Player's Lounge: Enough Time To Fix It?

I'm Newe Scruggs players Large Box by Hotels dot Com, joined by four Dallas Cowboys safeties, Buried Churchy McCray, and I give Barry Church all the credit in the world because he said on Friday that Arizona will win the game. Yeah. I was twenty two, the Cowboys twenty four. So mister Church, how did you know, baby? How did you know? Well, you know, in the streets they called me Nigro damas man, so I you know I was. I was taken back to my by Nostromo man. And uh I knew, I

knew man going into this game. It was just a tough matchup, tough matchup, overall, you got one of the most explosive running quarterbacks in the game, Rick Kyler Murray and the way he's able to escape and not only use his legs but also his arm. I mean, the guy was deadly accurate out there yesterday. So I figured this would be a tough matchup for US. Um I didn't throw. I didn't know it was gonna get that

out of hand at first. You know, we've been We battled back, you know, made it close towards the second half. But that first half really stunned me because Arizona they were without James Connor fourteen rushing touchdowns, they were without their two starting corners on the outside. So I thought, you know, maybe this would be kind of a shootout, maybe Cayla Murray would be able to squeak by with a field goal here there. But it wasn't like that

at all, and they started fast. We once again started and we didn't get that effort or we didn't put that emphasis on getting number nineteen to football early and often. We saw it last week. It worked unbelievable. We got him the ball that opened up everything else for the run game, for the other receivers out there, and it just didn't happen. We we instead of you know, fed Dalton Scholtz a lot, and you know, the what happens

is what happened. We ended up out there taking the l Defensively, I think they played as good as they could have against this team, but they were dialed in. They were dialed in, and eventually, eventually Diggs is not gonna bite on the double move. One of these days, he's not gonna bite on this double move. They were able to take advantage of him on the outside. I think A. J. Greener had one of his better games

as well. So overall, I mean, I think it was a Colin Murray show and he took over this game and went nine to know and Jerry World. Now, yeah, you know, goodness gracious, yeah, I'll start. I'll start where you ended off with Diggs. I'm open to, like, listen, I'll take the interceptions for him getting beat on a double move, all right, That's that's it comes with the territory when you when you have Trade Diggs on your team. But his ability to change the game, that's something that

I'll take, right. But I think what happened when him was he got hit with a dove move at the beginning, and then aj Green just kept hitting him with to come back, come back, so he didn't want to jump it after that. So I think they set him up on that end. But I still think he played a decent game. Like nobody went crazy on him. Anthony Brown had had a tough game. He's going to continue to find the ball coming toward him until he's able to figure out the way to stop those stop those throws.

But I think the biggest thing is offensively. We talked about this last week. The defense, like the offense. We're not gonna say the week link, but you have a strength in your defense, right and you say, hey, man, if this team can score twenty four like new He literally said, this team can score twenty four points somewhere in that range, then we should be able to win games. We go out there, we miss a field goal which would have gave us a twenty fifth point, and we

lose the game. And I'm looking at these people and they're like, yeah, the defense, I'm not like, what else you want them to do? They held these dudes the fourth field goals they gave and the offense gave them the ball in their own territory. You know what, I'm saying, that they've been but not but don't break it. And I think that was I think that was a help of performers by the defense. I think they came out listen, this is why I think they had Colin Murray under

pressure the entire night. All Right, he was able to get out and scramble. But when you when you have your you on the on the field for seven eight minutes, offense gets back up there, it goes three and out. You know what I'm saying, Like you, you have to find a way to play balanced football. And I think for the amount of time that our defense was on the field, I think they did as much as they could, like you said, to keep us in the game. They

gave us every opportunity that we needed. And then we also got a fumble at the end, and we don't got the tip. We don't have the timehouse to fix it. I think our biggest issue here is the offense. Like you said, we don't find a way to feature nineteen and twenty one in the game, we will not win consistently. Uh. When you got two targets to Cede Lamb and Uh and Amari Cooper and nine carries to Ezekiel Ella, you do not have a success a recipe for success, and

I just don't think it makes sense. And we're gonna keep saying this weekend and week out, but it's obviously not gonna change. Let's go to the offense. Let's let's talk about this offense for a little bit, because you know, you know, I think it's hard for me to say this, but you know, they were out coached by click Pingsbury. He got the better of this group as a whole, as a team, He got the better of this whole Dallas Cowboys team. Because we look at it and we

saw from the very beginning Arizona's defense was blitzing. They blitzed about seventy to eighty percent of the time against the Dallas Cowboys. Yet we're still calling plays where Dad's gotta take a five step drop, Dad's gotta being shotgun holding the ball for a long time while these routes are developing. If you see these guys coming on a consistent basis, you can't get anything going. You gotta call some plays where the ball gets out of Dak's hands.

