Player's Lounge: Offensive Changes?

of rastles. The last time you'll see me Newis Scruggs along with former Dallas Cowboys players Danny McCray and Barry Church. We will make our predictions on the show today. I will pick my prediction first, right there. Church got jokes bore the show. Okay, it's real funny, Like Michael Jordan said, you know, you could talk a whole lot of trash when you up ten or something like that. But you know what you're gonna do from the beginning. Okay. So Church got a little win last week. Now he's in

the filling himself, you know. But yeah, it's cool. It's cool. Eagles Cowboys at AT and T Stadium on Sunday. Jalen Hurtzell quarterback the Philadelphia Eagles, be Andy Dalton going forward the Dallas Cowboys. All right, gentlemen, I want to hit something right out of the gate that affects the Cowboys organization and even goes deeper than I thought. Kellen Moore

is the offensive coordinator. And when you talk about wins for a college quarterback in college football history, Kellen Moore is in the top five, one of the best to ever do it at Boys he State. The man is a legend. And I've always thought that when Brian Harson left, Kellen Moore would be at the top of the list. Well, Brian Harson is now the head coach at Auburn University. He's left Boys He State. So immediately I tweeted out,

Kellen Moore's got to be on the list. And you start talking about a guy who's been a Boys He's take a lump, He's got NFL coaching experience. You look at what he's done with Dak Prescott here. This is a guy who, in my opinion, should get this job. And we've talked about this before on the Players Lounge. If you're Mike McCarthy, you should hope Kellen Moore gets this job because Danny, you said you wanted to see Mike McCarthy called the place. Kellen Moore has been calling

the plays. And I throw this last thing in here before I give it to you, mccraig. Kellen Moore's contract is up after the season with the Cowboys. All right, go yeah, listen. Mike McCarthy is known for being a guy who can run the offense. He won the Super Bowl. Called the players up there with Aaron Rodgers. So that's what I expected him to do when he got here. I wanted to see something new, you know, versus what we had seen in the previous years when Kelly Moore

was the offensive coordinator. And nothing against him. He does have some creative things that he does, but I wanted Mike McCarthy to put his own stamp on his offense. So I think Kellen Moore Levy would be great for Mike McCarthy. It would it would give him the opportunity to show what he learned when he was watching all that film in the Barn, and hopefully that that could propel us to some to some wins and possibly a

Super Bowl. But right now I just think he's not as involved as he should be in calling those players on offense. Well, for me, I say this is a this is a no brainer for Kellen Moore. I mean I feel like this is right up his alley. He's going right back to his you know, his college town where he was a legend. He's probably in some form of a ring of honor in Boise State as a player, So I think this is a no brainer for him. He'll get all the love going back to Boise State.

And this is a this is a team that that each and every year they're competitive, So it's not like he's going to a place where he has to rebuild from his own and he has to start all over. This is a team that's competitive, so I think that will give him the advantage out there as well. Plus, he's a younger guy. We see the direction at the coaching hires are going in. They're going for younger guys

so they can recruit players. And I think had that young field to him and that young energy for the team. So I think this is a no brainer. He should take his talents down to Boise State and become the head coach there. I mean, not only will he have vital experience, if he does take that head coaching job for the next four to five years, then if he's successful there, he who knows, he may be able to

bump up and get a head coaching job. I mean, we've seen it happen before with the guy think his name is Zack Johnson or something like that for Cincinnati's head coach. And then we got the guy in Arizona who was a Texas Tech head coach. He was up there. So for me, this is a no brainer. I think Kelly, I think he should. He would prosper and he would do well out there in Boise State. Who would you rather have calling the plays for us, Keller Moore or would you like to see Mike McCarthy get a shot

at doing it. I would like to see Mike McCarthy get a shot at doing it, because, I mean we've seen we've seen what Keller Moore has to offer for this team for the nine times out of tenants like he's playing Madden back there. He just wants to pass, pass, pass, and we're not getting enough stability in our offense. We have no identity with our offense. So look, I think Mike McCarthy would be better suited for our team calling the plays. But right now we got to do or

die with us. Kelly Moore, hey knew, he knew. By the way, there's another couple of openings in at a big time college program, specifically at the offensive coordinating position. That guy Lenahan, Thank goodness. I don't know why we hired him in the first place, but gone from the Louisia Fighting Tigers. We got rid of both Pelinia and little hand Osan Run don't play, all right? He don't. He don't play. If you don't get your job done, you out of us. So kelling it. You ain't going

to Boys and State. Call up my guy Ojan Run. Man, he's looking for a top notch offensive coordinator who wants to throw the ball all over the place. Um. The thing I'll never understand about that whole Lenahan deal was, did Ed not pick up the phone? Did he not call somebody to see what the issues were here? Um? But hey, this is where I get ed Ocean a lot of credit. Okay, And people won't do this enough to raise your hand and say you know it's not working. I made a bad heart. Get to hire out of

