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it done thirty to seven over Cincinnati. So are you happy with the win? Or do you fall in line with the old Adam Jones line? And you guys weren't playing for the Cowboys one year when the Saint Louis Rams were really really bad and the Cowboys if you're getting ready to play m pat Man. Jones dismissed the Rams by saying to the media, Hey, it's the Rams, dude. Cowboys probably with the Saint Louis lost of the Rams.

So is it just the Bengals dude? Or are you happy and you feel like the thirty to seven win was a good thing? Church Look, look, i'm gonna say this. I mean, I'm happy they got the dub. You know what, I'm saying that they needed it. It was a long long way to do for them to get a dub. But you know, I'm happy. I'm happy for my boy the Red Pistol to go up back up to Cincinnati and do his little pier and pier on up there and get a dub. Man. I'm happy for him and

the defense. The defense played a little bit better. I'm sure we'll break all of this down because there's some things that concern me about this defense. I mean, there's a lot of things that can scern me about this defense, but I mean it's something that hasn't been fixed. So overall, Look, i'm gonna say I'm happy for him. You know, it was against the Bengals, so it ain't too crazy, so so you're taking both, so you're happy. But it was just the Bengals, right, because that's that's why i'm at.

I want to make sure me and you're on the same page with us. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it was just the Bengals. Yeah, it was it was just the Bengals. And as we watched the game, I was sitting there and I was like, I'm waiting to figure out when I'm a text church and when I'm a text Newy, because I was like, man, we are going to shoot ourselves in the foot eventually in the game.

I thought that was us, but it turned out that the Bengals were that team who just could not get out of their own way, and they gave us a dove and I will take it a wins and win. It don't matter what record you have. If you could pull off a win, everybody's happy in that locker room afterwards. Now moving forward, yes, it was just the Bengals, all right. We still got the same problems that we had the week before. Our defense can't stop the run, we give

up big players in the passing game. We weren't able to run the ball this week, and we still haven't found a way to continue to feed the Mark Cooper in the passing game, although he did have the five catches in the touchdown. So we still have the same issues. But you know, we were playing the Bengal, so it wasn't that big of a deal to me. It's almost reminiscent when you play to the LSU Danny, when you played those non conference games against those FBS teams like Toledo.

You're supposed to be Toledo if you beat Toledo. But it's what you're supposed to do, right shout shots early in the sex. I know you're not. I know you're not in the rendezous, so you can't see my outfit that I got on. But I'm draped in purple and goal because there was a team who came out and got a big and got a big win this week thirty seven to thirty four, and that was the LSU Fighting Tigers against those Florida Gators. So I'm happy. I'm ecstatic. Both of my teams got the doub but LSU got

the bigger dub this week. So yes, you are right. We are supposed to beat those nonconfor teams. But every once in a while, knew it. You know, Appalachia State can sneak up on you and get you a win up in the big House of the Michigan So you just you just never know. Apati State wasn't the only one to get a dub in the Big House, because Toledo got one as well, and I was there. I was witness to that. I thirteen to ten. We shut

them down and shut them out. I think that was one of the last games for the coach at before Hallbag got there. I forget his name, but we sent him packing man, So don't sleep on Toledo. By the way, LSU the LSU quarterback with a Dallas Cowboys connection. That's Bratt Johnson's son leading LSU at quarterback for the victory, and it was nice to see him getting to hug after the game. Brad Johnson finished his career with the Dallas Cowboys, So I thought that was a great moment.

And I got to give a lot of credit to coach ed Ogeron for having his team ready to go. And I also look at Dan Mullin. I just really would love to ask him, what was your man thinking throwing the shoot after? I mean, you know, and I guys, that dude needed to go into the locker room after the game. I mean I would if I were him, I wouldn't even shower. Just go ahead, put your clothes on and head on out, man, Just get on out

in the building. Because that was one of the dumbest plays I've ever seen in a college football game, in which the Florida Gators had hopes of playing for the college football Playoffs trying to get in. You know that they could win this game and go beat Alabama. Then you got a heck of a case. You just eliminated that because Hopeboy wanted to throw a shoot. Wow. I just don't I don't understand the thought process behind that, Like why would you grab why would you grab another

man shoe and throw it down? Like, Oh, I'm hard for doing this. I'm gonna get props for this. You just cost your team a chance at the college football playoffs. If he was in the pros, I mean, they couldn't cut them fast enough. I mean just the thought process of these kids. Man, it's it's outrageous. Now Church and knew Church and knew it. Y'all got to keep it real. Florida has no chance going to no SEC championship and

