Player's Lounge: That One Hurts

Barry Church, I'm do scrugs. All right, Cowboys go down twenty six seventeen last night in Philadelphia, and whenever the game ends, we all have an initial just thought, ok, just a reaction to it. Church, what was your thought? What was your reactions to? We'll go around the room by see. I'm sorry, I do not want to interrupt none of this. What's up with y'all? What's happening right now? What you're talking about? Y'all? I mean, for real, everybody

in the parallel universe right now? What's going on? Man? What a tasty cake at the little we Finally last night was enough? Man? Y'all thought last night last when did y'all get together and have a power wow about this. This is separate line. Y'all gotta say, Okay, man, that's that's all the medicine my boy needed, you know, that's it. That's all that's all he did. Man, go right ahead, y'all, Okay, cool,

We're gonna we're gonna do offense, We're gonna defend. And it's really just just you know, when the game in especially you'd beat the former player to the game, and what's what's your first thought? What stuck out to me the most. I'm gonna tell you what stuck out to me the most about this game. Man, I'm looking a defensive side of the ball. Um. I feel as though, for the first time and probably two years since he's been here, I felt like when got a coach man,

I felt like he got on coach. It was kind of like a prize fight out there. It was, you know, punch counter punch, punch CounterPunch. But I don't feel like he ever had the answer. All right. They did what I thought they would do to Michael Parsons, which has put him in the RPO. Forced him to make a decision out there. He can't just come off the edge chasing people down getting these quarterbacks, say we win' gonna let him do that. We're gonna make them think a

little bit out there. And Philadelphia did a hell of a job doing that. They presented them with that RPO, that run pass option all night long and had him thinking about it all night long. And that slowed Michael Parsons down all right, that slowed him down a little bit. But then second half comes around, dan Quinn makes a little bit of adjustment. He starts to heat up. He starts to heat up Hurts a little bit. He starts

to heat him up. And it worked. You know, that first drive coming out of a halftime three and out, Boom, they get the ball back to Dallas. But then Syrianni and the Eagles after that drive because Doubts took up the whole third quarter with that long ass drive or that long drive from for a Cooper rush. But when the Eagles got the ball back Syrianni, they went right

back to the ground game. And something that's been a check in this a chink in this armor for the past two years, people running being able to run the football on the Dallas Cowboys. And necessarily it wasn't Hurts that was doing all the damage. Miles Sanders got involved, Kenneth gettingwell, Gangwell got involved. Bart Scott that Bart Scott, Yeah, number thirty five something Scott, last name Scott, Boston Scott, Boston Scott. He was getting involved in it as well.

And I feel as though when they did that, Quinn had no answer to it. He had no answer to it. So when they come back around, I'm sure he'll be in the lab and he'll get going again. But to me, I felt like he got out of coach. And that was the biggest thing that stuck out to me because if we look at it, that very first drive, Philly came out high. What was they doing. They were doing that RPO and having a j Brown cross face on Parson, slowing him down even more wide opened a couple of

times touchdown. He never really got ahold of that play. To me, that's what stock out the most. Man. He got out coach. Now he's still having a coach, he's still you know, the mad scientists out there. But he took a little bit of a hell yesterday. Heck, you know, I in a way that I didn't expect for the scheme to be too much for our defense. I think that's where I was kind of surprised, uh, And I have to give kudos to them and how they approached

Michael Parsons, and I called it paralysis by analysis. You know, you got a guy out there, he's thinking too much. And if you don't see the wildcat with a quarterback that's what I called RPO every week, then you know that you have to ask yourself what's going what's my responsibility. It's like anything if you're watching high school football, watching college football, someone has that triple option. You don't see

it every week. So therefore it's hard for you to scheme for it during the week, right because you don't practice against it. So going up against the Lions, you're not gonna see these guys come out in any RPO look to that extent that they were running it. I thought the defense in the first quarter did a pretty good job, but it was ben don't break situation that

was happening with our defense. But I think once the deep, once the turnover started to happen, that's when the field position got flipped and it was it was game on after that, you know, And so I have to give them credit for knowing where our weaknesses were going to be, and they circled the one guy that we believe it is our strength, and they made Michael Parsons instead of him being able to throw caution to the wind and just barrel down and go right out to the quarterback

