Player's Lounge: Playoff Ready?

and dip of the Dallas Cowboys. And always in the place to be with me number forty two BC Barry Churches in the building and always positive, never with the twins of pessimism, My guy, ever with a twine of pessimism, My guy. Uh. Danny McCrae, former Dallas Cowboy in Chicago, bear anybody else that get ready? No, that's it. That's it in Chicago. Bear my man? Deep Mac is an't it? Perfect? Attendis Mac? Yeah? Yeah, I'm here. Time ready, You're about

to get all this smoke marbecue outside. I got a brisket, you know, you know. I love days like this. I love days like this. I'm surrounded. As soon as I part and get out of everybody like he wait, he waiting on you, secure in front, He wait, he waiting on you. They already down then they already waited. Don't you worry everybody, We got the green light, don't and don't even have to use the badge. All the doors over, Come on in, come on in and sit down and

get this smoke. Yeah, I'm here for it. I ain't ducking none of it. Show. You know, like we started every show, it saw us the same. I ain't gonna change fellas. I'm gonna start with you, Barry. How are you today? Brother? Doing great? Man, doing great? Got a nice little workout in this morning. So feeling good, y'all? Brothers in the workout, yat. You gotta stay right, you gotta stay right. But families blessed the man. Everything's going good so far. Man, that's good. What about you, Danny?

I'm great man. I'm the champion in my fantasy football league. I am the champions. Okay, I'm the champion. I won. You made it out, Yes, I made it out. I got a free meal coming up. I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be even a free steak aside possibly a selling and some wine awesomely, but you know what I'm saying. And the family, the family is doing great, you know what I'm saying. So outside of that BS, I watched yesterday at three twenty five, I think my

life is My life is feeling pretty well. Yeah, well I'll tell you what it's Uh what a night, what a day? Yesterday? You know, I tried to start everything out positive. Uh, got the family together, you know, or shipping ball that stuff you know, do my day and you try to get your day started for your your football watching experience. And boy, that hope hoping them that hope. Um, you know, it was stick and it just started to dissipate little by little, and I realized that my team

stayed in Dallas. I don't know who those guys, you know what they're you know what they're reminding me up? Whatever remind you? Man? That reminded me of Alonzo Man, that man on training day. He ain't hoping them all day hoping m and the Washington Commanders was points staying and snatched it right up out of the snatched yea, man, bro give me all those I need my money, Jake, I need my money. Take that's what you're gonna do to me, it's just what you want to do. Shoot

program twenty four hour lockdown. Yeah, that was what guys. Let's get into it. Let's get involved before I must. Yesterday was ugly. I will say this, man with you know, you know I'm gonna try and spend it the best I possibly can, and I just don't see no way out today. That was a bad performance. That was a bad performance that that was not what I was expecting, especially with everything that the team had to play for yesterday,

I thought definitely would get a better effort. But that team looked like they had no intention on plan yesterday period. And I think that's the one that is the one disappointing thing. And I was really happy to hear Mike McCarthy and his press conference after the game saying that he was obviously disappointed. What else do you say after performance like that. But you're twelve and five. You're twelve

and five. You still have everything to play for. Wait a minute, Hold on, wait a minute, you're twelve and five. You still have everything to play for. And just like I said for the Minnesota the Minnesota game, when you went out and you dominated that game, that might be a tape that you don't want to watch it. Burn it. Don't go back and watch that one. I'm gonna say the same thing about this one. Burn it because your team, our team obviously had no intention on winning that game.

They played like they were not gonna win that game. Special special teams, misques, and the offense that was down right awful. Yea, to be honest with yourself, BRO, the last six you think about the last six games we came in here every week. Yeah, after the game was over with and it started off with sleepwalking, were not really should the twelve o'clock game. The last six games, bro, go all the way to go and say indie, indie, Yeah,

I think that's when it sparked it off. Indy. You got you exploded in the fourth quarter, But the first three it was tight. What was was a signal for what was coming. For the next five weeks. You got the Texans, you got the Jaguars, you got the Titans, you got the Washington Commanders, And every week we came in and we were like, oh man, we just playing down the competition. We just playing we don't know what

we do, na, Bro, that's not it. Four and two, four and two, over that stretch and um, yeah, I mean it's not good. Do you want to me? I have nothing positive for this other than you you played Tampa Bay on Monday night. But we're gonna diagnose this because we're here. Yeah, we're gonna dig getting into it.

