Player's Lounge: Can Dallas Stop Lamar Jackson?

face the Ravens. I'm new He Scruggs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by Barry Church and Danny McCray, their former Dallas Cowboys safeties. This is the players not just brought to you by Hotels dot Com. All right, gentlemen, how are we doing here on Monday? Man? Doing great? Man, doing amazing. It's beautiful outside. Man. I didn't get golf in this more him, but it's all good, so you know it's a great day. Man. Yeah, same here, man. I got my boy Church to work out on Monday. We started

off the week right fitness wise. And uh and and I got something special for y'all today. Man. We talked about this on Thursday. Many nobody got nothing special. And my brother, my brother, my boy Berry said that. You know, we discussed him talking about Dalton shoulder and he said, I didn't say that. I'm telling y'all ain't got me on tape. Well guess what we got. We got him on Take what you got, what you gotta, what you gotta take. Man, See see me gonna pull up. Yeah yeah,

just get it done. Don't worry man. Hell yeah man, y'all be wasting time and stuff, but it's still going on. Man, telling these fairy tales whatever whatever. Yeah, got you it is what it is, it is. Oh yeah, yea, and ain't got me got the truth. So Cowboys, Cowboys gonna be without safety Dotard Wilson and quarterback Anthony Brown as they faced these Ravens. Uh McCray. How big are these losses for the Cowboys as they go to Baltimore here.

I think Wilson is a bigger lost than Brown, just because we know that the main attack for the Ravens is the ring game, right, So they want to run it with the running backs, they want to run it with the quarterback, and then they want to get deep passes based off what they're able to do in the running game. So you know, I see Wilson as a guy who would come up and help us in that

ring game. So without him being in there, you know, I think that's a bigger loss than than than a B because we don't we don't really expect Lamar Jackson to beat us with his arm and try to do the Aaron Rodgers type of thing, so that the safety position missing is huge for us. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna go ahead and add on there. I mean, I think the AB being out it hurts us because we're already out with digs and a Woozier has been struggling lately, and then now we have AB out as well, so

it's definitely a hit to our secondary. But like you said, man that the Baltimore Ravens, they're not looking to come down here and throw it all over the yard, even though we've seen Lamar Jackson make statements talking about he would love to use his pass game more. But right now they're in the situation where they have gat to win.

So whatever their bread and butter is, which I think is running the ball and then designing quarterback sneaks in some type of way for Lamar Jackson and run the ball, I think that's what they're gonna have to do because right now they're on the outside looking in for the playoffs. The Browns are The Browns are moving good right now.

They're nine and three. We know Pittsburgh's undefeated, so the Ravens are looking from the outside of d So I think they're gonna get back to their bread and butter, which is running the ball with you know, Mark mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins and those boys, and then using the option with Lamar Jackson. So I don't think the Anthony Brown injury is gonna be huge, but that Wilson won.

I mean, we've seen what he's able to do coming downhill, hitting people and cousins, just havoc out there on the defense. You love to have guys like that when you're facing the team that runs the ball so heavy as the raven So with him not being out there, I'm sure they're gonna have Daria Thompson step in there. But it's a bigger one for me for Wilson. All right, Church, stay on here. So JK. Dobbins and mark Ingram, the

running backs are coming back from COVID. Ravens have not activated the quarterback Lamar Jackson from that COVID list, but RG three is on IR and I don't think they want Trace McSorley out here quarterback and forth, so I expect Lamar Jackson to be to be the starting quarterback tomorrow night. Play Mike Nolan for me. If you're Mike Nolan, how are you scheming up this Ravens offense and dealing with the quarterback who was coming off the COVID list. Well,

I can't wait to hear this. Well, look, man, if this is me out there, I gotta stack the box. Man. Like we mentioned, they haven't been throwing the ball over the yard at all this year, and we know Lamar wants to do that, but they don't really have anything on the outside that's that dangerous. I mean, yeah, you got Hollywood round out there, who got some speed. He has the ability to get behind you, but he just

hasn't been consistent as far as catching the ball. He's really up and down as far as catching the ball, so I don't really put too much stock into him. And then the rest of the guys are pretty much possession receivers. I mean, you got DA's Brian out there, who kind of looked at last time we saw him out there with with the Baltimore Rays. Didn't have a catch or anything like that, but he looked at right

as far as running routes. And then you have Willie Snead, which I'm not even sure he's back from the COVID least, so we'll see it. Willie, he's out, oh man. So I'm stacking the box for sure. Then I'm putting at least eight people in the box, having my corner on one side, corner on the other side, and my free safety might be eight yards deep. Everything is in the box. I'm I'm begging and I'm praying that they try to

beat us with his arm. But because I'm telling you, if if they get this ground game starting, it's gonna be a long day for this Cowboys defense. Let me tell you something. If you, Mike Nolan, do not run zero coverage with fourties and you gotta half the field,

how about that. Let's start. Let's start there by not making a simple coaching error, because you know one thing we know that he do do that he probably not getting fired like Gregg Williams this But on the serious note, um, listen, we all know that that's so far this season, for the most part this has been to get right game

for us. So I think we just got to hold on it as tight as we can and figure out a way to limit them on first and second down and put Lamar Jackson in situations where he has to beat us with his arm on third and seven plus. So with that being said, we have to stop the run.

