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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lounge,
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star.
Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newey Scrugs.
Speaker 1: We are lounging here on a Tuesday, a holiday week
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys getting ready to play on Thursday, Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day in the afternoon against the Buffalo Bills. Barry Church,
Speaker 1: Danny mccras, I'm Newi Scruggs. We have a plethora of
Speaker 1: items to get into. Let me start by going back
Speaker 1: to New England up in Fox where I was there
Speaker 1: at the game. And let me tell you. When I
Speaker 1: woke up, it was raining. It was that Conny Regy's
Speaker 1: kept pounding and went all along. We drove to the stadium,
Speaker 1: it was just wet, wet, wet. Got out the car,
Speaker 1: um had you I had? I was layered up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was layered up. I had on just a long
Speaker 1: sleeve T shirt that put on a little sweater, then
Speaker 1: put on this vest, then put on a double layered coat,
Speaker 1: beanie and cover and it was it was just bad
Speaker 1: like that. Man. Oh, no, I was warm, but I was.
Speaker 1: I was. I was getting as quickly up to the
Speaker 1: press box as I could. My photographer had on a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff there. But he was, he was,
Speaker 1: he was wet, but it was it was a and
Speaker 1: just the wind. That was everything too, was the wind
Speaker 1: and it was sideway rain and wind and it was
Speaker 1: just it was just going to well, well you guys,
Speaker 1: you guys ever thought with part of that. So that
Speaker 1: was the absolute coldest game I'd ever been to. That
Speaker 1: was that was ter was just that was just wrong.
Speaker 1: That was just want to play, like, man, can we
Speaker 1: just like moved us the next running clock were getting
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, why are we throwing this? Just
Speaker 1: running the ball? The ball? That's the worst of rain
Speaker 1: and wind. Yeah. So you you've heard, you've heard the fans,
Speaker 1: you've seen the media reports that the way the weather
Speaker 1: was that New England knew how to play in it,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys were ready to go. I remember Dak
Speaker 1: it was a third down pass and he's with police
Speaker 1: are right there and then he changed the gloves. So
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism coming for the Cowboys and how
Speaker 1: they handled the weather. Um not going outside Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: and talked about on his show Monday, I Want to
Speaker 1: Fight three the Fan with Sean and rj Um. Rob
Speaker 1: Gonnkowski was killing him on Fox talking about that. So, uh,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? Was it raining? Out of it?
Speaker 1: It was raining? Was it cold? It was going on Wednesday?
Speaker 1: I think it was. No, I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: was looking at the window. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: raining the cup. You know, you already know what I'm
Speaker 1: going to listen, Wait, whose faulted? Is it that that
Speaker 1: glove got whether he wanted to change his gloves? Is
Speaker 1: that j G and the fault? Or is that that
Speaker 1: he was outside where he did pre game? He did everything,
Speaker 1: you know, two hours before the game and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He decided to put on what he had on and
Speaker 1: then it just didn't work out for him, so he
Speaker 1: had to switch. Is that correct? Yes, he and Blake
Speaker 1: jar would also changed oh yeah something. But that's that's
Speaker 1: the player's fault, right. Man was out there two hours
Speaker 1: before the game started and he warmed up through the passes,
Speaker 1: did everything that he possibly could do to getting ready
Speaker 1: for the game, and he decided to go with that. Know,
Speaker 1: they not expected me saying everybody saying that. J G
Speaker 1: Post said, Hey, Dak, they can't be saying the gloves
Speaker 1: with the with the with with a little bit to
Speaker 1: believe people of blaming that on. So apparently as former players,
Speaker 1: you guys, you're not read you're not reading social media.
Speaker 1: I read you could read it. But I'm saying responsibility
Speaker 1: of putting on the correct gear comes out to the player.
Speaker 1: That's why you show up two hours early, three hours
Speaker 1: early to the game, so you can go test out
Speaker 1: what you have to see what works best, works good
Speaker 1: on the ground, the warmert stuff, I'll get your hand
Speaker 1: one was ready and get all that that is on
Speaker 1: the player, and then messages communicated to them before they
Speaker 1: get there. Hey, get on the early bus so you
Speaker 1: can go out there and see what the field is like.
Speaker 1: That is communicated. Jerry Jones, the owner, spoke afterwards. I
Speaker 1: was there as well. I heard that. So in talking
Speaker 1: about what you say, he spoke about how, hey, they
Speaker 1: handled the elements better than we did. So that's when
Speaker 1: when when the man in charge who writes the checks
Speaker 1: comes out and talks about coaching and also talks about
Speaker 1: how they handled the elements and and he's basically saying
Speaker 1: he feel like we had the Cowboys didn't handle the elements.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, well mistakes to the point of the gear
Speaker 1: that's on the players, not to the point of game
Speaker 1: playing and being ready for certain stuff basketball coaching, and
Speaker 1: I think he was one hundred percent of talking about coaching,
Speaker 1: and we know that they were talking about one hundred
Speaker 1: special teams all right, well no, well no, he even
Speaker 1: talked about how, yeah, we've got to put together all
Speaker 1: three phases. I mean, look, offense couldn't score touchdown and
Speaker 1: then you have special teams. So you lost two or
Speaker 1: three phases in Foxborough against a team that, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: if you just line up talent for talent, I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have more talent than this New England team. Right,
Speaker 1: But are we saying that the Patriots out coached the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: The owners said on what though on to me mostly
Speaker 1: mostly on special teams. The mess ups on special teams
Speaker 1: put those guys offense in position to go out there
Speaker 1: and make the places they did to get that one
Speaker 1: lone score. Us missing field goals put us in position
Speaker 1: to have to go and try to score touchdown like
Speaker 1: special teams was the catalyst to me. This game for
Speaker 1: causing us to lose, all right, I could say that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can agree with that. We talk about it. We're
Speaker 1: talking about in position. When you get into two elements
Speaker 1: to game with the elements like that and they're crazy
Speaker 1: and it's winning, you can't throw it. Field position is
Speaker 1: a big part of the game. You played the field
Speaker 1: position battle. So Danny McCree, if anyone's new to the
Speaker 1: players lives Danny McCree. Special teams, uh demon when he
Speaker 1: was here. Barry is an undrafted free agent. You had
Speaker 1: to get on special teams. So when you were watching
Speaker 1: the game, what were you seeing, especially on the pump lock.
Speaker 1: It's just miscommunication to me, um, when you're on that
Speaker 1: pump when you're on that pump protection team. I mean
Speaker 1: I was winging on that team, so I knew all
Speaker 1: about the different type of Russians, the eight man boxes
Speaker 1: you're going to see, and what the person will protect
Speaker 1: the US to see and where he's accountable for what.
