Player's Lounge: At A Loss For Words

Berry Church to former Dallas Cowboys safeties. This is the players Lounge by two by Hotels dot Com. Uh, Danny and I predicted that the Ravens would win, and we predicted they'd win by this big margin. Barry Church, on the other hand, did not bear. Church is very hot. So you know what, Church, I'm just sip on eat these noodles while you go ahead and take the floor and tell us how you still think the Cowboys gonna win the NFC. Eat you're still drinking that kolt Go ahead, right, man,

go ahead and sip on your noodles. Man, Just don't make too much noise over there. Man. But look, but look, man, your boy. Man, they let me down, man, Big Mike and the crew. They let me down. Man, the crew, the team, everybody involved. I don't upper met. They all let me down. Man. The kool aid has gone dry. Man, it's bitter. It's over with. They didn't put enough sugar in there. I don't know what they did, but it's over with for me and the Cowboys. I just, I mean,

I'm not a loss for words right now. I'm at a loss for words right now. It's just it's it was embarrassing, man, another embarrassing effort. I just you know, it's just blunders. It's just head scratcher after head scratcher. And it's just like this team can't get out of its own way. And it's just it's it's it's I'm at a loss right now. Man, I'm at a loss. I gotta take this never like a man. I'm gonna go ahead and take my boy d Mac out to eat.

You know what I'm saying. We're gonna have a beverages, have a couple of steaks on me um. But I'm done with the Cowboys. Man. It's a rat like it's this over with. Man, it's done. They let me down for the last time. They let me down for the last time. Man, my heart, my heart was into it. I thought for sure we would have at least a better display, Just just give me a I wouldn't even still be on the kool aidy if I just saw a better display out there. And they just don't have it.

They just don't have it. From from the coaching standpoint down to the players, they just don't have it. It's just not their year. Um, they need to restart, man, they needn't really restart because this, this was this was a this was a terrible performance, apathetic performance. And I'm

off the train. Man, I'm out of there. I have to I have to ask you Church, because well, yet Cincinnati coming up, all right, and Joe Burrow's not playing, And I know how, I know how sometimes you can get that cool Leidy, it could be better one week and then next up they can put a little sugar

in and they don't sending you back on it. If the if the Cowboys come out and they baris to Cincinnati Bengals without Joe Burrow the starting quarterback and everything else they got going on, really you be back on this train. I just I just want to know right now. You know you're really emotional about it. You just watch it. You say you might need a few days, maybe a week, so you are. I'm done that. It's a wrap. I don't even know if we could beat Cincinnati. I mean,

it's that bad right now. We cannot stop the run. Those boys ran for two hundred and ninety four combined yards on us, and half of the time all linebackers look lost in space. It's it's just amazing to me. I know we're gonna talk about the defense in the second segment, but I just had to throw that out there. I mean, there was too many instances where Vanders Sean Lee they just look lost out there, like they just didn't know what was going on. And it was simple reads,

like if a guard's pulling. I just want one example, Just one example, man, just one example. I gotta throw out there before I let the defense hold on to the second segment. But that long run from Lamar Jackson, if you're in the middle and you're reading your keys, you see two big three hundred pound men pulling, pulling, and you see a ghost runner going the opposite way of the three hundred pound Why would you follow the

ghost runner? When have you ever seen fourth and inches that a person will run away from the three hundred pounders pulling? I just don't understand it. I'm at a loss for words. And go ahead, take it away, man, just take it away. Who's the league? Russian Forces? Lamar Jackson down a sleeping look like all the way to the right side of the street, all fourth and inches right your hall, like he went right up to the Why why would you not take care of the middle

when it's fourth and inches? Like, what team is gonna go all the way out to the outside if I mean the Cowboys might We've seen we throw we throw hitches on fourth and inches. But besides that, there's no other team in the National Football League that's gonna run a sweep on fourth and inches, like take care of the middle first, like, go ahead, and I'm going to man, it's no other team in the league who has a start player who's going to take the ball out of

their heads on fourth and distance. So only us, only only we would drive back for eight yard pass the CD lab on fourth and instance. Only US. You know, every other team is not gonna do that. So maybe they were preparing for what they didn't practicing against, and they were like, maybe they're gonna run something special and go out of the box with this Vanderas like, I'm gonna taste this fourth and instance down all the way to the opposite sideline and that's just gonna make the