We have to figure out a way with our front seven or front eight, and we put a extra sexty down in the box for the majority of the game to get down there, get in their gaps, stop the run, make it look muddy on the inside, and don't let Lamar Jackson get around the edge. And which once you get him in those third and seven, third and eights, you can pin your ears back and try and try to rush and play some exotic type of coverage and confuse them and see if you can make them make

some mistakes. But you have to earn the right to do that by stopping the run on first and second down. If we don't do that, we're in trouble because that means they have all options available to him and tighten Mark Andrew the favorite target. Lamar Jackson is going to miss this game. So m look there's there's there's an opportunity. Okay, I think that's it. There is an opportunity if the

Cowboys play mistake free football. And when you talk about cover zero, that's going back to that Raiders Jets game where the Raiders had the ball at midfield less than thirteen seconds to go. They send Henry Ruggs on a goal route and they send a cornerback named Lamar Jackson, an undrafted cornerback, to go cover him, and he gets beat deep and there's nobody else back there. Greg Williams ends up getting fired this morning from the windless Jets

a what was as just a victory. I mean, that was a victory in hand by the Jets that they were dealing to the Raiders, and I missed it. I don't know about you, guys. I had. I turned the game on from my wife, she's a big Raider fan, and she ended up going upstairs and I was watching another game in the ruin, watching my fantasy team disintegrate.

I come out there and I look, because when I thought the Raiders were just you know about the loss, I see Rugs out here with his hands up, and I see car running, and I'm like no, no, then a remounds, Oh oh oh no, that's all downstairs. Did you rewind it enough to see the play before? When Nelson Agilo got behind him on defense and somehow Greg Williams decided to call another play to expose the backs to the secondary. I don't understand why. I don't understand

why would you do that? Like, you got five seconds left. Even if the guy catches the ball, there's no way he should be in the end zone at this point. But you're running all out blitz. I mean truth, Oh boy, they they're shaving points. Man, they going That's the only thing I can think about. Man, they gotta be going after Lawrence. Well, I mean, here's the thing you can say, going after Lawrence. But Greg Williams wasn't gonna be there,

you know, what was his intent. I mean, he gonna be coaching his team next year, you know, sending him for him to sit up year. It helped them out, but I mean that was just it was. It was a fireball offense, you know, it was. It was a fireballing and and and they fired, which is kind of funny. And I loved how the players threw him straight under the bus because we asked all the time for guys, hey tell us the truth. You know, they went out there and told the truth. Hey, man, that's a bad call.

You gotta put us in a better calling. And I'm glad to see his players did it because Greg Williams threw Adam Gays in the offense under the bus back in October, so, uh, you know it's karra baby, it was pure karma. Well you know that that's not the first time he made a bad call, because it takes a multitude of bad calls and the and the players seeing it that way for them to finally bubble up and be like, you know what, the dude made a

bad call. Like they've had these conversations multiple times in the dB room and they're like, man, I don't know why he calling this right now, but all we like, all we can do is play the call. And then finally it was like hold on, bro, hold on, nah, not this time, you need to call some different and they and they got them fire And I promise you, I promise you the worst call you wanted here as a defensive back in third down. It's all out blitz,

I promise you. Because it's just so much that can go wrong as a dB liked this dude gets on top of me. I have no help. So when he called that out there, I promise you everybody in that second or they just looked to the ground like, man, what hey, hell are we going out here? Hey lety church church, let me let me sayont there for you. The only people that wasn't man was the people who looked at the formation and realize they would have once

blitzing if you're not safe there. It's like all right, if it's two bout two, I'm blitzing, and they come out two back two. You over there like, yes, yes, this is it man. But if you're that other snakey that you know, you gotta have that slot and coverage. Man, you like, hold on, man, I ain't gonna lie. I used to do that with Wilcox all the time. But hey, that's hit spots I got I gotta get this blitz in.