being the Alabama Crimson Tide. All right, So let's get that out of He didn't cost him a chance at the college football playoffs, but he did, you know, the suspense of it, He did take that away from him. But they not. They not sniffing Alabama in the SEC Championship. I agree with you. I don't know, but but I'll just say this, you just made sure that there was no chance. Okay, your chance was slimming none. It was slimming none. You just took all that away because you

wanted to throw someone shoot. I mean, good luck and you guys playing college football. I would just you know, I would love to know how does he face his teammates after doing something that dumb because it allowed LSU to keep the football and go ahead and win football game. Not saying that they would have won it, but you made sure you were going to lose it. And that was at home, no less, But that was just that

was just dumb. All right, Let's dive back here into the Cowboys and something bigger than the Cowboys getting their fourth victory of the year. It's been a topic of discussion amongst some people. Not a big topic here on the players lines with us, but Mike McCarthy's job status. Okay, the Cowboys are not going to win the NFC East. It's been a bad year, been issues. I've had issues

in times of what I've heard from Mike McCarthy. But this is what Steven Jones, the Cowboys CEO, the owner Jerry Jones Son had to say out his weekly radio hit on one oh five three the Fan on the k and see masterpiece about Mike McCarthy in twenty twenty one taken listen, No help, Absolutely no change with coach McCarthy. And I am surprised, h you know that someone would

question Mike these unprecedented situation that everybody's been in. And on top of that, you know, no one's making excuses, but we have had some real challenges telling the injury category and uh, you know, if you look at his track record in his pedigree, you know, he's consistently one year in and year out, and we have the utmost confidence that this ship is going to be righted quickly. And uh, you know, Mike's going to be the leader,

leader of this group. And uh, he's certainly a great head coach, and I think you know we're gonna see that, you know, from going forward. You know, he's a great head coach in this league. He's accomplished a lot and he's gonna accomplish a lot more before it's all said and done. Okay, that is Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones on what don't five three the Fan with the KNC masterpiece saying that the job status of by McCarthy. Don't even talk about it. McCarthy is coming back, Danny mccraye. Your

reaction to what's just her? Listen, I think his job status is going to change. I'm sure he's coming back, but I think he's gonna have to take over the play calling duty and he's going to have to be more of a voice in the defensive room and the special team's room, because right now it seems like we have three different coaches running three different things. So his status will change and become more of a leader in the play caller, I believe. But yeah, I have no

doubt that he's coming back. Now, you know his coordinators, I'm not so sure about those guys. Yeah, I mean, look, guys, I mean it should be no surprise to anybody up here that that Big Mike's gonna come back. I mean, look, he just had has too many built in excuses. Not saying they're right or they're wrong, but I'm just saying he has too many built in excuses. I mean, no OTAs, no mini camp, no training camp, no preseason, and he

has to implement a new scheme. No, I understand there's other coaches that did the same thing, but to him, he just has too many built in excuses. They gotta give him another run back. They gotta give him another shot. With the injuries that have happened in this team, losing QB one, losing your all pro tackles, and losing your Hall of Fame guard. I mean that's a little bit

of an impact. And look, I know he hasn't performed or made the decisions that we would like him to make during this during this season, but overall, I think the Cowboys gotta let him run it back one more year just to see what they have in him. But like Danny said, with his coordinators, I'm not so sure. If it was up to me, both of them boys will be gone and we get some new OC and

a new DC in here. But hey, they don't pay me the type of bucks to make those decisions, So we'll see what Big Mike has in store next year. You are onto something, Church. I do believe that it's okay. Since Mike MC he's coming back, which all of us have expected on this show, there's going to be a scapegoat. I mean, you guys have been around long en up as players and you've seen how this works. Okay, after a bad year like that, there are people who are

going to get got Mike Nolan, defensive coordinator. I've said it for weeks now, and last you guys kind of thought pushed back against me last week. Mike Nolan is gone. Okay, Mike Nolan is not coming back. You even just talked about it with the Cincinnati game. I mean, they were sitting up at getting yards. They were shooting themselves in the foot, but they were getting yards. Mike Nolan cannot come back at all. And let me start with something that I already said he can't come back, but just

really made me shake my head. And I was talking to somebody at the start about do you know Tank Lawrence didn't start yesterday? He did not start the game against Cincinnati, and he was asked about it. This is what tanks him. They called base defense. I wasn't in on base, so I had to run off. Dorance Armstrong was in on base. Come on, man, come on, man, come on man, what kind of defense you run? But dude making twenty million dollars ain't in base? What defense?

