Player's Lounge: A New Offense Under Dalton?

safety's Buried Church and Danny McCray. We are in our SWBC Mortgage Homes studios doing it virtually today and the church church doing that daddy thing. Man, it is baby, I'm telling you. I mean, little man was he was all over the place today and you know, caught me, caught me a little off guard, but you know I made it just in time, man, just in time. It's

all good man. This this is this, this is what it is twenty twenty man, A whole lot of folks doing these uh these virtual things with kids and toad dogs and told pets around. I mean, it is what it is, man. You know you hear my dog barking all the time here and I think my dog has some eyesight problems because like, what are you barking at? And it was like she thinks she's seeing something, she's not seeing something. So I don't know if she needs

some dogging glasses or what. So it is what it is, man. And mc craig got the new baby, so you know he's got there. We are. We're all dealing with a couple of things here, which you know, what makes us human? Okay, that's all it does. It makes us makes us human, all right. So it's Friday. I'm dragging a little bit. Was out hitting those tennis balls today, so uh dragging us over there? Man, Yeah, you are right, man, you

are right. Listen. I'm glad. I'm glad you're staying active all right, And I'm glad you're staying active when you get when you get a chance to rest. Tonight, I think the game for the Astro starts at five five pm Central Standard time, so if you want to check that out, make sure you turn your TV on and watch us tie this series up. Okaying out there, Yeah, Danny got a trash can ready to not? Don't you got the trash can? Whatever it takes if you ain't cheating.

You ain't trying. I see, I see y'allut here. If it's one, if it's one team I actively root against, it is the Houston Astros, those cheating bugs man, golligs. I can't stand them. Dudes. Man, I mean nobody will get to keep the Yeah, they still get to keep the trophies. Yeah, yes, I'll taint it up. Yes, they get to keep it. Hey, church, Church, Church. We're gonna add this to the list. We're adding this to the list. All right. We got Jason Garrett, we got this, Bryant,

we got now, we got the Houston Astros. You know, I got a list of stuff that new he just doesn't like. Yeah, so it's getting long long. Don't forget life, man, don't forget anymore. For some reason, I don't understand it. That's like a colt right there. I don't understand it. Tara Owens, don't forget him now, Tarole Owens, get your get me lost already? Lofting is up there? Yo. Oh yes, yes, me and mister get your We we don't have a

good relationship. Boy, we didn't don't have a good relationship. See, I gotta hear something about that. Ain't those stories. You can tell us. You know what, Man, Well, that dude is different. That's a different dude. Man, How do you feel about how you feel about ice Cube? When I was younger, I loved Cube man. Whenever he came back before you guys were born. Man, when que came out with something man that was that was it, I was like, I gotta get gotta get him on the cassette, Man,

gotta get that cassett. I remember when when he left n WA and and they ended up. You know, everybody was kind of down and on Cube by side with Qube, but I was on team Qube. Man like man a cube if Cube says it's not right and and things aren't gonna boom. So I used to be a cute guy and then you grow up and you get older and you start to think for yourself. So when people came out against ice Cube here in the past couple of days, I had to beat the man up. You

think what you want to think. But it's funny because somebody sent me some stuff. Who you know, one of my long time friends is big Trump supporter. He sends me stuff on ice Cube, And I said, look at my age a celebrity's not going to influence me on anything. I said for the people to believe in ice Cube fun, but I'm not gonna beat ice Cube up. He's entitled to his own opinion, and I want to get us to do you wait, listen. So so when it first

came out, you know, just just just the clearer. So when it first came out, you know, I saw everybody comment on and I was like, man, I know ice Cube, you know not. He not telling us to go one way or another. So I ran into it a little bit. I haven't, like, did deep research on it. He's not telling anybody to vote for one party or another. He's

essentially he's trying to negotiate with both parties. So whoever win has to he's trying to hold them accountable to say, hey, look, you made this deal with me in Black America, so now you gotta stick to it. So he just he just heads in his bets on both sides. That's what it sounds like to me. So I'm not I'm not all away against ice Cube on this one. Here's the thing. If entertainers don't don't don't make policy, Okay, I mean that's the thing That's why I just kind of laugh

about is that celebrities. Okay, the ice cube is not gonna be getting with senators out here making policy on anything. He consider up here and say hey, look this is what I like to see done, and they're like, oh, yes, yes, yes, thank you. Okay, But at the end of the day, these things are done by by people in Congress and and folks in DC and bureaucrats, and he's a celebrities, not a bureaucrat. So um, you know, that's why I just I just haven't heard it. That's the point. I

