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Speaker 3: I have had a hard time these last couple of
Speaker 3: days because Sunday's game just hasn't sat right with me.
Speaker 3: Having to sit through that was pretty miserable. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lie. Oh, it's miserable on a lot of fronts,
Speaker 3: and we'll get into that obviously. I just want to
Speaker 3: read off a couple of stats to get us started
Speaker 3: in this one. The Cowboys offense on one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty eight passing yards, sixty four rushing yards, just ten
Speaker 3: first downs. They were four of eight on third down.
Speaker 3: They averaged just two point eight yards of gain six
Speaker 3: penalties for seventy four yards, two turnovers, just one touchdown,
Speaker 3: and ladies, they were out possessed twenty three minutes and
Speaker 3: forty eight seconds to thirty six minutes and twelve seconds.
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott playing the worst game of his career, and
Speaker 3: it's not it is close, but it was the worst
Speaker 3: game of his career fourteen of thirty seven, pick number
Speaker 3: fifteen in just twelve games. And something that I found
Speaker 3: interesting in this one. As I was doing flashback on Monday,
Speaker 3: I went back and looked at Dak's game against Tampa
Speaker 3: Bay in game one of the season this year, nearly
Speaker 3: identical stat line. He was fourteen of twenty nine for
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty four yards in an interception in
Speaker 3: that one. That being said, I'm glad we got that
Speaker 3: out of our system, but I will open up the
Speaker 3: table with this, what is your biggest concern from Sunday's game.
Speaker 4: I think for me, it's the offensive scheme, and not necessarily.
Speaker 4: I don't think that falls on Dak. I don't think
Speaker 4: that falls on anybody other than you know, is this
Speaker 4: play calling really working for the offense? Are we playing
Speaker 4: up the strengths or are we just kind of knocking
Speaker 4: the confidence of the team. That's what worries me is
Speaker 4: I don't want this this win or this win. Oh
Speaker 4: my goodness, this loss. I wish it was a win.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be happy to talk about this. I don't
Speaker 4: want this loss to propel them back in the confidence
Speaker 4: that they took a while to rebuild when Dak did return,
Speaker 4: because that took a while to return after Cooper Rush.
Speaker 4: So I just I'm concerned about the play calling. I'm
Speaker 4: concerned about the strengths of that offense not being utilized.
Speaker 4: Where was the run game, Where is the tight end
Speaker 4: versatility that we've seen work for this offense. Where is
Speaker 4: the unpredictable aspect of this offense. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: questions I have about the offensive scheme right now, and
Speaker 4: it's frustrating because there's moments within the season where you
Speaker 4: see things work and then you'd never see them again.
Speaker 4: So it's just it felt like everybody was confused. It
Speaker 4: felt like no one was on the same page, and
Speaker 4: that worries me. But I also know this team is
Speaker 4: resilient and they have they are more than capable of
Speaker 4: coming back from that.
Speaker 5: For me, it's the Yeah, She's not playing.
Speaker 6: Sick of this over It for me is the offensive line,
Speaker 6: and for me, it's the the run blocking in this last.
Speaker 5: Couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: Obviously, TP returned from injury last week and we saw
Speaker 6: he wasn't involved a whole bunch. So and with this game,
Speaker 6: I felt like the pass pro was there at times,
Speaker 6: but the consistent, the consistent factor even in the books
Speaker 6: game that they couldn't run the ball. And when this
Speaker 6: team cannot run the ball effectively, you can see that
Speaker 6: it spreads out through the whole offense. It puts a
Speaker 6: lot of pressure on the quarterback, It puts a lot
Speaker 6: of pressure on the passing game as in itself. And
Speaker 6: it also makes defenses, you know, be able to just
Speaker 6: drop six and coverage and rush for and go about
Speaker 6: their business. So you went against the Commander's one of
Speaker 6: the best, well the best defense.
Speaker 5: On third down I showed.
Speaker 6: I mean, I know we're talking about how poorly the
Speaker 6: Cowboys played, but let's let's remember like they had some
Speaker 6: they have a pretty good defense over there as well.
Speaker 6: But for me is getting the cohesiveness of this offensive
Speaker 6: line back together and being able to run block at
Speaker 6: an efficient rate and do it well.
Speaker 5: Moving forward is going to be so important to this offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about the offensive line for a little bit,
Speaker 3: because I want to raise my hand up. I was
Speaker 3: the one last week that said this offensive line doesn't
Speaker 3: scare me, you know, like they all they got it.
Speaker 3: They got Hall of famers left and right. Boy was
Speaker 3: irong on Sunday. And it just goes to show you
Speaker 3: how one small impact that being Tyler Battish, one small move,
Speaker 3: one small change, affects everything. To your point, I think
Speaker 3: the run game was missing because there was no run blocking.
Speaker 3: There was no there was no there's nothing blocking period.
Speaker 3: I think what stands out to me the most about
Speaker 3: the offensive line in this game is you saw it
Speaker 3: from the opening possession for Dak Prescott, the opening snap
Speaker 3: he took, he was immediately being pressured and it was
Speaker 3: almost like this tap dance that he was doing in
Speaker 3: the back because he didn't know like should I stay
Speaker 3: in the pocket. Do I have time to stay in
Speaker 3: the pocket. I don't have time to stay in the pocket.
Speaker 3: Do I roll right? Do I roll? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: like you throw it away? And then it was just
Speaker 3: from the very beginning it was so out of sorts
Speaker 3: and just to give you guys some contacts for this.
Speaker 3: Connor McGovern was in at center for Tyler Biattis. Tyler
Speaker 3: Smith was moved to left guard. Jason Peters played left
Speaker 3: tackle for the whole game, and I think that's important
Speaker 3: to note. I think that was his first full game
Speaker 3: that he had played at all. Zach Martin was at
Speaker 3: right guard, of course, and then Tyron Smith over at
Speaker 3: right tackle, and this is kind of the point of
Speaker 3: the season where you kind of start to see those
Speaker 3: cracks show. I think that's kind of what just ultimately
Speaker 3: set Sunday's game into a tailspin. Yeah, Tyrone Smith, I
Speaker 3: think struggling a little bit, just trying to stay in
Speaker 3: the them, trying to forget what he's learned at left
Speaker 3: tackle and translate that over to the right side. But
Speaker 3: the positives in this is that Mike McCarthy Jerry Jones
Speaker 3: are both very confident that you're gonna get your starting
Speaker 3: center back in Tyler Beyotdish and I also said this
Speaker 3: last week, and we'll get into Layton vanderash later in
Speaker 3: the show, but you never know what you have until
Speaker 3: it's gone. And I think when you want to talk
Speaker 3: about being resilient and I think faithful is another good
Speaker 3: word for this team. You get Tyler Beyottish back. This
Speaker 3: is a guy who's going to allow you to get
Speaker 3: that run blocking back. He's going to allow the communication
Speaker 3: on that line pre snap, which I think is going
Speaker 3: to be very important. You allow that to get back
Speaker 3: and just the comfortability for Dak Prescott back there. You
Speaker 3: get your center, you get everything back in line, and
Speaker 3: then you can kind of adjust the offensive line as needed.