Let's let's get into it. Because Dak Prescott once and again one more time offered up his services to the other team and by way of a pick six, guys, this is a this is a problem, Danny you've talked about and I'll let you lead off on this, man, But your thoughts on on Dak right now in his performance, the way that he's playing and how it's costing this team. Yeah, man, Dad, I don't know where you go. Um with the way that he's been playing. When you think about like a

full game, right, you're not protecting the ball. I'm not sure about the reads or or the accuracy or or who you're throwing it too at the time, but we're taking a lot of shots to nor Brown. When you got see lamb out there, I'm just saying, you got seed lamb out there, you got sho. You're trying to get t Y Hill to integrate it into the offense.

I think these are better options for you to test out and letting nor Brown be what he's been one of those guys who, hey, man, when things fall apart and you need to find somebody, he's still somebody who can who can get you a first down. But you need to get these other guys involved in your offense. We're taking too many shots to the guy. I don't know what's going on with Dak at this moment, but he is not protecting the ball, and that is the

number one thing your quarterback has to do. You cannot be leading the league of interceptions when you miss five games. You can't be. Your interceptions are not just interceptions, they are pick sixes. You are giving points to the other team like you that you cannot win football games like. They don't matter how good your defense is, how good your special teams play. If you are giving the way the ball at that rate and then also allowing it to beat put them in scoring position, or just giving

them the touchdown, you ain't gonna win no games. You ain't gonna win no games against Tom Brady. You might not win a game against Baker. May feel like that you just can't do it. Bro. You can't do your your offense number one, all this other stuff. But it ain't like that, all right. We feed off of what

our defense is able to do. And when you put our defense in those bad situations where you already into your own territory or you're not even letting them get get on the field because you're giving up the touchdown, then you can't feed off of your defense. You can't get ahead. The pass russ can't get going, you can't get the turnovers because the other team doesn't have to throw the ball as many times as they would have had to if you were ahead. It's just a recipe

for disaster. We need Dak Prescott to take number one. Take care of it. Just that's it. Take care of us. Start there, take care of it, no doubt. Man. Look, look you hit on a lot of you know, important things, and the most important thing was, you know, Dak Presscott. Because you know, even though I believe the defense is the strength of this team, I still don't feel like they'll go as far as Dak Prescott takes him. You know. That's I think he's the catalyst of this whole thing,

and he has to protect the football. I mean, that's That's what it comes down to, as simple as that he has to protect the football. Fifteen interceptions in the amount of games that he's played is just not acceptable. I mean, even if you played a full round vorl full season, fifteen interceptions, that's extremely high for a man of his caliber and the quarterback of his caliber. So

he's gonna have to protect the football. But you know, I'm not here to prow it all on that because there's enough blame to go around all around if you look at it. Let's start with this receiving corp right now. Let's start with it. You're going against a Washington defense where I didn't see any you know, prime time out there. I didn't see you know, Peterson in in his prime at the corner of position. I didn't see any of that.

They got a lot of solid defenders. But what I did see is no separation from Cedee Lamb all the way down to Noah Brown. There was no separation. Each and every one of those passes that dag through was a contested whether it was cod or whether it wasn't, it was contested. There was no separation at all from

his receiving corps out there. So that's number one. And then you also look at this offensive line, and I understand they're dealing with some injuries out there, but when you have a makeshift offensive line like that, people are going to be in your quarterback's face each and every time he dropped back the past. Somebody was in there. We saw big John Ridgeway looking like he was you know,

me Joe bid or something like that. He was out there dominating in it, and it just to me, it's just, man, you know, this is the first time where I really looked at that offensive line as a whole, and I'm like, man, you know, some of their main pieces, some of their cornerstone pieces out there kind of looked old, you know, and they kind of looked like they had some chink in the armor out there. There was some pressure in there that we usually don't see from the main guys.