Quick screens, uh, you know, short three step drop some slants, something to get the ball out of his hands quick to slow down that pass rush and slow down there BLI. But we didn't do that, and Arizona just kept dialing it up, dialing it up, and then once again, we don't have great blocking tight ends. Why an't we continuously leaving these tight ends Shoults, Sprinkle, whoever's out there on All Pro defensive ends, Chandler Jones. We've seen it from

the group. Arizona's defense does not get going unless Chandler Jones gets going, and he got it going early and often in that football game. And for the life of me, I just don't understand why we're leaving Dalton shots, who's a receiving tight end. He's never he's never acted like he was one of the best blocking tight ends. If you want to put a block, put McEwen in there, the big kid from Michigan. Put him in there to

go ahead and try to block. But you got Sholts out there blocking against an All Pro defensive end, one of the best defensive ends in all of football. And that's what the results is gonna happen. The guy's gonna get strip sacks. The guy's gonna make his energy just be felt throughout that entire defense. They built up on that momentum that the rest was history. We just couldn't

get out of the whole. Well. One of the things that we have talked about here on the players Lounge is running the football here and it was a tale of two teams who decided to run the football. Arizona made a commitment to the run. He start looking at them and what they did for the football game. They had twenty second half rushes alone, and for the game they had thirty two rushes on one hundred and twenty seven yards on the football on the ground. Meanwhile, the

Dallas Cowboys basically abandoned the run. In the first half. Ezekiel Elliot actually the whole game, Ezekiel Elliet had nine rushers for sixteen yards. Tony Pollard had three rushes for nine yards. But here's the damning stats for me. In the second half, Zeke had two rushes for zero yards

and Tony Pollard had zero rushes. How in the world can you go into a football game and you tell me that you have those two running backs and they only get two carries in the second half and Dak Prescott ends up being your leading rusher for the entire football game. To me, that's a failure. Listen, let me tell you something and I can hear it now. We

had negative plays. We had negative plays. Two of those negative players I can see right now, Chandler Jones run straight through Dalts Shows and it's and it's and it's a negative. It's a negative play. And I'm not fault faulting Dalton Shows for this. If you're going to put the emphasis on running the ball, put a tackle out there, like what who? It doesn't matter, right, If they know that you're gonna run the ball, they already lining up with eating the box. Anyways, put a tackle out there.

Make sure you get this guy blocked, and do not let him wreck the game because he moved the line of scrimmage. And then now Zeke has no where to go. And you're like, man, well, Zeke ain't doing nothing. Now, it's not Zeke, it's not Zeke. It's your scheme. You know all year we've been watching Dalts and Shows blocked and it's like, no, he's a receiver tight end, so I'm not facing him for this. But help him out,

Help him out. This a year in and year out, about helping people when you know that they lack at the at a certain skill. Right, if he's not that good of a run blocker, help him out, a put a tackle out there. You got you got Terrence still sitting on the bench, Go put him out there, bro

help him. It just it doesn't make sense. And then when you see those negative type of runs, I think that's when the offensive coordinator goes, oh, yeah, well we can't run the ball, and then it just turns into this Tampa Bay game where everybody thought it was amazing when we played Tampa. But you continue to try that throughout the entire season, and you're gonna end up just like you ended up twelve rushes for twenty yards and then Dak Prescott all of a sudden being your leading

rusher because you have not emphasized running the ball. You will not win playoff games that way. You cannot play that way and win, especially when your defense is doing everything they can, but they end up being on the field for extended period of time, and sometimes that happens like it happens like you're gonna play teams they're able to put those type of drives together. Now when the offense gets back out there, they can't go three and the out. You gotta help. You gotta find a way

to help your squad. Right, if you run the ball twice, it go three and out least you giving them two three minutes you get out there and just start hacking and you ain't getting the first down. Your defense like, man, what what what are we doing? Five six weeks we on this. And this is another example of how I think Cliff Kingsbury, you know, got the better of this Cowboys team, because if you look at Arizona's game plan, the outside of a couple, you know, Kyler Murray scrambles,

you take those scrambles away. They didn't run the ball crazy, they didn't gash us or anything like that. Chase Edmonds wasn't killing. But what they did was they never gave up on the run game, which kept this defense honest. Was kept Cowboys defense honest. We know when a team is forced to throw the football, our defensive ends Parsons Gregory the Law, they're gonna pin their ears back and they're gonna get ready to go. But since Arizona put that run game and didn't give up on it, even