Speaker 3: But just from you guys, Tyler beyotdish, how much of
Speaker 3: an impact is he going to be on Sunday?
Speaker 6: Well, listening to Mike McCarthy yesterday, just say that, you
Speaker 6: know he had a good day yesterday. Still very encouraging
Speaker 6: because I didn't know how much I'm still learning, so
Speaker 6: I didn't know how much center had a role in
Speaker 6: just the overall efficiency of even the checks calling out stuff,
Speaker 6: just and even just the spike and the ball. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's just so important for a quarterback to get in
Speaker 6: that rhythm and be able to get into their drops comfortably.
Speaker 6: You made a fantastic point talking about how Dak never
Speaker 6: seemed comfortable. There were opportunities where he had the he
Speaker 6: had the opportunity to check down to the tight ends
Speaker 6: in the middle of the field and stuff, and he
Speaker 6: just didn't take it. His clock was very sped up,
Speaker 6: and that's something that we haven't seen from him in
Speaker 6: a while. So I, to your point, really think that
Speaker 6: it just kind of help helps re establish a lot
Speaker 6: of order on.
Speaker 5: That offensive line and just to get him.
Speaker 6: Back comfortable knowing who who can hold serve at what
Speaker 6: point in time. So I think it's important for him
Speaker 6: to get back in here and for things to get rolling,
Speaker 6: because I don't know if you're going to be able
Speaker 6: to run the ball effectively without that center because.
Speaker 3: It wasn't working.
Speaker 4: I think something and y'all are gonna take your shot.
Speaker 4: Something I always talk about is the mental focus, and
Speaker 4: that usually slips in the way of penalties, right, But
Speaker 4: in this case, without your center, without that key communication
Speaker 4: that everybody was working with and they were used to,
Speaker 4: it showed it helped contribute to the confusion. It helped
Speaker 4: contribute to the miscues and the miscommunication. So for me,
Speaker 4: getting Tyler Biottish back means you get your communication back
Speaker 4: and you get what was working right back, so you know,
Speaker 4: not to say that it can't work. How what we
Speaker 4: saw it can work. But I think with Tyler Beyotdish,
Speaker 4: he brings an element of communication that just is needed.
Speaker 4: It is needed for every single person, and it's a
Speaker 4: domino effect. That O line is a domino effect of
Speaker 4: what you see, because again Dak was rushing, Dak was
Speaker 4: he looked panicked. I mean, Dak has said I always
Speaker 4: pried Jack on being a guy that he does roll
Speaker 4: things off his back, and you see it in his face.
Speaker 4: It was just a look of panic that was so
Speaker 4: unsettling for me to even just watch. I can't imagine
Speaker 4: being the guys in the O line, or the tight ends,
Speaker 4: or the receivers or anybody that had to be there.
Speaker 4: And that comes from the O line. So again, Tayler,
Speaker 4: be honest to me, means communication is back, Like you said, Asha,
Speaker 4: order is restored in the O line, and they need
Speaker 4: it bad. They need it bad.
Speaker 6: And more power and a little bit more power like
Speaker 6: McGovern really had trouble this game just with the overall
Speaker 6: power from that interior.
Speaker 5: And then obviously you had Tyler slide to left guard
Speaker 5: and he, in.
Speaker 6: Fairness, let's be fair here, he's been playing left tackle
Speaker 6: almost all season like it's the bouncing back and forth.
Speaker 5: He's a it's naturally, it's natural.
Speaker 6: He's gonna sometimes have instances where his hands on right
Speaker 6: and stuff, because that is just hard to tap it into.
Speaker 5: I'm sure. So just getting guys kind.
Speaker 6: Of back where they're supposed to be, I think will help,
Speaker 6: will help the overall offense.
Speaker 4: And we've given them so much credit for being so
Speaker 4: versatile on that O line and having the ability to
Speaker 4: be versatile and you know, be able to have that
Speaker 4: muscle memory kind of reversed on the drop.
Speaker 3: Of a dime.
Speaker 4: But at some point you just don't need that anymore.
Speaker 4: You need consistency, you need stability, and it's great that
Speaker 4: you can do it if you have to, but it
Speaker 4: also it almost feels like it's become a thing where
Speaker 4: these guys are so on their toes. It doesn't feel
Speaker 4: like there's a sense of stability for them to where
Speaker 4: they're like, oh, am I gonna be on left guard?
Speaker 4: Am I going to be a right guard? What are
Speaker 4: we doing?
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
Speaker 4: What are we doing? Put your feet on the ground,
Speaker 4: stay where you're at, focus on the best position for
Speaker 4: these guys, and move forward. Because it's just there's too
Speaker 4: much going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved last week. I think it was Connor
Speaker 3: McGovern who was asked about this last week when it
Speaker 3: came to you know, as far as like how often
Speaker 3: do you take reps at another position? Or maybe it
Speaker 3: was be Oddish, but one of them it was McGovern Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: and they were just talking about you know, like oh
Speaker 3: like ten to fifteen reps just to make sure you
Speaker 3: you know, have that fresh muscle memory, as you pointed out.
Speaker 3: So if I meant to be interesting the positive here,
Speaker 3: as well as you get Tyler Biattish back, you also
Speaker 3: get a Matt Farnioc going into the second week of
Speaker 3: his twenty one day window and going back to your
Speaker 3: point of the stability, I think that really gives that cushion.