Could you imagine Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells having the base defense and Lawrence Taylor, what did it you know? Could you imagine us? You know, the forty the bags, forty six defense. Hey man, we got base deepen my sickle, tear you out. You're not in on this, I mean, come on, come on, come on, I don't understand. I don't understand this. Listen, and I'm gonna I'm gonna piggyback on the back to the offense. But come on, man, one hundredion dollars not starting don't make no sense. You're

talking about a waste of funds. Makes it absolutely no sense. You know what knew? He knew he in church. That would be very similar to like looking out there on offense and base package or let a person they're not seeing the Mark Coop out there, it would look very similar to that all looking out there on fourth and instance and not seeing z. It would be the same. But for some reason, on this squad that's acceptable. But you talking about one hundred and ninety million dollars, you know,

not not not getting the playtime that they need. And and this is the league, you don't this is something you should not have to worry about. Marcus Lawyer should be starting in every package. No matter. If you're running all dbs on the field, he should to be one of the dbs. I mean, I'll tell you what, go go ahead and go ahead. Literally, this is a firable offense. I mean, come on, man, we've hired you, we're paying this dude one hundred million dollars, and you're not gonna

put him out here. I mean this is firable, man, I mean, this is this is you know, this is Houston running a game, ending playing telling James Harden down. Man, you're on the bench, we're running base. You ain't on this from James. I mean, this is the guy. This is the guy. How does how does Mike Nolan go into Jerry Jones and explaining, hey, man, you know we got this baby. He just doesn't fit. Hey, we just

gotta add it to the list. Man. Because Mike Mike Nolan, I mean, he's made a list of just head scratching decisions. And now it all makes sense to me. It all makes sense why the Marcus Lawrence came out there with so much juice, and why that defensive line came out there with so much juice. The guy wasn't even starting. It seemed like the first play he came in. He went out there and forced to fumble, just strictly out of anger of not being out there and starting. I mean,

it all makes sense now. There was an infused juice out there. Maybe that's what Nolan was doing. Maybe he had This was all part of his master plan. Let me get the Marcus Lawrence upsetting mad and get the best out of him on the field by benching him. I mean, it was probably one of the dumbest decisions made by coach, but hey, it might have worked out the long haul. But a man like you said doing that might work, Mike gotta go. That didn't work. That

didn't work, That didn't work. Don't don't. Don't you give Mike Nolan no credit for that church But now, man, no, so read there's listen, there's a guy who's writing a one hundred million dollars check that should be looking down at that field, like what is going on. I need to figure this out. Me and Mike Nolan need to sit up in the room together and figure out. I need to hear the reasoning behind this. Make make me understand what's going on, make me please make me this thing,

because I'm not accepting it. I'm not except it's week twelve, week thirteen fourteen. You're sitting out here and you don't put out your bett's you know what the markets longs for coming out and responding a way that you should have responded when when something like that happened. But you should have never been on the bench. And so this happens. And this is where I kind of this is where for me, I go back to the head coach. I mean, this is this is your buddy. Okay, you hired this guy.

I would be on him real quick. Hey man, you trying to get me got I mean, this can't happen. You can't do this, okay. I mean there's certain things that can't happen. You don't start a game with Tank on the bench and he's healthy. You don't start a game with Zeke on the bench and he's healthy. You don't start a game with a Marty Cooper on the busy game. We're paying too much money, you know, that's the church. You're correct. You don't write these kind of

checks and then say we don't need these guys. No, you can't do that. You simply can't do that. It's just bad. It's just bad. I just don't I don't understand how this got pasted. Mike McCarthy though, like the whole week leading up to this, I'm sure they had base on one of those days, McCray. You notice on Wednesdays and some of the Thursdays it's all first and second down, and I'm short, there's based packages out there.

So how to just get past McCarthy that d Law, your best defensive player, the highest paid defensive player in Cowboys history, was not on the field during this. And then when we got to the game and Sunday, somebody okay it, somebody, okay, that's a hey, you know what, Dawn sch Armstrong. We've seen him in coverage. We've seen him have that versatility. Maybe he's a little bit better than d Law. Let's start him today. Somebody okay, did? And I gotta go with Big Mike on this one. Man.