That's been a part of the I'm talking about that offensive line. So to me, I mean, there's enough blame to go around offensively, but Dad, you gotta take care of the football. The receiving court, which we've been talking about that naseum since the beginning of the season. They gotta find a way to create some separation out there. I mean, ceedee lamb. The first four possessions of that

game didn't get one target. I mean, this is a guy that's been on a tear for the past five or six games, really coming into that number one role. He doesn't even get a target in the first four possessions. I mean, that's entirely too much. We already talked about Noah Brown and how he was getting targeted out there out the wazoo. But to me, offensively, they just don't have an identity right now. They don't have an identity. We thought early on, you know, it could be the

running game. We thought, you know, let's lean on that thunder lightning, let's lean on Tony Pollard and Zekiel Elliott. That didn't seem to be the case, and Dak Prescott was just receiving corps. Right now, they're just not on the same page. Whether it's timing, whether it's you know, whatever the case may be, they're just not on the same page. So right now, this offense, they have got to get an identity. They've got to take care of the football first and foremost, or this looks like a

one and done football team. As talented as they are, it looks like it's going that way if they do not get this thing going offensively. Fourteen of thirty seven passing yesterday, one hundred and one hundred and twenty eight yards a TD and an interception. That's bad. Those rookie those are rookie numbers. All right? Uh did he get out? Played by Sam? Him? We talk about the defensive we're gonna go. We adopted saying didn't get it out? I'll played by Sam? Oh? Yeah, it was. It was there.

And here's here's the thing for me, because because I think what you're talking about with the white receivers is a common theme we've been talking about out this all season. No separation by the receiving call. We've been looking for a steady number two. As now Ceedee Lamb has started to emerge, there's still some space. And I'm sure you can go back and look at that game and go, what the hell you know? Come on, guys, we had drop balls all over the place and Guy's just really

kind of disappearing at a at a bad time. That body language. I know, y'all saw no, no no, no, all of that. Some of those bad habits. Again, a real current theme is what we've been talking about all season, especially when adversity strikes. But when it comes down to Dak and just circling him right now, these these turnovers are happening at the wrong time, and they're happening in bunches. All right, it's not this one is followed up by two. He kept this one the one, but it was a

pick six. It was dropped right before right before Payer, you dropped out. You know, let me get my change man right right him and going back to him again. Now, you guys, seriously, as as former players, you have those anecdotal stories about that quarterbacks that you played against that you know are prone to chuck. Ain't gonna give it up, right. We played with Romo, okay love, Romo had the Rome time, he had bad timing sometimes when he came to the

interception and especially against Washington his pick six. So for you guys right now, I mean, after evaluating the again, you took it from I believe the Indianapolis game the last six games, but it's been his last seven games that he's turned it over going into the playoffs. As as defenders, as guys that played in this league, how does that set you off in your mind? I'm talking about for the other team. For what Tampa's thinking and

what this defense is thinking about Dak Prescott and his performance. Well, if you're talking about from a Tampa perspective, I'm telling you right now, when you when you're in those meeting rooms, whether it's the full defense or whether it's just your secondary coach one on one of y'all sitting there talking their truth Dak Prescott right now, as though, like how we used to do you know a Carson Wentz or an Eli Manning or somebody like that, talented player, and

if he gets hot, he he has the capability he's of tearing your defense up. But if you remain patient and stick with the game plan, he gonna throw you one. He gonna throw you one. And I'm telling you that's what they're talking about these beatings right now. Oh just wait, just way, just be patient, don't give up any cheap ones, make him go to long route, because eventually, in that twelve game or that twelve play drive down the field, he's gonna eventually give you one. He's gonna turn the

ball over. So that's what they're talking about. Defensively on the other side of the field, in your own locker room, you gotta continue to half faith because because you've seen the guy pull you up from you know, just mediocrity. You've seen the guy, you know, all everything's down in the dumps. Man, we need to drive, and we've seen Dak Prescott be able to orchestrate one of those you know, amazing immaculate drives within the two minutes and all that

good stuff. So you gotta continue to have faith in your guy. But I'm telling you, if it comes down to a continuous three and out and you're turning the football over and your defense is playing well enough to keep you in the game, but the offense continues to turn them football over, you're gonna start getting some side eyes. You're gonna start getting some guys coming to the sideline looking like it, because I mean, this is this is the playoffs. Man. This ain't we ain't we ain't in

training camp right now. Man like this, you don't get the re up. You know what we need, We need you the ball. So they're gonna continue to have faith in him and hopefully he's able to get out of this rut. But don't side eyes, man, if he continues to throw them picks they're gonna start coming. I'm gonna take it one still further. All right, this is what you're gonna get from tie bowls. All right, you're gonna get this, hey man, we are loading up the box.