Speaker 1: But it's just a miscommunication. When you're going into that game,
Speaker 1: I pretty much assume, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: But everybody's pointing out Matthew Slider, I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: been doing it for ten years, the pro bowler pointing
Speaker 1: them out. You got to communicate where he is at
Speaker 1: all times. And if you're if you're in front of
Speaker 1: that that punt protection team, you point them out. I
Speaker 1: mean you point out Bolden, you point out later find
Speaker 1: those two guys got the strength on this side or
Speaker 1: the strengths on that side, and you find those two
Speaker 1: premier pass ushers. I mean, it goes for that for
Speaker 1: every special team. And I didn't quite see how he
Speaker 1: got in there, but he had to get in there
Speaker 1: pretty quick. He got it. So he lined up over
Speaker 1: the tackle and the tackle got a bad set um
Speaker 1: and he pretty much just went underneath the hand that
Speaker 1: he stuck out. And the tackle was Joe Thomas. Joe Thomas,
Speaker 1: and they attacked him. They saw something gonna tape and
Speaker 1: they attacked the attack him, and he didn't do the
Speaker 1: right technique and he got beat and slater even though
Speaker 1: he did get a hand on him. Him being the
Speaker 1: special player that he is and being as great as
Speaker 1: he is and having all that experience, he was able
Speaker 1: to just have the perfect hand out and still get
Speaker 1: a hand Say that's more of a coaching era, because
Speaker 1: I'm sure the coaches were telling them, boys, y'all gotta
Speaker 1: know where this guy is at all times. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna fall on the coaches. But the player made the bad.
Speaker 1: I tell you to play cover too, And we coached
Speaker 1: this all week in the same number. And you jump
Speaker 1: and you jump a dig route. Yeah, they're gonna say
Speaker 1: that's bad coaching, but you you made them bad. And
Speaker 1: we've been seeing a lot of that this communication. Some
Speaker 1: of those are not bad decisions. They but it all
Speaker 1: comes down to that fair that is that is uh,
Speaker 1: that is one. The ball ain't traveled past the twenty
Speaker 1: yard line on a kickoff, and my boy was all
Speaker 1: the way back in the middle of the end zone,
Speaker 1: was just chilling. That's that's bad coaching. That's that's a
Speaker 1: lack of community. Got you on the side. The winds blowing,
Speaker 1: you're kicking to the winds raining, they're not kicking the
Speaker 1: ball for no touch back. Screwed up. Screwed up, was like,
Speaker 1: and what the third or the fourth question? Screwed up? Man.
Speaker 1: You gotta have adjustments, man. So Troy been criticized. He
Speaker 1: criticized the Now I was I was, I was watching,
Speaker 1: you know, I was there, But you know, obviously we
Speaker 1: go back you listening, Troy was criticizing the coaching and
Speaker 1: and look, I have been covering many Cowboy games and
Speaker 1: did many oppressions with Jerry Jones afterwards. Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: back to when Jimmy was here, Barry was here. I
Speaker 1: can't recall another time where he was that up set. Y. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jerry was that upset. And I just walked out of
Speaker 1: there thinking, if you're Keith o quinn, you got a problem.
Speaker 1: You got a problem, because he all he said, it's coaching,
Speaker 1: he said, call, he said, this is on coaching, Hudson,
Speaker 1: and then the way and the things sometimes people say
Speaker 1: things without saying them. He praised Bill Belichick and special teams.
Speaker 1: Bill came into the league as a special team's coach.
Speaker 1: And you see when you got guys like Matthew Slater Bold,
Speaker 1: those guys aren't on the team to do anything else
Speaker 1: other than play those special teams that they put a
Speaker 1: priority there. And he said, we Oh my bad, good. Sorry, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just telling what he No, no, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: did we put a priority? All right? I just out
Speaker 1: there a little bit. Well, well, you know, let's discuss it.
Speaker 1: Then she she went there, let's discuss historically. No, we
Speaker 1: don't know. We haven't put it enough emphasis on getting
Speaker 1: those type of special steams players. It's kind of like,
Speaker 1: whoever we have left over to that place, say they're
Speaker 1: running back or whatever, who's not trying to three or
Speaker 1: four those are the guys. And then you have teams
Speaker 1: who historically have paid one to two specialties players to
Speaker 1: do exactly that. Just play teams, no other responsibility. Ultimore
Speaker 1: Ravens do it. New England does it. Yeah. Eric Williams
Speaker 1: was in Shottown and all he did was that's it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. He said that I was talking to Rick Goslin,
Speaker 1: and Goslin Hall of Fame writer uh wrote about that
Speaker 1: how the Patriots have four guys and all these four
Speaker 1: guys spect the special teams guys. Then he says, you
Speaker 1: got to put a priority there on that, and and
Speaker 1: he felt like with just what you said that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't looking at Hey, what can one you know
Speaker 1: that the guy has to be either be doing something
Speaker 1: offense or defense especial versus, Hey, look, can this guy
Speaker 1: get down here and do some of the things you're saying,
Speaker 1: Like a Matthew Slater because in my opinion, the block
Speaker 1: punt was the turning point in the That was it,
Speaker 1: I mean, that was that was a game Belichick said
Speaker 1: it was. It was this. Well, well, so you know,
Speaker 1: Belichick didn't help uh Ko either by saying, yeah, we
Speaker 1: uh we knew they wouldn't be able to handle the elements.
Speaker 1: So we kind of worked on that and got everybody
Speaker 1: and it started with Troy and enjoy at anyone there,
Speaker 1: and he opened the flood. What they call it a
Speaker 1: hat trick three. This is three tips where the top
Speaker 1: topic or the most talked about, most discussed topical Minnesota
Speaker 1: and I mean, and the one thing that about special
Speaker 1: teams is it's better to go unnoticed to where nobody
Speaker 1: talking about you. You punt it how you're supposed to punt.
Speaker 1: You know, you got some touchbacks whatever, and then nobody
Speaker 1: recognized suposed to Like when new he goes into the
Speaker 1: locker room and he doesn't see nobody, don't say nothing.
Speaker 1: But that's a good saying. That's a good one, right,
Speaker 1: But that's when you had a decent special teams game.
Speaker 1: You want three weeks in a row. Obviously, when it's
Speaker 1: negative negative, this is when you're talking about frustrations from Jerry.
Speaker 1: He see the same thing we're seeing. He like, if
Speaker 1: if it's anything that I'm supposed to be worried about,
Speaker 1: all right, it's not special special teams costing us the game.
Speaker 1: You block, you get a pump block. They score. A
Speaker 1: couple of games ago, we fair catch on and we
Speaker 1: have a chance to win the game, and we fair
Speaker 1: catch and have to throw a hell Mary. This is
Speaker 1: two critical moments in the game where you like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't got to worry about my defense playing good,
Speaker 1: my quarterback doing interceptual, any of that. I'm worried about
Speaker 1: if we're gonna make the right play on special teams.
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to be holding my breath when we
Speaker 1: have a fourth down and were punting up. I'm not
Speaker 1: supposed it's not supposed to be there. I supposed to
Speaker 1: be going to give me a drink or something. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be shaking hands with the person I'm
Speaker 1: sitting next to him. I don't know right now. He
Speaker 1: gotta look at the game all day now, Like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know we're about to punt broke back. This
Speaker 1: same man, he was on the way to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: He got that, he's I thought, I'm about to sit
Speaker 1: right back on the bed up that. I guarantee you this.
Speaker 1: Every every Cowboys fan now will be paying attention to
Speaker 1: every special team play. They're going you cut the commercial
Speaker 1: before kickover, they're gonna go off. I'm gonna come back.
