Player's Lounge: Final Thoughts on 2020

into twenty twenty one. I mean, look, twenty twenty has been a it's been a roller coaster of a ride. I mean, ups and downs, pandemics. We've lost too many people far too early. So for me, I'm just looking forward to getting into twenty twenty one as fast as I can. I might be sleep by nine pm tonight. Listen,

I'm looking forward to something new. I have a little conscious of reaching into twenty twenty one, just because the first half of the year it is supposed to be, you know, even worse than than what it is now, as far as COVID and all that good stuff. So I'm a little caustious, but listen, it can't be worse pleased. It can't be worse. So I'm just looking for something better than we had at twenty twenty with the one hundred percent here. I just can't believe what twenty twenty

did to this Dallas Cowboys team. Um. I think I was at eleven and five when I picked for this team this year, and you I could have never imagined seeing this many injuries. And I go back to, you know, my first year getting to cover the Cowboys when they were Super Bowl twenty seven champions, were training down and then Austin, and you know, I'd never seen anything with this organization where this many injuries to so many key players have have happened. This is just it's been a

wrecked season. And here are the Cowboys with an opportunity to win the NFC East at seven and nine, with a whole lot of help that they will need. So real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick for the fans out there, real quick, if you don't mind, if you don't mind, who predicted the seven and nine and playoffs. I don't know who it could be. I don't know who it could be, But if you don't mind just telling the fans out there who predicted that but it

just lost my it lost my mind for a second. Okay, hold hold on, let me going back here, because I got I've got our redo. We did a redo, the last redo, by the way, the last one with the red the redo. I ain't talking about the redo you did after it felt comfortable. Come on up in there, like I'm looking for it, right, I'm looking for it right there? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, the one that locked you in. That's that's it. That's it,

Thank you, Danny. What's the one that locked you into? The whole? Nick and Sam's debate? Did deal? It was six second ten and then what was the last part of that six and ten? And okay, okay, I just make sure I make sure I had predicted that weeks ago, to make sure that's it. You're still feeling that way in twenty twenty It might, it might, it might lead you over to that same type of stuff in twenty twenty one. So be careful, all right, be careful. You

know what this years. That's it. That's it. Everyone on this show's emotionals, all right, So be careful with feeling so so high mighty about that. Thank you very much, thank you very much because here we are November six. Okay, it was November six when we did the readjust d Mac four and twelve, Church six and ten Nui two and fourteen. Then I went three. That's what we were so so the church. I don't know about this whole Saturday night that, but there you are. So hey, you know,

I made my bad. I gotta lay in it. You know, weeks ago look like a grade. Now it's looking like a sleep number. So hey, you know, I just gotta layd what I predict, you know, yeah, man, yeah, so I'm just I'm just just hey, look man, you know, I'm feeling good today. So I'm not gonna sit up here and uh it beat you down on, beat you down on. I appreciate that. I appreciate that, you know, thank you very much for that. New I was a little disappointed Lebron James and Tiger Woods didn't call me

last night. You know, I was born on this day before them young fellas came here and they can't get a respect for them for the older guy here. But you know, um, but it was, Yeah, I expect a gift from you guys either. Yeah I didn't but hello, wait, hello, wait did you. Did you say it was your birthday yesterday? No? I didn't. No, I didn't. There was no Yeah, there was none of that. I was but happy belated birthday,

by the way, Yes, belated birthday, bro. You just you just do all that birthday talk yesterday and that's a word about it. Getting your birthday. You turned thirty too, knew you. I remember when you look good, brother, brother. You know, here's what happened. Why I used to be the king up there. Now. Ain't gonna lie, I gonna lie. The boy Clarence Hill was. You know, we said a little crew now back in the day. I wanna name some of the players, but you know we said a

little crew up there back in the day. I can believe it, man, I told you, I told you being very so. We used to see Clarence and somebody else. Yeah, we saw Jop all the time. All the time. As I said, if you wanted to get to know the players back in the day, those was a great ways to get to know the player. That's where trust was built. I think we met him. I think we met We saw him the same day we saw Cuban Gooding Junior out there. De MC. I don't know that that's not

surprised that person. Rod Tidwell, you mean rod Tidwell Radio. You know, all right, we're getting off the rails. Were so we're so inside, We're way too inside football right now. We were we brought something up yesterday. So let me get back to it about the defense. Who and where do we give credit credit for the defensive turnaround. I've got an depending on it, but I'll start with you

Church on this. For me. Look, I can't put it on one specific player, because you know, inside the twenties, from the twenty to the twenty they're still getting destroyed. I mean teams were doing whatever whatever they want inside the twenties to this Dallas Cowboys team. So I can't point at one specific player or give credit to Mike Nolan all like that. But to me, I think what's changed would turn this defense around was their red zone defense,

especially these last three games. I mean, during the regular season, they were giving up over sixty percent touchdown percentages to the teams going into their red zone. The last three games that went all the way down to thirty three point three percent, so they almost cut that thing all the way in half. And I think that has a lot to do with with the defense. They're playing in the red zone. They're being send you, they're playing this bend but don't break type style, and it's working for them.