there as quickly as you can bow Polini. They gotta pay him a chunk of money. They got to pay him a multimillion dollars to leave town. And I just think that's that's what leadership is all about, in my opinion. If you make a mistake, be mad enough to just raise your hand and move on from it. So I wasn't gonna bring it up, Danny, but I did chuckle last night when I saw Scott Linda Hand's name Onney. I was like, I don't know why they went down that road, but oh well, let me let me tell

you something about the LSU faithful. All right, those boosters, they'll find that money to get somebody out or get somebody in if they if they want it done, all right, So it's nothing to those guys to pay Boll Polini to get up out of there because they were very frustrated what they seeing on that football field this year. Well, Mike Nolan's available. The Mike Nolan will be available if they head Boston. No no, no, no, no no noother Cowboys no no, no, no no no no, you ain't.

You ain't endorsing Mike Nolan. I don't that. Yeah, Mike know where to come down to everyone in that defense not for nothing that hassen to do with the sport of football. If it got to do a football Mike Nolan cannot be involved in at the LSU fighting tygers. You got blitzers from all these different people. You don't want that down in LSU many Corey Raymond should be the top guy up there who should be interviewing for

the defensive coordinating position. That's who I'm voting for. Let me stare this back to Kellen Moore and something you had just brought up in terms of calling the plays. If you listen to Mike McCarthy, he keeps telling you over and over, I like calling plays. It's what I do. So that's what needs to happen. Mike McCarthy. Now that the pandemic is I mean this pandemic season is almost over, he has the opportunity to know what he's gotten. This is the opportunity to me. He goes in there and

calls the plays. That's what he was brought in there to do. In terms of why you liked him, Let him call the plays. Kellen Moore go be the head coach at Boise State. You and I talked about this right here on this podcast before. What Kellen Moore likes to do with all these creative offensive plays. It's Taylor made for college football, and it is absolutely great. His love for throwing a football. It's the Mountain West Conference. They sling that sucker around there. I used to cover

the Mountain West Conference. Kellen Moore is going to do fantastic. And I think that if you're at Boise State, Kellen Moore is a great hire for you because Kellen Moore can sit up in here in these living rooms and say I can get you to the league. I did it myself from Boise State. I've coached in this league. I've coached Pro Bowl players in this league. I've put up big points in this league. I know what I'm doing, So to me, Kellen Moore is a no brainer. Higher.

I think this can be a one hundred percent win situation. Kellen Moore gets a job, he's gonna make himself and I'm assuming, and I haven't checked this. It's gonna be a three million minimum three million bucks a year out there in the mount West. So four or five year contract, make it three million per Mike McCarthy gets to call his own plays, and I think this is a positive

for the Cowboys and a positive for Kellen Moore. I'd like to see Mike McCarthy call on the plays and if i'm Jerry Jones, um, you're in a pickle because look, you guys are seeing this before. Jerry has been willing to throw a lot of money to keep guys that he really wants. He did it with Jason Garrett, he did it with Mike Zimmer. He did it with Sean Payton. Sean Payton turned out a job of the Oakland Raiders

to stay with the Cowboys. Mike Zimmer turned down the opportunity the head coach of the University of Nebraska to stay with the Cowboys, and Jerry paid them handsomely. So this is, I think, to be different. Here's why I think this is different. This is home for Kellen Moore. This is his school. So I don't think money that. I don't think Jerry could piss the whipping with the

money because it's home. And when Mama calls, you go, I kind of I kind of hope he doesn't pay him, though, I kind of hope he just says, you know what, Kelly, you know he spent your time here, Well you groomed yourself, and now it's time for you to move on and do the bigger and better things. I hope he doesn't try to keep him here because, look, no disrespect to Kelln, but I mean we haven't done that much for him

to be considered like we gotta keep him here. I mean, how many times on the show if we complained they're not running the ball enough, they don't get the ball to their star players enough. Kelln, what were you thinking on this call right here? I mean we've gone over it weeks and weeks at a time. Look, I'm sure he'll do great in the Mountain West. Like you said, NUIs, they like to fling the ball all over the place. His offense is Taylor made for that type of conference.

