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former Jacksonville Jaguar and Dallas Cowboy man. You're both of your teens is doing over fallas We're gonna start this thing like we always do. Before we get to what happened yesterday, go back to the scene of the crime here in the studio, because that was assaulting that happened up in here. Hr uh VC. How are you today, sir? I'm doing amazing. Man. It's a beautiful day out. You know. I don't play for TCU, so you know, man, that was up seven. Yeah, we'll get into that. But yeah,

I'm doing great. Man, loving life, doing good, man, loving life, doing good. Partly training over here, man, we're working on it yet yet. No, we're not partly training and I'm still buying. Yeah, I'm wishing that on you. I'm wishing it on you. Listen. I know it's coming. I know it's coming. Here speaking into exist, but until then, I'm okay, I won't. Allright, She she wake up. I put her to bed at eight. She wake up at ten thirty to come and get in my bed. So you know

it is. I don't know what it's to do. I don't know. I don't know, brother, but you know it is what it is like. Sleep bad, she sleep bad? No, no, no, no no, she was out in the hold. No no, no no, no, I put her in the bed at a pm. She wake up at ten thirty pm to come get in our bed. And then she sleep bad, not meaning she wake up. She spins in the bed, talking to sleep, asked for juice on the sleep. You know. So when I wake up in the morning, my eyes read I'm tired.

I'm like, I ain't getting no sleep less, Like that's what I'll be wrong with? You do you're sleeping the bride? Thank you, thank you were telling us what's you'll need? So sleep? Man, So let this man sleep, fleep sleep. It is hard on head. Well, I tell you, these new these new parents were they live. Come get in their bed. Remember that, Remember those days, nicky, We hey,

we get up. We're gonna take you right back over as many times as we gotta put you back in your bed, as gently as we have to put you back in your bed. You are not gonna sleep in my bed. Every days. I'll be passed out in the car. Next thing I wake up them in my room like, man, what's going Wait a minute, we get in Wait a minute, we gotta have to look into that. Yeah, I talk about I was a game, but I was a kid. I was a kid. I ain't. Man, we need to redo the show to say that I feel on the

on the mental state. I'm bookmark this talk about I pull up to the to the house. They say in the crib that sounds like class. Actually lowsuit, check on your check on your friends minute to one that you people, This is check on your people. Toothy, thank you for telling us. That's the reason why I do the mental check in. Definitely. They always showing signs, so make sure you keep up with the signs. But man, look last night, if y'all were watching football last night, we were all

were looking at it football. Yes, we were all looking forward to that game last night. Uh the Georgia Bulldogs Versity horn frosts from TCU and man, what excitement? Who'd you picked? I picked Georgia. I think I picked Georgia too. No, no, no, you use some about TCU, I said, n cc No, come on, I told you he campaign manager. He went there. But with my heart, I said, I with my heart? Did I want to know what I'm saying? Used with mattress mac La, I told mat I said, matt went

at full fourth. Oh my god, I yeah, man, that's I was giving away free furniture a year. Man, Man, how do you come anyway? A lot of furnaces? Yeah, I was in high school. Matric Mac was the guy when he commercials all over the place. Really, I got that bread bread? But man, what sixty five to seven? Basketball? Sixty five to seven? And it looked it was a point in this game where I was like somebody needed to come out, like committee need to get together and

say stop this. Put the running clocks. Stop this. They do it in the high school. They do it in high school. They do the running clock in high school. Because that thing could have gotten ugly. That could have gotten really bad if y'all think about it. They played for four quarters of that first team all the way. I don't I don't even want to say what the score could have been. Could have that thing sixty five?

That was bad? That was that was bad. But let me get you guys, just take on what you saw last night and and the fact that this is expanding to ten more teams. Man, to be honest, I looked at that and you could clearly see you know, TCU. Whatever the case may be, maybe they put all their energy into that Michigan game. Whatever the case may be, but it just looked like they didn't belong on that

same field. Um with Georgia out there, man, I mean you could tell from the jump, you know, since have been at you know, whatever the case, maybe the guy just had it going. I mean, he was out running some of TCUs dbs, and I'm like, it's just not fair. And then we talked to CB earlier, the wonderful producer that he is, and you could tell he could see that the offers some lands was just getting pushed back

into Duggan's face the entire afternoon. Man. And so it just to me, it's just a white TCU just didn't belong and that the moment was just too big for him. Man, Yeah, I think I don't you know, goodness gracious, I watched the game and it was confusing to me. While people even thought that TCU had a chance. All right, the truth of the matter is, Okay, Georgia is more talented.