We are going to stop the run because what we see from our offenses, if we can't run the ball, then we're putting it all in Dak Prescott's hands. And you said our receivers can't get any separation. So if I could put eight in the box and I know that you can't get separations from my defensive backs, I'm bringing pressure and I'm trying to force you to make

those mistakes. Hey, I think you're gonna see a lot of man to man or a lot of that playing at nine trying to get a three step read and then breaking on the ball, kind of how you see it from Washington. So I think I think that's gonna have to throw us into a witness this week because our running game, especially from Tennessee to now, just has not been where we had hoped it would be. Because during at the beginning of the season, we were leaning

on the run game. Tony, all of this zea, let's do a third and short thunder lightning and for the last few weeks just have been happening. When Tennessee was there, Tony Pauler was out. I think Zeke average two yards to carry, and then we go into this game. We can't get the running game going. So that's something that we really need to focus on our notice because we have problems on the offensive line, but that is like a focal point of the week. We got. We don't

play until Monday. We need to be working on how we can get creative in our run game to get us going. Because we know our quarterback and struggling at the moment. The quickest way to get them back on track is to get some long drive going third and short and get them some easy throws so we can get out there and make some noise against him. Let me ask you real quick, heck, I mean, I know, you break down a lot of film. We need color analysts.

You break down a lot of film. When you when you're watching Dak Prescott out there and you see, you know, pre snap and all that good stuff, is it? You know, he's not like they're confusing him with the disguise and then post snap he's he's you know, he's he's he's locked in on one target. He's like, no matter what the defense shows, I'm throwing that or like, what what

do you see out there in him? As far as why he's throwing these balls into coverage, I mean, it's not like, you know, he's throwing man, it was a barble it. He's throwing it right into the coverage of the flat corner was sitting right there. So in your mind you're breaking down film, what do you see? Why is he turning the ball over like this? You know, he played to me, he plays like a quarterback that's

getting touched a lot, you know. And when you see a guy that's getting touched a lot, he tends to harry in the pocket, happy, happy feet and then he starts to pose because he doesn't trust what he's seeing. That so he's got two things working at the same time. Um, I go back to the interceptions. I watch him all he has to see, you know, all right, So who's fault? Whatever is this? And it's a it's always a combination

of both. You know, either the ball is thrown behind the receiver or it hits the receiver, bounces up in the air and next thing you know there's a turnover on the last one to one the two interceptions that he threw in the one one was dropped. Um, I can't. I still can't decide. And I wish I could ask no or Brown what kind of route was that? You know what? Because of the angle that he took, I thought it was a bad route, but it was equally a bad ball. And so two things true at the

same time. And you you can't you can't throw that. Nah, you can't throw it, you know. And I see quarterbacks from high school, the college level, pro level, it always ends the same way. When you're late in a way, yea late in a way. It always it's going on the way, d on head, behind the head. That guy's gone, the band stands up and starts playing. It's over with. And I don't know. Sometimes Dak is at the point

where he believes in his arm. I just don't know if his arm is as strong as he thinks it is. Because the confidence to throw that knowing that the guy is sitting back and can drive on that pass, it's like, damn you, you really think you got can't even know if that's confidence. I think that's just a bad that's just a bad, bad decision about the quarterback. Yeah, you got other places to go with the ball, and you're athletic enough to run it. If you don't have nothing there,

throw it away, get out the tackle box. You can't be giving away pick sixes like that, bro. And you should already have that scare, right. What happens when you get that initial scare? Hey man, you're driving right, you see the police. You were texting the driving, and then the police get behind you. Now you're aware. Now you're aware right all the way home. I'm just saying. And then you ain't gonna do it again, at least not on that drive. Yeah. Man, No, that's no that that's shocking.