big play. And you gotta asked by the march taxes who we said you need to stop and focus on and it don't looks like they was focus want to do it all that player and my man and my man vander Us after the after the post conference, gonna be like, yeah, man, that was all on me. We know it was all on you. We watched them take you ain't gonna take accountability for that. We know it

was all on you. You don't. You don't get no brownie points for sitting there talking about man like I take that one on the chess man, that was all on me. Yes, it was all on you. We saw that. We every toy ating and broken down like look, manderesfort the heck are you doing? So there's no I mean, you don't get no brownie points from taking an accountability. Just played better, man, Like I said, I'm done with these boys. I'm done, so so I think we should

wait to the second segment. Man, Now we go ahead and take us away. Man, this is crazy. Yeah, I got five words for your church. Okay. We try to tell you, really, that's simple. Okay. You've been doing this show with us now for weeks. Okay, McCray and I tried to tell you. We talked about this. Okay. We talked about this game when you picked Dallas, and I said, if you're Baltimore, you simply pull out the what what Cleveland did and do that. That's what you do. Um. Okay,

So you wanted to go on and church out. You know, I really want to make this about you today. Um. So you wanted to talk about the offense first here in this second m what do you want to talk about because you know it was it wasn't enough. Look, man, well offensively offensively, it just wasn't enough, like you said, Man, But I will say this, Kellen Bore did at least try to get his stars involved. One of the stars.

I mean, he didn't get Mark Cooper as involved as I'd like to see, but at least they were handing the ball off to Zeke and Zeke. He ran the ball, I would say he ran it effectively. Man, he did what he could out there. But I mean, overall, I'm just had a loss for words right now because I didn't think it was gonna be that bad. Honestly, I really didn't think it was gonna be that bad. But the way they went out there and performed, man, it's

just a head scratcher. It's just a head scratcher. And then look, I will say this though, I will say this, though that patchwork offensive line they held their own for the most part. They did held their own for the most part, and I will give kudos to them for that. But everybody else, man, it's like a dumpster fire right now. Yes, give credit to the offensive line. But but I come

back and I'll ask you this, Barry. So, it's week twelve and you're giving Kellen Moore props in week twelve for doing something we talked about all this show back in September. Finally, I mean, I gotta get I gotta get it. Finally did start and finally did something. I mean, we went from throwing the ball on fourth and inches, We went from throwing the ball and hit the fourth and inches to at least getting to Zeke a little bit involved in a game player. So I gotta give

him kudos a little bit. I know, not Listen, he ain't getting that for me. He ain't getting that for me. He ain't getting that for me. Listen, because if you watch this game, you know, as much as we want to say, how he gave Zeke the ball as Zebra and Will and the Mark Cooper ended up with nine

targets and all that, that's just the stat sheet. It wasn't even it wasn't even focused on how how how I would have expected it to be when I said these two guys should get at least sixty percent of the snaps, or they should be focused on when they called these plays or sixty percilar snaps for us to be competitive in this game. Zeke got enough carriage. He ran the ball like we all knew that he could

once he got rolling, and it was fine. I'm still a little skeptical, even though Tony Pollard does give us a little spark of the way that they switch in and out. I think he's taken a little bit too many snaps from Zeke. I think Zeke is one of those guys who he needs to continue to get get the ball to punish those guys on the defensive side, and harder for him to weigh him down and get

those long runs at the end of the game. But you know, Tony Poler has been playing well enough for him to get some sean, So I'm not gonna go too hard on now. If you look at the at the play calls and the play designs on that goal line stand that we end up almost not getting with Zeke running the ball three times, why would you want this line up for operation and run Zeke downd Miller. That's what I love to see. But you line up in the close formation, which is the tight hand tackle

and then guard and no receiver outside of him. We run like a Zoe read and we do not block the defensive end and he runs fresh off the off the edge and makes the tackle. And everybody's like, oh, y'all, we ain't getting gonna put some offensive line. They all the blocker who's coming up at the steam. I don't get it. I don't get it. If you like, don't

be cute about it. And then if you that close line up and tight too tight in formation like everybody else and run the ball down the middle of the offensive line, and they're playing weather enough for you to believe that you can get that done. But whatever, we still got it. And I followed that, I am going to stay on this train with I don't understand how you're one hundred million dollar guy is not the vocal point of your rod receiver corps. It just does not