They got bigger, faster, stronger guys. The program and the conference that they're in has prepared them more than the conference that TCU was in, who lost to Kansas State not even hanging a banner this year because the last state, the big twelve, all right, and lets you know how not good Michigan was and Ohio State was. They played Georgia a little bit better, but it's just different levels of competition and that's no and that's no knock against TCU.

They had a great season, but you saw it out there the same we talked about Winters last last week and how how he stood out last week. Georgia had that guy looking very average when he was talking. I'll talking about multiple times you looked up and I was like, this, dude, Winter is gonna make a play in the not It's

not him. But you see a different caliber of athletes that go to a school like Georgia, who is now a back to back national champion, and then a school like TCU, So they got some catching up to do. Do they belong on that field? They belong on the same field. It's Notre Dame when it comes to these

shots fire well when they come to these playoffs. Man, when you go out there, they got one more time to go out there and put that type of performance up and they will be in the same the same bucket as Notre Dame, who every time they go out there they put up something that you just don't want to watch. Yeah, well this was I don't want to say bead wedding boyt TCU because he looked like from

the beginning they were outclass. You know, it's you know, it's levels to it, and it's clear that the Georgia Bulldogs was on another level. But where I worry is with the expansion of more teams. I would just say it, man, Alabama would have been two lost. Alabama would have been more physical than that. Man, I agree with you would have proposed wover threat two lost. Tennessee would have, I believe,

would have given you more than that. Teams. But if you're going to say, let's give and I don't even know who the twelfth team is, all right, but let's just say a North Carolina a team like that, just the ACC or wherever big twelve team, oh whomever, and you put them in the same category as a Georgia Right now, Man, that's that's right there. Just the speed alone. And I'm telling you right now, Ladd mccunkie, he opened right now. Wherever he is, he wide open. He didn't open.

I'm like, just man end he was. He was always brock Bowers, he called rock bowers eat. He flexed him out lining them up, old monster. Last time I see the tight end he was out there. They was all ball. I mean they played in TCU and they looked at it. They looked at him like, hey man, we're finna guard. Were finna eat. I see a video these dudes eat buffalo wings on the sideline. That was that little that's disrespect before half time over there in a suite. Let

me get it. Let me get a bull pepper over,

give me a peach drink wins. But to your point, all that's gonna end up being is uh a SEC West champion, SEC East champion, and then one of the big ten champions are gonna be the final three in the final three or four of that every town, every every time after you get past the first round, which it may be one or two interesting games, because at that point you're gonna have some of those teams that you name, North Carolina, Utah somewhere playing in those games

against each other, and it's gonna be like, it's gonna look like oh, they're ready, like USC, yeah, they can do it. And then if they move on, then you're gonna see that the upper echelon of talent, the Georgia's, the Tennessee's, the Alabama's, the LSUS Ohio states, those are gonna be the same teams that end up in the in the championship every single time, no matter how big

how much you explained the playoffs. Do you say to yourself, I mean, because obviously probably the commonality we all the college athletes for you guys coming up during the time, just like me, when they couldn't they couldn't pay you, pay you any money. But now with the NIL deal, transfer portal and all of that, people are saying, Okay, now the transfer of power through our college football should

be the great equalizer. Now where George doesn't get to hoard all of the talent, Alabama doesn't get the hoard all the talent you see some of the classes at the University of Texas is getting And so you're asking yourself, you know, can they can these other teams make up the difference. TCU will never know what it's like to be on that level, but they found out last night that these are the kinds of things that you have

to recruit in order to beat h Georgia. Do you believe that with the nil and the transfer a portal that that maybe that would be a deterrent from SEC teams pretty much running the table. Let me, let me tell you something else about the SEC. They also have the best coaches. The Nick Saban Tree, which is where Kirby Smart came from. Is now back to back national chances, right, and then the championships the Nick Saban one on the west side of that as well, right. And then you