there he was studying in real time and it slowed him down. And you mentioned the boxing match, and my first thought was, Okay, they came out they Philadelphia. They came out here ready to go. And I don't think the Cowboys were just ready for all that intensity that was in the building. I talked to a couple of folks who with the game I did not go to Philadelphia, like, okay, man,

this place was loud. These dudes ready to go. They remember that fifty spot the day ate last year, so they were ready to go, and they came out firing. To me, you look at some of the numbers here, it was kind of favorable along the way. But I spoke last week about third down guys. Did the Cowboys third down conversions not as high twenty ninth in the league versus Phillies Last night? Third downs four of ten

for Dallas Philadelphia six or fourteen. So much of football is decided on third down, So you lose a third down, Uh, you lose that that battle three turnovers in Philadelphia, you can't that. You know, you didn't get one coboys, Deefen didn't one at Also, that's as you lose third downs, you lose the turnovers and you go to time of possession thirty four minutes for Philadelphia. These are the things that we said, Okay, this is what Dallas can't do. I mean it's just overall as a team, you know.

And then ten penalties, guys again, ten penalties. I mean the things that you just can't go on the road to a good football team and do. No. You might be getting you get away and beat Cleveland with that and Carolina like that, but you're not gonna beat Philadelphia that way. So I looked at this. I just said, okay, these are the things that happened. If I if I am Dan Quinn and Mike McCarthy today, you know you've got some things to work on. But you gotta feel

good from the standpoint. These dudes got down twenty three twenty nothing. Battle back they did? They battle? I give them they battle back. Um, I just don't feel the sky is falling. Some folks are just pessimic. Okay, On, No, you ain't gonna go sixteen to one. Go on, Sky's definitely not falling. I mean, I mean it is definitely not worked to be done here, of course. And when you talk about penalties, the thing that just frustrated me

the most, man, it was it's the controllables. Look at the controllable penalties that's always there, man, Like, that's the thing. I'm like, you're Dante Foller. Come on, man, this is the second or third time in the year you don't did this? I mean, did you not want to come out of the screen on Dante Fla, it's not something four? Yeah, that's fourth. I'm going to call that situational awareness. Are they gonna go forward on fourth and four? Probably not.

It's not gonna. It's not gonna happen. Uh. And there's no excuses for that, really are And I think you know, back to what you were saying, knew it Like the penalties are maddening, especially the special teams penalties. When you have those convnted Turpin is on his way and you have great feel position or good enough feel position, and you have a penalty and you set your offense back which is not good enough to have those kind of things happen. Yet, you know, you have to give Cooper

Rush every advantage on the football field. He cannot be in a situation where he's starting a drive from the ten yard line and you're expecting him to go ninety nah. You know, we want to set him up to be favorable. But the a penalties, man, were maddening. The one that really like took me off the over the edge was the one with Michael. I'm just like, I'm like, Michael,

you can't. You can't do that in a situation where you get to stop, you get to stop, you get everything that you need and then you get taunting a penalty that and you give them new life. That's that's hard. And that's where you know, kind of his age showed a little bit there right there. He's kind of young still. I mean, I understand it's hype. You know, emotions are going to The lead up to this game was outstanding, you know, both sides going back and forth, so you

knew there was gonna be some hype to it. And he made he made a heck of a play. You know, Gardon one of the best tight ends in the game and got her make a heck of a play. And as a player, you want to let him know that I'm here all day, all right, You're gonna see me a number eleven all day. But but you gotta do it in a more subtle way, I mean an experience. He'll be able to understand how you do that. You kind of hit him with a wit and where you walked by me, you kind of whisper in his ear

like him, I'm here. I mean, you gotta get that Larry bird. You got tot was good at it. Kill him on the load, you got to. But when you get up flexing all up in his ear, I'm here, Yeah, they're gonna call you out on it, man. And you know he'll learn, he'll learn as he gets more experienced, how to get that subtleness in there. But that was a huge penalty, mane. That was That was I don't want to call a game changing, but it was. It happened at a time when the defense, your defense is

is showing up. They're giving you all the things that you needed. And that were just times that our defense looks so on. They looked like they were on the hills, all right. And I have to give credit to the Philadelphia offensive line because they were blocking our guys to the echo of the w all right. And as a defensive guy, you hate that. You hate that because you're looking at the ref like, come on, man, you don't see that, you know, and the refs are not doing

