Player's Lounge: How Legitimate Are They?

Barry Church is um. Let's hear it got a very very very valid excuse for not being with us today. Hold on, wait, listen, let me tell you something. Hey, hey, Chris, Chris cb um. When when our intro comes on, Barry Churches first, Okay, he got about two to three most shows to miss in twenty twenty one before he has moved down. All right, we can't be buried Church. He's not here, all right, So we just got to decide that we even need to keep him on there. I need to cut him out of the open. As I

was saying, you might have he's not here. Just get rid of them out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know you want to customize Yeah, yeah, customized, because customized for every show. Just be like in Missing Buried Church. Yeah, you know like Dandy mccraig knew he scrugs and Missing Barry. I like, yeah, that that'll work. You have the side tub, like yeah, yeah, let's do that. So Church was out and he couldn't

fly back. Now there are two valid reasons. One, he said the storms last night prevented him from getting on his flight getting into which are legitimate. I was here, I work at a TV news station. My man came in, Rick Mitchell came in. He was doing uh, I mean he was eight o'clock and he was already you know, all during the game, was doing you know some people are happy, uh giving updates all during the game about

everything was going on. And so so that's legitimate. And then two, if he was on Southwest Airlines, he probably woudn't get on the flight because the bus, those folks side, they weren't going to work. Now, I kind of you doubt churches on you know, very churches not flying Southwest. I don't think that first class south that's not that's not a very church thing, right, the church and family can see trying to get over here, trying to get first that first group one. NA got bad lunch to

get that. Yeah, I know. I'm just just so your second one. There's no longer valance. I just possible. Maybe last minute he was trying to get on the I don't know. I don't so so church is not here today for victory Monday. I hope he had fun out there. It was a very nice place he went to. It was one of my favorite places, So I hope he had a great time. Cowboys win forty four to twin. We're not going to spend a whole lot of time

looking at any negatives. We're just going to have fun today and and drink the kool aid of a team that is four and one and in first place in the NFC East. One of the things that I want to talk about amongst the record, which is something that Dak Prescott got beat up a lot on over the summer. I remember Dan Orlovsky being one of the people beating in the drum. Many people beat the drum on lists. Okay, fine, can Dak beat good teams? Oh yeah, he's got a

nice record. Who are you beating? It's any good? So they have? Boy, you got a lot of time they parceled out, broken down the ratios of good teams versus losing teams. So the Cowboys are four and one this year. Their first win was over a team that is four and one right now, the LA Chargers, and looking like looking like the best team at AFC. I'll give them. I mean, I got to give a buffalo over you know, okay, looking like one of the best teams that the top two,

top two. They are a contender. Absolutely if they ended up in Los Angeles at the Super Bowl her own stadium, you would not be shocked in surprise. Boy. I feel bad for Anthony Lynn, no longer the head coach there, because you see the second year matchuration of Justin Herbert and what he's been able to do. Wow, that's a really good quarterback. And I feel sad for the brother

GM down there in Miami who decided to take two US. Look, I will say this for Anthony look against Anthony Lynn, all right, because Justin Herbert was playing very well last year once when he got in the game, there were just some coaching mistakes that were getting made where they just could not finish at the end of games. So he had Justin Herbert in time for him to get some wins on his under his building and make a case for him to still be with the lah Chargers.

But didn't work out for him. And that's the difference in this year. I mean, I can sit him here all day long and Anthony Lynn, former assistant here with the Cowboys, who I absolutely love as a person. Yes, the differences. They're winning the games that they lost last year. They they found ways to lose. And I look at the Chargers, it's so much of Anthony's tenure. It was not that they lost games. They gave away games off getting gave away football games and you can't do that

for long. And the Chargers ownership of the spanis just they gave him enough time, so it happened. And this is kind of the when you look at say, okay, what happens if you don't give away these games? It's four and one football team with a quarterback playing really well. So therefore one they beat the Carolina Panthers. Panthers came in here as a first placed undefeated team. Panthers have now dropped two straight loss of the Cowboys and Philadelphia,

but that's still a three and two football game. I mean football team you beat Philadelphia. Philadelphia is two and three who they beat Carolina yesterday. The Giants are one and four who you beat yesterday by twenty four. But you knew those teams were You knew you were better than those teams. Okay, when people were talking about the division this year, you were saying Dallas Washington. The other