But here, I mean, you got a ninety million dollars back in the backfield. He gets twelve carries a game, So I just you know, I hope he doesn't throw the bag at him and say, hey, Kelln, just stick around for a little bit. I hope he kind of

lets him go on the bigger and better things. I'm so glad I didn't have to be the negative guy to start that on killing more because because I sent the text messins this weekend and I heard the commentator say, you know, the Cowboys haven't scored an opening, possessed, open

and drive touchdown in seventeen games. And I'm like, goodness, Grayson, we didn't scored a touchdown on the first drive, so you can almost guarantee that we're going to be putting or going for a field goal to tempt on the first drive of all of the game, which makes for being for being an offensive younger knots all right with three one thousand yard receivers, the ninety million dollars back and all that we can't come out and start fast and score a touchdown. That that says something about the

play caller. Danny just saying, Danny, if you don't want to be the guy, if you want Kelly Moore to go and you want Boys, you to hire him. This kind of talk isn't helping. Okay, this is not helping. They not listen. Hey, you gotta gas him up like Zip, You gotta gas him up like Zike. Man. Hey, that's a hell of a coach, man. He can thank you for that. Guy. Hey, man, he's one of the best offensive coordinators in the game. Come home. You're having one of the worst seasons you had as a pro. I mean,

you gotta run by lines on this one. Man, come up, Listen, come up, listen, Bury and Neui. Let me tell you something. If the person that's hiring Kelly Moore is listening to the players mound, they already in trouble, all right. They need to go get their information from somebody else. I bet this guy unlike we did at LSU, did you go in there and say, man on the player a lout, they was able to talk bad about Killer Morreson, we're not gonna hire you should probably be fired. I don't know.

We predicted a lot of things on this show. I am here for Kellen Moore. And also we saw another NFL coach become a head coach in college. Quarterback coach of the Patriots, Jet Fish is now the head coach for Arizona, replacing Kevin Summer. So I just think this is the time for Kellen Moore. I think the fit is there, and it's also something that they can sell

the alums. You sell the alum on a great player, you sell the alum on the fact that here's a guy who's been in the national Football League, he's helped produce Pro Bowl players. This is it. This is too simple, this is two weeks. Let me let me ask you a question. Is it hard because you would know more about this than any of us. Is it hard once you drop down to the college level to get back into the NFL as a coach, Like, once you make that move back down the college, is it hard to

get back to the league. No, because a guy like Kellen Moore is going as a head coach and hopefully during this time he's made, you know, plenty of connections. You know. So you've got Jason Garrett, you know, You've got a guy like that that's been been connected. You've got a guy like Matt Eberflus who's in Indiana, so you know him because you've worked with him. So I'm thinking that he's building and built a nice culture of people. But ultimately, when guys go home like this, they give

you all the benefits of the doubt. I go back and what Cliff Kingsbury had over Tech's tech. So they finally go get him to replace Tommy Tubberville, and things didn't go very well for him, but they kept giving him chances until they couldn't give him any chances anymore. So I think for Kellen Moore he'll be fine. And then look at see what with click Kingsbury guy ends

up going coaching the National Football go up. He took a job as the offensive quarter to the USC and then never coached a day there because Arizona came and made an their head coach. So I think Kellen Moore will be fine. He's been one of these guys that's been given um, you know, guru label. People say it's creative.

So he's got these positive labels that people like. So I don't think it'll be a problem for him to go from college to the NFL because one of the things you always sell, well, you know, I'm quite what ready to be a head coach, but I'm I've been approving coordinator. He's got that kind of stuff that you can throw out there. So I believe Callen will be fine. But ultimately, you're you want to be a head coach.

You guys know this. You want to be a head coach, whether it's at a you know, at college or the pros. Guys want that. But ultimately, to me, the biggest thing, it's home. I cannot underestimate to you guys what home means mean, Danny, you know at oceanan man, this guy was an LSU fan growing up, through and through, so this job meant a whole lot to him. You know, he loved USC, but LSU that was home and and he did everything he could to get that job. And

I just think that's what the fan base wants. They want a guy who's a home guy. So I just think that if they come to Callamore, I think the deal gets done. I really do, Okay, I hope so yeah. I mean, look, if you, Mike McCarthy, the best thing you can do, if you, Mike mccarthur, you get on the phone with the ad, you just tell him that he's ready. He's ready. I've been making it ready. I try to play calling to him. This ship he ready

to go. I mean, seriously, man, do it. I remember when when Sean Payton got hired in New Orleans, Tom Benson actually said the Prescot now I'm starting to wonder, man, they're talking so good about you with you when they're trying to get rid of me, or something like that, because he just couldn't believe how much which I heard Bill Parcels was kind of like, I'm tired of Sean being in my ear trying to call these crazy plays.

