Player's Lounge: How Do You Explain This?

All three of us predicted a Dallas Cowboys win over the Cleveland Browns, and all three of us were wrong because the Cleveland Browns came in to North Texas and lead it on the Cowboys to thes of almost fifty points. Gentlemen o the world. Do you explain this? Uh? Danny, I'm just gonna see the floor to you, my man. You go ahead look check this out. If you see my outfit, newly man, I got all black man, it's it's it's a funeral going off of the Cowboys right now.

It's just it's really ugly. And I'll tell you this for the rest of the season, I will no longer be doing my picks based on emotion and how much I love the Cowboys since I played for him. I'm going with the rational choice. And they might not get picked to win another game this season, and you'll and you'll be picking him this week. You'll pick them, well,

not absolutely pick them against and the hapless Giants. That the first of all, let's not act like we that Cowboys can be like, yeah, we for sure gonna win any game, it don't matter who is against. All right, that the Giants play played like they played, but we don't play much better, so it's not like it's an

easy pick. So yeah, I'm not sure if I'm gonna pick the Cowboys this week against j G, especially since I know he has an extra grind and the point to prove a Look, if you go on with the Giants, I'm definitely betting you on that one because this Giants is terrible. But anyway, back to these Cowboys, man, I mean this this this was embarrassing. Man, This was embarrassing. Man. This was a this was like a manhood game, but they just they just got it taken away from him.

I mean it was as in the words of Marinelli, who's probably laughing right now. I mean, it was man on man, bone on bone football, and it was just embarrassing what they did to our front seven. I mean, there was times when the Cleveland Brown's offensive line would push these guys so far back the running back wouldn't even get touched within the first seven yards of his run. And that's just unbelievable. And when you got I mean we'll break this down even further, but when you got

their third running back on the depth chart. I don't even know the guy's name. I just called him number thirty. He would when that you got the third running back on your depth chart going for I think he had thirteen carries for ninety five yards, averaging what seven point three a rush. I mean, this is crazy. They just grabbed this guy off of the street. He was probably working at McDonald's. They said, hey, you want to run the ball against Dallas next the other this week, Yeah,

let me see what I can do. And he went out there and toted that thing. I mean, it was once again another display of terrible tackling out there. I mean I called for Darren Thompson to get pulled. He got pulled the young the young safety Wilson came in there, and he looked just as bad. I mean he was out there missing tackles left and right, and I mean, I just I can't even get started on his linebacking corps Joe Thomas. He did fly around. He was the only one that kind of looked like he was worth

something out there. I mean, it was just embarrassing overall. And man, that don't even get me started on a twenty million dollars man. I mean, this is go ahead, NEWI this is ridiculous. Well, since you mentioned the twenty million dollars man, Tank Lawrence. He spoke to the media afterwards, and here is Tank summing up the performance as the Dallas Cowboys defense gave up three hundred and seven yards of rushing to the Cleveland Browns, who had their top

running back Nick Chubb injured in the first half. Here's Tank in my own words, I'll call it Solf. We gotta hold ourselves to a higher standard. Um. We got to play together as one UM, and I don't feel like we're holding ourselves accountable, including myself. So uh, I'll call itself and we'll get better from it. In my own work, like that yes, yes, we had to cover up the cursing. So so, guys, here's here's my thing. I feel as though I and hearing the same player

press conferences that I heard last year. We gotta be better risk miscommunications, hold each other accountable, not meeting the standard. Am I wrong when I say I feel like I'm hearing the same tune? It's different code now all the players it's the same old stuff, same old thing, just a different thing. If if we get if we get listen, we would we would just ex this out. If we just start SHO, can we get the play of with Odell's last play where the game is on the line.