just let her roll off a back. That's this point. He's like, we keep, we keep both of these people, and they and you know, we haven't made them promise us anything, you know, concrete. So my objective is to make them promise of something. So when they do lie, you know, it's it's out there. You can see that they said they were going to do X, Y and Z and none of this stuff got done. So he's just trying to put them on the spot. My opinion for what he's trying to do, you know, you know,

everybody can feel their own way about it. But I'm not mad at at Queah. Good luck trying to keep politicians to their own words. I mean we you know the sports talk. We didn't look sports all the time. Good luck keeping coaches and executives to their own words. I mean, I thought somebody once said when they got when they got hired, that it was going to be players over scheme. That's that's what I remember being told

at a press conference. And then I look at the defense and I see a scheme, and then for the players. So we hear folks say things all the time, and you say whole folks accountable. People are rarely held accountable. I thought that was getting paid. I mean, I said, somebody saying they really care about them, They're gonna make sure they take care of them. It's been a couple of years. You know, we're in a whole reelection at this point. Well you ain't, though, we shall we shall see,

we shall see, you know. Okay, So so McCray, I'm gonna send you something I had an agent send me about Todd Franz. Remember we talked before about how he had the three guys all on franchise tags, which included Dak Prescott, and none of those guys got signed I'm gonna send you something he said, it's pretty pretty interesting, which flows along the lines of what we had talked I had talked about earlier this week. So I'll send it to you offline so you could check it out.

And it kind of, you know what, some of the things I said, It kind of volidifies some of those things. So let's let's we'll die for that, but let's Todd Francis TYR France on the list. Todd Francis on your list too, All right, that's another I'm just I'm just getting the check list. Toyd Francis on your list of people. When you do that list is getting along man that listen. I want to know. I want to know who got knwy on their list because knew he got a lot

of cats on his list. I want to know who's over there, like you know what this dude knew He ain't No, I just want to know who got that t o to He don't like me, Pran don't like me, Prime Time don't like No. No, Prime doesn't like me. Prime doesn't like me. Oh that's another story, because Prime like everybody. Man, I don't know, I don't know, man problem. Okay,

So Prime got mad. Prime got Prime got mad when when they had pac Man Jones signed and he was dealing with pac Man, and so he was telling us we all had to call him Adam, but he was still referred to himself as pat Man. And I was like, Man, no, I'm called pac Man. If he is calling himself pac Man, I'm gonna called pac Man just because you're trying to tell me to tell him to call him Adam. No. So he didn't like that. And then another time Prime

had um a couple of guys who under arm. It was Crabtree, it was another player, I think it was Brandon Williams who might have been with the Cowboys, and another guy. So he So it was a press conference and and we're there, you know, basically you were here to talk to Michael Crabtree, Dallas Carter's own Texas check and it was two other dudes, and Dean was trying to tell us that we needed to interview the other guys. Now here's one thing about doing TV work that I've

gone through during the years. You try not to interview people that you will never use anything with them. You try not to and you also don't want people dictating me you how you should do your job, and so Prime is tell us down, we need you need to interview this guy here, this guy there. We're like no, no, and he's trying to make us do it. And it was just kind of one of those things we were back and forth, like to come on. But also during

the years, Prime does not like the local guys. So I'll give you a good example of Prime and his disdain for us, the local Dallas meeting. He makes it it too the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And this is the year that they had it the Super Bowl here in North Texas. And so Dion was coaching his youth team, which I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for him, and he gives he definitely get the time to the kids. So Prime gets the call he's made it into the Hall of Fame. He comes to

the hotel and Dad's had Dallas. He's still in his coach's gear, and so Prime ends up run through the hotel, goes up on the set, does the interview with Rich Eyes and everybody for NFL Network. Now, of course all of us here locally are waiting and wanting to talk to Deon Sander's back getting to Pro Football Hall of Fame. He ignored us, walked right out. It was like, no, I got no time for you guys. I'm like okay, all right, oh go, okay, there you go. That was