I mean, teams are driving the ball, putting up monster yards, but they're not putting points together with that, I mean they're settling for field goals instead of touchdowns. And when you copulate that with taking the ball away from the opposing teams, I think you got a winning formula there. So for me, the biggest difference in this defense from the first what eleven games to now has to be their red zone defense. They improved massively and then showing

in their record. Yeah, I agree with you on their improvements, and I'm gonna go here. I have two I would say people who I think are responsible for the improvements on his defense. Number one, it's whoever decided to UH to start firing guys and getting Downe Terry co out of here and Warley and lighting the fire under the rest of the team, letting them know that they still need business no matter what the record is. And you've seen the different type of hustle and effort every since then.

So whoever made that decision, you did an amazing job. And then to whoever it's up there, you know, beagling these streams against them for our opponents and putting us against these the Jalen hurts and they're putting us in San Francisco and they lose the top two running back. Whoever it's doing that, they are responsible for it, right, But in all seriousness, like you said, Church, they are.

They have been able to stop giving up as many big plays as they had as they had been giving for touchdowns and making teams have a complete nine and ten play drives and making them make those mistakes. As long as they keep continuing to do that, then they have a chance to win game. But when you're giving up sixty and seventy yards boss for touchdowns and not making the office have to work and the office of coordinator have to put together the methodical drives, then you

know that's a recipe for disaster. I'll go with turnovers and the schedule maker. And that's so much of that has been as you talked about there, d Matt, the schedule played in their favor. You get Brandon Allen for Cincinnati, you get Nick Mullins who got benched. You know, the next game because he played so bad. And then you get a rookie and Jalen Hurts and and I know some Catholicans are all you just being negative here, but they've beating bad teams, and that's what you're supposed to do,

you know, beat bad teams, and yes, their defenses. In some ways, I feel like Mike Nolan finally started, you know, playing defense that you know suits and you know fits these guys and who he has here. But they have played some bad teams and they get to play other bad team this weekend. I mean, the Giants are a bad football club. Jason Garrett's offense doesn't score points. They

lost Saint Quon Barkley. When you lost Saint Quon Barkley, I mean that you basically lost the team because Daniel Jones is not a quarterback that's gonna go out here when you're some football games. So um, huh, okay put up yeah yeah, and and okay, um, I'll say this, I don't think that football team is I think they were playing better than than they are now that this football team has been struggling here, especially with Daniel Jones

being injured. So it's uh, it's it's it's been a rough one for this team, and they just let's clear let's clear up the bad team thing, right, because let you do it. Sometimes it does sound like you being we're not. We continue to say that it's hard to

win games and the NFL, no matter who you're playing. Right, take a look at Los Angeles rum legets, take a look at the Cleveland round losing to the Jets, Like, you can go out there and get beaten no matter who you're playing, because everybody in the NFL is getting paid and they have the ability to beat you as long as they don't end up beating themselves making mistakes. So you still have to go out there, strap up the shoulder, pattern the helmet, and go out there and

beat these teams. So it's still all credits to account mush will beating the people that are out there in front of them. We're just saying that, you know, they were of lesser talent and they did what they're supposed to do, especially from the expectations that we had for them from the beginning of the year. Well, and once again let me go back to the schedule now, and this is not being negative, This is just you know,

this is just the absolute truth. All right, look at the schedule maker for a while when you had to sit up here and face you know, you had the Steelers. Now, so you had the Eagles. Let me think about you face the Eagles, we be a fourth string quarterback. You go Eagles, then you go Pittsburgh. Though they played well with your man double g um. Yes, Minnesota, they ended up ended up winning that game. But the schedule, you know, the schedule here was you know, it was you face

some tougher teams here, and it got you. I know a lot of people thought that that Cleveland would be an easy win this year. But you know, you look at that schedule when you hit the Seattle Seahawks, you hit Cleveland, and then next thing, you know, with the Giant game, which the Cowboys won, and then he had Arizona. You know, does a stretching games right there with those teams, and you look at it. You know, Seattle's in the playoffs,

Cleveland's in the playoffs. The Giants won't be well, actually, the Giants have a shot to be in the playoffs. They got a shot. Cowboys if they don't beat him into Washington loses. The Giants are gonna win the division, and then he got Arizona, who's got a shot, and then he got Washington the game after that. So you're sitting here the schedule, does you know, you get some tough you get some tough stretches, you get some easy stretches here. But that has played a part into it.