two weren't even in the conversation. So the four and one record I wanted to stand on and just say, hey, look, it's legitimate. So many times you can look at it. You know how legitimate are they? This is legitimate, it's and I think it's it's it's legit because one, you have to beat who you play against, right, and then you have to perform up to your standard when you

play them. And I think we've done that right with the exception of like blowing them out and at the end of the game getting those garbage yards and letting people back in the game once it's really over, we've been performing how we expect to when we play those teams that we know we should beat. Also, we are rolling and getting better each and every week, like and

this is every phase of the game. So if you start on offense, in the beginning of the season, you say, man, we need to get our running game going, running games rolling. You look at defense, you say, we need to stop the pass because we're giving up a lot of passing yards. We got ten in exceptions. Right. Special teams is like, we want to make sure that the plays that they call us out for on special teams are positive. You see C J. Gooding run down their all point make

a big time play on special teams. We are continuing to get better. And if we put it all together and we continue to get better throughout this entire season, the Scot's a limit for us. The only loss the Cowboys have is a last second field goal against the Super Bowl champions in their house. Yeah, and missing Zach Martin on that very day. We're not healthy. I mean, you think about how much better we're getting so far. We got Leo Collins out, we got Gallop out, we

got Tank out, we got Neville Gallimore out. You had Randy Gregory the game. You had Torn dorns Armstrong out the game. You had to start safety Willson. I mean you you all along. This guy was gone. This guy so there are a lot of positive and credit Tad coach Mike McCarthy absolutely, because they have made no excuses and they've put together a program in which the next

player goes up. One of the things that Mike talks about a lot, and you saw it in a Hard Knocks and he mentioned it all the time of the podium it took seventy three players to win a Super Bowl when he was with the Green Bay Packers. And I remember that being in there in that Super Bowl game and Donald Driver went out, where are you going out? And they had a lot of guys within that get Charles Wildson got hurt in a game. They want it. They just kept going. So you see those traits of

what he was talking about, and they're there. They're there for the football team. I like what you talked about with the run game. Here, let's listen to Dak Prescott on the Cowboys run game, which had two hundred and one yards of rushing a thirty nine attempts against the Giants on Sunday. Yeah, it makes my job a lot easier. I mean it starts with the offensive line. Those guys are doing a great job weekend and week out. Whatever look that they're getting dominating the guys in front of them.

And dominating that look and giving those guys those backs lanes to run in and then whether Zeke or whether it's Tony, they're both hitting and they're getting to the second level making guys miss, and it's impressive. And when you're able to do that, you get the box counts that you want to be able to take advantage of

them outside and we're able to do that. But as you said, to have a guy go for a one hundred, a guy go for seventy five and three hundred in the air, I think that just talks about the whole offense, but it starts with the offensive line in the way that they're establishing the run. Your thoughts, I love it. Listen for as much criticism as Jason Garrett took when he was here, we were a running team. Where you

started with it was upfront. We want to dominate the line of scrimmage and lean on those guys on the defensive lines. And when you get to the end of the game, those two yard runs turning the fifteen yard runs and twenty our runs and we are back to that. Right when you watch the game, you say, look, this is this is how we're going to play, no matter what, no matter how many receivers we got out, no matter who we're missing, we can lean on the fact that

our old line is better than theirs. We can lean on the fact that our running backs are better than their linebackers, than their secondary players. And we've done that for the last three weeks, and the way that we've won these games, this is the recipe for success for the rest of the season. We were worried about Keller Moore calling runs in the first game, and he came and showed us, don't don't worry, y'all. I got this. I go back to something Mike McCarthy said all in

the off season. We want to be a balanced football team. He said, we threw the ball too much last year, and we're seeing that take place. So Ezekiel Elliott another hundred yard game, But how about Tony Pollard, Tony Parker seventy five yards rushing in this football game? And I just kind of was going down looking at the list. All right, look, look what did some other guys do

yesterday in terms of running the football. Here Miles Sanders up Philadelphia, Levin carries forty five yards, killing my fantasy team. I didn't take him I knew not to take that guy. I knew not to touch any of that. Josh Jacob's first round draft pick of the Raiders fifteen carries forty eight yards. Yesterday, Joe Mixon had ten carries for thirty three yards. Some J. P. Ryan for Cincinnati fifty nine yards, Aaron Jones fourteen carries one hundred three yards, had a

long of fifty seven on his neck. My man James James Robinson, he had a long of fifty something that had one hundred and two under and whatever. Right, And I bring this up here as I'm just kind of scrolling and looking at just some of the other box scores here from when you see Tony Pollard gets fourteen carries for seventy five yards, and this is backup south.