Speaker 3: You know, you get him in as your backup, you
Speaker 3: have a little bit more flexibility because I think the
Speaker 3: issue is not necessarily that you're rotating the line right,
Speaker 3: Like you don't want to rotate the line if you
Speaker 3: don't have to, but it's out of necessity. But if
Speaker 3: you're going to do it, you want to have the
Speaker 3: correct pieces to do it right. And I think when
Speaker 3: you have Matt Farnioc in there, even if he doesn't
Speaker 3: ever see the field, you at least have that you
Speaker 3: know good backing to know that, Okay, this isn't working.
Speaker 3: Let's change it up, and let's change it up in
Speaker 3: a way that we feel comfortable that we've seen doing so.
Speaker 3: Matt Farniac making his return as well. My last question
Speaker 3: for you ladies before we take break on that offensive line,
Speaker 3: who do you want starting where? What I know we
Speaker 3: haven't seen practice. Yeah, I hate when your eyes get
Speaker 3: big like that because you freak me out when you
Speaker 3: do that. But what is your ideal offensive line when
Speaker 3: you're facing a guy like Tom Brady who obviously isn't
Speaker 3: in his prime the way he used to be, but
Speaker 3: he can still make things happen, and you've got to
Speaker 3: be able to on your side of the offensive ball
Speaker 3: be able to combat that.
Speaker 6: At this point, the ideal offensive line to me is
Speaker 6: going to be the one that you kind of were
Speaker 6: starting with. I know that as far as like Tyler
Speaker 6: at left tackle, McGovern at left guard, Beattish Back at center,
Speaker 6: Zach Martin their right guard, and then Tyron is your
Speaker 6: right tackle. Granted, like we've talked about Tyron, there's some
Speaker 6: issues definitely in the run game, and I think that's
Speaker 6: just because his feet, like he like, what do I
Speaker 6: do with my feet?
Speaker 5: You know it's one also too. You know, Michael Carthy
Speaker 5: talked about how different it is.
Speaker 6: For him, but just that group did show signs of
Speaker 6: being able to run the ball at certain points, and
Speaker 6: different this group right here, it's not showing those signs
Speaker 6: of being able to run the ball. So at least
Speaker 6: you get back to, like you said, some stability and
Speaker 6: guys kind of know where they're supposed to be. You
Speaker 6: can bring that, you can bring, you have the tight
Speaker 6: ends you mentioned them, bring somebody over to help out,
Speaker 6: you know sometimes if you need it. But that's how
Speaker 6: that's the offensive line I would go with. It's kind
Speaker 6: of like your only best option at this point, right life?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 1: Ding?
Speaker 7: Ding?
Speaker 4: No, that's the lineup I'm going with if I have
Speaker 4: the choice. The thing about Tyrone Smith is I have
Speaker 4: so much faith in this guy, and you know, I
Speaker 4: think it goes for every single person on this team. Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: we know he switched sides of the line and all
Speaker 4: of that, but everybody needs to fill their best and
Speaker 4: nobody played their best. So again, this is it's more
Speaker 4: of a confidence thing for anybody at this point. But yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the lineup I go with. That's the lineup that
Speaker 4: was working. If it wasn't broke, don't fix it. You
Speaker 4: get your guys coming back, put them back where they belong,
Speaker 4: and move on from the horrendous, horrendous game that was Sunday.
Speaker 6: On the plus side, though, Jason Peters he played a
Speaker 6: lot of snaps. Christy mentioned it on Monday, She's like,
Speaker 6: why is he playing so much? When I actually went
Speaker 6: back and watched him, We've been having this whole thing
Speaker 6: like can you play a full game?
Speaker 5: Are you your darl like? And you played well. He
Speaker 5: didn't know he'd especially in pass pro on that left side.
Speaker 6: So at least you know that he can be that
Speaker 6: guy that can come in sometimes on that left tackle
Speaker 6: because that's the premier position. You know, Tyler's gonna be
Speaker 6: dealing with a lot of the best best d ns
Speaker 6: in the game. Maybe you can roll Jason Peters out
Speaker 6: there a couple of plays if Tyler's having trouble, Darrel,
Speaker 6: if you need a big play and you like, I
Speaker 6: gotta have it, you know that he can play for
Speaker 6: extended snaps if you need that.
Speaker 5: And I think That's was good to see from him
Speaker 5: in this game moving forward.
Speaker 4: And that's the versatility you want because it benefits you
Speaker 4: pen drop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the I think that that's the
Speaker 3: goal of what Jason Peters was brought here for, you know,
Speaker 3: just to come in you shore up that offensive line
Speaker 3: with a big body, a guy with a lot of experience.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like I'm pushing thirty and I'm struggling.
Speaker 3: Imagine you know how he's feeling that crossing that forty threshold.
Speaker 3: So a lot of interesting things to see. Practice will
Speaker 3: resume tomorrow, so obviously we'll get the opportunity to check
Speaker 3: out how they're practicing. We did hear good news about
Speaker 3: Beattish on Monday and his individual workout. He was pushing
Speaker 3: a sled at one point. Got good reports there. So
Speaker 3: good to see those guys on the mend. Another guy
Speaker 3: who's on the mend and literally chomping at the bit
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Speaker 3: so excited Ladon Vanderush is coming back to the game,
Speaker 3: back to the team, back to the field. However you
Speaker 3: want to describe it, I will be honest. Layton's a
Speaker 3: guy who I hadn't spent a lot of time getting
Speaker 3: to know, mostly because he hasn't been in the Lone
Speaker 3: kom the time set him in there, and he's similar
Speaker 3: to the safety room. He's in, he's in and he's out.
Speaker 3: So I hadn't had a chance to really get time
Speaker 3: to speak to him. But after sitting with him on
Speaker 3: Cowboys Hour yesterday, he was a phenomenal interview. He very
Speaker 3: much just kept it real without being too cocky. You know,
Speaker 3: there were some moments where you know, he felt a
Speaker 3: little confident about this matchup coming up, which we'll get
Speaker 3: to in a little bit. But just a really humble guy,
Speaker 3: a really cool story. He told me kind of the
Speaker 3: origin of the wolf story, because I wasn't here whenever
Speaker 3: they first drafted him, so I loved hearing that story.
Speaker 3: So again, if you guys haven't checked that out Cowboys
Speaker 3: Hour on our YouTube page. Fantastic stuff. But when you
Speaker 3: talk about a guy who is missed, and we've said
Speaker 3: this before, you never really knew how much of an
Speaker 3: impact he was making on the field until he wasn't
Speaker 3: making that impact on the field. Some more stats for
Speaker 3: you from Layton vander ash fifty four solo tackles this season.