make sense to me. You throw the screens to Gallup, you throw the deep boss to Gallup, you throw the hinches and all that stuff to see Lamb and then it seemed like a bark Cooper get the scratch when like when you need to play every must in a while, that you start to look through Mark cooperway. And I just don't think that's the right way to win. If you watch the last few games, every time this dude gets the ball or they target him, he's usually a big played and we and we find two or three

times throughout the game to do that. It just makes us to me, I'm with you one hundred percent. And and this's just me. I find this surprising coming from a guy like Mike McCarthy, who is in Green Bay where we saw far and Rodgers the throw to their number one targets again and again and again. So it's DeVante Adams now, so you know that that's who Rogers is doing to him. You look up here in these games. You've got Bontae Adams in you fantasy football league. You

love it. This guy's pulling ten plus catches the game. Adams he had, Um, he had Jordian Nelson. You know, he's beating Jordy Nelson. And and then you had Donald Driver. I mean, you know, you just go you just go down to this list Green Bay's had, you know, going to far there was always one guy that they just kept feeding and feeding feeding from from Sterling Shark and

Brett Farve when Farr first started getting going. So I'm surprised that Mike McCarthy has come down here to the Cowboys and not decided, Hey, I'm gonna have a guy and we're just gonna feed this guys as as our top receiver here, um is very Why hasn't he taken over play call duties? Like why has he? Why? Like if you're gonna go down with it, at least go down swinging, take the play call back and man off off.

Just no, I just I just looked at DeVante Adams against the Eagles ten catches on hundred twenty one yards, two touchdowns, and they got Darius Slay over there in Philadelphia. But but here it is they're saying, we're still going at him and that which you know. I bring this to back up Danny's point. Paying one hundred million dollars for a guy you utilize. I mean, you turn on

a Cardinals game, what do you see? You see de hot getting the football, and that's something in week twelve, what Danny saying has so much credibility because you're just looking at it. You're trying to understand, how is this the case? And if this is the case, why did you spend the money? I mean, really, if this was what they were going to do, you were better off giving his money to Byron Jones and just you know, finding another receiver in free agency and drafting Cdee Lamb

and having Michael Gallup. I mean, you were going to go this route. That part is I think very confusing for us on this show, but also the fan base. I was talking to someone who's covered the team for years today. They said the same thing about how the Cowboys and he was his big grip. He says, why is Noah Brown catching balls? That's what he said. He's like, you know, he said, you gave a hundred million dollars

Mark Cooper. I'm watching Noah Brown catch balls like these balls need to be going to to Amara Cooper cell. So from that offensive standpoint, it maybe burry after this season, depending on what happens with Kellen Moore. Maybe McCarthy is there. Now I'll say this, and you guys know football very well. You've been on the sideline something I've never been. McCarthy has that big old play sheet and you see him looking at it all the time. Why do you have

this sheet? Why are you looking at it all the time if you're not calling plays or you're not involved in the process here. Somehow I think he is. That's just me. You can you tell me. I think he is as well. I mean, I didn't know about that play call sheet down there, but when you bring that up, I think he's doing something. But I don't know. Does he not want to take blame for to put the offensive struggle? So he points to Kellen Moore having to having a play call duties. I don't know, man, But

whoever's calling those plays? I mean they need to restart as well. They need they need to restart and twenty one because it ain't working right now. No matter what you're doing, it ain't working. Can I defend Kelly me on this? Okay, to just listen, just listen, listen to me. Our frustration with Kellen mooys. We don't think he runs the ball enough. At the initial Cowboys press conference when

they introduced Mike McCarthy, I specifically asked him. I asked him about the usage for an Ezekiel Ellie because when he was in Green Bay, they didn't run the ball. He now has a running back better than anybody he had a green back, and he said, oh, he'll be a focal point. This is what Mike McCarthy said. So if Mike McCarthy's a guy who never really gave this guy his top running backs the ball, are we shocked?