Prime and Prime just had no time for us. And it was another time. It was a Super bowls in Houston and Prime gave an interview with Mike Doocey, and so I came up to also interview him, and Dion looked at me like yeah, I'm talking to him, like you know, you go away, and like okay, So Prime is not a fan of mine. So those are those are the things that I can kind of tick off that I know Prime to like. Oh oh and and

probably one more, probably one war. We were doing what's called a satellite interview, So Dian was doing that that show with his wife then Polar the reality show. Oh yeah yeah. So I asked him, I SLF, why are you doing this? And I said, you do realize that how these shows usually end. They usually ended divorce Hogan's

nose best. We've seen the passion, you know, Christian and Bruce like these things don't end well, and he was like no, no, it's gonna be fine, and I'm like, this thing's going in well, this is not gonna end well, And I was right. I don't think probably appreciated that either. I'm saying saying, now, dude, it's not gonna end well,

hey knew it, knew it knew he listen. I know you probably can't see this, but if anybody's ever seen training day when they was they had zoomed in on Denzel Washington in the rearview mirror they had, they were just showing his teeth and his mouth moved. Someone is going on with Church's camera right now and he's camera, what do you do? But I don't know what's going on. You know what I'm saying that you see, Chris Beef can help me out. But for some reason, my camera

just keep zooming in on my lips. Bro, and I'm I'm but it's out of my it's out of my you know realm. I'm sitting here just talking, just listening and next thing I know, my camera just zooms in on my lips. Man, it must be then iPad, I got a good picture. You know, it is what it is. I'll work with it. Man, I don't know. Thanks for pointing that out. D mac. You know what I'm saying, like, let a start, let a start to the show. Let

a start to the show. At the time for our first break yet, I mean we got we got, we got three minute, we had three minutes, three minutes. I'll give you. I'll give you a couple more. Don here, give a couple more dns. So the first time I ever interviewed Dion, I was working in South Carolina. Dion was with the Braids, and Dion had recently had some issues with the media, and he was mad and he was telling me. He's like, I'm not doing anyterviews. Okay, okay,

So then we're just talking. He said, it's not all cameras. I said, no, not on camera at all. But he did not want to do an interview, and so I was like, okay, so you know, Dion, you know this, Dion is not happy with the media and that includes me and everybody else. So I left him on. So then the next time I ended up seeing Don I

was my second TV job. I was working at Austin and I was there in um Houston interviewing some of the Reds and I was talking to Barry Larkin because Barry had a little brother, Steven, who played the University of Texas. So I used to hang out with Steve all the time. And I knew Barry and and I know Barry from from my first TV job. And I was interviewing and it dealt with another one's player, so Brett Barry and I was cool. And so I ended up talking to um Umdon and I said, hey, can

I talk to you? And he said, nah, I'm doing batter practice, but I'll get you afterwards. So I thought, okay, fine. I just thought he blew me off, and I wasn't expecting him to come back and lo and behold, man, he comes back out the bad practice. He said, hey, man, you read it. Totally took care of me, totally took care of me. Um. So that was you know that, that was it. So you don't just like you, Yeah, it just sounds like you got got your ups and downs. Man. No, no,

but it's prime not fan of me. And that's and that's okay, I mean that's a part of this business. Man. You just know they're gonna be guys that just guys that just don't like you, and and but and that that is what it is. But Neem did you say something bad about him. I'm trying to get to the points and where he don't really he don't fool with you specifically, like I I know he don't. It seems like he don't like the local media. You know, he walked past and go to maybe the bigger the bigger

channels or something. But he helps specifically to you. Did you like say something bad to him in the news or you know, did you call him out or something, or like, what's what's going on? Did Adam did you put him on the all no Carton team? No? Pa, I know, I know he didn't like the pac Man thing because I thought the whole path. First off, I was one of those like the Cowboys don't need pac

Man Jones. I was like no, no, no, no, no, no no. And one reason why I got here because New Jerry was very much into, you know, listening to Dion and believe him. And I was just like, man, I ain't behind the story. And then when he was a whole, we need to call him Adam and he's a different guy. Now he's Adam Jones. I'm like, this is still pac Man. Ain't that changed? You know? The cow was so I know Dion didn't like that because I also wrote a colbum about it, so I know

he wasn't a fan of that. Okay, there we go, okay, but now we no but but but at the same time, you know, I was right. They probably made him mo mad. He was more mad at the end of the day. I was right. And then of course you know how you have, you know, you got your sources around town. And then the some of the nightlife things were going on with with pac Man Jones, like he ain't changed, ain't change, and sell, um, it is who it is, man,

here's who it is. And just because you lost a job, and you know you think, oh, I'm gonna go to Cowboys and your last hit listen last hit you so he can't he didn't work out. Then he end up going to go to Cincinnati. But it was just what it was. Buton Dion was really trying to, you know, sell us all on Pat Nane Jones and how things are gonna be different and Adam Jones are gonna be different. Gut like, no, no, it is who he is, grown

man gonna do what he do. So there you go, all right, let's take our first break, Church, Go ahead, take time. You know it's a reset. You go ahead, and it's already been a rough star. It's been a rough star from me. So I'm gonna go ahead and reboot, get this thing situated, and when we get back from the break, everything will be good. So so let's dive