But they said nothing but blowing things about him. So to me, if you, Mike McCarthy, you take ten minutes today to go track down the bunks and boys and just saying hire him. He ready, he got the guy. He's been on my barn. I got a whole playbook. He gonna have analytics ready for you. He gonna have trip plays on special teams, and said, these pumps are gonna work and in the Mount West, so gass him up. A lot of the stuff that Killer has been running

this year will work. Actually, it don't work at almost any college program, all right. You know here has just been a little different, and it's been a down year to where the offense would have to carry a lot for the defense. So Killer Moore is doing what he can. You know. The only thing My only knock on Killer Moore is him not being able to get the star players involved, which I think would propel us to a different type of offense. Yeah, we got to take a

break here, Danny. I did do a little bit of research when you talked about Cooper not getting the football. So I got checked and rans a couple of numbers on that for you. So we'll get into that. We've got to make our predictions. But up next, there may be some guys not playing in this game against the field of the Eagles for the Cowboys, and this could have an effect on the football game. Let's do it

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for Starview under the stadium tab. All right, you're checking out the players lines. We are in our s WBC Mortgage Virtual home studios. I'm gonna scrugs a long time Cowboys reporter joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny McCray and Barry Church. Cowboys taking on the Eagles on Sunday. Xavier Woods no practice rib, he may not play, okay, he may not play. Lake banderesh not practicing today, high

ankle spring he may not play in this game. And defensive tackle at Swan Woods probably won't play rib injury for him. So you've got that. Zeke though, says he thinks he's all tract to play. Fellas. That's guys at at three levels, all the deep starters at three levels on the defense, defens tackle, linebacker, safety, Okay, new new, you got Church started taking notes. Ain't hold on hold on, hold on, man, those three names. Man, the percentages are

still on the rise. Yea if y'all out here acting like Woods than being Earl Thomas or something, and Antoine Woods is the is the reincarnation of John Randall or something out there? Man, come on now, these Vanders. That is a blow. I will say that is a blow. Vander esh has been playing a little bit better lately, but that's a blow towards. But the percentages are still on the rise. I don't see Kansas City Chiefs on that schedule. I don't see the New Orleans Saints as

our remainding schedule. We still got a great chance to beat Philadelphia, which I think we will this Sunday, and New York. I mean, they're shell of themselves. So look, man, the percentages are still on the rise. I don't see anything that scares the living daylights out of me in Philadelphia outside of Jala Hurst. But it's still He's containable. So overall, man, nothing has changed. Percentages on a rise. I'm from thirty five percent up to forty five, maybe

even fifty percent. We're still gonna take this done. Nothing nothing out there scared. Did you did you hear what Church just said. He said he doesn't see the New Orleans Saints on that schedule. Did you know who? The New Orleans Saints lost too? They had no tape on my guy. You you noticed that. You notice when the guy comes in as a backup and you're not expecting to play against this guy, you like who? They let him up. They let him off the hook. They let

him off the hook. That was it. They had enough, They had enough tape to beat Jalen Hurts. All right. The dude went out there and he outplayed him. He went out there, he had a hell of a game. We can you can give him credit to say he had a hell of a game. Yeah, yeah, I will say that, Yeah he did. He did. And the Saints and the Saints defense compared to our defense, do you want to go ahead and like put that on the scale? Y, The Saints are way better than our defense. Okay, okay,

So Jalen Hurts is coming. We still have minimal film on Jalen Hurts and he's coming to play us. It's the same thing. So I got Arizona got the tape on them. They played them decently and they got the dub. Same thing here I'm not saying we're gonna blow this team out, but I'm saying he's defeatable, he's containable, and I think we're gonna be able to do it. Twenty seven, twenty Okay, there you go. Twenty seven, twenty one, I got Philly wins. Oh. Oh, he came out quick with it.

Oh you came out quick with it. Now were throwing jabs? Okay, I had quick, quick jabs, I said twenty seven. I'm not throwing any jab much as much as I just go back to what Mike Nolan had game plans for Baltimore, and that was tragic. And now you're facing a team that's got better receivers in what Baltimore had that day, and I just don't see them being able to to get it done. We've seen this club half issue stopping the run one hundred and fifty yards for San Francisco

last week. Now you got Jalen Hurts who can use his legs um and and we've seen him use his arm as well. You got to prove to me you can stop the run and win this kind of football game. I'm just not sold. Now. Did they can get turnovers again? You gotta shot at win him. But this is one right now where I'm despite two victories in a row. Um, this kid, Jalen Hurtch, has brought some juice to this team, and I just don't trust the defensive coordinator. It's okay?

Who was okay to Doe? I mean, first we doubt it because we couldn't win. We haven't won two back to back games since two twenty seventeen. First, y'all doubted that it was okay, and we came out here and got the doub So we're just gonna have to go out here and prove y'all wrong again. That's all that's gonna have to happen. This ain't Nick. This ain't Nick moves this week? Who's starting to this place? Of Xavier Woods? If he doesn't play, I believe it's gonna be Dary

and Thompson. Okay, all right? If he doesn't, you got faith in the y'all all know I have zero faith in their heads. I know what I know. I'm just listen. You said that Xavier Woods being out it's not that big of a deal. So that guy that you have no faith then would essentially be the starter we're gonna keep him. We're gonna keep him in the post. We're gonna keep him in the post. You know that's what they did, Dad. You know that's how they do it.