Can we just put that on the loop? And I want everybody to see how many people loaf and job and give up on the play on the most important drive. When your office has brought you back into the game. You you won't believe it. I know some people have broken it down, but they didn't point out every single player that did something that looked outrageous and like they should not be playing in NFL. It is. It is

something that you probably will never see again. And this type of stuff did not happen when Mary Nelly was here. Because he coached effort and you would not get away with loafing like this. If there was one thing Marion Nelly did, he had his guys playing hard and balls to the wall. And that is something that you are not seen on the field right now. That's minus scheme, that's minus your ability. It takes no talent to hustle and give effort, and we ain't doing it. We ain't

doing it at all. And to this point it comes down to I mean it played for the name on the back of your jersey. I mean that it played for some pride out there. That was embarrassing if I was on that. I mean, you go out there and not only are you guys missing tackles, but like Danny pointed out, you're just loafing expecting someone else to make

the play. I mean, if we look at number fifty four here, jealous Smith, I mean you could see he was just jogging expecting all the smith to make the play, expecting one of those corners or safeties or other people on the field to make the play. And then he realized, oh snap, let me change gears and try to catch O'Dell. That is the That is the definition if Marion Ellie was still here. That is a definition of a loaf, and I know Jayla knows that because he was here

with Marion Ellie. So I mean, it's just you gotta play for the back to Jersey, their name on the back yards jersey because right now it's looking pitiful. Hello, can we get the video play? Because I also like we see Jayalen. I want you to see a few of the defensive linemen, and then I also want you to see our man number twenty seven the entire play. This is probably one of his worst snaps of his entire football career, going back to youth football CB. Can

we get this play? By the way, at this point in time, the Cowboys have made it a forty one thirty eight football game with three minutes and forty two seconds to go, So the Cowboys are right where they need to be. Yeah, make sure I got my math right. Yes, three forty two was after the cd lad touchdown to make it forty one thirty eight. So here it is now Cleveland really with the pressure on Cleveland at this point time. Oh, by the way, they made an interesting

special team's tick, but I won't get into that. But so this is the time for the defense to rise up. This is your opportunity to go ahead and make a stop. And initially Alton spent this in the right place to make this a loss, a significant loss, and Odell Beckham eludes him and then goes fifty yards and there there, there's the plays. He's running through the tulips and at and t s tick, wait wait, wait till they get back to the wide. I want you to see ninety.

I want you to see seventy two. I want you to see twenty seven, and the effort is like literally zero, it's zero. And then twenty seven and another guy run straight out of bounds and they don't plan and retrace and trying to go make the tackle and they really run out of bounds. Check this out. Look at it. Look look at ninety. Look at the rest of the d line literally doing nothing. Look at forty eight while out about twenty seven out of outs. It makes no sense.

Twenty eight was definitely a loafing the whole play. That's how you ended up back there, not even close to Odell, Like it's uninspired. And you come and you come in there and you say, hey man, it's miscommunication. You know we're not really picking up the defense and we just need to they just need to let us play and simplified it don't get no more simple than he run as fast as you can to try to make the tackle. This is this is straight up embarrassing. I'm talking about bad.

This is at least nine loafs on this play. So yeah, so I don't know the After that play, there was one word that came to my mind, and that's pride. And for me, you know, I'm older than you guys, So I go back to watching the Cowboys when Starback was playing and Harvey Martin and Randy White, Drew Pierce. You know, I go back to these guys before you know, the nineties crew came in here, and even those nineties guys,

the one three championships, there was pride. And anyone who's watched Dallas Cowboys football long enough to see some Super Bowl championships knows that that play and what was on display Sunday was a lack of pride. The kind of pride where you are to go in there and take some stars off helmets and just next week against the Giants, just going out there with some great helmets because nobody's earning this star and the kind of effort this team

is putting out here. It's embarrassing. I mean, it is embarrassing. But tell me, how do you get to a point to where, like, listen, I can understand, right, if you're getting blew out, you're down by twenty one, and then that's the play that they run, Right, it's like the game's over. You know, everybody really go home and packing in. This is a point in the game where if you make the stop, you having chairs to come back and

win the game. So pride, I'm like, I'm like, you don't even have to have pride to do that, right, because pride when you get your butt beat and you still go out there and you play for the name on the back of your jersey, you know you still go This is at a point of the game where the game ain't even over. You just made one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history again, and then this is the effort that you give on the next snap.