sprinkle something in and there. Every once in a while you get an LSU in there, you get Ohio State in there. But for the most part, the coaching is different from those upper echelon schools as well as the talent. So it's not just it's not you can just go buy great, great players and then not put them in the right position to be out there and go make

those plays. You also have to have the coaching and these big ten schools, the top two that up there, Michigan State, Ohio State, Ohio State more than that, and then of course the big two in the SEC would be Alabama and uh right now Georgia. Yeah, the coach is just different. Yeah, coaching definitely matters. And like you said, I mean, you got the best of the best in

the SEC. The only chance that those kind of outside the SEC conferences have is if they can get a quarterback, because I mean, we see that's the biggest difference in these in these schools that you're going to get powerhouse like sen him and he ain't the greatest of all time, but everything around him is the greatest of all time. The only way to be able to combat that is if you got that guy behind the helm that can

play well. And if you look at Ohio State, they had Strout and he him in his connection with his receivers, they was getting Georgia everything they could have, all right. So I think if you can get these quarterbacks to come to these different conferences, then you got a chance. But I mean they gotta be something extremely special because we see what we're dealing with an SEC. Like you said, they're all bigger, faster, or stronger in that division. And

you talk about defenses. Not only is the top eleven you know, good, but the people that are backing them up they're getting drafted as well. I mean, I'm sure there's some cats from Georgia that's gonna get drafted that maybe seen ten snaps all year long. I mean, there's

just depth on top of depth in the SEC. And that's really what puts them beyond these other schools is that they just got so much powered onto it that you can go through that first layer and be like, all right, we may we weather to storm, and here comes that second layer that's just as good. I mean, it's just let me church real quick, because he said greatest all time. Greatest all time college football team is the LSU team of twenty nineteen, not the Georgia team

of last night. So I mean, listen, I I you know, you put them two teams on the field, and the LSU team is beating at Georgia team. You know what I'm gonna tell you Like this, I'm i tend to agree with you simply because they definitely had the better quarterback. In quarterback and receivers. You can watch what they're doing now. But that that defense for Georgia had many defense wasn't as good as George's. But our offense was better than that.

That's what it been a good game. But Georgie's offense is not not world beat is either, So our deepense may have some respect for yourself. Bear Toledo would have put up at least twenty one. I can't, I can't go with you. I fall out. I told them, yeah, we'd have got Yeah, where are you? Sixty five seven? I know that church and we seen them before, the two walking to the locker room the third quarter. Damn you hate to see it. Yeah, my first shout out TCU. Man,

they made it. That's that's one of those. Every once in a while you have those stories, those Cinerella stories, and they just didn't end off Cinderella ending for the Cincinnati Yeah, Cincinnati. Did they get smacked or do they make it? At least a game? I forgot say it happens, bro, you have no business. It's like you don't have no

business out here. Man, you need to go back over there and play with the rest of the last one was who Oklahoma with Mayfield was the last one when it when it was it was close Georgia, so that that may have been the last time. But guys, we're gonna talk about some cowboys here while we have a few minutes before we go to break Um. Did you get it out of your system yesterday? Did you did you feel like you imput your buckets on the negativity?

I mean, now we have to we have to start to you know, draw the circle the wagons, to start talking about this, this victory on Monday victory. Yeah, we gotta start talking about victory on this playoff week. Are you saying, do we feel better about the game. Yes, If I'm being completely honest, I don't. Yeah, I don't feel any better than I did on the other day. No, no, no limit. Let me not say that. Not better about the game, better about the fact that the season is

over and that you have a new season in the playoff. Okay, yeah, if you if you look at it that way, that's the only way you can't look at the gotta you know, it's a fresh seat. Everybody got a chance. Everybody got to chance. The only way you get the only way you get to the super Bowl is in the playoffs. So I mean you can't get this step right. It's crazy that you that's how you went from TCU, where everybody got a chance, they made the playoff. I'm just

now you're talking about oh you count. Yeah, we gotta say I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy that the season is over with and hopefully the pages turned and they forgot about everything that happened in the regular season and we become a new team. That is the hope. That is the hope that we somehow become the team that was running the ball, playing good defense and protecting the ball.