And for me, I'll tell you my end game. I'm talking about the schedule is I hope that Jerry and Stephen Jones factor that into how this season ends and why they need to make a change in the defensive coordinated position. Okay, now you win seven, you know, you go seventy nine, win four in a row here. I don't want them to think that. Okay, but Mike Nolan's gotta figure this guy's good. I don't think Mike Nolan's good.

I think they need to go on different directions here. Yeah, okay, you beat some teams to cut some fool's gold here. So that's that's that's my thing on that church go ahead. Yeah, without a doubt. They can't sit here and say, you know, hey, we went on a little stretch. We got you know, ten or eleven takeaways these pastory games. Maybe they figured out Mike Nolan's defense and maybe we got our guy.

I hope and I pray that they don't they don't find that as reality as we see when I talked about in between the twenties, I think I think the Philadelphia Eagles went over four hundred yards in total offense. I mean, if they would have stuck to the run, we wouldn't be having it and I wouldn't be having this conversation right now, and I wouldn't be sipping on kool ai right now because we would have probably lost

that game. So for me, I just hope that they don't realize that, or they do realize that Mike Nolan's defense is not the answer to us right now. We can't go up there and give up four hundred yards and just pray that we take the ball away from a team and expect to be a successful defense or a successful team going forward. We have got to make sure our defense overall is a lot better next year than it is this year. And I think getting rid

of Mike Nolan will help that defense. Is cause I'm I'm with you one hundred percent, and the Cowboys um are going to get a couple of good things out of this season here, you're gonna be able to see some younger players. You know, having Terence still on your team next year is going to be a good thing. Having Brandy Night on your team's gonna be a good thing. Connor mcgovernor, Um, you know, there's that's a good thing. I think that they really need to take a look.

I've talked about it before. With the way Connor mc governor's played, I think Connor could be a starting guard. Feed Why not start Connor mcgovernor at left at left guard, and then to take about putting Connor Williams your current left guard. I mean, you you know your current guard. Maybe you make him to swing tackle me. They've started to me it was playing some of these younger guys,

especially on offense. I think they're gonna have options. Dalton Shelton now comes back, and you know, here's a great thing. Do we pencil Blake jar with it as the guy or is this more of a competition or do you run some two tight insights? I mean, I think there's some really think good that you're getting out of what

the Cowboys are doing here at the end. You're seeing some stuff happen and maybe they could keep the turnovers going in and next year and the next coordinator can fix some things and add some more defensive line help. And you gotta get a Tristan Hill back here. I think they got to add one or two more guys on that at the defensive tackle spot here. So there's

some positives to it. But I just don't want the Cowboys management to get too full and say, hey, look, you know, look at how we won these games, and we won four in a row. But you know who were you beating along the way. I think you have to factor that in, and you got to be able to look at the glass and say it's half empty, as much as you want to say that it's half full. It's that delicate balance that you gotta have as you're looking at your football team. But I give Mike McCarthy credit,

And this is why I want to share. I didn't say I want to give Mike McCarthy credit for making sure that guys just decide to go mail it in and quit that That to me, says a whole lot about him as a head coach. And I'll let me give Jason Garrett credit. I remember when they were three and five, a couple of years ago, and I thought, and this, this guy's lost this team, and you know they ended up turning around and had a fantastic year,

made playoffs. Um. I think that says something about being able to lead is the keep guys um involved and when it looks like it's going downhill. So, uh, let's take a break. We still have our predictions to do. It's our last show, Players Lounge, brought to you by Hotels dot Com Show of the Year. We're gonna take Friday off. It's New Year's Day. I gotta go out to the Rose Bowl over there at and T Stadium and check out Nick Saban and his greatness and see

seeing whoop upon Notre Dame. Um. So we'll have our predictions here. And what did the Cowboys need to do against this giant's offensive defense. Let's dive into those matchup as well. You knowe Scrugsberry Church, Danny mccraie right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. Hey, they're Cowboys fans with Type cleaners at home pickup and delivery. Cleaning your

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the Rose Bowl. Game moved out of Passing in the California for COVID reasons, so it is going to be Alabama against Note Tre Dame. And I remember the last time Notre Dame came up here to at and T Stadium, who was against Clipson and the college Football playoff and Trevor Lawrence and company dusted them up. So we'll see how that goes. M And by the way, shame on you Florida fans getting on these kids who opted out talking about they needed to show loyalty to the school

that was those players would have got hurt. If those players would have got hurt and lost millions in draft stock, I mean, people would have just looked other directionally. It's for that kid man tough, break like man. They did the right thing by opting up. Listen and listen, what is my man from Knowing Dame talking about talking about they got nothing to prove. They've been getting smacked up in bowl games since I was in college, right, so