Look at twenty seven. He just failed. As I watched every time I watched this, I'm just I'm more confused. I'm more confused the most going on. And it's not like Cleveland was just driving the ball like the offense for the town's Cowboys had just got off the field. Cleveland had just received the kickoff. So it can't be like these guys are tired out there, like they got a you know, it was an eighty yard drive and

this is the fifteenth player of the drive. Now this is what the second or first player of the drive they had going on there, and just to see, like you pointed out all those different guys, this effort was just not there and knew what you pointed it out. It comes back to pride, it comes back to playing for that name on the back of your jersey. It's just it didn't look good. And I mean it was I mean, Danny, you know the special team's reference Joe

used to always say this, Jodi Camillus. It looked like they were ducks in a row. I mean they let one move. Oh, they'll made one cut and about five players went to out of bounds and to the right side. And you just can't have that. You gotta tear it off. You gotta have different levels to your defense. And it just wasn't there at all. I mean, that was an embarrassing display, like you guys said, because this is why this is why they're not letting us watch practice because

they obviously ain't doing no pursuit drill. They're not doing no tackling drill. I'm like, I'm absolutely like, how do you how do they're not doing none of this stuff? Bro? Like, it's not one good angle on this play, and this is just an example of what happened the entire game, actually the entire first quarter of the season. Like this is not just this play, this one just where it stood out for where the whole defense is doing this. But what are we doing in practice? This is when

it goes back, goes back to coaching. What are we doing let us see tackle? I need to seeing tackles. I mean it's just if you name it, that's what we did it out there on Sunday. I mean it was just play after play it was they just looked lost out there. It was just like they just didn't know where the good they didn't know where the rush angle was. I mean, once again, he was running Scott free out there. It's man, it's bad. It's bad news

right now. These dudes they looked that good in two years again, Danny, stay at this point, I mean it wasn't but two weeks ago they were I mean this, there were speculation stories that it was time you trade Odell Beckham Junior because they didn't know how to use him. He wasn't any good. It was from me, remember that, I mean it was. It was supposed to be a real bad thing going on right now between Baker and Odell and the Browns. It was supposed to be bad.

And now this dude on TV yucking it up, posing for the kids, getting three touchdowns running free Willie all through that. I mean, think about that. This is a guy that was strugg the league. He just this guy. Man, I might have made the Pro Bowl based off what

he did on TV. Look if you if you if your season ain't going the way you wanted to go so far, I'm telling right now, if you're struggling as a quarterback to get things going in your receiver that hasn't really gotten his reception going, hasn't got a group. If you're running back, look if you're on a practice squad for another team, I'm like, yo, send me to the Giants right now. I need to get this working. I need to get these checks because Dallas right now,

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on the chin, giving up almost fifty points. Forty nine thirty eight is the Cleveland Browns come to Jerry World for their first victory since nineteen ninety four, when Bill Belichick came in and the old Texas Stadium and won the game with Nick Sabans, his defensive coordinator. The Browns

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Mortgage Virtual Home studios. Let's give out some grades, gentlemen, we have yet to talk about the quarterback. Let's let's bring up Dak Prescott here. Five hundred and two yards of passing, three touchdowns. If he's on your fantasy team, you're real happy. But overall, I'll start with you, McCrae. What grade would you give the Cowboys quarterback? You know, for his fight, you know, and his ability to bring

us back in the game. I'm gonna give him a B. And I'm gonna give him that because if you watch that game and even even the touchdown to Mark Cooper, my man almost threw five interceptions. Um, you know, he got away with a lot of stuff in that game that that he shouldn't have, maybe because he was playing the Browns and they just weren't able to capitalize on those plays. But you know he was able to bring us back. He gave us a chance to win that game. And you know he ended ended this one off with

an interception. But you know, I'm gonna give him a be just because he kept us in it. And that's and that's tough to do, specially when you're down forty one fourteen. So he gets a B from me. Four touchdowns, My bad was four four touchdowns, Barry, What are you gonna get Dak Gray? I'm gonna getting Dak a solid CE on this one. Um. Like you said, Daniel, you know, I gotta give him credit for fighting back. You know,

he threw up all these guily numbers. You know they were empty calories, but he put them up there, and he got them back within a striking within the striking realm of getting another crazy comeback. But you know, part of the reason they were in that mess, it's because of him. I mean so, and like you said, he could have thrown like four or five if Cleveland secondary could catch. I mean, he would have probably thrown about

four interceptions out there alone. So for me, I gotta give him a C. He did not look great throwing the ball out there. Like I said, he brought him back. But in the beginning part, where was that at when it was you know, seven seven? Where was that at when it was fourteen fourteen? We need to see more earnestly out of out of this offense as a whole instead of when you know, all the chips are down and no one expects you to do anything, then you want to show up. So for me, this offense, they