anything about it. They're they're holding you, but they're getting away, you know what I'm saying. It's like all of those things were happening in this game, and you could tell, like, look, these guys were getting frustrated. You can see it in the interior linement Giza. They were getting frustrated, you know, they were getting because he was a lot of that standing around the pile. Guy's blocking you while you're standing

around the pile. And I'm sure, like I said, for those defensive guys at Tristan Hill, he was ready to fight out, you know, because because once it came down to him, you just sitting there and you're like, come on, Tristan man. You know, you guys are trying to make the make a stop. But then they are getting their run going. And it's not like they're getting the run

going on the edges. They're getting the run going in the a gap and when you're getting when you're getting the run going in the A gap, it just takes your heart out as a defense man. Philadelphia had a good game playing against horses. They had a good game plan and and all you gotta do is read social media Twitter. Eagle fans is trying to call. Someone said, oh he's Michael Persons. You know like that Michael Persons.

That's good. And I look at I just looked at this game from this is this is a growth perspective type of football game. So where Dan Quinn and these guys are gonna get be able to get in here and say, guys, this these are the things that if people are gonna beat you, this number one, we can't beat ourselves and then allow them to beat you. The Cowboys still got to stop the run. I am I am convinced now if you want to beat the Dallas Cowboys, you need to run the football. And they have got

to figure out how to fix that. Um the Eagles in this football game, I mean, Jalen Hurts had nine rushes for twenty seven yards, but they were effective. These were just effective rushes and they kept the change moving here. He basically ran when he had to um and even just to the threat of him running with uthing there. But the goboys got to fix this man. That's that's just my take on the Cowboys. Rundy, what about you. No, Look,

I think you try and mitigate. You want to take away one thing as a defense, like you ain't gonna you ain't gonna give up the big play all right over the top, but you ain't gonna run on us, right Or you say we're gonna bend, don't break in the run concept. You know, we're gonna let you have it. Then when you get close enough, we're just gonna bear

down and shut it down. I thought that they tried to stay alignment assignment really well, but there were just those moments where you they were they were guessing too much. And I just go back to the days of the Big eight man Jamale Holloway, guys from the Oklahoma and the Triple Option, and you couldn't run you like they had so many athletes for Oklahoma back in the day. Church that man, this man Holloway was like a magician

with the ball. You know, here a fake and if your edge went that way, he was going ad yards. It was a rap, you know, yep, guys like that Tommy Frasier, even like guys that used to run this option. And that's why I said to myself, I'm like, this defense looks like this is an offense that they're facing that they're not used to seeing these kinds of concepts where you have to stay in your lane. If you get out of that lane, you may give up an

eighty yard touchdown. And that's the part that I felt like, I just wanted Micah to destroy. It hurts. I'm like, forget it, forget the pitch straight at just go straight at him and put him on this But because that's the only way that you could stop him for even he'll start pitching it early that yeah, he'd get rid of it quick. But he was just in a situation where he especially on that on the goal line the past um to number six. I can't think of smith the smith. I was like, that was a hell of

a play. But you look at our defenders on that play. Everybody was like bad eyes man man. The reaction from Digs that got the penalty, he slamed the helmet down in the end zone after that um. That showed you. That showed you some of the confusion. But this once again, this is a growth game. All right, Philly. You emptied your bucket. You emptied your bucket on what you have for the Cowboys. Now they've seen it, and you know you gotta go. Now, go go play. You know as

to use old Jason Garrett stacks and wins. Got you got Detroit, You've got Chicago, You've got Green Bay after that. So you've got games to play. Christmas Eve, dudes come down here and you're you're hoping to have your your crew healthy to go and see if they can run this thing back on you. But it's it's a it's it's not a game to sit up here and hold your heads on fraudulent or anything like that. You know what,

they came out there, you battle back. The Cowboy defense just could not make the stop they needed to once it got to twenty to seventeen. I mean they marched down on him. This is this is what what do you guys calling on Mondays was a Garrett vision getting circle. So Dan Quinn's gonna sit up here, look at the defense all the offensive side. Kellen Moore's gonna be looking

at the offense. Guys. This is where we left place where we shut ourselves to foot and I just think overall McCarthy, McCarthy so done a very good job the last two seasons after losses. So hey, here come here, come lines this week, you got this game? Get ray roll. I know we're gonna take a break here, but did anybody have anything to say about the challenger? Not to challenge? That is what I was gonna get talk We got we got to talk about because because we we we

definitely we need to breathe on this one. Yeah, we want to be up because yeah, I want to breathe one. I want to I want to say that because one of the main criticisms that symptoms one of the main criticisms of Mike McCarthy was game manager. When he got this job. People in Green baby lie man, we'll have issue. I have issues. Let's talk about the challenge that wasn't with Barry Church. Yes, heckm Harrison, I'm NEWI scruts Players Lounge brought to you by Tostitos on Dallas Skyboys dot

