 6: Brock Party with a nice day for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: Christian McCaffrey the next day for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: So Dak Prescott's MVP candidacy took a massive hit yesterday.
Speaker 5: Massive hit.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, Are you a correct You are already
Speaker 2: on the Christian McCaffrey train about it? Okay?
Speaker 7: And what he did yesterday? No, listen, but we, like
Speaker 7: I said, we know it's a quarterback driven you know whatever.
Speaker 7: That performance definitely didn't help, didn't help. Massive hit. But
Speaker 7: that's the thing about the NFL. You go out here
Speaker 7: and you do it against Miami, you do it against Detroit,
Speaker 7: then you're right back in because Brock Party have a
Speaker 7: bad game or Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: It's fluid, that's it.
Speaker 7: You go. So he has and he has an opportunity
Speaker 7: to still go out there and do what he needs
Speaker 7: to do. But to me, that's the least of your
Speaker 7: words at this At this you need to figure out
Speaker 7: how to finish the month out strong, the season out strong,
Speaker 7: because at this point where you five seed looking at
Speaker 7: going on going on the road again.
Speaker 2: Probably twice back to back.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like you need to figure out a way to
Speaker 7: make sure that your team is going to show up
Speaker 7: on the road and be able to play because you
Speaker 7: put yourself in position to have to go on the
Speaker 7: road to win the playoff game, multiple playoff games, probably
Speaker 7: throughout whatever run you plan on making to get to
Speaker 7: where HECMA. He just can't stop saying it. Man, you
Speaker 7: don't worry, it'll stop coming up and stop saying it.
Speaker 7: But yeah, know that is rough, But I still think
Speaker 7: he's I think he has a shot. Like this is
Speaker 7: the Dallas Cowboys is gonna be primetime football. You're gonna
Speaker 7: get two more opportunities to play against really good football
Speaker 7: teams to show that you deserve to be you know
Speaker 7: in that m v P. Right, so opportuniti you's got
Speaker 7: two playoff teams right here coming up. This vision leader, Yeah,
Speaker 7: this is what your expectation, I think. And Dak was Okay,
Speaker 7: the defense doesn't have it. Can Dak and make the
Speaker 7: plays to get us over the hump? There were opportunities
Speaker 7: in the game that you saw one big play to
Speaker 7: Brandon Cook that didn't happen.
Speaker 2: You laying that one.
Speaker 7: You're still on the runway for talking about the MVP conversation.
Speaker 7: I look, I always thought from the beginning the people
Speaker 7: were not sincere about this whole Dak MVP. They were
Speaker 7: just wait building him up to bring it right back down,
Speaker 7: and as soon as he has a bad game, they
Speaker 7: want to remind you all, this.
Speaker 2: Is bad Dak. This is Dak throwing an interception, he's misreading.
Speaker 7: Can he read all the different things that guys like
Speaker 7: won't even say their name on the show, but guys
Speaker 7: that repeatedly look at every mistake that these quarterbacks make.
Speaker 7: But when I look across at this whole MVP waste,
Speaker 7: so guys like Purty, he's having a hell of a year.
Speaker 7: Four touchdowns yesterday, two hundred and fifty yards. He's playing
Speaker 7: within the constructs of that offense. And whether you want
Speaker 7: to call him a game manager or whatever you want
Speaker 7: to call him, he's good enough at doing it that
Speaker 7: he does it well. And at a high level, and
Speaker 7: that offense when it's running, it looks like no one
Speaker 7: can beat it. Our offense yesterday, which to me I
Speaker 7: didn't see happening because whether it was the rain, whatever
Speaker 7: it was, we just couldn't get any type of rhythm
Speaker 7: going yesterday. Once we got down and it was clear like, look,
Speaker 7: we're twenty one to three and a half, we're gonna
Speaker 7: have to lit certain things about the running game go
Speaker 7: all right, unless it's gonna look like garbage time, but
Speaker 7: we have to get those connections between the tight end.
Speaker 7: We have to get the short running, and they were
Speaker 7: sitting on it. They were waiting Buffalo pretty much in
Speaker 7: that second half. We made that game plan easy for
Speaker 7: them because everything that our go to they were standing
Speaker 7: right in the gap and there was no way that
Speaker 7: we could get any rhythm. There was no more continuity
Speaker 7: and Mike McCarthy's play calling and there was nothing he
Speaker 7: was fooling the other defensive coordinator with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was off a little bit. Yesterday.