Speaker 1: Don't cut the commercial. Everybody's paying attention to the supposed
Speaker 1: to seas now so that you know you gotta quick
Speaker 1: turn around on Thursday. I don't know how much can
Speaker 1: be redeemed from the special team. Got the number one
Speaker 1: kick up, that's the next next thing that's going to
Speaker 1: hit on this This is uh. You could arguably say
Speaker 1: this is the best special teams club in the NFL
Speaker 1: that's coming to town on Thursday. And yes, not to
Speaker 1: look forward before you keep on going on there. It's
Speaker 1: too many weeks for ko because Cardarol Patterson is next.
Speaker 1: Don't getting no easier, ain't getting easier. Don't get no easier.
Speaker 1: And screwed up. We had been in Chicago to win,
Speaker 1: to be blowing. Hey, screwed up to the ten big
Speaker 1: it's something out from Please, I don't want what you said.
Speaker 1: My boy walking into the into the game, sweating twenty
Speaker 1: degrees outside. What's the sweating? Do it right, man, Just
Speaker 1: do it right? Does he think right? Man? Because because
Speaker 1: I like him? I like him, I mean I like
Speaker 1: him as a person. He's always, you know, been cool
Speaker 1: with me. We've always had a good conversation. But you know,
Speaker 1: at this point, when you're playing bad, then you gotta
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. The punk block my notes
Speaker 1: that I kept from the game. So it happened at
Speaker 1: one to thirty seven in the game. So it's a
Speaker 1: fourth and twelve punt block. New England gets the football
Speaker 1: with one twenty eight to go in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: first and ten. Sony Michelle with the run two yards,
Speaker 1: second and eight at the ten yard line, touchdown in
Speaker 1: to Kiel Harry, his first touchdown in the game. Great kids,
Speaker 1: m we've been losing a lot of those. Was a
Speaker 1: great kiss he got the kids. So he beat He
Speaker 1: beat Byron Jones on that become the seventy fifth player
Speaker 1: to catch a touchdown pass from Tom Brady and his career,
Speaker 1: so seventy five different dudes ball. So it's seven to nothing.
Speaker 1: Cowboys get the ball back and um but Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: ended up fumbling got it back then it goes into
Speaker 1: the second quarter, so as Cowboys still had the ball,
Speaker 1: so that was the first and ten from the eighteen.
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin fumbles it did his second and m second
Speaker 1: and two from the twenty sixth they run it to
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott no yards, third and two at the twenty
Speaker 1: six Gilmour picks off Dak Prescott and then New England
Speaker 1: gets the ball back at the twenty nine of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and one, two, three, four plays later to field goal.
Speaker 1: So it's it's ten to nothing right there. So they
Speaker 1: get the ball the twenty nine second drive. In the
Speaker 1: first drive they got it, but after the pump block
Speaker 1: they got it around the same area pump block they
Speaker 1: got it at the twelve on the interception they got
Speaker 1: at the twenty nine, So twelve and twenty nine starting
Speaker 1: starting field position. Yeah, I think played well. I didn't
Speaker 1: say I don't like four yards of pop from Sony,
Speaker 1: but other than that, yeah, yeah, they played good. Look
Speaker 1: So so this this whole in a game where points
Speaker 1: for at a premium and touchdowns of the premiucus, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys didn't score one in the thirteen to nine loss.
Speaker 1: Um special teams played that big part and now a
Speaker 1: whole lot of fans just what you're saying, who may
Speaker 1: have been casual fans know the name keitho quinn and
Speaker 1: that's not a good thing. They know my her. We
Speaker 1: didn't mention he missed as well. Now can I defend her?
Speaker 1: Oh please listen for listen, I'm not here to beat
Speaker 1: now pointing out what's what's what's going on? Its miss.
Speaker 1: It was tough out there that the way that wind
Speaker 1: was going, I mean, it just it was taking balls away.
Speaker 1: You know. It just taught me Nick Folk, former cowboy
Speaker 1: kicker here. You know Nick Folk, we've seen the Nick's
Speaker 1: a good kicker. I mean, it was it was coming
Speaker 1: away from him, so it was it was hard. Do
Speaker 1: you expect them to make the kicks if you're a kicker?
Speaker 1: How long was that one? It was like forty forty
Speaker 1: sixty forty six, I mean and checkman notes here what
Speaker 1: I'll say it was forty six. But even so, the
Speaker 1: length versus the rain, and it's coming from the side
Speaker 1: of any anything, anything, anytime you were going over thirty five,
Speaker 1: it was it was tough. Let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: do you think Jerry cares? Do you think he took
Speaker 1: that into account when he decided to when he sees
Speaker 1: the specialties playing as well, he counted that as a
Speaker 1: miss kick. And that's something else they go on. That
Speaker 1: did not help when he went into the coaching and
Speaker 1: talked about how they were out coached, and and he
Speaker 1: even said to me, he says, when you come here,
Speaker 1: I think you expect to be out coached. I've never
Speaker 1: heard that. I've never heard that before. But I asked
Speaker 1: him the question, you like, you're out coach, Well, you
Speaker 1: come in here, I think you're gonna you should expect it.
Speaker 1: But with his history deal, I can understand why he
Speaker 1: possibly feels that way. So you know, Rich Besaccia is
Speaker 1: the former Cowboys special teams coach who left here to
Speaker 1: go out to Oakland John Group right now, and and
Speaker 1: Besancia also was a special teams coach for gruten when
Speaker 1: they won a Super Bowl and down there in Tampa.
Speaker 1: But I do think that you guys, you brought up
Speaker 1: a point in terms of do you have the best
Speaker 1: players playing special teams. I go back to Lord's Taylor.
Speaker 1: You know, Taylor had to play special teams for Bill Parcels.
Speaker 1: When Bill was here, he was making you know he
Speaker 1: was making some of the best players play special teams.
Speaker 1: That's that's something that Bill Parcels, I mean, Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: also kind of took from Parcels that, hey, look, you
Speaker 1: know what we need good play. You started just kind
Speaker 1: of starting year. Yeah. Yeah, we had like Sean Lee
Speaker 1: was on. There wasn't returning punks like we had the
Speaker 1: best players on this brook man. I guess it's just
Speaker 1: a different philosophy. Yeah, it's different now and now I
Speaker 1: guess the way that people structure structure to wash the
Speaker 1: rosters is that money is saved for you know the
Speaker 1: upper Yeah, right, so you figure you just get some
Speaker 1: young guys to go out there and play teams or
Speaker 1: if you draft them in the fourth and fifth round
Speaker 1: and they're gonna play teams and be a whatever. Some
Speaker 1: of these guys even never played special teams in college.
Speaker 1: Yeah they was a superstar. So it's not even in
Speaker 1: their forte to do this, but it's like what they
Speaker 1: have to because if you running back number three on
Speaker 1: this team, you're not playing running back. You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to be able to come be a cover of kids.
Speaker 1: I do want to let you know, so today being Tuesday, um,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys players were in the locker room. Because it's
Speaker 1: a short week, they were made available to meet it
Speaker 1: to that I wouldn't talk to CJ. There we go.