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got going on Monday? Well yeah, so, uh so Monday, you know, we've got the late late Monday night football game, Cowboys Arizona. Your boy be Church with Kyle Yumas and Isaiah Stanback. We'll be doing the pregame show on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. I'm not sure if that one's on TV or not, but it's definitely on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. And then the post game it's all three of us plus the Great Nate Newton breaking down what we see from Monday. Hopefully it's a Cowboys victory, but make sure

you check us out. Man. We'll be there all right. The roof and the doors will be opened. The Cowboys are eight and eight when it's fully open here. So let's get some predictions in here for this game, all right, Church used to go ahead, go ahead, Church gonna put You're gonna put no Stra dollars on the stand already. Hunh, that's what that's how you feel. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and let y'all know what's going down with this game. So for me, all right, So for me off the rip.

You know there's no Chandler Jones, So that should help out the Cowboys a little bit because you know, if he was playing, I don't care who was at that left tackle outside of Tyron Smith, they was gonna get whooped. So he's not playing, so that should help us out a little bit. But overall, I see us getting back to that ground and pound game, which limits our defense on the field. So if we can control that time

in possession, I see us doing that. But even with all that said, I still gotta go with Kyler Murray and these Arizona Cardinals. Man. I think he's just too dangerous with his arms and his legs. I just don't think we have anything on defense to kind of slow that down. So for me, I'm gonna go ahead and go twenty eight twenty one Cardinals. Man, you fool me. I thought she was about to go with your emotions

and again Cowboys for this game. Not again again. Let me tell you something for something, something that's on the old line side, right, you know, even though we have all these injuries and everything seems bad, but I think it's like the third game, third or fourth game to where one of the top pass verses on the other team has been out of the game or got hurt during the game to give us a little break on

the offense. So we got some type of luck on our side, you know, so far, But I don't think we'll have luck on our side for this game as far as winning it, I think this will be one of those things where Keyler Moore doesn't try to change what he's doing. He already came out into in the press conference and said he doesn't see a need for things to change from bactor Andy Dalton. So I see us going down that same rabbit hole, and I think we'll put up a good twenty one points, but I

think we'll give up probably thirty five. And uh, the Hope will have a big day. Colin Murray will have a big day. Uh. And you know, I did pick Patrick Peevison as my top corner, so I think he's going to have a big day because right now nineteen is on that milk carton box anyway, so you know he won't be he won't be noticed. He will not be noticed if Patrick Peevison is on him. That's that's that's my prediction for the day. Now we get pretty

much blown out. So what's your score? What's your score? Thirty five twenty one, thirty five twenty one? Arizona isn't two and a half point favorite in this football game? Here? Um? Who? Okay? So I always do my prediction over at NBCDFW dot Com. So I I did it yesterday and I went with the Arizona Cardinals winning the game thirty six to thirty three.

And Bill Parcels used to say something that I thoroughly believe where he says all I can go by is what I see, and it's something that Bill Belichick uses it as well in Mike Zimmer and Seam Payne might even pick that one up to that line, All I can go by is what I see, And what I've seen in two Dallas victories is they've beaten two teams that had yet to get a win in the National Football in Atlanta and New York. And these were also games they had to come back and win in the

fourth quarter against two winless teams. So now here comes a team that is three and two, and I haven't seen them beat a winning team yet. Until I do, I can't pick them against a winning football team. Kyler Murray to me as a quarterback, is that kind of guy that can give this defense fits. I don't know if you guys remember or not, or fans remember that Atlanta game you saw Matt Ryan rushing for a couple

of touchdowns. I got touched on being first games and we saw Jared Goffe's legs a little bit in that opening game against the Rams. Now you're talking about a whole nother level of quarterback who, in terms of using his legs, the Cowboys have not seen this year. And I'm not one hundred percent sure of what the plane will be. I expect Laton vander esh to be in

the lineup and that will help a little bit. But at the same time, how many how many conversations have you guys pointed out that the Cowboys defensive backs and you guys are former defensive backs, are still looking, you know, in the backfield. It's still not not locked on and blowing assignments. So until they fix that, I have to

go with Arizona because there's still just question marks. And yeah, we could say they've played better against the Giants, And I also come back to this, it was the Giants. The Cardinals are a better team. How are you going to control d Hop? What about Christian Kirk who I think can have a big game, What about Larry Fitzgerald? Chase Edmonds coming out of the backfield, and we've seen him and his play tick up a little bit. To go along with Kennyan Drake. I just got to see

how they handle things, and Danny, I'm with you. We know what Keller Moore needs to do, but he's not saying what we think he should do, which is, hey, let's give twenty one the football control the clock. The Cowboys lose the time of possession every game. And if you lose the time of possession in this football game and you keep these guys out on the field thirty minutes and we're trying to chase Kyler Murray in company, I just think this could be a recipe for disaster.