though it wasn't producing nothing. They might have gotten, you know, two point five yards to carry outside of Kyler murray scrambles. Even though it wasn't producing nothing. It kept that defense honest. So they couldn't just pin the ear back and turn the corner and go after the quarterback. They had to make sure it wasn't a run and then go to it. And that helps slow down our pass rush and eventually let Kyla Murray be as effective as he was. So

the Cowboy run game. Let's start to dissect this a little bit here. What do we put on the offensive line. It's in terms of the struggles that were seeing from this football team and not being able to run. You know, I put a little bit on the old line. But it's hard because they were going against eight man boxes the entire time, because Arizona doesn't believe that our past game and Dak Prescott's arm can beat them. If you saw it, a lot of those times, there was you know,

eight guys up in the line of scrimmage. Whether they were blitzing or backing out, they were still giving that look to where you're sitting there thinking, Okay, there's no way we can run against this eight man box. But to your credit, Danny, you talked about it earlier in the season. Even though they have that look, sometimes you still gotta just hit that battering ram. Sometimes you still gotta just go at that wall to keep them honest,

similar to what Arizona did to us. But when you don't have that, you know when you gotta I gotta check up out here, I gotta pass the football. It creates problems, and it creates trouble for your offense. And listen, let me tell you something that And they also goes into the fact that you see, we tried to run the boot. You know why it didn't work. We ain't

running the ball, abody, You're not fooling anybody. This is the same reason Dak Prescott throws that pick at the end of the I believe it's a Washington game where you're like, man, what is going on? If we run the boot, linebacker doesn't really bite on. He biting on a little bit and then he's able to get back underneath the route. The same thing here. If you are not going to focus on the run game, we are

not the only team who sees eight man boxes. Because teams are gonna dare us to throw it, but we are seeming to be the only team who does not have any answer for it except throw it. We cannot find a way. Like last week we came out, we're pulling guys. Layel's pulling, Zack Barnes's pulling, like we're figuring

out ways to get guys on the edge. And this year, I mean this week, it seemed like that creativity was just was lost and gone, like we have no we have no identity, and our identities should be run through twenty one and get the ball to nineteen. Somehow we cannot figure out how to get it. I'm still looking at the game. I'm saying central Russe comes in and he's catching Oh oh listen, greatness to him. That should

not be him. It should be nineteen like getting these passos because because other than that, he is like literally not on the field. Ye that's the true. So do you think it's more not you know, the offensive line getting beat, you know, man on man or whatever. You think it's more of a lack of attempts? Absolutely? Absolutely, you cannot go into a game with Ezekiel Elliott. He ends the game with nine gears for sixteen yards. Yeah,

lack of a like, how can he get going? Like he's not a necessarily a pass catching running back, right, he is a like down the throat, punish you. And then at the end of the game is where he starts to wear on you. Well, ain't nobody. You ain't wearing no nobody with no nine runs, and earlier in that game he looked like he has some juice, Like he looked early in the game he had a couple of runs where you know, he got through the lane scrimmage, show a little bit of burst there. But you know,

we just didn't stick with it long enough. This I don't know why this is how you know those those excuses A BS one is all right, we you know we got a stack box, so we're not gonna give it to Zeke nexus. We're gonna wrest him a little bit because his knee hurt. What's the excuse? Now, you're the man in the ball, right, you got one hundred and ninety million dollars to who you are not focusing on on? This team? Makes absolutely no sense. One hundred

and ninety Newey one hundred and ninety ms. It's a lot of ms. I went back here, just started breaking down the numbers in the second half, seventeen pass attempts by the Cowboys offense to seven runs, and of those seven runs, only two of them were by the running backs. So seventeen or two man that is a damning number. And that's not what Mike McCarthy has called for this year, he says, complimentary football. Mike's talked about that all offseason long.