Is he doing what he's been doing? What his track record says, We're gonna throw the pall and the run game is an afterthought? Can all keller more? When when this is what the head coach has done and he hasn't. Clearly he has a push twin one, No, put it put it on killer more because I know, I'm not understand I know for a fact, but I'm almost absolutely sure that when Jason Garrett was here and everybody was pushing like it was, we were a run first team

and every and everything was predicated off that. And then he brought Killer Moore in here to do exactly what he's doing now, not running the ball enough and make the office a little bit more exciting, making an array type of thing. So I'm putting this on Killer more because this stuff was was in the process of getting

done before Mike McCarthy even got here. So Kevin Moore is just continuing on with what he was doing already make McCarthy, but that play sheet, I think in certain situations he points at, you know, one or two players to say, I think this was the work. But I really think that he's giving Kelly Moore, you know, the reins and letting him go in and see this ship, you know, offensively. I don't think that Mike McCarthy has

that much to do with it. And at the end of the year he might, you know, it might help him out because he just say, hey, it wouldn't me and you know what I'm saying, But y'all y'all get him play this year and I'll make sure this is better. I know I wouldn't. It's too late this week twelve now, I wouldn't snack freak playing sheet. No, no, all right, we've got to take We got to take a break. We will get into the defense. I have a question about that touchdown run um that Lamar Jackson had that

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Danny McCrae and Barry Church. Today, something happened, gentleman that never ever has happened as long as NBC has had Sunday Night Football, and they started flexing games, which means, hey, there's a game late matchup that we don't like, We're gonna take it out, put put in another team. The Cowboys have never been flexed ever ever. Ever, when NBC puts the Cowboys in they stayed there. Not this year.

December twentieth game, which was scheduled for the forty nine ers to come to Jerry Rule and be on NBC Sunday Night Football, has now been flexed. It is going to be a twelve o'clock kick. It's on CBS. And to make the insult even worse, they're going to put the Giants and Browns on Sunday Night Football in place of the Cowboys. Who let me tell you it's a better game. That's fine, But let me tell you something. Here's the problem. Okay, it's never happened. They're messing with

Jerry's money. Okay, they are met Mike McCarthy's crew. You are messing with Jerry Jones's money. Okay, Sunday Night game. Get people in the stadium of the huge viewing audience. He's never ever, ever been flexed out of a game. Man, tell me right now. I don't know if Mike McCarthy wants to say, Mike Nolan, I would love to hear what he has to say, because at the end of the year, there will be people sacrificed. Okay, Jerry. If

Jerry keeps McCarthy like he says he is. There's no way in the world he gets to come back with this entire coaching staff. People gonna have to die. Man, go ahead, go ahead, listen. Let me tell you something. If Nolan is here next year, they don't want to win. You give it up to see. You do not want to win football games if you continue with the same defensive coordinator and possibly the same special team's coach. Which

want to touch on later. I know Church Church wants to segments to stay on point, but so listen, if no one is here, I don't have no faith in the process for what we what we're trying to do moving forwards, especially defensively. Look, I'm gonna go ahead and hit the first one. I can't believe we got flexed out of Sunday Night. I mean, like you said, that was the first time ever. When we were more in twelve and twenty fifteen, I mean, we were still playing

Sunday night games. You know, we're still playing those primetime games. When I was what nine and three with Jacksonville, our latest game was four o'clock. We couldn't pay them to put us at the put us in the primetime So this, this is crazy. I mean, you're definitely messing with Jerry's money right here. But if I'm Mike McCarthy, man, I'm bringing Nolan in, I'm bringing Fossil in. I'm bringing Kellen Moore into the into a room. We gonna lock the door,

and I'm gonna say this to them boys. Hey, look, I'm leaving this room in about two minutes. Whoever wants their job, they gotta be the first one out the other two. I don't know what y'all gonna do. Somebody got a favor because I ain't going down. I ain't going down for y'all like this. And I already told him, Kelly Moore, you got to play call duties, so you're gonna have to fall on the sword for the offense. Nolan, we already know you. You halfway off the door already.