Speaker 7: I think Buffalo did a good job of playing playing
Speaker 7: zone defense and taking away the specific routes that Dad
Speaker 7: and CD Cooks and everybody that they had been being
Speaker 7: really successful on for the last five or six weeks.
Speaker 7: They said, hey, listen, we're gonna make sure we're gonna
Speaker 7: we're gonna play zone, but we're gonna lean our zone
Speaker 7: to your the route concepts that you usually run. We're
Speaker 7: not just gonna run the regular coup of three. We're
Speaker 7: gonna say we usually run seams. So instead of you
Speaker 7: being right here on the hash, we're gonna get you
Speaker 7: two yards out to make sure you carry that and
Speaker 7: see if they have something else to be able to throw.
Speaker 7: And I think they played really good football when it
Speaker 7: came to taking away specifically what we like to do
Speaker 7: on offense. And then also with that Dak being out
Speaker 7: off a little bit, then the offensive line kind of
Speaker 7: struggled a little bit here and there you lose Zach Martin,
Speaker 7: and it was just like the perfect storing for our offense.
Speaker 7: But I want to give Tony Poller some credit because
Speaker 7: I thought that he was running the football really well,
Speaker 7: like what you expected to see out of Tony Poler
Speaker 7: coming out of last year and into this year, a
Speaker 7: healthy Tony Pouler.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh yeah, all right, here we go
Speaker 2: five six, seven, seven. I like to see it.
Speaker 7: So I want to give him a shout out. But yeah, man,
Speaker 7: I think Buffalo offensively, defensive and on special teams. Wow,
Speaker 7: not so much special, I mean offensively and defensively. They
Speaker 7: had a really good game plan for what we had
Speaker 7: been doing really well over the last five or six weeks.
Speaker 7: And Ed Oliver from Houston, Texas. Yeah, yeah, Westfille High School.
Speaker 7: That's my that's my school right there.
Speaker 2: Ed Oliver. I didn't know Ed Oliver.
Speaker 7: I mean, once he's up, we were talking about but
Speaker 7: we were talking about other guys, Vaughn and all those
Speaker 7: guys that they got going. But man, Ed number ninety
Speaker 7: one is a headache in the middle and he is
Speaker 7: hard to deal with. Two people one didn't matter who
Speaker 7: was on him. He was just clogging up everything. We
Speaker 7: did a good job of maneuvering around him because he
Speaker 7: was not allowing us nothing early in the game. All right,
Speaker 7: go ahead, man, contemplation.
Speaker 2: Go ahead. I want to know what you thought about
Speaker 2: the offense.
Speaker 6: I thought about the offense. You thought Sean McDermott had
Speaker 6: something for him last week? This week the fan Jumanji.
Speaker 7: I can't wait to see Vic van Jel. That was
Speaker 7: the kell, That was the Kelling more that was print. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and that blueprint then following him all the way up to.
Speaker 2: Still working. They got that scroll scroll out there.
Speaker 7: They hang it up at all the restaurants and that
Speaker 7: blueprint is out. He ain't been the same since. No,
Speaker 7: So yeah, but no, it's gonna be another tough one.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be another tough one because I think I
Speaker 7: think that Buffalo is now put it out there to
Speaker 7: show you, listen, this is what they like to do.
Speaker 7: Make them do something else, all right, and we're gonna
Speaker 7: run our coverage, but it's gonna be kind of it's like.
Speaker 2: Customized right for your route, because said Rob.
Speaker 7: Brown used to do it all the time, and he
Speaker 7: would be successful in taking away certain stuff that you
Speaker 7: really like to do and then make.
Speaker 2: It force you to do other things. And that's what
Speaker 2: Buffalo did.
Speaker 6: Thus, so you got Fangio on that, and then you
Speaker 6: got you know, coach Sole who was with them two
Speaker 6: years ago in the playoff game.
Speaker 5: They ran They just from from the opening drive. They
Speaker 5: just ran. Man.
Speaker 7: So I mean coach coach so go get you know,
Speaker 7: he get fancy too, man. He tried to get the
Speaker 7: style points, got the shades off.
Speaker 5: But but you know what Christmas soul glow on him.
Speaker 2: He's but he is going to run the ball.
Speaker 7: You'd have to be stupid to come up against this
Speaker 7: Cowboys defense and not run the ball. I would the
Speaker 7: attention to detail or running the ball would be eight
Speaker 7: every single week, like you just said, until y'all stop it.