all got to step it up. And it starts with Dak Prescott. So I'm gonna give him a C grade for this. Uh this game, Cleveland Brown, we don't we don't have it, bro, I'm sorry, we don't have it, all right, we don't have it. When when the game is close, this is the same thing. We're going back to trash yards again. The defense liter let's out the gas. Yeah, the defense let out the gas. And then all of a sudden, you know, they think they're going home and

they're getting on the bus because the game's over. And then all of a sudden. You know what I'm saying, we wake up. Maybe that's our strategy. Get down real, you know, lull them to sleep, and then try to try to make a comeback, because that's the only way we're getting all these yards. Its head coach. That's a different year. The head coach said, there a come back team, and the press conference, I'm sitting here, listen, this is the strategy to come back team. I mean, I U

who I mean, Hey, look man, I'm off that cool league. Okay, I'm off that Mike. Okay, I poured all that out and I poured all that out and new No, sir, no, sir, no, sir. I can't. I can't. I can't get with what I'm here where you know we're a come back team. No, no, no, baby, no, that's that's not the strategy you want. Hey, let's go ahead and get down and then we're gonna gonna use

then we're gonna throw out our good plays. We're gonna come back like no. No, um no, I've got to give I give Dak al b I give Dak could be um for the standpoint is you know he did keep the team in the game. Uh, didn't just fold. But I also come back to this thing that I argue with about people, and Bucky Brooks is with me on the same thing. They're just throwing the ball too much. Fifty eight passing attempts, Okay, another week where sure Dak's

got well over four hundred fifty yard. Three weeks in a row, he's got five hundred two yards. But they're throwing the ball way too much. What have we seen out of Baker Mayfield and what they did in Cleveland. Cleveland said we're gonna run this thing and we're gonna limit the amount of throws for Baker Mayfield. When I go back and look at one of the most successful seasons for Tony Romo, it was when they gave DeMarco Murray the ball, and DeMarco Murray was the NFC Offensive

Player of the Year. They limited the throws for Tony Romo. When you see guys out here slinging the ball almost sixty times a game, there's something else that usually comes with that, a loss. And I still don't understand why the Cowboys are out here throw throw, throw, throw, throw, And people could say, well, the game dictated that, but you know what, if you start the game better in the Cowboys and starting the football game, then maybe you'll

have an opportunity to do what the Browns did. You know. I went back here and I looked at the Okay, this is the first series, all right, First and ten of the twenty five, Ezekiel Elliott gets four yards on a run and then Joe Looney the center ended up leaving. So a second and six of the twenty nine, Dak got sacked by Miles Garrett. Now it was criminal that they let Terrence Steal out here all by yourself, all Miles Garrett. Okay, that was just absolutely criminal. But also

Dak help if you watched it. If you watch that play, Dak held onto the ball too long, you got to know, hey, man, I got rookie against a number one pick in the draft. Who's good. You better have a clock in your head. Did homeboys coming? So I put I look at that, and I said that I need I need you. You're making thirty one million dollars. I need you to cover up for the mistakes or cover up for what could happen with Terrence Steal. You gotta be ready for that.

So I put that on. The coaches also put that one on the quarterback. So now it's third and seventeen. Zeke catches the ball. They just give it to him, so it's then's the fourth down and then so Cleveland gets the ball. They got a first and ten at their thirty. Nick Chubb runs uh makes a first down run first and ten on the Cowboy forty nine incomplete pass tipped by Joe Thomas, second and ten of the forty nine Hooper with the Austin Hooper with the first

down reception. Then it's first and ten on the thirty seven. Then he got the trick play where Jarvis Landry comes out there. It's got the whole defense sucked in and food then throws into O B J and the end zone. Let's address that one real quick. You know that was covered too, all right. It's no way that that that that should have happened. You got two safeties back the receiver or releases out the line going out for a pass and my safety comes up to go defending the run.

No way that should have happened. We just made these guys look like superstars. This once again another episode the bad Eyes. I mean, to your point earlier knew you. I mean it's easy to limit, you know, Baker Mayfield's throws and attempts to I think he only attempted thirty thirty pat But when you got that, yeah, and that's

a that's a that's a great formula for Cleveland. And when you got that in the backfield though, I mean, yeah, Wen you got and then your third down, the third running back it's going for for damn here at a hundred yards. I mean, so it's easy to limit his throws. But when you come to our side, I mean, what you get Zeke at twelve or fifty four on a four point five carry. I mean we got to see more from Zeke as well. I mean he fumbled the ball. I mean we got to see more from Zeke's will.