But the thing about it, and dany I opposed to both of you guys, is have you seen in his seven year career him be a turnover machine like this now said, I mean rookie year. He came in twenty sixteen, And that's what we apply to them so much for Like, that's why the team kind of got behind him as a as a starting quarterback because he one he took care of football and two he kind of just took with a defense. There was no forcing like now I feel like we see a lot of this forcing into

tight windows and all that other stuff. Back then, it was kind of just let me dump this thing off in the flat, Let me dump this off the witten real quick. If the shot was there, he's gonna take the shot. But he didn't force anything in. Right now, I just don't see the disconnect on why we're, you know, throwing these tight windows and throwing in a double coverage. I don't know. I can't put my finger on. Yeah,

I can't remember seeing it this bad. Um. I do remember us turning them all over in an alarming rate when Nolan was here. I think that was Mike McCarthy's first year nineteen. It was fumbles twenty. It was picks from Dak, fumbles from Dak. But we haven't I haven't seen them make bad decisions, like like some of them are like, okay, sack, force fumble, are you running? You're not protecting the ball? Tip throw You tried to force it here once or twice? This is this is fifteen, Yeah,

this is fifteen. The one like the picture like this is an example a perfect example of what's going on this season of like that, what's going on with you? Bro? We watched it. Everybody thought the same thing when that first one to man, were lucky because that was almost pick says. We're not gonna start the week off like this. We're not, we all said. And then the second and then the second one. Wait, wait, wait, he didn't see that. He didn't get nervous. Is he trying to prove something?

Like you said to like going back to that side. And then it was to know that to Noah, you got CD out there, like I said, you got shots, you got t y and whatever we said about tis dropped. The man looked like he can get some separation. He looked like he still got the speed, he can still run the routes. He dropped the pass. But this this is a guy who I'm trying to get integrated into my office going into the playoffs. No no Shade and

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on your New Year's resolution. Already some positive light? What is it? Danny? No, listen, we're gonna finish the niggai even get Oh no, he ain't gonna get to no positive right now. We gotta cover the defense and the special teams, which wherever y'all want to go first is all right with me? Because I'm telling you. I will say this for the defense, they were not put in advantageous positions all night long. And with the ten was it ten three and ounce? Ten three and ounce? In

that game? At some point the you know, the damn's gonna break tea ready team ready, And we saw a lot and we saw a lot of that. The one, the one thing that just completely worries me right now on the defensive end is the other cornerback. Oh you said it, you know, the back number two. Now, I'm just gonna say this, guys. And I don't know if you guys noticed this during the game, but I did. I saw Dotson and McLaurin fighting to go to the other side. Yeah, the last one I didn't. I didn't

like that. I did not like that for number thirty him. Now, I'm like, you are not gonna fight to go over to the other side of my man, Okay, but that was not a good look. That was not a good look. At the end of the night, I think Terry McCloy, especially Dotson, could have definitely gotten a PI for sure, that should have been a PI. But as far as the receiving game, man, we gave up a hundred and

sixty nine yards receiving. On the rushing end, we gave up one hundred and fifty one yards on the ground, and all things being considered equal, you know that this will get you beat next week, dude, without a doubt to me. You know, there was three things that kind of kind of alarmed me a little bit about this defense. And we all understand. You know, these past couple of games, they haven't been playing, you know, like we saw them

earlier in the year. And I attribute a lot of that to injuries, which they do have some injuries out there. But number one, you're talking about you going against a fifth round quarterback. I believe in Sam how never had a snap in the NFL at all. Most of the time, he was probably on practice quad the entire year because they were going from Winz to Heienik and all that

good stuff. This is another example of this defense going to get somebody with little to no experience and making that quarterback why he belonged, but he could be a starter in the National Football League. The man went eleven and nineteen for one hundred and sixty nine yards. He looked efficient out there, and what else did we see from this quarterback? The athleticism. When he can be able to run out just a little bit, just a tad,

it gives this defense multiple fits out there. I mean the guy rushed for a touchdown as well, And so to me, it's like, man, how is this defense as good as they can be? Making these guys Sam How Josh Dobbs, the guys from the Houston Texans, Davis Mills and was guys make them look like they belong out there like this. This defense should be able to put their foot on this team's throat and guy should have been done by halftime. But how kept the chains moving?