Speaker 3: That's second on the team behind Donna, who has seventy.
Speaker 3: But I think given you know the amount of games
Speaker 3: that Layton had missed, who knows where that would have been.
Speaker 3: He's got a sack and a force fumble And I
Speaker 3: was interesting yesterday when we spoke to him. Brad Sham
Speaker 3: asked him if there was a Blitz package available for
Speaker 3: Layton for them to ever run, and Layton immediately said no, Like,
Speaker 3: what do you think what happened to they let me blitz?
Speaker 3: I would go crazy? So I love that. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 3: see that one play on Monday. But regardless, guys, this
Speaker 3: is a guy on this field who makes such an impact.
Speaker 3: He has been so missed over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: With him being back on the field, how does that
Speaker 3: change this defense?
Speaker 6: Well, this linebacker corp right now, personally, I feel like
Speaker 6: they're really struggling in coverage, and that is somewhere where
Speaker 6: late in this year really has taken I feel like
Speaker 6: a step forward in coverage.
Speaker 5: He's been fantastic in coverage, but his recognition is through
Speaker 5: the roof.
Speaker 6: He's played the game long enough to understand exactly what
Speaker 6: he's looking at. And when you have like a D'monte
Speaker 6: Clark in there who's trying to get acclimated, Anthony Barr
Speaker 6: is a veteran, but he's not a veteran to this team.
Speaker 5: In this scheme, when you have a guy that can
Speaker 5: come in there and kind of give direction and let
Speaker 5: you know where to line up.
Speaker 6: I've even seen him with the D lineman tell Himan
Speaker 6: like hitting him on the butt, like move over, get
Speaker 6: into your gap, stuff like that.
Speaker 5: He's still a leader on this team.
Speaker 6: He's a veteran on this team, and I think his
Speaker 6: vision and his knowledge has really missed across the defensive line.
Speaker 5: So it'll be dope to get him back.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think when you think of guys in terms of
Speaker 4: allowing other people to make plays and them not being
Speaker 4: the slam dunk guy, it's Micah Parsons. But what you
Speaker 4: didn't realize is it's also Leyton vander USh because even
Speaker 4: just looking at his stats he had, you know, he
Speaker 4: had his fair number of assisted tackles, but you also
Speaker 4: just look at how impressive he's been to set up
Speaker 4: the other guys for success. You're Donovan Wilson's and any
Speaker 4: but any everybody else. I mean, even just how imperative
Speaker 4: he's been to de mone Clark's growth within this time
Speaker 4: is so impressive to watch. Something too, that stood out
Speaker 4: for me this season about Layton is his tackles for loss.
Speaker 4: He is playing with a purpose and an impact, and
Speaker 4: that is something that you love to see from a
Speaker 4: guy like this. Who yeah, I mean, people just have
Speaker 4: not given him enough credit these last few years, since jeez,
Speaker 4: since twenty eighteen, I'm gonna say, his rookie season. People
Speaker 4: were so quick to throw Leyton Vandrush under the bus
Speaker 4: for a long time. And I'm so glad that you know,
Speaker 4: now everybody has a better appreciation for what he does
Speaker 4: bring to this defense. He's your leader of the defense.
Speaker 4: You know, you have different ones within it, but he
Speaker 4: was he was missed in very many ways. You know,
Speaker 4: his productivity on the field, but also just that boost
Speaker 4: that he's giving guys. He can diagnose things so quickly
Speaker 4: and so easily. It's come so natural to him. And
Speaker 4: I give a lot of that credit to him being
Speaker 4: bought into the dan Quinn defensive scheme. I always go
Speaker 4: back to that, and that's what happens when your guy
Speaker 4: is bought into what you bring into the table. And
Speaker 4: I love that for him.
Speaker 3: I love too yesterday when we were talking, he is
Speaker 3: to your point of being that leader on the defense.
Speaker 3: He is never afraid to like tell these guys like hey,
Speaker 3: like yeah, Like he was talking about Micah and he
Speaker 3: was like he's like hey, man, like look we get it.
Speaker 3: Like you're the dude. No one's taking that away from you.
Speaker 7: You're the dude.
Speaker 3: You can make those plays. Sometimes you don't need to.
Speaker 5: You can't make any play. I'll never forget he said.
Speaker 3: That, and it was just it's so impactful just to
Speaker 3: hear that kind of stuff and knowing that you have
Speaker 3: those leaders, because like, let's be real, like sometimes it's
Speaker 3: hard to you know, to speak up to the guys
Speaker 3: who were, you know, making the big plays and getting
Speaker 3: all the headlines. It's hard to tell those guys to
Speaker 3: sit down. But I think that's what makes a leader
Speaker 3: really impressive. I think that's what makes him such an
Speaker 3: impressive leader. Now, of course they're facing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 3: a team that the Cowboys have yet to beat. Tom
Speaker 3: Brady seven to zero against the Goat and something Brad
Speaker 3: asked that I thought was a phenomenal question. But Brad asked, Layton,
Speaker 3: you know, obviously there's there's no denying how good Tom
Speaker 3: Brady is as a quarterback, right, but is there ever
Speaker 3: a moment when you're facing a Tom Brady, when you're
Speaker 3: facing an Aaron Rodgers or you know, someone to that effect,
Speaker 3: is there ever a moment where you can feel that
Speaker 3: they are rattled by you? And I love this answer
Speaker 3: from Laighton Jazzy. If we could play that up for
Speaker 3: me please.
Speaker 1: Then this year was really like my first truth like
Speaker 1: shot to actually like play against him a good amount.
Speaker 1: And there was certain plays And I watched the game
Speaker 1: this morning too. I went in the facility, got in
Speaker 1: the hot tub, and that was the first thing I
Speaker 1: put on my iPad was the Tampa Bay game from
Speaker 1: the first thing in this season and just watching and
Speaker 1: there's certain plays in there where I know, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you saw exactly what I was doing and you went
Speaker 1: away like or had to read a different side of
Speaker 1: the field. And so like knowing that and seeing that
Speaker 1: and knowing that you can have an effect on him
Speaker 1: and playing the game within a game, because I mean,
Speaker 1: we're the quarterbacks to the defense, and a lot of
Speaker 1: his reads are going to come based off of the
Speaker 1: second level, at the linebacker level and and what we're
Speaker 1: doing and how we're controlling the field. So the more
Speaker 1: you can keep him on his toes, even if it's
Speaker 1: just a few times in big crunch time moments, that
Speaker 1: adds up and as an effect.