If you okay, did, Big Mike, that's a mistake. That's a mistake. You know what. In church, as I'm thinking about it and and I'm talking listen, I remember we used to be out there on the field and Jerry would be out there, Stephen would be out there, Will mcclear would be out there watching all the practice, all right. So it's no way, as I think about it, you can tell me that DeMarcus Lawrence was told that he

was not starting this game for some strange reason. One that he didn't go talk to somebody and say, nah, that ain't happening too. That the owner, general manager, CEO, and director of scout had no idea that the Marcus Lawrence was not starting. I don't think that was a surprise when they all got out there. So something else

is going on. But you know, from my experience of being out there at practice and knowing how involved the owner and general manager is, I just I can't believe that he had no idea that his top guy on defense was not starting this game. All right, So Mike McCarthy is coming back. I am steadfast in my opinion that defensive coordinator Mike Nolan is coaching his last days. We've seen a whole plethora of defensive coordinators get got, Paul gun through, Oh the Raiders got got yesterday. And

Rod Marinelli. Rod Marnelly is taking his big rod out there in Vegas. Rod Marnelli let go by the Cowboys, and BOYD, I sure miss Rod Marinelli right now, and he raised my head. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was wrong. Okay, I was wrong. I drank that kool aid. I was wrong. I believe Mike McCarthy and the staff. I think you're getting no worse. It's gotten worse. It is just horrible. And the person that's gotten to pay for starts with Mike Nolan. Now when we come back, Okay, we gotta

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Cowboys players, Barried Church and Danny mccraig. Now I enjoy listening to all our podcasts here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio, and this morning I was listening to Kyle Yeoman's one of my favorites, Tires and Kyle was, you know, in a conversation with Rob Phillips Isaiah stand back in our boy HECKM Harrison, and he started talking about Ezekiel Elliott and questioning if Zeke was living up to the ninety million dollar contract. And I'm like, whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey, look.

I understand Zeke is not having a good season and the fumbles that he's put on the ground no unacceptable, but let me make sure we all remember and all understand it is about opportunities when you are running back in this league. And when I look at Ezekiel Elliott when he came here and what then the usage rate that he's getting now to the man simply does not touch the football enough. And that's something we've talked about

here on the players now. So I wanted to go back and check out just first off the season, and then I went into yesterday. So Derrick Henry right now is leading the league in rushing with fifteen hundred thirty two yards fourteen touchdowns at thirteen games. So I wanted to go look at the attempts that Derrick Henry head. He's had two hundred and ninety seven rushing attempts that's eighty six more than Ezekiel Elliott, which breaks down at six point six more carries per game, where the Titans

are saying, hey, Derek told the Rod. Then I went over and looked at Dalvin Cook in the Minnesota Vikings. In twelve games, he's had two hundred and seventy three attempts rushing to football. That's sixty two more than Ezekiel Elliott. And he's got one thousand, three hundred and fifty two yards and fourteen touchdowns. See's got two hundred eleven yards this year for eight hundred and thirty two yards five touchdowns. And of course we all understand what's happened to that

cowboy's offensive line and at the quarterback position. So then yesterday I wanted to go also just looking, Okay, let's just see what guys did yesterday. Just some of the top backs. Alvin Kamara, one of my favorites, Alvin Kamara third, had eleven rushes for the Saints and they're loss to Philadelphia. Was targeted eight times, caught seven passes, so twenty one

touches for Alvin Kamara in the Saints game. Derrick Henry and I win twenty six Rushes and was two receptions on two targets, so twenty eight touches for Derrick Henry Dalvin Cook. In a loss to Tampa twenty two, Rushes had four targets, caught two passes, so twenty four total touches for him. Ezekiel Elliot yesterday twelve rushes, two catches on three targets, fifteen fifteen total touches for him. Come on, man, I mean, once again, I go back to what we

were talking about. What tanking, Lawrence, You are we using the guys you're paying fellas. Do you believe Ezekiel Elliott is being used properly? Absolutely not. But you know, you know when when McCarthy first got in here and they started talking about Zeke working on running more routes, we knew this was gonna be a problem. And once they drafted cdee Lamb, we everybody's figuring out, trying to figure out how many persons, how many people are going to

catch how many balls this year? I'm having three one thousand yard receivers and we're like, man, they don't have enough to go around, and uh and it's and it's showing and you can't and the thing is you can't use that excusive. We have too many weapons, because if you look at Minnesota, they have Feeling, they have Jefferson, and they have cooked all right, and all of them get get a fair share of balls thrown to them.