I'm not putting any I mean I'm still blaming it, you know, I'm still saying that gott to step this game up. But we gotta see more out of this running game as well them. Okay, yeah, Now here's here's my thing on on Cleveland versus the Cowboys. And we spoke about earlier in the week. You knew what Cleveland wanted to do. They wanted to run the football, all right. They they put the resources in the offensive line like the Cowboys have done. And so they say, they let

you know, we're coming to run. And we also spoke about how their strength is the cowboys weakness on the D line. So they came out there. It was no secret. Okay, nobody in the Cowboys should be surprised about what they were coming to do. They were coming up pounding and they couldn't stop it. Meanwhile, I'm starting to ask, what are the Cowboys? What are the Cowboys? To me? The Cowboys are not committed to running the football that they

want to sit up here and draw. Kellie wants to draw plays, and he McCarthy want to throw it all around the football field because they got all these these these quote unquote weapons and they've abandoned the run. I'm sorry, Zekiel Elliott once again with fourteen care Then then here's the thing, and I would ask, if I'm Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones, I'd ask these coaches this, why the heck did we pay him? Why did you pay Ze money?

Why did you pay Zee all these money? If you aren't going to give this guy the ball, you could just go get a regular old running back, Gio, you can get you can get somebody, But well, I pay this kind of money and you're not featuring the play. That's why I agree with you. I mean, like, I don't think twelfth carriers in the full game is enough at all. I mean, yeah, he got some receptions out there. I think got eight receptions or eight targets out there,

and they call all eight of them. But that's not that should be our identity. We're not there, you know, two thousand. We're not the two thousand and ten Green Bay Packers where Aaron Rodgers was throwing the ball all over the place. I mean, that's that's not who we are. We have the talent to be that, but I think our formula fund that get has always been, you know, ground and pound and then throw what we need to. But I don't know, maybe Kellen Moore's been playing too

much Madden. I don't know what's going on with them, but I mean he's throwing all over yard like we're in recess and it's just not working for our team right now. Once again, somebody listened to Amari Cooper, Dak and Zeke or should be the only people who touching

the ball in the first years of the game. Yeah, we could just get that done and show people that that's what we're focusing on, giving giving Zeke the ball, find a way to get Cool the ball, you know, saying starting the game out like that, with a long, methodical drive, I think that everything changes for us. But we just were just set on not doing that, not focusing on our big time money players that we paid

to go out there and have production. Well, well now now let me okay, all right, you bring that up. Now the first series, okay, it was it was all twenty one, all right, I mean, did you start first and ten to twenty five was a Zeke run? The SAT killed them? Okay, that Sat killed them? And so

on third and seventeen it was Zeke. So the next time they get the ball after the the Odell Beckham Junior trick play touchdown, uh, it's first and tended to twelve because because your boy on the kickoff was lost. Tony Pollard on that kickoff, Oh my gosh, what death taxis?

And Tony pold on these kickoffs. Boy, So it's first and ten of the twelve and it's a Dalton Schultz twenty five yard catch for first down, second and tended to thirty seven they run Zeke for three yards, second and seven A to forty it is a Ezekiel Elliott eighteen yard reception for a first down. Then it's first intended to forty three, and it's CD Lamb with the forty three yard touchdown, and they tied at seven. So so you know, the first two I didn't hear Cooper.

I didn't hear Mark Cooper in there. And then third and seventeen to Zeke to me, is irrelevant. Of course, it's thirty seventeen. You just try to get out of there and put the ball. You're gonna give it to Zeke. You're gonna throw it down the field seventeen yards and get an interception that don't count. And then you said you come back the second drive and you got Dalton shots and you hit Cede Lamb after Zeke runs for three. I still don't hear Cooper in there, and I hear

a run from from Zeke. But you can't argue with what happened. Okay, So shots for a twenty five yard game. That's a good play up. Okay, Yeah, listen, the worst, the worst thing, the worst thing you can do is get lucky in a situation like this. This is why we haven't focused on giving these guys the ball, because what have you don't give it to them and then you get it player, you like, shoot, you know what?