Speaker 3: So you think about Micah Parsons in the way that
Speaker 3: offense is prepared to disrupt Micah Parsons in the game
Speaker 3: that he plays. But now you got Michah Parsons and
Speaker 3: a Layton vander ash And by the way, he told
Speaker 3: us that he only played fourteen snaps against Tom Brady
Speaker 3: last year, So he said not a lot, but obviously
Speaker 3: enough to make him question whether or not he was
Speaker 3: going to throw to my side or the plays that
Speaker 3: we were going to run coming through me. So when
Speaker 3: I was talking earlier about like his quiet confidence, like
Speaker 3: there were moments like that where he was just like, listen,
Speaker 3: like we're not worried about the Bucks, and not in
Speaker 3: a way of like they're not preparing for the Bucks
Speaker 3: in that way, not in a way that they're not
Speaker 3: taking the Bucks for granted, But it just felt you'all
Speaker 3: know how I feel about confidence. It just felt good
Speaker 3: knowing that you're getting this guy back. You're getting a
Speaker 3: guy back who is ready to and it's ready to
Speaker 3: make an impact. And now you got Tom Brady potentially
Speaker 3: shivering in his boots a little bit having to face
Speaker 3: the Laton vander Ast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you made such a good point.
Speaker 6: I'm glad that you pulled that clip about just the
Speaker 6: disguises and stuff like that, because Dan Quinn actually talked
Speaker 6: about this yesterday.
Speaker 5: Just how do you beat a guy like Brady?
Speaker 6: First of all, he corrected the reporter and said it, well,
Speaker 6: first of all, kind of looked at it like it's.
Speaker 5: Our defense against their offense. It's not just one person.
Speaker 5: But then also he was like they were asking him,
Speaker 5: how do you attack someone like Brady?
Speaker 6: He was how do you affect him? Move him off
Speaker 6: his spot A gap and B gap pressure.
Speaker 5: I hope Michaeh is a part of that.
Speaker 6: Just disguise is also in the secondary to throw off
Speaker 6: his timing and stuff.
Speaker 5: Is all the stuff that Dan Quinn's been talking about.
Speaker 5: So I'm glad that they're.
Speaker 6: Kind of on the same page because Tom Brady's seen
Speaker 6: it all. He's seen it all. So Dan talked about
Speaker 6: affecting him post snap because pre snap it's not realistic
Speaker 6: you're gonna get him.
Speaker 5: He yeah, sure, Okay, I know what you're doing. He's
Speaker 5: seen everything.
Speaker 6: So just the fact that they have that mindset that
Speaker 6: you're gonna have to chest match, you're gonna have to
Speaker 6: get in their head, is is good to know move before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the mental side of things, to be able
Speaker 4: to get back to that defensive scheme that's confusing for offenses.
Speaker 4: That's what I want to see. That's what you need
Speaker 4: for this game. And I'm looking at Leyton vander Esh's
Speaker 4: history against Tampa Bay and I like it. You see
Speaker 4: some growth back in twenty twenty one. He only had
Speaker 4: two tackles during that game, and then a combined total
Speaker 4: of nine tackles the last time they played Tampa Bay
Speaker 4: back in September. So you love to see growth, right,
Speaker 4: And when you see Layton vander Esh coming back and
Speaker 4: you know the impact he's had on that run defense,
Speaker 4: which necessarily isn't necessarily going to be the test that
Speaker 4: this Tom Brady Bucks team is going to put to you.
Speaker 4: But you also know that Layton has that speed. When
Speaker 4: he wants to have that speed, he's speedy, and so
Speaker 4: again he sets people up for success too. And I'm excited.
Speaker 5: Hankin's coming back is huge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could see a big guy, and you could see.
Speaker 6: Like Leyden in his time with the Cowboys, when he
Speaker 6: has when he has good dt play and he can
Speaker 6: play free, he is a different player. And I think
Speaker 6: that's what we really saw in the latter part of
Speaker 6: the season before he got injured, was Hankins coming in
Speaker 6: there and being able to eat up those double teams
Speaker 6: and stuff. It really allows your linebackers to not deal
Speaker 6: with offensive line and climbing on them and stuff.
Speaker 5: So it's a trickle down effect.
Speaker 6: So they're gonna them coming back together, I think is
Speaker 6: going to be beneficial for both of them at the
Speaker 6: same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk a little bit more about this defense,
Speaker 3: because I know that the last couple of weeks have
Speaker 3: been tough with just the performances and missing the opportunities,
Speaker 3: and it's so hard when you start out and it's
Speaker 3: so shiny and it's so new, and everything you know
Speaker 3: is good, and you're a leite and you're leading the
Speaker 3: league in sacks and the pass rush is unmatched and
Speaker 3: it's a privilege, and all of a sudden people figure
Speaker 3: it out right, and then you're hit with some injuries
Speaker 3: which are unfortunate, and now all of a sudden you're
Speaker 3: having to pivot. Something that I find interesting about this
Speaker 3: matchup is that they are facing an offense that does
Speaker 3: it produce as much as we've seen in the past.
Speaker 3: Say that this is a Tampa Bay team that averages
Speaker 3: eighteen point four points per game, good for twenty fifth
Speaker 3: in the league, facing a defense that allows twenty point one.
Speaker 3: On the flip side of that, the Cowboys offense scores
Speaker 3: about twenty seven point five points a game, third in
Speaker 3: the league, and the Buccaneers defense allows twenty one point one.
Speaker 3: So if we're really trying to simplify this here, I
Speaker 3: think you go back to the beginning of the season
Speaker 3: when we were relying on the defense to keep us alive.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great kind of idea to go
Speaker 3: back to, right allow this defense to flourish. You're getting
Speaker 3: a lot of your guys back, you're working through the
Speaker 3: kinks of it. There's obviously still some concerns, but allow
Speaker 3: the defense to do what the defense does best. And
Speaker 3: now you have an offense who has picked it up,
Speaker 3: not over the last couple of games, but throughout the
Speaker 3: end of the season. With Dak's return. Now you have
Speaker 3: the offense that can supplement that once elite defense. To me,
Speaker 3: that's the game. And don't get me wrong, like tom
Speaker 3: Brady's gonna tom Brady, it's gonna come down to the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter and he's gonna have a two minute drill
Speaker 3: and the opportunity to succeed, just like y'all does.