Speaker 1: Did you have a personal conversation did you like get
Speaker 1: you hadn't get some love on the mit? Yes, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I interviewed. I interviewed to ask them about that with
Speaker 1: the bump block and other stuff. Yes, yes, And we
Speaker 1: spoke to Jeff Heath as well. So you're trying to
Speaker 1: get their thought on a puplock situation. Uh. Jeff was
Speaker 1: a good teammate, talked about you know as the mistakes
Speaker 1: and got to clean up the mistakes. And when asked
Speaker 1: about you know what Jerry said about the coaching, he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we hear it and we take it personal. We want
Speaker 1: to we want to clean up the area. So I mean, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I think fans get mad at Jeff Heath for his
Speaker 1: safety play, and to me, Jeff Heath reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of some of the guys that they used to
Speaker 1: have on the Cowboys Super Bowl teams, where you know,
Speaker 1: they were backup players, and I think Jeff Heath is
Speaker 1: a is a valuable backup player as a safety. But
Speaker 1: a vital special teams guy. If they had someone else
Speaker 1: here starting, you would you would not be putting as
Speaker 1: much emphasis on Jeff. He's where fans are always mad.
Speaker 1: He's not this, he's not that. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's not like you, this is a
Speaker 1: first round draft pick you're talking about here. You're not
Speaker 1: talking about a guy that they signed to come over
Speaker 1: in free agency and you know, Weddle or somebody like that.
Speaker 1: That's where I think the fans have been a little
Speaker 1: bit unfair. You're mad out of player for something he
Speaker 1: isn't when you need to look at what he is
Speaker 1: and ask the coaching staff and management have you decided to,
Speaker 1: you know, invest in that position. But I think Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath if you put him, if you put him on
Speaker 1: the Patriots, you know what, he'd be a backup player
Speaker 1: who who's out there making some real contributions. I think
Speaker 1: I just don't think Jeff Heath is the guy that
Speaker 1: fans say, oh him, him, him, and they hate guy.
Speaker 1: If you watch if you watched the Detroit game and
Speaker 1: then you watch this New England game, even with him
Speaker 1: at safety, he made a huge difference. He made two
Speaker 1: huge plays out there. And heard him his white hair
Speaker 1: one kitch minus six yards. The man averages over I
Speaker 1: think over four or five kids. Is a game Heath
Speaker 1: was covering him Detroit game. I saw a big difference
Speaker 1: on special teams and satya so they can say you
Speaker 1: know X, y Z whatever. Watch some of the other
Speaker 1: teams around the league and see what they say the
Speaker 1: position look like and try to plug and play with
Speaker 1: who you trying to get out of there with Heath?
Speaker 1: I respective, I like the way he plays this game,
Speaker 1: plays teams, he gets, he gets out there. He never
Speaker 1: gonna be out there local y aays gonna be at
Speaker 1: the Rice boyd percent making tackles and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But he makes more plays than than the average person.
Speaker 1: He's an above average Yeah, all right, we need to
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Speaker 1: Cowboys now six and five, still in first place. Well,
Speaker 1: have you ever seen a team that's in first place?
Speaker 1: To the fan base older, it's just what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: You got to start because that's that's one specifically because
Speaker 1: of the division that we the only reason we made
Speaker 1: you plug us out because the Rams was the last night.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, playoff dreams over. We got five game
Speaker 1: we got we have Buffalo, Chicago, Chicago at Chicago, LA
Speaker 1: at Home, Philly at Philly in Washington. None of those
Speaker 1: teams scared me at all. The quarter The best quarterback
Speaker 1: of the whole group is is Josh Allen. Okay, stay
Speaker 1: with me, say night. Okay, I'm not gonna I like us.
Speaker 1: I'm not nerve because I'm already. The one game that
Speaker 1: I said that we were gonna lose, we lost already.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be washing them, but we did
Speaker 1: it earlier. We want to hang, got it out the way.
Speaker 1: So now I gotta go undefeated for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. What are you going with this? Okay? So,
Speaker 1: so I wrote this for the Blue Star blog of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Warning News, and I said there was a
Speaker 1: path for the Cowboys to get to ten wins, and
Speaker 1: I included the new England Laws. Okay, so there's six
Speaker 1: and five right now. You got Buffalo if you if
Speaker 1: you win, okay, if you win, you're seventy five at Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's a winnable game from the standpoint. That mental trubisky.
Speaker 1: It's mental troubisky. Come on, okay, So you win that
Speaker 1: you eight or five the Rams. Did anybody see last
Speaker 1: night's game? That debacle that is not last year's Let
Speaker 1: me scratch that out, all right. Baltimore is as a
Speaker 1: that's a whole different monster compared to the rest of
Speaker 1: the league. But I got you. Jared Golf is playing terrible.
Speaker 1: Oh oh he is, but the defense is not that terrible.
Speaker 1: Nineteen picks or nineteen turnovers in his last eighteen games.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is a guy terrible, right,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that you know, the Cowboys have issues.
Speaker 1: You're trying to trying to win the turn over battle, Jared,
Speaker 1: God's gonna give you something. So you could be nine
Speaker 1: to five against La Philly. You could lose the Philly game,
Speaker 1: be nine to six, take on Washington, beat them, be
Speaker 1: ten and six. I mean you're in and and fans
Speaker 1: were like, no, no, no, And I said, and I
Speaker 1: said on Twitter, before you write Jason Garrett off, remember
Speaker 1: last year because I was the guy who wrote them
Speaker 1: off three and five. They finished seven and one. So
Speaker 1: to say that with five games, let this Cowboys team,
Speaker 1: with the talent they have, cannot win four games here,
Speaker 1: that would be irresponsible. You could even go nine and
Speaker 1: seven because also go on the other side, anybody watching
Speaker 1: Philadelphia right now playing terrible, turn on their sports radio station.
Speaker 1: Who's playing they have turned on? Carson went, I mean
Speaker 1: they are ready to they are ready to throw him
Speaker 1: out of ring back nick Foles. And we've seen Nick
Speaker 1: Foles all he's done since he came back Jacksonville's loops.
Speaker 1: But Philadelphia they want that right now. So and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not being a home er. I'm just being a
Speaker 1: straight realist here that this can be done. It can
Speaker 1: be done. We will be done, I don't know. And
Speaker 1: we can win a playoff home game even though it
Speaker 1: a person sat, we can win hit your stride, just
Speaker 1: like you said, remember what happened we hit our stride
Speaker 1: last seven. You just wrote our playoff right there. But
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything about can get it. So turn No,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm saying. I didn't go into
Speaker 1: the playoffs and say what can happen. I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about getting I got ahead of my suit. Were trying
Speaker 1: to fill out a tournament. We don't know, fifteen fifteen,
Speaker 1: we're talking about that. Anything that boys can get into.
Speaker 1: So so a ten and six season is doable even
Speaker 1: with the loss at Philadelphia. The way they're playing, if
Speaker 1: they if they lose to Buffalo and win at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: then they they are going to win the division. The question,
Speaker 1: so are should become how far can I go in
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Not well, because yes, yes, because that will
Speaker 1: speak to what Jerry and Stevens spoke about a training
Speaker 1: camp on what the determination would be for Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: to come back in twenty twenty, and they feel like
Speaker 1: the team they put together has the talent to go
Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship and so a ten and six
Speaker 1: season may not save them. It may not, but they
Speaker 1: have the talent, they have the ability to get there.