Speaker 7: You don't get a full dose of this every single week.
Speaker 2: Running.
Speaker 7: I'm never going to stop running the behind it never
Speaker 7: gonna stop running.
Speaker 2: Like why? Like why?
Speaker 7: But now, the thing is, it's not every run scheme.
Speaker 7: It's specific run schemes that Cowboys have issues with. And
Speaker 7: until they figure out a way to cover up that
Speaker 7: and make sure that they can read pulling guards, read
Speaker 7: pulling tackles, make sure that their gaps sound when you
Speaker 7: have those issues, because when you run, when you play
Speaker 7: against a team that runs straight zone like, it's easy, right,
Speaker 7: it's right in front of you already, I got I'm
Speaker 7: staying on the outside of this, of this shoulder. When
Speaker 7: you start getting pulling guards and counters and all that,
Speaker 7: then it switches. It's like on the run, you gotta
Speaker 7: be able to see, all right, my gap was here,
Speaker 7: he pulled. Now I got to get over the top.
Speaker 7: And if you're not, like I said, you're not fast
Speaker 7: enough or accustomed to doing that. Then you having a
Speaker 7: hard time covering covering those runs.
Speaker 6: All right, let's get a break here, come back, let's
Speaker 6: go over special teams, and we need to make our
Speaker 6: Monday night pick as the Philadelphia Eagles are at Seattle
Speaker 6: and they've made some major changes in the coaching operation
Speaker 6: there in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: Barry Church like Maharrison, Newie scrugs, Danny McCrae.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Church ain't here.
Speaker 5: I just I just but you know what, Church is
Speaker 5: just texting me his pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's not here though, But I just gott
Speaker 2: I hate you.
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Speaker 2: I had a bad week last.
Speaker 5: Week, well, so checking it right here, just to go
Speaker 5: through the week. So but you can't we You know, Danny,
Speaker 5: you had you had Dallas. Heck you had Dallas. I
Speaker 5: had Dallas. Church came through on that. The Charger game.
Speaker 2: I had Vegas.
Speaker 5: Church had Vegas. Heck, but you had Vegas. Danny. I
Speaker 5: don't know why you went with Kellen Moore in company.
Speaker 7: I thought was gonna get some Carris, and of course
Speaker 7: he did. Like why why would you give? Why would
Speaker 7: you give?
Speaker 2: Fool itself? Right too? Smart?
Speaker 6: Cincinnati at Minnesota, everybody went with Cincinnati. Everybody came out
Speaker 6: of winter here Denver, Detroit. I had Detroit winning, Church
Speaker 6: had Detroit winning. You with Denver, Danny, you went with Denver.
Speaker 6: Houston and Tennessee. We all took Tennessee. Everybody lost.
Speaker 2: I got it right here.
Speaker 7: You changed it Tennessee Road for that the man they
Speaker 7: wouldn't Houston didn't have a quarterback top. Nothing went out there.
Speaker 2: Then water uniform, so disrespect.
Speaker 5: And then of course we all took Baltimore against du Baal.
Speaker 6: Everybody was there, so yeah, man, rough, but hey, you
Speaker 6: can go ahead and make a bounce back right here
Speaker 6: as it is a Philadelphia Monday Night special at Seattle,
Speaker 6: Philly favored by three and a half. Gino Smith may
Speaker 6: not play. Jalen Hurts may play. He's not one hundred
Speaker 6: percent separate from the team. The Eagles have demoted their
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator. He's not gonna be up in the booth
Speaker 6: not calling plays. Decides that he's not calling plays. Matt
Speaker 6: Patricia the savior, He'll be calling plays on the sidelines.
Speaker 6: Give me Seattle twenty four twenty one. Desperate Up there
Speaker 6: in the Emerald City, Barry Church has Philadelphia winning it
Speaker 6: twenty four seventeen.
Speaker 5: Heck Maherrison, what you got man?
Speaker 2: That is crazy.
Speaker 7: It could be at the end of the season that
Speaker 7: both Philly that Philly lose both their offense and defensive
Speaker 7: coordinator in one season after losing their offensive, offensive and
Speaker 7: defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: That would be cold blooded.
Speaker 7: But I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with Philly
Speaker 7: on this one. I'm gonna go Philly. I'm gonna go
Speaker 7: Philly twenty one, twenty one, fifteen. In the spirit of
Speaker 7: my fantasy football team, Okay, I'm going on Newie with
Speaker 7: newis side. Okay, over there, you're going Seattle seven to nine,
Speaker 7: seven to nine. What twenty one twenty four. I'm going
Speaker 7: everything new. We got goodness. Gracious, it makes me a loser.