And Fossil Fossil back to back weeks with special teams blunders. I mean, I just don't get it. The lay game and then Greg book them black dirt lines out here, missing one of four. I mean, it's it's it's something that you can't reverse, man, It's something that you can't reverse. And somebody got to go. And if I'm big Mike, it ain't gonna be me hurt, that hurt. They heard him, They heard him so bad, so bad. It's so bitter. It's so bitter. McCarthy, McCarthy, need to get that hat

me Noo Brown had in New Jack City. Come on in there, look go look at Mike Nolan's boy tears in his eyes, and I am, you're gonna have to do it. You have to pull the trick. Bath. You gonna have to pull the trigger. Man that he's gonna have to pull the trigger. It's what it is. Now, go back to go back to this special teams thinking, this is what stayed in my mind. So Greg's urline misses three field goals, that's nine points, but also within

missing the field goals. Who oh, by the way, special teams coordinator John Fossil wanted the worst way and they cut guy four Bath who was ten for ten. Way they can to the Cowboys to bring in Greg's early in the game seven and a half million dollars. So this is what I charted here. So the first special team's miss, here's what happens. Okay, the first field goal miss. Baltimore scores a field goal to make a seventeen to ten.

That drive was five place fifty three yards. The second Miss Baltimore took the football, went down the field, scored a touchdown and make it twenty four to ten on a nine play fifty seven yard drive. Third Miss Baltimore takes the football, they go fifty four yards on eleven plays and they kick a field goal to make a twenty seven ten. So you just think about this, guys. You know how football works. You had to go fifty three fifty seven to fifty four yards in order to score.

You can't have your field goal kicker out here missing games giving the other team the ball at that easily. It's you're given. I mean, it's you're you know, instead of making them go seventy five eighty yards, these guys are having to go in sixty yards. You've made the game so much easier for them. And that's the Parcels

used to call it hitting yardage. And that's the thing is he would add up, you know how much hitting yardage, and when you started getting getting over one hundred yards of hitting yardage, he says, that's when you're losing because you're giving the other team the football. You're giving the other team an advantage in an easy way to score. So that's the thing. You miss nine points and you turn around and watch them go out here to score

field goal touched out of the field goal. I mean, I'm sorry thirteen point swings because your kicker that John Fossil wanted in the worst way is out here missing. Okay, when you take seven and a half million bucks, in my mind, you gotta make those kicks. You got to you gotta make those kicks. And I just don't understand, like what was the what was the happening behind the

delay a game? Like how did that? Even like you are supposed to be as a as a special at Danny you noticed, you know, Danny Bacon Millers used to do this all the time. When it was third down, it was field goal team ready, field goal team ready. So even before that third down play went down, you had your whole field goal unit ready, outside of the offensive line because they're probably on the field with the offense, but you had your whole field team go ready to

go out there and execute. How do you get a the lay of game? And then you got the nerve to be called the leg and you go out there and shank it and then you shank three in a row after that. I mean, it's man, I gotta thought, I gotta thought for your church on why the delay of game may have happened. And this is just me, all right. You have a special team's coach who is accustomed to running fakes and doing stuff out of the ordinary.

So as a special team's unit, you have to take your time to figure out what is being run before you go out there on the field. So I can imagine that the field goal unit was possibly sitting there wondering if they were going to run whatever fake they had in this week, or if they were going to run out there and actually kick a field goal, and that probably took a little bit of time off of it, a little bit of confusion, and that hit him with

the with the delay of GA. That is my assumption of what happened, because other than that, I don't understand it because it wasn't even like it. Okay, here's what Here's what zer Line said on the delay game. He says, I think everybody was really normal. I didn't even I never looked at the clock. I mean, we just ran out there to do our normal thing. And I really don't know what happened, But five yards back from that range should not matter at all. So that is what

Greg Zurline had to say about it. You never looked at the clock. How long has he been in the League's been in the league with a decade or something like, you never looked at the clock. I mean, this is well, I'll say this, okay, I'll say this for him. Maybe that's the holder's responsibility. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know who it is because you know, I'm not sure. I'm not sure it's fossil doing. You know he's there as well. Then let me let you understands

the clock is right behind the field goal post. The clock is literally right behind the field goal post. How many how many fans are understand how many fans understand? You can't nobody can't yield? Hey, bro, you're running out of time. Kicked them up like listen. It's so it's so many things that could have been done on that play that that weren't done. But this is this is what's going on with the special teams unit all season.