You know you're the number two, and you see Zeke with twenty one carries in one hundred ten yards, you just you just know that what they're doing right now is very uncommon in the league. You know, seventy five yards for more than half these teams yesterday, Tony pably would have been league rushing for a whole lot of football teams. Astudent listening to care We mentioned this at the get of the season. If you're going to do this, you want to mirror what the Cleveland Browns it did

with Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb. All right, that is that is a perfect recipe to see, hey man, we're gonna take it and we don't need to take it out of Dack hands like they needed to take it out of Baker Mayfield hands. But if you're gonna have a running game like that, when you got a one two punch, that is a true one two punch. Kareem Hunt, Nick Chubb, Ezekiel Ellie and Tony Poll Okay, thank you, thank you, very good stuff here. So just looking at

what happened yesterday. Dak Prescott thirty three attempts three three hundred three yards, three touchdowns, Baker Mayfield thirty two attempts three oh five two touchdowns, rushing game thirty five attempts, two hundred and thirty yards for Cleveland on the ground, Cowboys two hundred and one yards on the ground thirty nine attempts, Chubb twenty one one sixty one, Kareem Hunt twelve sixty one. We just kind of see, you know, they truly are doing what the Browns are doing right now,

except the Browns lost to the Chargers. Yeah, yeah, and that was a Yeah, that was a totally different game than the game that we played, which is why I have to give our defensive dan Quinn so much love. The Browns have a good defense. You wouldn't be able to tell yesterday, right that was that was an offensive shootout. Nobody stopping, nobody's stopping the pass, nobody's stopping the run. They came here and scored with seventeen. We beat them

twenty to seventeen. That's the way our defense is playing now. We didn't get a couple of lucky calls, and I take those because sometimes when you're on your way to making those runs in football, you gotta get lucky some some somewhere along the way, teams created absolutely good good teams. I mean through the years, you always say, man, how the Patriots get get all these calls? Good football team? Yeah, even when the Cowboys winning and night, oh, they get

all the calls. Good teams get calls. That That's usually just how it works. When you're good, they give you the benefit of the doubt many times on things. By the way, Austin Acro sixty six yards rushing on seventeen carries. Tony Pollard fourteen carry seventy five yards. Tony Pollard would have been a leading rusher on a whole lot of teams in the National Football League. Yesterday, they're running the football very well. Ezekiel Elliott had another one hundred yard game.

Chris Bean, please give me the cut. Where's Zeke praises the offensive line and what the Cowboys are doing it. Oh, by the way, this is still not the offensive line that the Cowboys have drawn up that they wanted to go half play on Sundays. Yeah, it all starts up front the old line. You know, from the beginning of the game where they established the line of scrimmage. They dominate the line of scrimmage, and they got their run game going and everything he found it plays after that.

Keep in mind Game one Cowboys didn't have Zach Martin. So you still have yet to play the five starting offensive lineman that you drew up on the board. He said, these are our guys. Has not yet has not happened.

Terrence Steele will get another start this week at right tackle, and then Collins well, he's seeking an injunction this week, so we'll see but at this point in time, I'm going to assume Terrence Steele is you're starting right tackle against the New England Patriots, and then Collins comes back.

Terrence Steele, bravo. Okay. I want to make sure we continue to give that young man props for what he's done here and to allow the Cowboys to put together this run game at passing they've not missed a beat, and there was a worry that the Cowboys would not be able to be at their best with Terence still out there. Put Zach Martin from guard over that. I mean, this guy has has made all of us forget he's out there. Well him. He shout off to him because

he is playing well. Kellen Moore is also doing a hell of a job because I remember in the past two years we said, hey man, when you get these guys out here swing tapping, you're not helping them. What is going to help them the most help starting getting your tight end and getting your run game going right. Yes, these offensive linements to malay guys right. So now when you get the defense off balance, they're not able to just pin their ears back and rush you all the time.