Speaker 4: Because it's not manifest saying.
Speaker 3: It's not manifesting, it's just the reality. I mean, like,
Speaker 3: who did they just beat uh to win the to
Speaker 3: win the title?
Speaker 5: Oh the Panthers?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happened? What happened in that game? Well, that's
Speaker 3: what they were losing the whole game. It came down
Speaker 3: to the fourth quarter. Tom Brady turns up in the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, that's whatever. He finally shows up. His body's
Speaker 3: ready to go right, and then the last two and
Speaker 3: a half minutes of the game. What does he do.
Speaker 3: He winds down the clock. Is the goat for a reason.
Speaker 3: And then you win and now of a sudden you're
Speaker 3: the fourth seed and he brought the house.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and with the with the first time in his
Speaker 4: in his career with a losing record, by the way, Like,
Speaker 4: here's the thing. I think when it comes to getting
Speaker 4: in their heads early, it's something you have to continue
Speaker 4: to pester and pester and pester. You start early, like
Speaker 4: Lighton's talking about. You get in there early. You get
Speaker 4: in tom Brady's face because attacking the edges isn't gonna
Speaker 4: be good enough. Tom Brady's gonna get that ball in
Speaker 4: and out. You need to get in his face. I'm
Speaker 4: talking collapse that pocket, make that the goal. Attack, be aggressive,
Speaker 4: be physical, because again I mean, their fifth in passing
Speaker 4: yards and their first in passing attempts in the NFL
Speaker 4: right now for a reason. Tom Brady, yes, not the
Speaker 4: same tom Brady we've seen in years pass but it
Speaker 4: doesn't make him any less of a thread. It's just
Speaker 4: for me. I think what's exciting about this matchup specifically
Speaker 4: is all the talk about the cornerback situation. With the
Speaker 4: Cowboys locker room. This is your time, nay Shan, right.
Speaker 3: That excites you.
Speaker 4: It excites me because hold on because what better way
Speaker 4: to well, what better way to restore confidence within that
Speaker 4: cornerback room? Then hey, I can make plays on Tom
Speaker 4: Brady because if your d line is doing what they
Speaker 4: need to do getting pressure in I don't know, and
Speaker 4: your cornerbacks are on par You have Treyvon Diggs, you
Speaker 4: have nay Sean, right, you have Deron Bland making sure
Speaker 4: that those plays.
Speaker 3: Are being made.
Speaker 4: I'm not that so it's it's possible.
Speaker 5: Well, that's contingent possible. Well, yeah, that's that's one of
Speaker 5: the things I'm looking for.
Speaker 6: In the matchup, is like, is Trayvon Diggs to travel?
Speaker 6: And if he does travel, we've seen him play well
Speaker 6: against Mike Evans. Now the other two guys to think
Speaker 6: about having guys travel though? Is that the other gentleman's
Speaker 6: communication got to be on point, on point, But when
Speaker 6: you mentioned you mentioned how the Bucks offense is not
Speaker 6: super they're not just scoring a whole bunch, they're not
Speaker 6: as really explosive offense. However, you did see against the
Speaker 6: Panthers that if you allow them to throw the ball
Speaker 6: down field. They will take advantage of those, and that's
Speaker 6: really because they're not getting much explosive play, so that's
Speaker 6: giving them turnovers, giving them opportunities they're they're gonna try
Speaker 6: to take advantage because offensively, it's been difficult for them
Speaker 6: to get really anything going consistently. So you just got
Speaker 6: the Cowboys defense in that cornerback two spot, which I
Speaker 6: think is going to be I would assume it's going
Speaker 6: to be Naseean Wright, just because I felt like dan
Speaker 6: Quinn said that he felt like he found something with them.
Speaker 6: But they're gonna have to be on their p's and
Speaker 6: q's because he's going to be looking to take advantage.
Speaker 5: Just what That's what Brady does. That's what he does.
Speaker 3: I agree. I think I want Nashan to be the
Speaker 3: guy in this situation. I want him to help. I
Speaker 3: think he's he's still not there personally for me to
Speaker 3: feel comfortable in it. I think he's just something about
Speaker 3: him just doesn't give me that like, oh, I feel
Speaker 3: good about it. Like when I see Treymon out there,
Speaker 3: I know he's gonna get burned once or twice because
Speaker 3: that's the reality of the position. But I feel confident
Speaker 3: in his ability to bounce back. Nay Sean kind of
Speaker 3: makes me a little nervous.
Speaker 5: He did that at last game though.
Speaker 6: I felt like he had that one big play, but
Speaker 6: he bounced back and was he tackled well, he had
Speaker 6: a couple of breakups, Like beggars can't be choosers at
Speaker 6: this point, we don't know, like we don't know like exactly,
Speaker 6: like he is the best option at this point, and
Speaker 6: especially for the communication factor sure being back there, because
Speaker 6: not only is he I know Xavier Rose was brought
Speaker 6: in Magan to see him later.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It might be
Speaker 5: able to bring him in later if there is need be.
Speaker 6: But when you talk about your secondary, especially going against
Speaker 6: to Tom Brady, especially going like the scheme of it
Speaker 6: all has to be important. Your disguises have to be
Speaker 6: on pointoint and with dan Quinn talking about some of
Speaker 6: the things they're gonna be throwing at him, I am
Speaker 6: assuming that Right would be the best guy for that
Speaker 6: because he's been here, he's he knows everything that they
Speaker 6: do back there.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how confident, like you said, but
Speaker 5: it's what we got.
Speaker 3: It's what we got. The guy. That's and that's how
Speaker 3: it is. I'm happy we signed Xavier Rose. I know
Speaker 3: this is a guy that's bounced around over the last
Speaker 3: couple of years, but at the very least you get
Speaker 3: a guy with some experience. I can't wait to see
Speaker 3: me practice, because that's also what I said about treyvon Mullen,
Speaker 3: and then we saw how that went. So I'm glad.