And so for me, I wonder when is the conversation the head coach has with the coordinator and the quarterback about what you're calling or what you're checking into, because you're just abandoning the run, and clearly yesterday you weren't effective at all in the football game and you became predictable. Do you think it's more of what Dak is deciding to check into up in the line street because we've seen it a bunch of times last week, or yeah,

this week. This past week he was at the line of scrimmage and it seemed like almost every play in that first half he was checking out of something, or whether it was making a line twitch or checking from past or run, whatever the case may be. Do you think it's more of him doing that or what Kellen's calling. Let me tell you because also to that what happened

to the tempo like timpo? Timpo is gone when you line up on the on the ball and then you don't snap until his five seconds left because you're checking all over the place. I think it's both of them, but I think Kellen Moore has the opportunity and he has to say so to say, hey man, this is what we're going out here to run. You might have two checks. Run or pass right and based off what you see. If it's a man box, I want you to throw this ball to nineteen. If he's covered, then

go to read number two. If it's seven in the box and you see too high running the ball right or left, that is it. But you think that he can tell him that, I mean, this is this is a guy. I mean, he's not a face in a rookie. This is a guy that they gave all that money too. Yeah, you as coach? Yes you if you If you cannot tell him that, then then who are you? Right? You

are his coach? Right? Then Quinn can go out there and tell any one of them dudes to line up and play how we practice on plan all right, and Kelly Moore should be able to do that as well, Especially if you have aspirations of being a head coach, you need to be able. You gotta have that type of control over your quarterback. You can say whatever you want to. I know knew he's gonna like this about Jason Garrett and what he did. But when he went out there called to run, they're gonna run the ball.

He went out there and said throw at eighty eight. They're gonna throw at eighty eight. Can we get just a little of that? We don't have to be all that. Can we get a little of Marie Cooper is out here in the press scene, give me the ball? You go to him one game against the Washington football team, who doesn't have all these players. And when you go out here against the team that is a playoff team, that is a litmus test for you. You go out

here and you sleep walk into this thing. It makes absolutely no sense for the play callers perspective, and from the quarterback if it's him who's checking out of these plays. Yeah, I mean, you would love your coordinator to be able to you know, like you said, talking to be like, hey, just what we need to do, get it done or But it's like a different dynamic between those two because

they were teammates at one time. You know, they were teammates at one time than Kellen Moore was the quarterback coach that so it ain't like he just came in and was like, yeah, I'm the boss. You are, you know, I mean, you're the student. You're to eat the pupil you They was at the same level. So I can see where it's hard for Kelly Moore to just be like, no, you better do this or else. Plus, when you give a guy a paycheck like that, I mean, it's it's gonna be hard just you know, to just put him

in his place. But you know, it needs to happen. Something needs to happen, something needs to change with his offense. Oh well, Kellen Moore has got a job interview with the Jacksonville Jacks this week, affording Tom pla sero of NFL dot Com. So maybe this is the final couple of weeks of Dak Prescott and Kellen Moore working together. We we shall see. Let us take a break here. Our first one here on the players Lives, brought to

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unineted toward details and joined today. You are in the Players Lolenge, brought to you by Hotels dot Com. I'm Neuis Scruggs, joined by former Dallas Cowboys safeties Barry Church and Danny McCrae. All right, guys, here's the stat that it's pretty damn it. The Cowboys that faced four Pro Bowl quarterback team. They've got a one, one and three record against those quarterbacks. They beat Justin Herbert, but then proceeded to lose to Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes and yesterday

Kyler Murray. So the Cowboys have eleven wins. They're six and five against teams. I mean, you start thinking against, you take away the nfcast, and then that record is almost a five hundred record against other teams. So how should we view the Cowboys outside of beating up on these divisional teams? You should view them, is what you say, are who we thought they were at this point? All right, I'm still gonna say this. I still think that we

are a good team defensively. I think that if we don't find a way to find some balance and help our defense out to where we all of a sudden, if we don't get three turnovers in the game, we can't win. Because now we're starting to see that the defense is really carrying you by giving you these extra possessions. So now if they can only give you one, if they can't give you any, but they can still hold these teams to field goals and you still can't score touchdowns,

that we don't have a shot. Right. So the offense that I thought we had at the beginning of the year when we were playing against Tampa, but we didn't run the ball, which I said was gonna be our Achilles Hill, it's not the offense that is playing right now. We are literally they have. I believe they have found Kelly Moore out. I believe that we're literally just out there running routes and these teams are able to get underneath these routes by playing zoner man and stop us.