This is what's going on. Let me and let me tell you so, oh, go ahead, go ahead, No, he did I finish with my special teams rank before we get into offense. Let me let you hear what Mike McCarthy said about it after the game, Okay, when he was asked about the special teams and um, he says, it was obviously a breakdown in the communication. At the end of at the end of the day, the operation has to be in tune with the forty second clock, so we were clearly in air there and obviously we

missed the field goal. Those are the kinds of mistakes that you can't make in a game like this. We needed points there. We had an opportunity for point. We didn't. It did not come out at the end of the day. We're kicking field goal, is his u. We're kicking field goal attempts and they're scoring touchdowns. That was clearly the difference in scoring. Frankly, I thought we were going to snap the ball and kick the field goal. There was

obviously a breakdown in our operations. That's from Mike McCarthy. Whatever I mean, I couldn't be a coach man. I couldn't be a coach man because there ain't no we we need to do this, we need to do that to be like look, man, Hey, he fossil messed up or zero line. He shouldn't have been looking at the clock. I pointing fingers at everybody, especially my jobs on the line. Yeah, I ain't going down for y'all. Man, it seems like Scarthy is going down with the ship kelling. More play called.

He's going down, man, what's up? Hold on Church? What else is McCarthy doing on the sideline? It is weak. He ain't calling no play, no offense. He ain't calling no players defense. He is supposed to be walking up and down the sideline making sure every unit is on point. You gotta be doing something. You're just watching the game. He gotta be doing something. Man. That's what you got your coordinators for. Man, that's exactly why you got your coordinators.

He got one job, man, make sure your special teams unit is ready to roll. It wasn't ready. Man. If I'm mccartey, I ain't falling on the sword for none of these fools. Man, you're still taking up the mccarthet. Understand. You need no brand. Understand Like if I'm going down to take a whole lot of people with me, call it what you want. Many they got us, They got us man. We all out, man, because I ain't no

way I'm going down for this. The ain't no listen, listen, let's finish this special teams thing we got going on. All right. We tried the watermelon kick again. I think that's the only trick we got in the bag. We were. They saw it against Atlanta, all right. We already discussed the Atlanta played it. Atlanta played it completely wrong and that's the only reason that they that they that we recovered the ball. All right, Baltimore was not letting that happen.

And the risk versus the reward of polar because I know what they're gonna say. Listen, uh, Pola came back. He had a big return and that kind of sparked whatever this is week twelve. The risk for the first eleven weeks of the season versus the reward for that one return, it's not worth it. Lead the ball in

like like. But stuff like that, that one instance to where he broke it out, that's what's that's what's going to make him continue to bring out those balls until it kicks us in The ball kicks us you know what, it kicks us in the butt. How about that? It just doesn't make no sense. I don't understand that. This is how this is how I feel right now about watching us like this stuff doesn't make no sense. Man, Like you said, seven million dollars ago out here miss

all these kicks. And I almost gave him some leeway because justin Tucker went out there and missed it. And I was like, oh, yeah, you know what, it must be a rough day out there in Baltimore. Must be a lot of win because of Tucker missing. And he was like some seventy straight inside of forty something like that, if he's missing, then there must be something going on. But he continued after that to go ahead and knock

him through, and we just kept on missing him. So that's seven million dollars plus the hundred million dollars to the mark Cooper is making, plus the ninety million dollars. Then zekes make it. Goodness, gracious, we out there just this throwing bread away. You're talking about no return on your investments, No return on your investments. Man, you gotta cut bait, you gotta cut the loss man. All Right, we've got to take another break. Who was the biggest

disappointment in last night's contest? We'll get into that whole day. I have a question. I have a question for Danny and Barry concerning that Lamar Jackson touchdown. I've got a question for them that maybe they should be able to answer because they played and they were defensive guys. We'll do that after we take the spread on the players lunch brought to you by Hotels dot Com on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. Each game day, you know what

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see Layton vanderesh at one linebacker. I see twenty three, Darren Thompson, the safety at the other the tackle comes around. Darren Thompson didn't want no parts of that smoke. Don't blame him, not what he should be doing. And of course we saw Layton Vanderesh didn't make the play at all.

But but help me understand. Why is it Mike knowl rolling out three linebackers against a team that we know wants to run the ball against eighteen where the quarterback is not trying to throw the ball, he's minus his favorite weapon to tight end Mark Andrews, he's minus his number one receiver, really sneak. Why not put three backers out there? Help me please? I don't get it. Danny McCray, Oh no, no, no, we don't get us. We will

get us in the bear. We're gonna get us into the defensive because because I can't, I can't explain it. There's a lot of stuff I can't explain about this defense. So maybe maybe no shredmins can help us figure this out. Because he's having those backdoor meets with McCarthy, big man. This ain't about Big Mike. That's all on Nolan right here. But like you said, NEWI okay, Like you said, nui like I can. This just doesn't make sense. It's fourth

and inches. I can. Even they came out. I think they came out in eleven personnel, and you would usually run like a dime package with that personnel. But it's fourth and inches. Even with that being said, the one linebacker who supported us to be great on the run is the one guy who played it wrong. Like Darian Thompson was out there. He played it right. He was supposed to hamme bring it back. Your boy. Vander is the linebacker, the wolf hunter, the big wolf hunter out there.