They and then you do it and they motioned the three by one and you're like, damn, hey, let's walk and rolling a little. They got this coverage now, yeah, man, It's it's a person situation. It's a person situation. You don't want to be. That's tough. The other thing I took away from that in the Jets locker room is how the guys rallied around Jackson, got beat and basically

went after the coach. I mean, I thought that was admirable for a team that hasn't won a game all year long, that even in that room they're like, you know, we're not gonna let him go down for this. Henry Ruggs has world class speed. This was the fastest receiver in the in the draft last year out of Alabama. I mean, that was crazy to put him out there one on one. I mean, and I applaud the Jets players from standing up and saying, no, man, we're not gonna let our guy take a fall for this. This

was some bad coaching. Man. They didn't learn They didn't learn last week from Todd Bowls Man well, Tyree Hill when out they did to them boys when they didn't double cover of somebody over the top. All you have to do is watch that game and say, you know what, it won't be me, And then you know, you know the you know, the cornerbacks out there like, hold on this, dude, fast, it's a little cold outside my hamstrings. Not really that loose. What am I to do? What? Like? What what am

I to do? The ball? The ball didn't come out. Didn't know where he thought it was gonna come out, which is which is inside? You want to try to force him to throw out breaking route? He gave him a stick inside and then ran the goal. It's it's really nothing you can do about that. I will say this though. I will say this though. What in the heck was that corner doing biting on a double move? I mean, look, the guy got fifty yards he eating his double move at like twenty to twenty five yards.

If he catches it there, you can live with that, man. Catch that comeback, will rally tackle. The game is over. What are you doing breaking on a comeback and letting the guy get over top of you like that? That? I mean it was bad. It was a bad coaching call, but it was bad technique as well. That's that's a young guy, Bro's. I mean, it's a young guy. You fast. You don't that guy? You want you right? You're right,

you're on the field. You're on the field. That's it's tough both ways, man, But I'm giving most of that the old grig. I gotta give him, don't do that. Don't do that too. That was coaching MOUTHFEASA. Tell me that was just coaching mouthfeasance right there. I mean I laughed at somebody said, even Mike Nolan thinks that's a bad call. And listen, you know, you know what's crazy. Though Mike Nolan doesn't really I don't think he makes

that very bad calls. I think he's just not getting his scheme coach stuff right and these guys are not in the right right position. He's called like, listen, we get beat on a on a deep route behind us and covering three and cover four. You know, so he's making the right calls, but the way they coaching this

stuff up ain't working. Greg Williams went out there and calls zero coverage and I'll did you know previously, previously it didn't work for him to run zero coverage and those type of situations, but he wasn't coaching the Jets then. He didn't have a rookie undrafted free agent out there covering Henry Runs out there at number one. The situations are totally different, and he deserved to be let go

as well as Adam Gates. Well, the good thing for Greg being fired is now he will not have the distinction of being a coordinator two clubs that go oh in sixteen. So he was on the Browns sixteen as the defensive coordinator. And it looks like the Jets are on their way to oh in sixteen. So at least they pulled the plug on him. Let's take a break when we come back. Let's get into the Cowboys offensive

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wears you down. When I watch him, I just see a guy just I would not want to get the ring with that guy, because when you leave, your body's gonna be sold for about two and a half weeks plus. Garcia took that left eye was all messed up. I'm like, man, couldn't pay me the box man. That's that's a hard sport right there. Pas M couldn't pay me either. Man, my face is too pretty for that. Listen. Listen. It was. It was. It was a heck of a performance by

erro Spence. But man, listen, more embarrassment for my man Nate. All Right, Floyd Maywether got to come in here and get his back and say, look, I'll show you how to do this. You ain't putting your hands on Nate like that without having the suff at these hands. All right. So now we got Floyd Mayweather and Jake Paul you know,

coming up the fighting in February. And I'll tell you this, I'm watching it just because Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest fighters, especially especially the greatest fight of our generation. And I will watch it any time he puts on the gloves, especially the fact that he's going to embarrassed this dude when he goes out there. So I'll be tuning in. I'll be tuning in. I just I just don't understand, if you're Floyd Mayweather, why why take this fight?