They have to play honest. The running game is helping the entire offense when you're missing a gallop, when you got a banged up a Mark Cooper. Your running game is carrying you through through this three game win streak. So I mean, was it four game win streak? Sorry? So shout out to Kelly Moore, Shout out to tear Still, Shout out to coach McCarthy for making sure he has

these guys ready to go in is it? Philman? Shout out Shout out to Joe Philman because and I'm so this is what makes me so excited because we have the correct coaching staff this year. Last year we saw what bad coaching can do for you, all right, it ruined our season and I stand up one more time. It was on this very Dallas Cowboys podcast. We all spoke about it. If you're going to hire Dan Quinn,

let him bring in his coaches. Let him bring in the people who understand what he's doing so he doesn't have to coach the coaches, which was a problem with Mike Nolan last year. Brings in his D line coach, he brings in his dB coach, and George Jetwards is one of the best coaches in the game and you see what he's doing with the linebackers. They brought in people who all are on the same page, which on

the same page they kept out here. I mean, they've got a very good coaching staff and everyone has bought him and they're not scared to get the Let the players play. You're getting the young guys in again. You're getting guys and listen, they literally look at the roster and say, if this guy can play, he will get in the game. And that is the ultimate respect for your players, and players love coaches that do that. If you're gonna earn your right to get on the field,

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That's the contract you sign when you do reality television. They don't want the cast talking because you don't want any anything to get spoiled. So and then a lot of times too, he's finding out on the show what was actually said. He doesn't understand it, no, because they want to keep it all secret. Yeah, and it's it's actually more exciting that way, right. You don't want me to to spoil something for you than you already know what's going on, then you might not watch it. And

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Washington's got some work to do because all this kind of talk about well Washington's gonna win Cowboys is not you talk about eating the cheese. This is a team that was supposed to be a good defensive football team. Their defense is terrible. Okay, I mean then defense is getting worked on the rag and Jamis had struggled. He struggled the past couple of football games, Man, James go

over there and lit them up like a firecracker. This is why, this is why you can always go into every year and you can't say, hey, man, this team had a good defense last year. Their front seven was good last year, so we already know the only thing they need to fix their second day. And the NFL

doesn't work that way. You can be as good as you want to be in one year, and the next year if your team isn't getting better, your coaching staff isn't making sure you're not staying the same, and you still got that chip on your shoulder, then you can all of a sudden slide to the bottom of the league. It happens all of the time. And then here we

have the total one eighty for our team. Our defense came out with a chip on our shoulder because they played horrible last year, and we are making a complete one eighty, especially in the turnover category. Look, man, I gotta give you credit. You did say it. I didn't want to believe it, but you said it. They dan Quinn, dan Quinn, you kept preselling. Man. I got got to see it because I've just been so I've been so disappointed in the past, but dan Quinn has been fantastic

for them. And then we're not even talking about the fact that they let go of Jalen Smith this week, and you did not miss Jaylen Smith at all. Have you heard anybody say anything about Tank. He's gonna be great when he gets back. But even without Tank, we've been playing really, really well. Have you mentioned Neville Gallimore?

And these players are coming back to make us better, But we've been holding on and and really elevating our game missing those players, and we are continuing to get turnovers, continuing to get big stops, and really teams are only putting up yards and getting points when the game's out of hand and out of reach. I'm a big, big college basketball fan, and one of the things that I enjoyed through the years about the NCAA Tournament, I tell

people is it does reward good coaching. It rewards you being able to build your team up, and then you get him towards March in your conference tournament. Then you get him in the nca tournament, and then you can go on a run. I look at you. CLA went on to run where they got to the final four, and and it was you just saw the team growing and getting better. This Cowboys team has the ability to grow and get better because you're going to see guys

coming back to the roster. And that, to me is if you're a Cowboy fan and you're sitting around here saying, hey, um, could this team be special? As Troy Aigment mentioned the words special during the broadcast for Fox, that's not crazy fact. Listen to Amari Cooper. Cowboys started slow on offense yesterday, uncharacteristically slow and Dak Prescott making some early mistakes. Here's what Cooper had to say after the game about this football team. It's not about the opponent we've planned. It's

it's it's it's about like our standard. It's about like us being the best we could possibly be, because you know, our mindset is on a championship. To be a championship, you want between Like, as an offense, our goal should be to score every draw. When we score every drive, how can you lose? You know? And so when we fall short of that, that's when I kind of get like worried a little bit, because you know, when you're on a roll like this, it's just, uh, you start