Speaker 7: That makes me a loser. Twenty four to twenty one
Speaker 7: makes me a loser. Let's swift, let's swift, getting all
Speaker 7: like every.
Speaker 5: Yard if it's just game, well, swift, everybody to run.
Speaker 2: Twenty one twenty four Seattle Seahaws.
Speaker 5: All right, there we go, there we go. So so
Speaker 5: we're good on that here.
Speaker 6: Special teams. Yeah, Sam Williams, Brandon Aubrey, good for you.
Speaker 6: Made a field goal, so he is. He made a
Speaker 6: thirty two yard, extending his NFL record for most field
Speaker 6: goals made without a mistic started career to thirty one
Speaker 6: consecutive field goals. He also leads the NFL with one
Speaker 6: hundred and thirty three points, and he could become the
Speaker 6: first rookie to lead the league in scoring since Mason
Speaker 6: Crosby did it in two thousand and seven. And that's
Speaker 6: when he was coached by Macarthy.
Speaker 7: Shout out the shout out to and I remember man,
Speaker 7: maybe been five or six weeks ago, I was sitting
Speaker 7: on this show. Given given Sam Williams a lot of
Speaker 7: credit for being able to go out there at the
Speaker 7: gunner at his size and make those plays. And Sam
Speaker 7: has blocked the punt already this season. Okay, so and
Speaker 7: I know, I know bones Fossil goes out there and
Speaker 7: he teaches them, He.
Speaker 2: Lays the pad, He lays the pad out for you
Speaker 2: to jump across. This is all that.
Speaker 7: This is O t A stuff, all right, this is
Speaker 7: every day at training camp. This is what we're going
Speaker 7: to do to start it off, because we always start
Speaker 7: with the basics.
Speaker 2: This is how you do.
Speaker 7: Blocking punts. And my man, did everything you could possibly
Speaker 7: do wrong. Everything lead to feed hand spread out, not
Speaker 7: running through like everything that you would all the exits.
Speaker 7: You know, you have those posters and it's like don't, don't,
Speaker 7: don't and then do do do when you get your instructions.
Speaker 7: He did all the dun'ts on that. And I'm saying
Speaker 7: you you you got a chance to really change and
Speaker 7: pain there in a positive way, and instead because you
Speaker 7: did not do what you were because that type stuff
Speaker 7: to get coaches fired, like not Fossil, I'm not saying that,
Speaker 7: but like, oh man, this dude is he not coach?
Speaker 7: Will not no, no, they told you how to do it. Okay,
Speaker 7: But for some reason you went out there and you
Speaker 7: lost your mind when you got through there, maybe too excited,
Speaker 7: whatever it was, and then you and then not only
Speaker 7: did that happen, then you missed it all right, at
Speaker 7: least if you're gonna do all that wrong and you're
Speaker 7: still in a position to make the play to go out.
Speaker 6: You know that jump through missing in this pow over
Speaker 6: first down the other way touchdown game.
Speaker 2: And that and that.
Speaker 7: See, an unfortunate part about that is when you play
Speaker 7: special teams and that has become like what you have
Speaker 7: been known for now because you did block a pun
Speaker 7: and you're playing gunner. It erases all the other good
Speaker 7: stuff that you've done, and people's like, you can still
Speaker 7: be a really good especialty player. And then you see that,
Speaker 7: and then the game ends the way that ends, and
Speaker 7: you say that is a turning point in the game,
Speaker 7: then people like they have a tendency to forget that.
Speaker 2: Oh, this dude also made some really good plays on there.
Speaker 7: But that is one of the worst punk block opportunities
Speaker 7: miss that I've seen since I've been watching football. And
Speaker 7: maybe because of the Cowboys and how we got beat
Speaker 7: but that was bad. But no way, I just got
Speaker 7: to say, like, you see the good teams make those plays.