That that's our that's our recipe right there. We should just keep going away from because we got other options that we can get to to make these plays and it's not working. Okay. So I'm gonna fight you on this. So okay, I'm gonna fight you on this one. Okay. So now all the third possession, Okay, third possession here comes Cooper. Okay. So it's a first intended to sixteen, a ten yard game for Cooper. Then uh Pollard or the five yard run Cooper with Pollards in the game. Okay, Okay.

So so Cooper asked, that's a first two under series three first three plays two go to Cooper. Then um, it's a slant to Noah Brown for a first down. Then it's a CD Lamb reception that was off that play that got tipped, that should have been picked but he caught it out of the air. That it's an incomplete pass on first and tend the twenty eight second in tended that they get Browns twenty eight CD Lamb for a three yard run on the jet suite, then third seven or the twenty five the CD Lanb reception.

Then they came up with the fourth down and two play. Then there was a two yard touchdown pass say the twenty yards test well actually, so actually you know you're right you right now, let me help you write what was the score at this point? Right, so if we're getting our players involved, we got Zeke involved, we got Cooper. What was the score seven fourteen to seven? Cowboys? Okay, just check it, all right? And then so it worked, yeah, yes, okay, all right, my bad, my bad, my bad, You're right,

new it whatever. At the end of the day, man, lord who we scored another point. Look what they did on their first six drafts of the game five five of the first six Cleveland Browns offensively, five of the first six drafts were points, and only one of those were field goals. It was one of those field goals. At the end of the day, our deepense is trash right now, and we can't stop those league Like we can talk about you know, Dak running, we get talking

about Zeke doing this. At the end of the day, we gotta stop somebody. We gotta make it. We gotta be able to stop somebody out here. We can't. I yes, we gotta take a we gotta take a break. But Danny, I'm still gonna fight to you a little bit here. I'm gonna fight you a little bit here. And also I'm gonna give you a break in how this thing

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come on, come on, come on. We're debating a little bit here, so so go back to they're doing what you want here, Okay, no, no, the kind of kind of the they're kind of they're kind of doing what I want, all right, but go ahead, alright, seven fourteen seven, next play, Cleveland goes on a nine play drive and that's when Odell Beckham Junior was wide open as Warley was trying to cover him, so that made it fourteen fortune.

So here they are on drive number four. All right. Uh, By the way, Tony Poler took the kickoff, returning to the twenty six. So first intended the twenty six Ezekiel Elliott nine yard run, second and one of the thirty six Ezekiel Elliott runs no game, Third and one of the thirty six Elliott makes a first down run of two yards, so it's first intended their own thirty eight. And here's where the game really gets away from the

Cowboys and they shoot themselves in the foot. Dak is sacked by Miles Garrett strip sack of course against the right tackle steel Olivia. First album it was first and thirty eight, Yes, I mean first, okay, first, first and tend thirty yard line. So so there that that, and then of course Cleveland took that and ran u four plays later made it twenty one to fourteen with nine

twenty two to go. So then the exact next play, after a kick a touchback first intended to twenty five Ezekiel Elliott fumbles, Cleveland gets the ball and then it's twenty eight to fourteen. Cleveland twenty unanswered points. So when you start to look at this thing, your your playmakers are are creating problems and the coaching staff isn't helping. The coaching staff is not helping Tarren Steele. And I saw Tarrence Steele get benched in this game, and I

thought that was absolutely wrong on the coaches. From this standpoint, you weren't helping him. Of course, Miles Garrett was gonna beat him. You bring in Brandon Knight. You know how to Brandon right. Miles Garrett ran around hit two. I'm sorry, I don't give a damn about all these receivers you want to put in in a route. It doesn't matter if you got three four wide receivers in a route. If that doesn't have time to go see these dudes.

This is the stuff that they did last year that drove me nuts, and Kellen Moore is doing it again. And this is where Mike McCarthy is the head coach, needs to step in here, and Joe Philbing, the offensive line coach, needs to step in and say, hey, Callen, we gotta help, we gotta help Steal, we gotta help Night, because these dudes cannot hold up against the best in the game. Imagine what you're gonna do when you face Pittsburgh at Baltimore. Even Washington's got a good D line.