If they're trying to hide, to say back there, they're gonna just throw him in the post, back there and let him play the deep middle. And that's all he's gonna do this this upcoming week. Listen, you got a lot of faith. Let's convince yourself playing. Convince you. I love it. I had to convince myself last week and we came through with you said you do the same thing this week. Please stick with it. Hey, listen, that

sinking ship. Stay on it, bro. I love the way that you stand on that sinking ship, even though you had to hop back on it for the third time this season. But yeah, I'm it was a second time. Second time. I thought it was on d MAC. That's on. To make that all right? I got listen, I'm thirty to twenty three Philly, Philly takes this one. I don't think that twenty three points really tells the story of the game. I think we come and score some trash points at the end, But I think Jalen Hurts and

Miles Sanders coming here, and they do. They do some things to us that we just haven't been able to stop all season. All right, so ya ya, y'all both gon no one him. I'm gonna go ahead and say this, Jalen Hurts. I think he will have a good game against us. Not spectacular, nothing like we've seen at Arizona anything, But I think he will have a good game against us. But I say, at the end, our defense provides two or three turnovers and it ends up giving our offensive

short field. So what I'm saying is we're gonna end up winning this game twenty four to seventeen Dallas Cowboys. So we can hold the Eagles to seventeen points. Okay, who the last held to seventeen? All right, we write it down. How many points to Cincinnati score? No, I don't know how much. Seven they scored seven, Yeah, they scored Cincinnati scored seven and we gave up thirty three last week? How many I think it was around twenty three. I think I'm just trying to tell how many games,

how many games we've held teams under seventeen points? Because you be you'll be giving us a lot of credits to our defense. Hey, somebody got it. As a man, somebody gotta gas something. I'm the guy to do it. So Cincinnati and Philly will be probably two of our lower scoring games, and our defense will play the best. All right, I got you, I feel you, brow Hey, that's gonna happen. Just like last week, it's gonna happen again. We're gonna walk away with this dub though, And that's

the matter. It might be, it might be, it might be thirty five, thirty one or somebody, but we're gonna walk away with this dub though. All and then, no, no, no, no, no, no no, I'm still running with the Cowboys. I'm just saying it might be a bigger score than not predict it. But after we walk away with this dub, Washington, the pressure is gonna be on you. It's gonna be on you. And you know way, and they did a great thing by flexing that game. Man, they did a great thing.

So nobody can't be, you know, scoreboard watching or seeing what's gonna happen. It's gonna be a good one. It's gonna be a good one. Mike McCarthy talking about that today and he said that, he said, look, we have to take care of our business against Philadelphia's like it's it doesn't matter for scoreboard watching if we don't take care of our business. So he's got guys thinking about what needs to happen this week, which is just focusing all the Philadelphia Eagles. And I'm still I still have

issues with the defensive coordinator. Um, we are going to see the Eagles get their quarterback, Darius Slay back. He's been in that concussion protocol, but apparently he's got He's ready to practice and get out there this week. So let's see what he does. I hope we see him. Amark Cooper, he ain't gonna get no workpe he didn't get no work anyways. Anyways, he's been one of the worst corners in the league. Did you have have we how many prime time games have we seen guys just

going ham on Darius slay this year? I mean Metcalf was one of them hockets. I mean they're just going ham on slate. So I hope we see him out there. Cooper. Yeah, I'm gonna say, do you think that if Darius schlay is holding the Mark Cooper that we will finally just start taking advantage of that matchup? Do you think we'll see from this week? Nah, I'm not gonna lie to you and say that. Yeah, I think throw on the ball, man.

We might see nor Brown can get ten catches out there. Man, he might break the records and around the Billdoser might get ten perceptions out there. Man, that's crazy. I've got some numbers I want to hit you on about a Murray Cooper. So let's take a break and I'll give you the numbers that I dived into. Uh and let me tell you I was surprised at the last kind of breakouts that I did on this Let's do it next right here, all the players last, all in Dallas

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Hotels dot com. When new Scrugs, a long time Cowboys reporter, joined by Danny McCrae and Buried Churches, we get ready to finish up our final show of the week tomorrow. We're all on different shows, so I'll be going to eleven thirty tomorrow, but I won't have Danny and and d mac ride by. So that's why we did our predictions earlier. So I went and dived into just the

target numbers. And that's something that we've been looking at with Amari Cooper, just how we don't feel he's gotten enough targets this year for being a one hundred million dollars receiver. So I decided to just let me let mehim dive into this. What are the top guys in the league getting. They're two guys tied for number one in terms of targets, Kenny Allen Stefan Dicks, Alan with the Chargers losing team, Digs with the Bill's winning team.