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now available. Visit Dallas Cowboys dot com slash tickets or SeatGeek dot com, the official ticketing provider of ATNT Stadium. Light Loud. It brought to you by Tostitos. That's heckm Harrison's Bury Church. I'm new, he scrugs. Cowboys coming off a twenty six to seventeen loss in Philadelphia. Cooper Rush was the quarterback in the game, had three interceptions, Cowboys, did not get a turnover, didn't win the battle on third down, defense, state on the field, thirty four minutes

and thirty seconds. These are the tough times that about Curtis blow rate. So definitely what happened there because those were the breaks for them. Mike McCarthy, his game management called into question and debated very much after the game when the Cowboys lost. So Ceedee Lamb converts a third down, okay, and just you know, just kept fighting stretches the ball

out on TV. I thought it was clear to me watching on TV, even in real time, before he saw the instant he stretched out for and so Mike says he talked to the official on the sidelines who said, nah, didn't get it. He said he wanted to believe the official and come on, so they go for it on fourth down, they don't. Don't converts, you get Philadelphia and easy feel. Defense does their part, but this was this

wasn't good. Now. It's pivotal moment. Not good, especially when you think about, all right, you're not calling the place, Mike. You know you got Kellen to do that. You're not called defense. This is your job as the CEO. He didn't get it done. A lot of criticism going around for him today. Heck, I'll start with you your thoughts. Man. You can give him every excuse in the world in that situation, but you're starting to run out of him

as far as game management is concerned. When you don't challenge that spot, if you do it just for the hell of it, just for giggles, you know, flip a coin, rock paper scissors, you know, it looked like he may have got there. I just thought that was a moment in the game when Mike did not challenge. I struggled with that just to figure out what could he have possibly been thinking. And I don't know if he's in the stadium not getting the same replate it we're getting

at home. But still, you know, looking at it, it it looked like clearly there was a first down. And then you come back hindsight, as always twenty twenty, you say, Mike, if you if your challenge, you would have won that. Okay, that's one aspect of it. But then after that, put the ball if you and if you don't punt on fourth and inches, I mean, that wasn't for it was fourth and inches, You turn around, you hand the ball off,

and then you go from there with that decision. But I think as backed up as you were, analytics is gonna get somebody asked, because you cannot, in that situation that early in the game say that we're gonna throw caution to the win, no matter what the numbers say. You have to pump that ball, you know, and if you're not gonna run it, and if you don't have us I don't know, one running play and your whole powers something that can get you a half an inch,

then man, throw the whole playbook away. Yeah, I'm with you, one hundred percent. I mean a little in your real time, it kind of looked like he stretched it over and gat it. And you know, maybe you take your time a little bit, get your guys in the booth to say, hey, do we you know, do we got a case right here to go challenge it because you had time, You had time to do so. But whatever, you don't challenge it. Whatever you decided to go for it. My big issue

is the same thing you had an issue with. It's it's it's it's less than the yard. It's less than a yard. Ezekiel Ellett had been running that thing the entire afternoon. They couldn't handle Ezekiel Elliott out there. He was pounding these guys. So you got a ninety million dollars back in the backfield. Your offensive line has been doing pretty decent, you know up to that point in the game. Just turn around a hand the ball off, please, And it's not like you got Dak Prescott out there.

So I don't understanding the whole You know, it was a boot right, it was a bootleg. What are we doing putting couple of rush on the move? I mean, what is that accomplished out there? If you're gonna go for it? There's only one option to do it. You give it hands, You get the ball to Ezekiel Elliott and let him get that one inch for your ten inches whatever it was, and then you go about today.

But to decide to go for it and hit you with the bootleg and it just didn't make sense to be It reminded me of that play was that last year. It was like fourth and one and we just had to throw a five yard hitch to to ce Lamb on the outside. It was just things like this are just it's just it's what It's what teams, bad teams do in games. That's how they lose gags. But it was an inch and you give it to that it is we need all around it. You put it look

over there, you're gonna see a guy. They don't go that inch. But why why I put it in Cooper rush his hands? I don't know at that point. No, I can't do it for you. I'm old, I've lost all my money. No, it's hard. That was that was a hard way. That was a hard way to go.