I don't know what he's talking about. They don't have nothing. Yes, they need to come in and show that they deserve to be voted into these championship tournaments because if they not and they go herein't get embarrassed again. Who cares what they do in the regular season, because we know exactly what's going to happen to them once they get in the tournament. And I'm tired of these Big twelve schools beating the SEC school in the bowl game and then all of a sudden talking about their back and

all this other crazy stuff. And then I saw a man, Darren going there talking about the SEC only play this and blah blah blah, and I was like, hey, come on, man, look I remember when there was I think it was a stretch of like five or six years where four to five different SEC teams had won the national championship. And you're talking about Auburn, You're talking about Florida, you talked about Ellis, you talking about Alabama. This was all back to back, So listen, I don't want to hear

anything about it being top heavy not competitive. We have the most draft picks in there, so now I don't want to know about the Big twelve. Two of y'all schools left y'all so they can come join ours, and now y'all expecting us to claim them. Now they still y'alls. Anywin. I'm with you on the big chairs. It's um, it's interesting, and look, people people get mad when you say it, but it's been. It's true. You have found these Big twelve teams who come play these SEC games and bowl

games are all about want too. You got these SEC teams like when Georgia went and play played Texas and Sugar Bowl. Georgia thought they should have been in order dame spot the Cotton Bowl against Clemson. Them dudes weren't ready to play. I remember one time in Utah and then also Oklahoma tore Alabama and the Sugar Bowl. Alabama had been playing for now championships. They ended up losing

in the SEC championship game. You know, they went out to the Sugar Bowl and they gave a half half blank effort and guess what, Oklahoma and you tall where they're to go win and whoop up on him and they got whooped the ball. Florida is without guys, and you know, all right, they played like they didn't have those guys, those guys who who decided to skip out and blame them. Um, you know these are difference makers.

But come on now to act like the all of a sudden, the Big twelveicers a better league or something like that. No, you know, I'm a Big twelve fan, but I'm a realist. Okay, I'm a realist. The big twelve officers right down the street. No plenty of people who work over there. It ain't the same, Okay, it's it's two different There's two different leagues, two different brands of football. And you know, enjoy enjoy your dug, you know,

enjoy your dub. But I am watching to watching Alabama play and Notre Dame is gonna end up being like Michigan State and being like Oklahoma. It seems like every year there's one team there's in it and shouldn't belong because guess what, there's not that. We rarely ever have four outstanding teams. You can get three. Usually it's just two. But I expect a boat race for note from you know by Alabama tomorrow. All right, Giants Cowboys at the meadow Lands in New Jersey, Z. Both teams need to

win if they want to become NFC's champs. So the winner then has to wait on the Washington Philadelphia NBC Sunday night game to see if they win. Because if Philadelphia ends up beating Washington, then whoever wins the Cowboys Giants game, they would be the NFC's champ. Soul from a defensive standpoint. When we're talking about the defense here, mccraig, what do you think is a key to a Cowboy win? Listen, we all know what Jason Garrett wants to do. He

wants to run the rock, all right. So if you're the old plan on getting there, getting there, stopping the run, minimizing those those games to three three point three yards, and not giving up those big chunks, then you don't have a chance at winning. You need to strap up your pass, strap up your helmet, and get ready to go in there and take on blocks, take on pulling guards, and make some tackles, because if you don't stop the run,

we lose. If you forced Daniel Jones to go out there and make plays with his arm and throw the ball from the pocket, then you got a great chance at winning. So stop the run. I know we haven't been able to do it all season, but this is that one game where you just have to put everything on the line and changed the way that you played played off season and try to get to the playoffs by stopping the run and making Daniel Jones try to

beat you with his arm. Yeah, like mccrai said, Jason Garrett he lives and dies by the run and play action. I mean that those are his that is, that's his goal to I mean he loves to set up the play action by running the ball. And now look, they got Wayne Wayne Goldman, I think his last name is Wayne Goldman. There they got, they got, they got offered Morris. Those two, I mean they've been playing, they've been playing

all hide these past couple of games. But we have got to stop those two guys if we want any opportunity to go ahead and get after Colt McCoy or get after Daniel Jones, whoever's back there. We have gap to stop those two from from running the ball down