That is the hope. And today you have a practice, no off today, Tomorrow they come back for a practice, and there's a lot to be worked on and a lot to talk about and sit down and circle and underline and say, look, we need to fix this. Possibly

the left side of your defense at the cornerback position. Yeah, tell us how you really feel bar under attack man and you're not going against you know, a guy that you know, maybe he's in his you know, eighth year or sixth year, that's just kind of rounded into his form. You might be able to trick him here and there. You're going to get some man that's been in the league or twenty twenty some years now. I've seen every defenser is out there. It's hard to disguise your defense

and trying to talk him into something. The only way you get to this man's skin, and the only way you kind of get this guy down into the dumps or take advantage of him is if you can get pressure on. If you can get pressure on that man, particularly up the middle, then you got a chance. Because we all know he's not the most athletic guy, all right, He's a quarterback that loves to be in that pocket, loves to be in his spot. Stay in his spot

and try to dissect your defense that way. If this was week six, week fall, week five, when this defensive line was humming getting six sacks of game type deal, I'd be like, I'm feeling pretty good. But when we've seen these past couple of weeks, besides last week when they were going again Sam Hound got three sacks, they haven't been doing much as far as pressure in the quarterback.

And if you give Tom Brady time back there, it doesn't matter who you got on that defensive side of the football, he's gonna be able to dissect you because what he does well is he takes what the defense gives you. If you're backing off and playing his zone, all I'm gonna thotis old check down to Leonard Fournette. Alright, I'm ana Thotis hit to the tight end real quick. He may take a shot here and there, but he's gonna take what the defense gives you. He's gonna he's

gonna try to kill you with a thousand cuts. We all understand that about Tom Brady. So unless they can get pressure, man, it's gonna be a long afternoon. Yeah, And I'm pigging back up what you said on one of those points of like, yeah, if you don't disrupt the timing of Tom Brady and his receivers at some point, right, if you just want to play off a play zone the whole time, but you're not jamming guys and throwing them off they paths when they're running up to see

him or trying to get across the field. Yeah, that's when he gets the ball out in two seconds and he nickel adopts you right, hit those six yard hits here, throw it to the flat here, throw it, throw it to the flintifourd now for seven yards before you know, there's a twelve play drive for eight minutes and a touchdown. Like you have to find a way one to get some pressure on them and throw the timing off on these routes right through the timing off on it, and

then you got a shot. And I think that's the only chance we have a winning this game is if our defense comes out and wins this game for and and so, what I'm what I'm really alluding to, guys, is the fact that the big playability of the Washington Commanders had to have troubled you, especially seeing the way that Sam Howe was fitting the ball into Scared Terry

and and dots Um. One player McKenzie Alexander was bought in uh last month, I believe now on the practice squad and has been rumored to be on the active roster better one game season right now. And so and so, going off of what you're saying, you're saying, Look, you solve all of that by getting your pass rush back. Okay, you solve all of that by getting Tom Brady off of his spots and get making him uncomfortable. That's still

relying on your front. Okay, talk about me selling hoping him. No, but that's that's essentially what you have to do to win this game. But at some point your secondary is gonna have to hold up on the left side. Right now, a cross from Trey Von Diggs. We have been suffering and whether it be with d N Bland, whether it be with National Right, it doesn't matter who we put over there that has been the weak. This link is

that something this week is you're working in practice? How do you get that fixed on a moment's notice, going in versus Tall? They gotta send help, all right, They got to send help, Like I understand, like Diggs on the side that he's on, man, I think dig is the top three corner in this league. You know, last year he got all those interceptions, which was great, but his technique was kind of you know, there was left to be had out there was some left to be had.

But this year I feel like he's turned the corner, has become a complete corner as far as being able to take the football away, being able to shut down receivers. We've seen what he was able to do against one of the best in Justin Jefferson. You travel him, I'm traveling him. I'm traveling him up with Evans. I'm sitting there staying a man. Every every day, I'm putting him on out and saying, look, Diggs, you gotta have this matchup. You gotta be able to put your hands on this man.