thinking about a super Bowl, you know. I mean, that's that's just the reality of it, and you start to want it more and more and more and more the closer you get, you know, and you should start to worry about the little things more like if we get stopped this drive, saying what if that happens? You know later and see that. That's just how I'll be looking at it. But we just gotta we just gotta play

a little bit cleaner. And I think we could. That's the only reason I'm talking like this because I really think we could. That is a Mark Cooper Cowboys wide receiver as the Cowboys getting forty four to twenty win and he's sitting here talking about improving. That is a mentality that you get at the University of Alabama because

Nick Saban is always talking about the process. There's a book that was written called Fourth and Goal every Day by Phil Savage, and he's been around that program forever, and that was just the kind of mentality they have. Is you know, doing it that way. John Wooden when he coached us. Hell, if you're reading the books about him and how his mentality was about games and the way you go about about winning, it's right there and if this is now permeating in the locker room because

Dak Prescott talked about that. That's nice to win, but let's move on. That's what you need to win. Too many times Cowboy Nation has celebrated wins, probably too much. It's fine on a victory Monday for you, Danty McCray to talk about this structure, talk about this Cowboy Nation. I like the fact that these guys are looking at themselves and saying, yeah, that wasn't our best effort. It's good effort, but it wasn't our best effort. Well, listen,

I think he said everything in the correct way. And anybody who listened to that entire thing and said, oh man, he's jumping a gun, y'all, didn't hear what he said. He said, the more you win and the closer you get, the more attention to detail you have to pay, the more you have to worry about the small things, the small mistakes that you are making that you know will stop you from getting to where you want to go.

He literally listed this out. Not hey man, we're gonna go win the super Bowl, he said, if we want to win the super Bowl, those little things, those little mistakes that we're making. We really have to worry about them. They have to bother us enough for us to go into the next game and say, hey, we got to be better than we were last week. But totally perfect. The dude is, you're right Nick Saban and you know, unfortunately and M did take them down this week, but

I can promise you this. They on to the next one. They are onto the next one. And you know who has that mentality Jimbo Fisher who's the head coach. That it's something that if you if you do it correctly, you start to learn them. And you know, Jimbo has won a national championship using those very techniques and the things that he had gotten from Nick Saban. He has a he has a program. He has his team lose to Arkansas. Everybody's like, oh my god. And then what

Alabama comes onto the next one. Guys, onto the next one. We stopped doing those little things, making those small mistakes that cause people to lose games. Then we can come up and win a big one. And what do you do? Beat Alabama? Beat Alabama and really shut up his fan

base which is howling at him. Maybe somebody can go ahead and give some of that advice to Dan Campbell who broke down crying at the podium, and I felt for the man, Dan Campbell, former Dallas Cowboys, tied in here always, you know, even the media favor We all like Dan. And to watch Dan breakdown yesterday reminded me of what I read in Bill Walsh's book called The

Score takes care of everything itself. You put so much into and you just start to wonder, Man, my goodness, grace, she's when do we catch a breaking lines with another heartbreaking fifty plus yard field goal to beat them and they're over on the season. But I like the mentality of what Amari Cooper said. It wasn't said with any arrogance. It was said with this is how we are going about our business. And the Cowboys, already four and one football team, start to look at this NFC East away

its shaping up right now. Just in the East, Cowboys four and one, in the North Green Bay four and one, South Tampa Bay four and one, NFC West Arizona five and oh Rams four and one, Seahawks two and three, San Francisco two and three. With quarterback issues, Man Russell Wilson's gonna miss some time Jimmy Garoppolo can't stay healthy there. I A lot of people had the forty nine ers and the Seahawks in the playoffs, so people had to win the division. I had the Niners win the division.