our throats. If we're able to do that, and we forced Daniel Jones or Colt McCoy whoever's playing in there, and we forced them to try to beat us with their arm, we have an amazing chance of winning because we can get pressured with just four defensive linemen, leaving the rest of those guys out there in coverage, and it gives us an opportunity to take the ball away from a Daniel Jones or a Cult mccour. So we have gap to stop the run. And we know They're

gonna feature Evan Ingram. He is they're tight end, but he's basically their number one receiving option. He's a Pro Bowl tight end. So look, if we go out there and we neutralize him and we stop this run, that'll give us our defensive line the ability to pin their ears back and get after these quarterbacks. And we all know Daniel Jones as a turnover waiting to happen. So if we stop that run, kind kind of slow down Evan Ingram over there, we should be able to pin

our ears back and get after this team. Look, I'm not worried about the New York Giants, and I'm not worried about him at all. I know j G comes in here and he got at he got some wrinkles that he will develop in there in his first fifteen play script. It might be amazing. It might be amazing because it usually is. But after that, I see it going all downhill. Cowboys gonna win this one. It comes down to Washington in Philly, and that's what it is.

Put Put it in the air there, you go, put it out in the atmosphere, church, put it out there. That's what it is. It is. We don't believe it, but put it out there in the atmosphere. Man convened. Convince yourself, man affirmation. I like it. I like the way that you're going into twenty twenty one. Man, you gotta have it. Speak positivity into the situation. I've been saying it with his chest. Dude, I'm not worried. I'm not worried about the Giants. Okay, not worried. I'm not worried.

I don't care if it's cold raining, I ain't worried. So if this is Kellen Moore's finale with the Cowboys, how should he run his offense against the New York Giants? Is that for me or mccraig, Yeah, go ahead, church for me, I say, Kellen Moore. Look, Jerry already said we got to slow this guy down because we want to save our defensive legs. Well, look, let let unleash killing.

Unleash kelling on the New York Giants. All right. If he's as powerful as a play caller, and he's as great as a play caller as mister Jones thinks, unleash it all. I want this game done by halftime, all right. I want to be able to click over Twitter the games it's going on, get this thing done by halftime. And to do that, to get this done by halftime, I think we gotta I think we gotta feature these receivers. Look New York Jazz. The strength of their defense is

their defensive line and their linebackers. They got Blake Martinez there, Golden who has who's had a pretty good season. Their strength is in that front seven. Their back seven struggles. They struggle immensely outside of James Bradbrey, who's had a great season that corner. But other than that, they struggle. So I think we featured these three receivers Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup, Cooper. They've already got this Wade link with the red rifle going on these past three games. So

keep it up a leash, Kellen. Let these receivers go ham feature Zeke every now and then, and we should be over by halftime, and let's get focused on the playoff victory. He's still on it, man, he got it going out there to the offense. Let's let's speak realistically here now, Okay, Andy Dalton, all right, he's been he's been playing well. All right, he's been playing well. I'm gonna give him that you need to play him the same way you've been doing it all right. Don't try

to do too much. Run the ball and get the ball to the receivers when you have a shot. Do I try to force anything, then I try to force big plays. Make sure your scheme is trying to trick the trick the defense you know, catch him off guard. Do not have any dunk going out here throwing the ball fifty times because you're trying to run something, and show him what you're doing up there trying to do at boys the state. Do not do that. That is

a recipe for disaster. What he should do is focus on number twenty one, that fullback that Barry talked about. Make sure you get him twenty cars. Make sure you make sure you get him over one hundred yards. Make sure you let him set the tempo for that for that offense. And then you can feature I'm not gonna say Mark Cooper because I've been screaming it all year and it's not gonna happen. So you can feature whatever

receiver you want. Two besides of Mark Cooper, and Church knows that the guy you know sometimes away games are playing outside, he kind of disappears, So focus on whoever is gonna help you. Hope you make those big plays. But twenty one, twenty one is the key to winning this game. By the way, Um, you guys heard for your boy Mark Colombo since Joe Judge and no words, no words from Mark Man. Okay, just keep we're keeping

it real. Goals wrong, Mark Colombo, But get to get into a fight with the head coach and cursing Malcolm a couple of names, and next thing you know, gone gone. That's that's that's when you got money. That's that when you already got money. Man, you can take that risk. You go out there and cuss out of the head coach when you are, when you are, when your pockets are already loaded. That is that's a That is a

strange story, man, Just how that all went down. Like, hey, but if you know Columbo, it ain't it ain't it ain't too strange against you say, it's really not. It's really not. That's just who he is. But you know, you know, and it just didn't go over well Joe. Clearly Joe Judge didn't. He wasn't buying it. So and you know, Joe Judge wanted to bring in his guy. Jason brought in his guy. So that's another portion of this thing here. So all right, when we come back,