And I'm not staying shout him out completely because that's a hard thing they're doing this league. But you gotta limit him over there. And I'm putting all my other assets, and I'm helping that young guy out on the other side, I'm helping Bland out and I'm helping whoever they decide to put out there, whether it's Mulling right, Alexander, whoever the case may be, I'm helping him out there. And I'm saying, Digs, you gotta handle this on your own

over there, because we know Tom Brad he watches film. Yeah, he's looking at that and saying, man, they were wearing that. Whoever was out there, don't matter. They were wearing those guys out over there. And you got not only do you have god Win the slot. So Bland's gonna have his hands full, but you gotta Julio Jones coming off of a couple of weeks of rest all right now. I'm not saying he's the old Julio he still, but he can still give you some gas from that outside

exactly on Anthony Brown. So to me, you're gonna have you you know, you're gonna have your feel over there and ride receivers. You gotta put some expenses over there. You gotta have a safety lean over the top to help against the deep ball. Maybe a linebacker buzzing underneath. But we gotta make sure we keep everything in front of you, because that's the last thing you want to do is give Tom Brady a cheap one over the top and he's already sitting there with a seven old spot.

That's just not what you want to do. Do you agree with that game playing about traveling digs uh? Or do you say leave him where he is? I agree with it, but I think you got to mix it up from time to time, just because with motions and shifts, they I think if you just just say, hey, man, we're gonna travel this guy every time, there are all ways that they can find a way to then isolate him throughout motion or line up in twins and bring them back or whatever, and then still get them one

on one with whoever whoever they want. So I think you gotta mix it up and say eight percent of the time you're gonna you're gonna travel, but I'll tell you when you're traveling, just to make sure that they don't know exactly where he's gonna be it. But that's that's the worst part about this game is that you have to do all that for one position. You still got to stop the run. You still gotta worry about

the slot because guy one is no slouching. There's actually probably one of the best slot receivers in the league. You still got to do all that, and you gotta focus all this attention. I'm trying to figure out how you stop Mike Evans. Oh and Julio Jones, who has been resting for the last few weeks. Oh, well, that's a lot to that's a lot to take in and uh, but we're gonna take a first break and when we come back, we're gonna talk about a guy that probably

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the SWBC Mortgage Studios. Heckmharrison, Danny Mccraybear Church, guys. Before I took a break, I said, there's a there's a player that lives rent free in this coach's head, and I do believe it's Tom Brady to dan Quinn. There's no way, There's no way dan Quinn does not hate. No, there's no possible way. I understand. Like you interview these coaches, they give you all this coaching speech and all these

metaphors and all this happy stuff. Whatever. If you was one of this boy, sitting down with him in a cigar bar and you asked him this question about Tom Brady, he says that blue blue, blue blue. Because for six quarters dan Quinn has beaten this man, one man has taken two Super Bowl rings from him. That's a lot of achievements too. You got that super Bowl. You know what he's parties to the head coach Atlanta right now. I mean, you get you gotta feel some type of

way you have to go. You have to and when you look at the numbers, when everything that you look at him again, you have to be living under a rock to not know that the Cowboys lost on Sunday and everybody in their mom is telling you about why the Cowboys can't win on Monday because they never beat Tom Brady. You've never beat Tom Brady ever. This has never happened. You've never seen it, okay in your mind mentally,

even with all of those that got it. And let's not even talk about the last time that the Dallas Cowboys has won a road playoff game. Man, you guys were probably still in pre k. There's a lot of stats against it. I don't know. I'm just I'm laying it all out there, keeping in one hundred, keeping in one hundred. There's a lot of getting there's a lot against you in this game. If you look at it, you have a quarterback that has beat your defensive coordinator

down several times. You have a quarterback that you have never beaten. So Danny mccraig ray of Sunshine, Still Meal Unicorn, tell me how I sold allows sold out, Come on us, put a bone on the horse's head, dude, something out. If anything, I would have to, I'm gonna take the same route that I use when everybody kept coming back talking about I see that pattern that the Cowboys on they lose one win to lose one win, and I'm like,

that is irrelevant. All right, this is irrelevant. All the losses that the Cowboys have to Tom Brady in the past are irrelevant when they play on Monday. This is probably the worst off that the Cowboys have called Tom Brady. This is probably the worst off like the team wise, you're looking at how the season went high ended for him. They snuck into the playoffs. This is probably your best shot and say you know what, hey, yeah, we kick