But you know, you just saw these two football teams that people are assuming, and you just see right now, it's not going that way. I'll tell you. The great thing about that is because I'm drinking the kool Ai. Okay, Dan Quinn brought me my cup of kool ai, you know, my solo Red Cup. The best thing about the NFC West is we're probably going to be fighting with one Green Bay in the North and Arizona in the West for the number one seed because you only get one,

and you get that one. Buy all right. The competition in that division, when Russell Wilson returns and we know that that San Francisco is always gonna play you hard, can possibly help us eliminate Arizona as the number one seed and have us going up against Green Bay. So I'm excited for what's going on over there in the West because we know that no matter what Seattle's record is, they are still the Seattle Seahawk. When you start thinking

about that in the seventeen game schedule. Now they've added more teams to the playoffs that there's only gonna have one by That's where you hate how New England couldn't close the deal Nextieff couldn't kick that field goal to beat Tampa Bay. You hate how the Bengals couldn't finish off the deal against the Green Bay Packers yesterday. Since that, you need a little bit of help there, that you're

needing some help and you're just not getting it. And you can say, hey, nu he Danny, you guys are gonna way way ahead of what you need to be. But no, there's no reason why you shouldn't start looking at these games and start looking at the standings and thinking that this is what you need to do. Start looking right now. Jason Garry talk about stacking together wins. You're stacking together wins, but you're also looking at how

do I get there? Like, how do I get to a point to where it matters if Arizona losers or if Green Bay losers. We continue to win these games and get better and better each week. This is our goal. Our goal is to win our division. They're not goal lists to get that by week. They're not goal list to go NFC Championship and then Super Bowl, Like you have to have these things listed out right and you

have a process for how you get there. And Amari Cooper was great and kind of painting the picture for what we need to do to continue to get better East and every week. The one blessing you're going to half of the Cowboys right now? Did you get Arizona? You get them, and you get them at home Sunday, January second. So if you need to handle some business to go get it, and Arizona is that team, You've

got your shot. You get Arizona. Then you're end the season on the road against Philadelphia, and who knows where Philadelphia is at that point in time in terms of their record, and my goodness graces, they're going to so many injuries here. So the let's take a break here. I want to just look a little bit right here at this Cowboys schedule. Let's dive into the schedule right here, and man, I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna hold I'm gonna see it, you know, hold my tongue a little

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You handled them to be Tampa and you're only lost it. It's a last second field goal to the world champions on Thursday night in the home opener in their place. Hard to argue with what we're seeing. I'm starting to look at the schedule, man, I've been looking at this schedule for a good good n I try to be We'll eat and Q okay, because I've been disappointed too much, so much. Man, I've been disappointed so much. Man, Okay, I've been disappointed, been disappointed many a time. Hop on

the train, Hop on the train. I am worried about the game this weekend. Okay, why why? Number one? I got to find out what what's the weather conditions? What are the weather conditions in New England. Remember last time they went up there, it was a little whole lot of rain. And even saw with Tampa Bay they went up that whole lot of rain. We're gonna do a whole lot of running. And Bill Belichick makes it hard

on you. He doesn't make it easy. And you just saw what they did to Tampa Bay make it easy. So Cowboys now four point favorite on Sunday in Foxborough. I expect him to win a game. Patriots have not won a home game this year, by the way, Yeah, not won a home game this shoot So two and three New England Patriots followed by a game in Minnesota against Boy I need to put listen, let let's just go. Let's go, let's go, let's go one by one. Okay,

So New England, you're worried. They did push Tampa to the limit, but Tampa does not have a running game, and I think that we are. We have gotten better since we played Tampa. Um, so I'm not really worried. Judean is a player. I see like matchup problems we may have, but I don't see as a team that we have an issue beating New England. Okay. Then after that it's another road game NBC Sunday Night Football to

face the Minnesota Vikings. Bikings are two and three, got miracle win yesterday against Detroit the last second, Dalvin Cook is battled and leg injury all basically the last three games. Minnesota is not what they used to be under Mike Zimmer. They're just not. And while these two teams have played each other the last couple of seasons, and they've been they've been good football games. They've been good football games. So um, once again, I see, I see a matchup problem.

They have some receivers that we're we're going to have to figure out how to get all of these guys covered talking about Justin Jefferson and Adam Feeland. They are still playing well. Um, but defensively, can't match up you got, I mean, you just can't match up right now? Just looking at this, you say, man, and you're thinking for Minnesota, you should have guys back. Yeah, can't match up. We have.

We have some matchup issues, but we do not have team issues when we played those those two teams that we just mentioned, losing record, New England two and three, Minnesota two and three record right now. Then you get at home the Denver Broncos, who are three and two, started off three and zero beating cupcakes. Okay, they might have a losing record. By time they come to that, they have lost two straight. They've lost two straight football games.