Right now, let me ask y'all a question, man, what

do y'all think is the hold up with it? You know Kellen Moore saying he's, you know, he's sticking with the game plan and he's sticking with how they approach games as if Dak was in there, Like, why do you think he's not willing to go ahead and resort to the ground and pound or do you think he's just being this whole secretive thing and he's just saying, oh, no, we're gonna stick to the game plan, but all along switch it up, which could be the case, but to me, like,

what is the hold up? I mean, we've seen so far this year that just throwing the ball all over the yard has not really been that successful. So, like, I just don't get it. You have one of the best backs in the NFL right now, and granted he needs to he needs to pick up his game a little bit, but at least give the man some touches to try to get it up. So, you know, I'm asking y'all, just you know, what do you think is to hold up in this offensive philosophy right now? Yeah?

I don't. I don't think Oh, go ahead, go ahead, I'll start. I mean, you heard Mike mccartystell about he's the analytics guy now, and so you just look at the analytics. The analytics tell you that the Cowboys are the number one total offense in the NFL four hundred and eighty eight yards a game. They are number three in scoring thirty two point six points a game. They are the number one passing offense in the National Football League three eighty one point four in number nineteen in

rushing offense in one oh six. So these guys offensively think that what they're doing is good. They don't think anything is wrong. Mike McCarthy and in his press conference today, talked about how he likes what they're doing, that the game scripts have gotten off course, so maybe they feel like if they can cut that on their turnovers and they can play a game where they're not behind it that if they keep doing what they're doing, they'll be successful.

That's the best that I can can take away from it. To answer your question, Barry, what about you, Danny, It's called it's fool's goal, man, this is what happened, man. Like what they say in the stock market. The worst thing for a trader, you know, is for them to get lucky doing something that they shouldn't be doing, because they're going to continue to make that mistake and think they can get to get a good result every time.

Last year we had the same thing. We had one of those top top offenses, but somehow we ended up with a horrible record and not making the playoffs. This year, same thing we talk about that getting trash yards were down by twenty one points. The defense is backing off. They're letting you throw these these short routes and rack up these yards and hoping that you run out of time.

And we got lucky twice. And that's how we ended up with the number one offense because we had to play from behind and risk everything to try to come back, and all of a sudden, you think you got like everything's working. This is great now that the defensive play dictated was dictated by how much the other team was ahead.

When you have a team that's coming out and playing you, you know, like like the game is tied or down by seven the entire game, that type of stuff doesn't work, and that's what's going to get you another loss on your record. You have to run the ball, control the clock, and base everything off that to get to win, especially with our offensive line woes and our injuries that we have going on. And now everybody can say what they want to about Andy Dalton. He is still our backup quarterback.

He did get let go by Cincinnati, so he's not Dak Prescott. He cannot do the same thing that Dad can do. So you do have to change something. I mean, yeah, I think I think you got to change something because, like like we've said, I mean, the way this defense has performed, I mean, it has not performed up the part so far, and I think we're or all in agreements of that. But to help that defense out. You would think they would, you know, they would try to

win the time of possession against the other team. And I'm not so sure if we've won that at all this year at any point. So I understand they're putting

up all these yards. Under stand he's throwing it all over the yard, and all these guys are putting up all these unbelievable numbers, and we're number one in the you know, all these all these categories offensively, but it hasn't you know, transitioned into into w's for us, and you know, I just to me, it was just kind of confusing to how we're not, you know, we're not trying to help our defense out by owning the time

of possession. And we could easily do that, in my opinion, because we had one of those those hogs in the back that is able to take over a game. So I mean, I guess we'll just seeing you know, hopefully you know, kelling those best. But to me, it was just kind of confusing that, you know, we had that guy a active, but we're not using it as much.