We have not been able to say my guy is better than yours. This is not a scheme. This is just as what me. I'm gonna line up with Mark Cooper, let him run a slant, let him run a go, let him run out, and let him beat the guy across from and we have not been able to do that. And it's disappointed because I watched the Green Bay game last night and I watched the Adam it's not even it's not scheme. He said, hey man, you run this way and I'm gonna throw you the ball. It's not

that hard, bro. So when I'm until we find a way to get some balance. Was we only got one game, and you better not sleep on Philly. You better not sleep We got one We got one game to get this thing right and find some balance. And I think, you know, unfortunately, I think it's a little too late to find that type of to find that type of balance, especially in your run game. Yeah, I mean I agree with everything you said. And once again, I tried to

tell y'all weeks ago knew he had Danny. I tried to tell y'all weeks ago, we were feasting on bad quarterbacks. We were feasting on Mike Glennon, we were feasting on Taylor, Heinik Jake from those type of guys, and you can only play who's in front of you. So that in the defense that they did their job, they did what they had to do and above force and four turnovers

doing all that great stuff. They were playing amazing. But what got me nervous was when we get to the playoffs, I'm no so sure we're gonna be playing those terrible quarterbacks. We're gonna have to go against some better quarterbacks, saying last year and yesterday we went against one of the better quarterbacks in the National Football League and Kyler Murray. Now,

not everybody is dynamic as Kyler Murray like. He was able to buy time, extend the pocket, and he was able to do a lot of things that a lot of other quarterbacks can't do. But we gotta find a way defensively to just I mean, it's hard to say step it up even more but when your offense is struggling the way it is and you can't get turned and you can't get a takeaway, you're gonna have to do something and it's gonna have to be better on third down or something like that. They were seven to

sixteen last night on third down. I'm talking about the Arizona Cardinals, and usually this Dallas defense is the number one defense on third down. They've been helping Cats to only thirty percent on third down the entire season. Yesterday that wasn't the case. You know, Arizona was able to keep drives alive, keep moving the football and tiring out this defense. I mean, we've seen drives of ninety one yards again, they had another one of eighty some yards.

It was just the long sustained drive eighty by penalties. Yea, I'll give you that as well by penalties. But it's just something that this defense has to do when they're not getting takeaways. They've got to be better on third down and in the offense. I think it just is what it is right now. They just can't get out their way. They seem to not have an identity or

really a solution to not having an identity. So it's got to be on this defense right now, and that makes me nervous going into the playoffs when we have to face against a quarterback. We ain't winning like that. Yeah, tough, So we're not going to be able to win games

if the defense has to do everything. Yeah, and I'm not taking anything away from the offense, but what Kyler Murray and then they were number one team before they went on the slide, all right, We went through the same the same type of slump, all right, so good teams do go through slumps. But when he was able to wake up and they offense started to look at

least half of what they were. Our defense is holding them to field goals and giving the offense opportunities even when Dak is fum running his own territory and we

held them to like we're holding these guys. You have to find a way to then find the momentum and score some points, and not specifically just at the end, because right, you stopped this team five or six times and then you're like, all right, now we gotta stop them three more times where the offense comes back like it don't work that way, right, It's like not a defense got to hold they've been holding all games like that Kansas City game, like it was just like, man,

we again. Everywhere it's in the group chat, like again, this defense is going to hold them again, and they were able to do it. But I mean, it's just a matter of time before a great quarterback is able to take much well. And then and then a miscommunication or or being out coast where we got tricked out of that time out, your defense actually cause us the turnover that you need, right like, we need our defensive

step up and make a play. They did, they did, but you don't have the time out the challenge and not yet the ref did miss it. But it happens all the time. You have to try to find a way to make sure that you know what's coming at you so you don't waste the time out like that. And it ended up literally killing us at the end

of the game. Because I'm still on the defense, whether we might not end up top ten, but I'm telling you this, that defense when it was time for them to make plays, they did, and then at the end of the game when Dak started coming back, they still made more plays to get you back in the game. They caused that turnover. We didn't get it, but they are still able to turn the ball over and that's

always gonna give you a chance in the game. But if your offense is is sleeping through the first three quarters, then you don't have a shot to start fast. Yeah, because you look at the way that Arizona was able to play at the end. They were able to just continue to try to run the time, run the time, mother tick. We don't need to score. They don't have time to come back. And you saw that at the end of the game and Greg de leg you know, uh, hook them left, man. I mean we started we started.

We started this in the Tampa game. Okay, we started us in the Tampa game. And we've been seeing this throughout the whole season. We've been seeing this throughout the whole night. He ain't been horrible, but when when these moments coming you had you had to start tallying up to these points. You're like, where we love him on the field that it's coming from the field goal because it's fun to you because it's not like it's a nutcutting time where it's like, you know, fives. He's usually

good in that in that area. When it's you know, it's the last kick he has to make it. It's those ones where it's like, oh, this is routine, he can do this, this is a forty yard this is you know, this is this is easy, this is and boom he misses it. Then you're just like, oh man, what's going on there? You chasing points the entire game, and when you're going to get a quarterback like Kyler Murray,

you can't give him extra shots like that. Look, this guy was let go by the Rams and they haven't missed him at all because the Pro Bowl kicker on the NFC squad this year is is Matt Gay, who's with the Rams. So clearly they knew what was going on, and you saw John Fossil come here. They gave Greg's

earline a big contract. I don't know whether Mike McCarthy's got any say or any or what happens with this field goal kicker, because clearly it feels like Bones Fossil is the one in charge running things when it comes to the kicking unit. Now. I asked him specifically two questions after the Thanksgiving that game about this kicker, and he told me he had confidence in him. And then yesterday he was like, well, you know we're in the playoffs situation. Now he knows what he's got to do.