them right now, kick them. The worst part about it is we down to This is the battle of two teams who are looking for anything to find that little motivation to kickstart them into a deep running to the playoffs. And great for us that we've never beat Tom Brady and it is Tom Brady. So if you somehow figure out a way to pull off this win. I think the confidence of this team goes through the roof. But you gotta figure out a way to beat them, and dan Quinn just ain't being able to do it in

those big time moments. So hopefully third times a charm to two super Bowls. No, this is the next biggest moment the regular season. Yeah, yeah, whatever, this is your next biggest moment. Hopefully the third time. It's a charmer, y'all know I feel about dan Quinn, So I think you know, I'm gonna just hold it until because they love corners. I need to figure out late Vanderver's playing. Yeah, like, I'll hold off on it, but I want dan Quinn to have as many tools in the box as he

as he possibly can. And right now we're just a little light. So I'm gonna waiting until the injury reporting all this stuff start to come out before. It makes me nervous, man, it makes me nervous. So wrong because if you look at it, I mean, I'd rather be going against a team in Tampa that maybe had one, you know, the last couple of games. So they come in here, we're overlooking the Cowboys, ain't and you know, now they they're in the same predicament kount of that

that the Cowboys are in. You know, they struggle throughout the season up and down. Man. But you know the only thing that the Cowboys can really grasp onto in all reality if you look at it, is you know, Tampa Bay struggles immensely and running the football, and that's something that the Dallas Cowboys struggling and stopping it. But letting from Nett forget the guy named White, that that's just kind of they go back and forth in the backfield.

They struggle. They struggle really bad to run the ball, and hopefully we get some of that struggles on Monday. I don't like that I'm hearing at the center Jensen might be coming back from Tampa Bay because that was that's like, that was their you know, Travis Fresick, that was the guy that kind of had their whole offensive line going in the right direction. So hurt all year, all of a sudden, Holy water, he lives. He That's that's that that's gonna be a hurt piece right there

if he's able to go out there. But the only thing maybe maybe the Cowboys that mean he Haskins rights maybe he can come back in there, because we had we played again better against the run when he was involved, and then Van Dur, I mean Vandurs was happening one of his better seasons. So hopefully he can come back in there and stop it. But right now, heck, I'm not gonna lie a team and I'm grasping for straws

right now. I'm just man because he remember how many rushing yards they put up on us a week one same team, play the same team and you have a b Yeah it's the same guys, but you had a full secondary. Yeah you had all you guys good and you go into it and then you that's that's like one of those sounds where like you play a team and then they beat you, and you hope that they go on to have a really good season, so then that can validate, like you know what, everybody lost to him,

But it didn't happen that way. We're not there and lost like you know, but we ended up winning twelve games, and they somehow struggled it in scratched and claude and found their way into the playoffs. And now now we're about to play them again, and it's like, all right, at first we thought this was a really good team, and now you realize that it's not, and you're like, man, we gotta go beat this team that's really not that good.

But we should beat them in their place because we should be better than them based off how the seasons went. But right now, I don't think anybody in Cowboys Nations are just like super confident that that's gonna happen one because you love to him. A week one, they rushed the ball on you and not a good running team, So what's to say that that won't happen again. We got some stuff to figure out this week. That's why I'm glad we don't play until Monday, man, So we

got some extra time. We got some guys that can heal up with an extra lab, all right. We got some guys on the old line who can get a little bit more, a little bit more unity in there. So because you know, I'm sure we're talking about what McCarthy said about Tyres Smith a little later. But yeah, it's it's a learning process. Big Nate senses all the time. He says, hey, man, moved from left to right. That's not as easy as just hey, I'm going for a

strong safety the freest, all right. No, it is a totally entirely different process of working your right side of your body and your left side of your body. Your strong dominant hand may be your right if you move over to the left, now it has to be a whole different thing in the same and vice versus from left to right. So Tyre Smith is working trying to figure it out. Hopefully this is the week where it gets figured out because we meet them. Which side of

the ball? Guys, looking at this matchup with Tampa, do you come in with the most confidence in? And I'm not saying that you have a whole lot of confidence in either side, all right, But I'm just saying, if there's one side of the ball that you can say I have the most confidence in this side of the ball,