Speaker 1: So that was what I wrote. So so Jim check
Speaker 1: it out if you go over to Twitter page at
Speaker 1: new Scrugs or newe Scrugs Sports. I wrote it there
Speaker 1: and I went through the different scenarios we just kind
Speaker 1: of talked about here. But it's doable. It's doable, but
Speaker 1: it starts with trying to win on Thanksgiving Days. Buffalo
Speaker 1: Cowboys are thirty one, nineteen and one on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1: Last year, they beat Washington thirty one to twenty three
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper in case you forgot, one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: yards of receiving, which is a single game individual high
Speaker 1: for a Cowboy player on thanks Thanksgiving Day. So this
Speaker 1: is um game number fifty two thanks to make up
Speaker 1: for last game. He was in Witness Protection that last game.
Speaker 1: Nobody knew put him now had two targets in that
Speaker 1: game because sorry, so I was there too. First of all,
Speaker 1: should shouldn't even have more targets with the elements the
Speaker 1: way that they were, so right after you, I'm right there,
Speaker 1: and for Amari gives you very short answers. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: very short. And someone said, basically, you know, did you
Speaker 1: know Gilmore was that good? The best corn? He said,
Speaker 1: is this the best corner you faced? And he said,
Speaker 1: I don't really know. I only had two opportunities, so
Speaker 1: I didn't really get a chance to. I don't get
Speaker 1: any played. So so you basically said, how am I
Speaker 1: supposed to know if he's any good with I didn't
Speaker 1: get any opportunity to really testing the guy. That was what.
Speaker 1: He didn't get no ABMs, so it was also bad elements,
Speaker 1: but trash right put them on the go. He did
Speaker 1: give Bill said, taking me, he got Trey White this week,
Speaker 1: he's what he got six picks, four picks. And that
Speaker 1: was the next thing I was gonna say was it
Speaker 1: doesn't get any easier. We don't play around. It does
Speaker 1: not get any easier this week. But if the Elements
Speaker 1: won't be a factor, and if they want to take
Speaker 1: Cooper away, then it's time to get Gallop involved. We
Speaker 1: seen explode hes getting open. Co Cop has been fantastic
Speaker 1: to get my boy jo and it looked like they
Speaker 1: put a little emphasis on that last week to get
Speaker 1: him going early in the game Untell he fumbled, But
Speaker 1: it seems like they're doing the right thing though. They've
Speaker 1: got to score a touchdown. You can't go two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. What I was scoring a touchdown here
Speaker 1: mismatches And this is once again the Cowboys did what
Speaker 1: Jason witt And told me they could not do a
Speaker 1: train cap, which is, you know, put yourself behind a ball.
Speaker 1: You know, we have to wait all right now you
Speaker 1: you're here and you got to wake up. And talking
Speaker 1: to Zach Martin and the locker room really today and
Speaker 1: he talked about we have to make sure figure out
Speaker 1: a way that we don't keep keep these slow starts,
Speaker 1: and they're not They're not where they want to be,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing. They at least understand they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be six and five. This Cowboy team is the
Speaker 1: same record as the Raiders. Yeah, who would have thought
Speaker 1: that to begin this season with the talent base that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have and the Raiders talent base, you were
Speaker 1: not thinking anywhere at all that these teams would have
Speaker 1: the same record right now. You did still, especially with
Speaker 1: them when they lost a b and all that situation
Speaker 1: with now man, like you said, you don't win Super
Speaker 1: Bowls on Paperman, you're correct, you're correct. So in your
Speaker 1: opinion right down, how do they get a double against Buffalo?
Speaker 1: For me, you have to you have to make them
Speaker 1: be who they are right. What they do is they
Speaker 1: play great defense and they run the ball. Josh Hellen
Speaker 1: runs around a little bit. You stop that, and then
Speaker 1: you put on on notice and show Mary Cooper and
Speaker 1: Rundall cob and and jar One score some points. That's
Speaker 1: how we get the dub get the offense rolling and
Speaker 1: start done right. And then we have to stop the
Speaker 1: quarterback from You gotta take the ball away from Josh Owen.
Speaker 1: But if you let them run around or get those
Speaker 1: first down, third or twelve, we made the mistake, mistakes
Speaker 1: lash confidence. We gave him momentum and he tore us
Speaker 1: up last year. So you got you gotta just kind
Speaker 1: of you gotta step on his throat early. Don't just
Speaker 1: think that he's gonna come out here and be you know,
Speaker 1: a quarterback that there's not gonna go around and be
Speaker 1: able to complete something. Look like you don't Beasley, They're
Speaker 1: gonna go off. Don't let him come here and try
Speaker 1: to show the approval point that you know he should
Speaker 1: still be here or the book. The Bills are better
Speaker 1: because they focus on football more than us. He went
Speaker 1: to stop curse. Beasley might break the curse because former
Speaker 1: Cowboys coming into Dallas and playing. I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: a part of that. We got we gottabuse. So hopefully
Speaker 1: we ain't gonna say hopefully, but maybe Beasley will break
Speaker 1: the curse. Wait, Phillips too, he came back into the
Speaker 1: court of Rams the way he came in to make
Speaker 1: sure he get his does they gave him a game ball?
Speaker 1: So I mean you are correct down with Layton Vanderesh
Speaker 1: out linebacker in this game, seaun Lee Jalen Smith. Is
Speaker 1: it upon them as you're talking about trying to contain
Speaker 1: Josh Allen who used his legs. You have to worry
Speaker 1: about a guy using his legs last week and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady he wasn't going anywhere, but you know, that's part
Speaker 1: of the game that Josh Allen. I think it is
Speaker 1: definitely on them. They're gonna be playing some z own
Speaker 1: coverages and they're gonna have their eyes on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So when they get back in their own coverages, and
Speaker 1: you know all the time the defensi line, they're gonna
Speaker 1: run and rush the quarterback to get the sack. So
Speaker 1: sometimes those rush lanes are gonna open up. It's on them,
Speaker 1: It's on Lee, it's on Smith, it's on Joe Thomas,
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis to win. Their eyes are back at the quarterback.
Speaker 1: They seen him scrambling and they got a converage quick
Speaker 1: and tackle because this guy, he don't look very athletic,
Speaker 1: but he can run. He can run good. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be up to them underneath courverage as well to
Speaker 1: stop him from running. But also get those those close
Speaker 1: underneath window interceptions and backdowns and all that. So, all right,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day game, afternoon game they played every So the
Speaker 1: Lions are the first game, that's the Cowboys, then it's
Speaker 1: the NBC game. So I want to say it's Atlanta
Speaker 1: hosting the Saints. I'm almost pretty poscat checking out my
Speaker 1: fantasy football schedule there the Saints to going exact Dak
Speaker 1: and I've got Drew Brees trying to make that choice
Speaker 1: of who I play fantasy. Okay, this is the week
Speaker 1: of fantasy where you're like, man, I could be out
Speaker 1: of this before before we get to Sunday. So many
Speaker 1: games going on. I got Dad into my quarterback. I
Speaker 1: got a single tier running back I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I fight for the number one seat. So if I lose,
Speaker 1: I'm in fifth. Where I win, I'm in first. I
Speaker 1: gotta keep winning because this is our our last regular season.
Speaker 1: I was as well, Yeah, so yeah, I'm almost like
Speaker 1: you if if I lose, I could drop down from
Speaker 1: from third to maybe fourth to fifth. So so that's
Speaker 1: that's that there. Uh, As former players, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this question, how did you all attack the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: food and family? You got me in the game, but
Speaker 1: how did you how did you attack it? How did
Speaker 1: you do it? Did you have your family come in?