Uh And I think getting cute in that situation where like you didn't you didn't have to um, but it was like man, it was a build up to more of I saw Kellen Moore do more of that as the game went along, and I kept as I watched it again and again, I think that the Philadelphia Eagle defense, they were loading the box so much against Cooper Rush and daring him. They dared him to throw. Believe in the secondary, let me go back into there to the Okay,

so it becomes fourth down. And Mike spoke about after the game they were turbo. So when you said they had time, they didn't really have time because he was like, let's get up on the ball. So you were trying to, you know, you're trying to kind of surprise them. Yeah, but you didn't give yourself time to just hey, somebody checked the booth. You know, let's take our time to the clock room. Somebody tell me, did he get it?

Did he not get it? So when you went turbo, you even eliminated that because what you needed from what it sounds like it's somebody to say, hey, somebody who buzzed down Mike throw it challenges. When you go turbo like that, you take that away from you. So there's there's more criticism from him on that, and it's it's legitimate. In my opinion, it's legitimate because this is what this is why you're paid the big bucks to make sure that happens. What is October October sixteen. Okay, so now

it's October twent so October sixteenth. Let's hope you see this. These guys, Michael was talking about self scout. You got self scout this and then you know come December January that something like this doesn't happen again, because it was definitely it was. It was. It helped, it helped them continue the momentum. And just your coach can't Greg Pop just always says a coach can't be the reason why you know you got you. You put your guys in a bad spot. He put his team in a bad spot.

It's it's frustrating. One are many frustrating things on the night. One of many frustrating things on the night for the Cowboys. But also I look at this and say, okay, these guys had the ability to go back, look at this fielding and say, okay, this is this is what you can't have to go be a team like the Eagles. Your coach can't not be on his game. Can't you have three turnovers. Can't be out here guessing and getting fooled. This is a part of it. I had. I had

another thing, man that y'all may want to check out. Man, I don't know if Michael Gallup is one percent healthy. Um. This game really looked. I saw some things from Michael Gallup that I hadn't like he was. He was coming out of his routes a little bit earlier on that one. Like every time they went to Michael Gallop he was either tipped or intercepted. The times he had seven targets for the game, he only caught two balls. But that's

something to monitor. I know, we we want to get, you know, Michael Gallop back involved in the offense, but sometimes to his own demise. Right now, it just it just feels like last night. I don't want to say lacks of days ago. You just didn't look like yourself. Man, This is what I raised my hand for. I hear your point. But this is the other point. I talked to Rody Harrison about about this going into the matchup. We were talking about this, said Rydey, I think their

corners are better right now than our receivers. Oh, without a doubt. That's what I'm like, give if you tailor tape here, give me Philadelphia. They played last night, they did they top five secondary last night. They played really good last night. And this is the growth, this is the growth mindset. Hey, guys, you know what you put out, that's not gonna cut it. Guys, think seven, you meet it. If you want to go to them, that's not gonna cut it. You gotta be better. Because it wasn't only

gal about there that was getting clamped up. I mean across the board. Philadelphia secondary clamped down on these receivers. There was no separation, talk about talk about the percentage of man versus zone that you recognized in the game. Seen a lot of man. I've seen a lot of land too, and they had low rat plays. So so

let's let's let's let's dissect that. You as a secondary guy, okay, knowing that if you are a quote unquote number one, number two receiver in the league, you gotta beat man coverage. You gotta beat man coverage. This is what this is all about. Have we not been saying this about Ceedee Lamb, I don't care look even on the play where and people are on him about the interception? Uh, saying that, old man, you should have you should have came back

to the ball, try at least knock it down. I think that's the little nuance thing that separates number one receivers from the rest of the league, those little small things. Yes, he won the route. He and I would have been pissed off too, dog, I won the route. That was a house call. Only hit my head on the gold post. All right, But the ball is underthrown, and you know that this guy's gonna he's gonna come in and accept it. At least trying knock the ball down or at least

be pursuing him to make the tackle. That's I think those are the small thing. Maybe maturity you've mentioned that before. Maybe that has something to do with it. But when I look at when I looked at Michael Gallup last night, it was just cutting off routes too soon, or the way that he was running. Maybe he didn't think he was getting the ball. I don't know. It's a pass play, so you would think that he would be prepared it just that's not the same thirteen that I'm used to.