Then you get Dan Quinn's Atlanta Falcons at home. Falcons are two and three. They beat the Giants, they beat the Jets, so outside of New York they can't find a win. So I don't even see match up problems there. I have a I have this little feeling the defense is not gonna make sure this is a W for the coordinator and for the DV coach and for the d line coach I just got a real strength. They're gonna make sure that that's a dub there. Then you go to Kansas City. I'm going to that football game.

Kansas City is in a last place. There are two and three. This is a team that has some identity issues, and and that identity is you're just trying to rely on Patrick Mahomes to just win everything and you got no running game, no defense. Not worried. I don't know whether not. It's just people have caught up to but look there's they're not who they used to be. So then it said Thanksgiving Day game at home against the Raiders. Raiders are three and two, winning record. That loss yesterday

to Justin Fields and the Bears. Good teams, don't let that happen. Nine points, nine points. You supposedly have an MVP conversation quarterback. They go play Chicago and they score nine. Well, that was a turd, that was a turn. So that's a Thanksgiving Day game. Then they play on Thursday again. This one is a trip down to the Superdome to

face Jamis and the Saints. Two are three and two right now, Then after that becomes a very it's a big NFC East stretch to finish the season at Washington December twelfth, home I should say, at the Giants, then home against Washington. So that's pretty interesting. Get Washington in two games in three weeks, then it's that Arizona game, and then you end the season against Philadelphia. So right now, the Cowboys only have three games against teams currently where

a winning record. Denver who's three and two, start three and lost the last two. They lost the ball Tour, they lost yesterday, got sank two or three and two,

Arizona five. And so you know, if I'm looking at the schedule and I'm saying, goodness, you know, if I had to be nitpicky and and think of a team that may give us a real problem besides Arizona, I mean, just because Kansas City is Kansas City, that that will probably be the only one where I say, if we come out and play our best game, it's going to

be a really really good game. If they come out with their best, with their best effort, any of these other teams on there, our best effort versus their best effort, we get to win. And I think that's automatic. Now, yeah, of course it's you know, it doesn't always work that way. And sometimes you come out and the offense might not

be playing well, defense might not be playing well. But if we come and we show up with that Amari Cooper attitude, taking care of the little things, that getting better each and every week, I'm not really worried about any of these games. I think the Arizona game will be a really really good game, two really good offenses, but I think our defense is better. Break down and look into the Chiefs two and three record that first game of the year's thirty three twenty nine come back victory,

a game the Cleveland should not have lost. And you just look at that, and you go back there and you just go you go into that is the Chiefs won it. But I look at that even more so. The Browns lost absolutely. Yeah, the big lead there, you couldn't close the show. They lose to Baltimore on a Sunday night, thirty six, thirty five. They lose at home to the Chargers thirty to twenty four. They go to Philadelphia and they beat Philly forty two to thirty. Listen

to how many points they've given up. Third game. You ain't saying twenty nothing yet unless they scored twenty they're not stopping anyone, and what you do listening when you're playing against us, if you not want to worry, if you can't stop us from scoring and you can't win the game. I think I've only been a part of one game where it was like we can't stop scoring and we lost, and that was when Peyton Manning was with Denver and they came here and it was just

back and forth. Right. The only way we stopped them was interceptions, and that's the only way that they stopped us, and it was whoever had the ball last was winning again the interception in triple coverage. Yeah, yeah, then the sheriff against the ball just runs out of the clock,

keep the field goal. And yes, yes, So when you want to look at points, the Cleveland offense scored twenty nine, then the Baltimore offense scored thirty six, the Chargers offend scored thirty, Philadelphia's offense scored thirty, and then Buffalo last night ran had thirty points where there was a pick six in there. So, look, there's problems in Kansas City.

And so the game that you looked at to start the season, you thought, ah, you know what, man, it's gonna be Okay, you know it's a loss that no, do not chalk that up to as a loss at all. In this football game. Cleveland had a twenty two to ten lead in that football game in the at halftime, twenty two to ten, and then they just uh fell asleep. Yeah, well, you you know you can't. You're up twenty nine twenty in the fourth quarter with ten minutes to go, and

then you allow them to score two touchdown. PA's a seventy five yard to Tyree killed and then a you know, ended up with a a eight yard pass um you know, three play eight, you know, three play drive fifteen yards, which means there's there had to be a turn over and there's somebody turnover there somewhere. So you can't make those kinds of things. Chill fumble, chill fumble. So they're trying to run out the clock and he fumbles the ball.