I mean, this thing is getting crazy, Philadelphia. This is absolutely atrocious that they refuse to help their offensive tackles in their time of need. And it's once again it is leading to fumbles and points. Cleveland scored fourteen points off cowboy mistakes. Fourteen points and when we talk about coming into this man, that was what Cleveland was doing there. Red and Butter is they created turnovers and they scored

off the turnovers. Go ahead and Cray, I want to Church to touch on this after I kind of break it down a little bit because in my mind, what I've been saying for so many weeks is get the ball to Zeke and then give it the coop and then let everything else go out that so that sat so that drives that we just went through before Zeke fumble was three three straight players to Zeke that got us a first down, right we pounded the ball down, they throw We have a right tackle who were already

worried about and we're not giving any help right out there, and you come out on first down with Miles Garrett on him and you try to throw the ball after the running game just got you a first down. To me, that doesn't make any sense. And if I'm not mistaken, it was a drop back, not even a play action, a boot, a sprint out, any of that. It was just a straight drop back on first down after Zeke thing got you those yards and you get sack forced fumble.

To me, that just doesn't make sense. It's not smart play calling, and it's not working to you know, to the advantage of what you're doing. And that's kind of, you know, exploiting your own disadvantaged by having that out there on Miles Gear that that's just not smart play caller. I agree. I mean, I'm not fighting you on that.

You're you're you're there. I mean, I just this is an m O. And this is a question I'd love to to ask Mike mccarth these guys press conference coming up today, what is your philosophy on trying to protect a weakness You've got award. You know your right tackle spot is bad. You saw it last week against Seattle, and now you're bringing in the premier pass rusher and

you do this. I don't get it. Danny. I mean, that's my thing is I don't I don't get this philosophy of not helping these guys because you want more dudes in a route. I mean, if I have if I have two receivers in a route and I keep in shots, you know what's fine. I can, I can. I got I got Cooper, I got Gal. I'll find a way to get those two guys the ball if you give them some time. I think Dad can do that.

But if there's no time, it doesn't matter if you got three or four guys in a route, because Dad's never gonna see him. That's what drives me crazy about these dudes who want to call these plays. It bucks me, man, that bucks me very much. Church, what do you think about the play calling? Yeah, my own arm, I think you are with the play calling. But y'all, but I don't understand. What's why. Are y'all surprised all this has that they left this guy at right tackle by himself.

I mean, this is this is the m It's always too little, too late. I mean, look, we started the game out slow man the man, they're pulling up the score. Now it's time for us to go. My guy, Terence Still, he's getting the brakes beat off of him out there. Man, We're just gonna bench him and put Brandon Night out there. He's getting the brakes beat off of him. Maybe now in the fourth quarter will start chipping. So for me,

I mean, it's it's simple. It's it's not surprising at all that this coaching staff is just letting these guys get beat down until it's too late and they say, oh, let me go ahead and make an adjustment real quick. I mean, it's just this coaching staffs m right now. And to me, it's it's not surprising at all. Watch the mylf. I'll go ahead in no way, let's let's take this thing even further and let's look out here, all right, And we didn't touch on the episode, so

let's even get here. Lell Collins is out for the year at right tackle, Okay, he's not coming back, gonna have surgery gone. Why not take Zach Martin, put him out here at right tackle for the rest of the year and go put in Connor McGovern. I mean, why not do this? Joe Looney went out with a knee injury, so you had Tyler beyandest Now at the center spot. Why not do this? You used a third round pick on Connor McGovern, a guy they said they had a

second round grade on. Why not do this versus putting an undrafted rookie Tarrant Steel out here and Brandon Knight another guy who's not a high draft pick out here. Why not? It may hurt Zach in terms of making another all Pro at guard, but if you're gonna sit up here and play the rest of this thing without Collins, I mean, I don't call me crazy, but I think Martin is better than those other two. So why not that guy out there just tell him to go ahead

and suck it up. I'm a little before we go ahead and start doing you know, mismatching and fantasy football moving this guys, this guy here, why don't we just give the guy some help. Just go aheaded and let's see what they can do when they're running back chips, or let's see what they can do when they keep it tight end and they and they double team that

guy and help that tackle over there. I mean, before we start moving you know, all pro guards over the tackle and mismatching this that and a third and playing fantasy football, let's just get a guy some help and see what he could do is see if he could stand up with some help out there, and we had we get to see that, all right, Church? Right, I come at a two ways. If you're going to be committed to not giving help, okay, if this is their system says they're going to do, then put the better

right tackle out there. And Martin is a better right tackle. So if I'm going to pat, if I'm going to go ahead, Church, go ahead, gonn finish it now? I'm sorry, go ahead ahead, okay. So if I'm going to if I'm going to make my self weaker, would I rather make myself weaker at the right tackle or at the right guard? Where it depends when you're playing? Where do I want? The more it detends who you're playing there? I mean, if you're playing, go ahead, go ahead, And