Speaker 7: You see the good teams not make the bone headed
Speaker 7: plays to extend drives. You see the good teams making
Speaker 7: doing all the right things. It's a winning that's a
Speaker 7: winning attitude. And I think for where we're trying to
Speaker 7: get to, it's that part of the evaluation of the
Speaker 7: game that you have to return to and say, look,
Speaker 7: we had an opportunity right here, had we made that play,
Speaker 7: And it's just that it's that kind of stuff when
Speaker 7: you go back to San Francisco, you go back through
Speaker 7: all of those road losses, there were opportunities that we
Speaker 7: didn't take advantage of. There was a conversation going on
Speaker 7: between Mike McCarthy and Bones Fossil right after that play,
Speaker 7: and I swear to God, I wish I was just
Speaker 7: a fly on the wall just to hear what that
Speaker 7: conversation could have been, because you, like you said, people
Speaker 7: get fired for doing stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That's one of those things like that, does he know better?
Speaker 6: And Fossil saw something to call it, so you know,
Speaker 6: he saw something, and you know, and they almost had
Speaker 6: another one.
Speaker 7: It was another one, Listen. That's the thing though, That's
Speaker 7: the thing about a guy like Sam Williams. It wasn't
Speaker 7: even a special call. He was rushing over the center
Speaker 7: and then left a gap and it was him using
Speaker 7: his pass rush move, which you usually don't see guys
Speaker 7: with that type of talent on a punt rush team.
Speaker 7: But you see a guy like Sam Williams who is
Speaker 7: accustomed to rushing the passer and he's over the center
Speaker 7: and he literally just olays him and gets straight through
Speaker 7: the same one he did on the last one. And
Speaker 7: when you looking at it, you say, listen, I have
Speaker 7: a guy who can make those type of plays.
Speaker 2: So what do you do next game?
Speaker 7: Do you tell him not the rest, not the rest
Speaker 7: of punter? When you know that he has the talent
Speaker 7: to be able to put that type of pressure on
Speaker 7: a punt team to go make that type of play,
Speaker 7: it's it's.
Speaker 6: And then we know the statistics of what happens when
Speaker 6: you punt is a block of punt. I mean, just
Speaker 6: use the opportunities to win and go up. But because
Speaker 6: it's it's like it a turnover.
Speaker 7: Because he blocks that, that's a block and probably a
Speaker 7: touchdown because he made the play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just his technique. At the end of it
Speaker 2: was just really bad technique.
Speaker 7: But you can't erase the fact that he was back
Speaker 7: there again in the position to make that play, which
Speaker 7: makes it like, which makes it like a very tough
Speaker 7: thing to do because you you, especially coach, you're.
Speaker 2: Like, well, wow, you know, really good, really good is here.
Speaker 7: But then you know the really bad is And I
Speaker 7: think the best thing about it is everybody on the
Speaker 7: team played bad. So so so what are you gonna say, Right,
Speaker 7: you got curse out here, you got d law out here,
Speaker 7: everybody you got Yeah, you got everybody playing bad, Like.
Speaker 6: Everybody collectively has to has to eat this With Mike
Speaker 6: McCarthy coming up at three thirty and one things I'm
Speaker 6: going to.
Speaker 5: Ask Mike today is about the penalties.
Speaker 6: The most penalized team in the league. And you've told
Speaker 6: us before by fixing things to dot to die. No, no, man,
Speaker 6: this is this is who you are and you cannot
Speaker 6: expect to go win playoff games on the road if
Speaker 6: you are going to have penalties like what we saw
Speaker 6: in Buffalo. And I want to hear what Mike hast
Speaker 6: to say, because it's it's out of control. This is
Speaker 6: the culture of who you are. You're a team that's undisciplined,
Speaker 6: that will shoot themselves in the foot. And you can't
Speaker 6: beat anybody good like this, You just can't. I mean,
Speaker 6: you got to forty nine ers, forty two on you,
Speaker 6: forty two to ten. This is thirty one to ten
Speaker 6: and you're helping with bad penalty Tyler Smith Love Love
Speaker 6: there's another drive killing penalty he did here where they
Speaker 6: weren't that.
Speaker 5: It's like, dude, this ain't the time for that, just
Speaker 5: like the Philadelphia game six yard line, same time for that.
Speaker 6: They got to fix this, And I want to know
Speaker 6: from the head coach, how come it hasn't been fixed?
Speaker 5: Why is this still happening.
Speaker 6: Yes, you've gone taking this team to the playoffs three
Speaker 6: straight years, but you gonna find yourselves out the playoffs
Speaker 6: in one or two games if you keep doing this,
Speaker 6: because it's gonna be real hard to beat somebody on
Speaker 6: the road playing like this. All right, heck man, thank you, Danny,
Speaker 6: thank you. We will see exactly what the Eagles have tonight.
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