Speaker 1: I had the family come in and all that good
Speaker 1: stuff and mom dukes and everybody cooking all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I didn't like to eat heavy before a game,
Speaker 1: so I would just you know, dadfle here and there
Speaker 1: and then go to the game, but then smash when
Speaker 1: I came back. But I never wanted to eat a
Speaker 1: whole big Schmogus board of a meal because then I
Speaker 1: feel heavy, I feel slow, and anybody to be able
Speaker 1: to run past me then, so I just wait until
Speaker 1: the end to eat. But it was definitely a good
Speaker 1: meal though. Yeah. We had an understanding that. So all
Speaker 1: my family that came in town, they all went to
Speaker 1: the game. So my mom would get down there the
Speaker 1: night before and then she would start cooking. None of
Speaker 1: us would eat or touch any of the things giving
Speaker 1: food until after the game. Okay, so I would eat.
Speaker 1: So I would eat with the team and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I didn't feel like I was missing out on
Speaker 1: anything because I knew when I got there it would
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a spoonful missing from the mccaroni and tis
Speaker 1: all the stuff. Everything would still be intact, and we
Speaker 1: would say Grayson, then we would go eat. Ninety two
Speaker 1: thousand fans at AT and T Stadium last year for
Speaker 1: the Washington Cowboy game. They give you all certain allotment
Speaker 1: of tickets as a player. How many more do you
Speaker 1: find yourself? Oh? Am I wrong? No, no, okay, because
Speaker 1: I knew what you was going with. How many more
Speaker 1: do you have to purchase? And then guys in the
Speaker 1: locker room were trying to purchase for those Thanks every
Speaker 1: day games because a lot of guys have family come
Speaker 1: in me. I only had that like two or three
Speaker 1: because I let him know from the jump, like I
Speaker 1: think it's funny. I never I never really had a
Speaker 1: large amount. I do know stories, and I still have
Speaker 1: teammates and old teammates that get ten and fifteen because
Speaker 1: because what happens is the people that are asking for
Speaker 1: these tickets that you get them for free on your
Speaker 1: check on next Thursday. Then they deduct all those tickets.
Speaker 1: You why am I missing? Had about six tickets so
Speaker 1: and it keeps going. So at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: you have a total of how much you spent on tickets,
Speaker 1: and then you know, if you're smart, you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I got two that I get for the game that's free,
Speaker 1: and then everything else I got to purchase. So maybe
Speaker 1: two people come to this game and two people come
Speaker 1: to another one. Then some guys, especially if you got
Speaker 1: a lot of money, then you go ahead and whoever
Speaker 1: you wanted. Some people split sweetz wearing get you a sweet,
Speaker 1: But it just depends on who you are, if you're
Speaker 1: playing in your hometown and all that, all that stuff matters.
Speaker 1: You didn't put anybody in the standing room only section.
Speaker 1: They stood at home big ticket giving. Yeah there the
Speaker 1: max off giving I think maybe six. But and that
Speaker 1: was that was rare. All right. So since since your
Speaker 1: family came in and cook Thanksgiving, tell me your favorite
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving side? I asked a lot of Collins this earlier
Speaker 1: in the locker room. He said his favorite is his
Speaker 1: mom's seafood dressing. Its mac and cheese. Considered a. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's my mom's mac and cheese, no matter. I
Speaker 1: can eat a whole whole bowl of that. I mean
Speaker 1: it's the greatest combination of cheese. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: scoop it up, it's the cheese just I mean there's
Speaker 1: at least six or seven I mean velvita is I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just amazing steam coming up when you My mouth
Speaker 1: water right now. But like she put breadcrumbs on the
Speaker 1: top of the ball. Yeah okay, yeah, yeah, and nobody
Speaker 1: can nobody can get the recipe. I mean they steal
Speaker 1: the recipe, but the sausage that doesn't taste the same.
Speaker 1: So throwing that that mac and cheese on that with
Speaker 1: that gravy. That's that's cheese, the turkey with the turkey.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's man. You put that on one fork,
Speaker 1: Get you a couple of little dapples of the mac
Speaker 1: and cheese, get you a little scraping down turkeys, and
Speaker 1: then it goes down. I'm black. You get all that
Speaker 1: lets So that's all right. So that's your guest, your
Speaker 1: go to. You got your turkey right there. First thing.
Speaker 1: You're reaching forwards the mac and cheese. What about you
Speaker 1: easily the turkey stuff, But you had to put the
Speaker 1: whole turkey winging us or the bone still in there
Speaker 1: like that. But just like my grits, I gotta have
Speaker 1: a cranberry sauce and not a little bit a lot
Speaker 1: now here a lot? Are we getting it out of
Speaker 1: the can? Are you getting the getting the creole cranberries
Speaker 1: and making it not as then you know you can't
Speaker 1: open it. They got the cranberry chunks in the two
Speaker 1: you know, they come into a little like llo. My
Speaker 1: great grandmother a little bit. I'll tell you, my great
Speaker 1: grandmother made a fantastic cranberr with real cranberries and would
Speaker 1: use um oranges, orange pills, putting put into a blender,
Speaker 1: ton of sugar, ton of sugar, and he likes sugar, cranberries.
Speaker 1: Sugar helps, sugar helps she and my mom knows how
Speaker 1: to make it too, but it is uh so we
Speaker 1: would have both. I have two. I have two crambers,
Speaker 1: have the jet the on the cam and then had
Speaker 1: the one she made. So I was always loaded up
Speaker 1: with cranber. The stuffing that you got both oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, because everything everything I did, it was it
Speaker 1: was always turkey, the dressing because they made a hilaciously
Speaker 1: great dressing, and then the two cranberries, so that that
Speaker 1: and I throw the other stuff that was on the
Speaker 1: test and say they had all in the green bee castle.
Speaker 1: But those were always my thirty things. And then the
Speaker 1: next day when you come back again, it was always
Speaker 1: had to have the turkey and in the great gravy
Speaker 1: dressing and the cranber. How many days after things given
Speaker 1: can you eat the left offs? And what day should
Speaker 1: you stop thinking thanksgiving us? On Thursday? What day is
Speaker 1: it like? Bro? You triping well with my mom, We
Speaker 1: had a lot, you know, and going over to my
Speaker 1: great Grother's place, in Burma. There was always a lot
Speaker 1: so I could go, you know, the entire time we stayed,
Speaker 1: I had it. I mean it was it was just
Speaker 1: that good. How many days was that was? That? Is
Speaker 1: it like you're still eating this on Monday or you
Speaker 1: like gonna get sick or no? So I said week,
Speaker 1: So you got all the way till next Thursday. I
Speaker 1: think so. And see I'm also one of those two
Speaker 1: of those guys too. I repurpose, I can make it
Speaker 1: into something else, and it was all good by me.
Speaker 1: Throw it on a sandwich. Are you one of those
Speaker 1: people that don't like when their food touches on the plate?
Speaker 1: I'm fine, you find what that mix it all? We
Speaker 1: please let the yams the yams, you know the special
Speaker 1: plate that you because usually when you get the little
Speaker 1: circle plate paper players, you get the oval. Get out
Speaker 1: the back. So Thanksgiving is coming up here, enjoy the game.