I mean, it's a lose lose situation if you go in there and just destroy him, which everybody knows he should be able to do. If he goes in there destroying, you don't get any credit for that. You don't get any respect. It's like our Floyd, you should have done it in the first place. But if he goes out there and takes it, ell, I mean, that might be one of the biggest upsets in sports history. If he goes out there and takes it ll man, his reputation will never be the same again. Church, this is this

is this is how Floyd does it. Though every time he fights, it's the same conversation. It's yeah, man, Floyd gonna go out there, but I'm telling you this time, this might be the time. Man. If he loses this time,

it's gonna be crazy. I'll tell you this. If Floyda's taking his fight, like he said, I'm not taking the fight unless I'm making three hund ms, So he's getting paid serious and uh, you know, not like basketball knew when when guys are passing up thirty forty million dollars country maybe maybe where they passing up a three four hundred million dollars a deal. That's true. Here's here's something about Mayweather and the last probably i'd say the last

ten fights of his career. He hasn't fought anybody. He knew he wasn't going to beat I mean, he knew he was going to beat them, and you knew he was gonna be I mean, he's not out here fighting anybody that is remotelycausea oh, he might get Floyd. No, I mean Floyd is as great of a boxer he is. He's done the ultimate thing is what you should do. He's managed himself properly. He never went out there for anybody that he did fight Paki out and his prime fought Packy out when he was old. I mean, the

biggest what here we go hold on? They was both the same age when they fought. All right, Uh, you're gonna say that he fought Cannelo when Cannelo was too young. He fought all these guys that are stars now. He would have waited until they gotten their problem to do to be forty fighting Canelo. He fought guys that could fight. Some of them was like, yeah, we know we're not gonna win. But he fought the guys the way out there.

Minus minus when you say that he waited a long time to fight Peck y'all, he still fought Packy y'all and pecky. Y'all came out the next fight, his next few fights, and he won those fights. And he's the man gonna go out there and say that he got beat and gonna say to my shoulder her after the fight. And you know, I didn't want to say nothing. Bro, you got mixed up. You got you got mixed up, Bro,

Just take your pack. Y'all was pressing him pack. Y'all was pressing him for a couple of years, and Floyd was ducking and dodging. Man, I don't know, man, he got a point. Now, I don't know, bro, pecky, y'all ain't got pet pecky. I ain't got put to sleep, did y'all forget that? Come on years old when he got put no? No, this this this is two years before that. He got put to sleep, and then and then he had to fight the dude again then put him to sleep before he could fight Floyd. Come on, man,

act like hey, I'm talking hey Floyd. Floyd went to fight in Pakya. Man Pakia was making songs and records and he was like the president of some country or something like. He wasn't worried about Floyd Batman. But when he went in his prime. Hey, Floyd was ducking and dodging. Man, he couldn't be seen. I don't know, I don't know, man he is I'll give him this credit. He is under and he's been he's been very strategic and smart and how he fought. I mean, look the guy with

the guy's been which which more people should do? You gotta be smart about who you fight and when you fight them. Um. Fernando Vargas was a boxer out of Oxnard, California, and I followed him as he was training through the Olympics, and so you know, he went to the Olympics, did he turn pro, had a couple good fights, and then his people for some reason said okay, let's go ahead and set you up against Oscar when Oscar was the champions. Like, dude,

you're not ready for this. You know, Fernando, you could be a champion and you could be good, but I mean, you're not ready for this kind of fight. And obviously from um dean Lloyd's people knew this cat wasn't really really ready. Went out there, man if and got whooped up and down the ring and it was just like it's like, you're not ready for them. You've got to be smart about how and who you fight. Man, Hello, I gotta I got, I gotta go one more on

this side. So when one when when when Floyd may with the fault may Din of the first time, and everybody was like, oh, this is a dude who's gonna beat him. All right. So everybody's like, all right, so Floyd's finally fighting somebody that can beat him. Gave a rematch, walked, wiped the floor with mcdonnad the second time he fault And you want to talk about boxing, So boxing is a sport to where no matter what happens when you go out there, when you get in that ring, you

can always get knocked out. Mike Tyson fault Buster Douglas. Nobody expected Buster Douglas to knock out Mike Tyson. All right. He went out there and that was one of those fights to where it was like, all right, we expect Mike Tyson to win. He went I think got knocked out. So anytime you can step any time you step in the ring against anybody this fight, you go out there and get beat up. Paqui Ow was coming off two wins, is two or three wins, went up maybe with the

found him. He went out there and embarrassed him. McDonald was supposed to be to do to take him out. He embarrassed them. The second fight he also fought. Um was a little old. He still waxed them a little old. La Joya asked for the fight. He was, he was, He was top of the top of the gate at that time. Then he went out there and whipped the wall. Sugar Shade, you know, said he went out there and found the people. He beat him up and did what he's supposed to do. He could have took it ld

just as easily as he was. Hey, that's cool. Hey, did he ask for the hands? Did he ask for the hands or not? He Dlojoya definitely asked for the hands, and he definitely got them hands. But I mean he was somebody's grandpa that time. Let me, Sugar, I mean he begged for the hand. What are you supposed to do? Pass? Left? Hey day? That's all. Now, I'm gonna go back to what I said before. Okay, I said his last ten

fights were managed, very smart, strategic fights. These were the last ten fights one Miguel Marquez, Sugar, Shane Mosley, Victor Ortiz, Miguel Codo, Robert Guerrero, Canelo Alvarez, Marcus Maydonna twice, Manny Pacia, Andre Berto Connor McGregor. Did you think he was going to have any type of of loss or any close fight with any of these ten ten dudes here? But not even did he have a close fight with mcdonna or not. It was a unanimous decision the second one.