And I don't know, like if anybody else is looking at the table and gonna damn it's Mike Gallop, all right. You know, I just saw he was. He was targeted seven times, he only caught two balls. And so I'm not saying that their dvs are garbage, but I am saying, if you got man to man and you are an NFL wide receiver that's being paid handsomely, you gotta win. You gotta win those routes. And once again the body

language showed itself. Eighty eight. Yeah, when things ain't going right, oh man, here we just yeah, you don't put your quarterback under the under the microscope like that. But when you talk about this secondary from the Eagles, with the addition of Gardner Johnson, the guy that got from the Saints two picks last night, James Bradberry, there's there's no

glaring weaknesses in the secondary. And you know, going into the thing, I thought the ground game is where you're gonna have to attack these guys, and the Cowboys did for the most part. They ain't handled. You had one thirty six one the ground on exactly something like that, thirty four average one thirty five point two yards. But if you're number one receiver, if you eighty eight, you gotta win on some of these things. This was what coverage?

What is the film session like after something like that? If it was Garrett, he had a laser pointer around, he gonna circled. We gotta win this, here's Aba, this is where we gotta win out here to do what your commercials with Legends hadn't done anything yet. Here he is sending that football. Look at you getting clamped up and all the eager, like you red lobster, and you gonna do this? You ain't your number one? You say you re right? Aba? Look at this eating I mean

that film sensing like that. I mean it should be dude, this to show if you're if you're the coaching staff man, what a great opportunity here all right, guys were feeling good that now we got if we want to go where we want to go, you got to be better than this. Yeah, I mean personally seeing this, Lions, the Lions in trouble. Lions should be in trouble. If you had watching this and you and they're calling you a gallup, where are you at here? I mean, there's there's so

many things they could point to. Just this is no guys, guys, This single win, right, Guys, This is not gonna win game. This is not gonna win any championship. Guys, we're gonna be home in January real fast. Just like this. Guys can't win, can't defend me. I mean this is to me, if you're the coaching staff, this is an excellent opportunity to really just put it on guys about getting out here and getting better. This wasn't Cincinnati, it wasn't Ram,

it wasn't the Rams, wasn't a compromise offense. I mean, there's a whole lot of places where you can go, coople what you're doing. Why is this ball right here? You know they out here like like Justice League got here. This just yeah, yeah, why are you throwing the ball out? I mean there's so many There are just so many opportunities where the Cowboys look at this and go get better. The Eagles were ready to go. They played their butts off.

Cowboys chopped themselves and hurting Nick keep and say today I want to five three. The fans like, uh, the Eagles beat the Cowboys and the Cowboys beat the Cowboys yesterday. It's like two losses and that's gonna happen, right and it season. It's gonna you're not gonna play seventeen perfect games. You're gonna look at one like, man, wooo, we didn't do well there, and it happened. It's hard. It's hard enough beating beating ourselves and beating somebody else. And so

we gave a lot of way. We left a lot of left a lot of yards on the field. And they're gonna come back today when they watched the film and they've probably already seen it that look, they beat themselves. The crazy penalties they beat themselves. We cannot be you know, as much as we beg for penalties, we cannot beg for penalties. You know. We can't beg for a rough in the pastor yes, rough in the pastor was one thing last week, it's another thing this week. It's a

different thing in the league. So I mean, it just don't happen for us, you know, if it happened for somebody else, I mean, And I just want to make my final point on Ezekiel Elliott because I thought that this was a game that Zeke lived up to it. You know, he's people are asking the question of how does he feel about the rotation between him and Tony Poller and I think that he's handled it with a lot of grace, being the you know, the kind of

career that he has. He's going over ten thousand yards from scrimmage, ranking him amongst some of the best running backs to come through the Dallas Cowboys. Emi Smith Tony Dark said, I mean, that's that's the kind of presence you want to be in, right, But last night I thought that not only did we need him as a runner, we needed him as our extra swing tackle. And so it comes in and he handles those he handles those

roles and he doesn't complain about it. But then on that one that touchdown, I mean to me, that was I'm like, it's zek if you have that in your bag and we can we can benefit from that in November and December. Man, we're gonna be working with Chriscoe. All right, let's hit a break here, our last break. Um Man. I'm just not where a whole lot of other people are down in the dumps because number four,