Speaker 1: Also make sure you have a safe and happy holiday season.
Speaker 1: Let's take another break. Let's get it to our football
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Speaker 1: gonna take over Atlanta, will be We'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: LSU Georgia. Yes, uh, we will win by at least
Speaker 1: twenty one. Oh and Joe Burrow will seem in hisself
Speaker 1: as in history as to twenty nineteen high school Trophy winner.
Speaker 1: And then I'll we can watch it that, we can
Speaker 1: watch it that popa those if you would like, so
Speaker 1: they got TVs. I'll be I'll be games like we
Speaker 1: could watch the replay. Come on with me, because I
Speaker 1: want to point out all the reasons why he is
Speaker 1: winning the house as I'm ordered. As I'm ordering the
Speaker 1: funnim Danny's l Tigers are going to go play in
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game against a Georgia team. And this
Speaker 1: is interesting how football works. Jake From almost won the
Speaker 1: Nasshal Championship for George as a freshman. And this was
Speaker 1: a guy that as a freshman, I'm thinking, all right,
Speaker 1: by the time he gets his third year, he'll be
Speaker 1: a first round picking the draft right now, Jake From
Speaker 1: needs to go back to George. I was in my wood.
Speaker 1: You wanna be undrafted just like the league. They get
Speaker 1: film on you. Smart defensive coaches at college as well,
Speaker 1: and they get film on you, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you you can't adapt and change the show
Speaker 1: that you really had that talent. Then you end up
Speaker 1: looking like back, did they choose the wrong quarterback? Of course,
Speaker 1: see what he's throwing up there, old states that bad
Speaker 1: is the whole beast up there right now, looking like
Speaker 1: somebody's great quarterbacks. I'm glad they call them, justin the
Speaker 1: whole beast up there. Justin Phields finish freshman year at Georgia,
Speaker 1: ended up transferring, got a got an immediate waiver and
Speaker 1: playing for Ohio State right now, and looks it looks
Speaker 1: next world. And and Jake from Georgia looking looking like
Speaker 1: nothing like the guy who you thought he would be
Speaker 1: in your threat. But that's crazy how they work, right,
Speaker 1: So we get Joe from from Ohio State, Ohio State
Speaker 1: gets field Georgia, and they both shining right now, and
Speaker 1: Georgia keeps and you know, and and but they still
Speaker 1: one that the I don't want to beat it up
Speaker 1: making sound like the guy is is trash, but just
Speaker 1: going me it was I think it was was QB one.
Speaker 1: He was one of those. He was in high school,
Speaker 1: one of the type. Dude. Yeah, so he it was
Speaker 1: it was a documentary and that it followed from Tate
Speaker 1: Martell and and two other guys who were quarterbacks. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. And he came off like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's here's here's a here's a likable guy. Tate Martell
Speaker 1: came off as a straight I'll see one episode wide
Speaker 1: receiver from Miami like the hurri game. Yeah, he's the
Speaker 1: one that sent out to tweet the cryptic tweet when
Speaker 1: Justin Fields transferred to Ohio State said you know, uh,
Speaker 1: don't miss twice. You know you don't miss twice. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he sent that tweet out like a basic hey man,
Speaker 1: make sure you don't miss twice. Send it just because
Speaker 1: it was assumed that Tate Martell would be the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know feels is there transfers Ohio State
Speaker 1: and then Martell he's up and out of it. He
Speaker 1: transfers to Miami, so you know he's all about to
Speaker 1: you and we all assume, okay, well he'll be started
Speaker 1: for many DZ and the Hurricane first game come he
Speaker 1: not start then he left. He left the team for
Speaker 1: a day. Guess he was upset. So he comes back
Speaker 1: and then they moved him to receiver. He played a
Speaker 1: whole different position. Out do you ha when they put
Speaker 1: you on TV coming out of hospital? I mean, if
Speaker 1: you gotta do that, you gonna stay Ohio. Well, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been riding, would have been get ready to chi.
Speaker 1: They can stay in the league of the XFL something.
Speaker 1: But you should get a ring, you know. The XFL.
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention that there was a Josh Johnson
Speaker 1: they blocked from going to Detroit. Yes, they did. Detroit
Speaker 1: wanted to Josh Johnson to come to a play for them,
Speaker 1: and the XFL blocked them from going there. That's where
Speaker 1: you got to stay in the XFL. What the quarterbacks, Yes,
Speaker 1: the back that they wanted jobs since it's crazy because
Speaker 1: the cacra factors that they that they blocked them got
Speaker 1: to come. Yeah, you can't miss the xflop like that
Speaker 1: because then they gotta go find a little guy. And
Speaker 1: they drafted basic like that's how they did. Think since
Speaker 1: the Lions sure are good since they fired Jim Cole, Huh,
Speaker 1: they ain't no shot me. Just look The Detroit papers
Speaker 1: are saying fire Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia right now
Speaker 1: because they were. Bob Quinn comes out and says nine
Speaker 1: and seven is not good enough for the line, so
Speaker 1: he fires Calwell. Call Well spent four years there, went
Speaker 1: to the playoffs twice and only and had three winning
Speaker 1: seasons out of four. They live for that right now.
Speaker 1: This team is going backwards in the gym. You're the
Speaker 1: guy you went. I got your guy from New England,
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia that that organization is not good. Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: played you look at his career. Best football he's played
Speaker 1: was under Jim called. Jim Calwell was out of as
Speaker 1: a coordinated for the Baltimore Ravens when Joe Flacco went
Speaker 1: on that road. Dude made Joe Flacco a Super Bowl MVP. Dude,
Speaker 1: that dude is a magician. Andrew Peyton Manning's best football
Speaker 1: and you start leaving Jim Caldwell and people talk about
Speaker 1: Adam Gates. Go check Jim Calwell and Payton Mannings numbers together.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they messed that up all day. Let's get
Speaker 1: into our football phrase of the day here, field position
Speaker 1: and new He helped me out with this because you
Speaker 1: can give me the yard line. And okay, let's go
Speaker 1: back to that the New England game and field position
Speaker 1: was where New England did a fantastic job. So so
Speaker 1: let's let's just start with So when you are the
Speaker 1: Cowboys drives, I'm just saying, so when we talk about
Speaker 1: field position, and we really talk about field position battles
Speaker 1: in the field position game, we're talking about plays that
Speaker 1: that teams run in order to when they get the
Speaker 1: ball back, they will have the ball closer to the
Speaker 1: end zone and when they are on defense, they want
Speaker 1: the ball to be closer to the opponents end zone.
Speaker 1: So they have a longer field to drive or a
Speaker 1: shorter field to drive for your offense, right, yes, so
Speaker 1: here's something to know here. Um the Patriots or number
Speaker 1: one in the NFL and average drive, meaning that they
Speaker 1: have less distance to travel to score points. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: entered with the NFL's number one offense, but a ranking
Speaker 1: of twenty nine. An average drive starts, so they're having
Speaker 1: to go a whole long way to score. So here
Speaker 1: are the Patriots drives on Sunday, their own twenty two,
Speaker 1: their own thirty six, the Cowboys twelve, their own twenty five,
Speaker 1: their own, twenty five, their own thirty six, they're owned
Speaker 1: twenty eight, their own twenty eight, their own thirty eight,
Speaker 1: their own twenty five, the Cowboys twenty five, and the
Speaker 1: two times they started in Dallas territory the drives ended
Speaker 1: in scores. Now that final time they were in Cowboys territory,
Speaker 1: they ran out the clock. Here are the drives for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in Foxborough owned twenty five oz, nineteen owned
Speaker 1: twenty one, eighteen owned thirty own thirty six oz, twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty eight, owned twenty one eleven O eight owe fifteen.