One hundred and forty seven targets. That's what each guy has gotten this year. And then I went and looked at, Okay, what's what's the next guy after? That's DeAndre Hopkins one hundred and thirty eight targets. Well, who's number four? Well, I was shocked to look at it's a Chicago Bear wide receiver. It is Alan Robinson with those bad quarterbacks with one hundred and thirty three targets. At number nine, Terry McMillan of Washington, who's gone through three quarterbacks this

year one hundred and twenty six targets. Number thirteen is Amari Cooper right above, you know, right behind Robbi Robbie Anderson of Carolina. So Cooper has one hundred and fifteen targets this season. I went to look and see, Okay, how many you know, what are the most receptions Cooper's had this year? Twelve receptions That was in Week four and his set Cleveland. His second highest was ten in week no, Week one. And here's kind of the scary thing.

When I just broke it out and Dax starts, okay, and Dak starts, fifty five targets thirty nine catches without Dak starting, And we're talking nine games versus five games, So in nine games without Dak starting, sixty targets forty three catches. That, folks, no sense, that makes no sense. That that is absolutely bad. So here's the targets. Let me go, these are the targets with Dad Rams fourteen targets, Atlanta nine targets, Seattle twelve targets, Cleveland sixteen targets New

York Giants four. Remember Dad got hurt in that game. Since then, Arizona ten targets, Washington seven targets, Philly five targets, Pittsburgh six targets, Minnesota seven targets, Washington eight targets, Baltimore

nine targets, Cincinnati five targets, San Francisco three targets. And don't forget, don't forget, you gotta watch the game, all right, because even even remember if we talked about Jayla Ramsey in the first game and them not going at Jayla Ramsey of Amari Cooper was on there, A lot of the routes that a Mark Cooper ran in that game

were hitch routes, short slant routes, and out routes. Specifically, at the end of the game, I think he wrecked up about six and seven targets on the last two drives of short routes, um and and that goes the same for the pretty much for the rest of his game, for the rest of his time. With Andy Donaldon being in there, like you can see him have six or seven targets, and it's like, well, I see one game

he had five targets. In the first half, he had like one hundred some yards I think in a touchdown, and then we gave him like two targets in the second half. So when you watching the game, even these numbers don't make sense. It's just like you can see them not getting him involved, and the numbers may say that it looks horrible, but it's it's way worse than when you actually watch the games. So I got a question for both of you. I got a question. We might have to do a little bit more digging to

really find the answer. But so I was listening to those names you you rattled off there earlier, and you had you know, Arizona, but Hopkins. You had the Chargers with Keelan Allen. I think you had Chicago with Alan Robinson,

and then you had McLaren with Washington. And what I want to know is do y'all think you know, force feeding these the star receivers directly correlates to winning, because if you look at these teams that we name here, I think there might be one playoff team, well, Washington, but that's because it's a terrible division. But there's one

playoff team out of all those. So I guess I would want to know, like, what are the targets for the teams like Seattle, like the d DK Metcalfs or who else is a high playoff team like La La Rams with Robert Woods. You know that. I just want to know, do you think that that correlates directly to winning force feeding or do you think force feeding is a detriment of some of these teams? Okay, let's go here.

Let's go here then, um Church, So d Hopkins, Uh that you got Travis kelc I c you got Stefan Digs, you got DK Metcalf. These are these are as far as yards receivers that have more yards than Mary Cooper. Uh, and they're pretty much getting more targets per per game or whatever. So you uh, Tyreek Hill, Yeah, Adams, justin, Jefferson, Alan Robinson, all these guys go ahead. Let me give you,

let me give you your everybody ahead. Cooper? Okay, So Cooper is at thirteen, all right, So Keenan Allen is one, they're out of the playoffs. Stefan Digg is tied for one. Bills are in the playoffs. DeAndre Hopkins is number three. They're put there right now, they're they're they're right there to get me eight Bears, Bears four out. Travis Kelsey's at five, they're in DeVante Adams is at six with one hundred and thirty one targets. They're in. Darren Waller

is at seven one twenty nine. They're out. He's tied with Tyreek Hill at seven at one twenty nine. UH they're in UH nine. Terry McLaurin at twenties one twenty six. Right now they're first place. H. Deontay Johnson with the Deantay Johnson is tied with mclauren one hundred twenty six targets at nine Steelers right now they're in. Calvin Ridley is at eleven with one hundred twenty two targets. They're out. Robbie Anderson to Carolina is number twelve, one hundred nineteen targets.