He's gone with a ghost fandom sweep. There's no reason to do that. You got people that I can handle the edge out there. You should be strictly focused on in between the tackles. What's your responsibility and its fourth and inches, and you got two three hundred pound guards pulling that way. Just follow, just follow the guards and you and it'll take you right to the ball. He didn't do that. He looked lost. Lamar Jackson's right up the scene for a touchdown. I mean, it's as simple

as that. Man. You gotta read your keys. His eyes were too big. He was focused on too many things out there and it just led him wrong. His eyes. He had bad eyes and he was in the wrong spot. And like you said, he took accountability for it, but we all saw that was just a terrible play by one of the better linebackers that we had. And it's just it's just a microcosm of what has happened so far this season. Just everybody just letting everybody down. That's

all it is. You know, you know the saying Church, you see a lot, you see a little, see a little, a little, see a lot, You see it a lot. Let me tell you something. I don't get it. I really don't have much to say about it, except let me tell you the Baltimore Ravens have turned into a running back by a committee, which means that they don't have a superstar running back that they feel comfortable enough to put the ball in their hands in those situations.

The MVP of the league was Lamar Jackson. Who else would you be looking at in that situation? I don't get it. You should if you're going to miss an assignment, you should get tricked out by going to play Lamar Jackson and letting him fake you out with an option and giving it to a running back Lamar Jackson coming up the middle on that quarterback power which they have

been running. Listen, NUIs, remember when I told you last week and you said they was watching the game together that RG three ranked quarterback power for like forty something yards. It's almost the same exact play we got beat on for a touchdown. Makes absolutely no sense. But I don't feel bad about it because, you know what, I'm not buryed Church and I didn't expect anything different from them this week. So so I'm like, you know, that's normal,

all right. So let's hear from Layton Vanderesh after the game about that play quarterback power that UH with for thirty seven yards and a touchdown for Lamar Jackson last night in Baltimore. That was one hundred scent me. That one's on me. I read the play right off the bat um and I should have just fit my assignment. Um. That one was all all on me. Um. I read it perfectly until I second guessed myself and thought he handed it to the running back. But that wasn't my job,

So I need to do my job, all right. That's Layton Vanderesh. So Mike mcc dorothy was asked about his defense which gave up two hundred and ninety four yards of rushing. After the game, he was asked about the scheme and he said, quote, you know, we're pretty far down the road to blame this on scheme. Our execution clearly wasn't where it needed to be. That's a reflection of the big plays that come out. We knew that was a part of the dynamic coming into this game,

and we didn't get it done. Gentlemen, your thoughts on what Mike McCarthy just said for Craig Man, Hold on, man, let me talk about this vanderass team real quickly. That really bothered me. Man, Man, how how how did you read it perfect? If you read it perfect, you would have made the play like I don't. I don't understand it, man, Like you read it perfect and you thought he handed it all. If you thought he handed, why are you looking at the ball on the first place? That's all

all people, that's quarterbacks or magicians with the ball. You should not be focused on the ball at all. You should be focused on your keys. And if you read it perfectly like you said, you would have been focused on those public those pulling guards coming. You would have known you had somebody to hammer hammer and then you come in and fill. And that's such as simple as it is, if you read it perfect. You're not looking at the ball, you know, thinking somebody got to hand

it off. You're doing your assignment. And look, I understand you took accountability for it, but we all saw you. It was your fault. You ain't no need to be taking accountability. Just say, hey, man, look they got it. They got me, that's it, and we know it's all on you. You messed up. Man. That's that simple as that. All right, not let me let me get to you knew he all right? What did I think about what Mike McCarthy said. It worries me. It worries me to