So it's like he's coming off this a little bit like, hey, man, I wasn't crazy. This dude is problem. We saw himss two extra points against the Giants and I wrote down this just going back to three games. Man, that three point lost to Arizona, he missed the field goal. That three point loss to Las Vegas, he missed the field goal and an extra point. Then you go back to that two point loss against Tampa Bay, he missed the

field goal, an extra point. That's three football games right there, where if he did his job, we're probably talking about a different outcome for the Dallas Cowboys. Man, this guy's not been good. And after the season, I don't want to hear anymore of this who he about, how he's the guy he's kind of having a bunch of competence in the camp, okay, because that dude had no competition at camp. Guys, there were times when we were like

we go see a field goal. We went weeks without seeing a field goal at him because bones Fossil was like, yeah, he's coming off surgery, he's gonna be good. We're good We got him, and McCarthy's like, man, he's kicked the team to a super Bowl. He's all us. This is a bunch of bulljive. Man, This dude is mediocre at best. He'd kicked you out the number two seed, that's what he did. It kicks you to the four. But since we're on special teams, man, I gotta give a shout

out to our guy, man c J. Goodwin. Once again, Man, he is making plays and I'm surprised he didn't get that, you know, special Team's Pro Bowl. Not because I don't see another better gunner in the league right now. I know that the guy in New England is awesome, But the way CJ is making plays, I mean out there's a special teams guy. I mean he's bawling. It was hurt a little bit. I think when he hurt. Oh he didn't miss like that again a little bit. But yeah,

even he's bawling. And I'm not even gonna put the onus on on that fake punt on on like bones because literally the rule is, you know, no pass to the first, but only on the outside like they had they had it covered. The Dudel made a David Tyree like unbelievable kiss they get a pass interferes it was covered. It just didn't. It just didn't go out away there.

It wasn't like they got tricked out of it. What they got tricked out of was when they put the kicker in the quarterback on the field on that on that field goal, they gotta have a spot up. You got somebody gotta see that. Somebody got to see um, and you just got to be prepared to do it instead of just being like, hey man, we're just gonna run our field goal block team out there. So shout out to special teams. C J. He's still I'm not gonna he's not the MVP this year, but he's still

the guy. He's the guy. He's still the guy. And you know, Port Nation. I told New Nation he should have kept that number forty yea. He just came by. He came by one. Man. How that's how it is. The season you're like, man, I can't even man, can't buy one. That's tough. But I tell you this, if you if you are still thinking about who should be the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. Okay, that conversation that we had earlier this season where it was a fort gun conclusion and it was Dak Prescott and he

was all in the MVP conversation. Yeah you better watch that. Yeah, no, I just that's leading. Okay, my bad, my bad, my bad, bad bad. Hold on, man, you know, I'm excited. I'm excited.

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player of the Year? Is that Dak Prescott? And he says, the way Joey b playing is now, it's him Nick Bosa also in play. I would also say Joey b Dak and botha. Asked another voter, I would have said Dak until yesterday. Now it's interesting, toss up Joe Burrow out there bowling has Cincinnati as Division champions. Here, Danny mccraig, go ahead and take the floor on this, because I know Burry Church ain't got nothing. Did he really want

to say on this right? Listen? Listen, listen. Before Barry Church got off the air last week, I asked him what would he say about Joe Burrow if he beat the Kansas City Chiefs, And he said, I'm gonna give him his dude. I'm gonna give miss dude Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow went out there this week down fourteen points in the first quarter, did not blink. Jamar Chase has two hundred and sixty plush yards on eleven catches. Te