They call same thing. In Tennessee they got I saw a j. Brown making crazy catches just today, and nobody's been living behind because Derrick Henry is getting thirty thirty touches. So you can still you can still get these running backs involved in the game without taking away from some of your other weapons. We for some reason just just not have not found a way to get that done. And it's unfortunately because you would think if Zeke's not getting a lot of touches, then it would have to

be going all Mark Cooper. But we haven't been able to get either one of them enough touches. So it's confused to me. And that's something that Kella Moe would have to figure out as he goes into next season if he's still here. Look, is it fair to say that, you know, he's not lived up to his contract. I don't think it's fair because I mean, look look at the look at the offensive line he's running behind right

now it's decimated. And yes, they're doing a better job as a season is going along and pass protecting, but their run blocking has taking a hit, and it's taking a hit to ezekiellex production. Now, I will say this, with the carries that we have given him, is he doing much with the rock? I don't think he's doing as much as if Derrick Henry were to get those ten totes or if Dalvin Cook were to get those

ten totes. It just doesn't seem to me like he's as explosive and he's as a dynamic runner as those other two. Now will it change when we get that offensive line back and we get that reconstructed. It could be he could bounce back to his old self, But right now, it just doesn't seem like he's that guy. He's running sluggish, he's running in sand, and he's not making anyone miss. So to me, is it fair to judge his ninety million dollars deal? No, it's not fair

to judge. I at least let him get his offensive line back in front of him before we start making that judgment. But when the guy has getting the ability, when the guy has gotten his attempts, he's gotten his toes. He just hasn't done much. He's more of a three or four yards and a cloud of dust running back right now. And that's just what the Cowboys have in front of him. So to me, I think we need to give him at least another year to get that

offensive line in front of him. Then we can start questioning whether or not that ninety meal was worth it or not. Now a lot of people had issues with the ninety mills, saying, you don't pay running back that, and do we do? You guys have to remember who blew past that deal that who got paid more than his ze broke the record? Yes? How many games does he played? Yes? How many games has he played in? Now? Three? Three? Three?

Played in three games? And he's making sixteen million dollars when he's signed that four year, sixty four million dollar contract extension and Loup look at him backup out there, balling making it look like anybody can do it up. Mike Davis twenty six Fantasy points yesterday. So yes, so, so you know, and I just and for me, here's what's frustrating for me. Okay, I see Ezekiel Elliot getting beat up by the fan base and here's a guy that clearly it's an opportunity problem. I have an issue

with the way they have been using it. They don't use him the way they used to use it. You paid ninety million dollars for a guy you don't really want to get in the ball. I mean, at least Tennessee had the right idea, Okay, we're gonna pay Derreck Henry and we're gonna keep feeding Derreck Henry. They don't want to do that here. So this is where I got to come to it. Mike McCarthy why I asked him at the initial press conference, how do you plan

to use Ezekiel Elliott and running the football? This is not what Mike did in Green Bay. They threw the ball a lot. You didn't see them out here trying to, you know, go after it with the power run. It's not what they did. So you may have a new head coach and this scheme. Maybe this scheme doesn't fit them, but Mike told us it was gonna be scheme. I mean players over scheme, and right now I don't feel that's the case. So that's why I say beating up

on Ezekiel Elliott. I mean people going out to Ezekiel Elliott like he Carson went stealing money. I mean, Carson Wentz is dealing money right now. Okay, this is a dude getting paid thirty two million dollars and he can't do nothing for you, nothing for you. I mean, that's that's my problem. It's like I feel like he's getting that kind of treatment like Nina. I ain't like the Phillies got a quarterback problem. Okay, they won yesterday with

Jayale Hursts. We got thirty two million dollars dude sitting on the bench and we don't know where we gon unleash him. We may have to put this dude on mothballs. And then they're like, yeah, man, we gave this guy all this money. He wasn't even the guy who won the Super Bowl. I mean, you talk about bad money spent, Carson Wentz is bad money spent. That's how I feel people treating Ezekiel Elliott around here, that this was bad money spent. I don't think it was bad money spent.