Was out there was able to be efficient, which is extremely surprising to me. You already touched on one hundred and fifty one yards rushing and that's why. And it wasn't even they were without Gibson, with out Brian Robbins and their two top backs, and these guys still were able to put up one hundred and fifty one yards rushing on the ground against this vaunted DQ defense out there. And last but certainly not Leash, you touched on it

a little bit. Heck, the number two corner spot, no matter if it's Mullin, no se right, I don't care who you through out there. They were under attack and like you said, they're fighting for the routes out there. Let me get them this time. No, no, McLaren and I got them this time, going deep on these guys, and it looked like to me, like like they couldn't play the game before. Right, your longest heck, you're one of the longest corners in the game. You use your hands.

My guy was just out there shadow and letting these guys get free. Released and we've seen it time and time again. Mcclorin and Dotson, they got too much speed for you not to get your hands on them. The same thing with mullin. He's an experienced guy in his league. I think it was a former second round big and he was out there getting abused. All right. This is this is this is definitely worrisome to me because you talked about Tom Brady. He gonna look over there, but oh,

then you're straight over there. I even gonna mess with you. Did Let me look over here with see what we've got going on over here, and he's going to dot apart that side of the field, especially if this pass rush can't get going. Now, that's the one positive. I will say about this defense yesterday, they were able to get after the quarterback. They have three sacks out there,

was able to pressure them a little bit. But I'm telling y'all, man, if they don't figure out that cornerback spot or at least a game plan to where they can help that man out there buzzing under the flats or having a safety overtop, they're gonna get picked apart by Tom Brady. They are gonna get ridiculously picked apart out there. So quarterback number two, you're under attack. This defense overall, they've got to step it up. They got

and I'm tired of this. You know, Hey, we're playing against Sam How let's get our you know, we're playing down to the competition. Now, how man, that's a mind say, you gotta go out there, whoever's that, don't care if it's the Goat or Sam How, We're gonna stop this team out. But you don't see that, you see him playing down to the competition or like you said, d Mac last week, maybe that's just who they are. Maybe there, you know, it is not a you know, switch or

level to this. Maybe that's just who they are. And it's slightly concerning especially heading into the playoff next week. But listen, actually got one question. Have we learned how to stop the run? Is? This is the catalyst to every problem that you have on defense. This is why Sam Howe could come in there and go eleven for nineteen hundred and sixty nine yards eleven nineteen passes because they're running the ball on you. He's running the ball

on you. How many advantageous third downs do they have? Yeah, you can't stop the run. You can't do nothing that everything is open to the offensive coordinator when he's calling the plays. When you cannot stop the run, now you on your hills because you gotta figure out one. You gotta add extra resources in there to try to stop the run. Or you got players who are cheating up a little bit because they know that you are having an issue with getting the run game stopped and that

ain't letting you get to your pass rush. So if you can't figure out, I know we'll get into Tampa. If you can't figure out how to stop Tampa Bay from running the ball, the game is over before it starts. It's over before it starts. Mike Evans Godwin playoff, Lenny whoever, it is if you can't stop the running, we ain't been able to do it for the last five weeks. Did Tennessee have Derek Henry? Did they run the ball on us? Did Jacksonville run the ball on us? Something

we have not. You have to figure out a way to stop the run or you are going to struggle on defense, especially when you play against better competition. This was not better competition. But you gotta stop the round. I don't know how they do it. Lady Vanders coming back, hopefully, Hanks, that'll be something that will hopefully get you ready to stop the run. But until you do that, you're gonna

keep running into these same issues. That's why your second cornerback is always gonna be an issue because they don't even know what they what they're looking for when they get out there. Hey man, it's it thirty long and third and short's And that's my question to you guys, ask former dvs in the NFL. When you see tray von Mullen already with the ninth nine yard cushion and then he gets beat, what does that tell you? As you know, former dbs in this league, you know and

not it. It just happened to him. It happened to Kelvin Joseph too, the same way, the damn near identical route, except for that one didn't go to the house. What do you say when you see two guys get beat the same way? Man like, I gotta see I gotta resee it on the film. I gotta know of his eyes are back inside on the quarterback? What coverage are they playing? Are you playing one, cover two, cover three? Is it a mixed coverage or is this you just getting beat man to man? Are your eyes supposed to

be on your guy? You playing nine yards off and somehow you get ran by. If that is the case, then you have a problem. If they're trying to read to the one and the cover three or figure out zone coverage or route concepts, then that's something you could possibly fix. My calling man a man. But if you just getting beat man a man like that by playing nine yards old, yeah, then you're just probably not the guy for the job. Yeah, And I can't really put my finger on it because I would go to coaching.