The second one was a decision, and and then the the other one was with twelve rounds and he won the decision, thank you. And then everybody talked the same well not everybody, but a lot of people talk the same mess about all these fighters. When they got in there, this will be the time the same thing. Churches said. Listen, if he take it ill though, that's gonna be crazy. Even when McGregor was in there, they was they was watching. They was like, you know what, I don't like, I

don't really think that McGregor could beat him. And then you start watching the fight. At the beginning, he was like, oh, man, hold on Lake, wait wait wait, and then what happened? Knockout? I mean, he just go out there and see what he's supposed to do. No, no, no matter, no matter what you say, he gives you what you want. And then he go out there and he put on the show that Danny. Here's my thought on the McGregor on

the McGregor fight, Okay, that is just my thought. He went out there and let this dude play around, like I'm gonna get these people a show because I don't want to sit up here just ended, you know, knocked this dude to Smith rings. Someone just let this guy play a little bit, Pat pat Pat pat, and then he's decided, all right, it's showtime, it's money time, and then he took the dude. Then that's what I thought he did with that fight, was what he wrote. He

wrote a do He didn't. He didn't play with him. He walked them down, He shortened his punches, and he tired them out. And then in the temper around, because Connor McGregor has always been known as a guy who doesn't have that much stamina, even when he was in the UFC, he walked them down, tired him out, and then a timp round. Mcconnor was he was more gass than he was knocked out. He didn't play with him, but Gregor was definitely it was definitely gassed out, carried

the guy. He carried the guy like, I mean, look, we'll just agree to disagreeing. Okay, that's all We're gonna agree to disagree here. Uh you know Church and I still think he's a great fighter. Okay, but it's the equivalent of of you know, ls you putting Tech on the schedule. You put him in one because we're about to get this done. He man, my boy brought up. I wasn't gonna say nothing. I wasn't gonna say that about LSU. But man, my boy brought it up. Man,

I gotta ask you. I gotta ask you, bro, what happened? Bro? What happened? We still happened this week? We listen, we still were still to reign the national champions. All right. Let me tell you something. We lost a lot of talent last season. And on top of that, Jamar Chase not playing. Uh, Terence Marshall opted out quarterback, starting quarterback for the season has been hurt. Hadn't played since I think Week three, you know, and we're going through we're

going through code COVID is less of excuse. But we lost a lot and we still are playing with all a lot of stuff that we expected to have. Our defense, on the other hand, no excuse for it. We look like Mike Nolan's run defense. I don't know, bupaliny struggling. We're having it. We're having an issue, and uh, you know, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. I just don't understand. I didn't even think we was gonna come forty points spread this week. Damn man. I brought up laar tech. I

brought up law tech. That's all. I was just out schedule. Church. I didn't bring up that, Okay, Church Winter, I didn't go there, Okay, I didn't. So I answered, We're still a reigning national champions. I'm cool with that. Okay. Cowboys offensive line. By the way, you've got Zack Martin put on the irs, so he's going to miss the next three games. Cam Irving's not playing, so you left the right tackles in this game are out. Um, how do

the Cowboys slow down the Ravens? By the way, Matthew Judan is going to be out for the Ravens in this football game? How do you? How do you? How do you go and make it get done? Here? Trying to block the calais Campbell's of the world. This is a This is a good defense they're facing here. It's

an extremely good defense. And we saw how good it was because the first half of that Pittsburgh game, they pretty much held Pittsburgh under wraps, I would say, the first three quarters, and they were missing, like you said, Klais Campbell, a couple of other Cats on that defense. So this is a good defense. Man. It's a good front seven, but I think the strength of it is in their secondary. So overall this, I mean, this defense, it's stacked, and it's gonna be hard to move the

ball on this team. But we're gonna have to be able to do something offensively because we gotta win some type of time in possession against this guy. We cannot let Lamar Jackson have multiple cracks at our defense. I mean, we gotta figure out a way to drain the cloud. Limit him on the side, keep him on ice, keep him on sidelines, because he's gonna be out here and he's gonna hurt our defense overall. I mean, he's just too dynamic and throwing the ball and running the ball