Higgins got a touch down, he goes for another. I think was it four hundred something go for So in the last two games he's broke the record for how many yards you have in the two game span. He wins the division, and you're gonna sit here and talk about Justin Herbert. This is what I'm gonna tell you. If you vote for anybody but Joe Burrow to be the NFL Comeback Player of the Year, then you are

just straight up bias. Because I love the Cowboys, I like Joe Burrow, but as far as the person who's performed the best and done more for their team this season, it's absolutely Joe Burrow, all right, So please tell me what you think about Joe Burrow compared to Justin Herbert Hillo. He's gonna start on the come back player of the year. That was the original question knew he had presented. So I'm gonna go ahead and say Joe Burrow needs to be the comeback Player of the Year. The man has

played amazing so far this season. He's bawled out, he's did what he had to do, and he's did it with a terrible offensive line because half the time the guys running for his life. Now he has unbelievable, you know, set of receivers in skill position, but he has to be able to make those throws and he has done that. So the guy has played great. He's gonna be comeback Player of the Year. He's got his team in the playoffs,

say one of division, all this other stuff. I mean, he get get a man this cookies, get a man as flowers and look, you know I said I was gonna give him his just dude, So look, I admit it. I admit it, all right, Joe Burrow is only on the same level as Justin Herbert or right here in time beckon back. They right at the same level. It's no more Justin Herbert over Joe Burro. They're on the same level right now, I'll admit it, on the same level.

They're on the same level. I admitted Church Church, Church, got a met Church, Jeff. Justin Herbert need to go ahead and give his Pro Bowl spot to Joe Burrows really does right, Stop it's Joe Burrows team is their division champs. Stop champs, man, Stop it we don't even know if Justin Herbert can make the play, he may not make the playoffs. Man, he got to win this week, gets the Raiders. He may not make the playoffs. The

team he's already, He's in there. Man left his left tackle was all pro as a rookie, said he had helped man Joe out here running for his life. Man with bad coaching, with a bad head coach. Man, So you're gonna sit there and say, hey, because he had an all pro left tackle, he had he had a better situation than Joe Burrow. Bro He Joe bol got two thousand yard receivers and all pro running back is better? At what? At what point? At what point are you gonna say? At what point are you gonna say? Is

Joe Burrow? Okay? Joe burrowsten He's he's he's throwing throwing the ball to these guys, Okay, So act like they will be doing the same thing if they had a different quarterback back there. Joe Burrow somehow Lee's college and has two of the best receivers. Right, He's throwing these two dudes the ball. What I'm saying, Joe Burrow ain't gonna be there I'm not playing this season, all right, Jamar tastes does not play. Justin Jefferson goes on to be what a rookie of the year. Jamar Chase comes

in and breaks Justin Jefferson's record with Joe Burrow. All right, This dude is the reason for these guys to be as good as they are. And you're talking about he and Justin Herbert are just now getting on the same same level. Now they on the same level right now. Like I said at add on the what Danny said, So Joe Burrow left, get fired, get fired? I mean, Herbert, this is this is this just shows you, yeah, this just shows you how good Joe Burrow is for you

to like first knock him down. Herbert Burne on the same level right right now, right now. Who's having a better season Justin? Herbert? You're talking about stat wise? Are you talking about no, none of my record wise? You know you know exactly what I'm talking about. Who's having a who's having a better season justin? Let's you're talking about stat wise, because if you talk about stat wise, Herbert, this dude got thirty thirty, thirty four or fourteen for touchdowns.

I'm confused on somebody signed justin Herbert's fourteen let me five thousand years. Joe Burrow got the same. Joe Burrow got the same. He'll be sitting at home next week. He's seventh place. Right now, he's seven. Go ahead, back to the original question right now, who wins comeback Play of the Year? Is it Dak, is it Bosa? Is it Joe Burrow? Who wins this award? Joe Burrow got Joe Burrow easy. This is We talked about the Cincinnati Bengals, bro, So you can say whatever how you think they look

right now. The expectation for this team at the beginning of the year was definitely not winning their division and playing the way that they playing with two one thousand yard receivers, Pro Bowl running back, defense showing up when they need to, and then being on the way to the playoffs. All right, no expectation for that. And it literally is all to meet of this on Joe Burrow. Without Joe Burrow being on this squad, they are not

the seen. The defense ain't playing like this, receivers ain't playing like this, and running back it's still playing well, but he not having this type of success without Joe Burrow being on that squad. I go back to the game and with Cincinnati played this year where they were going to win this football game. Joe Burrow did all he could. Kicker goes out there and this is an easy one against Green Bay and they end up losing. The guy has been definitely he's definitely been a difference maker.