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By Hotels dot com. We are in our SWBC virtual home studio, so we appreciate the folks from s WBC Mortgers hooking us up. Also the folks at Bows who gave us these great headphones to use during the twenty twenty Appreciate that, Um mccraig, did you win the Fantasy Football Championship? You didn't say whatever, You left me hanging. You didn't kind of feel like I know where it's going, kind of feel like I know where it's going. Listen, listen, Let's give me one minute, all right, So I lost. Okay,

I lost, and it's all it's all my fault. It's all my fault, all right. I started Drew Brees because Ben Roethlisberger had a bad game the previous week, and Ben Roethlisberger played much better than Drew Brees did. And then I took out zir Line because I didn't want to depend on the Cowboys too much. Those two players cost me to lose by point three points. Those two players point three. If I if I start Big Big and I start zer Line, I win the Fantasy Football

Championship by point three Instead, I lose Drew Brees. Go out there for a couple of picks. Kamara somehow has they scored fifty points and Drew Brees don't throw one touchdown because Kamara runs for six of them and takes the hill runs for another one. Makes absolutely no sense to me. But yeah, I'm salty about it. But I take my second place, and next year I'll be ready to compete Steak right there. I don't know nothing about

that church. I don't know nothing about no pots. You're talking about that, okay, but all of it about I don't know what he going on, all right, Okay, I said I kind of I kind of thought that you. You didn't say anything so as the silence was sound, But you played the right guy. I'm sorry you had to play. You had to. That was the right play. I mean, what are the odds that they score fifty points and Drew Brees is not throwing at least two touchdowns in it? I mean, it's just you had to

do it, man, you had to do it. So um, yeah, I done. I don't feel bad about it. I don't feel bad about who I had to get ship all right, I don't feel bad about who I had in the game. I just feel bad that I had a chance with the people that were all my roster. Got you, gotcha? All right? Yeah? Man, let's go ahead predict this game? All right, let's go ahead. Uh, I already know where you're going, Church, but just give me your final score. Dallas,

what Giants? Dallas beat the Giants? You know what's the school? Dallas twenty seven, Giants fourteen onto the wild card again

and then then Washington Lewis. Okay, I got you. So you're already predicting all this, I'm going I'm going on actually a very highly competitive game that comes down to the last drive with the red rifle making some amazing plays and who's going to be a star or swing route to my man, Ezekiel Elliott to shut up all the haters, the ones that's saying that he's not worth what, he's not playing up to his contract, and he scores the game, win a touchdown, and my final score is

thirty one Dallas twenty four New York Giants. And who do you have winn in Washington? Filling? I still got Washington winning that game. If listen, just like last week, I'm assuming that Alex Smith and McLaren are playing in this game. If somehow, you know, you know, one of them is a plan, then then Philly, Philly has a very good chance of winning. That mistakes are being made. What you got new It twenty three twenty Cowboys win. I'm with you, d Mac. I think that we're going

to see a competitive football game. The Giants did look they're playing for division championship too, So I expect this to be a good football game in the Northeast here just to start twenty twenty one, and I believe that Washington will end up winning. I think that Scott Turner and is going to just be a very a very conservative game plan and they're just gonna allow their defense to win the football game. I just don't think Philadelphia has got enough guys, um you know who can go

out here and get this thing done. I just don't see it at the end. So um, Cowboys and get up seven, they'll end up seventy nine. Churchill look good because he was right and they went four in a row. But I just think Washington ends up getting this thing done. And uh, and there you go. What makes you guys think this game is even gonna be competitive? I just I just want to know that. What makes y'all think I just said it gonna put something out there just

because they got a playoff chance like the hopes and dreams. Okay, so let me think about it. What you've just said about the Cowboys, you can say the exact same thing for the Giants. They're sitting up here playing for opportunity to win. They have to win this game. If you want to have a chance to win the division, you gotta win the game. So you don't think that they're not gonna come in and try and lay it down and play as hard as they can't at home and

not get swept by the Cowboys. And also, by the way, the back of their minds, they feel like they probably should have won against the Cowboys earlier in the year. So, man, I expect this team to come out here and fight. I mean, they can play hard, But do y'all think this is seriously gonna be competitive? That's like it one competitive the first game. You know, if it wasn't for one specialty's mistake that they made with an illegal formation,

we lose that game. So I mean, it's not like it's not like we're head over Hills butter and we had Dak Prescott that game that it was it was and and don't forget they won the roll before Daniel Jones got hurt. They had to look the same. Since he got back, the defense was playing well. You know that this would be his second week back. I think. So, I think that they'll be ready for this game, and I still think they'll lose, but I think it'll be

highly competitive. Rivalry game they're playing for, I mean division rivals, they're playing for a chance to go to the playoffs. Last game of the season, everything is on the line. I just I just don't see them coming out and laying the egg. They have something to play for, and that's it. S Church's the interesting thing here. You're you're betting on Philadelphia, who's got nothing to play for, to

actually come out here and go beat Washington. But you but you say the Giant aren't going to give you any problem at all. That's an interesting take. That's that's interesting. So I even talk about the later now Philly and Wash that that that scares me. That game is gonna be competitive, That thing is gonna that that's scary. Not but but new York, this this this New York. I ain't worried about New York. Man. This game will it doesn't make sense? Absolutely done it You'll be so. So

