WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Any Kool-Aid Left? 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:16.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the players 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:22.200 label broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.880 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newe Scrugs 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.080 Football Friday here all the Players Lounge, brought to you 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.000 by Hotels dot Com. Hell me right here, But do it. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.519 I didn't do it. I didn't do it. You know 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.559 it is what it is, all right. I'm Newis Scrugs, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.320 longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by two four Dallas Cowboys players, 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:54.360 Barry Church and Danny McCray. Fellas, I have the all 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.240 statistic that we need for this Cowboys Sporting nine Ers 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.680 game at at and T Stadium on Sunday's the only 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.280 one we need. I got it. I got it. I thought. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:04.840 I thought you was about to say the only one 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:06.480 you need from from yesterday, because I think you to 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.959 all of them who paid Rome for the Thursday night game, 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.080 I thought, that's the stat that you them to show it. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.160 You want to start there, Ok, we start there. I 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.800 would love it to start there. I would let's start there. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.160 Let's start there. So the Thursday Night football game Church 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.440 went Chargers twenty seven twenty one because of his fantasy team. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.480 So the only reason why it was all about about 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.240 his fast team, which which justin Herbert performed well. So 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.120 good for you. Good for you with self interest is good. Uh. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.319 D Mac was very close. D Mac picked it thirty 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.240 one twenty eight Chargers. He was correct, and I was 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.759 the only one who had some faith in Rod Marinelli 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:53.840 a thirty to ninety four and unfortunately, unfortunately for me, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.160 after after we finished with the podcast, I turned on 0:01:58.280 --> 0:01:59.960 NFL Network and then I looked at all the dudes 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.760 who weren't playing for the Raiders, like, oh, okay, I missed. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.760 I messed up on this one, and yeah, that defense 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.239 was Look I give Rod credit. I mean, they didn't 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.360 give up forty five. They ain't forty five weeks before, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.480 so at least he got it down a little bit. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.200 But the Raiders were outmatched. And the good thing, okay, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.440 here's the positive thing. Besides you guys winning Thursday night football, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.399 the most positive aspect was that the Chargers one, which 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.560 means the Cowboys now had the fourth overall pick in 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.240 the draft right now, So yay Chargers. Good for the 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.160 good for the balls. All right, let me tell you something. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:39.160 They might be in the playoffs. Oh boy, we'll talk 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:44.839 about that. Listen, okay, listen, let me tell you something. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:49.600 Last night was a clear, shining example of how they 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.640 take no prisoners in the NFL. If you got to 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.400 watch the game last night and you watched number twenty 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.520 seven for the Oakland Raiders, I mean, for the Las 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.720 Vegas Raiders, they found him. They found him early, They 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.760 found him in the middle of the game, and they 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.400 found him late. If he was playing, man, if he 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.320 was playing a zone, if he was blitzing, they found 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.480 him and they took advantage of that matchup the entire game, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.240 to the points where I was like, man, I feel 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.080 bad for him, But that's the league. Man. If they 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:24.520 found a weakness out there, they are going to attack you. Yeah. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.400 It was a big weakness. And I was talking to 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.840 a couple of my offensive buddies and they call it 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.920 a big fish. Now, when you get a fish on 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:32.679 a defense, you don't let go of that hookie. You 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.480 don't let go of that fish. You keep rilling them in. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.720 And that's what they did to my boy twenty seven 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.600 out there. I felt bad. I mean every time Herbert 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.400 dropped back. He was looking at twenty seven direction. No 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.680 matter if he had good coverage or not, he was 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.240 launching it his way. And I just felt bad for 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.320 the guy because it's like he just you could tell 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.320 in his body language that he was like, man, no 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.760 matter what I do out here, they're either gonna throw 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.680 the flag on me or they're gonna get a completion. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.520 Even when he made a great play on it and 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.360 kind of almost got the interception in the back of 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.360 the end zone, they said he was out of bounds. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.920 I mean, nothing could go right for this man yesterday, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.960 and they just kept picking on him. I just don't 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.120 understand why they didn't send help his way. That's like 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.200 when in Tampa Bay went when Tyreek Hill was launching 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.600 those deep bass from one hundred and ninety six yards 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 in the first half, and they didn't give Carlton Davis 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.040 any help. This is the same situation. You see it. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.480 Guys out there struggling rod Man, go help him out, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.800 put a safe hill over top of him. Mercy but Church, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.400 but Church, but Church. When they when they put him 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.120 in his zone, like the drive that Herbert went down 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.640 there right before halftime, My man was running Cover two, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.440 leaving the safety out to drive. You know, when you 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.839 playing a cover two, it's a cornerback. You're supposed to 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.920 play deep to short. My man was playing short to 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.880 deep and Herbert was just hitting him on the seven route, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.320 that corner route, right right in between the safety in 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.320 the corner. And I'm looking at the dude like, I'll 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:48.960 be so mad at you, bro, how many times are 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.800 you gonna let this happened to me? And they and 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.600 he hit him a touchdown on the same play back 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.640 to back. I'm like, bro, well, I don't know what 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.360 he's doing out there, because for all reviews that don't 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.360 know when you're playing, when you're playing cover for two 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.400 as a safety, you got that whole deep path. Now, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.840 if that Wade receiver runs a seven route, which is 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.479 kind of a corner route, you gotta have that corner 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.200 underneath because you can't jump them too quick because he's 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.160 able to run a banana seven, which is a fake 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.440 post corner, and you snap it back to the post 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.960 and if you cross the safety's face, it's a dun dotta, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.240 it's a touchdown. So I can understand now why those 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:21.880 safeties kind of left him out the drag because he 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.760 was doing the same thing to them in that cover 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.880 two looks. So it is what it is. I was 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.840 at the Mavericks game, so I did not get to 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.680 watch Herbert go to work yesterday, but I definitely want 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.599 to say this, I was wrong about justin Herbert as 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.000 a quarterback. That this kid has a very bright future. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:48.560 And whatever GM, Tom Telesco and the Spanos ownership decides 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.440 to do with Anthony Lynn and I don't think they're 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.200 gonna bring him back as the head coach. They need 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.719 to make sure that they can secure the services of 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.480 Pep Hamilton, because what Pep Hamilton the quarterback coach, or 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.880 the charges he's done with this young man has been 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:06.359 nothing short of fantastic this year. Um, he's been a 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.400 metch a much better rookie than to a tung of yoloa. Um. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.520 And this kid just has a bright feature really like 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.560 with what he's done. Quick question, Now, I had a 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.760 cool question for you since you bring up to AH, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.480 do you feel as though there's any resentment down in 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.320 Miami thinking they should have picked Herbert over to U? Yeah, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:29.599 you know, hey understand without a question. Uh, look, this 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.240 is the natural thing amongst any fan base, Okay, I 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.560 mean you just think about in Miami, they're like, man, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.840 we should have took Justin Herbert Um Here it's man, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.039 she took t J. Watt, but you got Taco Charleston. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.960 Every every franchise, every fan base has got some player 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.200 that man. You know, in Chicago, it's like, man could 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.520 have had Patrick Mahomes, could have had Deshan Watson. So 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.880 every fan base is looking at a key player's team. Man, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.560 we got him and we could have had him. Hello, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.080 that's true. I mean look at Minnesota. Look look at Minnesota. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.440 Minnesota took jeff Jefferson. They're happy. And Philadelphia that man 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.040 because they didn't take Jefferson because they took Rager and Stins. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.080 But every fan base got there. I mean in Oakland, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.160 in Oakland, they're like, man, John Grew and you took 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.520 Henry Rudds. We could have had Jefferson, could have had 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.920 you could have had CD Lamp. I mean that's just 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.640 how it goes. Yeah, this is this is another clear 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.720 example of how the NFL works. Church brings up the 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.360 word resentment. The person who really should be resentful is 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.360 my guy, Tyrod Taylor. Because if it wasn't for the 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:34.120 medical staff charges, we would have never known about just 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.200 the Herbert this year. And it just so happened that 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.960 next man up thing, that the next man up in 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.960 the NFL. That's what got Justin Herbert, and now he's 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.520 a starting on Churches fantasy football team got him leaning 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.400 right now in the semifinals. So I mean, I feel 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.640 bad for Tyrod Taylor. I'll be resentful. I'll be looking 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.280 for a way to try to do somebody up there, man, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.480 because that that might have been his last shot to 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.240 be a starter in the NFL. You are correct, You 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.160 are correct. If anything Tyrod agents said, hey man, look 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.720 all these and sent is that my man could have gotten. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.040 You need to just go ahead and pay it right 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.000 a check for them all, you know. And I would 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.440 hope the Chargers do the right thing there with Tyrod Taylor, 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.480 considering that they're their medical saff punctured the guys lung 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.920 and he couldn't play and he lost his job. But 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.280 most of all, going back to the point, you guys 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.960 were right, the Chargers won the game. I was wrong. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.000 I'm happy because the Chargers now means the Cowboys have 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.000 the fourth overall pick in the draft the Cowboy. That's 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.760 about that's really going to be as good as the 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.520 Cowboys can do. They're not gonna get top three pick. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.840 Jets are over Barry's Jacksonville Jaguars have one win, the 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.640 Builders have two wins. The Cowboys beat the Bengals, So 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.240 so four is gonna be the best the Cowboys can 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.600 do at this point. Cowboys facing the forty nine Ers 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.160 on Sunday, twelve o'clock at and T Stadium. Gentlemen, I 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.760 bringing out this number right here to me, this is 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.240 the whole ball game, and I'm looking at San Francisco 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:07.199 twelve turnovers in their last five games. Okay, twelve turnovers. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.840 Nick Mullins, the quarterback of the Niners, is a turnover machine, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.840 all right. Against Washington, he had a pick. It was 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.000 a was a pick six. They had three turnovers against 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.160 Washington last week before that, two turnovers as an offense 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.920 against Buffalo, Mullins had two picks in that game against 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.360 the Rams. Three forty nine are turnovers. Mullins had an 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:32.240 interception against the Saints. Four forty nine are turnovers. Two 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.640 picks by Mullins, and then before that two turnovers against 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.959 Green Bay and an interception by Mullins. This is their 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.360 last five games. They give the ball away. Mike Nolan, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.640 your defense has to come up with turnovers, Okay, they 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.400 have to. You have got Nick Mullins is trying to 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.839 give them away. Now you gotta go get you some. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.160 I mean this is the getting. I mean, this is 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:58.320 the get right game. Man. Yes, the statman Church, we 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.600 got the stat man here. NUIs that see? Those type 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.560 of things right there are so misleading? All right, because 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.640 let me tell you the common thing that all those 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.080 teams that you just named could do stop the run. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.320 That's why Nick Mullers is out there throwing interceptions, because 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.320 they were able to stop the run and play some 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.000 real tight defense, get these guys behind and force them 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.280 to have to throw the ball. What can't we do 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.160 stop the run? So I don't I don't expect to 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.560 see Nick Mullers out there throwing that many balls and 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.160 having given us that many opportunities to in the symptoms. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.520 So you know that's those stats. They can they can 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.280 do you that way because you just named some pretty 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.400 top flight defenses that in those in those five games, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:41.880 every everybody probably besides Green Bay. Um, Yeah, and everybody's 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.680 making the playoffs pretty much that Washington only if. But 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.800 but everybody Buffalo's in the Rams will be in sort 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.240 saying tern and Green Bay those are their last five 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.839 games to get bet against playoff teams. But still, if 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.520 I'm Mike Nolan, that's what I'm preaching this week is, look, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.280 we got to find a way to get our hands 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.480 on some footballs. They did that against Cincinnati. I know 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:09.480 it's Cincinnati, but you know they did. You try to 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.800 make a fit, you know, you know, you never know 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.360 never No, I mean the forty nine ers have had 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.719 to practice and play in Arizona, UM, so they've been 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.920 out there because they can't play in Santa Clara. So 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:28.280 I mean this is I would say, there's the opportunity 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.199 for a victory. Is there capitalizing that it's a whole 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.240 different thing, But there's an opportunity for a victory here. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.480 There's definitely an opportunity, especially you know, if they got 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.199 Mulls out there, Who's who's a turnover machine? Like you said, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.240 But for me to focus with this defense, they've they've 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.360 got to do something they haven't done all season, and 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.840 that's pretty much play okay, run devise. They're gonna have 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.320 to find a way to stop the running. The reason 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.080 I think that's gonna be extremely hard. As you got 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.320 arguably one of the best creative coaches is in the 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.600 game and Kyle Shanahan who specializes in running the ball, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.920 and it's just creative ways and what we've seen that 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.000 hurts the Dallas Cowboys and confuses our linebackers and confuses 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.040 our defense. It's guys who can run run with creativity, 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.240 pulling guards, ghosts, motions, counter sweeps, all that good stuff 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.640 is what the forty nine ers do and it's something 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.520 that we don't do very well and which is stopping 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.800 that stuff. So for me, they're gonna have to figure 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.360 out a way. And I think the way is they're 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.160 just gonna have to stop playing try to play hero 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.320 ball out there. I mean, we've seen it so many 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.480 times within our front seven, especially our linebackers, they feel 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.720 like they have to make every play out there instead 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.160 of just doing their responsibilities and staying in their gaps. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:37.880 And I feel if they do that, if they if 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.880 they trust their teammates out there to get their job 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.319 done and have the responsibilities that they're supposed to take, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.000 I feel like we can play to run a little 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.280 bit better. Not to be confused with great run defense, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.480 but I think we can play it a little bit 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.240 better and we might be able to walk out of 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.000 here with the back to back dubs, something we haven't 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.360 done all seasons. So we'll see what happens. You mean, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:04.400 Mike McArthur ain't done of years, true quick, twenty seventeen. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.920 I mean, these these are We're not killing him. These 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.719 these are simple facts. Mike Nolan is not, if any 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.480 head coach of a football team that's won back to 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.520 back game since twenty seventeen. Those two games they beat 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.920 Cleveland and overtime. Cleveland went on to finish oh in sixteen, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.360 and then the next week they beat Tampa Bay in overtime. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.719 Tampa Bay went on to finish five to eleven. The 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.480 head coach Tampa Bay Dirt Cutter. He's no longer there. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.600 That head coach for Cleveland Browns was Hugh Jackson. He's 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.800 no longer there. So so that is that. But look, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.600 do we have no faith in the Mike Nolan revenge 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.520 game that Mike Nolan is facing the former team, the 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.560 last team he was a head coach. Other that Mike 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.719 Nolan may not want to bring the pain, make a 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:49.920 pay for firing him. Why do you get fired? It 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.760 wasn't justified because you're talking about getting revenge. I mean, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.200 it was justified. Ain't no revenge. 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All right, gentlemen, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:18.600 let's go over a couple of Cowboys player issues coming 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.960 up for Sunday one. Zeke Elliott, he's dealing with a 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.920 cap injury. Jerry Jones said on his radio show today 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.159 he expects Zeke to play. Mike McCarthy said to the 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.399 media he expects him to play as well. Said that 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.760 McCarthy said, Zeke's a little bit behind in terms of 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.959 playing because last week he was injured and played, so 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.520 he's saying hey, because he played, He's not where he 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.720 needs to be, but they expect him to play. Xavier Woods, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.639 safety has a growing injury. M Mike McCarthy said he 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.920 expects him to play. And then three cornerbacks that day. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.720 Mark McCarthy said he is optimistic about them being back. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.520 Trayvon Diggs the rookie with a foot, Donovan Wilson the 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.200 safety with a growing and Anthony Brown with a rib 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.359 injury the corner there. All right, McCray, I'll start with you, 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.639 which one of these guys concerns you for Sunday not 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.760 being say it would be Zeke. It will be Zeke 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.360 because well, I think so we really only have Zeke 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.840 and Tony Poler, and I still think Zeke is the 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.320 tone setter as far as being able to punish the 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.480 defenders and helping the old line tire those guys out 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.360 on defense. So I think that would be the biggest one. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.359 I hope that Mike McCarthy comes up with a different, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.760 different phrase, you know, besides using these guys are behind, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.879 because I remember he said that about Layo Collins and 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.119 then he missed the whole season, and he said that 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.199 about Tyrn Smith. He missed the whole season. So I 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.280 want him to say something different about Zeke. Just say that, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.080 you know, he's feeling a little worse than he felt 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.080 last week, but he's gonna be okay because he's making 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.200 me nervous with this. Tony Poler is ready, but I 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.920 don't think he's ready carried out the entire load for 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:54.040 our team on Sunday. Yeah, for me, what the player 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.520 that you know, I would I'm kind of worried about her. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.040 I want to see go out there and play good 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:00.600 and that you know kind of mess things up. Is 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.919 its Trayvon Digs. I mean I saw him, you know, 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.040 throughout this season. Yes, he had a lot of ups 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:06.560 and downs. He gave up a lot of balls, but 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.080 he also you know, made a lot of plays out 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.359 there and he still leads the team and pass deflections 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.399 and interceptions, and I just don't want him to go 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.520 out there and reaggravate something or mess something up, and 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.840 he's gonna have to cause it, you know, offseason surgery. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.479 Then he's late for the off season training and all 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.160 that stuff, and he gets a set back that way. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.040 I don't want him to go out there and reaggravate something. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.480 So if he does go out there, I just hope 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.720 that he's one hundred percent fully ready to go and 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.280 he protects himself out there. Now, these all these injuries 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.159 coming up on a report, it kind of brings me 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.120 back to something mccraie said a couple of weeks back, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.440 when the playoffs, you know, kind of get out of rap. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.159 We kind of see a lot of guys, kind of 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.040 a lot of veteran start to pop up on that 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.840 on that injury resort or that injured list, saying, Oh, 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.240 I got a calf here, or I got a strain here. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.400 I don't know if I'll be able to play this game. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.679 I don't know what's your thoughts about that. Mccraig, Yeah, listen, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:54.960 you know, I think we probably get into it later 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.400 in the show about our playoff chances, but I think 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.159 they're just set it up a little bit, right. So 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.600 once you get to the and you know, if you're 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.160 really not in the playoffs, then all of a sud 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:04.919 you say, remember that calf injury I had. You know, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.760 if you let me, you know what, let me, let 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.640 me start, let me stop, let me. I'm just using 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.200 Zeken example. I'm not saying that it's not really hurt, 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.600 but the injury that I had a few weeks ago, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.200 all of a sudden, oh yeah, yeah, now it's a 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:16.800 little bit more serious and I don't think I'm gonna 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.600 be able to finish finish the season out. I see 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.800 y'all next year, though, So you know sometimes that sometimes 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.720 it is that way, you know, and I hate the 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.520 questions and motives with some of these players, but listen, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:30.399 me and Church have been there. You know, we've been 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.199 in those sub voices to where you're really playing for 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.960 absolutely nothing. A lot of times, your your spot is 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.160 solidified on the team for next year, so nothing's gonna 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:38.840