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Heck Harrison very sure two days Cowboys safety, I'm to destructs. This is players launch, buy toasty toes now, it's what will be okay? What was took the loss in Philadelphia? Your four and two football team? This should have been Cooper Russia's final start. Dak Prescott warming up before the game, also taking snaps from under center. Um, I expect number four to be back. Mike McCarthy will talk today at four pm right here at the Star about the plan

for Dak Prescott. But I will be shocked if we don't see him under center against Detroit, and Dak said his plan is to play this week, So guys for coming back. Heck, now, you know how I feel about Dak. I've been telling you from the same front. Hey boy, I'm with Dak whatever he do. But My question is, if Dak was doing it like that on the field before the game, why the hell didn't he play? What difference is another six day is gonna make for his thumb? Okay,

what was the big deal? He was out there throwing the the way that he was. I saw it, You saw it, everybody around saw it, all the swordness everything. Because if our best shot last night, we needed that to be able to complete some of those throws. We needed a different aspect of our defense because Philly came in there with the plan for Cooper Rush, and they had Cooper Rush see in doubles of everything out there, and you just said, all he was looking at was man.

So what the hell was he looking at? If all he was seeing was man? Was guys, it's not getting open. It was hinder Shot and Ferguson, I mean, these other guys, Noah Brown his favorite talking I got asking myself the first quarter, one else nor Brown that, and then finally Noah Brown gets in on the act. If that's all I'm saying, whatever the I don't want to call a gamesmanship. I don't know if it was just hey, we're gonna get you one more star, just to see if you're

gonna ride the hot hand. But he told you what he's saying. Week he said, I need to see Mike McCarthy said, I need to see a full week of practice. And he said last week he's still in the rehabilitation face. So come come this week. I expect Mike McCarthy. I'm just listening to his words. I'm going by what he said. I expect him that before week of practice to be ready. You're the head coach. You're the head coach of the

Dallas Cowboys. You're standing in the tunnel and you see your forty million dollars quarterback out there singing it the way Dak was, what's your thoughts it's October sixth My thought is, it's October sixteenth. I want to make sure that when he's out there that he can stay out there. So we had a plan. We'll go stick with the plan and let Cooper rush go on out here and get one more in. I don't have a problem with that. I don't Could Dak have made a difference last night.

There's a lot of areas you could say he could, but I had no issues with I had no issues with this was the plan. This is what we want to do. I don't risk out way to reward though, Like if you play him and he gets hurt and you off for the rest of it, I mean, you ain't practice one. We're gonna go o what if you're off? I mean we haven't seen him do it out here where he needs to do it, in a full game, in a in a practice setting, the way Mike McCarthy said,

I got no issues with that. I don't. I'm not looking at that saying, man, if four played, they would have won. I don't want to say that. Why don't you want to say that, because then we're out there with what they had, and then they with what they had, they shot themselves in the foot. Barry. I'm not calling

you a quarterback ficionado or nothing like that. But if you are a coach and you see your start, your forty million dollars quarterback that you know is the man who's gonna get you over the hump out there throwing, and you had him all week and you know what he's capable of game time ready, and you do October and October you don't play. You don't play him, knock. I don't. I don't think that you know the I don't think it's you know, the risk out of ways?

What's the what's the river water? Playing him this Sunday? You go, he gonna gainst a less of defense? He not, he had had the practice time, he's off. That's his job. You went out there with the whole thing wrapped the rep I'm playing for a contract, Jay, Baby, this man? What this man do? This is what he do? Or living? What are we talking about? Man? We're gonna sat opponent ship what? Okay, we're gonna see this week. We're gonna see him. We needed him yesterday. We needed that yesterday. Okay,

are we shut if he's in there today? On that read option? On that readoption, did you see how Philly whole defense with down on that? We know what you're not about to do? What? But if they had that out there, you still think Eagles would have reacted the same way. I don't think they load the box up and say I double a triple dog Dare you to make that throw out there? Yes, they would have done some things differently, but most of them. I don't. They had a plan going in here. I don't have an

issue with the plan. And you know what they've earned the right with the way Cooper Rush has played and the way they've turned things around since Tampa Bay, that Mike McCarthy's earned the right to say, this is the plan, what we want to do, and let him go do it. So everything, let me just be clear, everything that Cooper Rush has done. I think ideally every football team in the NFL wants for their backup quarterback to be capable of if our main guy goes down. We want you