Speaker 3: That's the one thing that I am glad about with
Speaker 3: this Washington Commander's game that I did, you know, give
Speaker 3: credit for. They did try some stuff. I feel like
Speaker 3: there was a point where they just said, look, this
Speaker 3: just ain't it. This ain't it. It's not our day,
Speaker 3: so let's try some different things. Like there was one point,
Speaker 3: I believe in the third quarter where Dak was just
Speaker 3: yeating the ball down the field to Noah Brown, like
Speaker 3: just a heave and a prayer, hoping that someone could
Speaker 3: make a play. I don't think that's something normally that
Speaker 3: you're going to do, and back to back to back,
Speaker 3: you know downs. But yeah, I appreciate their creativity. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that we foundly got to see Dreybond Mullen so
Speaker 3: that we can know that we need to keep looking
Speaker 3: now you know, yeah, now we know. So it's cool.
Speaker 3: So I am thankful to Mike McCarthy. I'm thankful to
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn about that. And we'll see, like I said,
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Field Yates, is that how you say it?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 6: He announced that the Colts have claimed Senator Dakota Shepley
Speaker 6: off waivers from the Cowboys and Shepley can officially join
Speaker 6: his new team following the Super Bowl per league rules. Also,
Speaker 6: James Washington worked out with the Giants today, Sosko Jiggy.
Speaker 3: Good to see some former Cowboys. Dakota Shepley I think
Speaker 3: was elevated last week as well, so good for him.
Speaker 3: He's a guy who was always nice to be in
Speaker 3: the locker room. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Thanks Matt.
Speaker 3: We wish him well. Thanks for that news. Let's talk
Speaker 3: a little Mike McCarthy, because this is something we are
Speaker 3: obviously Mike McCarthy stands on this show. Yes, we enjoy
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy, but I just want to give you guys
Speaker 3: some reasons to also enjoy Mike McCarthy before we open
Speaker 3: up this discussion. So, he's got two years left in
Speaker 3: his contract. As we know, ladies, he's been here since
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. He has back to back twelve and five
Speaker 3: win seasons. That's first time since ninety four ninety five
Speaker 3: that's happened. First time to have back to back playoff
Speaker 3: appearances since six seven, first time since the same coach
Speaker 3: did that since ninety eight to ninety nine. That was
Speaker 3: Chan Gaily who did that. He's got one of the
Speaker 3: top offenses this season. And when you look at all
Speaker 3: of the things that have gone I'm going to use
Speaker 3: the word wrong for lack of better terms, but all
Speaker 3: of the adversity that this team has had this year.
Speaker 3: To have a twelve and five season where you played
Speaker 3: five games with your backup quarterback who had one game
Speaker 3: under his belt. You've got your starting quarterback who's thrown
Speaker 3: fifteen interceptions through twelve games and still somehow has one
Speaker 3: of the top scoring offenses in the league. The Cowboys
Speaker 3: are first in takeaways with thirty three. We're back to
Speaker 3: back seasons. Last year they have thirty four. They are
Speaker 3: first in red zone efficiency seventy one point four percent.
Speaker 3: When they get in the red zone, they're going to
Speaker 3: score a touchdown. And they are third in points per game,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, and they have a plus ten turnover differential,
Speaker 3: good for second in the league. Now, I say all
Speaker 3: that to say people are unhappy with Mike McCarthy, and
Speaker 3: I would love this is a day where I would
Speaker 3: love for us to be able to open the phone
Speaker 3: to callers because I want to understand the Mike McCarthy disuse.
Speaker 3: I want to understand, like, where where is he gone wrong?
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean? He's a nice enough guy.
Speaker 3: He is showing results, and I get it. Last year's
Speaker 3: playoff performance wasn't what anybody wanted. It was horrible. I
Speaker 3: literally have videos on my phone of me crying from
Speaker 3: that game. But I just want to understand, and I
Speaker 3: would love to hear you guys' opinion just on Mike
Speaker 3: and what he's done here, because to me, this is frustrating.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys feel that, but I
Speaker 3: was listening on the radio them talk about it this
Speaker 3: morning and it just it annoys me. So I want
Speaker 3: to open it up to you guys before we get there, though,
Speaker 3: I want to play Jerry Jones. This morning on the Fan,
Speaker 3: he was asked if Mike were to lose or the
Speaker 3: Cowboys rather were to lose on Monday, if that would
Speaker 3: mean that Mike McCarthy's job is in jeopardy. Here's what
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones had to say.
Speaker 7: No, I don't even want to know. That's it. I
Speaker 7: don't need to go into all the plus he's a minuses,
Speaker 7: but we're not saying any We're not basing. I've got
Speaker 7: a lot more to evaluate Mike McCarthy owned than this
Speaker 7: playoff game.
Speaker 3: Good for Jerry, And when I tell y'all the second
Speaker 3: he was asked if Mike's job was in jeopardy, and
Speaker 3: he hit that no, no, no too, that's a no, right,
Speaker 3: And I want to be clear, like we have known
Speaker 3: Jerry to say one thing and do another thing. So
Speaker 3: I keep that in the back of my mind. But
Speaker 3: this this felt much more like, are you guys kidding
Speaker 3: me that you're asking me this question right now? Given
Speaker 3: what he has done. Now, I do think that the
Speaker 3: playoff picture is a really big thing for Jerry. He's
Speaker 3: obvious and been vocal and saying how badly he not
Speaker 3: only wants to win a playoff, but to win another
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. But should Mike McCarthy be under fire? Is
Speaker 3: this something that we should be talking about in Week
Speaker 3: eighteen of twelve and five team going to the playoffs
Speaker 3: of the second straight season.
Speaker 4: No, no, Jerry, Echo Jerry, No, No. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Very interesting turn of events because when Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 4: first hired, I had my biggest Dallas Cowboys fan hat
Speaker 4: on and I was seeing things from a very emotional
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys fan perspective, and I didn't know much about
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy. The only thing I knew is that playoff
Speaker 4: game where Des caught it. That is what I knew
Speaker 4: of Mike McCarthy. That was my impression. And then, of course,
Speaker 4: you know, reading everything everyone was saying about him beforehand,
Speaker 4: Now what I didn't understand until this season, and having
Speaker 4: the privilege to be in the building and to talk
Speaker 4: to Mike McCarthy and talk to the players is how
Speaker 4: much of an importance it holds for your guys to
Speaker 4: be bought into what the coaching staff is doing. And
Speaker 4: it shows the way these guys talk about their coach
Speaker 4: and they're not going to go on and say anything
Speaker 4: bad about him. But again, all the conversations that we
Speaker 4: have in the locker room, people I know people don't
Speaker 4: know those conversations and they can say anything they want.