But again, it can't be coaching because if you see what you know, Digs and Bland and those guys are able to do from out here junior or our Harris out there. Then it can't be the coaching. Maybe you know, it could be into the film, studdy, not looking at your indicators where the wide receivers lined up, because that's half of the battle. If you understand the indicators and where the wide receivers lined up, you understand it. He only has maybe four or five routes from wherever he's

lined up at. But you know, I can see in Mulla's case, Hey man, I just got here. You know, I'm trying to pick up the defense. We're trying to do all that stuff. So I can't really dive into the film like I want to. But man is man's own his own. Yeah, you got you gotta read the room. If the man is coming steaming at you, you got the deep third, You give up all that comeback stuff. But make sure you get on your horse and make sure you're on top this guy, him and right, both

of those guys getting ran by Rambaut. I know McLaurin got speed. I understand that he's a fast dude, but that should you should read that. Understand that. Look who you're going against. This man can take the top off of building. Let me go ahead, and get back in that third. If you catch these underneath Ross, all right, Fan, we'll rally up and tackle it. But those big explosive plays, those are the plays that are gonna destroy your defense.

It's especially when it comes down to a quarterback. Brady and Mike gets You gotta understand who you're going against and where you're out on the field, Shot Jones, all that good stuff. So so so you're saying the linement of the receivers can help you. This is this is I don't play cornerback, but I'm saying we all been in the locker room. We've been a locker room before. Defensive back. Locker room formations can tell you a lot. Yes one all right, you line up at three by one,

you playing zone, You start to see guys disappear. It's just you. You You gotta get back there. You know your safety is leaning. If you on the backside of three by one, is just you. The one thing you know is I can't get beat deep. Everything that gets caught gets caught in front of me. Is okay, it's okay. But if you get beat over the top and those type of coverages, where ain't nobody back there to help you?

That's what you lose that. So these are the type of things where you like, hey man, the one thing that cannot happening, cannot happen. It's happening, and you gotta find a way to get that fixed. On defense because Mike Evans is coming at you. God when it's coming in. So you can't take Bland out there and put him at number one at the number two spot because he needs to be in the slot. So you gotta fig this thing out. You got till Monday. Now. I left us enough runway to end on a positive note. So

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gonna get there. Bro, We're good. Maybe we're gonna do everything that we possibly can't. And also we did not mention the special teams. Um obviously Anger you know bought his fumble fingers to the party yesterday. Who else? Uh? And Cat Turpin not the Pro Bowl? He thought he was getting cut Bowl. He must be maybe maybe he knows something we don't know. Careful, he already was on the on the slippery ice. He already could feel the hatchet. I don't know. You better be careful, bro, you lose

a game like that. Has anyone ever? Has anybody ever been cut in the Pro I guess he came now, but and the like he can't made the Pro Bowl and get cut in the same I'm sure some dudes and got dirty like that. You fumbling the playoffs like I wouldn't be surprised, especially he's got to get the stuff right, man, look at my herb. It was you know, yeah, I guess you're looking for some positive, maybe a little bit. I trust, even my her didn't come to trust, but

I trust my kickers still. I don't know. I trust he makes the big time kicks up the season. So you want to be positive? Okay, all right, there you go there? That is yeah. I like CJ still, so shout out boss man fan actually made a play. He was hustling on teams, he's bostling fat into and he makes it. Okay, yeah, he made a player. I'm trying to give him some positive. You ask for positive, I'm

getting you positive. All right, You got CJ. You still got Kelvin Joseph out there, who as long as he's not making foolish penalties, he's still an impact player on special teams. And I still have trust faith in my kicker that we have to put the game in his hands, which it may come down too, because you know, it's just what it is when we play Temple, that he may be able to make the play. The Cowboys have never lost back to back games. It's a positive. We're

searching for positives here. Damn talk about from the game. I'd let you talking about positives the game. I'm talking about a positive. Come on, I just dug in the crate for that. We have it. Bro, we're still talking about Washington. You're talking about back to back game all season the trends. That trend is irrelevant and we lost back to back. I got a positive. Okay, all right, So this is just the first game in a while, and I'll be it against Sam How and all that

good stuff. That that that defensive line was able to get home three different times on three different occases, they were able to get sacks. So that's at least trending in the right direction. A previous to that, it was what one sack in four games, So you know they got some positives in that regard. You to that third down, I'll be it against you know, Sam How. They held, you know Washington. I believe with three of fourteen or three of eighteen, that's a percentage you can live with.