I think this is this is a bad use of the player that that, to me, is truly the issue. I will agree with you on that point. I think it's definitely a bad use of the player. There's a lot of circumstances going around with that, but I definitely

agree with you on that that's a bast dance. But where I will defend McCarthy on on one thing is, you know, at the beginning of the year when you did ask those questions, I don't think McCarthy thought that his defense would be this terrible, and that the defense and he would always be having to fight his way back and claw his way back to get into games. This defense is downright terrible, and I don't think he thought that going into the game is or going into

the season, especially with the pieces that he's had. I mean, he had a vander Esche coming back, he had a Jalen Smith coming off a Pro Bowl. So he thought he had a defense that can hold it down and we can just feed Zeke and keep it going. Little did he know we would be getting blown out in these games and Dak would have to throw us back into it, or and he don't have to throw us

back into it. I don't know. I don't know about that one, because even when Dak was in there, we were still talking about Zeke not getting enough touches in the beginning of the season. So I think they were two and thirty. Okay, but let's go back to Atlanta, were down twenty something something. Church. Stay with me on the Atlanta game because I remember Stut was very much into this. In that Atlanta game, in the second half, they got back into it because they kept running the ball.

He had ten carries in the second half. It was one of the few games where he had twenty rushes. And that was a part of them getting back into it. Was just keep They kept with the run and kept mixing it up. They just didn't go, Hey, we're gonna just step here and just throw the ball. They kept mixing it up, kept Atlanta off bounce, and we're able to get back into that football game. Look, I'm coming in the first place. Who put him in that? Look

in the first place. Look, he was part of the problem. Okay, he was the problem. But I'm just saying. I'm just saying using the guy getting away from the run. You know, when they decided not to they had some they had some benefit. I'll tell you who can't use the heck out of Ezekie. Ellie. You put that guy in San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan. Let Kyle Shanahan, let's show they get ahold of running back. Everybody in San Francisco. Were sending everybody in San Francisco, Shoot, you can get John

Ring this kind of running back. Man. There's coaches in the league that will use them far more than what the Cowboys want. That's just just do the right thing, you listen, Just do the right thing. You paid to do ninety million dollars. Go back and look at the film of things that that made him successful, Schemes that you ran when he was successful, powers, traps, counters, look at those things and then implement him into the office

that you're running now. And I can almost guarantee you that he will have more production than he currently has. I'm not saying he's gonna go out there and be the o Z this year with so many injuries and all that, but I think that he could be more productive if you taylor the game to things that that help that worked for him when he was having his most success. Now you got to go back and rosch Jason Garrett Field to get that done and some of that.

But but you can implement that Kellen Moore was here when when JG. Was here and Zeke was having since success. So he knows what to do and what can help z. He just needs to implement it. Yes, okay, we got to take another break here. Barry Church has some words about this Cowboys secondary and what happened there. Let's get our Monday night football prediction. Got to get that out the way, and we have it. There's a guy who

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In the thirty to seven win, somebody got off the milk cart in folks, it was Tyrone Crawford getting two garbage time sacks. Tyrone, making almost ten million dollars a year, got his first two sacks of the year. That's five million percent. Went over to the sideline. Everybody was slapping him up, like, hey, still got it. He got it, He got off the milk cart, got the shot. We're thirteen. I don't care if it's the Bengals, Tyrone. Crawford got them two sacks. Baby got it up. Dell it up. Hey,

I gotta get my boy a little credit, man. I mean, we dogg him on this show, and rightfully so. He hasn't been doing much all year, but you right knew it. He got off the milk carton a little bit. My boy fell into two sacks, and like like you said, the funniest part was when he got to the sidelines and all the veteran cowboy players is over there just gassing him up. You still got it, man, you still got the juice. Come on, man, come on, church, Come

come on church, Church, and knew he Listen. I love Crawford. I you know, we used to hang out back when I played and all that. I think. I think that he is an amazing guy. And I think that he's just getting a little older, so he's starting to slow down a little bit. So it's production is down, But I'm telling you this. There is no getting off the

milk carton against the Bengels, all right. There is like that that that that option is not available when you're playing the Cincinnati Bengals, especially with all that they're missing, including their starting quarterback. Who was who was the rookie who would have gave us all we can have them if he would have been out there in the AJ Green who can no longer do what he used to do. So no, ain't no getting off the milk carton against the Bengals. He made some plays, congratulations from him, But

the milk carton. Yeah, all those players they still on there to get right game. It's to get right game. Okay, to get right game. Tyron got right, baby got right finally. Quarterback man, you know it ran on in two him twice two times. No, I ain't no milk carts. Ain't no, ain't no getting off the milk carton. Man, it's the Bengals, we said, it's the getting the show. It's the Bagels, all right. Max. So what you're saying is his name is engraved in the in the milk carton. Is that