Speaker 4: Never once have I heard anybody say anything negative about
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy in that locker room, and in fact, they're
Speaker 4: so bought into this culture. It shows we talk about
Speaker 4: this that echoed vocabulary within this building because of Mike
Speaker 4: McCarthy and even just I will forever have so much
Speaker 4: respect for how he puts the mental health aspect in
Speaker 4: the forefront of everything for these players, the way he's
Speaker 4: dealt with injuries, the way he's tried to preserve players
Speaker 4: for the future. There's so many aspects of Mike McCarthy
Speaker 4: as a head coach that just deserve to be praised,
Speaker 4: but don't because you know, a lot of people don't
Speaker 4: get to see it from that light. I just think
Speaker 4: it's absolutely ridiculous. Even with the stats you mentioned, Haley,
Speaker 4: nobody should be questioning Mike McCarthy's job, even if there's
Speaker 4: a loss on Monday. It's so outrageous to me, and
Speaker 4: it makes me roll my eyes so far back into
Speaker 4: my head.
Speaker 5: I personally think that.
Speaker 6: So many fans and so many people, I don't know
Speaker 6: if there's anything he can do other than win the
Speaker 6: ship that will that will make anybody happy.
Speaker 4: Like I'm not trying to ship shit. I heard I
Speaker 4: heard something else was like humh.
Speaker 5: J blame me the other time. I'm like you, Kurt,
Speaker 5: then I'll be cursing on camera.
Speaker 6: But anyway, uh nah Man, I think when you look
Speaker 6: around at it, like like she said, like just getting
Speaker 6: an opportunity to kind of see how things operate and
Speaker 6: stuff is we have no idea how hard it is
Speaker 6: to run an NFL T, to put these things together,
Speaker 6: to put the practice schedules together, to do all of
Speaker 6: this stuff. And they've seen success here. Not only have
Speaker 6: they seen succes, has he seen success here? He's right
Speaker 6: and wrongs with this coaching staff. This coaching staff is
Speaker 6: one that almost he completely brought in. Then also the
Speaker 6: turnover in players, if I'm not mistaken, it was like
Speaker 6: sixty percent last year, like sixty percent.
Speaker 5: The year before. So there's a lot to be juggling.
Speaker 6: And this year in particular, I come into the off season,
Speaker 6: I was really looking at McCarthy like, this is your
Speaker 6: third year. You're having a true install period, right, Like
Speaker 6: he's finally no COVID, no, none of that, And I
Speaker 6: feel like he's taking the reins and really really gathered
Speaker 6: the type of men they even want to bring into
Speaker 6: the locker room and the kind.
Speaker 5: Of culture they want to build.
Speaker 6: So I just feel like with anyone discussing whether this
Speaker 6: job his job is in limbo or not, just think
Speaker 6: there's so much pressure on anybody coaching for the Cowboys
Speaker 6: because of the playoff contention and the fact that you
Speaker 6: know the playoff history with the Cowboys. I don't know
Speaker 6: if it's ever going to be enough until they win multiple,
Speaker 6: multiple games.
Speaker 5: So everyone's thinking.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of people are acting off of
Speaker 6: emotion when they're saying those things.
Speaker 4: And it's one of those things too that you're damned
Speaker 4: if you do You're damned if you don't because if
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy goes and wins, y'all a super Bowl this season,
Speaker 4: next season, say they lose one game, fire Mike McCarthy. Like,
Speaker 4: nobody's ever happy with what this Cowboys team and this
Speaker 4: coaching staff does. It feels like it's just it's act
Speaker 4: on emotions every single time there's a loss. And I
Speaker 4: get it, this last game horrendous. We were all upset
Speaker 4: about it, but y'all you're talking about a team that
Speaker 4: still had a chance to take the NFC as a
Speaker 4: whole with a number one seed going into their final
Speaker 4: game of the season.
Speaker 6: Like, stop it, please, I'm so tired of its never
Speaker 6: enough and it's just gonna be micro I guess, so
Speaker 6: just under a microscope, you're always going to be under
Speaker 6: a microscope.
Speaker 5: Is to be expected.
Speaker 6: I'm just disappointed that we're talking about jobs and all
Speaker 6: this stuff when there's a playoff.
Speaker 5: Game on Sunday on Monday.
Speaker 6: Sure, literally, like there's just so much more, and I'm
Speaker 6: just like, I just think that that's not the right
Speaker 6: approach to be taken right now.
Speaker 5: And I'm not a fan.
Speaker 3: I agree, my uh my opinion got me off. I
Speaker 3: actually came with some heat there, dang I will say
Speaker 3: to that. Mike was asked on yesterday, yesterday, just like
Speaker 3: the playoff history, he was asked about facing Tom Brady
Speaker 3: and how the Cowboys have yet to beat Tom Brady,
Speaker 3: and you know, he said, like to add any pressure
Speaker 3: to the team. Does that add any pressure to you
Speaker 3: as a coach? And I love Mike McCarthy without hesitation, said,
Speaker 3: the history of this team is not our problem. The
Speaker 3: history of our team, the history of this team is
Speaker 3: not our responsibility, nor is it our motivating factor because
Speaker 3: the reality is like, this is what we can do
Speaker 3: with the team that we have. So he's obviously not bothered.
Speaker 3: Jerry sounds like he's not bothered. I will leave you
Speaker 3: with this. His record in January is five and four,
Speaker 3: nine and nine in the postseason, so he's had success
Speaker 3: winning in the postseason. And he is a perfect one
Speaker 3: to oher in February, so we know what that means
Speaker 3: if we can get to the super Bowl, he's a
Speaker 3: perfect one. And oh yeah, speaking it into existence, we
Speaker 3: are Mike McCarthy's stands on this podcast, ladies, insightful conversation
Speaker 3: is always with you guys. We are going to get
Speaker 3: into more of the Tampa Bay Dallas Cowboys matchup coming
Speaker 3: up on Monday later this week, but for now, that'll
Speaker 3: do it. Thanks so much for joining us today. We
Speaker 3: will see you guys tomorrow.
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