They're out. And then here comes Cooper at thirteen with one fifteen and Cooper cup Is tied with him at one fifteen. Rams are in UH. Robert Woods is fifteen behind him one fourteen rams in. Tyler Lockett Seattle is at one thirteen. DK metcalf is at seventeen one twelve. They look like they're going to be in. Then comes Tyler Boyd to Cincinnati one oh seven. Juju Smith Smith Schuster's at eighteen and one oh seven. Justin Jefferson is twenty with Minnesota one oh three, and then after that's

Cole Beasley. So it's a pretty good mix. Yeah, it's a it's a good mix. But I would say the majority of those teams that you named with high volume targets to their star receivers, they're pretty much in. I would say the majority of those those teams are playoff teams. So I guess it does. I guess it does. Core late to get your stars. Listen to church, I listen, I don't even listen. This is it? All right? The man is making one hundred million dollars, all right, he's

number what is he on the list? He's number fifteen as far as yardage this season the lists, you know, y'all, I'm talking about this yard is as far as production now, Cole Beasley is right behind him with three less receptions at number sixteen. So you got Darren Waller, Keenan Allen, Robbie, Rodney Anderson. It's above our one hundred million dollar guy as far as production this season. And to me, when when, when when you look at that, I think how we're

talking about it. That goes into him getting the opportunities to get the ball. And it's like I said, this doesn't make sense for a one hundred million dollars guy. As you look at this list, it's guys on here that I know Mark Cooper is better than and he has the ability to play better than and put up better numbers than. This would not happen in the Andy

Reid offense. Andy Reid would get in the ball, just like I mean, look a look at what they've done with with Hill and Kelsey, all right, Kelsey number five, Tyreek Kill number seven. They're getting their guys for football. They're telling you this is what we're gonna do, where we're gonna go. Um. I mean the fact that Alan Robinson is number four, one thirty three, yea, with those quarterbacks and their offensive you know they're running back is justin.

Montgomery's just started to really show something in the last five games. I think they've limited him. So look it just it doesn't make sense to me when I think about what they have here, and look right, I think I think Cooper would get more if McCarthy was called to play. So that's just me just looking at McCarthy and what his history. Look at what they did with Jordian Nels fed Jordian Nels. Donald Driver was the guy at there. They were feating Donald Driver. So and now

Davantae Adams. So I just really believe if the beneficiary of Kellen Moore becoming the head coach of Boise State possibly would be all right, Cooper seeing a lot more footballs and the way it goes here And look, this is something you've got to think about here. If you're the Cowboys from this standpoint, how do you look at Cooper and how do you look at Gallup after twenty twenty one? Because you can get out of Cooper's contract it's really a two year twenty Is it really a

two year deal? Okay, it's really a two year deal. You can get out of that. And then maybe you want to say, okay, set up paying Cooper all his money. We just go ahead and give some of this calfs half the money and give it the Gallup and try to keep him in the fold along with Cede Lamb, who'll still be under control. But this is a situation they really got to start to ask themselves long term

what do they want to do? And if you think you want to keep rolling with Cooper long term, then maybe you start to ask yourself, is Michael Gallup possibly trade bait for you to try and get some help on defense. It's going to be a very interesting offseason as they decide what they want to do from a

receiver standpoint. Yeah, when you're talking about the Gallup situation, you know, I thought they would have tried to get him off, you know, maybe earlier in the season, maybe earlier in this I think he had a lot of trade value with it. Earlier in the season, you know, as it's gone on in his numbers are dipped off. I think his trade value is less than a little bit, but that would be interesting. I wonder what he would

get on the market. I wonder what we could get for Michael Gallup on the market because I feel like, out of all three of those receivers, they're all great, and they're all good in their in their own but I think he is the lesser of the three. And if if we were to part ways with either one of them, I would assume it would be a Michael Gallup. So I'm just wondering what he would get on the trade market if we were able to put him on

the market. Is go ahead, Louis, you know Cooper's got you could keep Cooper if after you know, after twenty twenty one, you can decide to move Cooper on and trade him if you wanted. Okay, you could consentually do that. But I just think from a standpoint of you're going to have a free agent in Michael Gallop after twenty twenty one, Okay, it's next year's gonna be his last year. You gotta make a decision. And I think the decision is real simple. Are you gonna keep Cooper? Are you

gonna keep Gallup? So if Cooper has another big year, if he has it, and if McCarthy's calling places and he has a year and produces like the way we think he can, that he may be a guy you decide that you possibly want to trade if you want to keep Gallup, or you could say you could potentially want to keep Cooper, depending on where they are with

their whole salary structure. And I'm assuming that they're going to pay Dak Prescott that that's mich see, because they're about to have issues with the cat if they sign that. As you float that idea out here, just think about it. If the offense looks the same for Dak really for everybody else. If you have a Mark Cooper and Ceedee Lamb, or if you have Ceede Lamb and Michael Gallop, like

what what? What? Which offense are you picking? And I don't I don't see the CD Lamb and the Michael Gallup offense being as explosive and and and being able to take advantage of some of the things that you could do with the Mark Cooper and the Cede Lamb. Now, I think some somebody have to go. I think I think somebody's got to because there's just too many miles