I was. I was talking to to a friend of mine who played the league like you guys, a veteran, and I said, how afraid or guys of getting hurt in the final game of the season and possibly have to spend your offseason, you know, having some type of rehab or surgery. And this guy who the four player, said, uh, very much. So it's like, you know, wanting to go out here and play. He's like, man, if something is nagging, now it's cool. Now you can't go. He's like, you know,

Philadelphia has got nothing to play for. Um, if you're Fletcher Cocks and I don't know what his status is, but okay, you are you going out of here? You playing? He's just stressing for what so so? Church, You're asking a football team that's already playing a bunch of hurt dudes and street free agents. You think they're gonna rise up and beat a team who's We talked about this, I think yesterday or the day before. There's plenty for Philadelphia to play for. Jalen Hurts. He's trying to get

that starting job next year. He fold them. There's so many guys on that roster right now, beat up who are trying to get contracts next year, who are trying to show that they don't need to be a part of this dumpster fire once they explode this whole team. So there's plenty of incentives for those young guys to go out there and play hard and get a victory. Plus it's in Philadelphia and they don't want nobody celebrating on their turf. I'm with the Eagles on this one.

They're gonna come out hard. But you need all this to happen so we got you when you need all this to happen. So he needs it. We all need it. I need he's saying all this. I know he's saying. He's saying all this like they're not going out there and playing one of the top defenses in the league like full gl full gl needs it. You know, he needs it, like like he's not going out there playing against washing like this offensive lot needs it. Like they

ain't going to gainst care getting change on. Yeah, they needed to, they too needed to. They play for extra checks. They Hey, I don't McCray, I'm not understanding how he's gonna tell you, Hey, Philly's gonna come out here because they got something to play for. And then yeah, but the Giants are gonna come out here and lay it down and way hard. But that doesn't matter. They can play as hard as they want to. They just don't have what it takes to compete against the Cowboys. And

I truly believe that. So I think it's gonna be done by halftime. No different since the player, what's that? What's different from the first time? Good? What's from the first time we played? As far as because you know, like that it sounds like they can't. They can't different, and there's a lot different. This is a lot different team from back then when we played them. Okay, are you right? No, we're taking the ball away. I mean, we're playing better Reds on defense, and he don't's board fishing.

I mean, it's there's a lot of things different than the Dollar. Wasn't out there. It was Dak Prescott, all right, Listen, it was he was out there. He was he didn't play. So let me ask you both. It's a question for both both of you guys haven't played the league. How hard is it to sweep a team during the season in your division and take that sweep in your own building, on your home stadium. How tough is that? Uh? Listen, honestly, like that stuff. To me, I didn't really play into it.

Like when I'm out there on the field, I don't be thinking about home field advantage, thinking about the crowd. I think about going out there trying to win the game. To me, that's that's all extra. Maybe you have an extra incentive before the game, and you could talk about a little bit after, but when you're out on the field, you're just giving a trying to win. Is it hard? Because teams may give you a little bit of extra

because they don't want to get swept. Maybe, But I mean I think teams are gonna go out there and play just as hard. Don't matter if they're getting swept or they're playing for whatever they play for. They just going out there and trying to focus on being the best as they can. So I don't see it as a big deal. Yeah, and to me, I agree with you. I think the only thing is the team that's getting swept.

I mean, that's the only motivation they had. If that's their coaches are saying, a little man, we lost the first game. We don't want to go out here and get swept throughout the whole year from this division opponent, So we gotta go out here and get this W. But the the opponent that already got the victory against them, I don't think they're really thinking too much about sweeping them. They're just thinking about getting that W and h closing things out. Oh wait, wait, wait, my bad Church. You

are correct. That's the game that Dad got hurt. Andy Donton came in and won the game for us. Yeah, the Red Rifle the Powers. So he's the guy that's what's different about the team. He's he's leading to him for the whole game. So that's why we're gonna win. I got you. I gave you two other examples. I gave you examples of playing better red zone, examples of taking away ten times in three and three games where we had no no chance of taking the ball away