So it's just kind of kells best. So you let me tell you something, absolutely absolutely not the only reason that we had to number one offense, you know, in all these yards is if we did, we haven't conceded games when we were down by scores that seem you know, too much to come back from, you know, like we had to we had to play that way in order to come back in the game. And that's that's just not a way for us to win games, you know, down the stretch. And that's why once again I have

what's going seven to nine and nine, ten and six. Oh, look we bring up Kellen Moore. But this goes even towards the head coach. So the head coach is said and been on record several times saying, hey, look we we want to score as quick as we can. You know, he's not trying to play some ball control offense. He wants to get the football and go put up points. That's what he wants to do. So that's why I go back to just you know, all I can go

by is what I see. Until something changes, then I'm going to assume this is what they're going to do. And I don't think that's a I don't believe this is a winning formula for a defense that has so many holes. And now you get into Arizona with another hole because Tristan Hill is now going to be out. So from a defensive tackle standpoint, you're down another guy here. So I'm just I don't know if it has to I don't know it has to change, I don't know.

But but right now, you know, as I'm predicting this football game, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go by what I've seen and until it changes, we'll see. And I know, don't forget go ahead, and don't forget about special teams. We talked about offensive defense, but you know good, we're good for giving up something, you know. So it's listen, it's on tape. It's on tape. You know for multiple weeks that our special team is struggling.

They're struggling with their assignments. They're struggling getting the right people on the field. They're struggling, you know, defending fake plays, they're struggling return returning kicks. So believe that the special teams coordinator up there in Arizona will have something up to sleep for our special teams as well. So that is also another game within the game that we would have to play and see if that's a positive for us or is it a negative? Or we keep it neutral?

If we keep it neutral, I'm all good with that. I'm good with it, just at least keeping it neutral. I have I have one question about how the special teams can improve Monday night against Arizona. Or I asked that question after the break right here on the Players Lounge. Brought to you by Hotels dot Com on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio since eighteen sixty five, Stetson Hats are American maid with pride right here in Texas, and Stetson is proud to be on the field with America's team.

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Stadium on Monday to take on the Arizona Cardinals. The limit number of tickets starting at eighty nine dollars, are available to get yours today at Dallas Cowboys dot com slash ticket. I will be at the game on Monday, and I think I'm gonna try that Cowboys cheese steak. Chris Bean, tell me where where do I get the Cowboys cheese steak? Because they don't serve it up in the media area. So I'm gonna I'm gonna have to go to go down there and uh and go check

it out. But I gotta go get that Cowboys cheese. I keep hearing about it, so I keep hearing about it. That would be a Georgian side. I check. I'll get back to you on that one, buddy, okay, and I'll you have it. You can have a Cowboys stomach gate YEA from from from the food from the food watching La Murray, Listen, you should expect Calabree to do his thing already, so you should not be surprised or sick

once you see it. You know what, Man, I'm facing calabred I'm facing Colabrede my fantasy against in Fantasy too on Monday, and I'm like, oh, man, you know what, Man, you know what? You know what? Man, change my pick, Man, change my pick from telling me what I'm going with it. Man, I'm going with it, man, you know I'm going with it, upset, change my pick right now, Man, I'm going Dallas Cowboys twenty four, Arizona twenty one. Man, I'm going for it.

I'm going with my heart again. Man. It might that's it. That's all they're gonna get. That's all. They're gonna be getting a lot of swipes. We're getting a lot of swipes. My boy, my boy, my boy. Laws won't come off the edge. We might get an Everson Griffin sighting. I mean, you never know, po Poe might show up. Poe might come off the milk carton and show up up. I'm going but you must got a hold. You just got a hold. That cool a You got ahold of that,

so so go ahead, back, go ahead near Yallo. Listen. Since he changed the hiss, let me change mine too. The Arizola Cardinals will still win thirty five, but the Cowboys will score another field goal. It'll be thirty five twenty four. I don't make it just closer, because because because because I want to make sure my score is right, right, because you know, all he scored twenty one. When he said thought, I was like, I picked them to score

only twenty one. The Cowboys going twenty one. I think they found a way to get behind and get some more trash ards. I forgot about that, even though Back is out of the game. All right, So sure we have this, We have this, correct, Okay, I got it. Change from you had Arizona winning twenty twenty one, you now have a Dallas Cowboys victory Church twenty four twenty one. Correct, twenty four twenty one boys, McCray, You went from thirty five twenty one Arizona winning to thirty five twenty four