demth because he is taking up from Mike Nolan. He said, it ain't the scheme pretty much, it's the guys. It's the guys that's out there on the field giving up plays. We've been talking about you can't talk about scheme. We twelve weeks into this and we're still giving up plays and messing up the scheme. So it's not what Mike Nolan's calling. I think he's calling some good stuff. We're

just not going out there and execute. He's trying to save this dude, and it worries me because he will possibly be here next year, just based off McCarthy trying to go to back for him to get a second year. I saw this, check this out. I saw this tweet from ed Warder. It says the Cowboys have allowed a league high three hundred and ninety three points. That's thirty five more than the Lions, forty more than the windless Jets,

forty one more than the one win Jaguars. Those teams ranking just ahead of Dallas have either already fired their head coach or expected to do so at the end of the season, and we still got our head coach trying to take up for the defensive coordinator that he brought in. Makes absolutely no sense. It worries me. What you're talking about, Big Mike, What are you talking about? That's his boy. But wait, there's more so. On one oh five three of the fans, Stephen Jones had his

weekly interview and here's what he had to say. I think we've got good football players, it's just right now, we're just not executing. There's a similar group of guys on the field who last year weren't that inefficient against the run. I'm convinced we can get the job done. So that is Stephen Jones about the defense. So Mike McCarthy says, hey, don't put this on the scheme. We're a little bit down far. We're far down the road.

And then here Stephen Jones saying, hey, man, these dudes weren't this bad last year, okay, And we fired the coach and staff because we didn't think there was that bad last year. So I don't you know, this isn't it? So right now out of the gate, we got the head coach saying one thing. You got the owner's son saying a different thing. Here, this is not good. Mike McCarthy is going to have to give up Mike Noling. Okay.

I think it's that simple. After the year, you guys know how this goes, because you've seen this Cowboys footballs long as I had. When a bad season happens, somebody got to go and be sacrificed. That's just how it is. And if they're not gonna get rid of McCarthy, which they said there or not, they're not going to keep Mike Knowling. There's no way in the world. There's no way. Yeah, Mike Nolan's gone. Mike Nolan's gone. But I'm gonna say this is I'm gonna say at sixty forty on the

players on this one. I said, I give I give forty percent of the blame on Mike Nolan, but I gotta give sixty to the players because we've seen too many lapses and simple techniques. If we go back a couple of games, I think it was Arizona where whoever number twenty eighties, I think it's Robinson was back there. He was playing a deep third, flat footed and let Christian Kirk run right by him. And if you look at this game, there's Darian Thompson comes in as a

as a dime safety. He's kind of settling in there. There's a receiver running right value on a special which is a deep over, and it's obviously you're a man and you let it go. I mean, these guys, I don't know if they're not picking up this scheme or what it is, but these players are just not playing good and they're not playing smart. Right now, listen, listen,

I know you're sixty forty. But the one thing that I'm gonna say about this is because I've never seen my guy should Lee be confused out here like this. I've never seen it happen, and last night I saw it happen. So as much as I want to say that the players are confused and they're not picking it up, it's something that's being coached or something that's being called that has these guys out here looking like a deer

in the headlights, because the confusion is real. And like I said, we talked about earlier, it ain't that many fans in the stands that the crowd is not making that much noise. When you're out there on defense, usually the corner on the opposite side of the field is the is the guy who gets the call wrong because he can't hear the sideline. This is not the case. This is your guy who's dropping down in the middle of the defense to come out there. Somebody had to

communicate to him what play they were running. Because everybody else is on the right page except him. We all know that the position coaches are are messing up and the defensive coordinator is bad. All right, we got thirty seconds here. Let's get out of here with it and answer this question. All right, who is the biggest disappointment in this game. Church, go Xavier Woods, Xavier Woods. Yeah, listen, Ture Hagman thought the say he was roasting him on

that on on that thing. I'm going with the league man, seventy dollars to point that thing left like that great de Lague, you are the biggest disapointment for me, Greg left Erline. I'm with you, Danny. That was nine points. That's nine points and definitely could have changed this football game. And you can't make that kind of money and not make those kicks. He needed to be better than that.

All right, we'll dive into who should who's playing their last four games for the Cowboys because the Cowboys got some real decisions to make. Let's dive into that tomorrow at two thirty Central time right here on the players eyes for Danny McCrae and Barry Church and our producer Chris bib I'm a new scrits. Thank you so much for watching. The players are not watch you about hotels dot com. Oh on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. The

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