to be able to win four straight games. That's ideal, But the reality is if your backup is in, everybody looks at it as your season is over. Right. This guy has come right, this guy has come in, he is he is held up, He's done something kept you in contention. Even right now as we're sitting there third, I think we feel like we've gotten away with something because Cooper Russia has been so feat being able to get it done one hundred and two yards. He saw

him for one hundred and two yards. And our defense is still that good, and we knew that if our defense just did not have that lights out game, he would struggle. We had it yesterday. Guess who we needed. We need it for. That's what we need it might hit you with it. It's only he ain't ready yet. He ain't ready. I had a plan and sucking the plan. So far the plan been. The plan has been good so far. I can't I can't argue by the way your head coach yesterday gonna get on TV to about

fly Eagles fly. I mean, man, all I thought it was that line in the under Undercover that I'm sorry we're out of Dicky's he said, we're all sold sold said the Eagles were gonna win, right they them with the fly. Man, Now you hit clam come JJ did that he did? Man? I mean that's what you do when you when you're part of the media. Man, you you switched and he switched. He did that. You know, hey, you know he was right. You know that extra he had to put the extra. He did some sauce, you know,

like he stuck like hit you what time? I mean, you trying to claim Cooper Russia on the during the program, you know, trying to walk and talk with Zach all that, using all your connections. Look at yourself in right then you gonna fly fly? Okay? Man, look at this, Look at this dude, this this guy that ain't how you said it, but I know I know what you said. Yo, he went. Everybody else was those the media said it too? Yeah, they all said it too. All right, Uh, let's ride

Russell Russell Wilson in action tonight. Let's pick our Monday night football game. He's gonna get it. Dub Denver is at the LA Charges. Chargers are a four and a half point favorite. I'm gonna go first. Let's right, gonna in trouble. Give me twenty six twenty one Charges win. You know I'm riding within. I know you didn't heard best young quarterback in the game twenty eight twenty charges. Man. The way that them boys is looking at Russell Wilson

on the bench last week, Man, he didn't. The way they was looking at that man, The way they was looking at that was so disrespectful. I don't know what kind of weak or previdial they have had it, Denver Man, but I don't know if it worked. I'm going Charges. And then you saw Sherman just throwing gas on the fire.

But he doing that anyway, he's the story. I'm like, hey, man, we didn't have his we don't have his phone to talk to his manager in order to get in touch, and I'm like, oh, man, y'all just throwing gas on the fire man. I don't know got us. I say, twenty, Where did you go twenty four seventeen? I go seventeen. I give him, I give him seventeen. Speaking of scores, man, I was pretty much dad on with this Eagles Cowboys. Man, where you with your score? I think I had a

twenty four seventeen church. Church, You had a twenty four seventeen church. You had twenty four seventeen away with the state right now, man, you had thirty four thirteen cowboys. D Mac had a seventeen sixteen cowboys. I had so so half of us, half of us got it right, half of us got it right. You hate to see it, man, hate to see it. They're gonna bounce back this week though they got Detroit. They Dan Dan got Detroit and

Chicago then a boy. So get yourself to six and two, get yourself to sixty two, and hit a bye week, and then you get on up to Green Bay and they don't look too good. They've got some issues. But how bad do you feel after this game as a team when you come back and you're riding high and you take this al too to the Eagles. I mean, how do you as a team, how do you bounce back? Because and your third day here because it was Philly.

You know, you're still feeling kind of salty because you know you're gonna hear it the whole rest of the week. But you know, as a defender, I'm feeling kind of mard mad if you look at it, because you know, this defense, we don't know there was a string. And then they spoke about it afterwards, they're gonna put it on themselves, so they're gonna take pretty excuses. Well we'll be you know, this is not gonna define its after afterwards they said the kind of things that you wanted

to hear. They know this wasn't good enough. They know what was good at me. I know we never get to talk to Kelvin Joe if i'd love to hear. Hey, man, you know you stopped Turpin right, you tackle turping rights boss man, fat man. I just so frustrating, so frustrating. So you know I'm in right there because let me get frustrated thinking about number one. Heck, Harrison, appreciate you, Barry Church all right for Jazzy Chris big will everybody

who helps put this thing together. Man Douglins, Bear Cloud, we appreciate you. Catching the Players Lounge right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.