Arizona winning. So you changed it that way, correct? Yeah? I just wanted my score. I still I still don't believe in us to win this game yet, Okay, all right, So I'm gonna stay with what I had here, thirty six thirty three Arizona over the Cowboys. The line is Arizona by two and a half. So that is so I got Arizona covering covering there. Um, I'm gonna call you the milkman, Church if they end up winning, because you're gonna need a whole lot of folks to get

off that milk carton that you had yesterday. This win, Hey man, we had a little pow wow and uh, you know what I'm saying. They're coming to play. They come into play and you heard it here first man. So let me remind you, Church, this was your milk carton list yesterday. You had you had the team captained by Don Terry Pool and then you had Tyrone Crawford, you had Jordan Lewis, you had ever Se Griffin. So

that's oh yeah, I'm a singer. Yeah, are you right? Okay, So, so these guys jumping off the milk car and we're gonna call their name on Monday Night football and the Cowboys got to win in the game, Okay, I got it. Do you know how how good those people have to play the whole Arizona to twenty one points. Listen, they're getting paid off this game. I've seen you know, s Domin's all right. Who was it last week or the week before that? They got they got blown out? Who

they played against like two weeks ago? Anybody knows what the cow was, That's what I know. Baltimore? Was it Cleveland? Baltimore? Cleveland? I think it might have been. I'll look at it up. I look, yeah, yeah, I'll look it up and find out. But I don't think Yeah. And Carolina game works right, Yes, Carolina three whole they won their last three games. They're not a bad team. You know what. They well coached. They're very well coached by Matt Rule, and they play

fundamental football. And one of the things they're doing too, they're running the football. Even without Christian McCaffrey. They got Mike Davis who's been putting up big fantasy numbers. I got Mike Davis on my team and Teddy Bridgewater's playing smart football. And so that game was in Charlotte, North Carolina and Arizona was not ready to play that one, and they did get thumped pretty well, so that that that's what happened there going back over here looking at

just some of the numbers for Arizona. Um they are rushing offense, their number six one forty one the Cowboys. You know this is not good. The Cowboys don't stop to run. The Arizona can run it, U, I'll tell you. And this is still something and why I can't pick the Cowboys yet. They're dead lasting NFL and turnover mars their minds seven. Now Arizona's spot so they're number twenty six. But we've got to see the Cowboys not give the football away. And we saw it last week. The Cowboys

offensively gave up a touchdown. So I gotta see people stopped fumbling. I gotta stopped seeing interceptions. I gotta stop seeing, you know, guys running around with the tackles with no help in defensive ends, running around and creating sacks. I mean, there's small little things, and we've got to see the Cowboys improve them. And I go back to what Bill Parks used to say. Bill Parcel said, all I can go by it's what I see. And so until I see these things change, I can't pick the Cowboys to

be a team with a winning record at home. I can't do it. Just yet. I can't do it, nor Diamonds overhead pick it then, would you say? Now listen, I can't. I can't wait for the group message on Monday. I cannot wait. I'm gonna be blowing you up during the during the pregame show, so so try not to look. You might want to put me on solid mode. I'm gonna call them boys out for the pre game too. I'm like, hey, y'all gotta step it up. And you know what, it's gonna come to fruition just because Nostra

Diamonds says. So now when we come back in here on what Tuesday and the score is, you know, twenty four twenty one, like I predicted, you know, I'm gonna need my gratification all that. I'm gonna need it all from every one of y'all. Everyone. Look, look, man, if you're if you're right, you know, we'll start the show right there. If you write I know, but you know, but you know what's gonna happen if you're not. Okay, we're gonna I'm preparing. I'm prepared for that because I

don't think it's gonna happen. I'm prepared for that. So what are you about to ask a special teams questions because I'm nervous. Yes, yeah, I'm asking a special team's questions. Would it help if they took Tony pollodoff kickoff return? Do you damn right ahead? Mac? That's all I got to say? Go ahead? Honestly, I don't think so. I think you just need to change the rule. Bro. If they kicking five yards deep, leave the ball in the

end Z all right, leave it in there. As far as him dropping that one, he made a bad decision on that. It's not a returner in the world who has not dropped a kick and had that happened to him. So I'm not I'm not really just holding that again. I think the decision making for bringing the ball out and costing your office yards and starting inside the twenty five, it's something that can be fixed by the coach by taking that green light away from him. If you do that,

this is eliminating. You don't even have this problem. So I don't think you need to take them from back there. I think the speciality's coordinator needs to make a rule and tell him not to do that. Instead of hyping up and saying, yeah, that's what we want to see I don't think it makes sense. Yeah, and I don't. I don't understand where. I don't understand where he got this confidence from it, like in this green light, because it ain't like in years past he was just taking

things to the house. So for me, like I mean, it's it's been weeks and weeks and weeks where he's been taking things out from five and six yards deep in the end zone and costing his offense and giving his offensive terrible field position. So for me, like you said, I just think he needs that green light taking away and go ahead and fair catch some balls. But I don't know where he got this confidence after you think he thinking called Darrel Patterson. That ain't him, that that's

not who we got back there. Yeah, it ain't no Devin Hester back there. Like, I just don't understand it. But you know, obviously, you know coach files on them boys have all the confidence in the world with him to give him the green light to be able to take something out from that beat. But like you said, it ain't like he's one of these top guys. So yeah,