Then you can do that on a regular basis. You can live with that. And then lastly, um, you look at Tony Poller. The man had his first season as a Dallas Cowboys. He rushed over a thousand yards. All right, the man got over a thousand yards against uh, you know, Washington out there for the full season. So to me, you know that that's so positive, you know, But he went over, Hey, I'm just saying, man, that's what I'm saying, try again, try again, positive from this game. Okay. It's

the comments that I read that curse made. He's like, hey man, I don't know what's going on, but we we just don't know what to do to get it right, which to me, it shows awareness that y'all need to figure something out. They are aware that this ain't This ain't acceptable, you know what I'm saying, Not just like, hey man, it was we gotta excuse we don't really know what the hell's going on with the number one

and two see none of that. Hey man, we don't know, but it's our job to go ahead and figure it out. That's true. And you know, Chris, tell me if I'm wrong. But did Michael Parsons say something about, hey man, if you out here playing for Pro Bowls and all the other stuff and the stats and he said that and then see they see see and I, like Mike, I just don't understand that gives people the opportunity to come

in and say who who we talk about? Yeah? Yeah, man, but see, but that's the type of frustration that sets in when you go five games to playing the way that you've played on defense. We need to get it together. I trust that that Curse is one of the leaders on the defense, can help this defense get back on track at least at least for this this game against Tampa. And I think the Marcus Lawrence can get them ready to play too as them follow me with my gameplay,

not by what I say. If you want to know how to play the game, I got this from the Marcus where hopefully Hall of Famer this year, follow me, watch I'll play and play like me. So hopefully that's what they're getting. Like this is one of them wake up moments. I don't know if they woke up for the last five games. I don't know if it was like because they got away with for them m I don't know if they woke up. Hopefully this time they

woke up, so I think that'd be a possible. Hey man, we don't play right, we gotta ask whoop, just like we just got whooped this week. So hopefully that is a positive for them, and they know that they can't sleep walk in in a game versus Tampa Bay on Monday night in Tampa. In Tampa, they're making us wait seven days. And I think you without asking y'all, I feel like y'all have belief that they can fix this

in seven days. Danny, you do believe they can fix these problems Saturday, Bro, you gotta ask me that on Thursday. Ask you what I saw in that game. I don't know if you cannot. We have not shown that we can stop the run. They're getting some help, you know what. I need them to tell me that they made them. But I said, bro, if if you line up in there, get Tom Brady to run about forty times when you, Bro, they don't. He don't have to throw five hundred yards.

He will check run on you every time. We've seen it. When they played with the paper, they would check run on you all day. And that's been the thing about Tampa this entire season. That running game has completely failed them and that's why they are in the pickle that they are in right now. But just give me the playoff game. No, well, just like just like us, you know, just like us. But the last game that we played

against him. Just to give you some context to that last matchup, one hundred and fifty two yards on the ground for Tampa Bay and two hundred and twelve yards in the air. That sounds like a hell of a RUSSA game. Yeah, one hundred and fifty two uh Leonard Leonard for NETT twenty one one twenty seven. Tell you six yards average per carross coming in. Don't stop the round. I'm telling you we'll be right back here for the last players. The season happened quick, Yeah, quick, it happened quick.

And and dak fourteen of twenty nine, one thirty four and an interceptions, and that game we only had seventy one yards rushing and one hundred and ninety eight yards in the air. So ugly game by the Cowboys. One of the most forgettable games that we played all season. Then we played this one last night and we had to put both of those together. But we got seven

days to get this thing together. As you do know, Newi Shrugs is in Los Angeles getting ready for the National Championship with his TCU horn Frogs, going up against the Georgia Bulldogs. This is going to be a hell of a matchup tonight. We hadn't got picks on this show, so I will ask you, Danny, who do you have for tonight? They gotta make us look good. Baby, I'm going with George. I think Georgia are gonna win. Am My rooting for them? No, I'm actually rooting for TCU, but