what you're saying? No, no, no, no, no, no no no no no no Listen, he got he's he's going to have a good chance to play against the Eagles, who has a new quarterback now, so it's a new dynamic added to the to their team, and so we'll be seeing something totally different. And he don't have a chance to do that against the football team. So listen, I'm already team's done. No, no, no, no, I'm sorry. We got swept. I'm sorry, we got we got swept. My bad bad the last time. This is the first

time we got swept by them in a long time. Man, you got Danny Domes. Not bad. He got Danny Domes, So he'll have two real chances. I'm not even gonna count this one against the forty knowledge because who's their starting quarterbacks and mothers boys and bullets was bad, so they may go the best that I don't know who. I don't know who they sot. Dude, you ain't getting off the mel card against the forty niners either, all right, so you can count this one. That option is not

available for this game, Danny. This is this dude's final. This is the guy's final three games in the cowboy uniform. Man, it's gonna be it for him. Man, they're gonna let him. Yeah, he got, he got, he got, he got two games, he got two games, he got, he got two division games. He has the Eagles and he had the Giants. He can get off the mil Carter. That's all right. Church, you wanted to He is a tough critic. Church you wanted to get into the Cowboys DBS and in the effort,

they gave him the thirty to seven wins. Yeah. Man, Hey, look, I'm gonna say this man. Look, the secondary that we had out there yesterday was depleted. I mean there was no Woozier, there was no table on days as he's been he's been out for the past couple of weeks. I mean, we had we had Lewis out there in the slide, and then we had Sabian Smith that corner, and we had Robinson. Now both of those guys missed some time. So we're out there with guys that I

don't even know their names. I just know their numbers. I mean, there was a guy number thirty three out there, at number thirty one out there who I have never seen in my life. And they were actually out there, and you know what, I gotta give props to the secondary because they didn't let anything over the top. I mean, throughout this whole season, that's all we've seen guys getting burked in covered three busted coverages, guys wide open, there's nobody.

There's not a defender within ten yards of receivers most of the time. But this time those guys were They fought, they were rappy out there. Aj Green had a couple of catches and he was routing those guys up a little bit, but nothing was over the top. I feel like they had to earn everything they got from this secondary, and like I said before, there was no busted coverage,

so the secondary was communicating as a whole. And look, as much as I dogged these boys each and every week for not performing to the best of their abilities today or yesterday, I think they did that. They were scrappy, they were clawed, and they showed some juice out there and they got the w Yeah, listen, they felt hard and I had a vision of I think it was Thompson came down and caused that phone ball. You talk

about running the alley. The dude was playing hard man, and they and they and they did do a good job yesterday against against the Bengels, but they did do a good job. So you know, like I said, it's it's difficult that, like everybody in the NFL gets paid. All right, So no matter who's out there, lined up like a kid and joked a lot of the I'm a critic on them kind of hard. But nobody who's lined up out there. All those guys have talent and all those guys can beat you on again in a day.

So they went out there and they fought hard, and uh, you know, propsing them and hope they carry carrying on for the rest of the season. All Right, We've got Monday night football. It is a critical football game here. You've got the Ravens at the Browns. The Ravens are three point favorites in this game. D mac who you got? Oh that's This is a tough one because the Ravens are really playing for everything. Cleveland is kind of rolling.

But I think that desperate team is gonna get the dumb I think the Ravens find a way to pull it out and they cover. I see him win them by six. Uh to me, you know, look, I got Baltimore in this one. I got Baltimore in this one, and it's because I feel like the Browns are just like Baltimore's little brother. Like, no matter how good Cleveland is, Baltimore just has their number. It's similar to Ohio State Michigan.

Michigan could be undefeated all year. Once ohiose Ohio State steps on the door, it's like everybody kind of cowards and kind of it's Ohio State. They end up losing those games. So to me, I just think Baltimore has their number. They're a big brother. They're gonna take care of business tonight on Monday Night football. Okay, Nostrada was on my side. Okay, all right, yeah, right today with the Steelers losing two games, if you're Baltimore right now, this is where you've got to go ahead and make

your run. Finish up December strong. Here, give me the Ravens to win this one, twenty six, twenty one, even as they are in the dog pound. So, gentlemen, obviously my fantasy football trophy behind me, I'm going to happen. Yeah, how did you guys do yesterday? Since you're both in your own respective listen, I got the number two seats, so I had a bye week, so you just you can speak to church about you can speak to church about those guys who had to play in the in