for our defense to do anything with them. So for me to be able to slow him down this game. We gotta keep him on ice and we have to put together some type of long drive with scores at the end of him keep him on ice. But it's gonna be tough. Now overall, it's gonna be extremely tough against this this Ravens team. Man, here comes the broken record, Dady with Craig here. All right, listen, let me tell

you something. Last week, all right, I talked about getting them, or actually for the whole season, getting the ball to Zeke, getting the ball to Coop. All right, in my opinion, these guys have to touch the ball sixty percent of the snaps at least for us to have a chance to keep Lamar Jackson off the field and win time on position. If that means you have to target Amari Cooper twelve to thirteen times, and that's I mean, if

not just in the first half. If you're talking them twelve in the first half, you need twelve in the second half. Keep on going to him, wear out whoever is covering him, and run the ball with Zeke and Polar. You have to continue to do this for the entire game. Don't get cute once you start having some success and start throwing the ball all over the place, stick with the game plan, and I think that I think that

will work for us. Every time we've done it. We came back here and we said, listen, we would have kept doing that, we would have won a game. Oh, we would have had a better chance of doing it. So I think if we stick with that the whole game, I think we have a that's our best chance. But what all right, so what if what if Zeke we're giving him the ball? Lets say it's the first half when we gave him fifteen carries and he's only in mass thirty five yards. Do you say in the second

half that we need to continue running into that brick wall? Absolutely? First off, we Kelli Kellen Moore giving somebody fifteen carries the first half. Stop Okay, stop, stop kidding. Hypothetical. Okay, but that start right, Okay, stop, that's like the old old dude we gotta do. We got a six pack. I mean, come on, let's let's be reading fifteen carries.

Ain't no fifteen carries coming from the Zeke hypathetically. Hypothetically, man, let's just say everything aligns for some crazy reason and Kellen Moore ends up giving Zeke the rock fifteen times, but it doesn't do anything with it. Let's just say he only gets thirty five yards on fifteen. You continue with him. Listen, how many times have you've seen a defensive line get worn out after they begetting leaned on for the first three quarters by an offensive line. It

happens all the time. And if Zeke is punishing. Listen, if those two or three yards are punishing runs to where he's falling forward and leaning on those linebackers and leaning on those defensive backs, I guarantee you third and fourth quarter, it'd be a totally different story. We've seen Zeke do this. We've seen de Marco Murray do this throughout their entire time while they was here. Sometimes the first half doesn't go as planning, but if you stick

with the run, it'll happened. As a matter of fact, I wanted to give a shout out to JAG because they stuck with the run by Man. Goldman went for thirty one forty and the first half it seemed like nothing, and then he breaks off a sixty and seventy yard run like this type of stuff can happen. I guarantee you that Zeke is better than Goldman. He can make this type of stuff happen, but you got to be

committed to it. And that's not something that Mike McCarthy has shown during his time when he was in Green Bay. Certainly not when he was here. And even Kellen Moore, Kellen Moore will stick with it a little bit, but it's never been his thing and told us fifteen carries in the first let me stop that. Stop stop night. That's why I'm not picking him to win another game this season. Oh man, respect on here is okay? We actually churned. I'm lying. Oh yeah, I'm I'm lying. I

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checking out the players Lounge. We are in our SWBC Mortgage Homes Studios, newy Scrubs along with Barry Church and Danie mccraig former Dallas Cowboys safeties here. Okay, Um. We frequently have these debates and people can misremember it's Roger Clement's wants like to say, um. But Barry Church is very adamant that he was always on Dalton Schultz. He was on the shouts and mc cray, I'm just gonna

go ahead and let you take it for them, my man. Yeah. Yeah, listen, last week as we were exiting the week, you know, we talked about, you know, the most surprising players on the roster, and then he's named Shultz, and I was like, yeah, you know, you were the guy, you know who agreed with all of us when we said we don't know a Dalton Schultz is the man because he was out there dropping the passes. The lights might have been too bright, and Church said he didn't agree with that. Who me?

So you know I heard in my little research, I went back and checked the podcast, and you know, see when whenever you get a chance. Can you play that clip for us? And as far as the tight end goes with Blake Jarwin going down Dalton Schultz, yes, they say he had a pretty impressive camp out there, but the way he performed in week one dropping those passes, I just don't think he's the answer at tight end. So we have to who have to us keep looking for that one? But was that very church? He's the

ansir man? You know what? At that time, At that time, I was frustrated. I was frustrated. At that time, boy had came out a game dropping a lot of passes, and I'll be I didn't think he was the answer. But I don't remember saying that, man, you know what, It was so long ago. I don't remember saying that. But you know what, they keep receipts man, and y'all kept the receipts on me. That's all right. That's all