Um yea they gave it away. Yeah yeah, these are the kind of and look yesterday one more time for the Browns. I mean, okay, you know you're getting a shootout like that. You got too great team to get a shoot out with the Charger. So personally, I think they got a quarterback issue. I think Baker Mayfield is a good quarterback, not a franchise and you have a decision to make. Are you gonna write that check or are you gonna go look for something better? You know,

it depends on what's available. Because there's a guy who says he wants to get out of his contract next year, and that's my man, a rod Um. Look at the team around Baker Mayfield, look at the defense they have. You add a guy like Aaron Rodgers to your team, your automatic Super Bowl contender? Easy? So yeah, I mean what check? Am I right? Somebody called him as if he wants to come to Cleveland, if that is an option.

The pitch I make to Aaron Rodgers is, hey call Lebron, ask him how it felt to win and how he was celebrated. That's for basketball. That's not a basketball town. They love basketball because Lebron, But Danny, when I worked there, they were a playoff team and they weren't telling out playoff games. In fact, they played the Knicks in the playoff game one year and the Cleveland Indians baseball team

was playing across. This is April, so it's a regular She's a baseball game versus the NBA playoff game baseball game sold out. Well. Lebrons at the game the other day, they asked, Aaron, you come here. You're celebrated, Zach, even though you are a Packer forever, they will celebrate you as a Cleveland Brown who came here and did that thing that gave him their first championships in nine and six. Let me tell you what you don't have to do, all right, You don't have to tell Lebron anything. Lebron

is already ready to call Aaron. As a matter of fact, they probably already send a messages back and forth. Hey man, it'd be real good if you came down to Cleveland, you know, show to show the city from love. All right, they will remember you forever. You will be legendary. Now. I couched that with someone else who covers a league, who said, I think he goes to Denver and that John Elway will be able to go ahead and let him. You know, Hey, hey, look man, this is what you

want to do. And I said, you're right. They do. You know how to win super bowls? There They've won two super Bowls with different quarterbacks, then three super Bowls with different quarterbacks through the through the years. But if you win in Denver, you're just another great quarterback, Hall of Fame quarterback. Hey, you did what Peyton Manning did. You did what John Elway did to Cleveland man And I can attest to this from working. It's a different atmosphere.

He'll be loved in Denver. They may name babies after you. I mean, that's just it's just a different level of when in Denver's great. Now. Okay, so on the all time great fan base is there and they're great, But I'm just telling you it's even better there because they haven't won. Denver knows your kids have seen a championship. Anybody kids in Cleveland ain't. You ain't got a child and seen a championship in nineteen sixty four. Your kids ain't seen one. Okay, just stay on over there anyway,

you're already on that side. Just going just stay over Thever, you know, Hey, man, I'll just tell them that you just one year, just give us one. Just sell out like the like the Rams do. We're gonna we're gonna leverage everything for now. We gonna give away all our number one draft picks whatever, it don't matter erin. We just want you for this year. You decide what you want to do after that. You know, it be very interesting. Now.

So if he goes there, he's got to If if Ane Rodgers goes to clean Cleveland, he's got those state farm commercials. Progressive go ahead to pool at home or Bacca Mayfield. You know what, Baker Man, I hope you played. I want you to make your money. Man, he could he could really chase well, I mean, woo me a big old shift to some things around there. Man. All right, Danny MCCRAI knew we shrugs out of Cowboys victory Monday, our gouty Chris beam Man, we appreciate you, big will

back to everybody who helps put together these podcasts. Uh, hopefully churches can get a flight home. Let's hope church can get a first class I mean, you know, stay away from Southwest Church. Seriously drinking blinding coff today, thinking about maybe coming home. But we will be back here tomorrow. All right. Coordinators talk today, So let's be very interesting to kind of catch up on what they have to say. Dan Quinn, Kelly more bones fossil, So we'll bring that

to you tomorrow. What the coordinators had to say is they get ready to go to New England to face the two and three Patriots. That's our show. We'll catch them mix shots coming up in the bottom of the air right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio network. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.