I don't know where this confidence came from. But it got to stop McCarthy to Fossil to Pollard, Are you good with Cde Lamb fielding punch, Danny McCraw, You're good with Cedee Lamb taking the punks. Man. Look, the only reason, and I'm gonna say no, is because he's become our number one receiver and you I don't think you want you're one of your best playmakers on offense, essentially our our number one passing target to be out there risking

himself on punt return. If you see how New Orleans did, they will put Kamar back there in a in a really really uh you know, big situation to return kicks. Uh, you know, when they're down or they're really the big player. I think Cede Lamb doing it in that situation is fine. For him being the all time punt returner, I don't think it makes sense. Yeah. And for me, you know, I always thought he was for some reason, I thought

he was a bigger dude. But when I saw him in person, and then when I see him on the field and getting tossed around, when he's getting tackled, I just don't know if he's you know, durable enough to go back there and you know, return punts on an every every return basis because like all taste is one good lick. I mean, that guy's maybe what one hundred and seventy pounds soaking wet. So for me, I just

let him focus all on offense. I mean, like Danny mccraie said, he's he's our number one threat receiver wise, so I let him focus on that all right. Um McCray, I was doing a little research here, and it's interesting, as you kind of you. This is a good part about playing fantasy football. You start to learn, you know, other things about players maybe you don't pay a lot of attention to. So you were down on Amary Cooper, and so this week I've got Terry mccorn as on

our team. So I'm looking up Terry mcclorney and they go over they look at James Bradberry the Giants, and they're saying, hey, man, look, this guy has been fantastic against number one receivers. And so they started going down the list of guys that he covered this year, and then Mary Cooper obviously the last one they covered. Nobody's been able to go off on this guy. So, um, maybe Coop just ran up against one of the better corners, a guy who may end up making a Pro Bowl

this year. So James Bradberry, I'm just stop just saying, man, is what they say, James Bradberry, N I got to hear all, yeah, this is this is this is this is the same thing that's happening on Twitter. I Am not talking about Murray Cooper getting shut down. I'm talking about him being on the field for sixty five snaps, him not being a focal point of the offense, him

only running. Uh, you know, those short routes at the end of the game, like when when he was going against Jalen Ramsey, he got those targets and I was happy about it, but they were all short routes. It was it was, it was. It was no real impact plays that he was that he was trying to make. Even a play that he made last week was a big route and he made somebody miss the tackle and then you know he got the first down. But it was it was nothing like Ceedee Lamber's running, nothing like

Gallup is running. No impact plays that were seeing him, seeing him attempt or be thrown too. Okay, Okay, I'm just I'm just saying, I'm just do you think do you think that coach is do you think that's the coach is not putting him in those kind of like highlight highlighted positions, or do you think it's just Hey, you know, we call it for Gallup, we call it for Cde Lamb. How do you how do you feel

like that's breaking down? I don't know. I mean, like I said, he wasn't on the field for fourth down, and so I would blame that on the coaches. But now I'm blaming it on him because he's not on the field sixth only on the field for sixty five percent of the snaps. It's one of the most confusing things out there for a guy making a hundred million dollars, and I gotta keep going back to it. It It doesn't

make sense. But they know more than we know because we're not in there, So eventually it'll come out, you know what's going on. Let's see, Let's see who becomes the number one target for Andy Dalton. We saw him go to Michael Gallop in the short time he had in the in the in the Cowboys game against the Giants, and they seem to have a little connection here. So I'll be very interested to see who's this guy Monday Night. Is it Lamb, is it Gallup, is it Cooper? Is

it Wilson? So so this is this gonna be fun to watch here. And I have all the faith in the world that Andy Dalton connectecute. I'm not worried about Andy Dalton's the quarterback at all. I got confidence to him, my confidence level. Even My question is are they going to be able to give Ezekiel Elliot the pool they commit to give in twenty one to football and trying to win the time a possession to keep Kyler Murray

and the Arizona Cardinals off the football field. All right, you've got our predictions, so you be ready to roast us or praise us. We will be back on Tuesday. Okay, no players Lounge show on Monday. So Danny Mccraigberry Church, We're back on Tuesday. I'm new restricts. Thank you so much for checking us out all week long, and thanks for our extra extra special producer, the main man, Chris Being who makes it all happen. This has been a

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