I gotta go. Even with the injuries, I gotta say I'm still leaning on the defensive side of the football because you still have that D line, you still got Michael Parsons, you still got Tank and all those guys up there that can still get after the quarterback. I believe. So I believe. I'm saying the defensive side of the football still is the strength of this team, even though

they struggled a little bit here and there. But the most important side, I believe there's gotta be that offensive sign and gotta be because you cannot turn the football over. If you turn the football over and give Brady even more opportunities to go out there and throw the dagger on you, they eat more likely he's gonna take advantage. Right. So the strength is defense in my opinion, But the most important side is definitely that offense and taking care

of the football. He's gonna steal both sides. He just did that. I'm telling him to say, I'm going to church. I'm going on the offense. Yeah, I think the offense has to do something spectap, But are you most confident. I'm most confident that our offense can move the ball against their defense. And the reason why is because I have no idea if Lady Vandersch's playing, I have no idea what we're gonna be able to stop the run or if we can hold up on that left corner spot.

Those are huge, huge question marks for you to go into a game playing against the Mike Evans, William Jones and Goblin. That is, it's just that they're huge question marks. So I need to see one who's gonna be healthy. And two I know that like I'm I'm like you on this one, Like I know Dad can play better. I know. So I'm gonna keep saying, hey man, it's gonna click, It's gonna click, and when it does, If it does, then you have an entirely different team. Your

team is entirely different. When he is clicking on all cylinders, he's hitting Cnee Lamb, he's hitting Dalton Shows, Tony Poler and zekea rolling. Because Dak is on his stuff, you're a totally different team. So I believe that he still has it in him. He has to got forty million dollars a year. He got it in him somewhere. Yeah, he better find it, but I think he can. So I think that is to me our ability. If he shows up to play how he should. Receivers are catching

the ball. We got the addition to t Whitelson. If all those guys show up, I think then they will be the strength of the team this week. No, the key for me is what you said, and that statement was Zeke and Tony poll getting rolling. This whole offense, the balance that they've had and you think about the way that they survived those five games after Dak Prescott got hurt in the first game was through the running game. That's something you've been preaching from the beginning, Kellen, run

the damn ball. And so you're back to that point. And now a lot of people in this fan base that feel like, I don't want to see you running on first down the more and blah blah blah whatever. But even in this situation versus Tom Brady, I think you say the best way to defeat defeat Tom Brady is keep him sitting down on the other side, and that that's gonna take amount of skill in itself by film, position, ball control, running the ball is basically what's gonna have

to happen. And where I feel like that Prescott has been at his best is when play play action is actually working, when the team isn't fulled by because I think you or you said that this defensive coordinator is going to bring everybody to the line of scrimmage and say, yeah, beat me. This is the only way, okay. And if you're able to plow through that with your running game and having its success, then that sets you up for everything else that you want to look for over the

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best gear in the league. Head to the nearest pro shop or log onto Shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com a fanatics experience, and let's get rowdy. Let's get rowdy. Come on, man, it's playoff week. Playoff week, man, y'all gotta feel good about this, man. Yeah, now, I have to have something. You know, the game, so I gotta have something. Danny McCrae, I come in here every day with you have to be preyed up. I had to

get myself together. I'd be like, you know what, I'm gonna walk up out of here feeling good about my cal victory. I'm gonna see a victory he gonna get. Won't do it? Wheel That's what I'm telling That's how I feel um. But I tell you what another thing that really has been worried me. And this is a guy I watch every play. I'm single dan on him. I'm circle. I wanna make sure I see where number eleven is. Some something else, something going on, something going on.

The bazooka has been misfiring, and on the bazooka ain't good. On the bazooka ain't good. And you know, I think it has. I don't want to call it a souphomore slump, O hit the wall or any of that. I think I misread personally what kind of physical undertaking it was going to be for him to play defensive in. It has taken his toll on him. And if you want a fresh player, you need him going into the playoffs.