I'm sorry, go ahead. No, I'm just saying, at this point in time, I'm going to either way, I'm gonna have award if you leave yourself at right tackle and you're not going to help, okay, So if you're not gonna help, like you're saying, if they're not gonna help, then you need to put Zack Martin out there. If you're pleasingly steal a night there, then you better help them. But they gotta do one or the other man. You gotta do one of the Yeah, that's yeah, what they're

doing right now is criminal. And that's that's all I'm saying, is if, like, if you're gonna go out there and leave that guy out there, at least help him out there. I mean, it's just that's the that's the easiest thing, and that's the easiest solution I think right now, is if if you're gonna, if you're gonna have that guy at rat tackle, at least give him the most help possible. Don't act like he's Tyring Smith out there and just leave him on an island with one of the best

pass rushers in the game right now. I mean, that's

just it's just crazy to me. And if you're gonna go ahead and not help him at all, then go ahead and put the other all pro Zach Martin, which I'm sure he could be an all pro at any of those positions on the offensive line, go ahead and put him out there, but just don't make the decision to where, all right, we're just gonna leave him out there and whatever happens happens, because to me, that's just that's just a bad coaching error, and that's just a

bad coaching judgment. We should we should start a segment called called why not? All right? Why why not help out? Why not help out your right tackle? Why not kick the ball deep instead of kicking it short? You know, with with with that most time looting the game, why not give the ball to z? Why not give it the coup? We could just do why not? And we could go we could do a whole season of why not, you know, and it wouldn't even begin to cover everything

that's going on with the Cowboys. We just do so much stuff that makes you scratch ahead and say, why not do this? It just makes it makes too much sense, That's why why not? It makes too much sense for us to do it, That is why not. It's too simple, it's too easy. Why not do that? Coming soon to the players lounge, why not help your right tackle? I mean, why just let him get abused out there? Why not?

Why not? Why not take a knee and just get the ball on the twenty five like a confused and knew he Like you said before the Odell play, why would you just not kick the ball deep. You got enough time to try to get the same stop that you will have to get anyways, you know, and get him out of that field position. It just don't make sense. You down about enough to where they kick a field goal to games over. I don't understand it. Why not analytics?

Why I don't know analytics? Mike McCarthy said, you know, he had spent all his time in the bunker, and you know he was coming back better and I'm sorry, better than what we lied to. I mean, was this a big old the city stunt? Was this a lie? Did they ever really do it? Because if right, if you spent that much time, hold up, bro, that's that's bad. This is bad results, man, These some bad results and

the decision making. I don't know, man, And you know, Mike, Mike talks today at four the Cowboys coordinators talking four thirty. I'm gonna get on that call and and hopefully some of these questions get answered. But I do feel bad for Terrence Steel and Brandon Knight because the Cowboy fan will you know, was on on social media, Oh this dude stings. These guys are cruggy that that that it's

not their fault. They are who they are. Don't blame them, blame the dude who put them out there and didn't didn't try to protect them as well. And it's the same time too. The quarterback has to know who's out there. Where's Garrett lined up? Okay, Garrett's lined up right there. You know what the protection is. So if you know Terence steals out there in one on one, you may not be able to get all the time you have. So that's why you're making thirty one million dollars. You've

got to be smarter. You got to know that. That's where a guy like Tom Brady has been very good through the years, is he understands because you know, Tom has had a lot of offensive linemen that have been a okay, but he understands of how he's got to play and get rid of the football. And that's that goes on the quarterback too. Not all on the quarterback, but some of it's there. But it ain't these guys fault man. The coaching staff has to protect him. All right.

We have vented for forty five minutes. We'd even finished giving out all our grades. We just vented here. So we'll bring some more tomorrow as the Cowboys get ready for what I deem a must win as they play their first NFC East game of the year. As they get get ready to take on the New York Giants who are old and four. That's Barry Church Danny mc craie, former Boys safeties. I'm new we scruts a long time

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