Speaker 1: That Patriots starting average drive was forty was forty one
Speaker 1: the forty one yard line. The Cowboys offense average start
Speaker 1: their own twenty one yard line. You cannot have that
Speaker 1: kind of discrepancy if you're trying to win at Foxborough
Speaker 1: against the pain And to put that into perspective, that
Speaker 1: is two first downs, right, so you have to score.
Speaker 1: You have to make an extra two first downs compared
Speaker 1: to the Patriots in order to score the ball. Not
Speaker 1: one draft started inside the twenty for the Patriots, right
Speaker 1: and special teams played a part of that. Right though,
Speaker 1: when the filth was flipped and they started on the twelve.
Speaker 1: That was a black punt. And it's just like the
Speaker 1: field position battle was being won and lost most of
Speaker 1: the time. On special teams. If you're on the fifty
Speaker 1: and you're punning, you're doing those sky punts, it is
Speaker 1: important that you make it land inside the ten or
Speaker 1: at the ten to make the other team have to
Speaker 1: score drop ninety yards to score. If you punted into
Speaker 1: the end zone, you just took a first down away
Speaker 1: from them. That's one less first down they have to
Speaker 1: get in order to score the ball. Right, So when
Speaker 1: you see somebody averaging ten yards to return on punt,
Speaker 1: that's one less first down at the office has to score.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what we mean when we say film position.
Speaker 1: The special teams controls that by making those yards up
Speaker 1: on returns or making those yards go be more on
Speaker 1: kickoffs and punts. Danny mc crailey pick up on what
Speaker 1: you were talking about there, Bill parcels, you should call
Speaker 1: it hitting yardage and he would add that up and
Speaker 1: just you know, the hitting yardage in a game. And
Speaker 1: right there when you talk about the Patriots getting the
Speaker 1: ball at the forty one yard line and started drive,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys starting to get twenty one of the two
Speaker 1: first downs and just looking and you know, anybody, just
Speaker 1: go go check the drive chart. Just go check the
Speaker 1: drive chart. How many times you're able to get two
Speaker 1: first towns and drive It's not it's it's not easy, especially,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not easy. So it makes a difference
Speaker 1: in the football game, where once again I said, you're
Speaker 1: trying to beat a team like that, and that's that's hard.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott no touchdown passes. This is something I wonder
Speaker 1: about going back to see how New England lost their
Speaker 1: only game of the year Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson had
Speaker 1: about sixty five yards rushing and at least at least
Speaker 1: seven attempts. I had to check it more, but why
Speaker 1: didn't Dak run the football? Man? I saw one was
Speaker 1: he rolling to the left. It was him in a
Speaker 1: d line, run the ball and he throws it. I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: this is what Jerry's talking about when he says, I
Speaker 1: think that can use his legs more. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a design play for him to run. You
Speaker 1: can you can play, can break down, you can scramble,
Speaker 1: you can see that you have the mismatch the advantage
Speaker 1: against a D lineman going to the left and you
Speaker 1: can run around him and get the first down. We've
Speaker 1: seen him do it in the past, So after that,
Speaker 1: I mean, he just had those opportunities. He can We
Speaker 1: know that he can be a pocket passer. We know
Speaker 1: any pass on the field, we know that he can
Speaker 1: do that, and we know that he can run. But
Speaker 1: being able to make the decision on when to do
Speaker 1: it and when you what it's best for you to
Speaker 1: do it, and in that situation we feel like it
Speaker 1: I'm no quarterbacks. I feel like it was best for
Speaker 1: him to go ahead and pump, fake, run around the edge,
Speaker 1: get it easy first down, and keep it going. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him use his legs more. We see
Speaker 1: him do it in the past. But I mean he
Speaker 1: also has a strength to deal with his arm, so
Speaker 1: hopefully he can get it done. He got to find
Speaker 1: some type of combination to get it done. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, elements the next game that the elements
Speaker 1: will be that way at Chicago. If you have a
Speaker 1: chance to run a first down versus trying to fit
Speaker 1: it into a tight window, just run. Is he that
Speaker 1: is demoralizing to a deep defensive line and dbs when
Speaker 1: a quarterback is able to break out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and scramble. That's why you see these guys getting so
Speaker 1: frustrated when Lamar Jackson is doing it, because it's like,
Speaker 1: it's what else do we have to do? We're covering,
Speaker 1: we're rushing, we're doing all this. These guys are chasing
Speaker 1: the whole time, and he scrambles for ten and make
Speaker 1: it look it's demoralizing. It's the worst the word. All right,
Speaker 1: let me go back. I pull up the numbers here.
Speaker 1: So Lamar Jackson against the Patriots rushed sixteen times for
Speaker 1: sixty one yards and had two touchdowns. Dak Prescott one
Speaker 1: rush for four yards against against New England. So that
Speaker 1: was one of those when you come back to when
Speaker 1: you talk about coaching, this is something clear on film.
Speaker 1: How can you beat the Patriots? First off, they are
Speaker 1: not comfortable. You know, you got a team doing something
Speaker 1: they're not comfortable doing. So you know, use your legs.
Speaker 1: And we see Russell Wilson has made a living doing
Speaker 1: that using his legs. We know Josh Allen is going
Speaker 1: to use his legs when he comes into AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium in Jerry World. Okay, we know he Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott has that same ability, and that's uh, that's that's
Speaker 1: an interesting um. It's crazy that it is the opposite,
Speaker 1: right for because usually you say, when we just got
Speaker 1: to learn how to be a pocket pass, right, he
Speaker 1: can do that. So now we're like, hey, man, how
Speaker 1: to use your legs a little bit more and learn
Speaker 1: when when to do it. It's like the opposite of
Speaker 1: what the NFL is teaching. But he can do it.
Speaker 1: So he should have some faith and confidence in itself
Speaker 1: to be able to turn that corner and get the
Speaker 1: first down. Put it in the game play more. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's see some more readoptions, depending on the situation,
Speaker 1: you can. I mean, we were just talking about the readoption.
Speaker 1: They ran that one. He went to the left and
Speaker 1: lost yards. We don't want no parts of that. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's wrap up the players Lounge with a Thanksgiving Day prediction,
Speaker 1: very Church, I'm gonna go, Man, this is a tough one,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go twenty four seventeen Dallas Danny McCraw
Speaker 1: thirty one, twenty one Dallas. I want Danny. From the standpoint,
Speaker 1: if they win, they're gonna have to score thirty because
Speaker 1: that's what they've done. All your luck. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a challenge against this Buffalo team, but I believe they
Speaker 1: do it every time they lose. And people dogpile of
Speaker 1: Cowboys and you got the older saying, but the owner did,
Speaker 1: I expect everyone to show. It's also a Thursday. It's
Speaker 1: a Thursday game at your place here. I expect the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to score thirty points in this one, and I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna go ahead and get it with But
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