to feed right now. I mean, look, when we came into this season, we're gonna have three one thousand yard Rutgers, and Zeke's gonna get twelve hundred yards, and we got Blake Jarwin, who's gonna be a threat. I just think there's too many miles to feed right now, and if you get rid of one, maybe that'll give the ball more balls to Zeke Man and then maybe you get more balls to Blake Jarwin as well. I just think what we got right now is just it's a good problem,

but it is a problem having too many miles. A feel Danny. This this may become and this is how I'm looking at This may just become a financial decision with Cooper. That's that's where I look at Cooper versus Gallon. This may just come straight up down to finances. And yes, um, you know you'd look and say, well, let's galloping at

cede Land. But then if Blake Jarwin is able to come back and become the player we thought he was going to become and be able to stretch the field, then let's say he could become a you know, a baby Travis Kelsey for you type of player. Um, that then there's another way and then just hey, look what can you do in the draft. But if they you know, if they're so high on Kelly, you know, Kelly Moore is so high on h you may know a Brown may maybe Noah Brown is your guy. That's that's what

they look like. I mean we're joking, but I mean the guy came in the game. That's the guy that Cedric Wilson. They may want to some good but but from a financial standpoint, I don't think we can talk about this enough. Doc Prescott's contract is going to limiting things that they can do. So you may have to let Amari Cooper go. So you already to your football team,

y'all know the solution to that one. Man, I'll got a solution to that that cap y'all already the end of the show, and you're not gonna end of the show. And I'm not like that, okay in the show. The camp year after that, the camp the camp year after that may go up. So it may be a little different as we're going into that twenty twenty two season your career. They may get a TV they may get

a TV deal. Done. Last note here, your man Dwayne Haskins, quarterback of Washington, find forty thousand dollars and they join his captaincy in Washington. And apparently he's going to have to work on Zoom this week, work from Zoom this week because he was caught strip club with no mask on. Alex Smith was at practice today, but Alex Food apparently was working away from the team. So Washington's quarterback situation is going to be very interesting as they take on

a Carolina Pathers. I did my picks in the Dallas forty News. I took Carolina to win this game. So just saying, oh yeah, Oh yeah, I got some cool over here for you too, man, and then a booty shaking worth forty grand. I don't care what you worth forty grand and as crazy as all heck man, he's playing from free. It's crazy, hey man, it's gonna be his last It's gonna be his last days in Washington anyway. And Roder River was doing the press conference and he

got so many questions. He got mad. He's like, we're playing Carolina, okay, can we talk about Caroline? What are the questions for Carolina? This is what we need to talking about. As no questions about Dwayne Haskins. If we're not talking about Carolina that I'm just gonna end this thing. I was like, we which he shows you how truly frustrated he is with Dwayne Haskins talking about it. He was getting fired up about I've got talking about this dude,

and what I'm done talking about this guy. So yeah, they got their own issues over in Washington. They get ready to play this week. Thirty seconds thirty seconds. I need to know why you picked Carolina over Washington. I'm saying Washington's defense. Really start Carolina and make it, make it tough on and I thought that the defense will make some players to win that game. You see opposite run, look at a run CMC back here, and um, I

just think that Washington's offense has hurt him. And they won last week because you know, I mean when they won against San Francisco's because Nick Molon's threw on the game. I don't think Teddy Bridgewater is gonna do that and then he'll be I think that they'll be able to win this football game. And I think Washington Carolina's played tough football all year long. They lost some close, heartbreaking games. I think Carolina gets done this week. Got Okay, that's

putting up at the pressure on Washington. I'm taking. I'm taking they better win this game. Okay, they better win this game. You and you better hope that that that your man Haskins, you know, don't don't test positive for COVID and can't play this week. And you got Alex Fith to beat up here. So no, off not enough off Washington, get it done. Give me Carolina, but take

the Panther. Panthers beat the next coach that rule Matt Rule being the former head coach of the Carolina Clard Baby, all those targets, all those targets to my god, Teddy. We'll go ahead. We'll go ahead and sip on this cool laid man send it. We will talk all right. The players lambs will be back together on Monday. I'm doing a different show tomorrow at eleven thirty. Danny, where are you at tomorrow? Berry? Where you at tomorrow? I'm off tomorrow, Baby, I'm off. Okay, Yeah, Danny's off. I'm

I'm on the nine thirty show. I'm not sure if it's called talking or the breaker were the talking players lounds, whatever it's called. I'll be on the nine thirty show, sipping my cool aid as always. Okay, Talking Cowboys at nine thirty all outstanding. Okay, fellas, have a fantastic Christmas for man Chris Beans putting it all together. We appreciate you checking us out right here on the Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio Fantas Football Championship. Baby, I'm in it.

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