Let's let us not in the show without talking about Michael Galla, who j Mary Jones, the Cowboys owner said afterwards just going to miss the rest of the year where they torn acl He's going into free agency. Um, what's the most important thing for guys to do for Michael Gallapher's teammates in such a tough time like this. I'm because I've been in the same literally the same

exact situation torn Achilles going into the contract year. But you know what you need from your teammates is just for them to reassure you that you're still part of that team. Like when I when I went down, it was hard, it was real hard, rook undrafted rookie, and I was first chance starting and boom. I went down that very next week and the week's following that, Danny Gerald sense the ball everybody in that secondary crew would come over to my apartment at the time and we

had just played cars, just talk. We wouldn't even talk about football. We had just played cars, just just to make you feel like you're still a part of that locker room. Because when you're injured and you don't get to go to the meetings anymore, you're not practicing. You basically just come in for your treatment and then your eve. Sometimes you don't even see your teammates that day. They're already either already out practice in order and meetings, so

you just go to the training room. So it gets hard. It gets real hard, especially when your team is having a lot of success as well. And this team right now has a chance to, you know, make a long run in the playoffs, and it's going to be without Michael Gallups. So to me, I just think the teammates need to reach out to him however they want to do it, and just make sure that he knows he's still a part of his team and without him, you know, the success wouldn't be there. So it's definitely a tough

one because it's going in the contract. Yere. Yeah, let me tell you, I'm gonna pick it back off what you said about they got a chance of making a deep run in the playoffs. He can He can go in knowing that the chance has got a lot slimmer

without him being on the field. We talked about him being We talked about him being the deep threat for this team, and when you watch the games with him being in it, those fade balls, those back in the corner end zone, back shoulder, ninety percent of those were going to Michael Gallup, and ninety percent of the time he was coming down with those as you see when

on the play that he heard his he is. That is a play that literally boosts a momentum in our favor and allows us to score points like he is that guy. So I think he's literally gonna be missed.

Hopefully he did make him some money even though he did get injured, because teams will will have to be able to watch that film and say, even though you got a Mark Cooper, even though you have Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup had a role on this team and he was a guy who could make some of those dynamic catches when you needed to have a fifty fifty ball caught by your player. So shout out to him. Hopefully he heals up soon, and hopefully teams take a really good look at him and see what he was able

to do for this squad and pay him pay him accordingly. Well, let me ask you this, d Mac. You know he got injured late in a year, so you know he's gonna have to go through you know, surgery rehab, and he might not even be ready for training camp. Would you rather if you were in Michael gallup situation? And let's just say, you know, teams they're not gonna be throwing the money at you because you got an AHL. They might give you a one year deal, maybe even

a two year deal here and there. I'm not sure. I'm just saying this is hypothetically. Would you rather sign a one year, lesser value deal with Dallas knowing that you can all right, you're familiar with the training staff, you know the offensive system, because you're not gonna have an offseason, you might not even have a training camp. So would you rather stay here on the one year lesser deal or sign a maybe a multi year deal

somewhere else? But if you if you know, if you get done with Dolls to that year, you'll be able to reap again after the season. Which way would you go down? I think it depends on how much it is. Um If you're one year deal and annual equals that that three year I'm asked me, I'm gonna stay where I'm comfortable later because I know the quarterback, I know

the training staff. I'm still gonna be working with these guys with Britain Jim and I trust the fact that they're going to get me back and they're gonna not let me get out there on the field until I'm one hundred percent and ready to go. I don't have that same trust if I go to another squad. So that's just me. The hometown thing is a big is a big deal. He's familiar with the coaches and to know that Jerry Jose and him still has some type of faith and believe in him to give him a

one year shot, I would still do that. Also depends on who the quarterback is, Right, Am I going to play with Aaron Rodgers? Am I going to play with Tom Brady? Like like like? I think There's a lot of stuff that goes into that decision. Guys. It's a it's a tough situation for him, definitely hope he can keep his spirits up here because he's had a very tough season from what happened in Game one and having to set out. You finally come back, you find yourself

in a groove. And who I feel for Michael Gallant because there's one of the good guys on the football team who also had gone out of his way, had a little Christmas drive that he had for some kids. I want to see what was over Dick Sporting Goods where he was trying to make people's Christmas has be better.

So I just hate to see that for him. But hopefully um there's something bigger in his future and that he can come back and get all that he wants to from from the bag to statistics and and everything to have a good NFL career. Let's end it there. We got a whole lot to get to. This week is the Cowboys get ready to face the Philadelphia Eagles. They may not be playing for anything. The game has moved from Sunday to Saturday night, so the game is

a Saturday night game up there in Philadelphia. It's gonna be cold, so lots to get to this week. All the players nine brought you by Hotels dot Com. Four, Barry Church, Danny McRae, im New he scrubs to take care everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.