early in the season. This defense, the biggest defense difference to me is this defense and kind of the wave link. Andy Dalton got us with his receivers right now, He's hitting them on all cylinders. I like it. I'm talking up and talking up, got got us peaks positive into these things. Man. So mccraig, mccraig, how do you like your steak cooked? Hey, I wouldn't answer that list. I wist let's got you into this predictave bit now. No, no matter, no matter what happens, I would be eating

the stake. So I like my steak medium, rare medium, you know what at with a little Bernad sauce. Yeah, what you like? It was well done? I like well done steak. Eat like a little I got all the little pink in this man, like a little pink in me. I want to know what you give you some bread and some cheese and some lettuce and tomato and put that. Put that well the stake between that some fry and eat it that way, all right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, mister.

You know I put cram meat on that. Get some get some mashed potatoes, and I'm gonna get that just because you, my boy d Mac. I'm gonna get a half a half of lots of nah. Listen, listen, new he owed me a meal, so I'm gonna just transfer that meal over to the church. You know. The difference, Nigga says. The difference in this whole conversation is I old Danny, you know, some food from a nice little,

nice little cajun's mom and pop spot. Okay, you guys have been betting, Nicka says, and boogie stuff a whole another level. I can't even in the conversation, man, the conversation. I didn't make it back because I can't even afford nothing like that. So my little payoff to you, mccraig. Fine, we didn't get over the two sisters. All good, all good. I can afford that. I can't can't deal with butterflies and crab sauce. I ain't all that. I ain't gonna call new y'all man, but I've seen his whip. I

know where he stayed. Listen. I know what type of stuff. Knew he'd be trying to listen. He was trying to play it down a lot. I got you, man, I understand you already say you used to tat out of his highway. It ain't cheat to be over there. It ain't we understand our singles. I was single, I was singing. I was single. It as they say the movie Unforgiven. I ain't like that no more. I can't afford that lifestyle, no more cash. You get three daughters like you can't

afford anything like that? You know he cry your mind? So Mike, I couldn't even I couldn't even drive there. My memory won't even work there like that? No more, man, So I used I used to I'll tell you right now. I used to have money. Then I got married and I had three daughters. I don't know. I don't have money no more. I ain't listening to that MC. Look

look at his backdrop. You see his backdrop. Me. I just got a wall with back, got the whole shelf back there, got books lined up, man, I ain't believe in none of that newly Man, I ain't not fooling. I'm glad you brought that up, because, all right, my wife's an interior designers, so she got a massive discount off this. As far as the books go, because I'm a sportscaster, they send me a lot of free books. So I got a lot of books right here, and I've never had a for it are pretty good. So

nice you ask. I got reasons, baby, I'm trying to tell you. Man, you know, illusions are good, all right, that bens I have. I didn't buy that. I didn't buy that new that was I was new. It don't matter, you got it. It's yours. It's yours. That's all that matter. We don't care it took he's driving foreign, he driving West German. I was born in West German. It's not really, it's not really forign. You were in America. That's in America that I got support support my people's man, Me

and Dirk supporting the people people. UM don't get don't don't get too wild tonight, you know, don't get too wild tonight. You know, you guys can do your own version of Nick and Sam's before you actually go there. Good luck to you Church. I'll see you Monday either way, because you go you that stand up kind of guy. You know you're gonna be that kind of guy. Stand up. We'll see you on Monday, right right, yep, Yeah, I'm gonna be. I might have a whole Notion Dramas outfit

on for y'all who know we're gonna see. We're gonna now you're gonna go from Notre Domas to Negro Dommas. Okay, we're gonna run late if you Okay, Okay, we're gonna do it if you run Domas, and we're gonna have fun. As I sit around here, I want pictures. I want I want pictures of McCrae eating misteak h. If you lose this thing, so tell us. Oh, Happy New Year. Twenty twenty was rocky, but it's been fun to do

this show with you guys. Chris be our producer. Man, I can't tell you how much you you make sure this thing is on the rails and working all the time, and the stresses we put you through. Man, we appreciate you. So Happy New Year to you and your family, To everyone who's checked us out through the year and told a friend about us who's tweeted at us, UM, thank you,

thank you. This is a this is a fun show to do, and UM said, I can't wait for TWE twenty twenty one because it just it has to get better. Lord Willing, it does get better. So dmc church be well, appreciate you. And hey, we all got the Cowboys winning this game here over the New York Football Giants, and we'll watch Sunday Night football and see exactly what happens between Philadelphia and Washington. I knew, he scrugs. The players not brought you by Hotels dot Com. Happy k New Year, everybody,

You're happy New Year. And they get that ko laid office, screedy Church. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.