And I really didn't believe that he should have been playing last Sunday, but I can tell that he's banged up and it's hard for him to take that beating. And I don't know if I'm if I'm reading the room the wrong way. Off y'all have seen the same thing. But to me, Mica doesn't look like himself, a shell of himself, and it may be because of the position that he's playing. I ask you, guys, going into this Tampa game, are you looking for him to play more linebacker?

And have you noticed any deficiencies with Micah in a linebacker in the running game? Also, well, I'll say this look as great of a player as my kid, because he's definitely off to an unbelievable start. You know, he's not the biggest of defensive ends or people that are rushing in the pastor so when you're going against those three hundred pounders and you know, the Tyrn Smiths of the world, each and every game and each and every play, it'll wear on you. It'll wear on you a little bit.

So it's not, you know, unexpected to see him kind of slow down just a little bit. But when you talk about the game planning, this scheme going to this game, I can see Quinn using him more as a chess piece, kind of like he was in his rookie year, where we'll have him coming off the edge. You need that pressure up the gut to kind of fluster Tom Brady him in here. Let's put him in a gap, let

him run over the center a little bit. I can see them putting him on the weakest matchup of their offensive line, wherever's the weakest link of that offensive line. I can see him moving him around just to get him more opportunities to affect the game and get after the quarterbacks. When you leave him on one side, as great as he is, I mean, you're gonna have people

chipping him. You're gonna have running backs chipping him, tight ends chipping them, They're gonna have plays going in the opposite direction, and he kind of nullifies his his his ability out there. So if you use him as a chess piece, putting them all over the place, I can see him affecting the game a lot more that way than we've seen him by just lining him up at that left end or all that right in. Yeah, man,

my man, Michael tied. Let me tell you, so, was it four out of the last six of these quarterbacks that we played him been mobile quarterbacks? All right? Chase? So yeah, how many times have you seen Mica chasing a guy after after you know, saying Russ or rustling the quarterback? And sometimes you see him on the sideline, hands on the hip with the kickstand. That's what the

legs cross. Right, Yeah, we know about but I'm saying, but you see it often enough, right, because he's he's he's a player who's one going to you give one hundred percent every time every time he's out there, and most of the time if the quarterback breaks the pocket, Mica is the closest guy to him because he got the speed to chase the guy down. The dude on top of playing defensive end undersize, now he's also running further more, spreading more, doing all of that, especially throughout

the last four weeks of the season. You think about that you got was it Davis Mills and them were running two quarterback system. Then you had Trevor Lawrence who running ability. You just came off a week where Howell would scrambled before touchdown to get out. Dobbs were scrambling, So you had you have guys who are putting that type of pressure on on our te d line as a whole. But we're just speaking about Michael Parsons, who he might be a little tired, which is for this week.

It's great because Tom Brady ain't scrambling nowhere all right, So you know, once you in that in that rush, in that tackle box, tom Brady's most likely going to be inside that tackle box and he's gonna be making it throws from there, or hopefully for us, he's gonna be getting sacked from that tackle box, so it'd be easier on Michael Parsons this week. The last time Michael Parsons saw Tom Brady, he had a multiple sack game

and so, which was kind of crazy. I think everybody was surprised by that because of how quick Tom Brady gets rid of the ball. And that's been the major adjustment that I've seen quarterbacks make on our defense has been the fact that they get rid of the damn ball fast, all right, to to kind of nullify that pressure. And I think that's where we're seeing the back half take take the most, uh, take the most punishment. But guys, that's our time. We did it. New Newes Scrubs will

be back tomorrow and I'm a't know what. I guess we were getting no hats the last time. Do you think he'll what's over under? You think he'll bring us something back? Here? Gonna walk ahead with his salad tomorrow and his Duke's bag. That's Luca's on. Thank you fathering. Nothing back that nothing. He's gonna tell us about it. Though, Man went over here, Man, I was with this here. Gonna have a good story being ice cube, being a rock. He's hi, my shoes. He gonna have some stories though

Man newing. Shrubs will be back tomorrow on the Players now. So we'll appreciate y'all hanging out with us, and we'll be back tomorrow at two p m. For So, for Danny mccraig, and for Barry Church HECKM Harrison. We'll see tomorrow. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.