right though. So so, like I always said, y'all, day's coming, man, So wait wait, so just so we're all so we're all an agreement on this. That was you on on tape saying that they ain't got me on tape many so they did find me on the spot man, and Look, that's that's that's okay, that's okay. But you know what I mean, this is good time. Come on out here. Just just just follow the sword man. Apologize, that's all. That's just how I apologize for nothing. I ain't can

look look, dog dog shows he's a fine player. He's a fine player. And he stepped up more than I thought he would. That's what. That's the most back for the boy. Man. That's that's all y'all gonna say. Out of your boy. Man. If you, if you, if you, if you watch a dB video on how to backpedal, man, that but Church, right there, he just showed you how to do it. Man, that was perfect. That was that was a teaching tape right there. Man. How y'all think I was able to How y'all think I was able

to last so long in the league? Guy? It only ran a four to six at best. It was all about technique and me and sound all right. I'm good on my back pedals. Man, Church, you didn't just go into politics, man, I mean sitting there telling me lies and trying to back him back and act like he'dnt saying, I mean you ready to run for office? Man? Ain't you ain't got video. You ain't got video of it, man,

I don't know that could be somebody else's boys. Man, you say now, you didn't say okay, okay, over over under of how many catches for Dez Bryant against the Cowboys tomorrow night in Baltimore, D D. Mac. I'm gonna give him him a five piece with Sneet out Andrew's out. I think he's gonna be the guy who who catches a few screen passes and they're gonna try to expose the strength wise and use history to their advantage. So

I'm gonna give him five catches. I don't know what he's gonna do with him, but I say sixty sixty seventy yards, which he would probably be the leading receiver on the on the team who throwing some work sixty yards. Absolutely, listen, let me tell you something I know. I know one thing about Lamar Jackson. He is all about helping guys, you know, when they want to try to approve a point. He wanted to help Antonio Brown try to get back out there, approve a point and show that he could

steal ball. And he wants to help Desk Bryant, especially coming back and well, and playing against the Cowboys, he wants to show them that they made a mistakes. So I think they're going to try to feed this m all right. I mean, I hope that doesn't happen because that means our defense is getting gashed. But I'm gonna go ahead and say I'm gonna go ahead and say he gets three catches for thirty yards, but he does get one tub. I feel like they're gonna be in

the red zone. They're gonna give him a shot at that, you know, fifty fifty jump all which he used to make a living off here in Dallas, So I think they give him an opportunity at that. He goes up there and Moss is one of those those young dds out there and get to touchdown. But I got him. I got him three for thirty. We we'll be down by thirty at that time, so yeah, it'll be trash points, but it'll still count. I'm good they're not gonna lose that.

I was exaggerated. Now, who's back pedaling? Uh, it was a joke. I got a joke. I got desk for two catches for sixteen yards. Of course, of course, he does question after after each catch does he throw up the X after each guy, because I would. I don't care if I had one catch up there, I'm five yards. I'm like this, you're the game. He didn't have a catch the last game, he'd haven't catch the last game they're facing the Cowboys got the shoes. So so I've

got him catching two passes. I mean, I'm you know, that's that's you know, that's how many to me? How many catches did he have the last time Lamark Jackson

was playing quarterback? I don't know, yeah, four for twenty eight, I think after I'm just saying so that that like that, that's not even listen if you you're doing the same thing that Mike mccarthur name was doing watching the film of RG three out there playing quarterback, saying this is how we're gonna stop to stop them my offense, and you will come out here and be surprised on Tuesday. Don't do that. Lamark Jackson's playing quarterback on Tuesday, not

RG three. Well, I also have that number low because I believe they're going to run and run and run until they can't run anymore. So I anticipate to see a heavy Ravens running game. So let's get into the predictions here, gentlemen, who wins this football game and give me a score? Let's start with you Church, Well, you're gonna start with me. Huh Hills Damas today he need to call though it's just churned. Well, all right, man, Look, this is gonna be a tough one. Man. I'm gonna

be completely honest. It's gonna be tough, man, because they present so many problems offensively, defensively. I mean they're stacked in all three levels defensive linebackers and in the secondary. So it's gonna be tough for the Cowboys. But man, like I told my boys on the break, I look, I made my bed. I gotta laying it now. So I'm gonna go ahead and go with the Cowboys on

this one. I gotta find they gotta find a way to move the ball offensively, keep Lamar Jackson on ice over there, and just limit his opportunities to go out there and gash our defense. It's a lot easier said than done, but I got the Cowboys in this game. Twenty four twenty one. Well, we could tell you to

believe what you just said, we can. We can absolutely that you did not believe that the Cowboys were going to hold the Ravens to twenty one points and we were somehow for more than them by by a field goal while the Ravens are are at home. I don't I don't get it, but I'm going to of course knewy, like you said, you know exactly where I'm going with this, the opposite yes of Barry Church. And I'm listen and I've been I've been picking a lot of blowouts, lady.