the wild car around. Yeah. Man, I had to play in the wild car. You know. I had to scrap and claude to getting my way into the playoffs. You know, everybody kind of counting me out at the beginning of the season started like one in five or something like that. I ain't accounted myself out. I almost gave up on the but then I realized, then I really hold on, dude, did I realize? You know what? I So guess what? I put seventy five points this past week, the woe

where I was playing against. I'm going into the next round. You know what I'm going into. I think I got Danny next. I knew it in fact, so hey, it's going down no one, No listen, listen. I think the guy that you played next week. You know how many points he scored this week? He was whold two? All right? So you you so you would so you would have lost. Listen who I'm in the next round? Yeah, you played you played the number one team next week because you

had the six seed. All right, so good luck, good luck with that if you if you played me, it won't be into the championship looking forward to it, and knew I knew it. I said, you still keep it, counting your consolation breaking over there time about somebody putting up twenty six points. You're still playing you still, yeah, man, I decided that I would not be that person to to just you know, roll over and die and uh

yeah yeah and and still got beat still too. Oh man, you know I don't even feel you know, I don't feel right to pile law man because you know I've been in that, so I can't pile law My guy, man, he just took it at It's bad. It's a big guy. It was a close game. And then so we go into to the Sunday night game and this is basically it. I had James Connor and Eric E. Broun, he had step On Dicks. Oh yeah, that they decided to just

step on. It's like Mike Nolan was calling the defense for the Steel They just dude running on running free. It was like, wow, what was this? What was this? Uh yeah, yeah, there we go. I want to make sure we touch and give Andy Dalton his props go back to Cincinnati two touchdowns to get to win team that drafted him in twenty eleven. He played there until last season. What does it mean for guys to go back to their former NFL homes and win? What does that mean that these guys I mean to him? It

probably means the world. I mean, as you saw he was going up there, you know he gave his little salute to his wife. I mean, he just saw it in his face and his demeanor. He was excited about the game, he was ready, and he just didn't let the emotions of going back to the place kind of overwhelm him. See me, I'm the wrong person to ask about that because I know nothing about going back to

your former place and winning. When I came back to Dallas, it's like they just picked on me, like they like they had the game playing, like, look, there's four two right there, we're gonna get after this dude. And they ended up beating the brakes off of the jag off of us and the Jaguars that day. So, hey, hats goes off to Eddy Dalton. Man, he went up there and showed out for the for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah,

that's a bad question, man. We should have talked about this before we before we came out of the break because I got to say, feeling that Church had all right, you know, I want to Chicago Dallas came on up there. We was all heightened, and they ran the ball down our throat. You know, we had Jay Cutlott thus starting. So you know how that went. So I'm not really

sure how it feels. But if you felt slighted when you left that team and you felt like you still had more to give and they kind of did you wrong, then I can imagine that you felt real good going up there and beating that team. You mean questions, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Cole Beaji went ham on or everybody, you know what speak speaking to Cole Beachley a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to bring this up. You talking about letting

the guy go. That dude has been balling, talking about like a top slot receiver, and we let him get up out here for what like seventeen meal. Goodness that that dude is really become a big time player out there in Buffalo. He's making some serious plays as small as he is. You see him out there two touch down one hundred and seven yards toil catches. He's out there rounding up everybody the same thing that we all saw when we you were here, so shout out to

Cole Beasley. But that goes back to usage. Cole Beasley spoke about how Jason Garrett Scott Lanahan's system did not use him, and here we still are with a different regime talking about players not being used correctly. I mean, so, you know so at some point in time, you know, as so many people went after Cole Beasley, the Cowboy Nation went after him on Twitter. Cole Beasley told the truth. You didn't like the truth, but he told the truth. And for the people to think, hey man, you guys

on the players lives are too negative. We're telling you the twenty one and nineteen are not being used enough. We're not just sitting up here lying to you. We're telling you the truth. And I truly believe this. If you let those two guys get away and they ended up going in some systems and in some places where they want to use them, you'd sit up here and be saying the same thing about about Zeke and Cooper that we're talking about here with cold Bess, like, oh

look at that guy. What we let him get away here for? Didn't use him right. Absolutely, Okay, that is our time for today. Producer Chris being We appreciate you getting that sound of Stephen Jones saying that Mike McCarthy was coming back. It was heard on one oh five three The Fan Burried Church. Danny mccraig always fun to chat with you, guys. Will do it tomorrow right here on The Players Lives two thirty Central Time. If you've missed any parts of it, go ahead check out the

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