I should have picked the blowout against the uh, the Washington football team, but no, Damas had me. He had me shook man. So I'm gonna go ahead and take my blue outs back and put him on record here, and I'm gonna go with a thirty five to twenty one and we scoring trash time. Bez gets him a touchdown five kits to sixty yards and he shows that he can still ball. Wow. Um, Cowboys are gonna be all off almost close to two weeks. You know when

this when this game kicks off. And all we had to do is look at what the Ravens and the Steelers did last week, last Tuesday, and these guys were offered just a week. Um and and miss practice time, so the Cowboys off also dealing with the Marcus Paul funeral here offensive line issues. I think the Ravens end up taking this game twenty seven to seventeen. Ten point Ravens winning this football game, and and the Cowboys, uh, you know, they get touchdowns out of it in the

field goal, but that's what I see I see happening there. Um. I just I just think this is a very tough road to home, and also Baltimore has to win. I mean, you know, Cleveland has basically put them out of reach or trying to get the second place, and they're just trying to fight to get into the playoffs right now. So the Ravens they can win out and still get in.

And I think that's what they've got to do. And they've got to start with this Cowboys game, getting guys back from covid um and seeing what they can do, because they're gonna be a couple of players here who've been off a little longer. So that's why I got him scoring twenty seven and not where you got him Danny scoring a little bit higher, just because I think some of the guys like Lamar Jackson may be off a little bit too and before they get rolling and

pull away. I'm glad you said that because I was just about to say, Man, I think I see a little cool later in your cup. Ten point win by the Ravens at home. Yeah, I means played good. The Plowboys played good after bye weeks win. They played good after bye weeks. Man. That Minnesota game was after a bio. Man, So I don't know, I don't know that it might come out here on the liar. Can let me put a disclaimer on my twenty seven twenty seven seventeen This

is without John Fossil calling a trick play on special team. Okay, a trick play then I'm gonna throw another seven points on there for Baltimore. So I'm gonna just say this, No, man, you don't get that. You don't get that. You have to go into this knowing that he's called multiple trick plays and say this is how you have to pick your pick your score, and you can't say if he if he calls one, the dude is go that has

it worked in multiple games? So now that that's not a way for you to to rig your score like that. We need to know your your true score. Now, I mean, I can't be like Church. Church got all these disclaims, No, oh, don't we try to throw it on me man in twenty seven seventeen. And the fact that, oh, by the way, they also know Andy Dalton, um, I think that's also

a big benefit for week Martindale. He already knows and they've got a track record against Andy Dalton, and I think they'll be in to win this, win this football game. Offensive line, that's It's just I cannot stress that enough. This is a tough defense. We saw what they did against Pittsburgh. Now you got the Cowboys. He got off another offensive line combination here, you're trying to work out.

This is tough and Lord knows this. Please don't anybody to get hurt on this Cowboys offensive line because it can get rougher, man, it can get rougher. It can. This is a tough game, man, It should be a tough game. It is. And look, they got their hands full because look, I played with Klai's Campbell for two years down in Jacksonville, and he's arguably the best D lineman I've ever been around in my life. So he's

coming back with something to prove. Was he missed out that last game with COVID, So it's gonna be tough for that whole offensive line. Man, I just man, just play out, just play out of your mind. They just got to play out of their mind. Strong, strong statement from my but Barry in the show Man, because now I gotta put up the Marcus versus Calais Campbell Church, Church. Have you ever shaking anybody's hand that's as big as Klais campbels like a bear, Paul Man shaking his hand.

This dude is like his arms go down to his shins. Man Like this dude, he about six eight. His arm length is unreal. And then he kind of rocks like slouched over because he's so tall. So you think, man, there's no explosion in that body. Man when he hits to field. That dude is just like an explosive dynamite out there. Man. It's and it's crazy that he's doing it. I think he's in year like fourteen or fifteen and still playing at a high level. Cowboys got their hands full.

We talk about that next week, About that next week? All right, all right, we will definitely do that. Barry Church, Danny mccraig, good good, good chat with your fellas. Let's enjoy the Cowboy game. We are off tomorrow, so no players lambs tomorrow. We'll get back into things on Wednesday and we'll review this review this game, so good chat, good chat. Also, Chris Beam, our our producer. We appreciate you. Um that's the Players Lounge, appreciate you. Roll time goodbye.

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